Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 December 1886 — Page 11
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Brevities.
A philosopher says: A girl should marry for protection—not for revenue only. Jt looks as if somebody would have to be put on the Bulgarian throne and kept there. —New Haven News.
It is now tmderstood why the Freucli academy made M. de Lesseps an "immortal." They wished to give him time to construct the Panama eanal.—Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
Young boys' stomachs are alway* in apple pie order.—Rochester
Post-Express.
When yon meet a defeated candidate talk of the crops—refer to the weather—inquire after his family—go back even to the revolutionary war, butxion't speak of the election. Have some mercy on a fallow human being. —Detroit Free Press.
Kate Field asks: "How many women marry a good manf Only one, Miss Field, only one, if the good man Is true to his reputation, —life. "John," said the proprietor of the beach restaurant, "you'll have to take a spade and go down to the beach and try to find a clam. The one we made tho chowder with is missing. Been eaten by some of the guests, I guess. By jingo, these city folks want the eart !i."—Boston Courier.
The fisherman's favorite musical instrument is castanot.—Yonkers Gazette, Barnum has the greatest show on earth but his chances in Heaven are no better than thoso of other circus people.—Picayune. •This way, gentlemen, to the American dwarf, to bo seen only through a hundredfold magnifying glass totally invisible to the naked eye."—Fliegende Blatter.
They were at tho circus: "I-Iavo you ever seen Mile. La Rue's great feat?" "No," she replied. "Is sho a Chicagoan or a St. Lords woman fn—Merchant Traveler.
Maternal instinct. Mamma (to Lucy, who has stumbled and smashed her doll's head)— Don't, cry, my dear: it can't be helped. L»cy—Oh, mamma dear! you don't know how I feel you'vo never lost a child.—Judge.
As for little Joe, he would eat the ripe Reaches, in direct disobedience, too. His love for them overcame everything else. In despair his mother said: "Joe, if you will do so, I shall perhaps lose my little boy for you will certainly be sick and die unless you obey me." "If I do die," Joey responded cheerfully, "I guess they'll be glad to see me come to fc-eavon, I'll bo so,full of peaches."— Exchange.
Edison says that no experiment which he has tried at night ever faUed. Now what we want to know is, did Mr. Edison ever try at night to find the matches in his bare feet without disturbing any of the furniture or stubbing his big too against seventeen different obstructions?—New Haven News.
What wo want is not to see ourselves AS others see us. Wo want to have others see us as we see ourselves.—Somerville Journal.
She and he had been listening to the music of the insect world. "Arthur," she exclaimed, breaking the noisy silence, "how delightful, and yet how sad, is the monotonous chorus of those toadstools 1" "Toadstools, my dear?" replied Arthur "I think you mean crickets." "Yes, crickets that's what I mean. I knew it was something to sit on."—Boston Transcript.
It is stated that funerals cost three tinies as much as they did forty years ago. Funerals mav come high, but people will have them.— Life.
I Why docs the beauteous mftklen seem ', So wearied and so vexed? She's just found out the tale will be "Continued in our next." —Merchant Traveler. An hour glass is made smallest iu the middle. liTshows the waste of time.—The Critic. "Liberty's mouth is just a yard wide," an exchange says. But the most notable thing about it is that sho always keeps it shut. Observe, she!—Buffalo Express.
Force of Hahit.
1886.—La Carricature.
A Mysterious Disappearance. Jim Fargo is one of the best fgllows in the world, with the exception that he will take an occasional drop. His wife, good woman, keeps her eye oil him, however, and he finds it difficult to get anything without going some distance for it. Some friends called on Jim the other day and had hard work to find him. At last ho was discovered crawling out from under tho barn, covered with dirt and cobwebs, but evidently very sober. Eyeing himself for a moment, he turned an abstracted, dissatisfied look upon his friends and remarked briefly: "It's singular wha^s bacon)® of that jug."— Detroit Freo Press.
Th® Sunday Question.
A little girl of 5, abxious to do a little work on her doll's dfross, sat down last Sunday with needle and thread and began sewing. Her mother told her to put her things away, because it was Sunday, adding! "You know God does not like to have you sew on Sunday." The little girl laid aside her needle and remained thinking for a few moments, when slio broke out with: "Mamma, do you suppose He would care if I ripped a little/"— Boston Budget
RMWCSJ Extravagance.
The Winnipeg man who sold his wife and three cbildrea to a neighbor for $70 did \erj "nsmg. Ho should have held on for $75 nr.—Cambridge Chronicle.
OIL AND GAS FIELDS IN OHIO.
These Minerals Found in Limestone for the First Time.
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OHIO OIL AND GAS FIELD.
Next to the utilization of electricity the discovery of oil and gas in the earth will have more influence on tho industrial progress of the latter half of the nineteenth century than any other agency. These oil and gas reservoirs are now bubbling up in all manner of unexpected places. They have at length been found in limestone deposits, where geologists have agreed they never would be found. The latest instance of this is in northwestern Ohio, in the region formerly known as the Black Swamp.
It is an interesting question whether this vast quantity of oil and gas has been recently formed in the bosom of the earth for the use of man, or whether it has existed all these ages since the world began, and man has only just stumbled upon it. The probabilities are that these marvelous illuminants are recent formations.
The Ohio gas and oil fields include all or part of tho counties Anglaize, Allen, Hardin, Hancock, Putnam, Wood and Wyandot. Tho oil field is especially centered in tho region round ubout Lima, in Allen county, though gas is found there too. The heart of tho gas region is at Findlay, in Hancock county. Here flows a gas well so tremendous that its light has been seen sixty miles away. Thirteen million cubic feet in twenty-four hours is the yield of the monster. The gas is of quality superior to that around Pittsburg. A druggist said he could no longer give away his empty boxes for kindling wood in Findlay.
Gigantic manufacturing interests are placing establishments in the favored new regions there is work for everybody and labor-* ers are flocking thither by the thousand. An unprecedented era of prosperity is predicted for Ohio. Nine thousand barrels of oil and over 50,000,000 cubic feet of gas aro already, produced daily, with new wells being bored every day.
Queer Wrinkle*. JOKE ON THE LETTER P.
Husband (who is one of the funniest men unhung)—My dear, can you tell me why the letter is like a cow's tall?
Wife—No, certainly not. Husband—Because it is the end of beef. A PRUDENT SUGGESTION. Young Artist (to farmer)—Have you any objections to my painting the old mill across the way, sir?
Farmer—No, I haint no objections ef you want to paint it, but it strikes me, stranger, it would look well 'nough whitewashed, an' would come cheaper.
IN JUST THE PROPER CONDITION. "How's tho good wife, Mr. Hayseed?" asked the minister of an Indiana farmer. "She's got the fever'n ague powerful bad." "I'm sorry to hear that. Is she in bed?" "No she's out in the back yard shaliin' the dinin' room cdrpet."
A DELICATE COMPLIMENT.
"Mrs! Dearmont, of Chicago, and Mrs. Waldo, of Boston, are to lunch with me today," said a lady to her husband, "but I hardly know what to give them." "I would suggest," replied the husband, "that a delicate compliment to both ladies woulu be a dish of pork and beans." /'/,/.
A CHICAGO NIGHT PICTURE.
He came in very late, and while groping about in the dark delivered himself of the following: j, "(Hie)—! (hie)—!I (hie)-!!!" "Are you addressing such language to me, sir?" demanded his wife from under the bed clothes. "No, m' dear," he said, "I wash speakiti't' th' coal scuttle."
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AN INCONTROVERTIBLE FACT. "Chicago may be a great city," remarked a St. Louis drummer to a professional brother from the former place, "she may be a big city, a high, wide and deep city, a wicked city, but"—and his manner was impressive— "she can't play ball."
The Chicago man, in his despair, hurled himself through tlie open car window. A LARGE HEART. "Simpkins is a soft fellow," remarked Miss Brown, "but he must have a big heart. He told me that a Chicago girl tried to trample on it, but couldn't do it."—New York Sun.
A Thanksgiving Dinner.
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Politic.
Gilhooly has a fine pointer, but Gus De Smith has none.. "Let us go hunting to-morrow," said Gus. "But how will you get along without a dog? You haven't got any?" "Of course I haven't any dog. If I had a dog of my own, do you suppose I'd ask you to go along?'—Texas Sif tings.
Speaking of anew riding habit The Boston Herald thinks that it will not be generally worn by tho girls until a great many girls —w it. That seems clear enough, yet it is a .rifle confusing.
THE GAZETTE: TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2,1886.
SOME NEW HOUSES.
GETTING RID OF THE FLAT FRONT AND SHARP CORNER.
The Colonial, Utilitarian and Crazy Periods of American House Building. After All These, We are Developing i* Keayy Attractive Architecture.
Out of the chaos of ugliness and uncertainty as to what they really wanted the American people are at length evolving some JJjeautiful homes. The old colonial architecture was a type to itself. Some of the houses yet standing, with their square face and\»aked roofs, are really picturesque under the softening influence of two centuries, and with the old trees around them.
After that came the utilitarian period in our architecture. A house was a place to eat and sleeep in and to be protected from the weather in. Besides, immediately after the revolution there was so mucL work to do that people had no time to think of anything else. The citizens of our young republic had anew continent to conquer, ail their own, and they were impatient to be at work. After that came the crazy period, when we tried to do something and could not. We are at length coming out of that stage.
The picture of the Boston mansion shows what American houses have grown to in most recent times.
Part of a double residence in Beacon street appears in the illustration. The whole building is constructed in a way worth noting here. Two well to do citizens wish to make homes on adjacent lots. The hideous old fashion fiof building a "block" of houses so alike that one may easily mistake his neighbor's door for his own, is properly hate-
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lay then* heads together, and consult skilled architects. They plan and build a sort of co-operative structure. On tho outside it looks like all one house —large, stately, and imposing as a castle. Inside it is separated into two complete homes, more thoroughly separate even than the ngly old "blocks." Heaven grant those rows of meaningless buildings, with dark rooms all through the center, will some day quite disappear from American citie6. lit- New York architecture has taken a surprising flight in recent years. That quarter of the city which is now growing mo6t rapidly is the West side, so called.
In the second illustration are seen the attempts of the Yankee intellect to adorn and disguise tho flat front of honored time. The attempt is not half a bad stagger either. The plan of the building in the first picture i^ tho the best, however, for connected houses The house is extremely pleasing, to the eye, at the* same time it am-» wers every purpose FRONT DECORATION. of the old dark room blocks better than these themselves did. These houses- can thus be very well constructed to look like one. With more than that, there would perhaps be a difficulty, though not an insurmountable one. For semi-surburban homes, where a little strip of side yard can be left now and then, these clusters of two and three houses together will be both picturesque and convenient for people who are not rich enough to have a yard all to themselves. Such clusters add to the pleasing effect of the half country landscape, relieving the dull flabbiness.
For homes in cities for persons of small or moderate means, beyond a doubH the newest fashion of apartment houses, sometimes called "French flats," is best. Some of these in New York city are thirteen stories high, and are occupied by a hundred families. They area village in one house. To a few best of them there is only one central front entrance through this all pass. The halls run parallel with the street, which is much tho better way for so large a building. There need thus be no dark rooms.
Still another ideal of front ornamentation is exhibited in the third picture. It, too," shows the steadfast attempt to get away from tha bald, flat front.
Every such attempt is to be condemned. In this I instance it has been quite successful.
The house shown is a new one in New York city, west of Central
FRONT OF HOUSE. park, and not far from tho Hudson river. This part of the groat city is almost the only one in which vacant building spaces are yot left, and these are now filling rapidly. The houses being constructed here are for families of moderate means. They ore three stories with mansard roof, many of them, and connected, but there is everywhere the endeavor to give picturesqueness and variety to the exterior.
It has only recently dawned on us, apparently, that-rich and beautiful architectural ornaments can bo made of just plain brick clay, red, yellow and other1 colors. It can be molded and baked into any shape. For cornices and windo"ws and doors, for walls themselves, nothing can bo richer or more tasteful. Along with the endeavor to relieve the flat front has
A CORNER.
come a most commendable desire to do away with the sharp corner. So should it be alike with the sharp corners in our houses and in our characters. The last picture is an architectural success in corners. A tower can always be constructed which will break at least one sharp edge of a house. In its construction the terracotta ornamentation alluded to can be very effectively employed
Bricks will soon be made of any shade doof rod a nrnras having bee* found of mixing
the coloring matter witn tne wet ciay ueiore burning. Besides, no country has so many varieties of beautiful natural colored clays as ours. Some handsome houses, have lately been constructed of straw colored, brick, with dark rod or brownish green ornamentation for window caps, doors and cornices.
Bill Nye Writes to Edwin Booth. LITTLE MAMMOTH EATING HOUSE,
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VALERIAN, O., Nov. 10, 1880.
FRIEND BOOTH: I learn with some surprise that through a misunderstanding between your manager and my own you aro billed for Cleveland on the same evening with Mr. Riley and myself.
In order to give the people of Cleveland an opportunity to witness two of America's greatest tragedians without inconvenience, I have decided to change my own date, so as to avoid any annoyance by dividing the audience. Sentiment in Cleveland, I find* is about equally divided on tho question of dramatic and tragic interpretation between you and I. Some like your style of melancholy best, while those who have used mine say they would have no other. So I think, it would be better to give each and all an opportunity to judge fairly and impartially between us.
I believe that while your stage sadness is the perfection of masterly interpretation, it is not entered into so thoroughly, and participated in by the audience as mine is. I am introducing this winter a style of sad that is becoming quite popular and brings tears to eyes unused to weep.
Everywhere I go I hear you verj' highly spioken of, however. I think you are giving general satisfaction wherever you go. I will try to go and hear you at Cleveland. I have read the play beforo so it will not be new to ine, but I would enjoy going very much and my presence might induce others to go. It does not matter much wtaere I sit. You can nut me wherever you think I would attract the most attention.
After the performance is over I will come back oh the stage and congratulate you. Hoping that you are well, and that the awkward conflict of our dates may be satisfactorily adjusted so that your pecuniary loss will bo merely nominal, I remain yours with kind regards, BILL NYE. "1
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Mr. Simple Simon Jones takes the box from the messenger, and opens it. "Pretty thing to send a $30 hat home in that shape, all punched in at the top, and the sides all bent! It's well my wife didn't see it!" Then he deliberately seats himself and proceeds to straighten it out and make it "presentable." This done, he gives it to the girl to take to Mrs. Jones.
"Upon my word, and sure's I lib, missus, dat's de berry way he gibbed it to me4» gib to yer, dis yer minute.
"Oh, you cruel, heartless wretch! You have rained ray hat To think that I ever married such a monster! I shall go home to my mother, so I shall!"—Harper's Bazar.
Omahahas.
Mr. Winks—Great Scott! There comes Jinks. He has a bill against me. Tell him I am out. Mrs. Winks—Well, I'll tell him you have just gone down town to pay a bill. Mr. Winks—No, no. He'll know you're lying tWn. Tell him something he can believe. Mrs. Winks—Well, I'll toll him you're on another spree, dear.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Little Nellie—What does your papa do? Little Dot—My papa is a horse doctor. L. N.—I guess I better not play with you I'm afraid you don't belong in our set. L. D.— Why, what does your papa do? L. N.—My papa is a vot'rinary surgeon.
THE NEEDS OF A HODBP.N ACTRESS. Great Actress—I see the heroine of youi play starts as agstreet beggar. Author—Yes, but G. A.—It is an excellent play throughout, and I will appear in it but you must make a change in the first part. A.— Certainly, anything you wish. G. A.—Well, put in a few linos to explain that tho diamonds I wear while begging are heir looms, and that the dress is a present from Worth. —Omaha World.
Clirks Who Speculate.
I think that young man makes twenty cents every time ho buys stamps here. I know tho firm he works for, and it is unlikely they would send him for ninety, stamps every time. Ho always gives mo $3 and pockets the change., There is another young clerk whom I have got my eye on. He has brought here from time to time stamped envelopes with the name of the firm for which he works branded upon them. These he had cxchongad for postage stamps. If the envelopes wero spoiled in directing or mutilated in any way there would bo no suspicion, but they are whole and without a scratch upon them. These fly young men need watching. —Postal Clerk in Albany Jourual.
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FIRE IN MINERS'BLOCK.
Five Houses Destroyed Entirely. KNIGHTSVELLE, Ind., Nov. 26, 1886.— Afire broke out in the blocks of the Brazil Block coal company, at the Gartsharrie Mine, No. 1 last night a little after midnight. Five houses were entirely destroyed and five families rendered homeless and destitute. Everything they had was burned up, even to their clothing.
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