Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 August 1894 — Page 3
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Vol. 36, No 14
GREENCASTLB, IND., AUG. I, 1894.
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CITY AND COUNTY
Jackson Boyd has been visiting at
Evansville.
Col. C. C. Matson has returned from Spokane, Wash. Ernest McHaffle returned from Paris, Ills., on Friday. Miss Julia Druley has been visiting her sister, at Anderson. Mrs. Elisha Buis and daughter are at French Lick Springs. I met a literary miss, * And in a moment rash i I snatched a fleeting, fervid kiss, And now I’ve no mustache. Harry Smith and wife visited at Chicago, the first of the week. H. S. Renick and family are visiting relatives in Sullivan county. Miss Nellie Robbins, of Louisville, Is visiting Mrs. Robbins and family. There is a fast-growing sentiment against any additional fake old set tiers’ picnics. Capt. J. M. Lee, wife and daughter, arc here from Chicago visiting relatives and friends. A building lot in a good neighborhood for sale cheap. Apply at the Sfar-Pkesb oflice. Man wants but little here below, ’Tis an ancient, moss-grown gag; For every man would like to have A glimpse of a cold-wave flag. Save money and get the best work by having your job printing done at the Star-Press office. Misses Lizzie Ames and Jennie Black are drinking the medicinal waters at Martinsville. Died, at Roachdale, on July 23, Ollie, infant son of William and Maggie Boyd, aged 7 months and 17 days. Mrs. Griffith and Mrs. Shepherd, who have been visiting John Watt and wife, returned to Cincinnati on
Saturday.
Two disciples of the religion known as the New House of Israel, who wear nut brown suits and long hair, have been preaching on our streets, to fairly large crowds. They are earnest in the advocacy of their ideas, and express themselves plainly and with
emphasis.
Miss Edna Arnold is visiting at
Chicago.
•M.-s. Charles Kelly has been visiting in Hendricks county. A touch of lip* ami a parting, A smile and sigh ; An end of one sweethearting, A long good-by. Miss Emma Jackson has returned from French Lick Springs. Miss Editli Waltz has been ruralizing at the Shades of Death. Mrs. Jackson has returned from a visit to her daughter, at Brazil. Mrs. D. E. Preston and Paul are visiting relatives at Bainbridge. Greencastle sent large delegations of visitors to the Bainbridge Fair,
this week.
Chas. Broadstreet has been at Martinsville Springs, this week,
iting and recuperating.
The railway hog with sullen brow, Who always wants the earth — He doesn't have to wrangle now
To get the lower berth.
Married, at the residence of Rev. Jacob Rohm, the officiating minister, on July 25, Harrison N. Frank and Orlena A. Newgent, of Morton, Ind.
the vis-
Young People's Reading Circle. Report of the Young People’s Reading Circle in Putnam county for the
year ending July 31, 1894:
Resolutions of Respect. The following resolutions were adopted by Dunbar Post, G. A. R., of
Greenfield:
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to take out of the world the life of Mary R. Dunbar, at her home near Greencastle, Ind., on the 21st day of July, 1894, and whose body has been brought back to her old home for in terment. She was the mother of Samuel H. Dunbar, our late comrade in arms, who sacrificed his life in 1862 in the defense of his country Bo it therefore Resolved, That we the Grand Army Post, No. 92, of the department of Indiana, city of Greenfield, bearing the honored name of her son, feel that we have lost a near and dear friend, who gave to us aid and com fort in the hour of trial and danger, and that we take this opportunity of expressing our sorrow, and perpetuating her memory, and as a mark of respect to the deceased and her rela tives it is further, Resolved, That we attend her fu naval in a body.
Mrs. Briggs is visiting relatives in Chicago. George Dale, of Cincinnati, has been visiting Rev. Dale and family. Misses Claudia and Flossie Vermilion are visiting relatives in Arkansas. Call in and pay up is the word we send to the friends who are in our debt. We need the currency to pay those whom we owe, and they are not at all backward about asking for it. Many owe us somefl, some $2, and some more than the sums named, making in the aggregate enough to pay our debts. Remember the golden rule, and do as you would be done by in this matter of business. The Publishers’ Record says: “A newspaper in Illinois recently brought suit against forty-three men who would not pay their subscription and obtained judgment in each claim. Of these, twenty-eight made affidavit that they owned no more than the law allowed them, thus preventing attachments. Then, under the decision of the Supreme Court, they were arrested for petit larceny and bound over in the sum of $300 each. All but six gave bond. The postal laws make it petit larceny' to take a paper and refuse to pay for it. Some of our delinquents should take to heart this hint.
THE ROSETTA STONE.
Discovery That Rovoals the Riches of Eastern Literature.
The Key Which Opena to the Modern World InterestliiB I’nisefl ot Ancient Ek.vp < *»“ Illrtory—Eluding of the Stone.
Ja -kson tp
No. of members
enrolled.
No. of books read
274
Franklin tp
390
Russell tp
95
230
Clinton tp
167
491
Monroe tp
502
Floyd tp
112
Marion tp
201
578
Greencastle tp.
212
541
Madison tp..
206
540
WashinKton tp
913
Warren tp
409
Jefferson tp
69
157
Mill Creek tp...
74
148
Cloverdale tp..
381
Total
2,0*9
5,666
Farmers are complaining of too much wheat. Nine out of ten of them have more wheat than they can get rid of, and the thresher men are at a stand still, as the farmers have no place to store the grain. Graneries are full, houses are full, and no market to sell in. This stops the machines. If there was a ready market at Republican prices then all would he well and money would be plenty. Now there is no market at forty-five cents Democratic prices. Greencastle Banner-Times. Nearly every Republican paper you
It is not a fairy tale that I am going to tell you, remarks a contributor to the Philadelphia Times, though I do take you far away to the orient, the land of the lotos flower, the land of the pyramids, ofithe obelisks, and the Nile, but a story true in word and fact. It is the story of a key, before which vast treasure houses, impenetrable for ages, opened their doors. And when the portals were thrown wide the searchers gazed upon vistas containing riches of which their wildest imaginings had never dreamed. It is not a kev of gold, though its value is more than its weight in that precious metal, nor is it shaped like a key at all. And the wealth it unlocked is not only for its finders, hut for all that desire to partake of it, for all posterity, for you and for me. I speak of the Rosetta stone, which is now in the British museum. Many years ago Ptolemy Epiphenes, king of Egypt, paid the arrears of taxes and other debts of the priesthood of Egypt, and in thanks and to show their respect for his consideration the priesthood, at a synod held in Memphis, passed a decree commemorating it. The decree was cut into stone, as that was the mode of preserving the record of historical events. This happened about one hundred and ninety-four years before the Christian era. You must know that the Egyptians had a different mode of writing from ours. They used hieroglyphics, or pie ture writing, and this, after great re search, has been discovered to be the written interpretations of sounds. That a record of Epiphenes’ deed might not be lost the Egyptians had the decree written in three different
The books for the coming year are sixteen in number. They are selected to suit the requirements of all grades of the common and high school courses of study. Very great pains have been taken in selecting these books. The hope and intention of those who are pushing forward this movement is to place in the hands of the children such reading matter as will build up in them a taste for wholesome, educational reading mat ter. Children learn to read by read ing, and parents who furnish their children nothing but their text-books in reading are often disappointed because their children do not learn to read. We would like to enroll three thousand names in this circle next year with a total of ten thousand books read. Just think of it! If ten thousand books are read by the children of Putnam county next year, outside of their regular text-books, what momentum will be given to the work of education! Will not every parent help to facilitate this movement by encouraging their children to read as many of these books as possible? We invite you to examine them and judge for yourselves if they are not such as you would like to have your hoys and girls read.
F. M. Lyon, Co. Supt.
pick up contains similar items and languages—the hieroglyphic, the do
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one wonders if the overflow of the lunatic asylum is running the Republican press. They are the most senseless items one could well think of, and are so brazenly false that one is
amazed.
Let’s see about these Republican prices. In March 1885 when Grover Cleveland took his seat as President the first time wheat was selling at from 45c to 50c a bushel. At the end of his term of office it was selling from $1 to $1.05. When Grover took charge again it was selling at 65 cents. If you want to argue that politics causes high wheat prices the fact that it doubled in price during the first four years of Cleveland’s administration is evidence that Democracy makes good prices. During Harrison’s term it decreased in price 25 per cent. During Cleveland’s it in creased 100 per cent, and during the first year of the present administration it has only fallen 10 per cent. The Democrat does not claim that change of administration has anything to do with it. Like everything else it is merely the law of supply and demand. That blessed McKinley bill is also said, by Republicans, to help the price. When wheat sold for $1.05 in Spencer there was no tariff on it.
AN IMPLOSION.
A Process
Kxactly the Reverse of an
Kxplosion.
P
AINT cracks.— It
often costs more to prepare a
_ , . . , , | house for repainting that has been Every one knows what an explosion . , . , . , • i i is, but its opposite, an implosion, is less painted m the first place with cheap familiar. At great depth in the sea the ready-mixed paints, than it would conditions are favorable for its produc- tQ have pa j nte d j t tw i ce with strict-
lion. At twenty-five hundrea fathoms 1
the pressure is, roughly speaking, two ly pure white lead, ground in pure
and a half tons to the square inch— j linseed oil.
that is to say, several times greater than the pressure exerted by the steam upon the piston of a powerful engine. A beautiful experiment to illustrate Die enormous force of this deep sea pressure was made during the voyage
Strictly Pure White Lead
of H. M. S. Challenger. Wo quote from forms a permanent base for repaintThe Fauna of the Deep See ing and never has tube burned or Mr. Buchanan hermetically sealed at scnipc( l () ft- on account of scaling both ends a thick glass tube several or cracking. It is always smooth inches in length full of air He d dean 6 To be surc . of getting wrapped this sealed tul>e in flannel • ., t i i u and placed it in one of the wide copper ^
cylinders, used to protect deep-sea ; thermometers when they are sentdown
with the sounding apparatus.
The copper cylinder had holes bored I in it. so that the water hud free access j
inside, around the glass.
The copper case containing the sealed glass tube was sent down to a deptli of
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White Lead TmtniR Colors, a one-pound can to s 25-pmmd IceR of Lead and mix your own paints Saves time ami annoyance in matchinR shades, and insures the best paint that it is pos-
two thousand fathoms and drawn up
1 tihle to put on wood.
again. It tvas found that the cylinder was bulged and bent inward, just as if it had been crumpled inward by being
violently squeezed.
The glass tube itself, within its flannel wrapper, was reduced to a fine powder, almost like snow. The glass tube, it would seem, as it slowly descended held out long against the pressure, but at last suddenly gave way, and was crushed by the violence of the
action to a fine powder.
This process, exactly the reverse of an explosion, is termed by Sir Wyville
Thomson an implosion.
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motic and the Ureek. This was done as a precaution, because, as the coun try had many dialects, a language once in use was likely to die out in time. So by making this trilingual copy of the event, each a translation of the other, it was likely to be pre-
served.
Years passed and the dust of ages buried from view the stone which was destined to play so important a part in throwing a light upon the shadowy conception of modern thinkers regarding the past life and manners and customs of the Egyptians. This is the origin of the Rosetta stone, but no one in the modern world knew of its existence until the time of Napoleon. He carried his conquering arms all over Europe, and, not content with his victories there, he invaded Egypt, where he fought the brilliant Egyptian campaign. While stationed near Rosetta, in lower Egypt, some of the soldiers with the French engineer, M. Boussard, found, while excavating in the historical soil, a block of stone of black basalt about three and one-half feet in length and a little more than two and one-half feet in width. On it they saw strange and unintelligible writings or drawings. It was the Rosetta stone, so called from the name of the place where it was found, but they did not dream how precious their discovery
would prove.
Aud it was not until about fifteen years had passed that even one word was translated. Dr. Young in 1815
Frompt Action Savon the Life of a Fat
Urchin.
Mr. .Tamrach, the London dealer hi wild beasts, is a man of great personal strength and of corresponding courage. On one occasion he was called upon to use both against a tiger which had escaped from its “den.” Mr. Phil Robinson tells the story in his recent book, ‘‘Some Country Sights and Sounds.” In moving a “den,” into which a tiger had been just delivered, the bottom fell out and the rest of the structure immediately collapsed. The tiger walked out from under the heap of planks and iron -bars, and suddenly appeared in the yard. Many people were looking on, the children, of course, being well to the front. On the appearance of the
tiger there was a stampede.
The tiger picked up a fat urchin by his clothes, und walked out of the yard with its dinner in its mouth, intent upon finding a convenient place in which to take its meal. Mr. Jamrach ran after the beast, filing himself upon its back, and grasping his throat with both hands, choked it until it opened
its mouth to gasp for b#eath.
The urchin dropped out and scram- j
Come and See Me
And bring your pockot-book &long y if you owe Christy Brothers, Christy & Mundy, or It. K. Christy, of Reno, on note or account. I need the money, I have waited patiently, and I hope you will see the propriety of calling
and settling at once.
4tl5 R. K. Christy.
Folding fans were invented in Japan, and were sugested by the way in which a bat closes its wings. It is asserted that in 99 eases out of 100 the left side of the human face is the more perfect in outline. A sooty chimney can be cleaned by firing a gun or a pistol up the fine. The concussion dislodges the soot
and it tumbles down.
A young woman somnambulist of | Crab Creek, Ontario, recently plunged into a stream and swam across it
while asleep.
The largest artificial stone in the world forms the base of Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty, Bedloe Island, New
York Harbor.
An old boiler, which the owner
If You Want to Hurt Your Town
Kick.
Kick hard. Don’t pay a cent under any circumstances for advertising or otherwise - and kick continually. Refuse to enter any combination that w'ill be a oeneht to any one In. I yourself. Always speak ill of your competitor in business; kick at the merchants, school teachers, doctors, newspapers, town board and everything else. Always buy ot peddlers, if possible, and give your home merchants the
go-by.
Speak of your own town as the most immoral place on earth and say a bad word for it every chance you
can get.
If a stranger comes to town, tell him that everything is overdone, and that the town is no good on general principles. This will be a good drawing card to new business and indus-
tries.
Stop your homo paper, ask your friends to do the same, and insist that they take the Bungtown Blister or the Sunday Sun. This will give your
Sentiments Expressed. The Indianapolis Sentinel has beei interviewing our citizens on tarii matters, fid lows: The feeling among Democrats hen on the merits of the tarilVcontroversj between President Cleveland and the House, on the one hand, and the Senate on the other, is most decidedly with the President and his action, and that the House should take no steps bnekward In an interview to-day with M. D. Bridges, a banker here, he said that the House should stand firm for the Wilson bill and settle this tariff matter at once; that the President’s letter was the right thing, aud done at the right time. George Campbell said that while the Wilson bill was not the preference of many, or perhaps a majority of the Democratic Senators, it comes nearer suiting the masses than any other bill, and the present Congress must pass a tariff bill of some kind, whether it be what they prefer or not. Elijah Grantham,farmer “The Wilson bill is the bill for the masses, and Congress should stand by Grover not back down.” James L. Randel, banker, is lor the Wilson bill, wants no backing down
To day when it sells for 45 cents it j mode out the word Ptolemy, and he it has tariff of 50 oer cent. 'was that discovered that the writing
was phonetic, mid no! ideographic, as had been supposed. But. the key had not. yet done its work, for, like Aladtlin »is<t nis lamp, the talisman had not
. yet been conquered.
Importation of patent medicines into Turkey is forbidden by law. The largest inclosed body of water in the world is the Caspian sea. Two Barons, a Lieutenant and a lawyer are ushers in a New York theater. The rock of Gibralter is an exact representation of a lion lying in a resting position. German post office employes are not permitted to marry without the special permission of the Government. For the 88 United States Senators at Washington there are 16 pages, and they all thoroughly enjoy their positions.
Dr. Young, continuing in his research. deciphered the word Berenice among the pictorial writings on the frescoes at Karnak. But it is to Champollion that most of the credit is due, for he continued th' 1 research unremittingly. and finally his labors were crowned >vi*h v’etory T^e ‘ranslation of the Rosetta stone was completed— that is to say, so far as the stone itself is complete, for one part of it is
broken off.
It was not an easy task to conquer, but one well Worth the attempt, and honor will ever redound to the men that undertook and succeeded in opening up the broad field that glows with glorious deeds and vast achievements and that for ages baffled the wisest.
hied off. The tiger, drawing at one i claims belonged to the first boat protremendous draught a whole lungsful | pelled by steam in the world, is a
of air. turned upon Mr. Jamrach. Just '\ re ]; c Frederick Md. then a man from the yard came run- ; .... , ,, , ,
ning up with u crowbar, and as the | * * ie L>-,856 craters which have tiger turned, he struck it a tremendous been discovered on the moon are thump on the head. For a moment the supposed to have been caused by a
tiger was dazed, but only for a moment; 1 bombardment of aerolites.
snSKraa sMf a <■•*»*?<• ^ ^ **■.« struck the great beast another mighty Jl ^ ( ^ uner ^‘ l ) 0 until the tnn ol thump. j Charlemagne. Previous to that they
The beast, as if taking in the situa- reclined at their meals. tion, trotted all by itself straight to the '
yard, and, finding the door of an empty i T i s the opinion of the Jewish Mesili ii open, walked in. | senger that, though there may not be
A MUD DIAMOND.
Tho Funny Mtatuke Made by a Church
C’nngrcgat Ion,
“Every one knows that in tho early days of Methodism a considerable degree of strictness was maintained in
much danger that Jewish immigrants from Russia will bring the cholera to this country, it is prudent to discourage Russian immigration for some time to come, or until the epidemic has
disappeared from Ilaseia.’
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the editor materially, which " you: Orover wrote that ietter in whie must avoid above everything ebm. ! »P the * n,malB ” m tho Sen ‘ If you arc in business don’t adver-| a ' R L 0 , IIair> polilicialli Suy8 hc! U Kick because you and your friends just at this time does not know who | ivictt on o j j i0 )(J bu £ W ants the Senate to
stand firm; if he cannot get tho McKinley bill then he is for the Senate
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Uncle Sam's Lake (tiiardian.
The United States navy maintains upon the northwestern lakes, with
regard to the wearing of jewelry,” said j
Rev. L. (». Cole, an elderly divine, re- "** Separated from his wife ten years, eontly, to n representative of the St. divorced one day at six o’clock p. m., Louis Globe-Democrat. and marr i ed to another woman within “An incident that amused me a great thirt minutes from the timo the court
deal happened soon after 1 had entered 1 , x
the ministry. One Sunday just ns ! | granted the divorce, is the history in a was in the midst of my sermon a worn- nu ^ s J lc “ a v Uerinauis main-
an rose and left the church, slamming mouiul experience,
the door as she went out with unnecessary violence. Of course I supposed I had said something in my sermon at which she had taken offense, but later 1 made inquiries and learned that she
lx Nebraska a man was convicted of theft and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. A new trial was asked for,
but the man had served his time and
had left because I wore a ‘wicked been* discharged before tho supremo bosom pin ’ rhe amusing part of it court decided he was entitled to a new
was that 1 had ridden to church over a trial.
very muddy road, and one drop of mud
had settled in the middle of my shirt ; bosom and had deceived the good sister ] into believing that I had adorned my-
self with a bosom pin.”
The starfish has no nose, but the
headquarters at Erie, Pa., the cruiser whole of its under side is endowed Michigan, of six hundred and eighty-j w ith the sense of smell, five tons displacement, and about | ,, , .. three hundred indicated horse power.! Tho " Oman now on earth She is Of tho fourth rate, an iron-!>« Mile. Paulina of Holland, 18 years hulled propeller, neither swift nor old, and 2u inches high. She weighs formidable. She usually has for com-' less than nine pounds. mander an officer below the rank of ■ - ■ ■ ■
captain, and her wardroom is occupied j by three watch officers, u surgeon, u paymaster, and an engineer. Duty on
Up in (Itiography.
A school inspector in Scotland was examining a class in geograpiiy, and wishing to ascertain whether the class understood that it is morning on tlu; other side of the globe when it b night with us, he said: "Suppose one fine morning, after dressing, you sud denly dropped through to New Zealand and asked for breakfast, what would the people say?” “It’s your sup per you should be asking,” said s
bright little girl.
are not permitted to run the town, and if you do run it, kick anyhow.
When Raby was sick, wo gave hor Oastoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Caslorla. When sho became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When sho had Children, she gave them Cosloria.
be neglected. Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla to be
cured.
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the Michigan la rather > “ig 1 ' 4 after, as it is pretty nearly equivalent to shore duty, and yet carries full sea pay. The | duty ou the whole is more agreeable for stalt'officers than tor subordinates of tho line, as tho latter have tho watch and it keeps tliree watch officers pretty busy when one of their number must occupy the deck day and night. By doubling up a little each watch officer can have every other dny off,and that is, perhaps, the arrangement ou
small ships.
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