Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 April 1896 — Page 6

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EXPRESS MATTER BY TROLLEY.

j - • - ODD USE FOR RAT3KINS.

The close observer who calls and sees or It GOODS

-AND LEARNS OUII Pit ICES

That we sell the very best Staple and Fancy Groceries, Produce, etc. the lowest possible figures. Don’t want to get rich in a day are satisfied to sell firstclass goods for the least possible money.

Give me your orders and I will fill them to*suit you—1 want your patronage.

J J WEIDA.

Toirnslii/t l rn*t< f'.s Sotir<\ I will he at my ollice, locat»<i in my bouat at Oakalla, on Saturday of i-u-li wctic, to attend to Mu-h of my oftiidal duties as can be transacted on that day the business of issu ing orders and receiving vouchers will be especially attended to on these days. ITtf U. F. Lewis, Trustee.

Trnsti r’.H Satire. I will attend to my official duties aa Trustee of Wash inuton ton uship on the second, fourth and lifth Saturdays of each month at Keelsville. and on Wednesday of each week at mv residence. 19tf S. Q. Bowd.

Totrn>hi/) Truntrr’s \otirc. I will attend to the business of my office on Tuesday and Friday of each week, at my office, in the store of James Bridges, at Fillmore. and on these days will issue (orders anil receive vouchers, and at no other time, tfiv David M. Ciiadd, Trustee.

A. T. KEIGHTLEV. M. I. KEIQHTLET. DENTISTS. Over American Exeuess Office, GREEN0A8TLE, IND. Teeth filled and extracwd without pain.

The .Most Ssnsible.

rasrai m sight

Is a pair of Gold Spectacles, and the only place to have them correctly fitted is at 106 Kast Washington street. No one every sold glasses so cheaply in Greencastle. Don’t

glasses so cheaply --

trust your eyes to spectacle peddlers and

jewelers.

G. W, BENCE, M. D.

MONUMENTS.

Now ArraiiRomcnt In Now .lorsoy for troll it-rl tig floods. Newark trill probably be ahead of the rest of the country in doing a light express husiuess by means of trolley ours. The electric railroad has already been used as a means of facilitating the shipment of goods from point to point, but managers everywhere have hesitated about doing local express business because it will always lx 1 hnjHssible to deliver packages directly from the cars w ithout eausingdelay to passenger traffic. There is nothing, however, to prevent the establishment of receiving and distributing offices at ends of each line, and wherever sidetracks are permissible. The Consolidated Traction company has made nn arr ui remcnt by which the T'uited States Express company will do business over the various lines in special ears built for the purpose, and six of the cars are now being built for the experiment, says the Electrical Engineer. They "ill be roomy box ears, equipped with a trolley, and it is proposed to trail a passenger ear behind eaeli of them. fly means of these cars the express company will lie able to do business in every town entered byone of the trolley lines, and it is hoped will pick up considerable business which is now being done by individuals who drive express wagons. It is nn entirely now branch of the express business and must necessarily lie developed by trial before any rules can be formulated for it. It is promised by the Traction company that the express ears will* never be permitted to delay or interfere with pnssjnger traffic.

WOOD PULP FOR STONE.

JHcltzer tV McIntosh,

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Marble anti Granite momjjmziissTS -

Best work »nd lowest prices.

Office and Salesroom lOd E. Franklin St., Greencastle, Ind.

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Abstracts of Title

PREPARED BY HATHAWAY A JOHNSON CHARGES REASONABLE. 22 S. Jackson St, Greencastle.

2. IE. 3Jv£c^Ta,3r,

Attorney-at-Law,

PoftseMes Many Klement* That Most Stone Doys Not. An enthusiastic advocate of wood pulp for building material as a substitute for stone, is Mr. Ci. D. Kiee, of Chicago, who has made the subject, one of ciose study and investigation. IHs conclusion is that it iiossesses the needed elements of a durable constructive substance, being at the same time devoid of some of those features which detract from the value of stone and brick. He summarizes some of the qualities presented by this new factor in building as consisting in its being light in weight, exceedingly hard, a poor conductor of heat and sound, and sufficiently elastic to meet all the requirements for the purpose; it is tough, though a nail can be driven into it. and it can also be drilled, whift* the other necessities of a stone substitute, as enumerated, together with resistance to frost, and heat, with ability to stand strain, and so on, are said to lie met, besides the important item of saving in the cost, of transportation. It is urged further that the difficulty of procuring perfectly square stone blocks, except at high rates, is thus overcome, for the pulp blocks, being east in a. square mold, arc necessarily uniform. Differing from stone and brick, which absorb so much heat in summer, the proposed material is claimed to la* cooler in summer, while in eoid went her .it prevents dampness, so common to stone.

SAILED UNDER AN EVIL STAR.

Notary Public.

'ollections promptly attended to. Also Mtlucting a general intelligence office lor e benefit of the employe and employer, ndor and vendee. Beal estate a specialty,

lice over Central National Bank.

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0-a.rd.rxer, FINCASTLE, IND., breeder of Chester White Hogs, White Holland Turkeys, Merino Sheep and Fancy Poultry.

Long Scries of Dlaaatera That Overtook tile American Ship Hoitnoke. Death and disaster seem to have followed the American ship Hoonoke from the moment she left .New York on June 2<), ib'jfi, until she arrived at San Francisco the other day. The following extracts from the captain's log tell the story: Sailed from Xew Y'ork .Tune 29, 1805. June 29—G. TV. Dobbins, a native of the I'nited States, fell from the mizzen loyal yard and was killed instantly. August 20—Shipped a heavy sea which disabled eight of the watch on deck. August 2S—Oscar Sjienner. a native of Finland, fell from the fore-topsail yard to the deck and was killed. August 28- li, G. Prim, a native of Denmark, fell from the fore-topsail yaru*pverl)tKinl and was lost. August 29—Kept the ship off Montevideo, having but eigiit men on deck. Could not. fetch that port so kept on for Kio tie Janeiro. Arrived at Rio September 10, end put 10 of the crew in hospital and sailed again October 28. After leaving Rio the Roanoke was buffeted by galea ami driven out of her com.se time and again. Strange to say the ship was damaged very little. The Roanoke is n sister ship of the Shenandoah. and i* the largest American mercantile afloat, registering 3,539 tons gross.

All stock registered and satisfaction guaranteed in all sales.

1 will attend to all orders for gas titling and plumbing promptly. All work thoroughly tested and Warranted to Give Satisfaction And prices very low. Give me a cali. FRED. WEIX.

QUINTON JIROA DMTKBET

W. R. VEHTAL.

Real Estate acfl Loan Aeoicj

BROADSTREET & VESTAL Bell, trade and rent real eatute and negotiate cans. All business intruated to them rt)> gives proaiptt attention.' Oull and sea theft.

D. E. WILLIAMSON, kSAA.OVWWV^ CtA AjWVXN ,

OKKKNCAKTLK, IMO.

Basiues* in all courts attended to promptly

HISTORY OF SUFFRAGE FLAG.

An KiiRllfilimnn Who Had a Suit of Clothing Made Out of Th«'iu. It is generally supposed that ratakins a re used in glovemaking, but the skin is too thin and fragile; the thing has been done once or twice, as in making silk from spiders' webs, but more ns a curiosity than an article of trade. In an old news pa per we read says the Washington Itudget, that "an ingenious individual of Liskeard, Cornwall, has for some time past been exhibiting himself in a dress composed from top to toe of ratskins which he has been collecting for three years; it consists of hat, neckeronief, coat, waistcoat, trousers, tippet, gaiters and shoes. The number of ruts required to complete the suit was 670, and the individual, when thus dressed, appears exactly like'one of the Esquimaux described in the travels of Parry and Ross. The tippet, or boa, is composed of the pieces of skin immediately round the tails of the rats, and is a very curious part of the dress, containing about 600 toils,and thosenoueof the shortest.” Several thousand ratskins were at one time imported from France, hut our manufacturers found them too small and too fine in texture. It is not to be supposed, however, that rats are useless; though they look so clean and sleek, they destroy for us an immense quanitity of offal which would otherwise be very dangerous to health. Yet there are few animals so generally unpopular as the rat. The dislike, is not reciprocated, for whatever man settles there appears, as if by magic, a rat. There were thousands in the camp before Sebastopol, and a rat hunt in the trenches was one of the few diversions the campaign afforded.

DELICATE SPECIES OF SPONGE.

Some of the 1'ungt Are of Rare Iteauty uml Fa util* tic (Shape*. Sponges of the common sorts are so well known that people long since ceased to admire their curious and interesting structure. There are some rare species of sponges, however, says the St. Louis Republic, such as the "glass,” ‘•lace” and “tapestry” sponges, that are so exceedingly beautiful that the presence of such a specimen never fails to excite expressions of admiration. The delicate “Venus flower basket” belongs to the family of glass sponges, and is rightly regarded as a wonder by all who have had the privilege of owning or viewing them. This curious "flower basket” is found iu the deep sea near the Philippine islands and in no other place in the world in numbers sufficient to make Ashing for them a profitable industry. This species of sponges looks like delicate threads of glass woven into a curious, beautiful and intricate pattern, some specimens being of such exquisite loveliness that one can scarcely believe that it is simply the skeleton of a variety of s|>ot!ge. This sponge is composed of an immense aggregation of minute "spicules," running lengthwise from end to end, with numerous cross bands at right angles. These bands and cross bands are set with numerous five, six, nine and twelve pointed spicules, some of them filled with dozens of holes, which can only be seen with a microscope, because they are so exceedingly fine.

SWORNTWELVE HUNDRED TIMES

I.ar(;e Stars Represent States in Which Women Have Full RtRhts. The suffrage flag, over which f*ir would-be voters assembled at Washington made much udo. possesses an interesting history. This emblem of woman's full enfranchisement i" rit provided for in the constitution of the National Equal Suffrage association. !i lias sprung into jiopulu" favornmor.g suffragists of local societies and is brought out on state occasions. Tliis flag is cut lifter the pattern of (lie com: utional Stars and Stripes, except the stars are of minor magnitude. As a state gives women the full use of the ballot one star is enlarged to Die first magnitude. At present the flag lias throe bright stars for Wvomir g., Colorado and Utah. Two years ago the Illinois Equal Suffrage association came into possession of a suffrage flag. Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch v ns presented a suffrage flag by the Illinois Suffrage association. She is so proud of the gift she keeps it in o prominent place in her homo, and helps to entertain eailers by explaining .he stars.

This Widow KlK.etl the lllhle During Three Whole Days in Court. A woman in Germany the other day had to be sworn 1,200 times in a suit in which her deceased husband’s estate was involved. The husband, says the New Y'ork V. orld, had been a lumber dealer, and during his long business career a certain cabinet maker had kept a running account with him. Their business relations were so complicated at the time of the merchant's death that there was a difference of opinion between the executors and the cabinet maker ns to the amount the latter owed the estate. The matter was brought into the courts, and at the ttiai the reading of the defendant's affidavit consumed 1'J hours. Then the widow was cited before the magistrates, and during her testimony, so a foreign paper says, was obliged to make oatli 1,200 times, once for each of the 1,200 litigious jioints involved iu tbe suit. This took three whole sittings of the tribunal, but she won the suit.

Treasure Fonnil In a Cave. About 49 years ago a wagon train loaded with valuable goods anil about $80,000 in gold and silver coin, en route from the City of Mexico to the United States, was attacked near Rincon, Mex., by a band of brigands and nil the members of the wagon train wore killed and the booty seized, says a correspondent in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The robbers were overtaken a few days later by a detachment of soldiers and all were killed. The money and store* had been secreted by the outlaws and could not be found. The other day Rafael Villegas was prospecting for mineral ten miles south of Rincon, when lie came upon the entrance to a cave. He explored the cave and found several sacks filled with the money taken by the exterminated band of robbers.

THE HEADSMAN OF NAPLES.

Deutti In FxUe of * Man Who Hail Taken Many Llvet. On the little island of Ustica, 40 miles from Palermo, Italy, there died the other day a man who was for years the terror of the [icople of Naples aiuhthe kingdom of the Two Sicilies, says the New York Tribune. He was Gaetano Iiupellizzeri, once the headsman under Ferdinand 11. of Naples. The useless executions attributed to Impellizzeri are countless and, with the cruelty ho show ed, led to hi* denunciation by Mr. Gladstone 40years ago in the philippics which the statesman directed against Ferdinand. The executions were only in part public; it was the executions in secret —usually a night—which gave the man his power. It was he. who executed in San Francisco place, Naples, the Cala^ brian Agistilas Milanoqiu*. whoon December 9, 1856, mnde.a bayonet thrust at King Ferdinand II., and patriots innpmerable became its victims. When Garibaldi entered Naples in September, 1860, the excited populace went in search of the hated headsman, but he eared much for his own life, although he thought little of that of others, and escaped with bis wife. Later he was imprisoned on the island of Ustica, where be. became nn officer of the fort built in those days to protect the island against pirates. lie was iu receipt of a pension of five dollars a month—much more than be deserved. He was 81 yearsold at the time of bis death.

DREAMED HE WAS IN CONGRESS

Felicity of a Weary Waggles Rudely Dl»turlicil by a House .lanttor. In the crowd which floated into the house, chamber after adjournment one day recently was a ragged and weary looking old man who had evidently not come, to Washington on the “Congressional limited,” says a Washington exchange. After taking n general view of the chamber, which was filled with members chatting and smoking, he ambled down the main aisle and fell into the seat usually occupied by Congressman Stone, of Pennsylvania. He tilted back the chair mid found a resting place for his weary feet under the desk. The room was warm and the air was fragrant with the smoke of good cigars. The old man placed his hut on his lap. folded his arms and turned his eyes toward the beautiful ceiling. In a few minutes he was fast asleep. No one paid any attention to him, and while he slept soundly the members were gradually gathering up their books and papers and going home. Finally, after the crowd had thinned and the time had come for the janitor to pick up tlie waste paper and clean the floor, some one shook the old man's shoulder. He awakened so suddenly that his hat fell to the floor and rolled down the aisle. As he picked it up and wiped off the dust with his coat sleeve, he remarked; “I was just dreaming that I was a congressman.”

IS THIS THE MISSING LINK?

Savant* Think That un Autlirntk- Remote Ancestor Has Heen Found. At the last meeting of the French Societie d'Anthropologie, says the Paris Figaro, the savants of Paris were convinced of the importance of a recent discovery made in Java by Dr. Dubois, a Dutch naturalist, who has at last, he considers, found the real missing link. This scientist made a journey to Java and collected 409 boxes of bones, and among these remains he lias found a skull, a thigh bone and two wisdom teeth, which iu* declares belong to the same skeleton. He has given the name Pythecanthropus Erectus — that is to soy, neither man nor monkey—to the being to which these bones once belonged. When fac-similes of Dr. Dubois’ discoveries were seen by the members of the Roeiete d’Anthropologie they ceased to regard the matter os a joke and were unanimous in their regrets that in place of a thigh bone Dr. Dubois had not found a tibia, because this portion of the mysterious being's nnatomy would have allowed them to decide in a much surer maun?r whether the auimal in question really did walk with his nose in the air, which Ovid remarked was the principal characteristic of humanity.

RATHER EMBARRASSING.

Ammonia for Carpel*.

Carpets, rugs, and stair and hall Ailing can he cleansed by rubbing them with water to which a good quantity

of ammonia is added.

Cneful Machine*. Two of the most interesting automatons now working within the limits of the United States are those used by the government for counting and tying postal cards into small bundles. These machines are capable of counting 300,000 cards in ten hours and wrapping and tying the same in packages of 25 each. In this operation the paper is pulled off a drum by two long “fingers” which come up from below and another finger dips in a vat of mucilage and applies itself to the wrapping paper in exactly the right sjkjI. Other parts of the machine wrap the paper around the pack of cards and then a “thumb” presses over the Kj>ot where the mucilage is, and the package is thrown onto a carry belt ready for delivery.

“ Cuatorlaisnowi'll adapted to children that I recommend It us Buperiortoany prescription known co me.” H. A. Abcher, 1L D., HI So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

“The use of ‘Ccstoria D so universal r.nd Ita merits so well known that it seems a work of siij>ereroi:atit>ii to endorse it. Few ure the Intelligent families who do not keep Caatoria within easy roach." Carlos ILihtvx, I’, p., New York City.

Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, Four Stomach, Piarrhtra, Lructution, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and prumotes 4k gestloa. Without injurious medieUlon.

'■>r several j-rniAS 1 havo ruttocnmcnded - 'Castoria.' mid snail always ronUnue to

“For your ‘

do so as it has iuvuriably produced beneficial rotsults." Edwin F. I’Aimn, M. P. t lC5th Street and 7th Ava., New York City,

Tub Ctstai h Oompant, 77 Mi rrat Stkist, Nkw Yon* CnT.

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In Stock

THE BEST

HARDWARE, TINWARE, STOVES, ETC. Fresh Field and Garden Seeds,

Farm Tools and Implements.

B. S. BENICI i. CO.,

Side.

II. Ia. HAMIIaTOW,

-DEALER IN-

GLASSWARE, ETC.

Ad Ab8C‘iJt‘MMlnlHter G«*tN lllinnolf Into i* rrcdieaiuent. A well-known Washington, minister told a good story to a representative of the Star: "In a country circuit in Virginia,” he said, "it was the custom to wear week-day shoes and stockings to church, because the dust would get them soiled. Sunday footgear was carried along in the hands of the wearers, and when the church was reached a change was effected. One of the ablest ministers in the conference preached at the church, and being told of the custom, and having some distance to w alk from where he was being entertained adopted the same method. One of the lending characteristics of the minister was his absent-mindedness, and thrusting his hosiery in his pocket, he mounted the pulpit. When in the middle of Ids discourse he drew out what he thought was his handkerchief, and nfter wiping his brow laid the article down on the pulpit, where, !o his dismay and the amusement of the congregation, he discovered that it was the pair of extra socks that he had worn to church. lie completed Ids sermon, but it was the last time he ever conformed to that particular custom of the country."

Lowest Prices, Fresh Goods. Call and see me at SOUTHEAST FOKYEK OP SQUARE.

BMES BICYCLES BICYCLES

Lntest up to tlate wheels. Don't fail to see them. Itargrains sea Pianos Fxlesirtcri a Few

Days.

Bee Supplies iu stock.

Headquarters for Sewing Machines.

Please call.

J. F. HILL, GREENCASTLE, IND.

IF YOU WAIT TO SEE The latest improvement in Breaking Plows call and see

The Seeratory

. AT.

MCKNELL lOTARE Ck’S

Stalk Cutters, Avery’s Easy Cultivators Automatic Keel Cora Planters, etc. 9 EAST SIDE SQUARE.

SHATTERED AND SHIPWRECKED BY DISEASE

Needing a tonic to pla;e him on the solid road to convalescence, we throw cut tk$ I lift line in the form of an absolutely pure whiskey. This whiskey is made in the oldfashioned way, at Loretto, Kentucky, by

R. CUMMINS & CO. and is known .>■ die

* - “OLD PROCESS”

The Knnll-Rutaing liuluatry. Rnnils are a great delicacy, they say. Anyhow, enough of them are eaten by ( the gourmets of Luropc to make the raising of snails on n large scale profitable. Switzerland has regular snail farms. Not long ago 110,000 snail*, weighing two tons, were shipped from Meiringcu to Paris in one day.

HAND-MAHR SOIK-MA5M WHISKEY

It has a fine bouquet and flavor, Is ripened by age and not artificially, and is absolutely pure. Each bottle bears the certificate of Prof. J. N. Hurty, Chemist, Indianapolis.

A. KIEFER DRUG COMPANY, Sold only by druxtflsts. Sole Controllers.

INDIANA RO LIS.