Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 4 July 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPHONE.

Bt Walter Bradfute.

A FAIR CONFEDERATE

THE BUiiOLAR'S STORY

BLOOMINGTON

INDIANA

TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

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I Women engaged in oyster shucking at Baltimore talk of organizing an assembly of gnighta of Labor. Ida Kean, a blind girl at the State Institute for the Blind, runs a type-writer very cleverly, which, for a blind person, is more difficult than to play the piano. Canadians are -establishing ranches in the Northwest Territory and shipping cattle to the European market by way o Montreal over the Canadian Pacific railroad. Philadelphia uses 100,000 tons of sugar in the manufacture of candy every year. During tfee winter the candy factories of that city turn out 125 tons of candy every week. The Railroad Conductors' Brotherhcfxi is going to attempt to get a law passed by Congress requiring all conductors on inter- Stats railroads. to have a government license, obtainable only after an examination by a government board. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts and other philanthropic persons in Loudon are about to establish, It is said. scheme to provide workshops, furnished with sewing-machines, where poor seamstresses can go and have tho use of the machines a t a very low charge. Robert Schxoeder, who has 500 acres in Franklin county, Ne' York, devoted to hop culture, is said to be the leading hop-grower of the World. He l as thirty men at work catting' poles for use in hi3 hop:fields and expects to obtain 20O,0CO poles daring the win

ter. It k reported from Illinois that the railroads of the State ha ve, after a fair trial, - found it very bad policy to continue the excessive local traffic rates that have heretofore prevailed andhich ere diverting jobbing to outside points. c they have voluntarily begun to lower local iates within the State from 25 to 40 per cent. Quill toothpicks come from France. The largest factory in the world is. near Paris, where there U an annual product o 20,000,001 quills. The factory Yae started to make quill pena, bnt when these went out of use- it was turned into a tooth pk k mill. Wooden toothpicks are macieprinciially in Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio. A Dr. Bam ado, in KJinburg, is devoting himself to the woric of securing homes in Canada for destitute boys and girls of hif own country. He has already started a town in 4,700 acres of land in Manitoba, which be calls Victoria Regiua, and will populate it with young emigrants. It is to be run on the system of an industrial farm. England in October imported 61,041 hundredweight of beefy of which 59.572 hundred weight came from the United State?. The Imports cf mutton in the .same month were 7S60 hundredweight, of which none came from this country, bnt 4,831 hundredweight from New Zealand and 21,061 hundredweight from the Argentine Republic. Of 116,870 hundredweight of butter, the United States furnished only 2,077 hundredweight ODDITIES.

London Truth, describing a loud young American girl who has been shopping considerably in London recently, says that there some fun in her recent remark to a very Insy saleswoman. 44 Look here," said the American, "are you above your placo or Xtave you got a toothache?" Mr. Jame Roup's littie son, of Iloupville, a., had been deaf for several years, and n f hysician who treated him was unable tc afford him any relief. The other day, while lira. Roup was washing the boy's face, she palled out from his ear a blade of straw twe inches long. II& deafness has since disappeared. A San Francisco book agent seems to have found his match in a lawyer of that city. The lawyer subscribed for a copy of Shakespeares plaj's. In the meantime, having beard of Ignatius Donnelly' cipher theory, ho refuses to take the book until the agent tirnv?s tb?,t Shikespeare, and not Bacon, U . th anther.

Henry Bfcson of Hayden Hill, Cal, has n 1

petrified salmon which he found cn a hilisitft i, jOC feet high. The tieshy part resembles crystalireu and variegated quartr, retaining in part the yellowish eiior of tuo salmon, and what was the si. in of the fish is now a sort of porcelain, or white flint It is supposed to be a relic of some ancient river. A countryman who visited a New York theater the other evening and went out between the acts became greatly troubled ou his return because he couldn't find his wife. Ha had lost his seat checks and didn't kno what to da Finally a sympathetic usher took pifcy on him end went through the house asking each lady he came to if she hat loot a husband until he discovered tho rural gentleman's bride. There is on exhibition in a Pittsburg showwindow an image that was dug np by n farmer who was plowing near Montgomery, Ala. It was a human bead upon ti bird-like body, with a fan-'aii, and is carved in stone. The face is purely Egyptian, and across the bead is cast something resembling an amice, placed in such a manner as to leave tho entire forehead revealed. The figure is 12j inches long and 9J inches high and weighs twenty -one pounds. The editor of the Jackson, Miss., Sword and Shield has. this to say of one who has been good to him: "Miss Dudley, of Canton, passed through the citj Wednesday en route for Birmingham, where she goes to open a lady's restaurant. All who ever ate at Miss Dudley's establishment in this city, where her rd!s were a perfect passionate poem, tlie fried ham a dream of delight, and the baked goose a glimpse of Paradise, will feel sure that both success and customers will come to her in Birmingham. THE PAIR SEX

"The best looking business I was ever mixed up in," said the burglar, "was down at Heron Court, near Guilford. I may be a bit old-fashioned in my taste, but I've always been rather partial to duchesses. (He said this with a relish as though they were something sold in tins.) and when I saw in Lloyd's that the young duke had gone and married Miss Deborah Clancy, daughter of the well known rubber merchant of New Haven, Conn.., and when I saw

that the wedding presents were both numerous and costly, and the happy pair left town for the duke's house, near Guilford, amid a shower of rice and old slippers then I said to myself, I said, Go in and win, my boy, and play the game off of your own bat. Don't have no partners.1 I says to myself: 'don't have no confederates, but just go in and have a good old try.' Sol dressed myself up very tastily and I went down to Milford Station. UI had a Gladstone bag with me, and in that bag! had a few necessary articles that no one can do without. I don't care how clever you are you can't do without their help. And I had a little money with me, too. That's another thing that you want always to have about you. Many's the little business I've known spoilt just for the want of a sovereign or two. 'I was walking out one afternoon, and I was going down a lane pretty close to the grounds of a mansion. In front of me was a neat" girl in gray with a bonnet-box in her haud. She was one of the sp-waisted sort and carried herself very upright. As I passed her I caught sight of the address. It was for the duchess. I lifts my hat like this. Look! u 'Pardon me, Miss,' I says, "but might you be one of the maids at Heron 'Court?1 'Well," she says, vl might.' " 'Oh!' I says. 'Pleasant weather we're having, aren't we?' k,She said yes, it was very pleasant weathet indeed. She said (this she said in a particularly affable way) she was afraid we should have wet before night. ih 'Been here long?7 I inquired. No, she hadn't been there long, she said. Only three weeks. u ;Come down with the duke's party, I suppose?' Yes, she said, she came down with the dukes partv. u 'Like the place?' She said she didn't mind it. I asked her a few questions about the people. She said she could get on all right with the duke, and she was on a,wful good terms wifh the duchess; but she wouldn't give a dollar a gross for ihe servants. For one thing, she didn't believe they kept a proper look-out at the placfr. Whilst they were wasting their time in smoking and drinking and flirting, a burglar could get in at almost any moment. u 'Oh, well, Miss, after all,' I says, 'we're none of us perfect, you know. We all have our little 'obbies.' "I put on my best smile and made up my mind to have a dash for it. I asked her whether there was any chance of having a loook in and a bit of supper, in the evening. She looked at me verv straight. Then

- - n she said a thing that knocked me

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Miss Sarah Ome Jewett has come into a mug little fortune by the recent death of an uncle. Mrs. Dinah Mulock-Craik left a personal estate valued at more than $35,000. It all goes to her adopted daughter Mi.. Dorothy Craik. " Josie Holmes, a young woman who was Hanker Harr'; confidential clerk in the Fidelity Bunk, U nit to liuvc $30,000 in

4Sav. mister she savs, 'where

do I come in? How much am I going to make out of this little game?" "I was so astonished that I quite blushed. I did really. v " "Well,' I says, 'if you are going to put it in that way, I suppose I'd better speak out straight. I'll give you 20 quid now. and I'll give you another 20 after it's over.' 'Make it 30 sovereigns now and 30 after,' she said, 'audit's done.' 'I started to argue a bit, and she turned on her heel. 'Here, stiddy on, my dear,' I says. 'Don't lose your temper. You've got a goodhearted face. You're not going to be hard on a poor chap, are you now? Give me a kiss and I'll give you 25.' She fired up. " ;You don't have no kiss, mister.' site says, 'and if you want me to help you, you must hand over the coin. You ken't do better, anyway.' i 'I tell you she fairly surprised me. I assure you to look at her you'd think she was as quiet a girl as ever wore shoes. She kept her eyes bright black e es she had fixed on my face, and seemed almost to enjoy the corner she'd got me in. u 'I turned the matter over quickly in my mind. After all, I knew I needn't really trouble about the second payment. 1 should be clear away before she had a chance to see whether I put it there or not. UA11 right, miss," I says, "don't 'aggie and don't bite a feller's ?ead 'If orf. Here's the 30. What time shall 1 come up?' uShe told me that at 8:30 the duke would be having dinner, and that she would leave the window of the duchess's drawing oom open. I

mi?ht find a ladder in such a nlacc.

govuriimrnt securities hud away to- a likiny UnH wUm T trnt in T chrmM f'mrl inw.

t - r.i m i. i . ' els in such a place, and seme loose Mrs. Jjouise Clmndler Moulton has received . rt A rti i K , T the library of the dead poet, Philip IfaurkJ "Otes and gold in iich a place, arid Marstou, left as a token of friendship to her. ' to leave the 30 for her on a She was a value friend of the blind toot an 1 ledtfe m the chimney. And if any of (tteof bisUuivV:idmirers. the other servants caught me, why, A lady who ha.i recently seen Mrs. Cleve. SO much the worse for me. and if

land says: "Mr somer than ever.

Cleveland is looking hand- they did not. so much the better for

She seems to have grown them. She shook hands pleasantly

and wentoiT toward the court. '"I felt inclined to shake hands with mvself, too. I knew that there was a good 20,000 worth of stuff or me if I could only get a quiet quarter of an hour there.

stronger, physically, au the time, and hoi

arms look as if their muscles wore most admirably developed, though so well covered JBttofietfha tpfM-w perfect symmetry.

' The Union Pacific is building a new :oad Southward throng Utah. j

"You may believe me when I say I was th;re"that evening to the minute. Justus I n eared the mansion I had a nasty feeling that the maid might have given me away. You can never be sure of women. But when I saw the window open of the duchess's dressing room, and when I found the ladder and everything

ready. I knew it was all right. "She's a girl after my own heart, said to myself when I got in the room: and Til oe after hers when its all over. i;It's risky work, you know. No matter how easy things are, you always have a queer sort of nervousness unless you're drunk, and then, of course, you're liable to m ike mistakes. None of the servants were about; they might have been dead for all the trouble they gave me. "I don't think I ever had quite such an easy job in all my '-ife. This, I said to myself this is better than your herd work any day. Honesty may be the best policy, but what do vnu make out of it? Eh? Do you make hauls of sackfuls of money by honesty? Do you make enough in ten minutes to ke.p you for years and drunk every night of your life, by honesty? No. J said to myself (I had got the sack nearly full); if you want to get on in life, if you really want to have a nice little income, and a life of happiness, have a turn at "There was a swish of skirts near the bed. I turned my lantern on the place, my heart in my mouth, my revolver in my hand. I can tell you I was pleased to see that it was' only my girl. I dropped my colt back into my pocket. She was smartly dressed and looked quite the lady. " 'Got everything, mister?" she inquired. Got everything?1 li 'Well, not abslootly everything I whispered, 'but as much as I can carry. I'm just off.' '''Have you put my thirty sovereigns in the chimney?' she asked. Lord, she had a head for business, that girl. 'Reckon Til take them now she said, calmly holding out her hand. I guessed you'd go and forget.' "I counted out the money and handed it over and shouldered my bag. " Good-byc, miss.' I whispered, 'see each other again soon, I hope.1 ki ; Awful good of you to say that,' she said. 'Feel as though I ken't let you go now.' Her hand went to the side of the wall. 'We're are getting on so sociable and pleasant and friendly like.1 "I can't tell you how it made me feel when I heard her talk like that. I would have proposed to that girl on the spot if I hadn't been so busy. Only there's a time and a place for everything, I always say. and just then wasn't the time to go cauood1 ing about the girls. Only of coupe this is the worst of them. Once they get mashed on you there's no getting rid of them without a row. "I went to her to give her a kiss and a good-bye. She gave a little scream. 'Stop right there!' she cried. ;Stop right there, mister, or you're a dead man.' "She leveled a shining little pocket pistol at my head, the other hand still pressing against the wall. There was a sound of harrying footsteps on the landing; the door opened and a muscular j'oung fellow in evening dress rushed in. He was followed bv several servants. "'My dearest Deborah.' he cried. Then he sprang upon me and nearly choked me. l' 'Here, let me go!? I screamed. 'Where's the duchess? Where the is the duchess? Lemme go. can't ye. I want to tell her something. I want to tell her aU about that beauty of a lady's maid there. She's got my blanky 60. ! il 'And she jest about means to keep it,' she answered, laughing. 'It'll make a good start for my village blanket club She turned to the duke. 'Now you see, Tunbridge, how Heron s Court is protected " "My dearest said the duke, 'you re quite right. You shall make your own arrangements now She spoke to one of the footmen. " 'Give him a good sousing, Barker, with the garden hose and let him slide " "Certainly, your grace. Now, then, me man. this way 'And thev took inc. and. as I'm n living sinner, they ducked me. Had a narsty cold in me ead, I did. for vears awfter' Some Moustache History. Boston Evening Transcript. "What is the history of the moustache?" In Greece and Rome no moustaches were worn without beards, but in the conquering days of the Roman empire several halfcivilized races, who had come partially under the influence of the Romans, and who wished to be rid of the name of barbar, or bearers of beards, attempted to shave in imitation of their conquerors; but as they had very imperfect implements for the purpose, and as the upper lip is notoriously the hardest part of the face to shave in the case of any one poorly skilled in the art. they were unable to make a clean ob of it and left a quantity "f hair on the upper lip. This murk was characteristic of several nations on the confino3 of Roman civilization; of the Gauls in particular, of the Dacians and some others. See the statue of the Dying Gaul in the Museum of Fine Arts- -perhaps the only classical representation of a moustache to be found in that institution. The Latin language has no word for moustache. This barbarous accident was unworthy of the honor of a Roman name. Afghanistan has a population of six million people, aud there is no Christian missionary among them.

THE WORLD'S FAIR. The Ferris Wheel Depew on Fair Blarney Castle.

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KIKFKL TOWEU Ol'TDON K. The event of last Wednesday at Is the World's Fair was the formal dedication or opening to the public of the Ferris wheel. This is a remarkable piece of mechanism and likely to become, as famous in its way as the Eiffel tower at Paris. Like some other notable triumphs in engineering, it is the work of a man who is not an engineer. The idea and construction of the Eiffel were simple and easy compared with those of the Ferris wheel. The tower might be compared to a bridge W0 feet long.

stood on end. while the wheel is a

ing. 'Twould make a poet out of a baggage-smasher. I have seen an illumination of the Grand canal in Venice, and repeatedly that of the World's Exposition in Paris, but the vastness o:f the White City and its possibilities for effects made those

JAPANESE 8ERPKXT IS A PARADE.

hridee of flint lencrth bent in the f nicrhts. jis wnndprful as thev seemed

form of a circle and set in the air. at the time, after last night, remind The tower was stationary while the one of the difference between a canwheel revolves. Its diameter is 250 die and an arc lurht."

feet, and it has two rims, or tires.

with a complicated system of spokes and girders, suggestive of a huge bicvele. Ret ween the two iron rims

are suspended three dozen coaches,

BLARNEY CASTLE. Almost like stepping across the

sea into the midst of scenes of his-

each about as large as a Pullman t ar tone interest, natural beauty, and and capable of holding about sixty Irish life, dear to every traveler's

WEDDING PROCESSION IN THE STREETS OF CAIRO, MIDWAY PEAISAXCE.

passengers. Those coaches are suspended in such a wajr that when the wheel revolves t h ey a re ca rri ed around without changing their horizontal position. The entire weight of the wheel and its mechanism is

4,300 tons, and it is moved by two!

engines of 1.000 horse power each. The object of the huge structure is to give people a trip through the

upper air where, from a height of i 250 feet, they may get a bird's-eye!

view, not only of Jackson Park and the World's Fair, but of Chicago, the lake and more distant scenes. The wheel cost an enormous sum of money, but as it is expected to make thirty revolutions per day and carry from one thousand to two thousand passengers every trip at 50 cents each, it is likely to prove a profitable investment. The Ferris wheel is as likely to be distinctly the sensation ofthe World's Fair as the Eitfel tower was at the Paris Exposition. OEPEW S IMPRESSIONS. The urbane Chauucey M. Depew, of New York, visited the Exposition last week. He was seen by reporters at his hotel, and seemed the embodiment of good nature and kindly courtesy. "001110 along," said he, and I will tell you all about my trip of yesterday. I have seen the Fair, and I hf.vc seen it thoroughly' were his first words. "Naturailv. the

heart, is a visit to the industrial village at the inner entrance of the Midway plaisance. From the classic gateway of King Cormac's chapel on the Rock of Casheh through which the visitor passes into the picturesque ruins of beautiful Muckross abbey, to the summit of Blarney Castle and the cottages with heaps of turf from the bogs of the Emerald Isle, all is redolent of the "ould

BLARNEY CASTI.E. sod." Grouped around the four sides of an ancient square, in the midst of which rises Castle Blarney, are typical peasant cottages in which, especially in the industrial part, can be seen the life and labor of the frugal and industrious poor. In these humble domiciles one hoars the bright .saliies of wit and the

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This year straw hats, in their general m akeu p, promise to be as retrousse as a pug's nose. In fact, most of them are turned up at every corner and b ifurbelowedo a degree. This doesn't prevent their looking stunning, however Indeed the pret tiest hats are those which contain most ups and downs. Sonus of those

straw hats undulate gracefully in gentle swoops: others look as though a stiff breeze were forever blowing over them and making their straw surface into a chopping sea. Here are samples of the prettiest hats in this line: The first cut shows a hat w:.th an amour straw crown and black chip brim. Wreathed around the crown is a garland of stalks, and beneath the brim there are rosettes of 1 gbt

!Iue and light pink velvet. A lace :ow is arranged deftly at one side. The second cut is a useful little hatT four-cornered and made of brown iimour straw with a large sptftty of mignonette upon one , side and rosettes of three colored scti'i ribbons. The third hat is a black Leghorn, crossed and recrossed with narrow folds of black velvet. Ol turned

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first thing that strikes one is the excellence of the transportation facilities. Yesterday, I watched how 178.000 people went to the Exposition and I saw how they returned. It surpassed what I thought could be done when I was here at the dedicatory exercises. The stories of extortion which we hear so much about in the East are like everything affecting Chicago, greatly exaggerated. I think peoplo can secure about what thev want at a reasonable price for what they get in Chicago. The Fair itself is so vast, so comprehensive, so beautiful, that it eliminates comparison with other exhibitions of the kind that have been held before in the world. It is vastly superior in interest, in extent, and in value to any previous fair ever built. If one will come in from the lake through the marvelous entrance, which seems to revive in the memory of a college man his dreams of the approaches to the famous buil&mgs of antiquity, then a fitting sense of the Exposition is in a degree obtained. By a further ride on gondola or launch through the lagoons one gets an impression of the vustness, the superb architectural beauty, and the completeness of Chicago's work, which it is impossible to describe as superlatives are unequal to the occasion. Then you must add to that the thirty buildings belonging to the States of the Union, which in size, appointment, and number far surpass the buildings erected by all the foreign nations of the world at the Paris Exposition. "I remained last night to the illumination. It was worth a visit from -New York if there was nothing else to ee. It was simply enchuut-

keen repartee from Irish lassies who plainly have no need to kiss the blarney stone. Exquisite laces.

beautiful carvings, grow before the eye, while rare old relics of the days gone by adorn many rooms. In the village hall the music of the Irish harp accompanies sweet voices singing Irish national melodies. The entire proceeds of this village, of which Lady Aberdeen is the presiding spirit, go to the establishment and development of home industries in Ireland. KUNMSG A NEWSPAPER. Jim Jones, ho was an editor; that is, he tried to be; He bought hioiHClf a hand-press, an' he started in to sect Jes' what there was to editin', but when he'e canvasHori 'round, some fifteen hundred editors in that same town be found. They all Uneiv more about it than Jones could hope to know; They told him: "You must run her, Jones, ies' so air so an' so! Be sure an boom the Baptists, they're boucC ' to help you out. An give the trood old Metfcodists a big salvation ahout ! Give every rni.n a notice; be sure an' put it down Whenever MajDr Jinks la seen to perambulate tho town; Put in a few free locals for all the stores, an' tdvc Each man a free subscription, if you vant your sheet to liver Well. Jones he done jes' as they said, for fear They'd make a row: Hut the more tie tried to please 'em aU, the more th y told him how' Until at last ho took his book an' laid it on the shelf: Then run the paper in the protmd an' follere? it himself. Atlanta Constitution. The hav acreage of the United States is iurger than all England and Wales. Until 1840 Europe produced Sf per cent of-the world s wheat; now 50 per cent.

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The last cut shows a hat of black chip straw. It is decorated by a satin aigretto and an accordion plated bow of black lace. The aigrette stands in the center and on cither sido of it is a small feather. Miss Emma Sickles, the Indian philanthropist has three proteges who are wonders in the musical world. Tiiey are the Misses Bluejacket, and thev sing like nightingales. Of real Cherokee origin, they have the richest of copper-oolorei skin, brightest of black eyes and reddest of lips. Gen. Robert E. Lee's dEUjhter. Miss Mary Curtis Lee, spends very littie time in America. She has al ready made the journey round tk world twice, and is just starting agaia for Cairo, Egypt.