The Tribune-Democrat. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 24, 1895 Page: 2 of 8
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HERE AND THEKf-
Watti: was <>rcr a |>oli<< : n. i
his descendant* ar" founin the
Wattes, Waytes, Gates, Gaiter. Walter-
mans and Wattermans
There is a man in Boston who makes
a business of repairing shirts, ami he
secures patronage of some very re-
6 pec table people these hard times.
It is said that the menu card has been
In use since 1840, at which time it was
introduced by Duke. Henry of Hruns-
wick at the sessions of the German
teichstag in Regensburg
The Dutch government is about to
take steps toward reclaiming the
Snyder 7a e The cost is estimated it
6150,000,000, and when the work is fin-
ished about 500,000 acres will be fit for
use
Tiie Six Finger club is the latest
thing out in the way of clubs l-ach
member of this particular club must
have at least six lin-*«-i-^ « n one hand.
An elaborate report, drtiwn up by the
secretary, shows that there at.' ',1.3
n Curo lor lAttr.
A Louisville girl has discovered *
novel panacea for a broken heart, which
common humanity demands should be
given widespread circulation at once
Fn*t Flail'.v.* Travel.
A great, deal h; • e;i sjJ.1 um; writ-
ten about the coming ilyi-rs and t,hn
tremendous rate of spied that will be
attained by thein in the near future.
Hut before these rather exaggerated
figures can be reached, there must be B
complete reconstruction in track-lay-
ing and road-bed arrangement. A de-
gree of solidity and firmness not yet se.
cured and an almost absolutely straight
track are imperatively necessary if one
would send a train over the earth's 1 <,ay-
arc both bo obstinate that we never
/•ii r."v:raoro.inar!r Attacnmrni.
Ral.rond property . p.; :;: .is at-
tached for debt, but rarely is the op-
eration performed in the mar:n< r
( chosen the other day by a constable of |
for the benefit "1 a suffering world. Mount Sterling, O. When a Haltimore
The story according to the Courier- A Ohio train was passing that place he
Journal of that city, was overheard in stopped it on a writ of attachment and
that queer hut popular public eonfes- chained one of the driving wheels to
aional, a street ear. The clever crea- the track. The constable was over-
ture said to the other girl: "Oh, Louise! pined that the train should not es-
I felt perfectly dreadful all day jester- cape his legal process, and all entreat-
LABOR DAY
Harry and I have fallen out, and
surface at such a high rate <>f speed.
Experts have decided that a train rim-
ing at the rate of one hundred miles an
hour would be flung from the track at
the first curve. It therefore appears
that tlu- present existing tracks are
not at all adapted to such rapid transit
as the hundred-milcs-an-hour enthusi-
asts are talking about. The probabili-
ties are that the elevated track in
some of its forms and the tunnel are
the solution of the high-speed problem.
will make up—never! My life is a per-
fect wreck. I cried until 1 couldn't
cry any more, and was just desperate
to know what to do with myself
when suddenly I heard a hand organ
out on the street- the first of the sca-
les of the trainmen to be released were
without avail. The conductor finally
telegraphed the company's head-
quarters, and after three hours' delay
received the curt message: "If the
chain is not too strong, go ahead."
The engineer opened the throttle, the
big driving wheels revolved, and away
A oranc
dinner
at
celebration
J ohnson's
and picnic
grove,
one
persons in the world with six fingers Only by bridging valleys with tn* tie-
on each hand and 4'U with seven
fingers. One individual, indeed, is the
proud possessor of eight fingers on one
band.
The most unhealthy city in Europe,
according to statistics recently issued,
is Barcelona, Spain, one of the loveliest
places in that part of the continent.
work and cutting through hills can the
average level be reached and curves be
dispensed with. It would be necessary
to run air lines without regard to inter-
mediate stations, leaving these to be
connected by ordinary roads. It would
take something over a mile in which to
One who lives in Barcelona increases stop one of these flying trains, and the j
considerably his chances of death, of
every 1,000 persons there die in Edin-
burgh annually 19; in London, 20; in
Stockholm. 21; In Brussels, 22; in Ber-
lin and Paris, 23, and In Barcelona, 31.
The number of deaths there in every ;
1,000 people .at the present time ex-
ceeds the number of births.
nerve required to run it would
something far beyond that possessed
by the average engineer.
>«,a. i rushed out and brought the went the train, with the constable,
man into the parlor monkey and all— chasing after it in the ridiculous cfToit i
and kept him all afterim* n. The antics , to made legs keep up with steam. 1 he
" trouble was a suit against the Haiti-
m#re & Ohio company to secure the
payment of five hundred dollars .
claimed for the accidental killing of
two horses.
Antiquity of Golf. |
Oolf w: s a fa-hionable game among A wedding took place a few days ago
the nobility at the beginning of the 1 at Loaf mountain, in (.rant |
seventeenth century. It was proliib- county, W. Ya„ in which the combined
itcdat an earlier date (1487) by James «• of the bride and groom reached
II of Scotland, as it interfered with 1 the extraordinary figure of one hun-
archcry, which the king encouraged, 'Ired and seventy years, says a writer
that Ids men might vie the belt, r with in the Cincinnati Enquirer. John
the English Ik,wmen. It was also pro- Shilling, the groom, is in his ninety- |
mile
north of El Reno, Ok.,
on
The antics
of that monkey nearly killed me. Of
course, it nearly ruined r. financially,
but. goodness! when one has a broken
heart something has to 1 e-done."
MONDAY. SEPT. 2, 95.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
According to an English anthropolo
ITist, Mr. H. Balfour, the aboriginal
races of Africa and- India are to be
credited with providing us with the
prototypes of many of our best stringed
musical instruments.
Glass houses on wluels ar.; uow em-
ployed by horticulturists for forcing
plants. The structures run on fixed
rails, and may thus be easily moved
from place to place to points where it
may be desirable to protect vegetation
or force its growth.
In a recent report to the United
States department of agriculture Mr.
Alexander McAdee states that the lia-
bility to damage from lightning de-
creases in thickly populated districts,
the risk in the country being, in gen-
eral, about five times as great as that in
the city.
A living specimen of the largest and
most deadly snake known (Ophiopha-
gus elaps) has bcen.pdded to the Zoo-
logical Gardens of London. It grows
twelve to fourteen feet in length, and
1b howled like the cobra. It occurs in
India, Burma and in the East Indian
archipelago, living in forests and jun-
gles and readily climbing trees.
In South America among the moun-
itains the evergreen oak begins to ap-
ipear at about 5,500 feet, and is found
up to the limit of the continuous forest,
(which is about 10,000 feet. The valua-
ble cinchona tree, from which Peruvian
[bark is obtained, has a range elevation
|on the mountain slopes running from
4,900 to 9,500 feet
THEIR ORIGIN.
Bells were first placed in ehurehet
about 400 A. 1). They were used, not
to call the worshipers to service, but
to be rung on the approach of storms,
to prevent the "prince of the Power of
the Air" from smiting the sacred edifice
with lightning
Skedaddle, to express the idea of
utter rout, dispersion and confusion,
is probably of Irish origin. In a ver-
sion of the Irish New Testament it is
written: "I will smite the shepherd,
and the sheep of the (lock shall bo
egedadol," or dispersed.
People say "God bless me" after
sneezing from the fact that in the days
of the plague this terrible malady be-
gan with violent snec.ing and other
Indications of cold. The exclamation
was thus originally a prayer to be de-
livered from the plague.
Toe title of doctor was invented for
the especial benefit of the learned
Inernius, of the twelfth century. The
iglish
liibited by .lames IV. Charles I. of
England was fond of golf, and was
playing when the news of the Irish re-
bellion reached him. In the reign of
Edward III. golf was known under the
name of "combuca,'' a late Latin word,
and to-day "cammack" in Scotland is
the name of a game played with a
hockey stick. The Irish and Gaelic for
a golf club is "caman." As for "cad-
die," the golf player's attendant, the
word comes from the French "cadet,
the younger son or brother, the pho-
netic form of which, "cadee," was used
in England (1689-1789) to define '"a gen-
tleman who entered the army without a
commission to learn the military pro-
fession and find a career for himself."
There has been in recent years no
change in the display of crepe at the
door in case of death except by the ad-
dition occasionally of a few flowers to
the ordinary emblem; usually white
flowers for a child, and any full-blown
flowers for an older person. The usual
crepe for a person of either sex up to
the age of about nineteen would be all
white, white ribbon upon white crepe
or tarlatan; for a person of from nine-
teen to forty, black crepe with white
and black ribbons; for persons above
forty, crepe and ribbons all black. The
dimensions are generally from the
doorbell to the step. If there is a bell
pull, the crepe is usually hung upon
that; if an electric button, the plate is
unscrewed enough to admit the crepe
under it and the plate is then screwed
into place again.
It is possible, says a commercial
authority, that the consumption of
American meat in England may be
largely curtailed if the colonies keep
up to the record of the steamer Perth-
shire. ller latest cargo, delivered at
London from Australia and New
land, was the largest single load of re
frigerated meat ever handled. It c'in-
sisted of 70,000 carcasses of sl ee;>. ' )
haunches and the same number of 1<
of mutton, 550 tons of beef. !■* 1 I •:< 1 i
bullocks' hearts, 150 barrels of ' I sorac.tiines shooU hands, ami hence the
and kidneys, 7 case* of oysters, v. nd ,. .
cases of butter. There was ro<
the steamer's hold for about i'.u
more carcasses of sheep. The shipment
was the first of its kind from the Pa-
sixth year, and the blushing bride,
tMiss ltuth Sears, has experienced the
passing of seventy-four summers.
Both bride and groom are mountain-
eers, having been born and raised in
the Sugar Loaf mountain country.
They have known each other for over
sixty years, and for fifty-four years
have (in mountain parlance) "courted."
The wedding was a typical mountain
affair. The attendance consisted of
several hundred people, all relatives
and friends of the bride and groom,
many of whom rode horseback over the
mountains forty and fifty miles to
witness the ceremony. On the morn-
ing before the ceremony both bride and
groom were baptized and received into
the church.
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; The high hand-shake that was intro-
j duced in certain circles two or three
| years ago was thus referred to in an
address delivered before the students
of Harvard college last March by Henry
Irving: "I notice nowadays that some
young people have a singular method
of shaking hands—something like this,
with their elbows level with the crowns
i of their heads, a funny fashion and not
' suggestive of the grasp of the honest
man. It was a fashion contracted in
i large assemblies and functions where
ladies were wearing long trains thrown
i over their arms and held aloft to
avoid the crush and protect their gar-
! moots. With their arms up so, they
: fashion."
day wil
cific where the ammonia machine wai
used for refrigerating purposes.
"I heard a good bike story, and it's
the gospel truth," says a writer in the
Louisville Courier-Journal of a recent
date. "The fair and frivolous daughter*;
It is related that a little girl in Bos-
ton being asked by a horse car con-
ductor if she paid r.ly half fare, re-
plied: "I prefer to pay full fare, and
keep the statistics to myself." This is
an age of statistics, and they are get-
ting tiresome. I r ;:i the computed
number of George Washington's serv-
ants who die every year, to the num-
ber of glases of beer "per capita" for
of an old farmer in Bullitt county spent each froo nm, in(lcpcndent voter of the
several weeks with a young lady friend
in this city, and while here learned to
ride the wheel. A few weeks ago the
old man wired the daughter: 'Come
home; 1 will meet you with a buggy.'
She answered: 'Am coming home
on tlifc bike.' The old man having
'hearn on them things' telegraphed
back: 'Bring your coffin with you.
I ll meet you with a hearse.' She left
fcr home on the train."
United States and the estimated num-
ber of divorce cases for the number of
marriages, the list becomes simply ap-
palling, and what good do they do
after all?
In 1876 Dr. W. II. Richardson, who
had been in the confederate army and
afterward in Mexico and hadn't seen
his wife for five or six years, heard that
she was dead. He remained in Mexico
j until the present year, when he went
It is a thoroughly-mistaken notion to Kentucky to look up his relatives,
that freezing destroys all bacteria it In tracing a claim to land he wrote to
water. Experiments made at the Law- wife's relatives in Texas, and
rence (Mass.) station have demonstrate learned that she was living and had for
ed that freezing water containing the twelve years been remarried. Husband
title was conferred by the university of | bacillus of typhoid fever for twenty- No. 2 gracefully retired, and the pair
lloiogna. The first doctor of medicine ; four days did not destroy it, and so ,vcre reunited after thirty-two years,
was William Gordenio, who received people who fancy that "ice purifies it- The Enoch Arden business is becoming
the title from the college at Asti in self by freezing" are under a mischiev- a dead letter.
1329. ous delusion; moreover, there is reason
The bow is first seen depicted ou to believe that the typhoid bacillus j Mrs. Betsy Wiggins, of Emporia,
A writer in Scribner's Magazine
prophesies the displacement of the
newspapers by the phonograph. Says
the writer: "The voices of the whole
world will be gathered up in the cellu-
b id rolls, which the post will bring,
morning by morning, to the subscrib-
ing hearers. Valets and ladies' maids
will soon learn how to put them in
place, the axle of the cylinder upon the
two supports of the motor, and will
carry them to the master or mistress at
the hour of awakening. Lying soft
and warm upon their pillow, they may
hear it all, as if in a dream foreign
telegrams, financial news, humorous
articles, the news of the day."
A few years ago there lived in lux-
urious comfort a quaint elderly trio—a
brother and two sisters—who jestingly
declared that they would have to be
enrolled among the freaks of a mu-
seum, as they were the only pe pic in
their set who had never been to Eu-
rope; and, intelligent and wealthy,
they continued to the end of their
lives to make New York the boundary
of their horizon, rarely leaving it ex-
cept for their summer home, which
was as near as possible to their beloved
native city.
It is pretty well established now
that water, so far from generating ma-
laria, may really prevent its polluting
the atmosphere. The germ may grow
in soils even slightly moist, but a thin
layer of water evenly distributed over
such soil may prevent the escape of
the germ into the atmosphere. In the
same way a thick growth of grass
with matted roots may be impervious
to the genn and keep it beneath the
surface, where it can do no harm.
11 be celebrated under
auspices ot the Knights of
The
the
Labor of Canadian count)
ft!! are
to
u
Egyptian monuments about 2,000 B. C.
Its form then did not differ greatly
from that in use among boys at the
present day. It was used in European
warfare as late as 1040, and was deemed
quite us effective as the arquebuses
then employed.
FUNERAL ODDITIES.
The oldest known inscriptions are
epitaphs.
The first tax was laid on funerals in
England in 1793.
Mummy cases have often, on the ex-
ternal lid, a representation of the occu-
pant.
The Greeks buried or burned their
dead, one word having both significa-
tions.
The best evidence goes to show that
the pyramids of Egypt were royal sep-
ulchers.
The early Christian martyrs were
generally buried in or near the
churches.
forms spores—seeds -though they can ' Kan., is the proudest woman in that
be discerned only by the most power- town. In a recent cooking contest she
fill objectives, but the seed will sur- | surprised and distanced all competition
vive long after the parent bacillus has by making a buckwheat cake four feet
perished. in diameter. It was about an.inch
thick and in the center was set a
The adulterations of essential oils
A water turkey, one of those vicious
long-necked and sharp-billed birds that
cry so weirdly along the waterways of
Florida, was caught recently by a
small boy, who exhibited it. A passer-
by stooped down and peered between
the slats at the bird, when, quick as a
llasli, the long stiletto-shaped bill shot
out and pierced the pupil of his eye,
and, entering into the brain, caused
his deatli a few hours later.
Speakers of national renown are
expected to be present to address
the people, also a number of local
speakers will address the people.
4/)-*
Latin seems to have been the favorite
trussed enpon. Spokes of wheat flour language with the men that decided
has reached such a point that it is ex- ra(iiated from this fowl hub to tho what should be the mottoes upon the
coats of arms of the states. Elaborate
tremely difficult to obtain a pure es- , olrcumferencCi which was cut
sence. An Italian exporter of essence After the chicken is eaten j Latin mottoes are commoner west than
of lemon says that one of his largest J t()e ,R)je wi]1 1)e gue(j up amj t)le cake ' east. Maine is the only state to liavo
American customers sells the essence j nUUged as a oover {or the well.
for less than he pays for it. Turpen-
tine is the adulterant. The only sure A nbwspapkb man discourses as fol-
method of detecting the fraud is by j lows: "Don't make fun of a boy whose
analysis, but when the producer pro- j clothes don't fit. In five years his
poses to sell only upon analysis, tho clothes may be tailor-made, while
importers sometimes give notice that i yours are second-hand. Don't make
in such case they must cease to deal fun of a poor girl, for in a short time
for its motto a single Latin word, and !
Maryland is the only one having an
Italian motto, the famous "Fatti i
niaschi, parole femine" (Deeds are
masculine, words are feminine).
Good Shade.
Plenty oi water.
wen Filled Basnets.
Lots 01 Good Music.
A i
with him.
she may be the happy wife of some
Some philosopher wonders: What be- mn" of brnins and " ba°k ount.
; while you may be glad to clerk for her
comes of all the men who are super
seded by women? In our large shops a
Many tribes of the aborigines of this few ycars RK„ u]m,..,t all tin clerks
country elevated the bodies of the dead wcronu,n. mnv t]u,v llri, w„men. It Is
on poles.
Tins praetico.of.burials In churches
was commonly discontinued in Franco
about 1777.
"Death is an eternal sleep" is the
favorite epitaph above tho doors of
Boinnn tombs.
Tjie magi did not bury their dead,
but left tliem to be devoured by I irds
of prey or dogs.
Nebo delivered a funeral oration at
the funeral of l'oppcae. whom ho had
killed with u kick.
Tiie cutting of the body in mourning
for the dead lias been practiced by the
people of many nations.
the same thing with stenographers,
cashiers, bookkeepers, etc., besides tho
typewriters who must take some boy's
place. AY hat becomes of all those men?
It is as jierplcxuig a query as what be-
come. of all the pins.
A keTaii. hardware man in Newbury-
port, Mnv.. hn- unearthed the latest
mean ninn lie purchased 11 six-cent
mouse trap, took it home and caught
the one mouse in the house, and then
wanted the .in rein r.t to take the trap
back and refund the meuoy
husband nnd sleep in the attic.'
A society among merchants nnd
traders out west lias Ivcn formed in
which the members ngreo that they
will not hold conversation about hard
times, dull trade, small orders, slow
collections, low prices of wheat, etc.
The idea is an excellent one.
A ('ONTlunrTOn to Vogue says that
tho last time he saw the prince of
Wales and the duke of York both were
trousers guiltless of creases. To the
Anglo-maniacs of this country that will
rank ns the most important foreign
news of the day
It is 1111 interesting fact that while
American wood engravers have been
almost driven from their chosen field
of book and periodical illustration,
they have brought their art up to its ;
highest point, and the l cst of them are
still struggling to do lietter. llalf a
score of the best American wood en-
gravers are perhaps more truly artists
than nny of their predecessors on this
side the Atlantic.
Hawaii is not the only place where
prisoners have been known to be hired
out for domestic service. !t was dis-
covered si me years ago that long-term ,
convicts in the jail at New Castle, Del.,
were c inmonly sent 011 errands about
town, and even life prisoners were |
ilightly watched. A murderess was
employed in the jailer's family and
permitted to co about the (streets.
Come out and spend
the toiling masses.
a dav
with
By Order of Local Assembly No. 1121
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