Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 30 July 1895 — Page 2

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CBAVENS BSOa, Ptrtas. BLOOMIN6TON, - INDIANA. The ice-cream spoon Is gettiug tired. True love is all the sweeter because It's course doesn't run smooth. "Drag" is the latest slang. No one has a "pull" any more. It's a "drag." Nothing so Quickly assures the workingman of his employer's interest in him as an increase of wages. A woman at Ligioner, Pa., was fined 4 for ten oaths. This seems to fix the commercial value of an oath at 40 cents. One-third of the bicycles sold in 1895 were for women's use. In 1894 the women's bicycles were only 5 per cent of the sales. A wolf has been killing sheep In Linn county, Kansas. The high price of beef is supposed to have caused this diversion. Out in Kansas now when they want rain they get up a picnic. Dynamite bombs, balloons and prayers Lave been abandoned. The English crown came to Queen Victoria in the early morning. If it should come to Albert at the same time of day he might find it difficult to get it on. Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, the poetess postmistress of Auburndale, has had her salary raised from $1,700 to $2,400. Her work seems to bear the guinea's stamp. At Weir City, Kas., a hen has made a nest in the forks of an apple tree and daily lays an egg in the same. This is the first tree known to have produced hen fruit Footpads in Kansas are becoming so bold that they recently attacked two policemen. The other night they knocked a parson down, making off with his Bible. ' A Chicago paper warns the people that "Satan never takes a vacation." But it is questionable if even a warning from a man right on the ground will arouse a stubborn people. How would it do if the trustees of the Pair estate should advertise generally for the wives to present themselves for identification. That would perhaps save counsel fees and simplify matters. Elizabeth Cady Stanton says she invented bloomers. This confession comes as a sort of death-bed repentance after having seen some of the tailor-made hysterics that her invention has produced. In spite of the pertinent query of Miss Willard, "Why can't men be beautiful?" Chauncey M. Depew is reported to be entertaining the idea that he has sufficient attractions to overcome the "new woman." A young lady in Detroit has risked her fortune by marrying a foreigner. Many young ladies do that. The Detroit case is unique in that the danger that the girl will lose the fortune comes through her parents, not through her husband. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan has got the railroad presidents to patch up a peace, but Mr. Morgan will find bearing the exchange market, preventing gold exports and changing the sentiment of Europe mere child's play compared with keeping the railroads from cutting rates. Japan and Russia look as if they might entertain us with the next war. Russia undoubtedly seeks to get a foothold in Corea for her great Siberian railroad, and she certainly is opposing Japanese influence. How long Japan will cease to resent this action depends on the ability of Japan to control her temper. When Shakespeare wrote his Hamlet and Othello, Macbeth and Lear, 5,000,000 people spoke the English language. Now the number using that tongue is estimated at 115,000,000. If the Swan of Avon had had so grand an audience in his day, who knows but that he might have warbled something that would have equaled in popular approval "A Trip to Chinatown," or perhaps even "Trilby." It is again asserted that hoops are soon to return into fashion. A feminine authority in New York says: "When the modistes tried to force hoops on us a few years ago we were not quite prepared for them. Now, with the flaring skirts, sloping shoulders and big sleeves, the old-fashioned hoops complete the picture, and we will take kindly to them." How are hoops to be reconciled with bloomers and knickerbockers? Henry Schwab stepped into a elevator at Chicago and fell four stories. Strange to say he was not injured beyond a shaking up. But as he staggered out of the basement door of the shaft a wag remarked that he had had a drop too much. A Chicago jury was permitted to smoke in the court room, and it listened attentively to all the lawyers had to say. Nothing more is needed to show the low nature of the jury. It will do almost any foolish thing if its tastes are pandered to.

HOW TO BECOME A RUNNER.;

One of the Most Healthful Exercises a Boy Can Take Up. j Running is one of the best of exer-; cises for the whole body. It rounds out a hollow chest, drives the oxygen into the farthest air-cells of the lungs, wonderfully increases their capacity, and develops the leg, thigh, stomach, and waist muscles. But it must be learned just as skating, swimming, and bicycling have to be learned, and there are two things that must be kept in mind by the learner. The first is whether in sprinting, distance, or cross-country running to run entirely on the ball of the foot, or, as they say on the track, "Get up on your toes!" By striking on the ball of the foot, which is a sort of natural spring-board, the runner takes a longer stride, and the spring that he gets enables him to lift his foot more rar.idly and repeat the stride more quickly than the runner who goes fiatfooted. As length and rapidity of stride are what give speed in running,; it follows that a flat-footed runner can never be a fast one. Another reasonagainst pounding away flat-footed is that the delicate mechanism of the ankle, knee, and hip is jarred and may in time be injured. The second point for a runner to observe is his method of breathing. Breathe through both the nose and mouth. Nearly every boy when he first begins to run has the insane idea that all the breathing must be done through the nose. There was never a greater mistake. When a boy runs his heart beats much faster than it does ordinarily, and pumps out just so much more blood. All this must be aerated or purified by air from the lungs. The oppression that one feels when beginning to run is due to the lungs demanding more air for the extra quantity of blood which the heart is sending out. Nature has looked out for this and provided a way by which air can be furnished to the lungs very rapidly. It is a very simple way, and consists of merely opening the mouth.; Breathe, then, through the nose in ordinary life as much as possible, but when you are running or exercising violently open the mouth and take in air in deep, rapid breaths, not gulping it in through the mouth alone, but letting the mouth and nose have each' their share. j Take as long a stride as possible, but without overbalancing the body. Bend the body slightly from the hips; for if it be held too erect the stride will be shortened. Let the bent arms swing easily and naturally a little above the level of the hips, swinging out and back with every stride. This keeps the muscles loose, prevents them from becoming tired so easily as they would if held rigid, and balances the body better. Take especial pains to keep the body from being stiff; let it swing as easily and lithely as possible. In sprinting the stride is shorter and more rapid than in long-distance running, and a sprinter usually runs with body thrown farther back, in quite different form from the long, easy lope of the distance runner. St. Nicholas. CONCERNING A COIN. Lost for Twelve Tears and Then Strangely Returned. Several days ago A. N. Moyer, receiving teller of the Wyandotte National Bank, of Kansas City, Kan., found among his day's receipts a quarter of a dollar bearing the name of "M. W. La Rue, LovilIe, Ky.," to-! gether with some . roglyphics, the individual marks of a Royal Arch Mason, says the Kansas City Star. He thought that the coin was undoubtedly a highly prized pocket piece, and he directed a postal card to M. W. La Rue, Louisville, in the hope of finding the owner. He had almost forgotten the matter when he received a letter from Mr. La Rue, who had removed from Louisville to Cincinnati, and afterward to Winton Place, Ohio, of which village he is now mayor. He said that he had lost the pocket piece twelve years ago, and expressed himself very anxiously to get it back, saying he would gladly pay for the coin and for Mr. Moyer'B trouble. Mr. Moyer sent it by registered letter to Mayor La Rue, and Friday he received a letter from him acknowledging the receipt and inclosing 36 cents, which, he said, was to pay expenses, 25 cents for the quarter, 1 cent for postal card and 10 cents for the registry stamp. He added: "The wanderings of my little mark may never be known, but I hope all its errands were those of beneficence. I grudge nothing of its performances, though, like many other wandering loved ones, its absence has been a source of many surmises, regrets, apprehensions and now and then a bitter pang of genuine grief, as its place could never be filled except upon order of authorities not easy of access or always placable. Its possession entitles me to Masoic burial; to relief from pressing temporary want and guarantees other privileges, immunities, etc., that would be out the power of hundreds and hundreds of coins of like weight to procure." An Awful Leap from a Railway Train. One more unfortunate human being, "rashly Importunate," came to a miserable and dreadful end on the Virginia Central and Ohio Railroad by leaping head foremost out of the window of the car in which he was seated, while the train was going at the rate of 30 miles an hour over a viaduct or stone bridge across a precipitous mountain gorge, at the foot of which rushes a torrent of turbid water. The man's body was dashed violently into the middle of the current, which swept him rapidly out of sight, so that, vh?i; those who witnensed the occurrence ha; stopped the train, no vestigo of him was to be seen.

FOLDING BICYCLES.

DOUBLE UP SO AS TO OCCUPY HALF SPACE. Eauler to Carry or Store It FlatDwellers Will Welcome It, Too, for It Cau Be Hang Up on a Fee in the Wall. ICYCLE INVENTors come thick and fast. American inventive genius apparently has concentrated upon the wheel. Every week some inventor comes forward with some new deto make cycling easfaster or to make a vice designed ier or safer or wheel lighter. In France, however, the inventors are experimenting with petroleum-driven bicyclettes. Why petroleum is better than the human leg, and why the machine should be dubbed bicyclette are questions only a plausible Frenchman can answer. The petroleum bicyclette participated in the recent road race between Paris and Bordeaux. It gave a good account of itself. A folding bicycle is the newest novelty in the steel steed line. By a simple and ingenious arrangement the connecting rods of the frame may be folded until the machine is reduced to the size of one wheel, as shown in the illustration. The Inventor claims for the folding bicycle the possibility of storing it in one's room, the ease with which it may be carried up or down stairs or hoisted in dumbwaiters or elevators. It can be readily doubled up for carrying on the shoulder up and down bad roads. Such a bicycle can be readily placed in a carriage or other vehicle for transportation. Doubtless, also, the policeman who has had an experience in leading the bicycle of a prisoner to the station-house will appreciate the merits of a machine that can be folded up and carried under the arm, where it is powerless to work injury. The inventor claims further that in Its folded shape the bicycle may be securely locked, but seems to forget that in its portable shape it presents an extraordinay inducement to the in tending thief. The folding bicycle is one of the things that, now that it has been invented.will cause people to wonder why it had not been thought of before. Dwellers in flats, however, where there are tenants given to storing their wheels in the lower hallway, will be inclined to send their personal thanks to the genius who has shown how the most unwieldy thing ever inventedmat is, wmie in a state or repose may be made less obtrusive and less dangerous. There is no reason why it shouldn't be hung up on a peg out of everybody's way. The man who invented the baby carriage which could be flattened out and jerked under the bed or stood against the wall behind a sofa worked a great benefaction. It was the best thing since the jointed fishing rod. Then a Brooklyn man invented a piano which could be readily taken apart and carried up the narrow stairways of an apartment house and then set up in a little room, insead of being swung into an outside window, as a safe is generally put into an office building. But there are more bicycles than there are either baby carriages or pianos in New York, so for the present the inventor of the folding bicycle is entitled to a seat on the right side of the throne. Luxury in AlHRlca. Alaskan Host Will you have strawberries, mum? Fair Tourist Dear me; strawberries in Alaska! Yes, indeed I will. But what is that you are puring on them? It doesn't look like cream. Alaskan Host It's blubber, mum. -ii!oariiMf. Emancipated Woman (1990) I want a divorce. Lawyer What is the matter? Emancipated Woman In looking over my husband's papers, I find that he spells Woman with a small w.

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A CANOE PARADE.

Charming Festival Given by Summer Visitors at Bar Harbor. Turning from Lenox and its environs to the far northeasterly end of our Atlantic coast-line, we find on the rocky shores of Mount Desert new and elaborate examples of the rural festival, writes Mrs. Burton Harrison. Long years ago, before that rare and charming tale had been formally adopted as the chosen resort of summer pilgrims from all parts of the continent, athletic contests, foot races, and canoeraces among the Paasamaquoddy Indians were kuown to Bar Harbor. By the descendants of those Indians was aroused the interest in canoeing shown by visitors of recent times, which resulted in the formation of the Canoe Club, now numbering hundreds of members. The first public parade of the club was arranged in honor of an expected visit from Matthew Arnold, who, in discussing his anticipated expedition to the Eden of the Sea, had expressed a hope that he might there find some spectacle possessing the true local color which he had failed to discover elsewhere in America. Marshaled in line, with bows towards the south, upon a fortunately glassy stretch of Frenchman's Bay, near the westerly point of Bar Island, gathered a number of flower-wreathed canoes to perform a series of maneuvers as dexterous in execution as ingenious in the planning. The canoe parade, repeated the following year, was followed In another season by an illuminated fete. To this midsummer night's dream Nature lent herself in all graciousness. The sun had set upon a sea of opal. As the moon rose, and the tide flooded the bar, people living along the shore on each side of the Eden road sat In their verandas to wait for the coming of the boats, in an atmosphere as soft and caressing as that of a June night in Venice. From the starting-place at the chief landing of the village, out of darkness streaked with columns of light from the electric arcs aboye the town, and from the la.mps of a flotilla of yachts and other boats at anchor in the harbor, came silently stealing a long train of mysterious black crgft tossing leashes of fire-bubbles into the air, or wreathed from stem to stern with multicolored lanterns. Their destination was a dwelling situated upon the shore at some distance up the bay, where the performers in these mysteries of the expedition were expected ultimately to congregate at supper. For an hour the meanderings of the fireladen boats gave delight to many watchers upon the shore. At last, answering the signal of dance-music from the house, the cortege fell again Into line, and proceeded to disembark upon a floating wharf lighted by Bengal fires and strung with colored lanterns. The boats, deserted by their crews, were then strung together by boatmen, and towed back to the starting point, the revelers electing to return by the highways. ' .Able Swordsmen. Elephants are completely disabled by one blow from the Arab's two handed sword, which almost severs the hind leg, biting deep into the bone. This feat is varied by slashing off the trunk, leaving it dangling only by a piece of skin. A Ghoorka was seen by the late Laurence Oliphant to behead a buffalo with a single blow of his kookerie. And Sir Samuel Baker, a man powerful enough to wield during his African exploration the "Baby," an elephant rifle weighing twenty-two pounds, once clove a wild boar with his hunting knife almost in halves as It was making a final rush, catching it just behind the shoulder, where the hide and bristles are at least a span thick. Sir Walter Scott relates how the Earl of Angus, with his huge sweeping brand, challenged an opponent to fight, and at a blow chopped asunder his thigh bone, killing him on the spot. There is a story current in Australia that Lieutenant Anderson, in 1852, during an encounter with bushrangers, cut clean the gun barrel of his adversary with hi3 sword. And nt Kassassin it is re lated that one of Arab! Pasha's soldiers was severed in two during the midnight charge. But, in the opinion of experts, this is very improbable, even had the new regulation sabre then been in use. London Globe.

STORY OF STEVENSON.

PERSONAL MEMORIES OF GREAT ROMANCER. A Number of His Literary Schemes That Came to Nothing An American Story That Was Lost A Life of Wellington, N THE current number of the Century Mr. Edmund Gosse gives his "Personal Memories of Robert Louis Stevenson," whom he knew familiarly for many years. The following is an extract from it: A 1 1 the world now knows through the two books which I have named, what immediately happened. Presently letters began to arrive, and in one from Monterey, written early in October, 1879, he told me of what was probably the nearest approach of death that ever came until the end, fifteen years later. I do not think it is generally known, even in the inner circle of his friends, that in September of that year he was violently ill at an Angora-goat ranch in the Santa Lucia Mountains. "I scarcely slept or ate or thought for four days," he said. "Two nights I lay out under a tree, in a sort of stupor, doing nothing but fetch water for myself and horse, light a fire and make coffee, and all night awake hearing the goat bells ringing and the tree-toads singing, when each new noise was enough to set me mad." Then an old frontiersman, a mighty hunter of bears, came round and tenderly nursed him through his attack. "By all rules this should have been my death; but after a while my spirit got up again in a divine frenzy, and has since kicked and spurred my vile body forward with great emphasis and success." Late in the winter of 1879, with renewed happiness and calm of life, and also under the spur of a need of money, he wrote with much assiduity. Among other things, he composed at Monterey the earliest of his novels, a book called "A Vendetta in the West," the manuscript of which seems to have disappeared. Perhaps w need not regret It; for, so he declared to me, "It was about as bad as Ouida, but not quite, for it was not so eloquent." He aad made a great mystery of his whereabouts; indeed, for several months no one was to know what had become of him, and his letters were to be considered secret. At length, in writing from Monterey, on November 15, 1879, he removed the embargo: "That 1 am in California may now be published to the brethren." In the summer of the next year, after a winter of very serious ill health, during which more than once he seemed on the brink of a galloping consumption, he returned to England. He had married in California a charm ing lady whom we all soon learned to regard as the most appropriate and helnful companion that Louis could possibly have secured. On October 8, 1880, a memorable day, he made his first appearance in London since his American exile. A post-card from Edinburgh summoned me to "appoint with an appointment," certain particular friends; "and let us once again," Louis wrote, "lunch together in the Savile Halls." Mr. Lang and Mr. Walter Pollock, and, I think, Mr. Hen ley, graced the occasion, and the club cellar produced a bottole o Chamber.tTn of quite uncommon' merit. Louis, I may explain, bad a peculiar passion for Burgundyi which heeemed the wine of highest possibilities in the whole BaccHlc order, and I have often known I him discant on a Pommard or a Mont- I rachet in terms so exquisite that the listeners could scarcely jasie me wine itself. Davos-Platz was now prescribed for the rickety lungs; and late in that year Louis and his wife took up their abode there, at the Hotel Buol, he carrying with him a note from me recommending him to the care of John Addington Symonds. Not at first, but presently and on the whole, these two men, so unlike, "hit it off," as people say, and were an intellectual solace to each other; but their real friendship did not begin until a later year. I remember Stevenson saying to me next spring that to be much with Symonds was to "adventure in a thornwood." It was at Davos, this winter of 1880, that Stevenson took up the study of Hazlitt, having found a publisher who was willing to bring out a critical biographical memoir. This scheme took u a greater part of Louis's attention but was eventually dropped, for the further he progressed in the investigation of Hazlitt's character the less he liked it, and the squalid "Liber Amoris" gave the coup de grace. He did not know what he would be at. His vocation was not yet apparent to him. He talked of writing on craniology and the botany of the Alps. The unwritten I books of Stevenson will one day attract j the scholiast, who will endeavor, perhaps, to reconstruct them from the references to them in his correspondence It may, therefore, be permissible to record here that he was long proposing j to write a life of the Duke of Welling- ! ton, for which he made some consid- j erable collections. This was even advertised as "in preparation," on several occasions, from 1885 until 1887, but : was ultimately abandoned. I reniem- 1 ber his telling me that he intended tc give emphasis to the "humor" of Well l Ington." A Lover's Eyes. Groom I guess that man we jusl passed is married. Bride Why do you think so? Groom He merely glanced at you.

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