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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-15
Miles LAID the corn.r stons,.. !.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. l5,--Major Gen.
elal Nelson A. Miles laid the corner
stone OF the tower and gateway TO be
erected at the dornntories of the, Uni.
yersty OF Pennsylvania In honor of tho
university men who served in the war
against Spain.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-15
n"mooratic Congressional Comm,,,ee.

WASHINGTON, Feb. i5.--The suh-com.
nittee OF tho Democratic national con.
gressional committee, which has been
considering tho matter Of organization,
agreed to recommend the same oFganiza.
tion as heretofore, with chairman, vice
chairman, executive ,conamitte Of IS
members and lesser officers.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-15
CaIIous.

Reporter-And he laughed while you
were tying the rope about his neck ?
He must have been a hardened wretch.
Leader Of Regulators - Hardcnedf
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-15
Mother stanislaus Dead.

PITTsBuRG, Feb. 16.-Mother Stanis.
laus Latrobe, superior at st. Xavier's
academy, died Of pneumonia. The fu-
neral services will be held tomorrow, at
10 a. m. Mother Stanislaus was born in
Npperary, Ireland, in 1880.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-15

Say. when we cut him down. after let
ting him hang half an hour. ho said 1t
hadn't been even uncomfortable. He'd
been wearing these high collars for ten
years.--Chicago Tribune.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-15
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Qulninc Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
II It fails to cure. Il. w. Groves sig.
nature on every box. 25c.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-15

ton. It is positive cure for almost all
disorders Of these organs, and cures also
such diseases Of the heart, blood, liver
and other organs, as have their cause in
weak or diseased condition Of the
stomach.
There is no alcohol or other intoxi-
cant contained in Golden Medical
Discovery"
Substitutions are limitations. Inita-
tion money 10 worthless. So are inita-
tions Of Or. Piercc's Discovery" Get
the genuine.
Mr.. John L. Coughe nour. of Gleusavage
Somerset Co.. Pa, writes ~ had been doctor.
ing for about year and half being unable to
work most of the time. The doctor said ! had
heart disease and indigestion. My appetite was
unusually poor, was wesIx and nervous. and
my heart kept throbbing continually, and was
short of breath. Finally wrote to you for
advice. I did not think your diagnosis was right,
but ordered SIX bottles of Golden Medical
Discovery and began its use After using three
bottles IbeEan to improve slowly and soon went
to work, and have been working ever siuee"
Free. Doctor Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser, 1908 pages, 100 ilIustra-
tons, is sent free on receipt Of stamps 10
pay expense of mailing only. Send ar
one-cent stamps for the paper bound
edition, or 81 stamps for the cloth. Adj
dress DIR. R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-15
Livos Lost in u Freshot.

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. l5.-Threo men
were drowned and holt million dollars
damage done to property along the Hud-
son river by the worst freshet which
this city has seen since 1867.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-15
Henry G. Robinson Dead.

HARTFORD, Feb. l5.-Henry q. Rob-
inson died, aged 68 years. He was one
Of the leading lawyers Of the state.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-15
stops the Cough
hud works OF the Cold.

Laxative Bro,no. oninine Tablets cure u cold
In ono day No Cure, No Pay. Price 25o.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
THE LAW LAID DOWN.

An officer who accepts a second of.
nee when he cannot hold both is held
IN Oliver VS.. Jersey City On. J1, 4s
l.. r. A. 412, TO be an officer do facto
whose acts will be valid as to the pub.
lie IL he continues to act in his orig.
inal Office.
Conspiracy to refuse 20 deal with a
person which is made maliciousIv 20
in1ure him, and not TO serve anv le.
gitimate interests of the persons who
enter into 1t, is held, in Ertz VS.. Prod.
uce Exchange (Minn.), IS L. r. A. 90.
TO be an actionable wrong.
Signature to a paper by mark made
by person for the purpose of iden.
tfying himself as party thereto il
held, in Finley VS.. Prescott (Wis.). Al
L. r. A. COS, sufficient to constitute a
good signature at common law with.
out any attestation thereof by a sub.
scribing witness
Combination of railroad lines 20
held, in state VS.. Central of Georgia
Railway company (Ga.), IS L. r.. A.
S51, not to be in violation of a consti-
tutional provision against consolida-
ton OF competing lines, even though
competition may be thereby lessened
at some points, If as a general result
the public at large as distinguished
from the people of special or particu-
lar communities is benefited by the
combination.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
GOSSIP OF THE CAMPUS.

Open play seems to have almost
wholly superseded the old COMPACT
formations among the university foot.
ball teams.
, There are many Siamese at Oxford
as wen as East Indians and American
darkies. The color distinction is moi
understood or appreciated in England.
Tbs football team of the UNIVERSITY
OF Iowa has come into the front rank
of western elevens by scoring recent.
ly against the University of Chicapx
team IL to O.
The county superintendent OF
schools in Seattle, Wash, has spent tbt
greater part of his official term of two
years at the state university. ouali.
tying himself for the duties of his no
Eition.
William f. Steward and his wife OF
Scranton township. near Urbana. III.
have given their 6Oo-acre farm. valued
ut $4,000, for the founding of an insti.
tuition devoted to the education of col.
ored people in the "black belt" of the
south.
In an address delivered in Rosto,
Prof. James NJ. Crafts said that s33
100000 was given by private individuals
last year to colleges, universities and
technical schools in the United States.
and that little of it was the result OF
begging. 1ar
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
CENSUS FACTS AND FIGURES,

In the United States there are 1a4
cities which have population exceed
ing $4,000. They have total popula-
ton OF 1s,S72,462. The average popu-
lation is 14O,s39.
Chicago aspires to be the financial
center of the nation, but New York
has a huge handicap which will not
be easily overcome, having in 1899 to-
tai bank clearings of $57,36s, $50, III,
against $6,36s, 946, 314 for Chicago.
Vermont shows an increase in pom
ulation during the past decade of s.s
per cent. It's present population is
S43'o41. In ITO years its population In
creased q little more than fourfold.
According to the most recent census
the population of Belgium is 6,75o GOO,
which for its 1873 square miles of
territory gives 500 inhabitants a
square mile, making Belgium the most
thickly populated country on the
globe. Holland is close second, with
eos Inhabitants to the square mile.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
LATEST FASHIONS IN DOGS.

Fashions in dogs change from year
to year.
! The pug is obsolete so far as smart
women are concerned. Neither is the
poodle or the Maltese, the Skye or the
terrier, found in polite society.
French bulldogs and japanese span
iels are now fashions favorites.
? One Of the rarest dogs in this country
is Chinese pug, the property of Mrs.
Marion Hitchcock, wife of the traveller
and archaeologist. It's name is Kirei.
after the old Chinese city. II was
bought from eunuch belonging to the
palace of the empress in Peking, and
is supposed to belong TO the oldest
breed of dogs in the world. WIZ Van
derbilt has the brother of this queer lit
tie creature. ans ...
|, Mrs. George, Law, the beautiful
American widow, has French bulldog
that has the most expensive trappings
of any dog in swelldom. When it goe
for q promenade with its pretty mis-
tress it wears a collar and anklets Of
pigeon-blood rubies, set thickly, on a
plain gold band. These txinkets were
made to order by celebrated Partisan
Jeweler and are said to have cost $780,
600.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
MEN AND WOMEN OF NOTE.

Aarghsrita, the widowed queen dow.
fger Of italy has completed the dis
tribution of her personal effects and
has retired from public life.
Rev. Mr.. Sheldon does notAbelieye in
patronizing Sunday street cars, and
walked 1s miles to fill his engagements
in New York.
The exact date of Queen Wilhelmina,s
marriage has not yet beensset. but it
In certain that it viii occur either at
the end of January or the beginning of
February.
w. I. Stead, the well-knowu journal.
ist. is of the opinion that nobody so
burns the candle at both ends an the
American business man. HE even hur-
ries his Sleep" says Mr.. Stead.
On the occasion of the visit of the
shah of Persia in the pavilion of clock
work, In the Paris exposition, clock
was shown to him which fred off a
pistol every hour. "To kill time, ell D.
remarked the Persian monarch.
Mrs. AyTton, of London, who read a
paper before the electrical congress- re-
Gently held in Paris, was the only WON
- az NiOSC I1etNlnRS. deT SUD-
1ect was "The Electrical Arc" Mrs.
Ayrton is the only woman who is q
member of the Institution of Electrical
Engineering.
When Paul Kruger was last In Eng.
Land, several years ago, he INDUCED in
the extravaganza of new silk hat
Tor which he paid a sovereign. The
other day it was put up at auction al
Covent garden and bid in for 25. At
the same time an autograph of the
sturdy old Dutehman sold for S12.50.
Ajournalist who has often been called
upon to make stenographic report OF
a speech by Emperor William declares
that the kaiser speaks slowly at first
but gradually gets faster and faster
until it is impossible to follow him
verbatim. The reporters, he saws, gen.
orally write down what they can, and
oy comparing notes afterward concoct
tolerably accurate report of what he
said.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.

Shetland has had a wonderful her,
ring catch this season, 32c, 400 Grams
valued at over 81 500, 900. This Is a rec
ord for all Scotland.
Fearing plague of rats, Antwerp
has organized an official rat hunt q
penny being giver by the authorities
Tor every animal killed.
Walter Rothebild, of London, has a
collection of 81 turtles from all parts
of the world. Some, weighing over 400
pounds, are believed to be about ESQ
years old.
According to the United States fish
commission some Holsters are red be-
fore being boiled. other specimens
have been found showing coat of rich
indigo.
Bug eccentricities are being brought
into special collection by the British
museum. 1t has now moths with male
wings on one side and female wings on
the other, butterflies with no forewings,
and insects with an abnormal number
OF antennae or of legs.
A new treatise of ia pages, by Leo
pold Kruger, of Berlin, discusses the
question of the importation into Ger
many of American insects dangerous
to agricultural interests. It comes 70
the conclusion that this danger has
been greatly exaggerated.
A species of grasshopper, hitherto
unknown TO the Danish West Indies,
has made its appearance in ST. Croix,
and the planters complain of the dam
age done to the canes. This insect Is
from one to one and half inches long,
OF light brown color, and, contrary
to the habits of the known species, it
Is able to fy.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17


enc naet1 1881 passes were issued te
emigrants. So
An Egyptian contemporary says:
Our whole island Is now girdled with
golf courses. All the world is no long.
er q stage, but golf links"
In a cavalry charge the list of casual.
ties among horses is naturally greater
than among men. At Talavera goo
horses were killed and 24O men. while
at the famous charge Of the Light brig
ade. at Balaklava. the losses among
horses were 800 and among men ESQ.
A new canal of the greatest impor.
tance is to be built by Russia. The ca
nal will be of great significance from
the military as well asthe commercial
standpoint. 1t will connect the Baltic
and White seas, running from st. Pc
tersburg along the Finnish gulf to st.
Catharine, the new naval harbor on the
Thurman coast.
4 The French government, has Just
mounted huge Creusot gun at Calais
as a set-of to the enormous harbor
works that are in progress for the
British ad miralty at Dover. It is said
that the new gun has a range of 20
miles, and as the straits of Dover at
this point are only 10 miles in width
the gun will, if it proves satisfactory,
be able to drop its prejectiles upon
British soil.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
CURRENTS OF ELECTRICITY.

Electricity is coming more and
more into use in the tanners business.
Wireless telegraphy in the Hawaiian
Islands has not proved a success. Com
munication has been proved successful
between some stations, but between
others 1t has not been.
Some experiments have been con-
Quoted at st. Paul, In which electricity
at pressure of 10000 volts was sent
through an underground cable three
miles long. The highest voltage for
merly obtained was 10000.
Two of the largest Ruhml1orff coils
ever made have been ordered in this
country for foreign government, and
will give an electric spark 45 inches in
length, expanding energy amounting
to three or four horse power, and hav-
ing a potential of half million volts.
There does not seem to be any way
OF clearly accounting for the fact that
lightning rods have suddenly become
fashionable in Brooklyn. There is
quite n boom in suburban building
there and nearly all new residences
are being crowned with metal spikes.
A New York millionaire proposes to
utilize electricity for every possible
purpose imaginable in his new pala-
tial residence In Riverside drive. II
will be used for lighting, heating.
cooking, washing, ironing, driving
clothes, ventilation, driving phono-
graphs and Microscopes for amuse-
ment, and for charging automobile
batteries.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
CROPS AND CROP GROWING.

Irrigation is advocated for eastern
as we'll as western states owing to sew.
eral crop failures in recent years.
Owing to the big vintage and the
scarcity of casks wine is selling at one
cent quart at many vineyards in the
Bordeaux district.
An apple tree in the orchard of John
Brooks, of Mount Haley, Maitland
county, Mich, has blossomed three
times since last winter.
A number of British cities lease for a
long term or purchase outright hun.
dreds OF acres of bogland or other waste
Land for the use of the city. The city
garbage is used for filing in and for
fertilizing purposes. In the course of a
few years many acres of land are re-
deemed and made to blossom as the
rose. These municipal farms are To-
Gated from two to Is miles from the
city.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

In Cleveland CO., bargain counter
rush the ether day one woman's wrist
was broken and another's shoulder
was dislocated.
Allegheny, Pa, has an ordinance re-
curing street railway companies to
equip their cars with jacks, for use in
hitting cars from the bodies of per-
sons that have been run down.
Twenty-nine cases of sudden death
in three days is Chicago's rece1t rec
ord. Physicians say that great
changes in the weather and tempera-
ture were in large part responsible for
the deaths. -
A visitor at the Paris exposition lost
the use of one eye owing to the cal
cium fash used by a photographer in
taking the mans photograph being of
too great volume.
Twenty-three hundred people gath
Sred the other evening in the Acad-
envy theater in Chicago to witness n
wedding that was TO have taken place
on the stage in the full glare of the
calcium lights. The real groom failed
to appear, but mock ceremony salts
ned the expectant throng.
In Switzerland sums up to 81. 900
draw. four per cent. interest per an
mum; from 81 900 to $1,000, $685. per
cent. Is paid; while if one has an ac-
count of more than 5000 he receives
only sh per cent.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
GATHERED HERE AND THERE,

A factory for liquid air is being erect.
ed at Los Angeles, Cal, for refriperat
ing purposes.
Shamoy leather is not, nor ever was
the hide of the chamois, but the flesh
side of sheep-skins.
! Russia leather is tanned in an infusion
OF willow or birch bark, and gains ite
! delicious odor from birch oil.
1 Between the towns of Los AnreIe.
and Pasadena, in southern California
there has been constructed an over.
neao path for the exclusive use OF
cyclists.
! Death from hydrophobia followed in
the ease of a cowboy at FL Paso. Tex.
VINO had been been bitten by a mad
=. skunk out on range near Wilcox.
some boys squander every year the
cost of coveted trip to some point OF
interest. Let them remember that every
five cents saved means mile and a half
of the Journey.
! IL a spray Of liquid air is applied 70
the skin, the part is frozen as hard a,
ices but in few minutes circulation re.
turns without injury to the tissues
providing the part is not at some ex,
ltremity.
Potato spirit, or alcohol, adulterated
with pyridine, is coming into favor
rs an Iluminant in Germany. and
promises to rival acetylene. It 1.
most economical in lamps of at least
10 candle-power. In the gardens of the
imperial palace of Sans-Souci, Pets.
dam, there are ego incandescent lamp,
burning this alcohol.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
WITH THOSE WHO LABOR.

st. Louis has $4,000 trades union men
Workngmen at Logansport, Ind.
,have established a cooperative grocery.
I Work on the federal building in Chi.
cage is to be rushed in good earnest
from now on.
+, A new diamond field has been found
AZ miles from Griquatown, in Cape
Colony.
Glass factories in Germany now
number 400, and the works give EN-
ployment to $4,000 men.
The locomotive works of the United
States turned out 2,196 locomotives in
the past year, valued at S23, 900 COO. OF
the total number 4s9 were sent abroad.
A diamond circular saw for cutting
stone is described in London Engineer.
ing, and is said to cut hard sandstone
blocks at the rate of five feet per min.
ute.
The General Society of Mechanics
and Tradesmen of New York City has
added to its library department. OF
trade catalogues. These will be in
dexed and fled away and will be &C.
cessible at all times to those who wish
TO consult them.
! The steamer Paris, which went
aground Last year, IS being rebuilt at
Belfast, end viii be known as the Phil.
adelphia. The vessel is receiving an
entirely new bottom, and new boilers
and engines will be put in. She viii
nave two funnels instead of three, but
VIII otherwise preserve her former ap-
pearance.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
THINGS TO. THINK ABOUT.

Americans at Bucena, on the south
ern coast of LuzoD. 20 hours from Ma
lila by steamer, can read Chicago
aailies 80 days after publication.
Prolonged residence in the United
States does no confer citizenship upon
y foreigner. although it is a reason
Shy it should be conferred.
A child born of American parents
temporarily residing abroad at The
time of birth is by law entitled to an
the rights and privileges of, and in
fact is an American citizen.
Boston, with 100000 less than half
as many Inhabitants as Philadelphia,
shows postal receipts only S211, 600 less
than the latter. Boston's receipts are
81, 200 900 more than st. Louis, al
though the latter city is larger by
1900.
According to the postal receipts of
the so largest cities in the country,
Boston makes the remarkable average
of trifie less than six dollars to each
fnhabitant, showing that either a vast
amount of business is done in Boston
by mail. or else the social correspond
enee Is much heavier than elsewhere.
Under our form Of government there
Is such thing as high treason against
not only the United States govern
ment. but against any of the state
governments. This is said to have been
potent factor during the civil war,
when the people in the southern
states found themselves compelled to
choose between allegiance to the ma
tional government or allegiance to
their state government.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
PITH AND POINT.

rolling pin gathers no dough.
II is the want of motive that makes
life dreary.
In the lumber trade trees are branch
establishments.
The fellow who takes offense is very
apt to return it.
The wisest man mikes a few grains
of folly with his wisdom.
There are n great many donkeys in
the world without long ears.
Happiness is the interest we receive
on our charitable investments.
Words resemble sunbeams: the more
they are condensed the deeper they
burn.
When woraan's feelings are all
worked up she should order a fresh
supply.
If ants give us an example of IN
dustry, It's more than a good manv
uncles do.
Justice - supposed to be blind, but
she often sees money in an extended
hand.
The finest compliment that can be
paid a woman is to address her as a
person OF sense.
People In this world are so much
alike that If you find fault with one
you will hit thousand.
1t is one of the privileges of man 20
live and learn-but some men seem to
live a great deal more than thew
learn.-Chicago Daily News.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
CHURCH AND CLERGY.

The 200 Boer prisoners at Camp
Deadwood, st. Helena, have a thriving
Christina Endeavor society. 1t was
started az Camp Simonstown, South
Africa. Sometimes over 1000 attend.
A. b. Steele, of Atlanta, Ca, has
given $4,000 each TO the orphans home
of the Methodist church at South De-
catur, Ga, the home for the friendless
in Atlanta and the Agnes Scott insti-
tute at Decatur.
1t is said that there are about 70
towns in England with a population
of 10000 and upward in which Presby-
terianism is entirely unrepresented.
Fifteen OF these towns contain each
a population exceeding $4,000.
Forty years continuous and uninter-
rupted service as pastor of the Rose
vile Avenue Presby terian church.
Newark, N. J., is the record upon
which Rev. DIR. Charles T. Haley was
congratulated recently. His record is
unparalleled in the annals of Presby-
terianism in America.
Rev. Ella Groendyke, sister Of Rev
Montgomery Groendyke, of Hartford
City, Ind, has been sent to Sierra
Leone, where the massacre of the mis-
sionaries occurred last year. She has
already spent four years in Africa and
will undertake to rebuild the de-
Etroyed missions.
Getting at The Facts. az.
Jaggs-Waggs told me the other day
that was full of dry wit.
Naggs-Waggs was evidently kidding
you. never saw you full of anything
that wasn't wet Chicago Daily News.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION.

A new island has been formed out at
sea, about ten miles from the mouth of
the Rhone.
! Eye glasses are made from Brazilian
pebble, which is very transparent rock
crystal.
: Flowers which are kept in water in
which little saltpeter has been dis
solved viii remain fresh for long
time.
b An official map of Vesuvius on a scale
OF one in 10000, has just been issued.
being the first since 1876. A new plan
in relief of the cone of the volcano has
also been made.
Three miles from the village of Krisu-
vik in the great volcanic district OF
Ireland there is whole mountain
composed of eruptive clays and pure,
white sulphur. a beautiful grotto pen.
etrates the western slope to an un.
known depth.
! 1t has been considered until recent
ly that it was almost impossible TO pro-
duce cheese from pasteurized milk, but
a short time ago chemist of Stockholm
succeeded in effecting a preparation
that solved the difficulties. The prod
uct has been named "caseol"
In many German villages sanitary de-
pots have recently been established al
which private families can for a trifle
borrow various things needed in sick
room which they cannot afford to buy,
1t is believed that many lives are thus
saved