Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 30 August 1889 — Page 5

HOltSE NOTES.

Dick Wilson's horse, Kenelm, proved himself a good one at the fair. Dick Wilson won second money with Emma at Hartford, Conn., last Tuesday.

Potato Wagon did not do as well as some of his friends thought he would. Wyandotte, driven by Gus Glidden, is a 4-year-old, and promises to be ^ery fast.

Charley Tague was offered $800 for his black stallion Jim Blaine. Charles holds him at $1,000.

There have been thirty-eight additions to the 2:20 trotting and pacing lists so far this season.

Maud S. lias been sent to Mr. Bonner's farm at Tarn-town,

N. Y., where she is

being prepared for a ist mile in public. Charles Sweranger, a jockey, was thrown and instantly killed during the running race at the Homer fair at Catlin, 111., Saturday.

The horsemen that attended the Fair all went away satisfied. Those that took premiums were paid in full before they left the grounds.

Dauntless, sire of Gean Smith, Ed Annan, Thornless, Ilendryx and others, passed under the auctioneer's liainmei at Worcester, in 1887, for ijSooO, so it is said.

Electioneer''s first grandchild to enter the 2:30 list is the bay mare, Wanda, by Eros dam's pedigree unknown, who made a record of 2:20, at Bay District track, on August 3.

At Paris, Ky.. Friday, the Lair Brothers lost, by lock-jaw, their 3-year-old stallion Hambrino Bismarck, by Victor von Bismarck, dam by Edgew ver. He had a 2:32 record as a 2-year-old and was valued at §5,000.

The horse Piqua, that won the free-for-all pace, made his mark of 2:21% here. His best time before that was 2:24. Mr. Lackey came here expecting to pace him against Emma, but he was disappointed, as Emma was in the East.

Colonel II. G. Stoner, of the Hambletonian Stock Farm, purchased the farm of W. H. Fisher, on the Flat Rock pike, two miles from Paris. Ky., Saturday. The price was $135 for 223 acres, amounting to $30,165. Colonel Stoner will establish another stock farm. He is the owner of Baron Wilkes, 2:13. valued at $75,000, and Mambrino Russell, and a fine collection of brood mares.

At Sabina, O., during a pacing race at the Fair Grounds last Friday, Elf King, a pacer with a private record of 2:25, owned by R. L. and P. A. Goodpaster, of Mt. Sterling, Ky., dropped dead near the judges' stand after having taken with ease the first heat in 2:37. It was thought aconite had been administered. The horse was valued at $10,000.

Dad, a well known horse in races, owned by John H. Thompson, of Washington C. H., O., was permanently disabled while scoring, on Friday last at Sabina, O. The tendons of his left fore leg were pulled loose or broken, and it is quite evident that he will never win another race. Fortunately he is a stallion, and may be put to some service. John Thompson has repeatedly refused $5,000 for Dad, thinking him worth $10,000. Dad has won some good races at Latonia, Chicago, Minneapolis. Saratoga, and other places.

Both Axtell and Allerton are owned by a lucky young man, C. W. Williams, of Independence, la. Before Axtell went his fast mile at Chicago, Col. John W. Conley approached Mr. Williams and asked him to put a price on the animal. Mr. Williams replied that he was not prepared to name a price. "Will you take $100,000 for him? said Conley. '-If I were offered $100,000 for him—a positive offer," replied Mr. Williams, "I would consider it." "Think the matter over," were Col. Conley's parting words, "and if you decide to take that amount letme know." Col. Conley declines to give the name of the principal whom he represents in these negotiations.

C. S. Green, the well-knowu and popular knight of the sulky, who piloted Lula to her record of 2:15 over the Buffalo track just fourteen years ago, owns the fastest strictly trotting bred filly ever bred. The youngster is at the Forest City Farm, Cleveland, is about two months old, sired by Patron, 2:14i, out of Lucille Golddust, 2:1(?X, an average record for the filly, by inheritance, of 2:15V. The fastest colt ever bred is an unnamed youngster, owned at Forest City Farm, by Patron, 2:14#, out of Mat-tie Hunter, 2:12%, which inherits an average record of 2:13'^'. The next fastest colt belongs to William B. McDonald, of the Jewett Stock Farm. It is the unnamed bay colt sired by Jerome Eddy, 2:16)4, out of Buffalo Girl, 2:12}v inheriting an average record of 2:14#.

The Forum Magizine is prospering great ly. It has gained 50 per cent in circulation daring the past year. All professional •i men and all others interested in keepiug up with the advauced thought of the age should read the Forum. The following subjects are treated in the September num ber. The Spoils of Office, by Goldwin

Smith Henry George and His Critics, by Thomas G. Sherman A Remedy for Social Ills, by Washington Gladden The Outlook for Industrial Peace, by Prof. A. T. Hadley and many other good articles. Forum Publishing Co. 253 Fifth ave.,N. Y.

John Arthur, north-west of Palestine 1)4 miles, has a quantity of the famous Barley Oats left that he will sell. It will pay the farmers to buy some of these oats as they yield from 60 to 80 bushels per acre. Call on or address J. T. Arthur New Palestine Ind. .-v, 33-to

THF USE OF COFF«£E.

A Writer Who Holds It to Be a Blessing to Poor and Rich.

We are persuaded, from our observation of many years in Greece and Turkey, that the moderate use of pure coffee is, one might almost say, a blessing to rich and poor. Excess in its use, or the use of it at all, except when the decoc-, tion is made from the genuine coffee berry, and properly made, is beyond any question an evil. One must live in the East for a w^ile, or if not there confine himself to partaking of the beverage in other countries where the character of the cafe, or the house where it is served, is a guarantee of the purity, to appreciate what a cup of coffee really means. It is a recognized fact that the mixture drunk by the majority of people in Eu-' rope and our own country under the name of coffee is a vile, or, at the best, an adulterated compound of inferior berries, beans or other substitutes, and that when occasionally the genuine coffee berry is the basis of the hot fluid served at the hotels, railroad stations, restaurants and even in private houses, it is not prepared properly, and more frequently than otherwise injures the digestion and, consequently, the health of the constant drinker.

In Athens, broadly speaking, every third man indulges in cigarette smoking and coffee drinking, and this to an extent that astonishes the stranger. It is an every day sight, when entering an office or private sitting room, and not infrequently the family room, to see the tobacco box, cigarette paper and ash box lying on the table, and the visitor is expected, without invitation, to help himself and light his cigarette, as a preparation for, and a companion to. conversation. Little cups of black coffee follow as a matter of course, however early or late the hour may be. But the Greek does not confine liis attentions to Mie co-T^e cup on these occasions. He ofi takes bis first cigarette and his firs, il bed before rising, and corti Uv pra^icc at intervals through the entire da. lc is something akin to the liabi' of ice water drinking in the Unit' Srv ^s, but without the subtle, injurious that follow an habitual use of cold liquids, which chill the stomach, impair the general health and produce decayed teeth. So far as our personal observation goes, strengthened by medical testimony, the Greeks in the condition of their general health do not support the theory that the habitual use of coffee injures the system or affects the eyesight.

The same is the case in Turkey. There coffee drinking is universal and continuous. The writer passed a greater part of four years in Constantinople, where lie had occasion to call upon the officials of the Sublime Porte so frequently that it would be difficult to enumerate these official visits and with few exceptions, when the visit was protracted to any length, black coffee, pure in quality and prepared with the grounds, was regularly served in small, delicate cups. All Turks, from the highest to the lowest, indulge in the beverage, a few swallows «t a time, throughout the day, and without any evil effects. What makes the fact more remarkable is that neither the sedentary habits of the Turk nor the quick, energetic temperament of the Greek seems to be affected by the perpetual imbibing of this beverage. Spectacles, it may be remarked, are as little used in Turkey as in Greece nor are complaints of the eyes more prevalent, if we except ophthalmia, which is brought from Egypt and exists chiefly among the unclean and dissolute lower orders. An old pasha once told us that he considered coffee to be one of the greatest blessings vouchsafed by Allah to the faithful, not only from its grateful aroma, but from its health preserving qualities. He referred, of course, to the "divine berry" of Mocha, and not to the questionable compound served up in the "infidel" countries of the west.—North American Review.

Tliey Need Nerve.

•'Engineers at rest, sitting in the narrow cabs of their engines, lying at the depot waiting for the signal to start, often look to be a sleepy set of fellows," said the man the other night who runs the limited to Alliance. "Do you know," he continued, addressing a reporter, "that engineers are always wide awake when they seem to be indifferent to events happening around them? There are few things that escape their vigilant eyes. Many people have an idea that engineers 'go it blind' and trust entirely to the block system and the acuteness of good telegraph operators, but if they did this there would be wrecks and lives lost every day. "A good engineer is always on the lookout. We see plenty ol" things ahead of us that harrow our nerves and make the hair stand up straight, but as long as the passengers behind us don't know it and we all escape unin jured, we heave a sigh of relief and say nothing. 1 tell you, it is no easy matter to hold a throttle, shoot around sharp curves and watch for obstructions. An engineer looks down for a moment at the connecting rods of the locomotive, moving backward and forward with lightning like rapidity. He doesn't know at what minute a pin may break and one of the rods knock his brains out as he leans out of the cab. "We have to make schedule time the road is full of curves, and we are likely to bang into these trains as we pass them. Little do people know how rasping it is on the nerves to be continually making narrow escapes, and yet one invariably feels that some day he is bound to 'get it in the neck.' It is the uncertainty of the business that is so trying."—Pittsburg Dispatch.

The Penalty for Swearing at Bores. A writer in a scientific magazine says

the earth is being :red too much and is liable to lose its place among the heavenly bodies in consequence. The busy editor can sympathize with the earth. He is also likely to lose his place among the heavenly bodies from being bored too much—judging from the language he uses wh«n the bore leaves.—Norristown Herald.

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RAILROADS IN INDIA.

One of the great plagues of Indian railroad makers is the white ant. These insects eat every dead thing in wood form above ground. If a pile of wooden ties is left out over night an attack of ants will have carried it away by morning, and there is no possible storage of wooden ties. Such ties as are in the roads are saved from destruction by the vibration caused by the running trains, which scares the ants away. It is the same with telegraph poles and fences, and the result is that the ties of most of the railroads are made of iron. I have traveled about three thousand miles over all kinds of railways in India. The telegraph poles on many of the lines are hollow tubes of galvanized iron, about as big around as the average man's calf, so made that they fit into one another and form a pole about ten feet high. To these poles the lines are strung, and many of the roads use such poles throughout their entire length.

On other lines the telegraph poles are iron rails, the same as those on which the car travels. Two of these rails are fastened together by bars about a foot wide and then this iron lattice work is set deep in the ground and the wire strung upon it. About some of the stations the fences are made of such iron rails, and through hundreds of miles along one of the rajah's railroads in Western India I found fences of barbed wire with sand stone posts. These stones area foot wide and about four inches thick, and they stood about three feet above the ground. The wires ran through holes in them and the railroad men tell me that they are much cheaper than wood.

THE MAGNIFICENT DEPOTS.

lam surprised at the magnificence of the depots in India. Here at Bombay there is a finer railroad station than any we have in the United States. It cost about $1,000,000, and architecturally it is the peer of any building at Washington. At Calcutta there are small depots and even at the smallest of iie towns you find well made stone buildings surrounded by beautiful gardens, in which bloom all kinds of tropical flowers. Nothing about these stations is made of wood. The platforms are of stone filled in with cement, and the cars run into the stations on a plane about two feet below the floor, and so that the floor of the cars is just even with that of the depot. Each station has its first, second and third class waiting room, and everything in India goes by classes.

The cars are first, second, third and fourth class, and they are all on the English plan. They are about two-thirds the length of our cars and a trifle wider. They are not so heavy as the American passenger coach and they look more like wide, long boxes than anything else. Each of these cars is divided' into compartments. In the first and second class there are only two compartments to the car, and the chief difference in these two classes is in the number allowed in the compartment. If you will imagine a little room about 10 feet long by 5 wide, with a roof 7 feet high, in the center of which there is a glass globe for a light, you may have some idea of the Indian first class car. You must, however, put two long, leather covered, cushioned benches along each side of this room and at the ends of these have doors with glass windows in them, opening inward.

Over the cushioned backs of the benches there are windows which let up and down like those of the American street car, and which are of the same size. The car has none of the finish of the American Pullman, and though you are expected to sleep within it, there are no signs of bedding or curtains. At the back of it there is a lavatory, without towels, soap or brushes, and there is barely room enough for you to turn around in it when you are washing. The second class cars are much the same, and there may be one second class car and one first in the same coach.—Frank G. Carpenter.

Schools in Kussia.

According to the latest educational report of 1884, only 1,466,913 of the 15,000,000 children in the Russian empire attended schools. About 90 per cent., therefore, of young Russia receive no instruction at all. In sixty governments there is only one school for secondary instruction to every 18,000 boy3 and 22,000 girls. Only 63 per cent, of the boys of an age to attend a public high school can be accommodated. For girls, the number of such schools is even more insignificant. The schoolmaster cannot be said to be abroad in Russia yet.—Science.

According to the newest English life table, the children born in England in any one year have now divided among them "nearly two million years of life" more than would have been the case thirty-five yeaxs wo.

THE GKEENFIELD REPUBLICAN FRIDAY, AUGU8T 30, 1889.

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SIXTEEN THOUSAND MILES OF TRUNK LINES IN HINDOSTAN.

The Finest Depots in the World, but Wretched Arrangements in the Passenger Cars—Ants That Eat the Wooden Ties and Telegraph Poles.

India has now sixteen thousand miles of railroad. It is as far from Calcutta to Bombay as it is from New York to Denver, and several trunk lines run across Hindostan from one city to the other. There are branches from these which go up the Himalaya mountains almost to the borders of Thibet, and others which shoot oif to the Khyber Pass at the entrance to Afghanistan and not a great distance, from the new Russian railway, which has boon pushed on past Saruarcand. The day will come when we can travel from London to Calcutta by rail, though this presupposes the cutting of a tunnel under the English channel. South India has many long miles of railroads, and tlu* whole of Hindostan. which is half the size of the United States, has a railroad net covering it. The construction of these railroads has included engineering works fully as grand as the railroad making of the United States, and the keeping of them in order is more difficult. wood i:at!nu atts.

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Three of the Greatest Stallions in the County. Highland Glen

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Notice of Final Settlement.

The State of Indiana, Hancock County, ss: In the matter of the Estate of William Smith, deceased. No. 654. In the Hancock Circuit Court,

September Term, A. D., 1889.

BEA.

IT KNOWN, That on the '21st day of Aug., D., 1889, Minni.s O. Snyder, Administrator of the estate of William Smith, deceased, tiled in the office of the Clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court, liis iinal settlement account in said estate. The creditors, heirs and legatees of said decedent are hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said linal settlement account, and that the saine is set down for hearing on Friday, September 13, A. D. 1889, the same being the 11th judicial day of the Sept. Term, A. I)., 1889, to be begun, held and continued at the court-house in the City of Greenfield, commencing on Monday, the second day of September, A. J)., 188!), and that unless they appear on said day and show cause why said final settlement account should not be approved, the same will be heard and approved in their absence.

And said heirs are also notified in addition, toappearon said day and make proof of their heirship to said estate.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name andaflixed the seal of said Court, this 21st day of August, A. D., 188!). lilClIAUD A. BLACK,

Clerk Hancock Circuit Court.

D. S. and M. 15. Gooding, Attorneys. :4t:»

Cholera in Michigan.

Dr. F. D. Larke, of Rogers City, Michigan, says the epidemic of last year in Presque Isle County, in which so many persons lost their lives, was choleric dysentery instead of cholera as first reported. He used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and says it succeeded, where all other remedies failed. Not a case was lost in which it was used. This Remedy is the most reliable and most successful medicine known for colic, cholera morbus dysentery, diarrhoea and bloody flux. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by V. L. Early. tf.

RAILROADS.

The Ohio Indiana & Western Railway Co.

TIME CARD FOR INDIANAPOLIS. '2^ Leave—Going East. *4 00 a m. 3 00 pm.

Going West.

*7 45 am. 12 05 noon. *11 15 pm. 5 61pm.

Arrive—From East.

1145 am. *10 50 pm. From West. 3 40 a m. 2 40 m. 30 in. 10 15 a m.

Marked daily.

H. M. BRONSON, -Ms

Gen'l Passenger & Ticket Ag't., Indianapolis, Ind.

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MAT. CUMMINS, Proprietor.

"All is not gold that glitters'' but the Nickelplate opens up with dazzling splendor, eclipsing any eating house in the city. The rich, the poor, the laborer, the mechanic, the farmer, etc., all will find it a suitable place, a cheap place, and THE place to satisfy their "empty lockers," Guests will be served with the delicacies of the market, regardless of cost. The culinary department will be superintended by a first-class# baker, and we propose to make our edibles so palatable that none can.:® gainsay. We are truly grateful to a generous public for past favors,andg again solicit your patronage and support. The Nickelplate is next doors east of Thayer's meat'Market. Main street, Greenfield, Ind.

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Meals, and choice lunches at all hours. Visit the Nickelplate and we will do you good.

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At the Hancock County Fair.

Seed Wtal for Sole!

250 Bus. 2j50

MICHIGAN FULT Zi

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Cleaned, ready for sowing.

This grain was given the First Premium at the Hancock County Fair, and was also awarded the prize pump, special premium by J. W. Carter, price $13. For further information call on or address

WILLIAM FURRY, Carrollton, Ind.

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SORGHUM.

GEORGE M. LOW, of Brandywine township, who took first premium at the recent Hancock County Fair for best one-half gallon of sorghum molasses, is prepared to furnish the same quality to all customers.

GIVE HIM YOUR TRADE.

LOW PRICES AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED,

His evaporator is new this year. Take your cane to him. His mill is three miles southwest of Greenfild, near New Palestine Gravel Road.

35-2t George M. Low.