Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 327, 2 October 1910 — Page 44

AlliSTOIMS OF FHOiMffECTED There is Premiss of a Good Cattb end Swine Show This Year. sssssssmaasBsn KUTH AFTER DKS DISPLAY

WELL KNOWN PARMER, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE, EXPECT SOME OF THE BEET STOCK FOR 01 1 FLAYS. The executive committee had first thought of dispensing with the cattle exhibit this year on account of the expense and care connected with handling the exhibit, but there was such a strong demand made on the part of cattle men for the exhibit that It was decided to hold It, and to make better provision for cattle than ever before. Mr. Stephen Kuth la chairman of the cattle and swine exhibit, and he says that the outlook for a big display of swine Is particularly good. There also promises to be quite a good display of cattle. In Wayne county there Is to be found real aristocrats of the cattle and swine kingdoms some of the best bred stock In the world and to get such stock for exhibition purposes exceptionally good premiums have been offered. , The Doctors toad Memery. This story is told of Dr. Firrle, the great Eeettlafc surgeon, in "Recollections of lift Years:" "Once wbeo. a lady patient entered hie consulting room he received her with effusion, crying: M 'Mr dearMdam, I have done nothing else bat think over your case. 1 could not get a wink of sleep all last sight for thinking of your "The lady accepted It all as 'gospel truth,' : and after some professional questions and answers she Innocently remarked: - 'Was It not a dreadful thunderstorm last night. Dr. Iirrler MSo X am told, he naively answered, "but I'm such a sound, sleeper that X dldna bear a clap o'tr " eHBBmaejsBjBSjasBjBtJBVavsaemaMM) Keeping Feultry. , A very prominent ponltryman says lie never has any disease among his poultry because he makes It a practice to keep a good sharp an always ready, and by killing and burning any bird showing symptoms of any other than a simple trouble and by maintaining strict cleanliness la and around the poultry quarters he has stamped put

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"Municipal Engineering" Says if Municipal Works Here Are Deserves Its Boastful Title.

The following article appeared in the September issue of the "Municipal Engineering" magaxlne, published at Indianapolis, Ind. It deals with the municipal improvements in this city: If the municipal Improvements of Richmond, Ind., are a true Indication of her financial condition, then her boastful nickname The Panic Proof City" is .well applied. -The streets are all broad, well paved and clean, and In most of the town are arched by trees that are a noticeable feature of the city. The streets are designated by letters, beginning at Main street and running north and south; and by numbers running east and west from the river. The street signs are of brass letters placed in the sidewalks on alternate corners of the street; the old system was that of the metal signs placed on posts. These latter are rusted so aa to be very indistinct, and the former are, like most of that type of atreet sign, difficult to see from a passing vehicle or street car. Parks. Richmond maintains. a park system that is worthy of note. The largest park Is known as Glen Miller Park and includes about 160 acres, at the eastern limits of the city. This park is left almost In Us natural state of wild beauty In the eastern half, while the western portion has been Improved by drives, bridges across the small stream flowing through the park and a small reservoir. In the improved part are pavilions, barns, sheds and shelters for the animals, of which there are several of the wild species native to this region. The smaller parks are of the usual type to be found In a city of this size. The acreage of parks Is: ' Acres. Olen Miller Park ..I... 161.0 South Seventh Street Park..'.. 2.6 South Tenth Street Park 2.19 8tarr Park 1.14 Riverside Park (most of this ground recently purchased).. 4. Total ........170.93 In addition to these . parks, the school department maintains a play ground which Is valued at $10,000. Including improvements and equipment - Sewage Disposal. The sewage disposal plant la located about two miles west of the city, on ground owned by Earlham college. The plant consists of a settling tank discharging by siphons alternately into four contact beds. The settling tank consists of a 10x10 foot grit chamber and four 22x20x6 foot settling chambers with center baffle walls. In the last chamber are four 12-inch siphons set to operate alternately. The tanks are of water proofed concrete of monolithic construction, and the tank walls form the walls of the building, which Is closely

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sheathed and roffed in. The contact beds consist of 3 feet of gravel under-; laid by 4-inch drain tile and are 50x100 ; feet in size. Each is used on the aver-j age of two times a day. j Garbage Disposal. The city garb-1 age Is collected in five water-tight-wooden wagons and hauled to the!

crematory on the river bank. Four of these wagons have regular routes, while the fifth la held for the purpose of making "emergency" calls. The crematory la a frame, corrugated iron building covering the oven. The single oven is of 11 yards capacity and is designed to take care of both wet and dry garbage. No attempt is made to separate the. materials' further than to pick out the cookies, crackers, good fruit, etc. This material Is used to feed the animals at the Glen Miller Park menagerie. The ash, after having the stones, glass and tin picked out, is used in constructing a driveway down the bluff to .the crematory and power plant. The capacity of the crematory is. insufficient to take care of all the garbage during the summer months, so that about onethird of that collected is disposed of in the old manner by dumping In the country. Street Lighting. The streets are lighted by arc lights placed at every street Intersection in the business and more thickly settled residence district The dense, heavy foliage of the trees makes the lighting seem inadequate. though it is better, perhaps, than most cities of the same size. The arcs are operated by . the municipal lighting plant at a cost of $43.85 apiece a year, including current and trimming. However, no rental is paid by the city, as the . private service of the company more than pays for the street lighting at the present time. Electrolysis. The Indianapolis-Richmond lnterurban line and the Richmond city traction lines maintain their rail bonding in fair condition. But the Dayton-Richmond return circuit is said to be In poor condition. Considerable trouble has been reported from electrolysis, but no ' tests are made by either the city or the water works department, and no steps have been taken to lessen the trouble, other than to bond the water mains to the negative bus bar at the power station. At first impression Richmond seems to be merely an overgrown country town, an Impression gathered, perhaps from the broad streets 'and the customary Main street with its comparatively narrow stone or concrete sidewalks and its street car line operating tiny cars at Infrequent intervals. This first impression, however, meets with a radical change when Inquiry is made into the management of municipal affairs. The system of management of o

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True Indication the City Weil municipal affairs Is excellent Party feeling is very radical in the city, yet in the control of such departments as tte municipal lighting plant, the city engineer's office or any other department requiring personal ability, the question of party or politics is not allowed to enter. To this fact and to the excellent system of office management as perhaps is best shown in the system of office records and account, lng In the city engineer's office, may be attributed the present progressive condition of Richmond, the municipality. More detailed descriptions of the electric lighting plant the special forms of street construction and the water works will be found elsewhere in Municipal Engineering in botli past and future numbers. It is nut always ihe larjrust foe wh can make the greatest disturbance and cause the most confusion, .in bl "Ilunting Ground of the Groat West Richard Irving Dodge tclU of a llttlt incident of the Mexican war Vhlct prove that it in quality, not quantity, which 1st most effect I vo. While General Taylor's little arm' was marching from Corpus Christl ft Matamora h soldier of the Hank ol the column fired at a bull. The animal charged, untf the soldier, taking to hi heels, run Into the column. The bull, undaunted by the number of the euemy. followed him he:id!ong. scattering several regiments like chaff, and finally escaped unhurt, having demoralized and put to flight an urniy which a few days after covered itself with glory by victoriously encountering five time? Its number of human enemies. Leigh Hunt's Grave. In the serene 'silence of Kensal Green cemetery. London. Leigh Hunt's body , lies at rest. A visitor, reaching over the iron fence to part the fragrant shrubs that shadow the tombstone, reads these words: "Write me as one who loves bis fellow men. It was his own cheerful philosophy of life that Leigh Hunt expressed through the lips of his Abou Ben Adhem, and the sentiment is very touching come upon in this way. A Preliminary. Mrs. Ferguson George, what do you have to do when you want to draw some money out of a bank? Mr. Fer gusonYou have to put some money In the bank beforehand. That's always been my experience. It Is better to write one word upon tbe rock than a thousand on the wa ter and tbe sand.-Gladstone. oki am

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A E Life Prisoner Has Made Three Models, Two of Which Are to be Patented. HAS AUTOMATIC BALANCE New; York. Oct 1. Although there Is one active aviator who is said to have been mixed up in a burglary some years ago. it has remained for Harry Britton, a sixty-year-old life prisoner now in the Queens county jail. Long Island City, pending an ap peal, to be the first convict to go in for aeroplane Inventions while caged behind prison bars. Britton's profes sion is civil engineering, but by choice he is a confirmed criminal. Hence the life sentence when he was con victed . recently of grand larceny. , Britton's taste in dress and the pre cision with which his gray hair and beard are parted in the middle caused some of the spectators during his trial to mistake him for one of the attor neys. The little he has had to say about the three aeroplane models he has constructed since his life sentence began indicates an active scientific mind and a command of good English. Britton, so the jail officials said yes terday, not only has built three models of biplanes while a prisoner,, but also has interested business men on the outside of the jail walls to the extent of supplying some money for materials and other expenses incidental to the building of the models. It was said yesterday also that Britton has sent two of his models to Washington to be patented. A model of a biplane about six feet long was lying on a chair yesterday in the cell where the prisoner was working. At first glance the model suggested a miniature reproduction of. a span of the Queensroro Bridge turned upside down. Britton is not given to talking much about his aviation ideas further than to say in the precise mon otone which is one of his characteris tics that he has sought especially to perfect an aeroplane in which the con trol of the lateral balance will be auto matic, . ea it stic. Mamma For goodness' sake. Elsie, wuy are you shouting in that disgraceful fashion? Why can't you be quiet like Willie? Elsie He has to be quiet the way we're playing. He's papa coming home late, aud I'm you. News Paper. News paper is made by machinery at the rate of 150 to 400 feet a minute, according to width and quality. n Lioto.

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AMBASSADORS. They Enjoy Some Curious Privileges - at European Court. In the Vopular mind the American mind at least th re 1 very little difference between an ambassador and a minister, bat the former is entitled to very many privilege abroad that are denied to a were envoy. For instance, oue curious privilege of an ambassador Is that he. and he alone, when dismissed, may turn his back to the sovereign to whose court he is accredited. The mode of procedure, generally speaking, ts as follows: When the audience Is at an end the ambassador waits to be dismissed by the sovereign. When dismissed the ambasssCor bows, retires three paces.

bows again, retires three paces, bows a third time, ir.rns tm bis heels and walks to the folding doors! But wheu the reigning sovereign Is a woman, still politer methods obtain. To turn his back would be discourteous; to walk backward would bo to resign a privilege; therefore the ambassador retires sideways like a crab. He keeps one eye on the ravercigu and with the other he endeavors to find the door. By thl unique menns he contrives Jo evince nil politeness to tho sovereign and at tbe same time retain one of his privileges." ' Another privilege of ambassadors is tbe tight of being ushered Into the royal presence through folding doors, both of which must bo flung wide for him. No oue save sn ambassador can claim this privilege, tha most any nonambassadorial individual ci;n expect is that one of the doors shall be opened to him. One privilege appertaining to the ambassador, one ccpnblc of causing groat inconvenience to the ruler, is the right of demanding admission to the sovereign at any hour of day or night. This was one of the reasons why Abdul Hamid. when sultan of Turkey, opposed tbe raising of our mission at Constantinople to an embassy. It was decidedly tncouvenient at times to see the American representative at alL To the European tbe most Important feature of the ambassador's makeup Is his sword. There tbe blade of the sword is a rapier blade' with tbe point blunted. It has been facetiously observed abroad th&t the use the sword Is put to in addition to its trick of tripping, up its wearer is usually the harmless one of poking fires. One diplomatist was said to file his bills on his sword when It was not otherwise engaged, and for a long while it was a standing witticism of the corps dip. iomatiquc in Europe that the Russian ambassadors used their swords to file broken treaties, a circumstance that was held to account for tbe Inordinate length of their weapons. Harper's Weekly. Emmjt's Presence of Mind. A story is told of Robert Emmet which proves hir secretive power aud resolution. He was fond of studying chemistry, and one night late, after tbe family had gone to bed, he swallowed a larre cuaurltx of corrosive fceoiL

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cooling powder. He Immediately dis- " covered his mistake end knew that death must shortly ensue unless he instantlj swallowed the only antidote, chalk. Timid men would have tern at tne bell, roused all the family and sent for a stomach pump. Emmet called no one, made no noise but, stealing down ? stairs and unlocking the front door. I went Into the stable, scraped some' chalk which he knew to be there and took sufficient doses of It to neutralise the poison. Quota Elisabeth's Amulet. Queen Elizabeth during her last tU ness, wore aroiutd her neck a charm made of gold which had been bequeathed to her by an old woman b Wales, who declared that so long as the queen wore It she would never be ilk The amulet, as was general tho case, proved of no avail, and Eliza-, beth, notwithstanding her faith In tbw charm, not ouly sickened, but died. During the plague in London people wore amuieta to keep off the dread destroyer. Amulets of arsenic were worm near the heart. Quills of quicksilver were buug around the neck and also the powder of toads, . ; No Swelling at All. ' . "I see hot oue ripple on the water. . All Is calmness." said the little German lady, looking out dreamily ever1! the quiet sea. . I hat crossed the ocean wbeu It was calm like this aR the way over." - T ! "Do you mean that there was aW swell even in mhloccan? asked her companiou. who had never crossed at) all. "No. no swelling at alt, was the re ply. New York Tress. . ' Wherein They Differ. . Jack Widows are wiser than maids In one respect at least. 'Tom What's , the answer? Jack They never let ai good chance go by, thinking that better one will come their wity. ChM cago News. In Mitigation. ; Judge Hoas thief, you're , found f guilty by th Jury, Have y anything to say as to why I shouldn't soak an th' limit? Prisoner Well, judge, tjti wasn't your boss I stole. Cleveland ' Leader. .If 1 Wolt Qualified. "Why do you apply for position an? boss of this gang? Have yon ever hsd j any experience?' "Bossed my son after he grew up."-"i Buffalo Express. - Procrastination is one of the jnosg expensive forms of Toapplnees. Ltfs. ' J eternal riUtess. "What Is the name of your new? noveir , - "The Duugeou.' Good, gloomy title, eh?" ' 4 " "Yes. That name alone ought to get , the book among the six best cellars. Milwaukee Journal. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY, n J r

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