Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 April 1898 — Page 6

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ARGUS OUTPOINTED.

-IN INSECT THAT IS CREDITED WITH THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND EYES.

-i-nt ist,- Have "Ial. Som- Wnnderfal Iirovrri- In This Line, but They fltVI th l'.il in to the Common Dragon Kly Inten sting Natural Hitry. Thirty-six thousand eyes in ono head! TMl may appear little like exaggeration, tut it is afaet. Seizure, baeketl hy the mkaoseope, says so, and science never ita feehei the truth. Should it do go Jt would mm to be a science. Aigns was fai led to have a hundred eyes, but Argils would be a very insignificant curiosity compared with the latest Aiaoovery in the insect kinpdom. There ue munbera of insects with 100 and even MM eyes, but when the number of optics allotted to a .-;ngle insect leaches Op into the tfeosjssatdfl the idea is startling. Naturalists have recently been enpapcd in th.' -rudy of this most interesting subject. Each succeeding day brings nore marvelous results until the astounding discovery has been made that the common dragon fly, or mosquito hawk, while seemingly possessed of only two visual organs, really has as many as M,000, each of the two visible to the ordinary observer beiii subdivided in 1 8,000 separate lenses, each eyelet ha inn a distinct nerve connecting it tii the brain and acting entirely imlt i X ndeutly of its myriad of companions. The theory most generally adopted by scientists is that, while far superior to the eye oi higher animal life as regards moving objects, the power of observation oi theo nipositecye is inferior in its application to stationary things. The n bjob is this: The moving object is first obsi rred by one of the tboasandt of fact r. which p( rceives it for the infinit' simal part cf a second that it take9

to it out of tbo arc of vision of that

particular lens and pass into that of another, each movement being separately

telegraphed to the brain by the facet on

duty. But with a stationary object it is different, sinco for some reason the minor organ fails to focus accurately, and so render the object less distinct

than when viewed by eyes of only one lens each. A question which continues to puzzle the scientists is whether the animal or ins. i r .-. s as many images of the objects as in- has eyes, or facets. For instance, does the dragon fly fancy he is flitting over 3, 000 ponds, or does he see only One? Pn bul ly one, for the two eyes oi a human being in normal condition show but a single image. Besides, apart from -r,in lenses iind cones in front, the eye is a hollow sphere pierced by perforations vanning down the facets toward the center. It follows that the light iinpressk bs thus form a single picture, or mosaic, as it m re, each facet presenting a slightly different pic ture from its neighbor and the group presenting a perfect whole, J b re are many other animals pos sensed oi an extraordinary number ol eyes. James Francis Stevens, a noted entomologist, is said to have recorded 1,000 such specie! in his garden in one afternoon, w hile Francis Pascoe, another noted naturalist, counted 80 different sp ictmena on his library window. The common scallop, for instance, has many eyes scattered irregularly over its body. The lobster has massed together in each orb more than a hundred dis

tinct eves, and, unlike human eves

HAPPENED IX FRONT. FLAYERS TELL OF FUNNY EXPERIENCES THEY HAVE HAD.

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KnVct l'pon Actor of latcmpttOM Prosa the Aulienc--Tlw Hssi ". l Sneesed. Slay lrwln and "Th Widow Jo ' Wanted Iturr Wnfutsrtl to :ik Him." Players are affected almost as deeply by happenings in the audience as i the audience by happenings on the Btagi Sometimes they arv moved to wrath, hnt more frequently to laughter. Occasfc n ally tbey are frightened out of tin It lines. A man pat in an aisle seat, three rows from the front, at a performance of "El Capitau" the other night lb- was a fat man, mid ho gave a sneess sodeb nly terrific sneeze. It ft as followed Ivan other that shook the plnmei on the big hats of the women around and made the lights flicker. The audience suspended attention and looked at the mm i Zi r. und the players paused just a he snort, d out a third Sneeze that end d in a high note such as seldom had been h aid in those parts, though the Metropolitan

Opera House is near by. Kl Capitan rates,

stretched out his long arms toward the man, rolled his big eyes heaven ward and said in a sepulchral voice: "Heaven bless yon, sir." This brought the audience back totbs stage with a roar, and in a Second the performance was running on at high

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TO THE KLONDIKE. ITalMSbt Information Tor PMSSSMi to Ii! GÖM iteMSa Persons Who expect to try their luck in the gold fields of Alaska will Iind it

profitable 10 call on ticket acents of the j

Pennsylvania line and get posted on

rontea and other preliminaries.

Thii information will be furnished without ehame, and any required aid to shaping details will be cheerfully ex tended. It not convenient to apply to local agent i the Pennsylvania lines Betid your DAUM and address, with date

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pressure, wmie ine iai man enncueu probable number id ine party, ana a rw over the fact that for a brief space he ueg( for a(jvice yu;ut the fare, tun of had been the etarof the evening A few o5her ,,arikM1arS) lo the fob minutes later I Ban renter asked Mr : repiesentative oi the I'assenyer Hopper how he was affected bj the ' . . funnv things that happen in the audi- ief.an.nent and a prompt reply ml U be ence. After getting a grip oji El ('a pi- made. C. L Kimball, A. Ii. r, Agt. tan's nose and throwing down a cup cf Ceveland, O.I

hot coffee, as he does between acta, be answered: 4 A nwirinon onflirrrc ;ito m t fLllinil-

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Ktranve, auu as a xuie imnp in u i n.ij' ; - . l Pnblic iti in front i )T -niiise the man who

im The new one thousand mile ticket

hneeeu ionium iwiun i ui iji i, vw .-i" - ssade such a blasting access of it Chat -llehatt tonn, of the Central Passenger it affected the whole house and there-1 association, interchangeable orer more fore the players. If an actor is playing tJl in twent) thousand miles of railroad, a part where he can say something, it w placed on .-.Ml at i)rinciial o.i ces is the best thing to do for it mab B th, m of , VliIiSylvailiii ioea est of Pittaall laugh and keeps them from noticwg . r "f7, 1 I borgh, on Wednesday morning, SeptemMay Irwin is an actress with whom bar 1st. The sale ot present form of even metropolitan andieneea take liber- j mileage ticket will be discontinued on ties. "People have a hahit of calling to and. after 3nst

me from the audience when they want

me to sing a special song or to recite something," she said the other vening. "One night a man in the body of the house called out to me to recite lliawatha. ' He took ino off my feet for a minute. I couldn't remember a line ( it, but I called back: '1 will if you'll

Take a i.:k- Tom t Islaad ! Br Go to Mackinac Island, Mich., via the coast line. The D. A C new steel passeDger steamers leave Toledo, Mondays am Saturdays tOdO a. bl, and Tuesday nnd Thursdays, iS?o p.m. From

give nie my cue. I've forgi t r . n how it Detroit, Mondays and Saturdays,

starts. 1 lie gave me the lir.st luie, and I shouted it for him. "When I was playing the Widow Jones ono night, during the kissing scene between Rice and myst If a man shouted, Td like to be in your place, Mr. Rice. I would. 1 Rice and I wt ro both convulsed, and the audience roar d. When the ph-ce is funny, it often adds to the humorous situation for some one in front to do something nnnsnal "I never shall forget an experience I

p. m., ihesdays and t'ridays, a Bf, Semi 2 cents for illustrated pamph-

a.ddrei A. . SCUAMTZ, (i. T. A. Detroit, Mi-1

tic s are wt ward, instead of being had while playing the W uiow m einnk ovi iw.R th. lnt,ter see cinnati, though of course it lsn t art lor

things a hundn lfold? If so, possibly it Is in avoiding the 99 imaginary lobster pots that he stumbles into the real ono. The common house fly has 4,000 eyes,

the cabbage butterfly 17,000, the drono fly 8,000, the honeybee C.IJUO. But still at the head of the list stands the niosquiro hawk, or dragon fly, with hia 8t;.U00. As his name suggests, while not despising any of the smaller insects, his sp cialfy is the mosquito. Indeed ho ha.- so succ eeded in terroriziug these little pesti that his lifeless form still fills them with alarm. In localities where niosquiu s are troublesome an effectual mouc of ridding the place of them consists in suspending a dead dragon A f from the ceiling by a piece of thread. Those who have tried it say that it has sanrer 1 en known to fail. Up to a certain point these multitudinous ejea may be compared to windows fitted with innumerable panes of glass. The panes, however, are of diff reut forms. Some, like thoso of the baa and the ant, uro six sided, reminding us of tho pattern so common in Gothic archi recture. Sonie, again, are uiamond slur d and others 6quare. Anntlc r faa resting branch of this inten stmg suWjeet is the study of the near

and far sighted insects. Johanna Müller loii' ago pointed out that the flight of insects depends upon their power of vision. This will account for the difference in the flights of the common house fly and the wasp. The one confines himself to short flights. As his food is always to bo found within a small area, he flies in short curves and circles. But the s asp is remarkably sharp sighted, and the arrangement of the lenses shows that his line of vision is decidedly forward. Here, again, the dragon fly is preeminent. He has well been called the tyrant of tho air. He alone is able to take perfectly straight lines at enormous peed for long distances, evidently seeing well what is ahead of him. New Orleans Times-Democrat.

above points on dates named.

i m ii niton Rate via I.. Km a W. lhnme seekers excursions on April 1, Ö, IS and 19 to North-west and Southiraat. T Indianapolis April " and '5 also 25 and To New Carlisle, Ohio, Mav 9R 27 and 89. To New Orleans.

an actor to see anything that go I on in May , 7, and 8. To Hloomington, front or to recognize any! ody in the au- , . ,.. . . .. " j j 11. w i 1- Ind.. May 10 and 11. lo Indianapolis dience, and I never do I den t think. ' ' One night, as I was aaying, in the ci ! :,il-v lc and ,T- 1 0 Indianapolis May of cinders and beer, I none, d the queer-83 and !4. To Danfllle, Iii., -I line 11 and est looking old woman down in front ! 12. To Toledo, )., .Inn- l and 16. To She looked like a farmer 'i wife, and she Laporte, Ind . Jone 80 to 86 inclusive, kept per ring up at mo over her glasses, j 0 Jambus, Ind., May 16, 17 and 18. She didn't laugh once, and in all my! rjn gccounl (i A R annual encaniplife I never saw a human being take I men) OW rate will he made to

woman who was equally serious, r ina ly the old woman jumped up :uid, peer ing at me over her glasses and shaking her finger in my face, said, with a rasping, western twang:

M 'Well, you don't look ono hit like!

her.' "I was flustered, but I managed to

gasp: 44 4 Liko whom?' "4Liko the Widow Jones,' she answered. 44 'Well, I am,' said L " 4I don't believe a word you'ro sayin, 1 said she, 4 for I know'd the WidowJones and her husban' nigh on to 20 years ago. I stood up with Ym when they was hitched, and you don't look like her. She went off from these parts, and I heerd she was a widow and that Jones

was dead, and then I heerd she WSJ at this the ater, and I cum to see. You ain't the Widow Jones, and I just want to say one thing more I riou't see how you dare to take other people's names and use 'em.'

THE CENTRAL PAJWEMGEB1 AHM iviio leee mile imtebv CHAXfJEAllUC KKIIATE TICKET Isfor sals at principal Ticket Offices of THE PElfMAYLTAHIA I.IM S. it is booored one year from date of sals, for Rzelmtiae Ticketa over fitb r ot the tollowiu named lanes : Ann Arbor. Baltimore & Ohio, Baltimore A Ohio Southwestern, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chicago & Wtst Michigan. Cincinnati & Muskingum Yal'ey, Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton, Cleveland & Marietta. Cleveland. Canton & Southern, Cleveland. Cincinnati. Chicago & St Louis, Cleveland. Lorain & Wneeliny. Cleveland Terminal & Valley, Columbus. Hocking Valley & Toledo. Columbus. Sandusky & Hocking, Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation. Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western, Dunkirk. Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh, Evansvi'ie & Indianapolis,

Evansvilte & Te.' re Haute, Findlav. Fi. Wayne & Western, Flint & Fers M irquette. Grand Sapids & Indiana, Indiana. Decatt r & Western, Lake Siore & Michigan Southern. Louisville & Nrshville (HetweeS Louisville artdO cinnati ami POtSW St. Louis atid Kvansvillc), Louisville. Evansvüle & St. .'.ouis, LbUtsville. Henderson & St. Louis, Michigan Central, New York. Chicago & St. Louis. Ohio Central Lines. Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh, Peoria, Decatur & Evansvüle, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. Pittsburgh & Western, Pittsburgh, Lisbon & Westum, Yo.edo, St. Leaf & Kansas City, Vanda'.ia Line. Wabash Railroad. Zanesville & Ohio River. The prtae of Utes Tickets la Thirty Dnllan sach. They sie not tmmfBriible. If ibc ticket is ux'-l in its entirety sad exeiosirelv bj tin original purchaser, a rebsls of Ten Dolisrs 1 paid by the ftmtmiaslotief if tiiw tentral Pawrny t Aasoelatloa V.. A FORP, Pittsburgh, Pa., Cru'l J'-nst tnj, r Anint Si. ill. X, lV.'T.

VAX DA I.I A LINK TIME TABLE, aeffsel Dsessiber 5, TrstM leers riymoutii as follows: FOIt rfj K M'KTH. No. 6, M " ISM :i tt. " No. s, " 4- Hell P. rn. " roa i HI south. No. h, K'-.-).t saaday, 5:Sd h m. for Terrs Hanta No. 3, " 1-': p. Ill for complete Thne Card, rfrUtf JI trains and stations, and for full information as to rates through cars, etc., address T. A. DOWNS, Agent Plymouth . Ind E. A. FOKD. (ianerHl Passenger Agent. St. Louis M

has demonstrated tea thousand times that it is almost Infallible FOR WOMAN'S PECULIAR WEAKNESSES. frrefrnlaritfei! and derangements. It has become the leading remedy tor this clans of troubles. It exerts s wonderfully healing, strengthening and soothing influence upon the menstrual organs. It cores "whites' 1 and falling of the womb. It stops flooding ana relieves sop

Knew How. Frifiid (making a call) You are not lookiiiK very robust. Do you eujoy good health? Mrs. Stayatt-Holmo (with a sigh) Indeed I do! But I nardly ever have a chance to. Chicago Tribune.

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44 With that she flounced out, but the next day when I appe ared at a lelieiTMl she was on hand to give me another bleat I explained to her how it was. She'd never seen a play before and had come 20 miles to see her old friend, the Widow Jones. There was a time when such things frightened tho life out of me, but I've learned to turn them to good account." Perhaps thero is not another man on the stage so phlegmatic as Burr Mcintosh during unusual occurrences in front. He lays his coolness all to tho training he got on the football field when he was at Princeton. 44 1 find more unexpected things happen on the stage than in tho audience," said Mr. Mcintosh. "However, the first night we opened in 4 At Piney Ridge' I got a piece of advice from the front. I said to the villain, 'You lef 1 the colonel's baby up thar, an you brung yo' own down heah.' And his lines follow. 4 You lie.' I instantly make a movement as if to strike him; but, remembering that ladies axe present, my arm drops tO my side. Afaon in front v.;i so in foriiti .1 with t&hearth-''--v,l In thai he . Uil oat to me 't ' Hit

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pressed and patnfsl menstruation. For Change of Liie It is the best medlciue made. It la beneficial during pregnancy, and helps to bring children Into homes barren for years. It Invigorates, stimulates, strengthens the wbols system. This great remedy is offered to all afflicted women. Why will any woman suffer another mlnnte with oertaln relief within reach t Wine of Cardui only costs $1.00 pee bottle at your drug store. For mAiAc. in ctue rwuHi Metel Sww

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Rev. 1. W. SMITH. Camdtn. t. C. yet "My wife used Wine of Csrdut s! home for falling ol the womb sad M sattreiy cured her."

Lake Erie & Western R- R. Indianapolis t: Micliigan ( ity Division l Lbbs i ar.i Nnmber En effed Deoembsr C 1K. NOKTII BOUKD TUA1N8. o. as. Dos to leave Ptymouth at IVM a. No. L"J. " " " t:ll p. 80LTH BOUND TKUNSi No. if. DBS to loiiv riyiinnith at Oi.'Vi a. ni Nc. 29. " " " : P- ni No. t51 -Local freight, lv. " 11:55 a. ni USS. Hi M and B run daily esespt Sunday. ':t makes direct SOODSetloai at Indianapolis with Pennsylranls Co., Big Four, and C. H. ft l.; also at Tipton with main Uns trains for all points easl and west. J. ftf. DAL HKNSl'KCh. Agent Plvmouth..lnd

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Ckansje 1 Benednle on Fenney 1 enaia line A change In the Bcbedala Ol passen

gertraiti8 on the Pennsylvania lines want Into effect Sunday March 0 1888,

under tne tiew schedule the time ol trains at Plymouth is as follows: W EST

ITj 536 a m 5 8:41 a m :i7 9JS a m :ut '2:10 p m i 6:10 p m 7 :4T p m

KAST No. 4 tstl a m No. 4:."U a m No. 2( 10 JB a m No. S 5:47 p m No. I T:50 p m No, 's - 8:52 p m

student- l ibl ' r Vaation Halen. Ity Meklo

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Low rates every where. A Peerless Trio of 1'ast Bzpress trains daily' East

mid W est . All trains arrive at and de part from I nion Pesaennet Station VanBoran SI reel. Chicago. See Agents

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Contest

Two Ladies will be sent to Niagara Falls by tliis paper. The Independent inaugurates a popular lady con test. Who is the Popular lady of Plymouth? "Who is the popular lady of Marshall county residing outside of Plymouth. Each subscriber will be allowed one vote for each penny paid in on subscription. He may vote either for a lady residing in Plymouth or for some lady in Marshall county residing outside of Plymouth. The young lady living in Plymounth and the young lady residing outside of Plymouth who receive the most votes will be sent to Niagara Falls by this paper.

Fnrevimnlc! If Smm Tone owes Si joo for the Independent, he will

.u- .in I .1 lim in xlvanee. l total of $:.. He will he

pay nie iiuiiiii .iiiw .ii . v . 7 allowed to east 250 votes either tor whom he considers the most popular - ... me- 111 a a

Ladv in Plymouth, or for the most popular laviv m Marshall couni oui-

side- of Plymouth. If Sam Jones iss new subscriDer nc win pwj io"

and will be allowed 150 votes in the popular lady contest.

We Want Agents

We want agents for this paper in every sec tion of the county. Excellent inducements will be made know n to young men or women upon application who are able to devote their entire time to soliciting. Knowing that there are some boys and girls w ho do not care to do much soliciting bot who can easily secure five or ten subscribers, we will make them this special offer. Send us five new subscribers with $1.50 for each subscriber and we w ill furnish each subscriber, the Weekly Inpendent for one year allowing 150 votes each in popular lady contest and we will give the agent who send in the names adoen photographs of him self or herself, made either by photographer Rotzein or Webster. lest work Any agent who fails to secure five subscribers, will be paid liberally for w hatever subscriptions he does take. If 10 subscribers are secured, the premium will be correspondingly liberal. Receipts can be secured by agents by calling at the dice with references. Commence now . Don't delay.

INDEPENDENT PLYMOUTH, INDIANA.