Punxsutawney Spirit, 1892-10-26

              w i Overcoats. lautu , THE ONE PRICE ' Would call SpMlal Attention to hial iii— Ua*«f V , I*/ I A PUNCTUAL RED MAN, ♦ < V i > In Mud's Boys and [I Ibhiy of t Ward. The way !■> which the name "Iiimm" became applied to article* of ftttiState Intended for literary purposes Is rather curious. It was the custom In the days when writing waa done on parchment, and when bookbinding was an expensive luxury, for those who were connected with literary pursuits to have on their tables a piece of cloth of a thick nature, to prevent the bookbinding receiving any injury. This picce of textile fabric, originally of woo), bore in France the name of bureau, nnd In course of time that name has attached itself to articles of furniture v/lilch have a space protected by some material for writing operations. 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 S 'J, $9, 10 and 12. In Heavy Weight Chinchilla and Storm Coats we will not take a back seat for the best of them. About a year ago, a Frenchman, who lives on a farm on the cast branch of the Penobscot river, in Maine, i fqund two baby moose wandering helplessly in the woods and took them home, tic nursed them tenderly and taught them various tricks, and they thrived and became very tame. Since then they have lived contentedly with the cattle on the farm. Occasionally they go into the woods in quest of ccrtain delicacies of the forest, and are away for days at ti time, but they always return willingly. Every hunter on the east branch knows the young moose by sight, and no ono ever thinks of molesting them. Pet Moose. Some very interesting exhibits of photography are to bo sent to the Colombian exposition from Sydney, New- South Wales. The collection is being prepared by the government printing office, and will consist of some four hundred views measuring forty by thir ty inches. Some of these pictures,when arranged in panoramic order, will finally measure forty feet in length. An enlarged view of the moon, from a negative taken by Mr. Russell, the government astronomer at the Observatory, is said to be one of tho gems of the collection.Australian Photography. Husband—How could I help It, my dear? You were costing mo twice as much as my salary, and it was the only chance I had of making both ends meet. —J udge. Working Over Time. Wife (who has returned suddenly)- now dared you play poker in the house while 1 was away? fa's Clothing Dasliaway—1 am glad, Willie, thi I she didn't make it with yours.—N. Y. Herald. Cause for ltejolrlnj;. Willie Slimson—Won't you have some root beer while you are waiting for sister? She made it with her own hands. Tuttor—1 don't believe so, old man. She never notices anything unless it's out of the ordinary.—Truth. Nothing Unusual. FiddlebucU—Do you suppose Mls» I'inkerly noticcd that my cuffs wore soiled? We show everything in the market. It would be uselesB for us to try to describe or tell you all about this line. We have all the novelties in doutyp-breast•ed straight-cut in homespun and fancy worsted and -cheviots and in boy's clothing, * we can give you •them made the same as 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 "That's a Imrd question. You uv.', I broke my leg running for it, and tliut cost considerable; then my brotlier-inlaw was killed tuulting a speech for me, and I had to bury him; then I barbecued all >ny cattle, killed three mules ridin' uround the country, mortgaged the farm, and got a divorce from the family; so, you see, it kinder foots up." -Atlanta Constitution. "What did it cost yon?" "Well, yon got the oflVe? "Yes." Electioneering I.i fleoryla. One of the men whose right to be in tho list of one hundred people might differ about is Henry Villard. But Mr. Villard retains the presidency of tha great consolidated electric company in spito of tho statements of the New York financial writers that he would not remain there. His position seems to be a strong one. He told n friend tho other day that he now had all tho money that he wanted. II" has got at least ten million dollars, and this tims he proposes to hold on to it. In the district of Columbia Alexander Graham Bell must take first place as a man of large accomplishments outside of polities. The great inventors of thtt country, Edison, Bell, Thomson, Maxim and '-others, who have all realized fortunes from their brains, would be at once voted a ploce among thoso who belong toi "the one hundred." One of the curious results of making up such a list would be that we should find comparatively few public men in tho list. Nearly every man who gets to congress is a man who has in some conspicuous woy shown his superiority to the average citizen of his district, but when it comes to the great "doers" we do not look for many of them within the walls of thecapitol. In Rhode Island, Fletcher, the worsted manufacturer, who came otM here as an English laborer and Is now the owner of many mills and many millions, would probably stand at the head of the list of successful men of that state. In Boston we should not put in tha rich young Montgomery Sears, but should probably put at the top of the list Frank Jones, the graat president of the Boston <fe Maine Railroad Co., who ran away from home when a buy did chore* for a living, and has risen to Uuf rank of a ten millionaire from that start in life. Roswell P. Flower, who began life up in Jefferson county, N. Y., with not much better advantages and who is nearly as rich aa Frank Jones, would have to be put ha the one hundred list. Tho most successful men arc the &aen who have accomplished most, considering the advantages with which they started. Thus,iwhile many men will be named in the list of the successful one hundred, there will be hardly ono rich man's son among them. Cornelius Vanderbilt is one of the richest men in the world, but he is not one of the moat successful, liis name surely can not be placed in tho one hundred list, while that of his attorney and associate, Chauncey M. Depew, must surely be put there. that many fail only makes the Intern! in thoee who do not fall the greater. In preparing such an estimate latitude must be allowed for the different idee* of people in regard to what constitutes success. The mere accumulation at money, of course, is not the determining factor. The one hundred richest mea in the United States are by no meant, the one hundred most successful men in the United States. On the other hand, there is hardly any kind of suo cess that does not mean the acquisition of a considerable sum of money. Thus, if we inquire who is the most succesaful of the religious leaders of the country I fancy that more votes would be given to Rev. Dr. Talinage, of Brooklyn, than to Bishop Phillips Iirooka, of Boston, who is by far tho greatest pulpit orator in the country. Tnlmage ia not only a distinguished praacher, but he has, as preacher and lecturer, accumulated a substantial fortune, believed to be not less than a quarter of a million of dollars. the United Statee. In thia < ry everybody is Interested in men who have auoceeded. The moat aneeeeafnl a Llat mi One IMm* It ha* been lufgeeted to off* for the beat liat of the < Sosm af the HEREDITARY CLERGYMEN "Ho exasperated me by going around with a happy expression on his face, while I have to scratch gravel to get money enough to pay my house rent." —Texas Sittings. Prisoner—I had plenty of provocation, may it please your honor. "What was it?" More T)i:tn He Could Htaiul. Justice—Why did you assault this man, who did not give you the slightest provocation? Winks—Humph! Guess you got the wrong boat.—N. Y. Weekly. Minks—A boat was ready when the train came in, we started right off without delay, and we arrived on this occasion on time. Winks—Eh? What? Tho Cause of It. Minks — A queer thing happened at the ferry to-day. 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. NECK WEAR. Boots, Boots! LEATHER! In shoes for men and boys we positively have no I -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. I - Men's and Boys' Fants Joes, Shoos! RUBBER AND 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 balbri•gan 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 •seesthem. "One of the bloodiest duels ever fought on American soil occurred near the western boundary of Kansas," said Capt. Joseph Hennessey at tho LindoLL "It was in the spring of 1851. A wagon train had started from St. Joo for tha California gold fields. In the train waa a wild, lawless fellow named Dunkirk and a man named Senteney and hia eighteen-year-old son. An altercation occurred between Sentoney and Dunkirk, and the two agreed to drop behind the train and settle it at thirty paces. Tho former was accompanied by his son and tho latter by a friend. At the first Are Senteney fell dead. The son immediately challenged tha slayer. Dunkirk suggested that thirty paces was too far and young Senteney asked him how fivo would do. Dunkirk accepted and they were both killed Instantly. Tho quarrel which led to this sanguinary meeting aroso over* plug of tobacco, which Sentenoy ao» Bused Dunkirk of stealing. Tho thre* duelists were from southern Illinois."— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Double 'Duel. A recent visitor to London says that in that city long tandem tricycles capable of seating eight or more passengers have been introduced, and one is now being used as a rival to the tram or street cars. The owner of the vehicle occupies tho front seat, collects the fares, anil steers, but the passengers have to provide the motive power, and if they don't move tlieir feet freely very poor time is made on tho journey. Such a means of locomotion would not prove a success here, but it is said that In London the seats are booked and paid for a week In advance. Working Tlieir Faasace. 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. THE ORIGINAL AND POPULAR CLAYTON Corner Koom Hotel Pan toll Building, NORTH, ONE PRICE CLOTHIER, The church of England has had many examples of clerical families. In some cases these families, having inherited the presentation of a living, have very naturally brought up one of their members in holy orders to keep the benefice In the family. In others, doubtless, a strong theological bias has almost forced its members to enter the church; and it has even been suggested, says Chambers' Journal, that these clerical families have inherited from their ancestors sermons, and thus having a good stock of these essentials have chosen the preaching career merely to utilize their heirlooms. Succession the Sacred Office. Families That Have lfeic! in Unbroken One of tho oldest of the clerical families Is the Collins family, of Cornwall. This was founded tho reformation by one of the earliest of the married priests, a certain Edward Collins, who was instituted rector of Illogan in 1533. He and his descendants were rectors of the same place for tho next one hundred and fifty-one years, a break of tv/elvo years excepted. Eor five generations the clerical descent of this family runs from father to son; then for two generations from uncle to a nephew; then a father and son; diverging from tho main line it goes for two generations from uncle to a nephew who is now living making a total of eleven generations, cach represented by one or more clergymen. For a period of over three hundred and fifty years some member of the Collins family has been in holy orders. The Collins family has been connected with tho church for half a century longer than tho Newcome family, to which, however, it must yield the palm as regards the distinction attained by its members. This time both the white men and the Indian wcro promptly on hand; but when the former offered old Matthias the price agreed upon for the land, he told them that whilo (140,000 was yesterday's price, to-day's price was $100,000; and to these terms they finally were compelled to accede. wealthiest Indian in America. Al- | Ills Expensive Lesson to Some Tardy , Palefaces. Matthias Splitlog, chief of the Wyandottcs, lives in Kansas, and being known to possess about a million dollars' worth of property is called the though over seventy years of age, and , unable to read or write, says Ilarper's I Young People, he is a keen business i man. By his shrewdness and ability ho has acquired large tracts of land in Kansas and Missouri, houses and lots In Kansas City, and has money invested in a number of paying enterprises. The white men to whom ho gave a $20,000 lesson in punctuality had persuaded him to 6ell them a certain tract of land for 9140,000, and wcro to pay him the money at ten o'clock at p banlc in Kansas City. On the appointed morning, a few minutes before tho hour named, tho old Indian entered tho banlr and took a scat, with his eyo fixed upon a clock. Tho capitalists had not appeared when the hands of the clock reached the hour. As it began to strilco the old Indian roso to his feet, and at. tho last stroke of the clock ho promptly walked out of the building. On tho street, less than a block away, lie met the men who were to buy his land hurrying toward the bank. They begged him to return with them, but he refused, saying that if they still wished to deal with him he would meet them at ten o'clock on tho following day at the same place. At Oreenwich Is also located the hospital for aged and disabled sailors, and occupies the site of an ancient royal castle or palace, In which Henry VIII and his two daughters Mary and Elisabeth were born, and where Edward VI died. A part of the hospital is now used as a Royal Naval College. The hospital had until 1805 from 1500 to 3000 broken down seamen within its walls, but in this year a bill was passed giving seamen the option of living in the hospital or receiving an outdoor pension, so that at present there are rarely more than several hundred, General Wolf, who was killed at Quebec in 1751), is buried in the Parish church of St. Alphays. Another point of interest, which is known wherever English history is known, is London bridge, which until a century ago was the only bridge on the Thames in Lonon, and is still the most important. 'Tig said that the Saxons and also the Romans erected variou. wooden bridges over the Thames at the site of the present bridge, but they were either destroyed by lire or carried away by the Hoods. The old London bridge was ordered to be built by Henry II of stone, and being wide a row of houses sprang up on each side and the bridge resembled a street. It was terminated on both banks by strongly fortified gates on the tops of which the heads of traitors were exposed. The present bridge is 88 feet higher up the river than the old one, and is also entirely built of stone, and cost 110,000,000, It is 928 feet long nnd 54 feet broad. It is eg timated that 15000 vehicles and 1000,000 pedestrians cross the bridge daily, giving a per son an idea of the great amount of traffic carried on in this city. Near it is Billings gate, the chief flsh market of London, one the bad languages used here has become proverbial. Adjacent to this is the custon house. The custom duties levied hen amounting to ?50.000,000/yearly or tnor< than of all the British seaports pat togeth or. Confiscated articles are sold quarterly and attached to the custom boose is a mu seum containing many curious contrivance: for smuggling. Cius O. Ernst. We bIbo 8eo the black time ball which (alls exactly at lp.in., through the agency of a galvauic current. Near it i« a weather ▼ain, both of which can be seen from the outside, which by moans of a pencil in the buildings traces the direction of the wind, while another register records the force of the wind. In a building devoted solely to the automatic register of the velocity of the wind, the instrument is so sensitive that it records the pressure exorted on the building by any one entering the room. This is but a brief outline of what is to be seen, and there are many appliances the use of which I know not, nor would any amount of explanation make me understand them. By a system of microscopic micrometer*: readings of 1-6000 of a minute are obtained. The magnetic and meteorology observatory is entirely of wood, united by bamboo pegs or nails. Iron having been carefully avoided in its construction. Here are made the automatic records of the magnetic force. The earth currents are recorded by lines, which become thick and blurred with passage of trains on the electric railway in Soutli London, several miles distant. Here is also an electrometer, which collects the electricity from the air recording it in many times, when calm and in violent zigzags during a thunder storm or electrical disturbances. Here is also a solid sphere of prystal through which tli? sua burns its rec-i ord «ji a strip of paper, which Is graduated to mark the number of hourt or minutes! the sun shines, thus compelling the BUtt to keep a record itself, when it is possiblo tut: it to shine through the thick fogs and smoke. ' -WrhHi t ■■!>»■* i 11 Loxdox, Out. 13, MM. Oreeawk*, where the Royal Observed** is located, to one of the principal attractions of the city. Not oa account of any grand•or or beautiful buildings, but mora as being the place where all the observations are made in the interest of navigation, and from which point longitude is reckoued. It is six miles down the Thames from London bridge, and taking a boat here we pan through the busiest >cene in the world, hundreds of ihipe from all part* of the world lie along the banks, and the masts of the ships, as we look through the fog and smoke, appear like a forest of dead trees. Along the banks are large warehouses and back < f them may be seen towering, high above them the masts of vessels lying in the docks. The river is navigable for the largest vessels up to London bridge. After an houi'd ride Greenwich is reached. The Observatory is built on a bluff or hill ISO feet high, in the centre of Greenwich Park. The buildii'g? are small and low mid nut what one "would expect to see. They are enthely surrounded by a high wall, and the prlvilego of visiting the building is very difficult to obtain. It is said that the Observatory was built on gunpowder. The first cost of the building 43000 was obtained from the salo of spoilt gunpowder. Charles II exclaimed on- day that be must have the fixed stars observed nnd corrected for the beuelU of hts ecattK>n. So on the 4th of March, 1B7S, Flamstead was appointed Royal Astronomical Observer. Every night that the weather will permit, at least ten clock stars ore observed for the rate of the clock. Here is also kept the mean solar time with the rating and testing of marine chronometers. The - Royal Astronomer hns thirty assistants each having his work to do, and as they bend over their desks they have more the appesrauco of a number of clocks in a counting house or bank, than persons who are busy coroput* ing the daily progress of the infinite. The Transit Circle is the mostjimportont instrument in the Observatory. It is something like a telescope on a hinge, swinging due north and south. The axis consists of a hollow cube attached on either side to solid pins is u trench, in which at both ends iu a trough of Mercury. The instrument is bung between two telescopes called collimators, for testing the optical axis. It is hnng so truly that if a grain of dust should lodge under the pivot, it is effected. THE OAD IN ADINItMMtOOM. As English Witter tqt Bis M»liti tm What litmus paper la to chemicals and adds, so Is the dining-room of a hotel to character and breeding. Hera It is, according to the London Queen, that the cad is both rampant and self-convicted. When of one kind, he comes lounging in, in knickerbockers and a shooting Jacket, his hands in his pockets, his hair unbrashed, his face unwashed, travel-stained and unkempt all through. His female companion wears a sailor's hat, a loose Jacket, short skirts and balmoral boots, and is as innocent as himself of that "wash and brush up," which oven the upper servants of a good house demand from one another, and which modern nicety of manner has rendered imperative from all. But this kind of cad is nothing if not disdainful of modern nicety; and to "make tho toffs sit up," is the highest point of his ignoble ambition. When at the other end of tho caddish scalo ho and "his lady" come to tho table d'hotel of a primitive country place dressed in the extreme of the current fashion. His evening tenue is irreproachable. White tie, swallow-tail coat, diamond stud, waxed mustache, white rose scent and a buttonhole bouquet—he is a picture out of a fashion-plate, and makes tho humbler provincials stare, and some among them envy. His "lady" has no sleeves and a low-cut bodice which would bo no bodicc at all if an inch more was out off, frizzed hair, a profusion of jewelry and the smartest little shoes to bo had out of Burlington arcade. The two are as ludicrously out of place and over-dressed as the others are under-dressed—as offensively over"groomed" as the others are offensively negligent of the currycomb and the rubber. Both and all are cads, but the difference between them lies in pitch; the one is the high C and the other the low, and tho intervening notes have their own expression according to value Tho Falkland islands produce no trees, but they do produce wood in a very remarkable shape. You will sco, scattered hero and tlicro, singular blocks of what looks like weather beaten, mossy gray stones of various size, lint if you attempt to roll over one of these rounded bowlders you will find yourself unable to accomplish it. In fact tho stone is tied down to the ground—tied <k>wn by the roots, or, in other words, it is not a stone, but a block of living wood. rioot-Bound Stones. "What, was it. Johnny?" "A bloody human foot." "Mercy on us! Horriblo! horriblet Dc the police know about it?" "Why, no, grandma, it was only my own foot. A crab bit me on my little toe."—Texas Sittings. "Yesterday I went out to catch crab* T saw a hole in the sand that lookod as if there might bo crabs in it. X around in the water carefully, when all at once I was almost scared to death. What do yon think, grand ma, I pulled out of the water?" said Johnny to his grandmother, who is very nervous. Overheard at Coney Inland. i 7-'1 ,^'A ifeff, i r: id 26,1892. .