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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23
Strength OF EnGusL War HorscN Ia
the Days Of Henry VIII.

The size of the English war horse
reached its maximum in the reign of
Henry Will, when the relations OF
body armor to "hand guns" were anal
ogous To those of the early ship armor
and cannon. There was good reason 10
believe. says the London Spectator.
that 10y adding little to the thickness
of the coat of steel the soft, low We
locty bullet of the day could be
kept out. SO il was for time. But
the additional weight required Il still
larger horse TO carry it, The charger
had TO be armored as well rs his rider,
and the collection in the Tow er of Lon
don shows the actual weight which il
carried. The panoply of Charles Bran
don. Duke of Suffolk, the brothcr-n-
law Of Henry VIII, still exists. That
OF the horse covers the whole Of the
hind quarters, the back Of the neck.
forehead. muZHle. ears. shoulders md
chest. 1t is exactly like n piece of
boiler plating and fastened 10y rivetS.
The rider sat in saddle, the front
of which was 4 steel shield ten inches
high. covering the stomach and thighs
as the "hrCaStwork" on m ironClad's
deck covers the base of the turrct The
total weight is eighty pounds fifteen
ounces. To this add the weight of the
riders armor, ninety-nine pounds nine
ounces, and of the rider himself, say
sixteen stone (224 pounds, and the to
tai is twenty-eight stone twelve pounds
eight ounces, or 404 pounds s ounces.
that in the days Of Henry Will. "who
erected n noble studdore for breeding
horses, especially the greatest sort
such as were kept for burden. those ami
mails would bear four hundredweight
commonly.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23
SIhoc nucl.Ips.

When Evander Berry Wall. king Of
the dudes for twelve years and really
the most inconspicuous man about
town, because he was homely Of face
and a very bad dresser, besides being
rather short and blotchy. undertook 10
reintroduce shoe buckles he made his
first big failure as the sartOrial die
tator OF our 'jeunesse doree." ! think
II was poor Al ClagGctt who said:
"Wby. Berry, you make fool OF your
self. Shoe buckles go with long stock
ings and knee pants. You can't wear
'em with socks and trousers. They In
terfere with the set OF the trousers
around the feet. Then. OF course.
you've got TO have n low quartered
shoe. Cut IL out, Berry, cut IL out"
Wall Immediately quit - New York
Press.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23
TRAINING DOG POLICE.
Breaking In OF the Seine Patrol One
Of the sights of Paris.

The training OF the young New
foundlands that are periodically added
TO the staff is one of the sights OF
Paris. Ii takes place in the headquar-
ters of the agents plongcurs, small
building on the quayside not far from
the Cathedral OF Notre Dame. Dogs
and men enter into the exercise with
ZeSt, and there is usually crowd OF
onlookers. Only dummy figures are
used, but the rescue is nevertheless
a very realistic affair. The big dogs
know perfectly we'll what the exercise
means. and they wait with comic en-
thusiasm until the dummy is thrown
into the water and an agent plongcur
rushes out on hearing the splash and
the outcry Of spectators. While the
men are busy with lines ana life buoyS
the dog plungeS into the water, swlmS
to the dummy, watches with rare in
telligence for an opportunity 10 get an
advantageous hold, and then il either
swims ashore or waits FOR its master,
who brings to the rescue long poles,
cork belts and the like. The more eN-
perienced dogs, however. will easily
effect rescue from first 10 last with.
out human assistance. ana il is an i'll
spring sight TO watch them looking
for q foothold on the slippery sides of
the river bank and pulling the heavy
dummy into place of safety.
1t takes about four months to train
the dogs efficiently. They are also
charged with the protection of their
masters when attacked by the deS
perate rufIians who sleep under the
arches of the bridge in summer. Thus
in Paris the police dogs are proved
succeSs.-Century.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23
The 0IneuViIIe TlmeS.

The "Times" may be found for
sale each week as follows:
Manton avenue ...J. McCabe
Olneyyille Square james Shawcross
Hartford avenue ....J. F Heffernan
Centerdale George T. Batcheldei
North Scituate .... Post Office
Georgiayille Richard Tobin
Also at the Times once.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23
Shot an Angel.

Now and again we hear OF strange
but how many spOrtsmcn except Mr..
Wells clergyman can claim TO have
shot an angel? One such man exists,
though it is doubtful whether he is
proud OF his skill. 1t was nighttime,
and he was passing Crayford parish
churchyard with his gun over his shoul.
der when he saw what he took for a
ghost. He levcled his piece and fired,
but his aim was wild. He had failed
20 wing his quarry. Investigation
showed that the ghost was a sculp-
tured angel on a tomb, ana he had
shot off one of its tocs.-London Chron.
iCle.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23
WANTED, FOR SALE, ETC.
Three Lines Three Times 40 cents.

MANTED-Nou to ny this column if
w YOU want anything or have anything
You don't want. TIMES, Olneyyille, X. |.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23
High Finance.

"Say," began Burroughs, "lend me q
five. will youf"
"Scc here" replied Markley. "If
you'd only save your own money you
wouldn't have to borrow from your
friends"
"But by borrowing from my friends
I do save my own money"-Cathollc
Standard and Times.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23

WANTED - ENPERIENCED HELP
w for night work at Pocasset Worstei
Co, Thornton, X. , for Drawing. Spin
ming, Twisting and Spooling.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23
A GREAT BEER HOUSE.
Munich Owns the Oldest and Largest
saloon In the World.

saloon In the World.
The Hofbrauhaus OF Munich Is per
haps the oldest and largest saloon IN
the world, owned 10y the king of Ba.
yaria and patronzed by IN average of
$1,000 customers a day. ON holidays
the number bitten runs up to $1,000 and
10000. Nothing to drink is sold but
beer. brewcd at the royal brewery,
which was started by King Ludwig the
Severe I'm 1255 The present Hofbrau-
haus was built i'm 1914. and the beer
when the brewery was moved into the
country to less expensive quarters.
There are seats for 1900 customers,
plain wooden benches without backs
beside plain wooden tables without
covers. In the garden or court are 100
empty beer barrels set on end, which
are used for tables. The stems, which
are very heavy and hold a quart OF
beer, are piled UP I'm stacks before the
bar on the floor In the morning, where
they remain until they are used.
When customer wants beer he
picks out stein, takes II TO one Of the
basins Of running water which line the
walls and washes it himself. Then he
carries il TO the counter and hands ii
over to the bartender who fills ii with
beer from the barrel The price is &
cents stein, and the profits support
the hospitals of the city, although the
king could claim them # he desired 20
do so, as the brewery and the IIofbrau-
haus belong 10 him by inheritance
Chicago RccOrd-lIcrald.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23

Now blessings light on him that first
invented sleep. II covers n man all
over thoughts and all, like a cloak; it
Is meat FOR the hungry, drink for the
thirsty. heat for the cold and cold for
the hot-Cervantes.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23

EOR SALE-Rabbit and Bird Dogs. In.
QQireat once. AMAsAS POTTER, No.
S~ituate, Il. |.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23

Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness and some couldn't
tell 10 save their necks how II hap
pened
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-11-23

He-But I thought you'd forgiven
me for that and promised to forget IT.?
She-Yes: but didn't promise 10 let
you forget I'd forgiven IT,
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21
VITALITY OF SEEDS,

terminating Properties Retained For
Many Years.
1t has often been observed that any
sudden change in the superficial char
acter of the soil is rapidly followed by
an alteration in the nature of the
plants growing thereon, new species
appearing where the ground has hith-
erto been a stranger to them. Very
many farmers, foresters and scientific
men, among others the French bota-
mist Poisson, are inclined to attribute
this phenomenon to the retention Of
seeds, bulbs or spores of a former
growth of vegetation in a QuieScent
state. these seeds and growths retain
ing their powers of termination even
after several other Successive crops of
plants have grown above them.
Most botanists, however, have doubt
ed the possibility of seeds retaining
their terminating properties for so
long a time and have explained the
sudden appearance of strange plants
in different places by natural means
of seed transmission, as, for instance,
by birds, bees, currents of air and the
like, says the Scientific American.
A remarkable fact was once observ-
ed by TIL v Heldreich at the noun
tain called Laurion in Attica. After
the removal of about ten feet of soil
and rubble which had been undisturb-
ed for ages there suddenly sprang up
plant unknown Heretofore in that re-
gion-viz, q glaucium or horned poppy
accompanied by rich growth of fly
catcher, or Silene juvenalis del, plant
quite a stranger to Attica.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21
The Cab Taxameter.

The taxameter. device to prevent
extortion by cabmen, registers the
charge both according to distance and
according to time. 1t shows the total
amount taken in for passengers, for
extras" such as trunks, valises and
bags, and it shows the entire number
Of trips made by the vehicle in which
1t is placed. 1t is a sort of combination
Of q clock and a cyclometer.
II the minimum charge is so cents,
the mechanism is set accordingly, the
numerals 80" shOwil, in the rectan-
gular space on the left hand side. For
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21
DARING ROBBERY
OF VILLAGE BANK
Masked Men Hold Off Citizens
While Their Companions
Get the Treasure.
GOT LARGE SUM IN CASH
BOLD ROBBERS CARRY ON LOOT
ING OF BANKS IN MICHIGAN
LIKE JESSE JAMES OF EARLIER
DAYS.

Grand Rapids. Mich. Sept. 20. -
Eight masked and heavily armed bur
glars held the people of White Cloud,
a village as miles north of here, q
bay while they rifles the NewaygC
County bank and attempted also tc
rob the bank of r. Cannon 6 Sen.
The eight men rode into the town o.
White Cloud between IL and / a. Il,
surrounded the buildings containing
the two banks and posted guards out,
side, while other members of the gang
worked inside.
The interior of the Newago County
bank was completely wrecked by two
explosions. The burglars got between
$4,000 and $4,000 in cash. Dynamite
was then used to wreck the interior
of the Cannon bank, but while the
cracksmen were at work the towns
people, awakened by the explosions,
gathered until there were so many of
them present that the guards evident
ly decided it was not prudent to wait
longer They called out the men
working in the bank before they could
get the safe open, and covering the
citizens with guns rode out of town on
horseback
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21
FACE OF TAxAMETER.

every fifth of mile after the first, 10
cents more Is registered. If the We
hicle stops, then the clock begins to
work. and the register shows 10 cents
for every six minutes that the hack is
not moving When the hack starts
again, then the clock stops and the
device works by distance again. The
apparatus is connected with the rear
wheel. The little space on the right
shows the number of passengers.
The small space near the bottom
shows the charge for extras" the
driver himself regulates that The
small circular spaces show the total
amount taken for driving, for extras"
and the number of trips made since the
instrument began at zero.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21

TuEcbleyyce,.S spread themselves il
a Wholesale flShion. Instead of send
ing the separate seeds out into tn
world with wings or hairs to carr.
them. the whole plant breaks off nea,
the root, when these are ripe, an(
goes rolling along the ground before
the wind. The bare. sun scorched DIES
erts of the great west produce severa
tumbleweeds, and there are some il
the prairie region. 1t is natural that
they should be most abundant where
there are no hills or trees to stoI
them in their course. But we have one
tumbleweed in the eaSt-the Old witcl
grass, SO called maybe, because it rides
the wind like an old beldame. In Sep
TENDER this grass spreads its head OF
panicle. with hairlke. purple branches
in every sandy field. When the seeds
are ripe the plants are blown across
the field. often piIing up in masse
along fences and hedgerows. As nigh
be expected, the hair grass. which ha.
SO effective way of spreading itself
is found throughout the United States
from ocean to ocean.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21
At THE THEATERS
Wilton Lsckaye-Gennett

1t is very rarely that death on the
stage is a beautiful thing to contem
plate. Probably two of the most hor
rible stage deaths were those of Mr.
Mansfield as DIR Jekyl and Mr.
Hyde, and Wilton Lackaye as Sven
gall in 'Trilby.' Those who saw the
hyprotist fall backward on the table
with his great eyes staring at the au-
dience. and the Ions, strong fingers
tearing at his torso, will never forget
the horror of it. 1t is one of those
scenes which indellibIy imprint them
selves on@the tablets of the memory
Theetar soers who have seen Mr..
Leckaye in his new piece. The Law
and the Man. founded on Victor HUI
COS memorable novel, have con-
that of Svengali Others who have
not yet had opportunity, can do so to-
night, When Mr.. Lackaye will be seen
at the Gennett-
Vaudeville at the Phillips.
Remarkable as it may seem there is
no apparent decrease in the interest
= In vaudeville, Notwithstanding the fact
that Manager Murray. of the New
Phillips, has been giving his patrons
this line of entertainment for some
two years with very little break. That
there is no decrease in the interest is
easily accounted for: it is due to the
fact that conscientious effort is made
to give the people the worth of their
money and this fact is fully appreciat-
ed. This weeks bill is an example
of giving a very large dimes worth
and the bill has pleased all who have
seen it. Tonight the amateurs will
participate in the program and on
Saturday afternoon there will be
special matinee to which children will
be admitted for five cents. Each
Wednesday there is souvenir matt
nee. Those who have not yet seen
this weeks bill still have four oppor-
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21
UNDERGROUND Matters.

Washington, Sept. 20.-One of the
important features of the investiga-
ton OF the underground waters of
Ohio and Indiana, now being carried
on by the United States geological
survey. is the study of the ground wa
tiers of the broad, gravel filed valleys
that are the abandoned and buried
channels of streams that formerly
flowed several hundred feet below the
present surface. Such a valley ex
tends from Venice, near Miami, in the
southern part of Butler county, south
eastward through Hamilton county.
The Miami river at one time flowed
through this valley, but the course of
the old stream has been filled to a
great depth with gravel, sand and
clay. The success of the deep wells in
the gravels of the Miami valley sug
gests to the surveyors that like re
suits may be obtained in other gravel
filled valleys in Ohio and Indiana.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21
Hunor ana Philosophy
BY DUNCAN NJ. SMITH
WHEN THINGS ARE COMFORTABLE

When the price of stocks goes tumblir
And from Wall street comes a cry
From the lambs who have been slauss
tered
And whose cash is more than shy
You can smile and say you wonder
II the weather viii be fair.
If you were not in tbs market
When the price went in the air.
1t is easy to be jolly.
In philosophy to dip.
When you hear about a shipwreck
If you do rot own a ship.
You can carry loads of trouble
without feeling mad or sore
If 1t is the private trouble
OF the gentleman next door.
Oh. you do not mind the weather,
Though it is a rainy spell.
If you have a good umbrella
And a macintosh as we'll.
Rubber bootsies on your tootsies
And good mittens on your mitts,
Then you do not care a cooky
If the blamed thing never quits.
You can stand it very nicely
In the wild financial crash.
When the banker sllips to Europe
And his old bank goes to smash;
With competency mistaken
The performance you can see
II you haven't any money
In the bank that used to be.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21
CUNNING OF THE FOX.
Its Skill When Turning For Life
From the Hounds.

Its Skill When Running For Life
From the Hounds.
No other still hunter can travel s;
quietly as a fox. and mighty few mel
are as crafty as the four legged huntel
when it comes to a matter of gettiiit
meat. Foxes have been seen in En-
land slipping from bush to bush. crawl
ing and creeping after feeding hare
for all the world Ike a nan stalking /;
deer The fox cannot catch a rabbit il
a fair chase but its food is mostly r,
bits in spite of their feetness. But
no time does it display IT'S skill SO We.
as when running for life with a pac.
Of hounds on lis trail.
CLAUS Magnus. archbishop of Ups5ia
wrote a book called Historic de GcIE
bus Septentrionalibus." of which .
English translation exists. This boz
tells of fox that leeped from back
back of herd of goats. AS the do.
could not follow. the fox escaped.
A curious trick OF English foxes is t.
jump as high as possible, graspinc ;
tree branch with their teeth. hold o.
till the hounds have gone on and the
dropping TO the ground, escape. This
similar to the trick of the American
fox which jumps into a tree an
rests on a branch, but American dog
are not such fools as English dogs
They gather around the tree and how
till the hunter comes.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21
DEADLY RIFLE BULLET.
Amazing Velocity of New United
States Army Projectile.

Amazing Velocity of New United
States Army PrOjectile.
Earthworks and trees will be slight
protection to soldiery arrayed against
the United States army when the in
fantry is equipped with the new bullet
which has been undergoing tests at the
ordnance department of the United
States armory at Springfield, Mass.
The bullet, which scarcely is an inch in
length and is incased in a jacket of
nickel steel, will be nearly a third
lighter than any bullet now used in the
standard army rifles of the world. 1t
will have greater muzzle velocity than
any other bullet and will be the only
service
At short range the new bullet will
penetrate thirty-nine inches of sea-
soned oak, at 500 yards thirtytwo inch
es of white pine and at 1000 yards
fourteen and one-half inches. If fif
teen of the enemy's soldiers standing
one behind the other CHANGED to be
within range of the bullet a quarter of
a mile away every one of them would
be disabled by the single bullet
Brigadier General William Crozier,
chief of ordnance of the United States
army, recently expressed the opinion
that the new projectile was the best
which had ever come under the obser-
walton of the ordnance department
He said:
Unless further tests demonstrate
that the new bullet has disadvantages
which its many superior points fail to
compensate the present bullet will be
replaced by the new one
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21
Attempt at Extortion Charged

st. Louis, Sept. 20.-William II. Rit-
ter of Denver, Colo, a former member
of the ST. Louis house of delegates,
who wrote Governor Folk last week
volunteering to come here and testify
regarding the handling of doodle
money when he was a municipal law
maker, was arrested at Hannibal, Mo-,
while en- route to Denver. The arrest
was made at the instigation OF Circuit
Attorney Sager. Ritter was brought
to st. Louis and placed in jail 1t is
charged by Circuit Attorney Sager
that Ritter attempted to extort money
from r. A. Snyder of Kansas City by
threatening to testify that Snyder
gave him Doodle money to distribute
when the Central Traction bill fran.
chise was voted upon
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21

The London Lancet calls attention
to the common and dirty practice of
licking postage stamps and points
out many dangerous consequences.
The Lancet in sending out special sup
plement parcels. requiring three penny
stamps, was struck with the brilliancy
OF the stamps. The yellow coloring
was found on analysis to be due to a
poisonous salt. chromate of lead. Each
stamp in weight Is more than half
grain. and the quantity of chromate
present is 2.53 per cent Thus a fatal
dose of one-fifth OF a grain would be
contained in fourteen stamps.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-21

tunities to do SO and visit to thu
New Phillips will not be regretted.
| Al Reeves-New Phillips.
/ All Reeves big Beauty Show,
which comes to the New Phillips Sept
9th, from all accounts, and newspa
per notices, is without question lone
of the best musical comedies on the
| road this season.. Mr.. Reeves has
spared no expense in making this one
big, grand travelling organization, full
ly equipped with beautiful scenery
gorgeous costumes and a grand dis
play of electrical effects
"Thorns and Orange BIossoms"SGen
nett.
| Tommy Swift, a young Chicagoan
| travelling abroad is the leading com
| edy role in the new Rowland and Cliff
| ford play, "Thorns and Orange Bios
sons" which will be at the Genneti
Sept. 26th. Swift is one of those
unctfous, up-to-date chaps that infuses
ripple of jolly fun throughout the
play and the audience does not care
how long he holds the center of the
stage
"UncIe Tom"-Gennett.
Generations of play-goers have en-
loved Uncle Toms Cabin the play
that moved the world and made his
tory 4 But it remained for Manager
Kibbk, of the great Stetson Compa-
ny, 10 place the old-time play in a
mofern setting While the text of
Harriet Beecher Stoves masterpiece
Is preserved in its entirety in the Stet-
son production, there are other fea-
lures introduced that make the en-
tertainment a novelty to those who
have laughed with Topsy and wept
with Eva years ago. This mammoth
organization will appear at the Gen
nett Saturday, matinee and night.
"a Mad Love"-Gennett.
The we'll known manager Edward
r. Slater. announces another Cali
fornia find in the person of LYDIA
Powell. only 1S-years-old and whom
he is starring in "A Mad Love-, the
present seasons emotionally dramat-
ic sensation, and which is generally
accepted as the modern successor to
East Lynne, an adaptation from
Lady Audley's Secret revised so as
TO meet the taste of the times. 1t
will be the attraction at the Gennett,
Sept. 25th. AS play it is described
as a dramatic relief from the gen
eraI run of similar works, depending
WIDELY and solely on its truth of
nature. it's moral lesson and consis-
tency.
"The Arrival of kitty'-Gennett
Edward Bowers, the principal COM
edian of 1.-The Arrival of Kitty COM
pany which comes to the Gennett
next Monday, was taken for the
young Duke of Wellington while sit
ting in a box at Albert Hall, last
spring during the progress of the
Charity Ball, and in Boston one day
recently he was again mistaken for
certain Harvard professor In speak
ing of the incidents the genial com
edian said that he neither belongs to
the faculty of the great University
nor of the nobility of England: that
he is but a plain comedian whose
mission in life is to try to make peo
pie laugh and happy.