The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 07, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1896 Page: 2 of 8
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SOB MAN TRANSCRIPT.
NORMAN,
O. T
Straw hals show which way the wind
blows.
So long! high Bchool graduat#;
you next year.
French farmers make $1,000 to $2,000
a. year raising snails. Not a slow busl-
aess after all.
The bicyclist who carried whiskey In
his tires was arrested for pedaling
■without a license.
With yellow fever, smallpox an<t the
Spaniards, the Cuban isle calls for tlia
sympathy of all nations.
Some people think that the man who
has a vnloft like a street fakir and bangs
the back off of the Bible, is the gieat-
t t preacher.
Mrs. Li Hung Chang has 1,000 serv-
ants and never writes anything for
the papers touching upon the servant
girl problem.
It thought that the bicycle will
hring knee breeches into fashion for
all men, but it has not. brought bloom-
ers i)ito fashion for all women.
Advertising ins't a game of chance.
It's a matter of plain business, in
whl/h the law of cause and effect
works out its unalterable results.
It must be very discouraging to n
woman to realize that no matter how
Iinrd she may struggle to becoma
man's equal, she can never be a police
man.
It Is melancholy to see the Ilussian
czar goins without any life Insurance.
Will not come sympathetic American
company offer him a policy at reasona-
ble rates?
Matthew Stanley Quay enjoys the
distinction of having been the only
pesidential candidate who was not
mentioned at St. I,ouis as a possibility
for Mie vice presidency,
He who In the same given time can
produce more than many others has
tigQrj {ie who can produce more and
MWr has talents; he who can produce
what none else can has genius.
The winner of a chicken-drossin*
eontest ill Springfield, Mo., Monday
night broke the record by killing and
dry-picking forty-five fowls in an
hour, and nearly finishing the forty-
sixth one.
A high military authority has ex-
pressed the opinion that in the next
great war the cavalry will go in horse-
less carriages and the infantry on bi-
cycles, while the artillery will be so
heavy that It won't go at all.
The White Cloud, Kan., Globe, which
says: "We think more of a cyclone
than we do of a cyclone liar," has this
item on another page: "The wind
storm Thursday night blew Mike
Hayes out of bed in his room and into
a cave a block north without waking
him."
Physical culture alone simply makes
a strong brute; intellectual culture
without conscience is only a splendid
deformity; aesthetic culture alone
makes a man fastidious and omaa-
eultrte. By spiritual culture we
honor life and strength, sweeten and
broaden our whole nature to complete-
ness.
If good Queen Victoria can keep up
her strength and courage about three
months longer she will break the En-
glish record for length of reign and
can afford to retire and give Wales a
ch'ante. Among sporting men heavy
odds are offered that the worthy but
obstinate old lady will come in a win-
ner by several widths.
SCIENTIFIC CORNER.
RECENT DOINGS IN FIELDS OF
SCIENCE.
A Rorab for ( if of
Troubled by Dogi
Vmi«I — A Wonderful
Notes.
Hlcycllata When
Newest Hailing
Kile—Industrial
OGS have troubled
bicycle riders to
such an extent, that
an inventive genius
In Germany felt
that the time had
come for a remedy.
So he devised one
which, while it may
prove exceedingly
effective in remote
country districts, lfl
calculated to more than realize the
expectations of the Inventor if used In
busy thoroughfares.
The invention is a bomb, which ex-
plodes with deafening report when
hurled at an annoying cur. The bomb
Is small, but very effective, and is said
to accomplish the desired result in a
manner perfectly satisfactory te all
concerned except the dog.
The riders carry a few bombs in
their pockets, but that the practice Is
not altogether safe is indicated by an
occurrence in the postofflce at Berlin.
The inventor, anxious that the mem-
bers of the royal family should know
the advantages of his dog annihilator,
addressed a package of the bombs to
the Empress Frederick. While the
postofflce officials were handling it the
bombs exploded with such a terriSc
report that the officials fled under the
impression that the explosion was the
result of a plot of the anarchists to
destroy them.
A Wonderful Kll*.
A curious and interesting kite, un-
like anything that was ever before
sailed in the upper air, was flown for
the first time the other day by its in-
ventor, official forecaster W. H. Ham-
mon of San Francisco. To look at this
queer thing you would never suspect
that it was a kite, and yet it is one of
the finest air-boats ever made. Mr.
Hammon knows more about kile6 than
most men; he has made a study of
them for years, not for the fun of the
thing, however, but to find out more
pbout the air currents than is now
known by men of science.
Ever since the time of good old Ben
Franklin, kites have played an impor-
tant part in settling disputes about
that strange invisible world of air far
over our heads. Today the kite has
helped scientific folks discover the new
facts about the atmosphere which,
without these toys of sticks and paper
would never have been found out. The
Weather Bureau at Washington con-
tains a cabinet of strange kites that
would make any boy cry with envy.
The odd-looking kite shown in the
illustrations printed here is one of a
number of up-to-date affairs of the
kind which, for many reasons, are in-
teresting. The chief points of ad-
vantage in the new kites are their
usefulness in carrying light weights-
Instruments, cameras and such things-
miles above the earth and their stead-
iness when once in the air. A real
scientific kite must not dive about; it
must float in the air as easily as a
chip floats on the water. No scientific
kite has a tail—that is considered an
Unnecessary weight. Two years
nobody knew a better kite than tlis
one called a Malay, but now Mr. Ham-
mon's air sailer is believed to be the
best kite ever constructed.
The new kite looks like a number of
boxes placed together with wings at-
tached to their sides. There's a stick
along every edge, and one of these
sticks extends far out of the middle of
the kite, and to one end of this the
string Is fastened. This long stick acts
\s a sort of lever by which the kite
Young Cornelius Vanderbilt has
stirred up a family rumpus by falling
in love with and marrying a young
woman eight years older than himself.
Just why a youth always falls in love
with a girl older than himself no phil-
osophy has yet explained, yet every
man of years will probably recall this
Immature experience. Young Vander-
bilt has proved that he is simply a
common, ordinary mortal—nothing
more—and papa Cornelius had no busi-
ness to get so mad about it.
A question before the late Methodist
conference was as to whether women
were necessarily included in the wor 1
"laymen;" and Dr. I^owther argued log-
ically that if not the poor things were
not only muzzled in the church, but
crowded out of the resurrection. Why
wouldn't It be a good idea to drop Paul
for a time and bring into use a little
latter-d&y justice and common sense?
Paul is not lair; and besides he has
had not only a third term, but several
thousand of them. And what would be-
come of the church, anyhow, if tho
women were to rebel and get up a
church of their own.
A Chicago man is the first to invade
the realm of fishes with labor-saving
machinery. Oscar Plath, according to
reports from Washington, in the person
who has invented a rod that jerks the
fish out of the water by a spring at-
tachment while the fisherman may
sleep or otherwise employ himself.
The owner's only duty is to bait the
hook and the fish and the rod do the
rest. Next to the process of catching
the finny tribe at convenient fish mar-
kets, this device Is the most advantag-
eous to unskilled labor of any that
have recently appeared.
continually Interfered with by the
roots and floating wood. No other
boat of tliis description has ever been
built, the screw propeller being found
superior to the swan-foot invention.
The Newest Sailing Vcaael.
Very few patents are taken out on
the rig of bailing vessels for the reason
that most of the improvements have
been thought out. Sailors are likewise
very conservative and opposed to new-
fangled devices.
Here, however, is a newly-devised
vessel, with radical and novel Im-
provements both above and below the
water line. The various devices have
been patented by Mr. William King of
New Orleans. Under his plan the sta-
bility of the vessel is increased by pro-
viding it with a telescopic centerboard,
which consists of a main centerboard
within which is a double centerboard,
an amidship centerboard carried by the
double centerboard, a port and star-
board centerboard respectively carried
on cach side of tho double centerboard,
and within the main centerboard.
The spar plan and sail plan are also
formed so that they may be enlarged
or decreased at pleasure. This is ac-
complished by providing the spinnaker
booms, and the gaffs of the mainsail
and of the spinnakers with auxiliary
(spars, sliding within suitable rings or
sockets which are fixed near the cuds
of said gaffs and booms.
These spars are adjusted by means
of halyards and blocks, and can be
reefed home or run out as desired,
and a larger or smaller amount of
canvas carried. Two spinnakers are
used, and the booms are plvotally
mounted on suitable steps which are
placed one on each bow of the vessel.
The spinnakers are not hoisted to the
topmast, as is usually done, but are
1.1 i.ri.
■Ti 11 mni"
provided with extensible gaffs,the heels
of the gaffs being pivotally connected
with a band, which is clamped upon
the mast. This connection has a uni-
versal pivotal movement.
The spinnaker booms are sheeted for-
ward to the bowsprit end and aft to
the outrigger, and when they are not
in use they rest in crutches at the end
of the bowsprit.—Ex.
InduNtrial N >te«.
At a factory in Taunton, Mass., there
is manufactured what is said to be the
finest wire in the country, a cobweb
of one-five-hundredth part of an inch
In thickness, finer than a human hair.
In making it ordinary wire is drawn
through holes drilled in diamonds, as
ordinary steel plate would not answer.
Five hundred tons of light steel rails
were recently sent from a Milwaukeo
steel works to Japan by way of Buffalo
and New York. British experts say
their pull with Japan is lessening.
Crude rubber is one material that has
not suffered from the world-wide fall
In prices. So much of it is used in
bicycle tires that the price ranged
higher in '96 than for some time.
Southern newspapers are advocating
the establishment of bicycle factories
in the South. Although as many wheel"
in proportion are used South as North,
it is said that only one of the more
than 200 bicycle factories in the coun-
try Is in any Southern State.
Corea is a shut-in nation no longer.
A Y'ankee trader named Morse has ob-
tained from the Corean government a
concession for a railroad between
Seoul and Chemulpo, Its seaport.
In former days a very large part of
the world's sulphur supply came from
Sicily. The industry is now in a very
bad way, and it is proposed by the
Italian government that the export
duty of 20 per cent be stopped, though
it is hard for Italy, in her present
bankrupt condition, to give up revenue.
One of the grievances of the Uit-
landers in the Transvaal is the mon-
opoly granted by the Government to
the. manufacturers of dynamite. It is
said that the price is 150 per cent
higher than it would be under free
competition, and that the difference to
the three leading mining companies is
aboul $170,00 a year.
Prof. Brouardel of the Paris Munici-
pal Laboratory has made a report to
the Academy of Sciences on the use
of the Roentgen photographic process
in investigating bombs and infernal
machines. It is no longer necessary to
run any risks in discovering what these
trick boxes may contain.
Consul-General Judd, from Berlin,
sends a report regarding the recent
cloakmakers' strike, in which he
quotes Herr Timm as stating that a
woman of twenty years' experience in
the cloakmaklng business earned In
1893, in forty-three weeks. $100.28, and
the next year, in forty-nine weeks,
$129.
Photography has lately determined
Swan-Foot l*ropellrr .
The first propellers were the feet of
the swan, duck and goose. A steam
yacht was once constructed with pro-
pellers on the principle of the swan
foot. The progress of the boat was
quite satisfactory, and the propellers
would have been a success were it not
for the fact that the experiment being
made on the Thames River, they were
THEATRICAL GOSSIP.
CURRENT SAYINGS AND DOINGS
IN STAGELAND.
Mica Zelma Kawlatou'a Career on the
Stage- -Mine. Herrmann and the "Ser-
pentine Dance" — Attalis Claire to lie-
turn to the Stag*.
ISS Zelma Rawl-
ston, the pretty
I' 'ft \ y°unK actress who
praise, was born in
New York City in
1873. During '.he
lifetime of her
parents she enjoyed
the privileges of an
excellent education,
in which the study of music was in-
cluded. Recognizing the fact that she
was endowed with a good voice, she
was committed to the care of some of
the best vocal instrudlors in that city,
notable among whom was Mme. Pap-
penbeim, under whose care she re-
mained one year, after which time she
further studied under Mme. Murio
Celli. Upon the death of her mother
Miss Rawlston was forced to adopt
concert singing as a vocation which slio
successfully pursued for nearly a year.
At that time there was offered for com-
petition a free scholarship In Mrs.
Thurber's National Conservatory of
Music, and of more than three hundred
competitors Miss Rawlston was one of
the three who had the honor to pass.
She thereby secured the services of
some of the best professors of music in
New York, and, having continued un-
der their instruction for one year, she
thus completed her musical education
years of her married life, announcsd as
"Mile. Addle," and in a boy'B dress
aided Mr. Herrmann in his sleight rf
hand. In this costume she presented
a most engaging and sympathetic per-
sonality, and when she appeared in
Paris the Figaro paid her the very
iilgh compliment of saying: "Since the
time of Dejazet no woman has worn
boy's clothes so prettily and naturally
as does Mile. Addle." Of late years
Mrs. Herrmann's part in the entertain-
ment has grown more important, and
the playbills dignify her by her mar-
ried name. Adelaide Herrmann's
maiden name was the very unusual
one, Scarsez. and though she was born
in London, Eng.. both her parents were
Belgians. At an eirly age the little
Adelaide exhibited marked fondness
and talent for dancing, and when a.
mere slip of a girl was placed under
the training of the Kiralfys. With
them she came to this country under
the management of John C. Duff, as
one of the eight Huugarian dancers,
whoso original and novel dances caus-
ed a noteworthy sensation. After the
conclusion of this engagement Miss
Scarsez "doubled up" with Fanny
Dearilon, and as the Deardon Sisters
the team went to the Howard Athe-
naeum, Boston, then under the man-
agement of the late John Stetson, con-
tinuing to present Hungarian dances.
From Boston the sisters returned to
Europe, and danced in Paris at the
Follies Bergeres and the Alcazar d'Etc.
In Paris Miss Scarsez met Schumann,
manager of a vaudeville company
called the Transatlantiques. She made
an engagement with him to return to
America, and at liis suggestion learned
to ride the velocipede and the old high
wheel bicycle, which was just coming
into use, and as an expert rider of
these Adelaide Scarsez was one of the
first, if not the first woman to rido a
wneel upon the stage in this country.
C-A
ADELAIDE HERRMANN.
and was fitted for the stage. She then
secured a position at the Casino, that
city, where for a time she sang minor
roles, until by dint of hard work she
became principal understudy and sang
the mezzo-soprano roles. She next
joined John T. Kelly and Gus Will-
iams' "U and 1" company, in which she
played the soubrette part. She next as-
sumed a boy's part in "The Hustler,"
In which she met with much success.
During the past season she played the
part of the Zulu in the burlesque
"Thrilby," after which she joined
Rice's "1492" company. She is at pres-
ent upon the vaudeville stage, where
her services are in active demand, and
where her changes from feminine to
masculine attire, done with marvelous
rapidity, have added much to the fame
she has won by her singing. Miss Rawl-
ston has recently had all of her songs
is kept steady. Every time the wind
veers this wonderful kite changes its
shape in very much the same way
that the sail of a yacht is blown out
when running before the breeze and
tacking. When the wind is very strong
the Hammon kite becomes almost oval
In shape. Just how curiously made the
kite is, and just how big it looks when
held in the arms of a man you can see
by the pictures, which are reproduced
from the San Francisco Call. The cost
of the Hammon kites makes them very
valuable. The inventor has lost many
of his pet air-boats, however, but each
new one that he makes Is an Improve-
ment on the one before. Mr. Hammon
is now hard at work on a new kite
which he thinks will beat everything
of its kind ever sailed in the air, and
which will be sent up with a complete
set of instruments used in finding out j the depth of which the sun s rays can
the force of the wind, the state of the ! penetrate through water, and the re-
atmosphere and such things as are or mlt is that at a depth of 553 feet the
Interest to students of the weather. darkness was about equal to an expos-
ure on a clear but moonless night.
The exposed plates at this depth gav<
no evidence of light action.
The difference in the length of the
cables in the East river bridge, Brook-
lyn, when the thermometer registers
zero and when it registers 100 degrees
above, is two feet four Inches. The
difference in the rope which hauls the
cars is seven feet six inel-
ZELMA ItAWLSTON.
translated into German, and intends for
a time to appear upon the German
£age. She is likewise proficient in
the French language, and is also a fine
pianist, the results of her early educa-
tional advantages, and she is now add-
ing banjo playing to the list of her ac-
complishments. She has an intelligent
and expressive face that is very at-
tractive, and this, added to the ex-
cellence of her vocal efforts, has made
her a strong favorite, and has resulted
in rapid advancement in her pro-
fession, and in the creation of a steady
competitive demand for her services.
Mrs. Herrmann, wife of the famous
prestidlgttateur, was in the earlier
In these days of general feminine bi-
cycling this is worth recording. It
was on her second voyage to this coun-
try that Miss Scarsez for the first time
met Alexander Herrmann, who was a
fellow passenger. Shipboard is a pro-
verbially good place for engendering
tender passions, and Herrmann and
Miss Scarsez proved mutually attrac-
tive. Two months after their landing
in America they were married, and
their remarkably happy life since then
is one of the instances often used to
refute the reckless slanders of people
who assert that theatrical marriages
are seldom as blessed as they should
be. With her husband Adelaide Herr-
mann has played not only in nearly
every city of over ten thousand in-
habitants in the United States, but in
all the important cities of France, Bel-
gium, Russia, Spain, Brazil, the Argen-
tine Republic, Central America, Mex-
ico and Cuba. In the last named she
first introduced the "serpentine" at the
Pairet Theater, and fairly set the ex-
cited Cubans wild. Their theaters are
generally very badly lighted, and the
display of light and color was to them
a revelation. The way in which Mrs.
Herrmann came to do the "serpen-
tine" is somewhat remarkable. About
three years ago the Herrmanns were
i under engagement to play with Mr.
Hammerstein in Harlem. He also had a
contract with I.oie Fuller to appear at
an early date, and being unable to
find a suitable entertainment in which
| to put her, he proposed to Mr. Herr-
mann to anticipate his date and let
Miss Fuller do her dance in one of the
I intermissions. This was arranged, and
Miss Fuller proved so successful that
' Herrman offered her an engagement for
the remainder of the season. She, how-
ever, was obliged to return to Paris,
and thereupon Mrs. Herrmann told hei
husband that she could do the dance,
He was at first inclined to be rather
incredulous, as she had not danced for
thirteen years, but In a little more
than two weeks Mrs. Herrmann was
giving the dance, and for three seasons
has continued to do so. To how great
a perfection she has brought it all
who have witnessed it during the recent
remarkably successful engagement al
Palmer's Theater in New York City,
I can emphatically testify. Mrs. Herr-
1 rnann has the advantage of being an
| exquisite dancer, and is. therefore,
able to impart to the exhibition niuci
ease and erao of movement.
School directors of the district of
Duvcrne, Iowa, have ordered a cyclone
cave dug at each of the school houses
in the district.
Kant began Ills philasophical and
metaphysical speculations before the
age of IS.
Lamartlne's best poetry was written
when he was no more than 20 years of
age.
Beaumont wrote all his brilliant
dramas before the age of 29, at which
age he died.
An Appeal for As.Ulanee,
Tlie man wliu is cbnritublu to hiniitiH will lut.fc
to tho mule appeal tor n.nimanoo luidn by hit
atoinn.-h, or Mm liTcr, In tlie slmpe ot direr. dy
peptic qualms and uneasy rtlMatlODS in tiij re.
Iliuna ot tlie fliinds Hint secrete, III. bile, llua-
tetter a Stomach Bitters, my dear sir. or madam*
an the case may be--is what you require. lias*
ten to use, If you me troubled with heartburn,
wind iu the stomach, oc,note that jour^ akin or
tho whiles of your even are laMiiK a sal.uw hue.
A few years ago Laily Arran invest-
ed $15 to secure employment for some
peasant girls in Ireland. FrOui that
small beginning she has enabled 800
girls to become self-supporting aud to
assist their families by knitting.
Coe'a Cough llalanra
In the oldwt and best. It will break up a cold qutckM
than anything else. It la al way a reliable. Irjr it.
At Lowell, Mi „s., with tlfeexception
of the Lawrence Manufacturing Com-
pany, which recently shut down, the
cotton mills are running piactically a
their full capacity.
FITS stopped free nn«1 rerminert'v puri, Me
fits aft. r tlrst d:i\'.- i •• nf Dr. Kline's fJrcat Nor to
Keatorcr. Free 12 tr m mitl feat e M "r.
•louscures. Db.KitNB,USl Arvhbt. 1 Id -.#iphl ,Pk
That all talk is not chcap is illus-
■trated by the report of tlie American
Bell Telephone Company, which sliowt
a profit of $3,000,000 for the pjgt year.
Iflh® JJaby l« Cutting Teeth,
le far* and urt Uiat old and v. I tri -d remedy. MM.
WwHLoWi SooTiiTliy bTraif 1'ort'hildren Teething.
Jhc wliolfipf the M}iniiingr and weav-
ing machinery for Ixuiuft comes1 from
Great Britain, and will no von*
tinue to do so for years to courc '
I shall recommend Piso's Cure for Con
mmption Tar and wide.—Mrs. Mulligan,
Plumstead, Kent, England, Nov., 8, lbl)5.
Within the four months just passed
there have been chartered in South
Carolina 15 cotton mill companies
with a capital of $1,050,000.
Hall's Catarrh CurC
Is taken internally. Price 7".a
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(
It is a habit of the summer pirl to
put her hand back in order to ascer-
tain whether belt and skirt have part-
ed company.
A CHILD ENJOYS
The pleasant flavor, gentle i^tion, and
soothing effect of JSyrnp of Fig£r when in
need of a laxative, and if the fattier of
mother be costive or bilious, the mosl
gratifying results follow its use; so that it
is the best family remedy known and ev-
ery family should have a buttle.
In Court—"IIow comes it that you
committed a robbery in so crowded a
street in full daylight?" 4,lf your
Ilonor please, because 1 had laid out
some other streets for the evening."
White Buffalo, captain of Indian po-
lice, Cheyenne reservation, has applied
for a pension on account of injuries
sustained while a member of the third
United States cavalry. His injuries
arc such as would give a white man a
pension. White Buffalo ij a son of
Sitting Bull.
You
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Shortest time and at the least expense by takln*
Hood's
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And Description of Cripple Creek,
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remember it. Price 60 Cents.
or Cut out thin ad and acrid with £3 tent a
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postpaid.
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1312 Masonic Temple. Chicago. III.
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DRUGS.
v
A complete stock of DRUGS for sale cheap. In-
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first as nature's purest and
most refreshing drink.
Best by any test.
PATENTS,TRADEMARKS <
Examination and Advice a* t. Patentability of la
rcntiou. Bend for "Inventors'Guide, or How to Oct a
Fatent. PAliUCK O'A'AMLKLL, Washiugton, D. C.
FKKK. I>r. II. W. OOI I KY, ATLANTA, OA.
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CUKES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. „ ,
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In time. Hold by dnaKKlnta.
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