Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1895 — Page 5

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ADDITIONAL LOCALS. The best meals at Martin’s bakery. Coffee & Baker fora square meal and lunch and fruits. John Rice was a business visitor at Huntington Tuesday. Peaches —the finest m the land, cheap, at Coffee & Baker s. _ Tomorrow and Saturday morning a special train goes to Ft. Wayne. ! Grandma Ferry is visiting relatives at Ft. Wayne. Gaze at the bargains iu boots and shoes at Holthouse's shoe store. Mrs. Tim Coffee and son Frank Bartholl are at Mt. Clemens, Mich. Mrs. E. T. Gregg is a guest of her sister iu Ohio. John D. Hale was a business visitor at Bluffton Tuesday. D. P. Bolds was at Geneva Tuesday on business. Bert Lichtenwalter went up to Fort Wayne Tuesday. Mrs. J. C. Patterson was sick the first of the week, but is now better. Will Winch of Warren, was in town Tuesday. Miss Millie Lenhart is at Portland visiting friends. A bran new stock of furniture everything complete, at Auten & | Gay’s. Watermelons, fruits and any-1 thing in the eating line at I mon , Bakery. I Bread, two loaves for a nickel,; at B the Union Bakery. The best, and cheapest in town. For warm meal or lunch the Un i ion Bakery is headquarters. Everything fresh and up to date. Parties during attendance on the circuit court will find the best meals in town at Martin’s btar Bakery. \ great clearing sale is going on . nuthouse's shoe store, where bargains can be found in all kinds of foot wear. Blackburn & slll!er , Carr \'Vh< I >ol pipeline of school boons snd^h o°l 0 °l Supplies of all kinds and at the lowest prices.— 4-tt r a wvers and officials, jurors and ■I «e 9 everybody and his wile Martin’s Star Stn the best place to get a Square meal. rvenher 14 a district meeting , old r“£. .11l “ ,hiß Degree work will be among Odd Fellow should attend.

AN INDIANS AWFUL FATE. His Alcoholic Breath Caught Fire and He Was Burned to Death. The irtinu failure .•#. spirits, locfily known as hooehinoo, has been carried on by the natives of Alaska for a long period, and at times during tho early days of the Cassler excitement it was freely purchased by the white min- ■ ers as the only liquor obtainable, owing I to the strict enforcement of the prohibitory clause against the importation of liquors into the territory, says the i Alaska Mining Record. Hoochinoo is nothing more or less than raw alcohol, being distilled mainly from brown sugar or molasses and corn meal. Undiluted the stuff has a double proof strength, makes “drunk come” freely and but a few swallows of it will set a man howling in demoniac glee, and nothing but an Indian, with his copperlined stomach, can stand a protracted spree on it. The Kako Indians probably lead aril others in the manufacture of these spirits and as proof of their knowledge of the art of making a double proof article, we give thd particulars of the awful fate of an expert Kako distiller which happened recently on that island. It seems that this Indian, while engaged in the manipulation of his little coal oil can still, imbibed too freely of its trickllngs and tn a dranken stupor lay down by his fire of cedar logs and fell asleep, with his face uncomfortably near the fire and his breath fanning the flames. Through some reason known only to the medical fraternity gas accumulated in the stomach and the breath of the sleeper reaching the flames the alcohol gas ignited. The ' sleeper suddenly leaped to his feet 1 with a terrifying scream M>d fell back writhing in agony. The man was burning internally. Smoke and even flames were issuing from bi* tus«A' and his : agony was something awful. His loud I screeches brought the members of the ! camp about him. who looked on in j silent, terror-stricken awe, unable to ' do anything for his relief. The com- | bustion continued until the Indian was I literally consumed inside and for some i time after the spirit of life had fled. WOMEN SAILING SHIPS. Striking Illustrations of Thrlr Capabilities in the Seafaring Line. It is not often that a ship has been in charge of a woman. The wife of the captain of the Jefferson Borden took her husband's watch occasionally when the vessel was short handed after the mutiny and murder of the officers. In 1869 the ship Denmark was brought into port by the captain’s wife, the captain himself being laid up and incapable of doing anything except give advice. Another striking illustration of woman's capabilities in the seafaring line is afforded by the case of the bark Rebecca Crowell, xvhich left New York for Buenos Ayres, but became disabled during a severe gale three days after leaving. Several of the spars anxl sails were carried away, and the captain and first mate were injured to such an extent that they were confined to their berths the rest of the voyage and rendered unfit to manage the vessel. There was no other person on board who understood navigation e«~pt the captain’s wife, and she undertook the

task of conducting the' bark to the I point of destination. The second mate | was a young man twenty years old, able to take the helm, but ignorant of the process of making observations. The captain’s wife, therefore, assumed the command of the vessel, took observations, calculated the latitude and longitude regularly, maintained her place on the poop, and directed the course of the vessel. After exercising control for fifty-eight days, during which the vessel encountered violent gales and shipped heavy seas, she conducted the vessel, with its valun , cargo, safely into tl.: , .rt of lir.c:i:K I Ayres. In this actual impersonation of “the sweet little angel that sits u | aloft to keep watch for the life of poor I Jack,” the captain of the Rebecca Crowell was indeed fortunate in his matrimonial venture. HIS RELIGION ALL RIGHT. It IVas Any Kind .l>»t Was Kevessary for the t. evasion. In the “Remini. 'Ciiu s of an Emigrant Milesian” is the following curious anecdote: Stack, formerly of Walshe’s regiment, was among the officers of the Irish brigade who went on half-pay at its dissolution. lie had remained on half-pay so long that he became the oldest colonel in the army, lie obtained Lis promotion to the rank of major-general after a somewhat curious interview with the duke of York, the commander in chief at that time. Having solicited the honor of an audience of his royal highness, he received an intimation that the duke would receive him at the horse guards next day. He was punctual in his attendance, and being introduced to the commander in chief was honored by the customary question: t

“Well, colonel, what can I do for you?” ] “I perceive, sir,” replied Stack, “that there is a brevet coming out, in which I hope to be included. lam the senior colonel in his majesty's service.” “True, Col. Stack; but give me leave ' to ask you of what religion you are?” ' “I am of the religion of a major general.” The duke bowed, and Stack was gazetted. Petrified Oysters. A bed of petrified oysters has been found on the top of Big mountain, just > back of Forkston, Wyoming county, I’a. Some of the specimens are of mammoth size, one in Mr. Reynolds’ possession measuring twenty-two inches i long by nine inches wide and weighing ; forty pounds. The specimens range in ■ all sizes, from this down to the ordinary - edible oysters of the present time, i Some of the specimens show the eye of i the oyster perfectly., and in all of them - the meat is easily removed from the s shell. The bed seems to be confined to a small mound, resting on a small plat- » eau, at the extreme top of the moun--3 tain, near the Sullivan county 1 Miss Al Peterson came home ! Saturday from a pleasant visit with . friends in Fort Wayne. 3 For sale or trade —Big BelB gium stallion, lately owned by Ad 1 Brown. It is full blooded and can c be seen at the Red Livery Barn. e Beery & Frisinger.

DOGS FOR USE IN WAR. Trained to carry Ammunition and to Seek Out the Wounded in Battle. ( Some very interesting experiments as . to the utility of war dogs were recent- <( ly made in connection with the Dres- | den international dog show on the race course near Dresden, says a foreign | exchange. A company was supposed to be covering some transports of horsjes against an imaginary enemy. In*ordertodo this more effectually some non-commissioned officers, accomI panied by dogs, were sent forward to , : watch the approach of the enemy. They advanced about a mile and a i quarter, whilst keeping up communi- | ; cation with the company by means of j the dogs. In this way the company was kept fully infonped as to the , movements of the enemy, and could stop the transport of horses in good . time before the attack. The same dogs were also used for , carrying ammunition to the firing line, ; each dog being provided for this purpose with a kind of saddle holding about three hundred cartridges. The animals will go along the lines, stop- | ping in front of every man, who takes ; the number of cartridges he requires. When the ammunition is exhausted the dog will hurry back to receive a fresh supply, and thereupon resume the distribution. The dogs are also trained to find the wounded and attract the attention of the ambulance men in various ways, some remaining near the man and barking until assistance arrives, some running off to find an ambulance man and lead him to the spot, and others taking the man's forage cap or tearing away a piece of his clot hing and carrying it to the attendants.

RIP VAN WINKLE IN CHINA. He Stepped to Watch a Lengthy Game of Chess. A Chinese writer, Tcheng-Ki-Tong, describes Chinese chess as a game of patience. It is played with three hundred and sixty-one pawns, and the player sometimes deliberates half an hour before moving one of them. Literary men and ladies are said to be fond of it, and what sounds more likely , “people who have retired from business.” There are three sounds, the writer says, which help to turn one’s thoughts toward what is pure and delicate; the sound of falling water, the murmur of wind in the trees, and the rattle of chess pawns. In the time of the Tching dynasty, as the story goes, a woodcutter whp had gone to the top of a mountain for a day’s work found two young men there playing chess. He stopped to look on. and presently became deeply interested. and after awhile one of the players gave him a piece of candied fruit to

eat. The game grew more and more exciting. The woodcutter forgot his work, and sat hour after hour with his eyes on the board. At last he. happened to look at his ax. The handle of it had rotted away. That frightened him. He jumped up and hastened down the mountain to the village. Alas, among all the people of I the street he recognized not one, and ; he found on inquiry that several centuries had passed since he started out with his ax*

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