Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1898 — Page 7

J v Erie Lines % 189 - / Trains leave Decatur as £ I Wf follows: I WEST. regt!b nl« limited, dally for | express, dally for m daily except Sun- I w'plN Fargo Limited" Ex- i S dallv except Monday V 6:15 p. tn. Kay after legal Holiday i EAST limited daily for I _ York and 805t0n..... •• f •■5" . ’-ss, daily except Sun-I New York .... 1:58 p. m dally for New;. daily Su °-r W:loa . m Munches and sleeping cars to New s's'l''P all stations on the C X carries through sleeping cars ' U' levilie. Chillicothe. WaverHo'' hin - Valley * Toledo, and H t Western lines not carry any baagage. B’ I W. DbLono. Agent

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|»7- and Day Service between ■oLEDO.OhiO, Ba __ AN D I'. Louis, Mo. ■ r£ CHAIR CARS ■ RAINS-MODERN equipment throughout. ■ iBULED SLEEPING CARS Ml ON NIGHT TRAINS. K] ILS SEBVKD EX BOLTE, any hoar DAY st moderate coat. til Toiedo. St. Lbuis I fam City H. R. Hover Leaf Route. particular*, call on nearest the Company, or address ■ C. C. JENKINS, H (ieaeral P»s»»«<«r H TOLEDO. OHIO. ■B The Clover beat. tKC.R. R. -In effect Jan 3, 189 B EAST. ' 5:40 a. m K WEST. H" E A. Whiskey. Aeent. The G. R. & I. (Effect July 3, 1898.) £ TRAINS NORTH. HftTL 9:05 ptn : 1:06 p m 5:40 a m 6:20 a in .... 9:43 pm il;63pm 6:3lam 9:57 pm 2:l2pm 6:48 ain M|. 7:l9am I 3:03 p m 7:40 ain Mp 8 -16 a m >■.... 11:36 pm * 4:15 n m B:4sam Sunday. tDally. B I TRAINS SOUTH N <>, 2. ♦No. 4 JNo. H.’ 1:00 pm 8:01pm * 1:19 pm 3:20 ain B:l9pm * Bl 1:32 pm 8.31 pm 1:44 pm B:4lpm o 8:48 p m I' 1:53 pm 8:50 pm . "' ~ :00 pm 8:58 pm I) 2:14 pm 4:07 am 9:l3pm ■ 2:23 pm 9:23 pm BF' 2:50 p m 4:44 am 9:59 pin .. 10:09 pm ’ lo:llpm , Bl" 3:06 pm s:olam 10:16 pm - 3:llpm 10:20 pm - 3:20 pm 5:15 am 10:28 pm 7 • 3:40 p m 5:35 a m 10:45 p m « c* ) ailv ex. Sunday. ‘Daily except’ .Mackinac City. _ Jeff Bryson, Agent, " Gen. Pas Agent. U Bf Lp WANTED-YIALK. i> e t fifty cents on each dollar: no necesKiirx-. Write lor agent’s outJ Catholic News, 5 Barclay J. F. MANN ■S M *NN & BEATTY, l ® orneys at law Public Pension claims prose- || Allows building. I | N^B He NI<Y b. heller, wTorney AT LAW, 1 *nd 2. Stone Block, opposite court house. Notary Public. R- S. PETERSON. Horney at law, v KB Eca -TUU. INDIANA. lrl t| ie Anthony Hoithouse K> H.J Bl B **** Wool. Salt. Oil H K Lime, Fertilizers. I?riP :u " 1 ' ' " v, ‘ and ret .a 'Vi ’ r:Jel'■ •

FACTS IN A FEW LINES. Honduras has about 400,000 inhabitants. Stoani wiiistles havn been silenced in Detroit. It 54 cases out of 100 the left leg is ' stronger than the right. Cashmere shawls take upward of eight mouths to manufacture. The pneumatic tube was originally introduced in Loudon in 1858. A whole town of 500 inhabitants near Fuchau has adopted Christianity. The recent census showed 62,000 Protestants among the 31,000,000 of Italy. A nutmeg tree of the largest size will produce no more than five pounds of nutmegs. It is computed that a hundredweight of lead is tired for every man killed in battle. A healthy baby trebles its own weight at birth in the course of the first three months. About 4,000,000 copies of the Bible are sold every year. Fifty years ago the sale was 600,000. Coal is dearer in South Africa than in any other part of the world. It is cheapest in China. The thickness of the hair varies from the two hundred and fiftieth to the six hundredth part of an inch. Policemen in Boston have been instructed to salute the flag whenever iti is carried past them in a parade. It is estimated that since the beginning of the historical era 13,000,000 persons have perished in earthquakes. The fastest of the British torpedo boat destroyers is the Express, which recently attained a speed of 37 knots an hour. The making of lucifer matches is a state monopoly in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Roumania and Servia. More eggs are produced in France than in any country in the world, the number being about 42,000,000 annually. In the early days the Atlantic cable tariff was SIOO for 20 words and $5 for each additional word. Now it is 25 cents a word. There is a remarkable society in Leghorn, comprising no fewer than 9,000 members, which succors the sick and buries the dead gratuitously. It is said that British farmers and dairymen are today milking over 4,000,000 cows and producing in their dairies £32,000,000 worth of milk and butter and cheese. At Munich there is a hospital which is entirely supported by the sale of old steel pen nibs, collected from all parts of Germany. They are made into watch springs, knives and razors. It is computed that the death rate of ’ the world is 67 and the birth rate 70 a minute, and this seemingly light percentage of gain is sufficient to give a net increase in population each year of almost 1,200,000 souls. An eminent Russian linguist, in a work recently published on the different languages spoken throughout the world, avers that in 200 years from now there will be only three living languages— Russian, English and Chinese. Brugsch Bey has discovered the earliest records of illustrated comic literature in a papyrus of the twenty-second dynasty recently found at Tonnah. The drawings are colored and represent animals performing curious antics. The favorite means of transportation in Havana is by one horse victorias, of which there are thousands. Two persons are enabled to go to any point within the city limits for a pe»eta, which is equal to about sevenpence in English currency. The rate at which British ships of war take in coal nowadays is simply marvelous. Recently ono of the first class battleships in the Mediterranean, the Magnificent, averaged over 160 tons an hour —that is, at the rate of nearly three tons a minute! One of the special trophies of the battle of Waterloo was carried off by the Scots grays, the regiment which at Dettingen, in 1743, captured the white standard of the celebrated household cavalry of France, the proudest trophy that warlike ambition might covet. Some one has undertaken to show how Ireland might be made to prosper. There are 2,000 parishes which ought to turn out 50 pigs weekly. This would give a desirable total of 5,200,000 annually, which, at a fair average price, would bring in an income of £14,300,000. In Chambers’ “Book of Days” the Rev. Rowland Hill is made to say, “Good Mr. Whitefield used to say, ‘Cleanliness is next to godliness. Some writers maintain that the idea is derived from an old Hebrew sentence, but the phrase is certainly not to be found in the Scriptures. Blantyre, British Central Africa, the headquarters of the Church of Scotland mission, is now in direct telegraphic communication with Cape Town. The approximate distance between the two points mentioned as covered by the telegraph lino is more than 2,000 miles. Mr W J. Spratley thinks “there can be no doubt that the Egyptian soldiers in aucient times went into battle to the inspiring cheer of the Hoo ra, hoo ra, hoo ra!’ ” and if the average questioning man asks why he replies with this: Because hoo ra, in t o tongue of the Thotmes and the Ramoses, means “the king, the king, the king! According to an old docket in the possession of a Maine justice of the peace, Admiral Dewey was once fined $25 for thrashing a drunken marine who had sought a quarrel withi him during a visit to tin. navy yard at 1 ort mouth. Dewey paid the s2a cheerfu ~ remarking that it was worth that much to have had the pleasure of such a disgrace to the Lnited States navy.

WOMAN AND FASHION. Stylish and Effective Afternoon Gown. Somethin? For Evening From Paris—Novelty In Belts. In the cut is shown a stylish and effective afternoon gown of very light brown cloth. The skirt is trimmed with two bands of embroidery. The embroidery work of the corsage is in the form //C’Ww nr A I" 7 // /3* aft // /iV Wr <7 / Wr M ' STYLISH AND EFFECTIVE. of a bias yoke. The hat is of deep rose straw, trimmed with a large knot of taffeta in the same shade, and several shades of roses with their foliage.—La Mode du Journal. An Evening Gown. A stylish evening gown for wear during the summer season as shown in the cut is worn in Paris. The skirt is of green silk and is close fitting over the hips. The corsage is of lighter green plaited taffeta, over which are long pointed bands of dark green silk in the ; j -.‘y. i ® s /V I I M FOR SUMMER EVENINGS. form of flower petals. These points are fastened to the corsage with jeweled buckles. The corsage is cut in a round decollete and is edged with a tiny niching of the material. A bit of black lace is worn at the shoulder, and the costume is without sleeves.—New York Telegram. A Novelty In Belts. A multiplicity of slides and ornaments and chains on belts having become too popular, a novelty is provided by jewelers who cater to exclusive tastes. This consists of a belt of soft silk about five inches wide, which is drawn into irregular folds by being passed through a buckle in front, and this buckle must be a chef d’oeuvre, including in itself alone the cost heretofore distributed among a number of ornaments. With roman striped silk in which pink or red predominates an India or shaded gold buckle harmonizes handsomely, while with the pretty blues now in vogue silver looks well. — Jewelers’ Circular. A Revival of the Plain Bodice. Without doubt we are started on the road to tight fitting bodices once more, and the autumn will see street gowns made in this style, which is necessarily the proper accompaniment for the sheathlike skirt that now has a hold on woman’s fancy. Os course they will be trimmed, but the trimmings will be flat and more severe than have been seen for some seasons past. Many of the new spring street costumes are now parading this style, which, after all, is more suitable for street and shopping wear. —Woman’s Home Companion. The Bane Acain. The curly bang, after a season or two of suppression, is beginning to fringe out rather luxuriantly again. It runs in a row of coquettish little curls from ear to ear over the forehead, while these women who suffer from too extensive spread of brow are adopting a very clever modification of the old style water wave. Instead of plastering wisps of soapy hair flat to the forehead a broad bandeau is drawn down within a half inch of the eyebrows and then deeply fluted by the irons.

HUMOR OF THE HOUR. The grimy captain of the mountain battery hurried forward to meet the infantry colonel. “Colonel,” he shouted with a hasty salute, “I want you to detail a man from your ranks to help us work the guns. That last charge thinned us out.” “Certainly, sir, ” cried the colonel, “what sort of a man do you want?’ “I want a man who is strong in the arms,” the captain replied, “one who is regularly accustomed to carrying heavy and awkward weights. I want him to handle the ammunition for gun No. 4. He must carry the shells and solid shot from the caisson to the gun.” The colonel turned to his command, and in a ringing voice stated the artilleryman’s desire. Then he called for a volunteer. Instantly a little man with a pale face and a somewhat bent back stepped briskly from the ranks and saluted. The colonel looked him over. ■■ “He wants a man who is strong in the arms, ” he repeated. “Yes, colonel,” said the little man. "But you—where did you acquire the necessary strength?” The little man smiled and again saluted. “Well, colonel,” he said with an air of conscious triumph, “I reckon I’m as fit as any man in the regiment. I moved my wife’s bouse plants more than 400 times during the spring months. ” “He’ll do,” roared the artilleryman, and the two hastily climbed the hill.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Relic Vender’s Case. “I’ve been a-sellin of war relics,” said the old inhabitant, “fer 20 year gone, but this here new war has knocked the old one clean out. I don’t have no civil war trade now. People don’t take no intrust in it. What they wants is new relics of the war what’s goin on at this speakin, an them’s what I can’t git till the war ends. I do hope the guver’ment will push matters an bring the war to a end. My business is suff’rin, I tell you. I chopped up three pine trees in splinters an sold a cord or two fer relics of the Maine, but even the Maine is a sorter back number now an sells slow. What I wants is SpanishAmerican brass buttons, old swords, bones an bullets, an I can’t git ’em till the war ends.”—Atlanta Constitution. A Reasonable Inference. "Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Torkins, “I thought you said you had read aloud all there was in the paper about the war. ” “I thought I had. ” “Well, here’s one about the Spanish fleet that you missed. ” “What does it say?” “I haven’t read it yet. But it’s headed ‘Mysterious Disappearance.’ ” — Washington Star. War Novelties. “We ought not to let it get out that there are over a thousand Philippine islands. ” “What harm will it do?” “The women will be trying to buy them in for progressive euchre prizes.” —Chicago Record. A Change. Billy—l understand you’ve bought a dog to keep burglars away. Freddy—Yes. Billy—You are not troubled any more at night, then, I suppose? Freddy—Only by the dog.—London Tit-Bits. They’d Strike a Frost. Bigge—What is this new scheme you say the Spaniards have for raising funds? Jigge—Weyler and the young king are coming here to go into vaudeville. —Town Topics. A Milder Penalty. Tom—l must admit that I have been quite attentive to both girls, but of course I can’t marry them both. Dick (cheerfully)—Of course not. There’s some consolation in that. —New York Truth. Strong Men. “Me sadder is der strongest man on der block; be broke an iron bar wid his two han’s getting out er jail last night.” “Go on! I heard me sadder say he’d broke four men wid one hand.” —New York World. A Time of Torment. A The Duck—l hate to see summer come! The Drake—You don’t mean it! The Duck—Yes, it’s the time when I’m chased the most.—New York Journal. One Descent to Be Deplored. “The Spanish dons are very proud of their descent, I suppose.” “ Well, yes, but they are not boasting of the descent of their bonds.”—Vim. Inconsistent. Ee said he couldn’t go to war. His poor nerves wouldn’t stand it, But every day he’s at the game, A yelling like a bandit. —Philadelphia North American-

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Smallest City In ths World. The smallest city in thexvorld is said to bo Fentoi, a beautiful little hamlet on the picturesque Meramec river, 15 miles to the south and west of St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Republic, there are less than 100 people in Fenton, yet it has been an incorporated city for more than 20 years, and during that time it has grown considerably. When it was first incorporated, there were less than 45 inhabitants in the place. It is the only city of its size in ' all probability in the world that is incorporated and has a mayor aud a full quota of city officials. None of the city officials of this unique little place are paid salaries. Instead they receive certain fees for the performance of their specific duties. An Industrious Robber. Two enemies hath the oyster—man, who is not ashamed to eat it by the dozen to the accompaniment of lemon and brown bread and butter, and a fellow shellfish. This chap is a dog whelk, which has a rough, rasping “tongue,” with which it bores holes as clean as any jeweler’s diamond into the thickest oyster. When the hole has been drilled through the shell, the whelk has a very good time, even although he has to do without the bread and butter and vinegar which man so much desires with the meal. The whelk is hated by the oyster farmer, because it robs him of thousands of dollars’ worth of oysters. Bicycle Autograph Cushion. The bicycle autograph cushion is new. It is cut round, and the material is of white sailcloth. On the top is an embroidered wheel, done in outline stitch. Scattered around the hub of this wheel are outlined card shapes, upon which is to be written the autograph or a proverb. The cards are outlined as appearing to lie on top of the spokes and little embroidered bowknots of bright silk appear to tie them to their places. This is a suggestion to those xvbo wish a souvenir of a pleasantouting with a friend It comes from the New York Tribune. Salt Codfish For Supper. The Boston Cooking School Magazine gives the folloxviug recipe: Select a white piece of boneless codfish and cover with cold water early in the morning. An hour before serving place over the fire where the water will heat slowly to the boiling point, but do not allow it to boil. Move to a cooler part of the range, where it will keep hot until time of serving. Remove the fish, and with a fork separate into flakes. Cream onethird of a cup of butter, add the yolk of an egg, and when well mixed add a i half cup of hot water. Stir and cook | over hot water until it thickens slightly, then pour over the flaked fish aud | serve at once with baked potatoes. A ■ tablespoonful of lemon juice and a teaspoonful of chopped parsley may be ! added to if-e sauce if desired. Handled jugs aud loving cups in a highly glazed ware show artistic shapes and harmonious colorings. Charming effects have been gained in vases made of a combination of opaqua and transparent glass. Very attractive are the embossed silwith annmpled dials.

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