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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-25
Chicken Pie Supper Menu.

Menu for the chicken-pie supper to
be served at the Congregational church
Friday evening, October 27th.
Chicken Pie, Brown Gravy
Mashed Potatoes Buttered Squash
Cranberry Sauce Pickles
Cabbage Salad Celery
Hot Rolls
Custard, Lemon, Cocoanut and Pump
kin Pie
Coffee Tea
Admission rs cents.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-25
BIDS FOR cry PHYSICIAN.

The Charity Committee Of the Board
of Aldermen invite bids for the position
OF City Physician. Bids should be pre-
scented on or before Nov. 2, 1905. Flrth-
er particulars can be had of the Com
mite or Overseer of the Poor.
p ALBisE ETH Charity Com.
ALEX MILNE. Of Barre
Barre, VT, Oct. rs, 1905.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05

to go through the ring, and on the
bottom Of the knob is a groove for
the rubber band. The shooting tube,
which may be OF paper, should be as
long as the stick and large enough to
let the closed parachute slip through
easily. The rubber band is attached
across the bottom Of the tube, one
end being tackled to each side.
Put the folded parachute into the
tube, see that the rubber band lies in
the groove, hold the tube firmly with
the left hand, and, with the right, pull!
down the knob and the ring together
several inches and let go.
The stretched band contracts and
shoots the parachute up into the air
like a pea from pea shooter. When
the parachute has reached it's high
est point it begins to fall, but imme-
diately opens out, fills with cir, and
descends very slowly. If there is
much wind it will sail quite dis
lance before it reaches the ground,
especially If you stand with your back
to the wind and incline the gun for
ward.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Paper Parachute.

This is not quite as exciting sport
as shooting the chutes, but it is good
fun. OF course you know what para
chute is-a thing like an umbrella
with or without the stick, which.
when properly weighted and dropped
from balloon or high tower, Will
Gall to the ground very slowly and
gently because its broad surface offers
a great deal Of resistance to the air.
Parachutes used by balloonists are
generally very large and have no
stick, but some daring persons have
jumped from housetops with common
umbrellas and escaped without seri-
Gus injury.
1t would be rather interesting to
drop small parachute from the roof
or window and watch it sail grace
fully to earth, but the fun, would hard
ly pay for the work, as you would
have to carry it upstairs for each
flight, unless 1t was destroyed or cap
tured by some other boy on its first
descent, which would probably be the
case. What you want, clearly, is
some means by which you can shoot
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Clay Pipe Water Mill.

This water mill belongs to the class
of reaction" mills which are turned
one way in the effort to throw a
stream of water in the opposite direc-
ton, and it is made Of a clay pipe.
Cut away one side of the mouth end
of the stem with knife (not your
best one), or rub it away with a file
or on grindstone until it is like Fig.
A-that is to say, until you have laid
bare, so to speak, the bore of the stem
for half an inch or So Then stop the
hole, both at the end and at the side,
with sealing wax, leaving only small
round hole at the point farthest from
the end, as shown in Fig. B.
Now all you have to do is to fasten
fine cord with sealing wax to the
edge of the bowl, at the precise point
that comes nearest to the smokers
mouth. Tie the other end of the cord
to the chandelier or other convenient
object, and pour water gently into the
bowl.
A fine jet of water will shoot out
sidewise from the little hole in the
stem and the pipe will begin turning
in the direction indicated by the ar
row. twill keep on turning as long
as there is any water in the bowl,
and, indeed, good deal longer, by
the effect of the momentum.
What makes it turn is this: At any
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Ancient StenoarapnY.

Shorthand was known to the an
clients, though it is impossible to trace
the system to it's source.
Ennius, the Roman poet, is said to
have improved upon an already exist
ing system. He was friend of Sci
pic, and was born B. c. 239. Seneca
also made it a hobby.
Origen, the Greek Father and Mys
tic, who was born about 1856, and was
a voluminous writer, says, in the
course of his commentary on st. John:
"The absence of my shorthand writer's
prevents me from debating my medi-
tations." We are told, too, that ne
allowed shorthand writers to take
down his extempore homilies.
In the tenth century Greek and
Roman stenography gradually died
out, and the art did not revive until
the beginning of the seventeenth GEN.
tury. During this long interval sew
eral systems Of quick writing were
evolved, such as that of DR.. Timothy
Bright in 1888, who had separate
sign for every word, and some o. these
almost rivaled shorthand in rapidity.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
A TEN-MlNUTE AUTO.

the spools. This keeps them from
falling of once your auto is in mo-
ton. Wedge the wire fast to the open
ing in the spools with bits Of wood.
Now get strip Of board about Is
inches long, one inch wide and thick
and brace it with three smaller pieces
as shown in Fig. 2. One tack in the
joints will hold it tightly.
This stick and it's supports is to be
tackled to the back of your auto body,
the eighteen inch board, as Fig. 8
shows, and your work is nearly done.
Your cord must be twice as long as
the distance from the rear wheels
to the top Of your eighteen inch stick.
On one end of the cord tie the weight
and tie the other end to the center
Of the rear axle. Now turn the rear
wheels backward and you will see
that cord will wind around the axle.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
A Natural Death Trap.

In a remote corner of. the Yellow.
stone park, out of the way of tourists,
and rarely visited, there is little
vale, known as Death gulch, which,
when the weather is calm, asphyxi.
stes wild animals unlucky enough &c
emit fumes of bioXide of carbon, and
sulphuretted hydrogen, which ccHect
in the bottom. The dead carcasses OF
bears and other denizens of the sur
rounding wilderness killed in this way
have been observed in it by several
travellers and Montreal
Herald.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05

This does not mean that this auto
mobile when built will go mile in
ten minutes, but that it can be made
in that time, so simple is its construc-
ton, if you have all the materials at
hand.
First, you will need thin board
18 inches long, by 6 wide, four spools,
for screw eyes, and two pieces OF
wire, some cord and q small iron or
lead weight.
Screw a screw eye into each corner
Of the board and have them all point
slightly downward, with their eyes al
right angles to the board. Run the
wire through these eyes, one piece
at each end Of the board, and on the
ends Of the wire place the spools to
make the wheels, as ia Fig. /. bend
ing up the ends Of the wire. which
must project beyond the outside Of
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05

the parachute up into the air from
the ground.
Such parachute gun is easy TO
make. You need only a tube large
enough to contain the parachute easily
and stout rubber band.
The parachute may be made Of It's
sue paper or other thin, tough paper,
or of thin muslin or silk It needs
neither the stiff ribs of an umbrella
nor any mechanism for opening and
shutting; it's weight and the resist
Rnce of the air attend to that.
1t does need a stick, however, and
this should be very thin and light, and
at least twice as long as the closed
parachute-that is, is long as the
diameter of the open parachute. The
stick is simply poked through the
parachute, and a thread tied around
the top of the parer ard the stick will
make all secure.
The ribs, if they may be called
such, are merely six or eight threads
or fine cords pasted to the outside Of
the parachute from the top or center
to the edge. The upper ends of the
cords may be tied round the stick
the lower ends should project far be-
yond the edge Of the parachute, and
be fastened to metal ring, through
which the stick passes. The lower
end of the stick has knob too big
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
HAS FoNDNEss IFca sNAkEa.
Little Pennsylvania Darkey Puzzle
to Naturaiists.


to Naturaists.
Pref. Fl. A. Surface, State Economic
Zoologist, has found the boy Snake
Charmer Of Harrisburg" according to
dispatch from the Pennsylvania
city.
The other DAY Prof. Surface was
engaged in sorting snakes for his
new volume, 'On the Snakes OF Penn
sylvania," when little black face ap-
peared in the doorway and squeaky
little voice asked: 8#
rs heah wheah de snaik man
lives?"
The professor thought moment
and then said that he was the man
who was looking for snakes. So
The little fellow beamed and asked
the professor if he would let him see
some of his snakes.
Certainly" said the professor, and
he went to his collection, where a
lively Kissing viper and a large black
snake were coiled up. Both of these
snakes are perfectly harmless, but
TIC UOy ulu uOJ kQOW 1t. Tie was uC-
lighted over the snakes and the
squirming and twisting of their beau
tiful bodies seemed to charm him.
When DR.. Surfaces attention was
diverted to another part CT the room
the negro had reached into the box
and took out the Kissing viper, and
followed this by lifting out the black
snake, which coiled about him. He
was fondling the snakes when DR..
Surface turned and the boy was APP
parently not bit afraid.
The boys name is James Dean and
he is familiar object on Harris
burg's streets, clad in red sweater,
short trousers and shoes that have
seen better days. He wears neither
hat nor stockings. At the meeting of
the Harrisburg Naturalists' club, DR..
Surface took Jimmy" Dean as an
object lesson and the little fellow
handled the snakes as if they mad al
ways been his playmates, much to
the establishment of the members of
the club.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05

Run the cord over the top of the up
right eighteen inch stick and turn the
wheels backward until the cord wind
ing around the rear axle draws the
weight to the top of the upright.
Hold the wheels and weight In this
position, put the auto on the floor and
let it go. The weight will pull on the
string, which in unwinding will turn
around the axle and the wheels and
the auto will run swiftly across the
floor, stopping only when the weight
rests against the floor or auto body,
or when the cord is all unwound from
the rear axle.
You may pile quite cargo of build
ing blocks on the. front of the auto
and transport them from place to
place, or you may take your sisters
entire doll family for ride, provided
your weight is fairly heavy.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
The Little Green Man.

A pretty trick may be shown by
fashioning little man or pillar out
of clayey mud mixed with sand.
While the figure is still soft press
into it seed Of watercress which has
been soaked for some hours in soft
lukewarm water.
When the figure is we'll covered
with seed set it into plate which is
filed with soft Iukewarm water
mixed with bit of unslaked lime
Before long the figure will be covered
with a beautiful, velvety green cloak.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Remarkable Lightning Hoes.

1t is generally known that Ii,:htning
striking the ground sometimes forms
tubes lined with fused minerals, but
comparatively few persons have ever
seen these phenomena. Not lCng ago
during thunder storm in Essex,
England, ball Of fire, which aeemed
to cast darts in all directors, was
seen to descend from the clouds. There
was crashing explosion, and after
ward, in an out-feld, three distinct
sets of holes, ranging fro n nine
inches down to one inch in diameter,
were found in the ground. T-ley were
perfectly circular, diminishing in size
as they went deeper, and we're cut
through the yellow clay as clean as
auger holes.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Pact Fulfilled After 80 Years.

An agreement made between friends
forty years ago was kept yesterday
afternoon at the funeral Of the Rev.
George Heacock. The Rev. ]. Rich
ards Boyle, pastor of the Spring Gar
den Street Methodist Episcopal
church, oficiated, and the pact that
whichever of the two should die first
should have his funeral services con-
Quoted by the other was fulfilled.
Mr.. Boyle converted Mr.. Heacock
to Methodism in Mauch Chunk four
decades ago, at which time the agree
Ledger.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Raising Trout for Market.

There ought to have been more
than a suggestion to some farmers
with an available water supply at
hand in the tank containing trout six
months, 1, 2, and 3 years old, shown
by Lewis Johnson & Son of West
Brattleboro, VT, at the Valley fair.
The three-year-olds weighed two
pounds apiece, and at market value
they are worth $3.50 each in season.
Mr.. Johnson claims that he is making
year than many a farmer gets from
his entire establishment Some rails.
ers insist that trout can be put en- the
market for ''the price Of pork
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
GOOD GAMES AND TRICKS.
Japs and Russians.

Japs and Russians is a game played
by two persons with slate and pencil.
About quarter of the slate is marked
off by line at each end, and in each
OF the compartments so marked off
are made number of dots about the
size of pinhead, those at one end
representing Japs and the others Rus
slams. The number of Japs and Rus
slams may be large Or small, as agreed
on, but must be equal. At one end OF
each compartment is a small square
which serves as battery. Each play
er in turn places the point Of his pen
Gil in his own battery and then draws
a line quickly in the direction of his
enemy's men. The line must have no
angles in it, but must be straight or
curved. Those dots through which
the line passes are considered dead
men, and he who first kills all of the
enemy's men is the winner Some
times the players are required to shut
their eyes or turn away their heads
when drawing their lines.
Furnish each guest with paper and
pencil. Slowly read a list of familiar
characters in literature, numbering
each. The players must write oppo-
site the number the name of the look
from which the character is taken. A
prize may be given to the owner Of
the list most nearly correct
Dry Land Crab Race.
A dry land crab race is a very anus
ing game for the little ones, and is
played in this manner: A starter and
an umpire are needed Tor. the crab
race, which should be run on soft
green turf. Ten yards or thirty feet is
quite long enough for it. The racers
kneel down on all tours and form in
line at the starting point, with their
backs toward the winning post. At the
signal off they go, each one crawling
backward. The race is not always to
the swift. It is not at all easy to keep
il straight line. and every time a
racer turns to look over his shoulder
he loses time and ground. There will
be collisions, bumps, ard all sorts of
little mishaps, which will thoroughly
amuse the spectators, and the chill
dren, too.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Beds Of Soldiers.

In Germany and Austria the soldier
has simple straw bed with one or
two covers, neither sheet nor mat
tress. In Russia until recently he
slept with his clothes on, on camp
bed. but now ordinary beds begin to
be used-the result of association
with more civilized countries. After
this it cannot be doubted that the
French soldiers bed is the best of
all, with its wooden or iron bedstead,
straw bed, wool mattress, sheets,
brown wooden coverlet, and an extra
guilt for cold weather. Thus the bed
OF the French soldier is the softest
OF all soldiers beds, as that of the
French peasant is acknowledged also
TO be the best CT all European coun-
tries.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Snap Shots, 1000 a Second.

An Italian named Luciano BUTT has
perfected Photographic apparatus
capable of registering the incredible
number of 1000 Photographic impress
Bions per second, says the London
Globe. The most minute and least
rapid and casual movements of birds
and insects on the wing, which have
hitherto defied science, can, it is
claimed, be registered with accuracy,
thus opening new world of natural
observation to ornithologists. The
films used cost Sc per second for the
1900 Impressions
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
% tt Now.

90 II Now.
This LIES garden full o. weeds
We've got to pull 'cm all
Before they fill the field with seeds
When they are dry an tall
While we complain the field gets full
:. Don't sit with frownin' brow
An. fret because you've got to pull
It's best to do 1t now"
The job fellow soldiers on
Is one that's never through:
Eacn days another chance that's gone
An left us more to do
Nobody else can do your work
Like you can, anyhow
The task grows bigger while YOU shirk-
It's best to do It now
There's always lots O. time to spare
10 tell your woes, my son;
The hardest work of all to bear
is that that's never done.
me put off, man. he does things twice
In spite of all his row.
Don't wait to ask or give advice
Get out and do it now"
w. D. Nesbiit.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Piece of the First Monitor.

In the public library at Lowell,
Mass, is huge piece of iron, about
12x24 in size and an inch in thickness.
1t has history, as the following in.
scription relates: piece Of the first
Monitor, removed after the battle
with the rebel steamer Merrimack in
Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862. Pre-
scented to the City of Lowell by G. v.
Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
1866"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05

his captors all he pleases, with the
exception. of course, of punching or
otherwise making rough fight. Nat
urally the whalers try to catch the
smallest whale" first.
Arrived in port, the whale" be-
comes a whaler, and takes his turn
at going out, hand-in-hand, with one
OF the first whalers, to catch another
whale" and SO on till the sea is
fished out.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Burrah Has Old Sacred Tree.

The oldest sacred tree in the world
that has any authentic history IS re-
puted to be the great Bhoo tree in
Burmah. 1t has for the past twenty
centuries been sacred to Buddha, the
image that nearly all the Burmese
worship, and no one is allowed tG
touch the trunk of this sacred tree.
falling, pilgrims and curio hunters
gather and carry away the leaves as
relics.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Curious Fish.

The Oldest inhabitants of the New
York aquarium are the striped bass,
which have been there for ten years,
having been placed in one of the floor
pools before the building was opened
to the public. In May, 1894, fifty-fve
specimens, weighing from a quarter
of a pound to four pounds, were Sc
cured, thirty-seyen of which have sur
vived. Most of those that were lost
died in the first year, and in the last
four years not one has died.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05

point of the pipe except near the little
hole the water presses with equal
force in every direction on the pipe.
At the point Of the stem opposite the
little hole there is certain pressure
on the pipe from the inside, and this
pressure is not balanced, because on
the opposite side-that is, the hole
there is nothing for the water to press
against except itself. Hence the water
is driven out in one direction and the
pipe is spun around in the other.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Voiapuk to Date.

The work Of forming new and scien-
tific languages for universal use goes
merrily on, and the newest candidate
Tor position with Volapuk and Es-
peranto is Latin without infections, y
the result of the labors of Prof Gu
seppe Paeno, a mathematician of
Turin. He has proposed to do away
not only with genders, persons and
cases, as was suggested by Leibnitz,
but also with the moods and lenses.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Some Games for the Season.

season, is the game OF the "Whalers
Of New Bedford" Some particular
spot of the playground is selected to
represent the harbor of New Bedford.
All the players, except two, scatter
and pretend to be whales. The two
who remain must join hands and put
to sea- from New Bedford to go a.
whaling. They must select a particu-
lar whale and go after him, but
under no circumstances must they let
go of each other in doing it.
The whale" must be carried sue
cessfully into port, and he may resist
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Imagination Too Stronu.

A young man suffering from mag.
mary cancer has just committed sui.
eide at Horsforth, near Leeds, Eng
land. His friends failed to convince
him that he was not a victim Of the
terrible disease, and the best medical
advice in the district was sought in
the effort to cure him of his fears. All
failed, however, and the young fellow
was SO tortured by the hallucination
that he poisoned himself in his bed.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Students Too Fond of Cider.

A farmer living in the vicinity OF
Waterville, Maine, drove onto the
campus at Colby with several barrels
of russell cider for sale. While he was
delivering small quantity in one OF
the students rooms somebody made
off with a full barrel from his stock.
Search failed to reveal the plumber
and the vender drove away in haste
in order to save the remainder of his
load.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05

A lady living near Camptcn Village.
N. H., recently pulled two of her own
teeth, one of which was not loose at
all. She had to cut around the tooth
with her penknife, after sharpening It
for that purpose, and with old-fashion-
ed. forcepts which slipped of three
times, she conquered at last.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
New Brush with Every Shave.

In one Connecticut city, the barber
shops have begun using a new brush
with every shave. The brush is hemp
like, and is much softer than the pres
ent hair brushes that are used. The
hemp fits into patent handle and is
pulled out after each shave, and is
thrown away with the lather paper.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Remedy for MOSQUITO pest.

It is said that a plant has been
found in Nigeria which will drive
away mosquitoes. English army Of
Ecers say that a branch or two placed
In a tent will keer ant all insects.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
Whole Family in Holy Orders.

The family of the lord bishop OF
Carlisle, England, is noted one as
q clerical family. The bishops father.
now deceased, was the Rev. James
Bardsley. His two brothers and
seven sons were clergymen, and the
ten were all living and in orders at
the same time. He had also nine
nephews who were clergymen-
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
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The LittIe Waves of Rreffnv.

The grand road from the mountain goes
shining to the sea,
And there Is traffic in 1t and many q
horse and cart
But the little roads Of Cloonagh are dear
er far to me,
rambling through my heart.
A great storm from the ocean goes
shouting Ger the hill,
And there Is glory in 1t and terror on
the wind,
But the little roads of Cloonagh are
dearer far and still,
And the little winds of twilight are
dearer to my mind.
The great waves of the Atlantic sweep
storming on their way,
Shining green and silver with the hid
den herring shoal,
But the Little Waves of Brenny have
drenched my heart in spray,
And the Little Waves of Breffny 60
stumbling through my soul.
Eva Gore-Booth.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05
French Baby Carriage

The French youngsters first i'm
pressions of Paris are viewed from
this style of baby carriage. It is COM
pactly built to economic space. In the
many small apartments OF the French
capital.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-01-05

Crows Pounced on Wounded Enemy.
A young man in Brookville, Me-,
shot large hawk few days ago,
but before the wounded bird had
reached the ground large flock OF
crows pounced on the unfortunate
bird and carried him Off to regions
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