Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1894 — Page 5

fche gcmorvnt B| DECATUR, IND. [■ w - B1 AOKHUBN, . - ■ PCTMran. B| An Impulse that we yearn to follow we declare irresistible. |H It is true that doctors disagree, N but then they don’t disagree half as |H much as their medicines, says Life. Don’t imagine you can cheat a M neighbor in a horse-trade, without giving a lesson to your boy that he will never forget H The difference between "meddling” and "investigation,” is that you algM ways investigate, while it is the other person who "meddles.” ■ Bays the N. O. Picayune: People HB who go to grand hotels have much to ■ put up with; and they who ride in ■M crowded street-cars have to stand a ■ great deal. M !■ |K We cannot all bo singers to cheer |H the world, but each one can do his best, and by constant striving finally ■9 accomplish the best, and that is perH faction. |9 The man who honors his labor, |9 dignities it, no matter how toilsome |9 it may be; the man who does not HI honor it, does not have labor to perform for a very long time. H| ‘*There hasn't been a man mobbed |9 in Texas for over eighteen months,” |9 declares Gov. Hogg. This sounds |9 Incredible, but the Governor speaks Hl positively. What has come over ■ Texas? |9 Dr. Dalf, a London journalist, ■■who has written book reviews for the [■greater part of a loug lifetime, says |» is his belief that by far thegreatnumber of books are written by |Mmen and women who are not "quite ■■right” in their minds. Many people ■■who have thought the same as Dr. ■■Dale have not had the termi ty to give HHpublic expression to their views. ■■ Trees are now to be felled by clecThe modus operand! is as A platinum wire, having B[been stretched out between two |9 poles, is heated till it becomes incandescent. It is then drawn tight |[ against the tree, through which it |[ Immediately proceeds to burn its ■ way. It is said that a tree can by ■ this process be felled in about one- ■ eighth of the time it would take to ■ saw it down. ■ An sentence was given ■ lately - by a magistrate in Missouri. ■ A'mantwho did not know howto 9 read or write, convicted of a slight 9 offense, was sentenced to imprison--9 ment until he bad learned to read; B another offender, who had a good ■ )ducation, was sentenced to keep ■ him company until he had taught B him to read. After three weeks B thev were discharged, as they had B fulfilled their task to the full satisB faction of the magistrate. B Chavasse, an eminent surgeon, B says: "Encourage your child to be H merry and to laugh aloud; a good B hearty laugh expands his chest, and I makes his blood bound merrily - along. ■ Commend me to a goed laugh, but to ■ one that will sound through the I house; it will not only do your child ■ good, but will be a benefit to all who ■ hear, and be an important means of ■ driving the blues away from a dwellK ing. Merriment is very catching, g and spreads in a remarkable manner, I few being able to resist the contagion. A hearty laugh is delightful harmony; indeed it is the best music.” The Baltimore Sun has again started agitation of the question of a Rational air, and insists that "The Star Spangled Banner” is the proper tune. That air has fteceived the sanction of the navy department, and our national bands play it as a salute I whenever the national ensign is raised or lowered. The Sun’s idea of designating some one tune is a good one. Whether "The Star Spangled Banner” is the best one is perhaps a question for musical experts, but Congress should settle the question and have it understood whether we are to take off our hats to "Yankee Doodle,” "Hall Columbia,” "America,” or any one of a dozen so-called national airs. A correspondent of a London newspaper calls attention to the recent death in England of the woman who sent Florence Nightingale to the Crimea. She was Lady Maria Forester, youngest daughter of the Earl of Roden, who found herself in 1852, the childless Widow of Major Charles Forester, of the Twelfth Lancers. In n the winter of 1854-5, while her brother was serving before Sebastopol, she got stirred up about the condition of the wounded, determined to have something done, and was directed to Miss Nightningale as the fittest person to do it. She went to see her. with the result that Miss

Nightingale went to the Crimea, and ’ the modern system of nursing began. The International Conference, in session at Ottawa, pleaded the same old apology of the poverty of Canaada’s trade. It is indeed idle for the advocates of Canadian supremacy to instance the remarkable growth of Australasia during a quarter dl a century of extraordinary progress as an indication of the possibilities of the Northern Dominion. Not until Canada becomes leavened jrlth the leaven of Yankee enterprise and broad-guaged commercial methods may ’she hope to rival tire business prowess of the Southern British Colonies The Canadians are just about English enough to adhere to tradition that bold them in bonds and militate against material progress. The Inter-Colonial Railway Commission has been busily at work and one of the members states that its report is published. It will be found to be more interesting than a novel because of the information of an unknown region that it will contain. "The proposed road,” he said, "will open up the territory of fifteen Republics south of Mexico to the trade and emigration of the United States, and the disposition of the people of that region has shown towards our engineers an indication of the favor with which the enterprise will be received. vVe have received assurance that every country through which the line has been surveyed will make land grants and other concessions to insure the building of the road. The United States will not find it necessary to grant any further aid than that necessary to make the facts known, as will be done in this case. The building of the road will follow as surely as It followed the publication of the reports of thq*» Pacific Ballroads. ” Oddly enough, the speech will probably attract wider attention than any other recent utterance in the House of Commons serves no better purpose than to inform the world of Mr. James Keir Hardie’s opinion respecting royal babies. The motion being that the House congratulate the Queen on the recent birth of an heir to the Duke of York, Mr. Hardie objected. The event,said Mr. Hardie, was not of sufficient importance to warrant the attention of the House of Commons. He should be glad to extend bis congratulations to the parents in the ordinary way if occasion offered; but he objected to congratulations from the House of Commons and he objected to the undignified proceeding of having a Cabinet Minister present at the birth; In fine, Mr. Hardie’s position is this: Let 11. R. 11. the Duke and H. R. JA the Duchess go born their childnyl as other people do and not bo<l9| the House of Commons about it, fo>' it’s none of the House's affairs. So far as the Commons of England are concerned, it makes not the slightest difference whether the person who theoretically wears the crown and practically does nothing but eat taxes be the offspring of H. R H.’s or the offspring of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Dobson. Mr. Hardie delivered himself of these views with much vigor and amid loud cries of "Order!” "Rot!” and Incidentally paid his dubious respects to the Queen and the Prince of Wales. Then the motion for congratulations on account of his royal pinkness was passed with great enthusiasm. Berwick Sponge Cake. Here is the story of the origin of the famous Berwick sponge cake, the ■eating of which at the restaurant at that place used to be one of the events of travel over the Eastern Railroad, says the Portland (Me.) Transcript. Along in the '6o’s the dining-room at Berwick was kept by a Mrs. Berwick. One uay she was mixing some dough for a cake, when she was called away to another room. She left the dish of dough on the table and her little daughter, a child of five of six years, in the room. When she returned she found the child had emptied into the dish an article (the name of which I am not at liberty to mention ) Knowing that it was not injurious Mrs. B. decided to put the cake into the oven and bake it as it was. The result was the Berwick sponge cake in all its glory, fit was praised by all who ate it, and when the next batch was made the same ingredients were used. The cake became famous, especially with travelers. They would buy whole loaves and carry them on their journey or take them home. Mrs. B. retired from the railway dining-room business fifteen years ago, having made a comfortable little sum of money, largely from the sales of the cake. For many years she kept the secret. Finally she was taken very sick and sent for her son-in-low (the husband of the girl who discovered the cake), and told it to him. Subsequently it was sold to a baker. The girl who discovered the cake is now the wife of a well-known Boston man. When a man begins to tell a woman all his troubles and grievances, that is his way of showing that he cares for her.

OLD PETS MADE OVER. AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY THEY APPEAR AS IF ALIVE. The Vloloua Old Elephant Will Be Stuffed Like Other Park Animate Which Died Before Him. Few Now Yorkers appreciate the mine of information and entertainment that they have at their command in the American Museum of Natural History. The immense museum building in Its park between 77th and 81st streets, and Columbus and Eighth avenues, is a familiar sight to all, but of the interior and its contents it is surprising what a large proportion of old New Yorkers are blissfully ignorant. How many people are there who know what becomes of their old pets at the Central Park "Zoo” after they are missed from their cages and reported as among the long list of the dead?

BUFFALO COW AND CALF. Would it not surprise a great many of those who were on terms of familiarity with Crowley, the almost human chimpanzee, which attracted so much attention for several years at the Park menagerie; with Kitty, his mute, whose antics when she was first introduced to her future lord and master, were all told in the newspapers ; with Bombe, the great unwieldly rhinoceros which was fed every day by an admiring fringe of awed visitors who surrounded his huge swimming tank; with dear old Jumbo, upon whose broad back half the children of New York were carried around Madison Square Garden ; or with Tip, the vicious old elephant, which had such a long record of crimes committed, "with malice and intent aforethought”—would it not)

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surprise the old friends of these former pets to suddenly come upon them all now, years after they have passed away, standing in the museum, in their accustomed positions, just as they did in their days of former glory? It is intended by the trustees of the American Museum of Natural History to soma day extend the building until it almost entirely fills the park in which it now stands. Up to this year, however, there was found to be enough space for all the exhibits available within the limits of the single wing completed, that facing on 77th street. This year a second wing has been building, however, and when it is completed and opened to the public the facilities of the museum will be nearly doubled. There • re now in the possession of the in'tution enough exhibits to fill both jgs, and additions are constantly being received. This new wing is being built on the southeast corner of the plot of ground and connecting with the old building. It will be a five-story structure fa,ced with rod granite, like the other wing. It will be 70 feet deep and have a frontage on 77th street of 175 feet. The work on this addition is progressing rapidly, and it was said at the museum last week that all but the interior work on it would be completed by the first of next November. The woodwork, plastering, show-cases and installation of specimens will take several mqnths more, so that it ip hardly expected that the public will be admitted before the early part of next summer. When it is allowed this privilege the change that will have occurred in ihe museum will astonish even the oldest frequenters of the place. The classification, as at present arranged, by floors will be retained, and the Collections extended out through the new building as well as the old. There are already a number of exhibits at the museum which cannot be shown for lack of accommodation, and these, with many others, which are expected before the new building is completed, will be found within the walls of the new wing when it is opened. The Museum has many other ‘ ‘irons in the fire.” It has collectors in its employ in both Mexico and Peru. The explorer down in Mexico made his first trip some time ago, and sent up the results of his work this winter from Arizona. He went then from the northern part of Mexico to the central part of the country. His ' 7" . ■ '

Dresent tirip Is from the central part of the western const down to the southern. In this expedition he will take Ln many cities of the ancient cliff-dwellers, as w>oll as those of the Aztace, and his collection is expected to be n very fine one. The specimens from his first trip nave arrived ab the Museum, but they have not been unpacked as yet, for there is no room to exhibit them. They will bo shown when the new building is opened. But the most interesting part of the work at the Museum —at least, the most Interesting to the general public—is that which is carried on down on the ground floor in the taxidermists’ department, and in tlie room of the osteologists — that is where the skeleton nnd bones are mounted. There the work of preparing for exhibition, the animals which die rtt the Park Zoo, and those which are presented to the Museum, is carried bn. A force of mon is kept constantly at work under Taxidermist John Rowley, cleaning, preparing and mounting the skins of specimens for exhibition. It was to this department of the Museum that the carcass of the murdered Tip was given after the vicious old brute had received his quietus. The work of preparing the hide and bones of tho former pet of the Central Park Zoo and tlje terror of his keepers, was a difficult one and will take many months. Tip was skinned at once in the cage where he was killed, and. the flesh carried off and dumped into the Tiver. The skin was taken to the museum to be prepared for mounting, while the bones were sent into the country to bo macerated. They now tie in tanks of water up in this State near Scoharie, slowly rotting off the flesh, to prepare them for being mounted. The liide was at once taken to the basement of the museum and a force of men set at work paring- it down for mounting. An important group, of moose was in preparation when the skin of old Tip arrived, so bis mounting had to be delayed. The skin,when cleaned and thinned down .somewhat with drawer-knives, was put away in the cellar to soak in an antiseptic solution. The moose group wil I occupy the attention of the taxidern lists for some months to come, so it is .not expected that the work of mounting Tip’s hide will begin until the first of

| next year. Then ib will be put through lat once, and will be on exhibition early next, Spring. Tn* 1 skeleton of Jumbo, Barnum’s gijtnt elephant, has been loaned to the Museum by James A. Bailey, Mr. Barnum’s successor, and his mounted hide will soon be in the Museum as well. It is thought to be very doubtful if either will be tahen away again. When, the new wing is opened next year the present position of the buffalo group in "Mammal Hall” will be given over to the exhibition of these two elephants. Jumbo was an African elephant, while Tip was a specimen of the Indian variety, and both are very fine examples of their different breeds. One of the finest and most recent additions to “Mammal Hall” is the group of buffaloes. This is composed of seven specimens,'including different ages and sexes of (the American bison, all mounted in a life-like manner, with accessories and surroundings made from studies made on the plains, and all inclosed in a huge glass case. The big cow with the little calf by her side was presented to the museum by Buffalo Bill. These two specimens died at his AV ild West 0 camp at Erastina, S. 1., two or three summers ago. As a companion piece to the buffalo group, the taxidermists are now at work on a group of moose. This will be the masterpiece of the collection, and Mr. Rowley is taking wonderful pains to have it correct in every particular. There will be seven specimens in this group also, and all but two were secured by museum expeditions. One big cow was presented to the museum by Dr. Edgar A. Mearus, a surgeon in the United States Army, stationed at Fort Snelling, in Minnesota. Mr. John L. Cox, of Philadelphia, presented a second cow to the collection. The largest specimen of all, an enormous bull with antlers spreading five feet from tip to tip, was shot by Taxidermist Rowley himself, up in the wildd of the Province of New Brunswick, last October. The last piece of work dope by the osteologists under William Richardson, who is head of that department, was the mounting of the skeleton of Bombe, the great wrinkled rhinoceros, which died at Central Park “Zoo” in 1886. The hide had been stuffed,and mounted two years or so ago, but the bones were set up only last Saturday in "Mammal Hall.” Bombe was an Indian one-horned rhinoceros, and originally possessed a long horn that

he was doubtleMS very proud of, but his keepers in captivity decided that his hugh tusk was dangerdhs his visitors and themselves, as well as to his cage, and it was gradually sawed off closer and closer, until at his death Bombe had only a short knob left. This omission has been supplied, wlt.li an imported horn, taken from some more fortunate rhinoceros out in India and shipped to New York for Bombe’s special benefit. r v THE RHINOCEROS "BOMBE.” One spiecial feature of this specimen which Taxidermist Rowley called attention to was tho beautiful wrinkles in the skin. These might not ordinarily be looked upon as great attractions, but Mr. Rowley says that Bombe is lhe first rhinocerous in this country to enjoy the distinction of having wrinkles in his hide after death, amd that they were put in there only after the greatest trouble. Long iron rods had to be placed under tho skin in the places where the ridges were in life, in order to keep the wrinkles from being smoothed out. One of the most attractive cases to the many children who visit the museum is that which contains the strtffed bodies of their two former pets at the old Zoo—Crowley and his fiancee, Kitty, the two chimpanzees which died in captivity at the Park. Crowley lias been mounted and on exhibition for some time, though Kitty is a comparatively recent addition to the museum. She died, it will be remembered, of a broken heart, and, incidentally, a complication of other and more serious bodily ills, in 1880. New features are constantly being added to the museum’s stock, and when the new wing is opened next year, and the capacity of the building is increased, as it will be, there will be many new collections to be seen there. At any rate, it will even now well repay any one to make a visit to New York’s great Museum of Natural History.

At the Top of Pike's Peak. The view from the peak once beheld, can never be forgotten. The first sensation is that of complete isolation. The silence is profound. The clouds are below us, and noiselessly break in foaming billows against the faces of the beetling cliffs. Occasionally the silence is broken by the deep roll of thunder from the depths beneath, as though the voice of the Creator were uttering a stern edict of destruction. The storm rises, the mists envelop us, there is a rush of wind, a rattle of hail, and we seek refuge in the hotel. Pause a moment before entering and hold up your hands. You can feel the sharp tingle of the electric current as it? escapes from your fingertips. The storm is soon over, and i you can see the sunbeams gilding I the upper surfaces of the white j clouds that sway and swing below I you, half way dawn tho mountain sides, and completely hide from view the world beneath. The scenery shifts; like a drawn curtain the clouds part, and, as from heights of another sphere, we look forth upon the majesty of tjte mountains and I the plains. An ocean of inextricably ( entangled peaks sweeps into view. : Forests dark and vast seem like vague shadows on distant mountain sides. A city is dwarfed into the ( compass of a single block; water- j courses are mere threads of silver ( laid in graceful curves upon the green ( velvet mantle, of the endless plains. ( The red granite rocks beneath our feet are starred with tiny flowers, so ( minute that they ate almost micro- | scopic, yet tinted with the most , delicate and tender colors. The , majesty of greatness and tho nrystery of minuteness are h«tre brought face to face. It is in vain that one strives , to describe the scene. Only those | who have beheld it can realize its grandeur and magnificence.— [Cassler’s Magazine.

Sparrows Kill Locusts. The English sparrow, which has been voi'd an unmitigated nuisance in tins country, seems to have at least one redeeming trait. Ho loves to kill tin -seventcen-year locust. It is reported from Woodbridge, N. J., where tlie locusts are superabundant, that the sparrow lies evidently declared war on them, and has killed large numbers of them. Tho sparrows do not seem to care to eat the locusts, but appear to enjoy killing them, which they do by picking out their eyes. When these are gone, the locusts speedily drop to the ground and die.—[New Orleans Picayune. Antidote for Cyanide of Potash. One of the deadliest and most subtle poisons known to the pharmacopaeia is cyanide of potash. It is now reported that a Hungarian chemist, Dr. Johann Antal, has discovered a sure antidote for it, the efficacy of which he has proved in numerous cases, first on animals and afterwards on more than forty living persons, who had been accidentally poisoned with prussic acid. The antidote did not fail in a single instance. The antidote is a newly-discovered chemical compound? nitrate of cobalt.— [New Orleans Picayune.

DISPERSED BY SAUERKRAUT. —r—;--Peculiar Cause of tho Children Quitting the Old Home. They were talking about tho desertion of farms by tho younger generations for the alluring charms of the cities; how young men and women left the home nest in the country as soon as they felt any confidence in themselves and flocked to the paved streets and brick walls of urban life in the hope that work would not be so hard and money would come easier. "Our family furnishes a case in point,” said a young German, who has latterly appeared in minor roles in twenty-fourth ward democratic politics. "We’re all in the city now except the old folks, who st ick to the farm, and are doing pretty well. Our reasons for abandoning the farm, however, were not those*' usually given, and I doubt if a parallel case can be found.” Then he told his story: With two brothers and three sisters he lived on a farm 100 miles from Chicago, and they all aided a phlegmatic old father irf operating the place. It was a fine piece of land, and the family was happy and preytperous. But dark disaster came in the shape of a cabbage crop. The Chicago market showed a strong demand for sauerkraut, and the farmer decided to go in for it profitable crop. With the three boys he planted several acres in cabbage, with excellent results. The crop was up and packed and there were 850 barrels of the finest sauerkraut made. CommunicasWg with a friend in the grocery bwnness on the North Side, the farmer received an order for ten barrels. A few days later the grocer announced that the best he could offer was 85 cents a barrel, the top market price. The old man couldn’t stand such a drop as that, so he had the shipment returned, paying the freight charges both ways. Purchasing forty fine young pigs, he began fattening them on his highgrade sauerkraut. All went well for a few days, but the porkers soon tired of the diet and began to run from it. The pile grew high, and a few of the stronger pigs jumped the fence and ran away, while others sickened and grew weak from starvation. It was a puzzler for the old man, jut he was determined to derive some benefit, .and the boys lugged the stuff up to the orchard near the house, where it was spread about as a fertilizer. By this time the entire family grew turbulent at the mere mention of sauerkraut, and when the sun poured its hot rays on the pickled cabbage the girls rebelled. The farmer was odurate. and the three girls packed their effects and came to the city. The kraut became so powerful that even the old man could not stand it, and the boys were instructed to cart it down to a distant field and spread it. The boys had been on the verge of mutiny several times, and this settled it. They all “ lit out ” for Chicago, and have been here ever since. The girls are in service, and once in a great while they all meet with the lonely and disappointed old Teuton on the farm. When it was all over the Chicago sauerkraut market went booming again.

A Young Eagle. L ’ The eagle, as many of you know, is the king among birds, just as the lion is the king among mammals. It is strange that these birds which display the greatest strength when full grown give no sign of these qualities in their youth. The royal eligle, just emerged from the egg, is the most helpless creature under the sun. Wrapped in a thick white cdat_of down, he slips out of the shelly amT for many days afterward the young oird lies huddled against the broast of the mother-bird, for it cannot even sit up straight. Weeks p. s by before it can trot about the nest. The first sign of the flapping of the wings does not occur until the bird is ready to leave the nest. The young birds are amply fed by their parents with meat, which the latter digest in their craws before feeding it to the little ones. When they are about halt grown the eagle nest looks like a slaughter house well stocked with provisions. The parent birds scour the neighborhood for miles, gathering all the prey they can. When the birds are full grown they are permitted to leave the nest. The parents go with them, teaching them first how to fly and then how to assail and steal their prey. By that time autumn has come, and now the family separates. The youngsters leave the parental nest, and sometimes roam about for eight or ten years before they set up an establishment of their own and in their turn raise young birds. In 1719 an eagle died in Vienna, Austria, who had lived in captivity for over 104 years.—[St. Louis Star-Sayings. She Swims in Her Sleep. A young woman of Crab Creek, Adams County, indulges in frequent freaks of somnambulism. One of her recent exploits was as follows: She arose from her bed about three o’clock in tlie morning and was seen to approach Crab Creek in her night robe. Upon reaching the stream the young woman waded in for a short distance, as if feeling her way, and swam safely across. Upon reaching the opposite bank she awoke, half frightened to death, dripping wet, shivering from the cold, and made her way to the house of a neighbor, where she was cared for and taken to her home. —[Morning Oregonian. Insanity is common in the royal famllies of Europe.