Punxsutawney Spirit, 1892-11-02

              L WEDNES 2,1892. O ,  CLOTHIER, THE ONE PRICE Clauton Overcoats. Would call Special Attention to hit! lomense Line of <) ' A FAIRY LAMPLIGHTER. >4* ITS FIRST DRAMA, AROUSING A DRUNKARD. Corner Boom Hotel PutiU RolMiag, dren's C In Men's Boys and Chi A LIFE-SAVING STATION. EARLY MISSISSIPPI DAYS. World's Fair. The Government's Exhibit at thfl SOCIETY THIEVES. BTJTA" rtn An Interesting Feature of tlio Great exposition Which Will Uecurno • Permanent Institution.■ We can assure you that such a stock can't be found in this county outside our store. In Light Weight and Medium Weight Coats we show more Styles than all the other stores combined.< It will surprise everybody when they see the Quality, Style and Workmanship for so little money in all shades and colors. All Wool, satin sleeve lining, prices $8, $9, 10 ai l 12. In Heavy Weight Chinchilla and Storm Coats we will not take a back seat for the best of them. Skilled work girls in France, Hay* the New York Sun. are much better off than those in stores. Statistics presented at tho congress femineste by Mme. Vincent n few days a go show that out of 10,352,000 artisans in France there are 4,415,000 women, who receive in wages or dividends nearly $.">00,000,- 000 a They, of course, receive much less in proportion to the work they do than the men, but notwithstanding this fact they draw thirty-five percent, of the entire sum spent in wages. In Paris there are s.000 women doing business on an independent footing, and of H.n.ys suits judged last year by the council of prudhommes 1,674 concerned workwomen. an adjournment of the matter on the pretext that the grievances of the women are not yet ripe for discussion. Of course, women have no votes. The shop ffirls of I'aris held a meeting at the ltourse du Travail recently to protest ag-ainst the action of the chamber. The condition of the I'aris shop ffirls is described as one of great hardship. They have to be In the shop from thirteen tti fourteen hours a day, receive very small pay, ami are expected to dress well. At some few stores, as the Hon Marehe, their circumstances are more pleasant, but in general the ffirls in the great stores have a hard time. They are compelled to stand all the time they are at work, and the air of the stores is far from exhilarating. conditions of work in workshops, dis> tfuisir.g the refusal under the form at crs the law for the regulation of chamber of deputies recently is apparently for men only. practically, to extend to women ing1, in one conspicuous cose. free everybody from everything, (•rest llxrctfihlp. The new order of things I which is to emancipate the wi Inscribed Their Condition THE SHOP GIRLS Everybody has heard of the "Quator- szieme," the professional "fourteenth e cs were banked and steam person" at dinners. There were men in ™cnt <'""'vn rapidly. Just after dark Paris not so very many years ago who ''at,e ils'' told the captain that a made it a business to serve at short no- K'rorlS watch should be set, for he had tice as guests at banquets where the mocc^Rin tracks along the shore, accident of thirteen at table occurred, , captain laughed at the idea of thus satisfying the superstitious by add- "an(fc|"- 'had scarcely spoken when ing one to the number. The individual ?n ° hoot was heard off in the hills, thus called in was introduced as a friend a moment a wolf bark sounded from invited to the repast, and there was nP ® river. Again came the owl hoot nothing about his appearance or de- an twice more was the wolf bark meanor which could arouse suspicion e~ <■ that he was not present on the same an hour later the Indians footing with the others. swarmed out of the woods and began It seems surprising to find such a cub- arrows into the cabin of the torn, in a modified form, newly intro- ' 1 ver Lake • 4- The firemen of a duced into New York society, says a cor- K eamboat never worked harder in a respondent in the St. Louis Ulobe-Demo- ra"' than tho Lake's firemen worked to erat The fashionable hostess now* raise steam. It was seen that unless the days, in giving a dinner commonly en- ''at got started up stream very soon gages a detective of gentlemanly aspect e *u'i.ins, by force of numbers, would and address to take the part of a guest . oar( 1<>r' ' *'nc wus Cl,t ''y a venat her table. He is invited, not for any ,,urt'so,m1° roustabout, and the boat superstitious reason, but to protect the °, "own with the current, while tho tableware and other household proper- ro<!j Pursocd on shore. ty from being stolen by the other ,. *en£ft'1 enough steam pressure was diners. Most strange does it appear the vessel ahead. As that the entertainer should take such a ' .1 , v"' " "ni.'i r way Mate Nash precaution against possible dishonesty " M < .hoat s mountain howitzer on the part of the people whom she lnto> position near the capstan, and, unknots well enough to regale with inti- r a shower of arrows, sent a shell mate hospitality, but experience has aD»onff the hostilcs. As the missilo shown that it is very necessary. Such J° :. along the ground, a score of articles as solid gold spoons are very ndians attempted to pick it up, when likely to be pocketed, and the fact has the explosion occurred. Several shells long been notorious that r.o small and were iired into the crowd on shore, each costly piece of bric-a-brac is safe in tho OIj° dealing out death at a feartul rate, most exclusive drawing-room. "Klep- . 1 "at battle cost the Indians twentymania" is the term charitably applied '. warriors and forty ponies, while to a thieving habit which is not so very arrow marks and one man rare among persons of good social wounded was all tho damage that the - Silver Lake No. 4 suffered. A l)attle with the Indiana anil til* Arrow twell Quests Who Prey Upon 31"rk* °"* »*•»■•* Their Hosts at Banquets. Mate Nash was mate on the handsome steamer Silver Lake No. 4. In June, A Detective.. Pre—co Now Require,. a. th°, ''f0 a tmclinff trip to Fashionable Gather.*,. I. New ""'headwaters of the M.saourL The York to Watch Klepto- "J-* tled UP on0 ni»ht near the mouth maniac*. Cannon Hall river, eighteen miles below Fort Uice, says the Detroit Free othing We show everything in the market. It would be useless for us to try to describe or tell you all about this line. We have all the novelties in double-breasted straight-cut in liomespun and fancy worsted and cheviots and in boy's clothing, we can give you them made the same us the men's. Children's Jersey suits. We can truthfully say we have more styles than the whole town and prices that surprise everybody. MEN'S UNDERWEAR Hut it was only the good fairy of many sick rooms, loving1 forethought, that lighted the caiulle. "Severn! Severn!" he cried. "Ilere'sa little fairy lamplighter actually lit up the other candle!" Affection often Inspires ingenuity. In a recent life of Joseph Severn the narrative of the artist's care of the poet Keats in his last illness includes a new and graceful incident, says the Philadelphia Ueeord. Severn, worn out with watching and tireless service, would sometimes drop asleep and allow the candle to go out, thus leaving the sick man in darkness, which ho dreaded. Realizing that this was liable to occur, Severn hit upon a happy device to keep the light still burning. One evening he fastened a thread from the bottom of the candle, already lighted, to the wick at the top of another unlighted one set ready near by. Not being sure that the experiment would succeed, ho had 'not mentioned it. and when, later on, he fell napping as the first candle was burning low, the invalid was too considerate to awake him, but lay patiently awaiting the extinction of the dickering flame. Suddenly, just as he expected gloom and blackness, the connecting 'hread—too tine and distant for him to sec—caught fire and a tiny spark began to run along it. Then ho waked the sleeping nurse with an exclamation of joyful surprise. llourrt nf tli<* Poet Kfut*. An Ingenious I.ltMc Story of the Ijut The bureau obtained a gold medal fur its exhibit at the fish and fisheries exhibit in London, where it simply showed its apparatus and did not attempt to put it in operation. Superintendent Kimball is willing to put the American system into u competitive test with that used in any other country. The medals and awards received will be ptaeed on exhibition and also some apparatus showing the progress of life saving invention. Side by side will be shown a modern Lyle gun for throwing a succoring line to the crew of a distressed vessel und the old-style mortar which was used when this method of saving life was first adopted. The bureau has in its possession the first mortar and first bull ever used in America in lifesaving work. About thirty years ago it was used to throw a line to the crew of the British ship Ayrshire in danger of giAng on Squan lieaeh, X. J. The ball struck the. deck and carried the line to the passengers and crew. By means of the life line 201 persons were saved out of a total of 222 persons on board. The ship sank and the ball went to the bottom. About twenty years afterward, through the working of the waves the ball was brought to view again and sent to the life-saving bureau. The station is to be a permanent one when the exposition is over. The government was not able to secure a sat isfactory title to the site of the present Chicago life saving station, and in the last sundry civil appropriation bill, congress inserted a proviso that a new station should be erected within the grounds set apart for the world's fair, on condition, however, that there must first be ceded to the United States the title to the site selected. The station will be manned by one of the regular life saving crews, who will perform a daily drill, and it may be that some of the visitors will have an opportunity to observe the work as it i> actually performed iu storms, for the station is erected on one of the most dangerous parts of the coast in the vicinity of Chicago. The station apparatus and crew are there not only for exhibition, but for business whenever any vessel needs assistance. The life-saving' bureau of the treasury department will be represented tit the World's Columbian exposition tit Chicago by a life-saving- station and apparatus that will show to perfection this humane feature of tho federal government. The most essential feature of the exhibit, the station itself, is rapidly nearing completion on the luka front within the space to be dedicated to the exposition. The station will be fully equipped with all the apparatus pertaining- to a first-class lake life-saving station, and besides the articles used in work on the great lakes it will have on exhibition boats of the styles used on the Atlantic and l'acific coasts and on the falls of the Ohio at Louisville, with finch other apparatus as is peculiar to the work in any part of the United States. For instance, at Louisville two life skiffs and two reels are used, tliis apparatus being in use nowhere else. According to the Jewish Talmud, Lilitli, the fabled "mother of demons," was taken to wife by Adam, our first parent, prior to the appearance of Kvo upon the scene, lteing the legendary mother of all evil spirits, one would quite naturally accept the story as a fact when told that she became unmanageable and tried to supersede Adam u lord of all creation. Thwarted in these, her evil designs, she took to the regions of the air, where, as a specter in the guise of a beautiful woman, she lies in wait for and pounces upon defenseless children. Some ignorant Kuropcan Jews believe that the beautiful murderess still inhabits the air above our earthly abodes, waiting with the patience of a demon for a chance to murder their little ones. It is said that the word "lullaby" is a corruption of the words "Lillia, abi," or "llegone, Lilith," words used as a charm by the superstitious mothers of the middle ages. AiUm't First Wife. N E (3 K WEAR. In this line we can surprise you more than ever. Men's heavy kersy pants, the best you ever saw for the money Everything in the market in dress and evening pants, beautiful styles and lowest prices. Men's and Boys' Fants In shoes for men and boys we positively have no rivals. We sell the celebrated J. T. Wood shoes. There is no better. Also the enameled patent leather tip, the handsomest shoes in the county, congress or lace. They are beauties. We still carry a full line of Candee rubber boots. There is no better. In leather boots we have the best in the market and are closing them out at almost cost. RUBBER AND Ions, Sloes! LEATHER! Boots, Boots! In this line we have always took the lead. There is scarcely anything made in underwear that we can,t show at our store. Light weight wool, heavy balbrigan to suit men that can't wear wool. Camels hair, natural wool, prices from $1.00 to $5.00 a suit. Boys' underwear all grades and prices. A line of flannel shirts with stiff collars. Something new. Call and see them. The Mohammedan Judgment Da)-. The Koran sura LXXXI. has this to say concerning the general "Judgment Day," which nearly all religions teach in common: "When the sun shall bo folded up; and when the stars shall fall; and when the mountain shall be made to pass away; and when the wild beasts shall be gathered together; and when the Beas shall boil; and when souls shall again be joined to their bodies; and when the girl who hath been buried alive shall ask for what crime she was put to death; and wnen the books shall bo laid open; and when the heavens shall be removed; and when hell shall burn fiercely; and when l'aradise shall be brought near, then shall every soul know what it hath wrought." The five rattlesnakes on exhibition in the barroom window of the Hotel Pantall had their fangs pulled out last Monday, says the l'unxsutawney Spirit. Will Murphy was the dentist. He pressed the snake's head to the floor and held it fast, and then opened its mouth with a stick, lie then took a knife, cut around the fangs and pulled them out with pincers. This is the only safe plan. In jerking them out with a silk handkerchief they are often mcraly broken olT, and the stumps are still able to inject venom into a man's blood. Three of the snakes are very large, and they objected strenuously to losing their fangs. They didn't like it at all. The largest block one entered a solemn protest against the operation and was frantic with rage. Hut it availed him nothing, and he If qow as harmless as a kitten. Kuttlosnakc Dentistry standing. "The other day at Newport," said the chief of the principal detective agency in this city, "ono. of my men was employed to look out for a large reception, lie saw a handsomely-dressed woman deliberately take and secrete the top of a beautiful vase. The object could have been of no use to her, but the loss of it would have spoiled an ornament worth $5,000. lie stepped up to her and said pleasantly: 'Madam, I presume that you want to have a duplicate of that vase?' 'Oh, yes,' she replied in some confusion. 'Well,' he replied, '1 guess you had better put it back, and you can get a duplicate by sending your artist here.' Of course she gave it up at once. Nothing more was said save that her name was reported to the hostess, who dropped it from the list. "That is the way we always manage. Exposure does no good in such cases. The same method is practiced at a dinner, where the detective keeps a quiet wateli upon things, only eating and drinking enough to keep up appearances. One lady of my aequaintaneo has all of her most valuable bric-a-brac fastened securely, so that the articles cannot be removed. She has given up having silver-backed brushes and other precious appurtenances in the dressingrooms at her parties, becauso they were stolen so frequently. "My observation has shown that kleptomania is actually a disease. It is much more common among women than men. Furthermore it is in a sense inherited, and the investigation in many cases has tended to show that longings on the part of a mother will thus affect her unborn child. So thoroughly am I convinced that victims of it are not responsible that I always try to protect them from exposure. They steal not from liAy necessity, but from morbid fancy. At the same time they come under the head of 'opportunity thieves'—they only yield to the temptation when good chances offer, and they think they are secure from detection. Not long ago I caught a woman of the highest social position in the act of secroting a diamond brooch at a jeweler's. I followed her carriage home, asked to t ee her privately,. and obtained from her a six hundred-dollar check, which was the price of the article stolen. Her husband is one of the best known men in New York financial circles. He never heard of the transaction. What would have been the use of creating a scandal?" "But it is at weddings chiefly that the society kleptomaniacs get in their work. At large affairs of the kind we ore sometimes called upon to furnish as many as three men—one to walk about in the room where the presents ore exposed, another to stand by the diamonds and a third to remain outside on the sidewalk, for tho purpose of keeping professional thieves from entering the house. It is a fact that thieves in the regular line of business carefully watch the announcements of swell weddings with a view to robbery. spot on which the 'great mail's' boxes had been deposited, and as he walked up to surrender his keys—'Ownej,-?' inquired the custom house officer, brielly and bluffly. 'I am,' answered the only Dickens, in a consequential tone. 'Name?' said the official, as bluntly as before. 'Name!' repeated the indignant proprietor of the same, 'what name, did you say?' reiterated he in a voice which meant why don't you look at me instead of asking such an absurd question. Hut the man stood there stolidly, with his lump of chalk in his hand, waiting for the answer, which had to come, nolens volens: 'Why, Charles Dickens, to be sure!' To Master Dickens' mortification, the name and tone alike failed to produce any impression on the preoccupied official, who continued unmovet7 the dull routine of his duty." An Englishman who happened to be a fellow passenger of Dickens on one occasion tells an anecdnte illustrating the high opinion which the author enjoyed of himself. "When wo landed, the luggage, after the clumsy fashion of that day, was tumbled into a long rough shed and placed on a counter to be searched. I happened to be near the Dickers' Ro!f-Importance The second performance was "Hamlet," "Phoenix" playing the part of the melancholy Dane and Magruder the Ghost. The Ghost had been dining with Senors Alvarado and Arguello, and had partaken of aguardiente and native wine so cordially that his utterances were more spirituous than sepulchral, and he nearly spoiled Ophelia's flower scent', too, by coming in and presenting Laertes' afflicted sister with a bouquet of cabbage heads. Fourteen of the auditors upon these two occasions became general officers during the war of the rebellion, among whom were Kearny, Magruder, lturton, Mason, Armistcad, Stoneman, Reynolds. The play was "Ilomeo and Juliet," John Phoenix (Lieut. Derby) essaying the character of the lover, und a woman weighing two hundred and forty pounds, the wife of SergU llolcomb, playing the part of Juliet. The date of the play was January 1, IMS. Mrs. Holcomb had studied her part industriously, but Derby turned the balcony scene into a roaring farce. J. Itaukliead Magruder, colonel of the Third artillery, was the Mercutio, and Capt. Burton, U. S. A., was Friar Lawrence. Gen., then Lieut. Armisteod, who was killed at Gettysburg, acted as prompter. The first theatrical performance given in California was in a low onestory adobe building on the corner of Pacific and Scott streets, Monterey, lately owned by John A. Swan, a pioneer of 1843. of the Tragedy of Ilomeo and >!ullet California's stirring Military Production CLAYTON THE ORIGINAL AND POPULAR In this line there is nothing made that we don't show. The handsomest tye for 25 cents you ever saw. A full line of working and dress Gloves and Mittens, E. & N. Collars, white shirts unlaundried 50 cents. See cut of the best fitting white shirt in the county. Macintosh Coats, Rubber, Leather and Oil coats, Trunks, Satchels, Valises and Umbrellas. NORTH, ONE PRICE CLOTHIER, Increasing the Potato Yield. A remarkable series of experiments The unpardonable sin. made by a French scientific agrieultur- Thirty Catholic students at one of the iat in the cultivation of potatoes has seminaries in St. Petersburg were cross- given astonishing results. Pn one ining a bridge when the czar's carriage stance ho obtained a yield of no less was driven by rapidly, and some of than forty-two tons of tubers per acre, them being In conversation did not see Qe selected the best and soundest seed his majesty and therefore did not bow potatoes, plowed the land very deeply to him, says Free Russia. The matter and manured it heavily. He also was reported to the authorities, and the steeped the potatoes for twenty-four Abbe Pischmycki, though he saluted, hours in a solution made by dissolving was condemned to six months' seclu- six pounds of saltpeter and six pounds ■ion, while the rector of the seminary, 0f sulphate of ammonia in twenty-five who did not happen to be present at the gallons of water; then he allowed them time, was fined fifty roubles, presuma- to drain and stand for twenty-four bly in order to teaoh him to instill tot- hoars for their buds to swell before ter manners Into his oharges. planting them. "Not a bit, sir," he replied. "I di(ln*fc hurt him at all. You see, sir, barriag| the lungs the nose is the principal orgwft of respiration, and the lungs, air, wouldn't have much to do if it wasn't for the nose. When a roan's asleep,, ajul especially when he's drunk u well, he's pretty sure to breathe as nature intended him to, air, and that's through his nose. All you have to do then, dr, is to pinch his nose, shut off his wind, and up he comes with a snort. It's m good deal more human, sir, than thai bastinado, and I always apply it, air." "You must have tweaked it prettapj hard," suggested a witness of the tncW dent. A drunkard was sleeping off his potar tions in a Third avenue hallway, when a patrolman espied his protruding legs, lie didn't begin to pound the rather thin stiles of the poor fellow's worn shoes, as is the custom of the park keepers in dealing with sleeping tramps ott the benches. He reached over and grasped the sleeper by the nose, and th«* fellow was on his feet in an instant. York Patrolman. The Humane Method Kinployed by a New The length of a degree of longitude depends altogether on the distance the point of measurement is from the poles. At theequator it is69 and l-110thstatute miles; at the 80th degree of latitude it is OS miles. At the 50th degree of latitude it is 443(1 miles, while at the 75th it is hardly 18 miles. At the 83d degree of latitude it lacks l-47th of a mile of being 10 miles, and at the 80th degree it is but one and one-fifth (1 1-5) miles, and gradually dr wi to a point aa tha line* neara the pole. The Length of a Degree, "V'V —jrv>%^EEhSiZ a II* fjmJ i ' % »