Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 24 February 1896 — Page 2
&v.
1
THE EVENING REPUBLICAN.
W. 8. MONTGOMERY, Editor aud Publisher.
Subscription Kates.
lie week. le year...
10 cents .15.00
ISatered at.Poatoffice as sesond-claas matter
MONDAY, PER. 2- 180R.
RINGS AND RING LORE.
Early Celtio rings wore exeouted in inferlaced work, often of vory intricate patterns.
In many female religious orders the tjng is used during the ceremony of receiving a novioe.
In the tombs of ancient Egypt, dating -probably not later than 3000 B. C., are "Jound gold rings of fair workmanship.
In the fourteenth century astrological lings were fashionable in Italy. The sottings were carved with various emblems ibd symbols.
Richard I of England had a ring set tvith a bloodstone. His enemies attribut«.©d his daring and success to the influence »-©f this jewel.
Queen Elizabeth was extravagantly fond jf rings. In her jewel case after her death there were found 752 rings of various deicriptions ami value.
The ring of Edward the Confessor is preserved among the royal regalia of Great Britain. For several centuries it was used fn "the coronation ceremonies of the English kings.
When the tomb of the great Emperor .Frederick, who died in 1250, was opened, In 1780, his coronation ring, set with a beautiful emerald, was still found upon his finger.
It was charged against Demosthenes by his enemies that lie was too fond of rings find jowelry, and that when ho made a fjeech he gesticulated more to show his i'i ngs than to enforce his remarks.
During the fourteenth century, in Franco and Spain, gifts of valuable rings ,to statues of the saints and Virgin Mary /ere very common. One statue in Barcelona is said to have worn rings valued at £V 0,000. ilgrim rings were formerly sold at •y noted shrine in Christendom. They purchased by pilgrims preparing to home and were regarded as evithat tho pilgrimage had beon roally iiovruod.—St. Louis Globe-Domocrat.
HORSES AND HORSEMEN.
Bndc^Doble will train a few horses this ,r at Fleetwood park, New York. he Canadian stallion Vrowsky, 2:18%, cd \i'ilkus, will beshippodto England. arple^, 2:11J^, has been sont to his trainer, Alex. McKay of Columbia, an.. Tho two sisters to the trotter Henrico, fj: 5, at the Jewett farm, Buffalo, are both Jo.- pacers.
W. P. Maloney has the Canadian pacer Lord Ferguson, 2:19*4, in his stable at Juliet, Ills.
Joe Thayer,who drove Trevillian, 2:08}4, to his record, will have that good horse ©gain this year.
John Splan will try to get the fast trotter Newburger, by Jay Bird, in racing form for the coming season.
Tho Patchen Wilkes colt out of Belle JCddy, trial, 2:21, by Jerome Eddy, has fceen named Senator Lamy after the breeder of his dam.
The Baron Wilkes pacer Barondale, Sf:llKi will be sent toEd Geers early in the spring and will race in tho Village farm stable this year.
Spruce Lawn farm, Springfield, O., will iave in its campaigning stablo this year tiagonda Chimes by Chimes and Cicilly W, by Heir-at-law, 2:12.
L. Simon of Louisville, Ky., who was once prominent on the harness racing tracks but who has been racing runners for several years, will be out with a stable ol trotteru again this year.
Mambrino Dudley, 2:19%, the stallion that onco stood at the head of General B. J1. Tracy's Marshland farm stud, is now owned at Lake City, Minn. He lias not been a pronounced success as a sire.
A ROYAL FLUSH.
The young czar of Russia is not fond ol the cares of state. He is a.rather moody jindividual, very fond of reading. He has made a cnose study of French literature.
The Pvince of Wales is a great newspaper readw, and will skim through a lot of papers and get the gist of each one with |he rapidity and accuracy of a trained newspaper man.
The queen of Portugal is addicted to masculine pursuits. She is passionately /fond of hunting, and has beon seen to herself thrust the knife into tho throat of a dying stag. Her love for a bull fight ia notorious.
The omperor of Austria smokes so callqfl Virginia cigars, which, being manufactured of the rankest tobacco at Triest, Jiavo straws running through them to
($uake
1
them draw and are so green ti iti
they luivo to bo held in a liame for several Xniyutes to light. 'iho king of the Belgians is seldom seen fn the theaters of Brussels, caring little for theatrical performances. He objects, too, to sitting in the royal box at the various houses of amusement. The queen, on tj^he contrary, is passionately fond of the theater, and rarely misses a first night.
jT JEWELRY CONCEITS.
& yellow topaz, in the top of a gold grarse, pleases a desirable class of patrons. Knylees watches, in chased silver and moroooo oases, have won deserved popularity.
A unique watch is one with green enameled haok, in the oenter of which appears ruby shamrook. jingle stone rings for men continue to tf$ow hand carved shanks, and are somewhat massive in effect.
Lorgnette chains are very popular and Include both gold and silver chains also gold ohaizis punctuated with pearls and gracious stones.
A notable feature of the present day welry is that all kinds of fancy stones utilized. There also appear some exceedingly clever imitations of precious g&ma.
As the demand for ladies' belts oontinV$s the variety increases, and numerous Materials are employed, such as gold and nlver galloon, silk, velvet, leather, silver «S\d gold. —Jewelers' Circular.
HAVANA FILLERS.
should be a little oareful how she les people from Cuba. She is likely to among the exiles herself pretty soon.—
Post.
IN THE HEATER PIPE.
THE RETIRED BURGLAR RELATES HIS MOST SINGULAR EXPERIENCE.
He Had an Elegant I«ay Out of Wedding: Presents at His Mercy When He Made an Unfortunate Step—In the End He
Made a Contribution to the Collection.
"In a house that I was looking over in a town up the'state one night," said the retired burglar, "I came across something that I never struck but that once in all my experience, strange as it may seem, and that was a lot of wedding presents, all just as they were arranged for display. When I turned my lamp into the room, I wished I had brought a horse and wagon there was a good deal of it that wouldn^E have been of any earthly use to me, but it seemed a pity to leave any of it behind. But if I couldn't carry it all off, I could have the fun of picking, and I started to look the things over. They were arranged on tables and chairs and on the floor around on three sides of the room on the side opposite to the side that I had come in at, and on the sides to the right and left running around those three sides in a sort of irregular order. On the side where I was there were a few chairs. I thought I'd start in on the left an-1 work around to the right, aud I started from the door and had gone about three steps when I went down through the floor, as it seemed to me, but what I had really done was to step down through an open register. I suppose somebody must have dropped something down through it and have taken it out to get it and forgot to put it back. "There was a wire screen under the register over the pipe opening to keep things from dropping down the pipe, but it was very fine light wire, and it didn't stop rue at all I just slid down into the pipe, pushing that along under my feet. When I dropped into the pipe, I had been facing to the left in some way as I went down I got skewed around so that when I got down as far as I did go I was facing to the front that is, I toward the center of the room. The pipe didn't go straight down, but with a curve. I had thrown up my hands as I went down, and I suppose I might have gone plumb to the furnace if I hadn't clutched at the edge of the register opening and hung on. A minute before I was going to take my pick of a roomful now where was I? I "I had started across the room carry ing my toolbag in one hand and my lamp in the other. The shock when I went down had shaken the bag out of my hand, but I had held on to my lamp, I though it was lying on its side now with my fingers clutching through the handle. The falling of the toolbag and the striking of the lamp on the floor I and the scraping of the wire gauze
down through the tin pipe must have made all together a good deal of noise, and I expected every minute to hear somebody moving about up stairs and coming down to haul me out, but nobody did come, and I set my lamp up straight, and after I'd waited a minute or two more I started to see if I could haul myself out. I "As I lay in the pipe my head was below the level of the floor by a great effort I could raise myself so that the upper half of my head was above the
opening, but no higher there was no room for play when I got that high, I found myself with my elbows close to my body and fairly wedged into the pipe I couldn't get any higher. "I let myself down again, and after awhile I pulled myself up again, and held on by one hand and held up the lamp and swung it round on the things. Then I let myself down again, and wondered what I was going to do. It wasn't only uncomfortable there in the position I was in, it was mighty hot and unpleasant every way. If I let go, I didn't know but that I'd slide down against the furnace, and, of course, I couldn't stand it for an indefinite length of time, and when I'd been in the pipe I should imagine about two hours, I made up my mind that I wouldn't try to stand it any longer I'd got to come out some time, and I might just as well come out then in fact, better, for while the chances of my getting away at all were mighty small, they would be better at night than they would be in the daytime. "So I made up my mind to kick on the pipe and wake up the house and have the thing settled. So I kicked once, twice, and then I kicked again and by snakes 1 I kicked the pipe open at my feet. There was a joint there, and I'd kicked it apart, and the sections I was in sagged down with my weight, and I slid out on the cellar floor. The Bagging down of that part of the pipe detached it from the part above and it fell on the cellar floor alongside of me. That made noise enough to wake everybody up there couldn't be any doubt about that. "I went out by the same cellar window that I came in by. It was the first and only such lot of stuff that I ever struck, and I never got a thing out of it in fact, I added something to it my* self—a set of tools and a dark lantern." —New York Sun.
"The Pyramid Limp,'
"The pyramid limp," as it has com© to be called, is that state of body which falls upon one for two or three days after making the ascent of the pyramids. One is so much pulled and pushed at the time that little or no inconvenience is felt. There is no sign of soreness of joint or muscle until after one has slept, and then the trouble begins to brew the second day of that man or woman is worse than the first the climax is reached at the end of the second or beginning of the third day, and from that time the patient begins slowly to recover.—Cairo Correspondent
A E'ylus with split point, apparently for tho purpose of writing with fluid ink, L.\s been found in an Egyptian i:, f"
1
i&f—-IS'
THOSE BIG SLEEVES.
THEY STILL CONTINUE TO MAKE MEN DESPERATE.
Bat Men Find Fault Anyhow, Says Olive Harper—Theater Growns and Hats—Sarah Bernhardt's Costumes Creations of
Fashionable Modiste.
[Special Correspondence.]
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Men make the laws and enforce them. I saw a man last bight who I know went out of the theater vowing to do something desperate about the big sleeves. They do seem to have an extra quantity of material for theaters. This man was little, but he didn't appear to know it until he got into a soat between two young ladies, pretty both of them, buf neither of them belonging to him. The two pairs of sleeves were simply immense. One pair was of crackling pink taffeta, covered with pink crepe lisse, and still further embellished with great outstand-
I
VISITING COSTUME.
ing caps of lace and pink ribbon bows. Tho others wore of plaid velvet, and while thero was no lace or ribbon tc give grace and make them appear too frail for anything but suppressed bad words, they were quite as dangerous to a man's peace of mind.' These sleeves were so very largo that they completely effaced the man. He couldn't lean forward, for if he did, one of the girls was sure to turn suddenly and brush his carefully curled mustache, or the other to rumple up his hair or tickle his nose. If ne leaned back, those sleeves heaved a sigh of relief, which swelled them to their biggest proportions, and altogether I ihink the young man didn't have a good time at all. And tho two innocent girls had the tiniest of bonnets, and therefore they sat in the sereno consciousness of Incommoding nobody.
On the othor hand, if girls don't have big sleoves to complain about, there are the big hats, the bustles or hoops. The men find fault anyhow. If they want redress from their grievances, why, thoy make the laws, as I said before.
There was a very swell audience to see Bernhardt in "Camille," and while not otherwise engaged I noted a tew of the gowns and bonnets, for there were but two hats visible. Fancy waists of pink, blue, white, plaid and brocaded bodices were everywhere. The wide berthas, collarettes and fichus of lierre lace were ubiquitous. Spangles glittered everywhere like stars in a frosty sky. Jeweled passementerie, jeweled neckbands, buckles and other ornaments were worn by all the young and too many of the old. In on^ box a young lady wore a bodice of cheney silk, wii immense flowers on a white ground. Tho sleeves were enormous in themselves, and were made still larger by gauze fans studded with sparkling spangles. Two of the-o stood up straight on each shoulder. The neck was finished with a white lisse stock, also spangled, and with a great fan shaped bow at the back. This with the fans on the shoulders made a gauzy setting for a pretty face. Another bodice was of black velvet, with white lace square bertha. This lace was literally frosted with imitation diamonds. The stock was of the black velvet. Another lady was not so happy in her costume. This bodice was of dull rod satin, over a black satin skirt. The stock w^s high, so were the sleeves, and as the place grew warmer her color rose until it was impossible to tell where the satin left off and the face began. Black velvet, plain and figured, was largely represented, and it makes elegant bodices, being ornamental a itself, and requiring but little trimming to make it perfect.
I noticed quite a number of persons who evidently wore false hair to augment that which nature had bestowed.
There were some other things, too, but I couldn't see them all, for the play was over. And what were Sarah's gowns like? Oh, I forgot to notice, more than that they
OPERA OR BALL COSTUME.
were very high in the neck in front and very low in the back very clinging, and had no waists at all, as they fell straight down in front from neck to feet.
This morning a note from a famous modiste took me off to see two of her newest "oreations" for visiting. When a grande modiste makes a dress, she does not make it. She "creates" it. One of these was a flecked cheviot black and tan. dered with black marten at the bottom, and the basque opened over a tan silk not trimmed with lace. The wide collar was of black velvet, with gold colored silk embroidery and some more lace was set over the sleoves. The hat was in several shades of brown. The other creation was of reseda colored cloth, tailor stitohed around the bottom. The bodice was of reseda taffeta, gathered In close shirrs around the shoulders. The rest of the bodice was of brocaded silk, *7ith reseda ground and dark green and rurset red figures. The sleeves were piped with large cords covered with olufeh, which gave them the admired stiffness. The bottom was arranged In doubled slashes all around. The hat matched the gown. OLIVE HARPKB.
-rrr
FOB LITTLETOLKS
A SKATING CAT*
Her Name Ia Monger, and She Is the Pet oi a Harlem (N. I.) Boy. Harry Summers is a Harlem boy, and his greatest boast is that he has succeeded in teaching his pet cat, Mouser, how to glide along an ice pond on skates. Mouser did not learn how to skate in a day. As may be imagined, she was a slow pupil, and it was quite a month before she could be induced to keep the little pieces of steel and wood (which Harry had specially made for her) attached to her feet. Even when Mouser had grown accustomed to her shackles she had to be taught to stand upright, and after that she had to be coaxed into using her skates on the ice. Poor puss had many a bad fall, and if her skates had not been so firmly attached to her hind legs she would have run away from her terrible task long before she had grown accustomed to her unnatural sport.
It was only with the utmost patience and kindness that Mouser was taught to look upon her daily exercise as apart of her existence. Today she rather enjoys a spin on the little pond in the back yard of Harry's home. Mouser's first real lessons in skating were given on miniature roller skates it was only a step from roller skating to a glide on the ice. Mouser is a big white and yellow cat, not at all handsome, and more inclined to fight than to skate, but Harry is a
TWJIM
lad of fierce determination, and the boys in the neighborhood of Harry's house insist that the young animal trainer has hypnotized his pet. Be that as it may, Harry has succeeded in doing what no one has ever done before, and he is reaping his reward in the fun that Mouser affords himself and his friends whenever the weather is cold enough to make an ice pond in lit condition for skating.
Harry has had several offers from museum keepors who want to buy the gifted Mouser, but the boy would rather part with his ears than give up his clever cat. Mouser is the most remarkable feline in the world, and if she understands her own value she must certainly know that she can do at least one thing that no other cat has ever before succeeded in doing. A skating cat is worth a whole menagerie of ordinary trick animals, and when Mouser dies— as she probably will some day—a fine monument erected over her grave will be the very least that her proud master can do to let future generations know how wonderful a pussy once lived and skated in New York.—New York Recorder.
Little Wilhelmina.
Juvenile sovereigns can be very trying to their elders. Notions of their own importance are apt to crop up rather rapidly in their young heads. Wilhelmina I of Holland is not an exception. She had held her queenly title for scarcely six months when one morning at an unconsciously early hour she left her room and knocked at the door of the queen regent's chamber. Who is there asked her mother. "The queen of the Netherlands," was the grandiloquent reply. "Oh," said the queen regent, "I am afraid it is too early to receive the queen of the Netherlands, but if my little daughter Wilhelmina is there she may come in."—Ladies' Home Journal.
Little Mr. By-and-by. Little Mr. By-and-by, You will mark him by his cry And tho way he loiters when Called again and yet again, Glum if he must leave his play, Though all time be holiday.
Little Mr. By-and-by, Eyes cast down and mouth awry I In tho mountains of the moon He is known as Pretty Soon, And he's cousin to Don't Care, As no doubt you're well aware.
Little Mr. By-and-by Always has a fretful "Why?" When he's asked to come or go Like his sister, Susan Slow. Hope we'll never—you and I— Be like Mr. By-and-by. —Clinton Bcollard in St. Nicholas.
Leap Tear Parties.
The opportunity should not be missed. These parties afford rare fun if properly managed. The boys invite the girls and the girls ask the boys to accompany them. The girls choose their partners for dancing and for supper. In short, reverse the usual order of things and you cannot go astray at a leap year party. Plan it all beforehand so that it may work smoothly.—Brooklyn Eagle.
The Right of Way.
It is courteous, whether you or the stranger has the right of way, to turn aside for your elders or for those who have a burden.
She Smelled Them Whole.
Little Ethel had run across the road to make her usual call upon Aunt Jennie and stopped suddenly in the kitchen, exclaiming, "Oh, my I I smell apples, auntie!" "I should think you might, llear there is a pan of parings." "But, auntie, I smell whole apples!"—Youth's Companion. $ '/J
IT
I
In a crowded street keep to the right.
Ifc was bor- Should you wish to break this rule remember that you should turn aside to the right when others wish to pass you.
-r—
J.
Plantation
Life In all its picturesqueness is depicted with singular skill and fidelity in the story Harry Stillwell Edwards has written for this paper entitled
De Valley an
De Shadder
Edwards is a master of the negro dialect and this is a story of extraordinary interest. It is one of our new
Half Dozen
American Stories
ASTHSflT(jR"Q
TA7T'S asthmalene lieverfails sknd us yoiir mailtrialbottJep^££
3ddre?s, we vnll UUnLU„.~..-. .-- The DR. TAFT BROS. f.l. Co., Rochester, N.Y
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Cleanses and beautifies the naif. Promotes a luxuriant growth. ."Never Fails to Restore Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures Bcalp diseases & hair.tailijig* 50c, and Pruggist9
nbndsergoms.
The only euro Cure lor Coma. Stops a11 puin. surM comfort to me fert* Wakes walking easy. at Druggists.
Drives away pain.
ITOUCHES THE
SPOt
(itinimii«niTTninnnitiii ni"» ft,,,IIM'1
BREAKFAST-SUPPER.
E S S
CRATEFUL—COMFORTINC.
O O A
BOILING WATER OR MILK.
always
Druggist for Chichester's English Dia-A mond Brand inKed and Gold metaUio\ jbozes, scaled with bine ribbon. Take Ino o'her. Refuse dangerous substitutions and imitations. At Druggists, or send 4c. in stamp* for particulars, testimonials and "Kellef for Ladle*," in
IT. E.
Utter, return
if Mail. 10.000 Testimonials. Name Paper. Chichester Chemical Co.,Madigon Square,
geld by ail Local Druggiits. fhllwda.. i'a.
DOCTOR#*
Hcker'$
ENGLISH
Remedy
for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption
is beyond question the greatest of all modern medicines. It wiH stop a Cough in one night, check a cold in a day, prevent Croup, relieve Asthma, and cure Consumption if taken in time. "You can't afford to be without it." A 25 c. bottle may save your life I Ask your druggist for it. Send for pamphlet If the little cn« have
Croup or Whooping Cough
use it promptly. It is sure to cure. Three Siiea—35c., 50c. and $1. All Dracglste.
ACKER MEDICINE CO.,
z6 St x8 Chambers St., N. Y.
WANT*.
THE
BEST GARDEN
in your neighborhood this season PLANT OUR FAMOUS
SEEPS ^PlanTS
all of which are described and illustrated in our beautiful and entirely New
Catalogue for 1896.
Anew
feature this season is the
Free
de
livery of Seeds at Catalogue prices to any Post Office. This New Catalogue"
we will mail on receipt of a
2-cent stamp, or to those who will state where they saw this advertisement, the Ca*"'~ led
Free I
Pbicti HENDERSON & CO
»B*a7Cortt*n4t»fc.,W«wTo*k.
"•m
TEACHER OF
Win, Piano, Cornet, Mandolin.?
.Residence, North Street, next to New ^Christian Jhurch. d&wau
DR. J. M. L0CHHEAD,
80ME0PATHICJ PHYSICIAN and SDRfiKON.
Office and residence 42 N. Penn. street. «vest side, and 2nd door north of Walnut street.
Prompt attention to calls In city or sountry. Special attention to Childrens,
DR. C. A. BARNES,
Physician and Surgeon.
1
.»
Does a general practice. Office and residence, 83 West Main Street, 'wld Telephone 75.
RI-P'A'N-S
The modern standard Family Medicine Cures the common every-day ills of humanity.
The New York Mail and Express Says:
"Mr. Potter is famous on two "continents as a writer on tariff problems and industrial matter his Republicanism is of the stanchest school."
The Cleveland World
MEN
Who are interested in the political questions of the day, be they
REPUBLICANS
desiring the greatest tariff paper ia. the United|States, or be they
DEMOCRATS
who wish to keep posted on the arguments of their adversaries and keep pace with the
MASSES
should subscribe for the leading .Republican Daily of Ohio.
DAILY, one year $1 50 SUNDAY, one year, 1 50 DAILY aad SUNDAY.... 3 00
Send in your subscriptions for
1895
Address,
IHE WORLD
Cleveland O.
THE OLD RELIABLE
BAND [MM.
Is now in running order in4 I would thank you all jfor your patronage.
First-class work Guaranteed*^
ML
pt.I
N.4"
Womens'
and Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Louis Childrens Hospital. 89tly
P-
-fte^
ift'
''Sf.
&
j-