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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
STRANGEST CHAPEL
IN THE WORLD

In the very heart Of London, Eng
land, not far distant from the Marble
Arch, there stands one of the strang.
est temples Of worship In the whole
world. It is called the Chapel Of
the Ascension, and II contains no pull
pit, no altar, no font, no band Of
choristers. No services are held in
IL and no priest or minister crosses
its threshold except as a visitor. The
chapel is place not of Christian rou-
tine and service, but simply where
man or woman may rest a while
and commune with his own soul amid
pictured walls" as the notice which
hangs over the door says.
The chapel Is the idea Of Mrs. Rus
sell Gurncy who, during her life
time, was a member Of one OF the
best known families I'm London. She
received her inspiration from a small
chapel in Florence and conceived the
idea OF building a place Of commu-
niOn In the heart Of London, set
apart for rest and filled with conse-
Grated art.
But while the purpose Of the chap
el itself Is unique, more remarkable
still are the religious paintings that
cover It's walls from floor to ceiling.
For fourteen years Frederic Shields.
the famous English painter and friend
and contemporary Of Ruskin, Dante.
Itosetti and Ford MADDOX Brown, has
devoted his whole time and thought
to their execution. Although the
task Is not yet complete, there are
but few vacant spaces on the walls
OF the little building. Very nearly
two hundred paintings, Illustrating
the Scriptures, nave emanated from
the fertile brain and gifted brush of
this artist
The chapel was finished in 1894, !
after considerable difficulty had been ]
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
CHOICE OF A BRIAR PIPE.
Get One Which is smooth Inside the
Bowl, Says Smoker.

A collegian who prides himself on
the sweetness and color of his briar-
wood pipes and pretends to know q
lot more than any ordinary smoker.
spent half an hour making an addi-
ton to his already large collection.
Some pipes he discarded because
of the grain OF the wood; there was
too much stripe or too much BIRDS
eve, he remarked. When he found
one which suited him he put It aside
until he had gathered three or four
which apparently were all right. and
then came his final test to pick out
the best OF them all.
He held each with the bowl toward
the light, then slowly rubbed his
ed, then repeated the operation with
the others until only one remained
out OF the discard. That one he
bought.
Want 'em smooth inside" he ex-
planned. "A briar pipe roughly fin
ished inside the bowl isn't worth
bothering with. would not take
one Tor a GIT; wouldn't take the
trouble to try to break ii in, for IL
will never be any good. II won't
cake up right and it'll never be nice
and sweet
"Iye got a theory that when the
inside Of the bowl is rough all the
little edges and points of the wood
char and burn the first time you
smoke it, and a burnt pipe is no good.
That's why always take n pipe that
has bowl as smooth on the inside
as on the out.
Then IL doesn't char but cakes
up evenly and gets good in a little
time. Maybe the theory is wrong,
but IL has worked out well in my own
| experience, and some OF my friends
who have tried II agree with me-
New York Sun.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

an artist. He Immediately went home
and made water color sketch which
not only sold for s45, but brought
! another commission TO the needy
youth.
A few years Of this work brought
grim's Progress" He took the con.
tract at so low a figure that he soon
found that he was reduced 20 a bread
and water diet. A little later he exc
cuted some designs for an edition Of
Vanity Fair" which so pleased Rus
kin that he said to him. II do not
know OF any artist In England who
could have done these pictures but
yourself. You may become more
celebrated than any painter of the
day"
From this time on the path OF the
young artist toward success and
fame was a smooth one. He came to
London in 1874. when his reproduce
tiOns OF his drawings of town and
rustic children were very popular. In
1886, when Mrs Russell Gurney was
looking for an artist capable of carry
ing out her ideas for the decoration
Of the chapel which she was TO build,
it was TO Mr. Shields that she turned.
Five years later, when the little house
Of rest and communion was complet-
ed, he set to work on his fourteen
year task.-New York Press.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
And the total is 1919.
A Cultivated Memory.

z. c. Laston, who issued chal.
lenge to the world for the memory
championship, although only a young
man OF twenty-three years, is a verita-
bic walking encyclopaedia, for he has
memorized 10000 dates of the princi-
pal events In the worlds history since
the creation. 1t was quite by accident
that he discovered that he had an
exceptional gift Of memory. He was
being trained as an army officer, when
an attack OF rheumatic fever dispelled
his hopes In that direction. At that
time he happened to meet the Zancigs
~ India. who, noticing what a re-
markable memory he had for dates,
advised him TO cultivate IL. He then
purchased q copy Of Haydn's Die
tionary OF Dates" and sought to COM
NIT TO memory the dates OF the most
important events in the worlds his
tory by writing fifty TO q hundred
dates on piece OF paper. and re-
writing them three or four times until
he had fully grasped them. with the
result that he has a repertory OF
thousands OF dates, and can give the
correct answers without the slightest
hesitation.-London Tit-Bits.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
WONDERFUL CAVERN.
Subterranean Chamber Near Trieste
Largest i'm the World.

Subterrancan Chamber Near Trieste
Largest i'm the World.
What is said to be the largest and
most wonderful subterranean cham
Der in the world has just been opened
up to visitors. 1t is situated in the
Karst Mountains near Trieste and
was discovered and first surveyed by
G. A. Perko in 1890. This great cav
ern is reached ~om Opchina, in Istria,
first by a flight Of steps hewn out Of
the mountainside, then by two almost
perpendicular descents of thirty and
seventy feet, and finally by half an
hours walk down a precipitous wind
ing pathway which leads TO an i'm
mense stalactite and stalagmite cave
of great beauty with a dome-like roof
460 feet in height, the cave being 440
feet wide and 500 feet long.
The peculiar stalagmite formations
here are considered to be among the
most wonderful in the world; the
path winds along through what seems
an interminable forest of petrified
trees.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
GETTING "A LIGHT.
Advance From Days of Rubbing to Days of
Striking.
BY .. 4. HARBOUR.

| striking fire into tlnder from a flint
and steel. These matches were I'm
common use for many years. Then
some one invented the instantaneous
light box" This consisted Of a small
tin box containing a bottle, in which
was placed some sulphuric acid, with
enough ibrous asbestos 10 soak IT up
and prevent its spilling out OF the
bottle, and a supply OF properly pre-
pared matches. These primitive
matches consisted Of small splints OF
wood about two inches long, one end
OF which was coated with chemical
mixture, prepared by mixing chlorate
OF potash, six parts; powdered loaf
sugar, two parts; powdered gum ara
bic, one part; the whole colored with
little yermilliOn and mixed with
water until It became a thin paste.
The splints were first dipped into
melted sulphur and then into the pre-
pared paste. They were really made
to burn by dipping the prepared ends
into sulphuriC acid. We would sure
ly regard this as a pretty bothersome
it would not be easy to strike a light
If one wanted to light the gas I'm ones
house I'm the dark. One would need
light in order to strike a light with
matches OF this kind. A common
name for matches Of this kind was
"spunks."
It was not until about the year
1893 that the friction method Of OBJ
tanning a light began 20 be devel-
oped, and friction matches came into
use. There are many persons still
living who have a distinct recollection
OF the first friction matches they ever
saw. and these matches were looked
upon with some dstrust at first be-
cause Of the ease with which they
event off," Some feared that they
might go off, of their own accord
and burn people out OF house and
home. I'm the year 1923 a peculiar
match was introduced. Phosphorus
and sulphur We're carefully mixed in
a glass tube tightly corked. A splin-
ter Of wood was slipped into the tube.
a small portion of the mixture was
drawn out, and when this was exposed .
to the air it ignited and set fire TO the
wood. But this was not a very 'han- .
dy" match. after all, and people |
clamorcd for something still simpler
and more effective. John Walker. a |
druggist i'm England, invented the
first really practical friction matches,
giving to them the name of "Con- /
greves." They were of thin strips
of wood, or cardboard. coated and |
dipped with sulphur and tipped with !
a mixture OF sulphide OF antimony. |
chlorate OF potash and mucilage. But |
they were expensive and beyond the .
reach OF the common people, costing |.
twenty-five cents for seven dozen OF /
them. Take II "by and large" It |
would be difficult to mention an in /
vention OF greater utility TO mankind |
as genuine convenience and neces- /
sity than the common match that we
buy and hold SO cheaply.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
HOW HE FOUND BIG NUGGET.
Miners Success i'm Long Abandoned
Placer Mine.

Johnny Kearn, who has spent many
Highland district, was in Butte yes
terday. Mr.. Kearn achieved con-
siderable distinction last wintor when
he discovered the largest nugget ever
found in the Highland district, It
netting him $12SS when it was sold
in the assay Office in Helena.
Il will tell you how | found II"
he said to reporter for the Standard.
IL took up some ground of my own
on the head of Poodle Dog Gulch,
where no one had a claim. | went L ,
close to big slide and began work
ing where placer miners had worked
forty years ago and again twenty
years ago.
Il left the cabin pretty early and
built fire on a place where IL looked
like there used to be a side ditch.
You could trace IL although II is
grass grown. ! thawed the ground
out and then l began digging.
Pretty soon | got down to the ground.
through the black dirt to the gravel.
i had not shovelled for more than
ten minutes before / found him. My
shovel struck something that seemed
hard and | looked close and saw it
was yellow. His nose was pointed
right toward me and you bet l got
busy with my shovel. and in little
while | had him in my hands. saw
II was a nugget weighing pounds
he weighed five OF them-and |
knocked of work and came TO town.
] took him TO MIR. Johnston of the
Clark Bank and he put him in the
window, where people looked at him
for six weeks and then lie was sold
To the assay Office.
where | found the nugget men
had worked forty years ago and
twenty years ago. The last work
was done by some Cinnamon and
they were within three or four feet
OF the big nugget when they quit
work. II they had found him they
would have torn up the entire noun
tain side looking for more like him. !"
Anaconda Standard.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
Dogs Kept out OF Churches.

IL it's really necessary for dogs to
attend church We believe separate
apartment should be given them at
such a time that could be given up
exclusively TO dogs.
For the preacher TO be humillated
and the entire congregation worried
at the pesky CANNES scratching feas
under their feet and constantly
changing positions from under the
pews to the pulpit and even In the
preachers cushion chair is too much
sacrifice just for the satisfaction Of
the owners. Don't allow your little
pet dogs to follow you to church
Plano Star Courier.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
Russian Wins Honor.

This years "sonior wranglership"
at the University of Cambridge. Eng
land, gave great honors TO a young
Russian Jew. The result OF the
mathematical trlpos" shows that Sc
Zig Brodetsky, whose father had
sought an asylum in England from
Russian oppression, had been brack-
eted with Mr.. Ibbotson. scholar OF
Pembroke. for the coveted British
blue riband Of mathematics.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

We hold many of the convenience
of life so cheaply that we give It'll,
thought to what II would be 10 e
back to the primitive customs OF oui
forebears i'm their everyday life
When we take a match and with 2
single scratch strike a light we dc
not put any particular value on any.
thing so common as match. Not
even the odorless little spit6re OF a
"parlor match" commands our appre-
citation TO any great extent.
The fire on the heRrthstones OF our
forebears was guarded with as much
Jealous care as the yestal virgins
guarded it on the ancient altar OF
the temple Of Vcsta. The fire was
never allowed 10 die out entirely on
the hearthstones in the days before
matches were invented. The red
Goals were buried under the ashes so
that they could be uncovered and
famed into a fame when more fire
was needed.
The process OF rubbing two sticks
OF wood together until they produced
a flame is a very ancient one. 10 is
one Of the most primitive ways OF OBJ
tanning fire. It is said that this pro-
cess obtained in the days OF ancient
Greece and Rome, when the priests
OF Jupiter had TO kindle a fire, and
all the American Indian tribes used
it when they wanted fire. The inYen-
tive mind OF man began 10 improve
on this method long before the idea
of such a thing as a match was ever
conceived. One writer who has writ
ten exhaustively on the subject OF
fire says: Labor was saved, as well
as greater rapidity obtained, by using
a bow, with one turn OF it's string
twisted around the vertical stick,
which we may call the 'drill,' so that
by moving &c back and forth the drill
revolyed with great rapidity in the
lower piece OF wood, which is tcchni-
cally called the hearth A further
advance was made. Man has only
two hands, and he found that third
point Of resistance would be an ad-
vantage. This ne could get when he
had a companion, but not when he
was alone. So he began to use his
mouth to steady the drill. while one
hand impaired the motion with the
bow and the other held the hearth.
Hence we get the mouth drill, the adj
ditional part Of the apparatus being a
mouthpiece OF hard wood, bone or
stone, with a hole I'm it to receive the
head OF the drill Soon It was discov-
cred that weight tells, and a weight
was therefore added to The drill, Civ
ing greater impetus, greater speed
and greater friction and, consequent
ly, greater heat. In this way the lro-
quois pump drill' was developed"
one OF the first matches was made
by cutting very thin strips of highly
resinous or dry pinewood, about six
inches long, with pointed ends dipped
in melted sulphur; thus prepared,
the sulphur points easily ignitcd
when applied TO n spark obtained by
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
No KEYS For Rarronms.

According to a decision by the
States attorney and the counsel TO
the Police Board of Baltimore, the
hotelkeepers of that city, under the
liquor law passed by the last Legis-
lature. will have little use for the
keys to their barrooms. They can
sell liquor at almost any time.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

smeraldo-"What play do you
enjoy most?"
Gwendolen-"Oh, there's nothing
that compares with a good squeeze
play!"
"Esmeraldo-"A squeeze play!
And YOU are ..ashamed to confess
it, you giddy-"
Observation-Disclosures? was
speaking Of a trick in baseball. What
did you think | meant, you insolent
creature?" 49, Uncle Remus s-The
Home Magazine.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

French scientists are studying Q
peculiar movement OF the sands along
the northern coasts Of France, Bel
gium and Holland. A fine sand orig
mating on the coast Of Normandy has
been found as far away az Denmark.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
For Treating Animals.

A novel apparatus for treating AM.
mails has been invented by a North
Dakota man. 1t consists Of a cabinet
having open ends and gates to permit
an animal TO be driven in at one end
and out at the other. In the bottom,
top and sides of the cabinet is a Sc
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

There is a lot OF poverty on Man.
haitian Island, but the assessment
rolls give $4,000 In taxable property
to each inhabitant.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
Cat Not Guilty.

A cat accused Of killing q chicken
was found guilty on the grounds Of
self-defense by a Jury in a Justices
court at Marysville, Ill. recently.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
Wealth and Marbles.

"Why get together any more
money!" asked a friend Of the late
Russell Sage. you cant eat It. You
can't drink it. What good will it
do you?"
Ever play marbles?"
"Yes, when / was a boy"
Couldn't eat 'em, could you?
Couldn't drink 'em, could you? No
use to you, were they? What did
you play marbles for?"-Dem. Tele-
gram.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

The Government has Just ordered
10000 Yards of khaki for soldiers
uniforms.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
! SHZNCS |
HWORTH kNOWINGA
-:

No man ever ate himself to death
on a meal ticket.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

The shipping tonnage passing
through the 800" Canal so far this
year is 100000.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

The first recorded mention Of gold
is in the second chapter of Genesis,
4004 b. c.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

A potato that is said to be disease
proof has been introduced in France
from Uruguay.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

One Of the fastest growing cities ia
the world is Kobe. Japan; its popula-
tion increased from 10000 to $780,
600 in ten years.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

Rejected by the British War Office,
an aerial torpedo, the invention of
Swedish artillery officer, has been
purchased by the German army.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

The discovery OF the Mammoth
Cave Of Kentucky was due to a search
for saltpeter in 1907. Congress had
forbidden American vessels to sail for
Europe, and foreign vessels TO land
cargoes in this country, and saltpeter
was needed for gunpowder.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

Although but few miles from the
mouth of the River Thames, noted
for its fogs, the atmosphere OF Horne
Bay, England, is rarely obscured.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

Two monster whales have just
been killed on the Eden coast of New
South Wales, thereby furnishing a re-
minder that the whale fishery was
once looked upon as the staple indus
try OF the Australian continent.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02
Food for seven laborers (Pier
nd wife not includedO.

Cost of attending fairs, selling cattle
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