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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
PERT AND PERSONAL.

The strength of the staff Of the
governor of Georgia is 80 colonels.
It is related of Samuel Alvin Sper~
~, who has Just died in Reno county,
Kansas, that he was one of family
of IA children, all of whom lived 10 be
more than IS years old.
Bishop Doane, of Albany, was one
day talking to q druggist and a sur
geon, while nearby stood an under
takers wagon. A friend hurried
along, and as he shot by he muir
INJURED: Priest, druggist, surgeon
and undertaker's wagon; I'll pass"
DR.. Robert j. Irvine, physician In
charge of the Sing Sing hospital, adj
vocates an indeterminate sentence
for criminals, so that those who show
no evidence of reform need not be
released. He says the present sys-
tenn sends prisoners out worse NOR
ally than when they go in
DR.. Max Uhle, of the University OF
California, recently returned from
Peru, where he explored many an
Gent ruins of cities and palaces never
before seen by the eyes of white
man. He hopes shortly to go still
| further into the dim past with the
hope of uncovering the sources of the
| FIRST American civilization
The cremation OF the body Of the
late DR.. Robert Grimes, of Cheyenne,
has revealed the bullet received by
him at the Meeker massacre, where
he distinguished himself, as in many
other Indian Au Ca Oeraeuts "a "F1chr-
ing Bob, the doctor" Then IL was
thought the wound would be fatal,
but DR.. Grimes recovered and for 20
| years carried the missile which the
surgeons were unable 90 locate. The
lead button weighed more than the
ashes of the deceased.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26

tillery. 1t was a hard days work for
all OF us, but we kept things going.
Nelson rode down several times, and it
was on that occasion he was reported
to have said that a mule was worth
more than a man. What ne did say, as
team of mules was foundering in the
water was: Jump in, boys; jump in
and save those mules. Don't you know
that, as we are situated now, q mule
is worth as much to US as man?'
Several of the men, laughing at the
generals excitement, waded In and
brought the mules out.
'After that Gen. Nelson and myself
became great friends. / was one OF
the commissioned officers who crossed
the Tennessee river with him to the
field OF Shiloh. was with him In Lou
Isville when he was shot, and I heard
almost the last words that the bluff
old soldier ever spoke. In my ac-
quaintance with him he never once re-
ferred to the time he routed me out Of
my tent, and inferred that he rather
liked a man who stood by his guns and
who gave him as good as he sent In tn
way Of strong language.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
MUNICIPALITIES.

4 Gen. Joseph Wheeler told q boys
brigade in Philadelphia the other
night that his earnest hope il that
we shall never have another war.
The wife Of Secretary of the Treas
ury Shaw says that log cabins are
getting so scarce now that great men
do not know where to be born any
moro.
Thetus W. Sims, a representative
IN congress from Tennessee, was
working 80 years ago In q brick Yards
~ one dollar day and later wan
dered over the big bend state with
the pack Of q peddler en- his back.
William NJ. Ramsey, OF California,
has just purchased Westover, the IA
nous country seat along the James
river, whose history is well traced
for 400 years. He will restore the
estate to It's colonial magnifieence,
but will not mar its colonial archi-
lecture.
1t now appears, according to the
Chicago Chronicle, that Carnegie pla4
CARRIED in choosing for his chi
taph the words: "Here lies n man
who knew enough to surround him
self with men wiser than he" The
lats Emperor Frederick of Germany
made speech shortly after his IA
Tiers death In which he said: "Be
was 9 great nan-great especially be-
cause he knew how to surround him
self with men greater than he was. -
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26

evil habit Of which it was found i'm
possible to break him. He was fond
of chickens and would devour the
farmers poultry.
When the VOLTS food was brought
to him he would scatter it about him
and then lie down with his head on
his forepaws, feigning sleep. Soon
the hens would surround him to eat
his food, and woe to the one that
came within reach of his paw.
For this habit the wolf was con-
demned to die. Morgan fred a
charge Of shot at the wolf, but only
wounded him, and the animal ran to
the woods. The farmer and his two
men followed two miles and shot him
IN hind leg. He crawled into the
thicket, and the hunters, thinking
that he was dead, returned home.
The next morning the wolf came
to the kitchen door of the farm
house when the family were at
breakfast and scratched for admis-
sion. The farmers son was delight
ed, for he and the wolf were great
friends. Morgan intended to spare
the wolf for the boys sake, but the
very next morning he set his trap
for the chickens and devoured two.
Then he was filed with lead. lie
had grown nearly to the size of a
Newfoundland.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26

Ole c. Finstad and wife two months
ago. The Finstads assert that it did,
and that, as Mrs. William Lewis house
was overrun with rats, they were in
duced to loan the cat to her that it
might clear the premises of the pests
When the rats were gone the Fin
stads say that they went to Mrs
Lewis, asking that she return the cat
Not only did Mrs. Lewis refuse to give
the animal up, but the Finstads say
that she hid the creature in the house
defying them to take it.
Now, a man of the name of Finstad
isn't likely to take q dare. Mr.. Fin
stad didn't, and when he went to the
Lewis residence again it was with the
determination to do or die with his
boots on. He and Mrs. Lewis mixed,
without the formality of gloves and q
roped ring, and by the time Mr.. Fin
stad got home with the cat the town
marshal served a warrant, charging
him with assault and battery.
In justice court next morning Mr.
Finstad got the worst of fight with
woman. She not only got in the last
word but he was fined $40 and costs.
This Mr.. Finstad refused to pay, and
TO this end he has appealed the case to
the circuit court. There are both feel.
ing enough and money enough in the
case to take it at least to the supreme
court
In the meantime the cat, on back
fences, is serenading both families i'm.
partially every night.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
EUROPEAN ECHOES.

There are 5,1so,ooo Hebrews In Rus
sia, according to the latest census re-
turns.
No less than US castles, more or less
ancient, stand upon the Hills overlook
ing the Rhine.
A Glasgow steamship which had TO
be tewed $50 miles had to pay s4,soo.
or ten pounds n mile, for assistance.
From the northern terminus of Nor
ways most northern railway the sun
IS constantly In sight from June . to
July II.
The best coal in France Is found near
Pouchamps. II is so valuable that It
pays to mine il at the great depth of
s.s13 feet
Switzerland has at Bex salt mines
which have been worked for 34s years.
Tbs galleries are IS miles in length
and the profit E15,ooo year.
The highest temperature Of 1901 In
England was on July 10. On that day
the thermometer touched 90 degrees
in London and at other points.
Madrid has the unenviable distinc-
tion Of being in every way the most
unhealthy capital in Europe. Accord.
ing 20 statistics just published there
have been o,o74 deaths during the past
five years among q population only
slightly exceeding 100000.
In Paris male domestic servants are
encouraged to marry, as they are ob.
served to be more settled and at
tentivo to their duty than when bach.
elors. In London such marriages are
discouraged, as rendering servants
more attentive to their families than
70 those Of their masters.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
UGLY CAT IN COURT.
Two Dakota Ffasilies Battle for Ton,
Who Doesn't Care what De-
cisiOn VIII Re.

Evidently Sioux Falls, S. D., has
missed some of the exeitements and
diversions that have passed with the
decadence of its divorce courts. An
indication is in the fact of lawsuit,
now in the circuit court, which involves
the ownershiTs OF a plain, back fence
tom cat whose hide would not bring
1874 cents in the local fur market.
According to the evidence, which has
worked its way up through a justice
court to the circuit court, and which
promises finally to reach the ears of
the state supreme court, this partic-
ular mouser did or did not belong to
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26

as fellow is getting pretty well
fixed for little sleep, fall in and go
a Sew rods farther; and so we go all
night. We marched that way all night
until the darkest hour, Just before
day, when we crossed an old wooden
bridge at the foot of the hills. These
hills are OF yellow clay soil. and the
bitches on the sides of the road wash
out very deep. Just where our regi-
ment stopped the bitches were about
six feet deep. We were sitting down.
and most OF us asleep or nearly SO,
when some staff officers rode up on
the old bridge, where some of the boys
were lying fast asleep. AS the horses
feet struck one fellow he jumped up,
and such yell as he gave would al
most raise the dead: Then another
yelled: Look out for the cavalry
and about that time 'bangl' went some
fellows gun. The first thing we
thought OF was to clear the road, and
we jumped to the sides, not knowing
the bitches were there, and as I raised
up my file leader swung his gun around
In such manner as 20 strike me on the
head, and landed clear over one ditch:
and there is where got that bump on
my head. 1t was as dark as Egypt.
The officers call to fall in, that all was
right, l got back into the road, and
went to the south side OF the ditch
where most of the company had gone.
Down in that ditch was terrible COM
motion. The language used was not
very choice-only on such occasions.
could hear Sergt Rinkle, who seemed
to be in the bottom layer, say in a
smothered voice (Which he told me
afterwards was made with mouth
full Of clay): Take your knee off
my ear 1t was something like a
modern college football game going
on down in that ditch.
After time we got back into the
ranks, and daylight soon appeared,
and such sight and appearance as
that regiment made! The mud and
water in the bottom of the bitches was
about six inches dap, worked into a
fine batter, and we had large amount
of it distributed over the regiment.
We moved on until we came to a creek,
Just as the sun was coming up, and we
built fire of rails and put on the cof-
fee-pot to boil, and as Sergt. Carpen-
ter and were washing off some of the
clay in the brook near by the John
MES gave US morning call with a
battery on the hills about a mile off,
and about the third shot struck our
rail-pile fire and away went our coffee,
which put US out OF humor all day
with them, and the battle of Port Glib
son was on. That is how it happenad "
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
Death with n STING

Friend--It is too bad that you have
o die before you can get even with
POUR cousin who cheated you out Of
your patrimony.
Consumptive-Never mind. I'll be
revenged. shall die before the win
ter is over.
What difference can that maker"
Custom will require him to attend
my funeral and stand by the grave
with his hat off. Thatn kill him.
N. Y. Weekly.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
Granite Ear for Mu.,o

Rudolph Aronson has never had so
much faith in opera and very little
luck in IL since Gen. Grant refused
to go to hear "Erminie." "I don't
know anything about music" he said
to Aronson, land wouldn't sit
through an opera for 81 900" Gen.
Grants ear for music was so bad that
all his life In the army he never
could tell the bugle' calls apart. If
some OF our young national guard Of
fcers had got hold OF him they would
have declared that he never would
make g soldier because he didn't un-
derstand music.-N. Y. Press.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
WOLF WAS DIPLOMATIC.
He Scattered HIS Food Around the
Yard, FefEned Sleep and Then
Ate Up the Chickens

The Susquehanna (Pa.) correspond
ent of the New York World says
that Jim Morgan, Of Great Bear
township, walked into the county
commissioners Office recently with a
VOLTS skull, claiming the usual boun-
ty, and told this remarkable tale:
The wolf, captured when a cub,
had been raised in his home and was
as tame as a dog. But he had one
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26

Standardization says he fol-
lowed your advice about speculating
and lost $4,000 by it.
Singerly-Did he? Well, 1 always
knew he was a chump.-Detroit Free
Press.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
Correct to the Lat

Anyhow" chuckled the somewhat
fastidious horsethief, as the regu-
lators adjusted the moose about his
neck, lit isn't readymade tie."--
Chicago Tribune.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
Loaded.

Mrs. Bargsn-I hope you liked the
cigars gave you. dear. You'll be glad
TO know anyway that paid cash for
them; they weren't charged.
Mr.. GEOGRAPHICALLY? I thought
they were. but I didn't know what
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26

Husband-What makes you 90
hoarse, my dear?
Wife, attended meeting of our
whist club this afternoon.-Judoa.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26

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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-23
RECENT NOTES OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

Experiments made at the Polytech'
mic Institute of Worcester on the CO.
efficient OF expansion OF Portland CO.
ment show that, for temperatures be-
tween S degrees and degrees c. the
co.efficient is O.O00,0051 per degree F
$1,000. O0Sl per degree (Which is
very close to the co-efficient OF
wrought iron.
NJ. Redelin has discovered the re-
mains of a mammoth associated with
palaeolithlc remains of man neir Brig
noles in lower Provence. In a cave
under rocks, there were found four
Clipped flint implements associated
with a portion of the molar of Elephas
prlmigenius, part of the frontal bone
OF a human skull with the jaw bone
teeth, etc The discovery comes to
fill a blank in the prehistoric records
OF Provence.
hSnlhlhaoiS iVSui'o nav wv" ~
tanned in the explorations at Abydos
during the past year. The consecu
tive order of seventeen kings has beer
established and the foundations o.
Egyptian history settled on a firm ba
sls.The historic character OF King Me
ma has been demonstrated and lonl
line of a dozen kings after him hal
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-23
His Appropriate Quotation.

Some years ago" said preacher.
I'VE inaugurated in our Sunday school
the practice of our children quoting
some Scriptural text as they dropped
their pennies into the contribution box.
On the first Sunday in question. a lit
tie shaver walked up and said: The
Lord loyeth a cheerful glver, and in
dropped his penny. Charity shall
cover a multitude of sins and In drop
ped the next. IT is more blessed to
give than to receive quoted the third.
and so on. Just then up walked lit
tie fellow with the unmistakable rem
nants OF molasses candy on his club.
by face, and, as he dropped his cent,
he bawled out: A fool and his mon.
ey are soon parted"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-23
WITH UHO
0D0RA" GIRL.
new RAILROAD SIGNALING INVENTIONS

run within somewhat less than enc,
third OF a mile of the danger point, the
apparatus automatically applies the
brakes and brings the train to a
standstlll.
When a train leaves a station a bell
is rung at the next two signal towers
out on the line, and In the case of a
double.tracked or triple-tracked road, a
special apparatus indicates which line
the train rs travelling over; thereby the
men stationed at the various to"ors
are enabled to know the exact loca'
ton of approaching trains and also, 10
warn other trains of imminent dang sr.
Al n fmrti or precautionary meas nc,
an ingenious arrangement automatical
ly locks the signals a.'er they have
been set, thus preventing their benz
altered By unauthorized persons,
Herr Bartelmus claims that his in
vention renders II absolutely imnos
sible for trains to collide, whetho'
they are proceeding in the same dire =
ton Of IN opposite directions. Aud
he says, his system i2 every blr aS Of
fective in the case OF train standing
at station or at any uoint out ~ The
Iuuo as 1t is where two moving trains
are involved; so that rearend COLI
sions cannot occur. The inventor hal
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-23
SHIP SAVED
FIGHT
For
LIFE

chains. which were to me the most
terrifying exhibition of seemingly ami.
mated inanimate force had ever seen.
They sprang and coiled like serpents.
these chains, yet the men at work
near them seemed to joy in gauging
their spring and keeping Just out OF
reach of the roaring coils. They went
at this work like soldiers in siege, and
they pumped and bailed all that night
and all the next day and until midnight
again without cessation. II was a bat.
tie, race, and game all In one. with
probable death hanging over, and
they gloried in the danger and laughed
at fatigue. In the end they won. The
dismantled hulk Of the Catherine Sud.
den was raised from the sea.
To this day do not know what mir.
acle kept the Sudden afioat until the
crew Of the Corwin took hold OF her.
But know what raised her after that.
1t was the spirit of battle. These men
1et that they were reversing snip
wreck, and the feeling inspired the
humblest of them to deeds out OF the
ordinary. The psychology of ship.
wreck shows here in reverse. Instead
of the deadly disgust at fate which
made men on the sinking ship, though
outwardly calm, inwardly disheartened
and unable to concentrate their work.
which sent them sullenly from one
thing to another, or babe them quit
and wait for the inevitable end. here
was the inspiration of possible sue.
cess which could make men stick to
pumps and buckets twenty.four hours
on stretch. then take dash of grog
from the captains noggin and go
ahead for another twelve.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-23
THE STORYOF FINNEY
BY TERRES FOX.

was saying; but he ought to have a
nurse. Have any of you had the small
pox7"
There was none, and for a moment
the doctors appeal brought forth no
response. Then one of the men in
blue stepped out with jaunty, springy
steps and volunteered his services.
The doctor turned to him.
"You realize what you are doing.
having never had the diseaseP'' he
said.
"Eggshells" bowed ostentatiously,
but his usually ruddy face was very
pale. Yes, he realized.
Days passed. THE Soul" the imp
of mischief. who had endeared himself
to all by his very deviltry, was battling
with death far out on the prairie,
where a flag fluttered in the breeze
and there was not man in the regi.
ment who did not regard his nurse as
hero. Then one day gun doomed,
and the men knew that THE Sour
had crossed the waters that divide
time and eternity; that he had left his
mischief. his deviltry, his heartless.
ness, and gone where the soul takes
on ways that are not of earth.
When news came that "Eggshells'
his faithful nurse, was stricken with
the dread disease, dozen men
without families" they said-volun
teered to take care of him; but the
doctor had procured nurse who hat
had the smallpox, and for whom, II
consequence, there was no danger.
One day the doctor stopped to ex
change a few words with a group o
men who were of duty.
very bad" he answered in respons,
to their eager questioning az to Egg
shells condition. Hes delirious.
! listened last night. He was saying
what was he saying, sir?" Buckle
! asked as the doctor hesitated.
} HE was saying: May the Lor,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-23

filters out, so to say, the continuous
current necessary to the operation of
the apparatus. This current Is diff
fused into many others capable OF ac-
tuating a certain number of telephones
distributed around the transmitteF, and
in the experiments cited these diffused
currents were strong enough to oper-
ate a relay with a call.bell.
The aeronaut Hergesall of Strass.
burg saw, in one of his ascensions, an
eagle at height of 5000 metres and
in another, two storks and buzzard
at 900 metres. Larks have been seen
at 1000 metres, and crows at 400. But
these are exceptional heights. Birds
are rarely seen above 1000 metres and
very few above 400. Birds have been
released from balloons at heights vary.
ing from 900 to 5000 metres. In a
clear atmosphere they few directly
downward, remaining near the bal
loon, however, II the sky were cloudy.
Pigeons were released from balloon
thirty miles away from home in cloudy
weather. The first pigeon returned
home in three hours, the second in
four and the last took nearly day
In clear weather they reached home
from that distance in about forty.five
minutes.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-23

published a pamphlet describing his
apparatus infinitely and he invites all
who may be sceptical concerning II to
peruse the detailed account and to
witness the operation of his model. The
report does not state how the electric
ity is conducted to the engine.
While the efforts of genius to pro-
vide means for the safe running Of
trains are interesting and praisewor-
thy, 1t should not be forgotten that too
much intricacy in signals. with their
consequent likelihood TO become i'm.
paired or for any reason rendered In.
operative at a critical time. is apt }
lead to disaster. Simplicity in railroai
signals is one S' the surest safegua 3
against acciddh s.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-23
AN UNFORTUNATE HABIT.

There Is a young man downtown
who has the trick, or habit, of saying:
since you press me-" On being of
fered a cigar he answers smilingly:
Well since you press me, will;
thanks" and to an invitation to lunch
con, to the theater or to a drink his
answer is always the same Since
you press me, believe | will" 1t
happens that he is engaged to be mar
ried, and that his fiancee has little
brother. This lad has heard often and
with much Jwonderment the phrase,
Since you press me-" used on all
sorts of occasions. and the other night
at dinner party in his house, when,
unfortunately. there were some stran'
gers present. he pointed his knife at
the young man and said in his loud,
childish treble to his father: Papa,
why is Mr.. Blank always a-sayin' ia
sister, Since you squeeze me'?"