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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-10-12, Page 311 este PERSONALITIES.. Marshall Field appears to be easily the richest man in Chicago. General Nelson A. Miles is very fond of rowing and is a skillful hand at an oar, W. J. Partridge, the wealthy English- man now in New York, was Barney Barnato's closest friend. Nagaromi, the great Japanese law- yer, is in Paris, where he is studying the workings of the French law courts. The Marquis of Lorne, son-in-lawof Queen Victoria, has just patented a bi- cycle brake, which is to be fixed to the back wheel. Dr. Max Brener of Buffalo has been decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor for saving the life of a French seaman. The Duke of Westminster, whose horse, Flying Fox, recently won him $50,000, has presented the sum to the Royal Alexandria hospital, Rhyl, of which he is president. Hon, John At.. Bengbam, who was a contemporary of Galusha A. Grow dun, hag bis earlier congressional service and a prominent figure in the Johnson Impeachment, is living In poverty at Cadiz, 0, The Duke of Beaufort has definitely decided to have Chepstow castle put up to auction early in October. This was one of the first five Norman cas- ties built in the reign of William the Conqueror. Jaules C. MacRae of Raleigh has been chosen professor of law at the University of North Carolina. Mr. Mac- Rae has served on the superior and supreme court benches in his state and is an ex -member of congress. Alson S. Sherman, mayor of Chicago in 1544, is still alive and in perfect health. Ile is the last surviving chief of the old volunteer fire' department and was a member of the first "bucket" company formed in Chicago. Mr. John Morley is now living at Ha - warden, where he twill remain for sev- eral months in order to have ready ac- cess to the papers at Hawarden castle, which he will have to examine in order to complete his biography of Mr. Glad- stone. Archibald A. Glenn, formerly state senator and lieutenant governor of Mi. no's, and a man 80 years of age, has just been elected city treasurer of 'Wichita, Kan., and discharges all tbe duties of his office without the aid of a bookkeeper or clerk. Lieutenant James C. Cresap, U. S. N., was a middy on the old Constitu- tion under Dewey. He says the latter, when he found two of the under offi- cers quarreling, would make them do ten hours' "extra guards" together, a process 'which never failed to make them friends again. APHORISMS. When the judgment is weak the prej- udice is strong.—O'Hara. Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit.—Penn. Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.—Sydney Smith. An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise. -Howell. Those who are greedy in praise prove they are poor in merit.—Plutarch. He that swells in prosperity will be sure to sbrink in adversity.—Colton. Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least.— Gay. The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.— De Bouf&ces. He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.—Sir P. Sidney. Punctuality is the stern virtue. of men of business and the graceful cour- tesy of princes.—Bulwer. There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all.—Shen- stone. PITH AND POINT. Some married men are compelled to take life according to directions. Too many .people have a penchant for confessing their neighbors' sins. A man never realizes how ignorant he is until a woman begins to tell him things. STAGE GLINTS. _— Maxine Elliott is a full partner in all Nat Goodwin's business enterprises. Rehearsals of "Die Meistersinger" by the Castle Square Opera company will begin in the early part .of the season. Josef Koine has retired from the Berlin stage and become the principal actor at the Hofburg in Vienna for a long term of years. It is announced that in Weber and Fields' new burlesque, "The Whirli- gig," Lillian Russell will play the part of a frisky, capering French girl of 20. W, M. Gray has ,.secured the rights of "The Runaway Girl," and Arthur Behan will have control of "The Great Ruby." Both plays will be put on the road the coming season. St. Petersburg has a theater far chil- dren, in which the plays are given by juvenile actors and deal with childish subjects, The theater is a small one, adapted only to receive children of ten. der years. The rumor that Al Hayman and Will J. Davis are going to have a new Cbi- cago theater shortly bas been revived. in New York.. The denial of Manager Davis still holds good, although resolu- tions have been known to change,. Charles Frohman has engaged Sid- ney Herbert for the Empire theater stock company next season. He will Make his first appearance with that organization when it returns to the Empire, after John Drew's engage- ment there. The repertory of Sir Henry Irving. Ellen Terry and their company in their American tour next season will include "Robespierre," "The Merchant of Ven- ice," "The Bells" and ".A Story of Wa- terloo," "Nance Oldfield" and A, 0. Calmour's play in verse,. "Ties Anther Hearts," It's impossible to drown your trou- bles in drink; they all wear life pre- servers. If everybody obeyed the laws, the lawyer and the policeman would soon be out of a job. When a man marries he gives his Blame to bis wife, but when he fails in business be takes hers. If men could live their lives over again they would avoid all their old mistakes -and make a lot of new ones. —Chicago News. PLANT LIFE. A certain Chinese flower is red in the sunlight and white in the moonlight. In India the rhododendron grows to a height of, 30 feet. 'Marigolds and camomiles in north Africa- reach a height of four or five feet.' The orchid, found in the jungles and difficult of access, sometimes coin= wands $1,000 for a single specimen. It takes months to stalk the "demon flow- .er s." The elm tree is full grown at the age of 150, esti at 100 and the oak at 200 years. The growth of an elm is about 2l, feet per annum; that of an oak less than 1 foot.' THE TROTTING CiRCUIT. Alex and Directura hold jointly the fastest race record, 2:05Ya. .At Allentown, Pa„ the 2:12 trot has been changed to 2:12 trot or pace. Moth hillier, 2:073, pacing, is being barred in the free for ails, in Ivew England. Lady of the Manor, 2;04% pacing, is the fastest performer at either gait bred by Village Farm. Last winter Lord Vincent sold for $1,600. This summer, it is said, $20,- 000 has been refused for him. At Santa' Rosa, Cal., in the recent meeting, ten green pacers started in the 2:30 class and not one wore hob- bles. Heats were paced from 2:13 to 2:18. Mr. F. E. Powell of Columbus, O., an enthusiastic member of the Gentle- man's Driving club, is the owner of Egozen, b h, record 2:064, and it Is be- lieved can pull a wagon in 2:OS or bet- ter. Tessio S, 2:161, is remarkably Inbred to Belmont. Her dam is by Nutwood, son of Belmont, her second dam by Monte Carlo, grandson of Belmont, and her third dam is Watersprite, by Belmont. Bayswater Wilkes, sire of Kelly Briggs, the fast California 4 -year-old, is by Sable Wilkes, dam Fanny Bays- water. thoroughbred, by Bayswater, son of Lexington, Kelly Briggs went in 2:10ts in his first race. George W. Nelson writes us from Baden that Que Allen trotted at that place Aug. 15 on a 1,000 meter track in 2:09 9-10, 2:11, 2:08 2-5. This is the fastest time ever made over such a track, which is less thanthree-quarters of a mile in length.—Turf, Field and Farm. ORIGIN OF DISHES' NAMES. The sandwich is called for the Earl of Sandwich. Mulligatawny is from an east India • word meaning pepper water. Waffle is from wafel, a word of Teu- tonic origin, meaning honeycomb. Gooseberry fool is a corruption of gooseberry foule, milled or pressed gooseberries. Hominy is from anhuminea, the North American Indian word for parched corn. Succotash is a dish borrowed from the Narragansett Indians and called by them, m'sickquatash. Forcement is a corruption of farce - meat, from the French farce, stuffing— e., meat for stuffing. Blancmange means literally white food: hence cbocolate blancmange is something of a misnomer. Charlotte is a corruption of the old English word charlyt, which means a dish of custard, and charlotte russe is Russian charlotte. Macaroni is taken from a Greek de- rivation which means "the blessed dead," in allusion to the ancient cus- torn of eating it at feasts for the dead. ITEMS OF INTEREST. 0 WHEELING ON A .WIRE. 7 Bicycle Trolley. Inventedura � Detroit. Geniux, the Latest Tiling Iu Transportation. By S. B. MacDonald A Detroit genius has succeeded in combiniug those two marvels of the cen- tury's end, the safety bicycle and the trolley, The result is called the bicycle trolley, of course. If there is no flaw in the mechanism, this latest aid to rapid transportation will rival the automobile if it does not utterly eclipse it. Mr. „I, H. Talbot is the inventor. His machine is simple to understand.. In brief, he has hung a bicycle from a trol- ley wire. F$e does this by means of a frame of steel tubing, which weighs about 35 pounds. It is made to fit any ordinary bicycle, which can be fitted into the triune in 30 seconds and taken out in less time. Tire rear wheel rests on a short belt running over two small wheels, An up- right steel rod with a bevel gear top and bottom communicates the power to the trolley wheels, which rest on the wire. The wheel, propelled in the or- dinary way, drives the machine along the wire at arapid rate with the greatest ease. No dust. mud, ruts or stones snakes travel uncomfortable, When dismount- ing at the end of a journey, the trolley ear nod wheel can be easily lifted off the wire, and by clever devices they are made to go on the wire without the least aunoyance. The principle of the thing is plain. Mounted on a ball bearing bicycle, his own wheel, which he inserts into the trolley frame, the rider shoves that ball hearing trolley frame along over a wire that is just like a suburban railway, but minus the current. Ile takes his power house in his legs as the snail carries his house on his back. It is claimed that the power house is not called on for any great amount of exertion because of the re- duction of friction at every angle and poiut ot contact by the ball bearings. The rider goes about a foot and a halt or two feet up in the air in these trolley excursions along the seashore or in the country. A simple brake appllance ren- ders stopping easy. Where traffic is not expected to be too great there are but two wires, one for riders going one way, one for the other way. There are switches for trans - It is expected tbat an automobile fete will be held at Pau, France, next Feb- ruary. Buckingham palace has a scent foun- tain which on state occasions is fed with eau de cologne. The population of the South African Republic consists of 63,000 Boers, 87,- 000 other whites called uitlanders and 600,000 Kars and Zulus. Windsor castle, one of Queen Vie- toria's residences, is to be equipped with 50 sets of electric bells and fire alarm boxes of American manufac- ture. One proprietor of half a dozen boot - blacking stands in New York, who was not many ,years ago an active worker at the business, owns a racing stable of 16 horses. Oklahoma territory takes great pride in the fact that it bas not one poor- house within its borders, and, more- over, has need of none. The people say there hi not a pauper among thein. A GREAT MONUMENT. Will. Commemorate Hungary's 1,000 Years' Existence ale a Nation, One of the fruits of the Hungarian mil- lennial exhibition will be the erection in Vienna ot a national monument to com- memorate the 1,000 years of the nation's existence. The monument is to be a rery line affair. including a column 100 feet high and a widespreading base lav- ishly adorned with sculpture. It is to cost $100,000 and will be three or four years in building, M. Szalla, a famous sculptor, has been engaged by the government to undertake the work. There is a pretty Hungarian legend to the effect that the familiar crown which has descended to 'Franz Jo- sef was placed on Stephen I's bead by Pope Sylvester, who in his turn received it trete heaven at the hands of the Arch- angel Gabriel on condition tbat he should give it to the once heathen king who had TALBOT'S BICYCLE TROLLEY. fer from one wire to the other or for stopping to rest. Patent safety hooks prevent slipping of the trolley frame off the wire, and springs where the trol- ley wire joins the poles prevent the course of the rider being up and down, as it would otherwise be because of the sagging in tbe middle. The frame can be propelled eitherbackward or forward. Anybody who has ridden a bicycle down a long hill after dark and has taken his feet off the pedals to enjoy a coast among possible and unknown dan- gers has felt something akin to the "flying feeling." If he were a rider in the old days when the "good old or- dinary" high wheel was in vogue and tried this lively sport, he knows it still better. But on the bicycle trolley you feel a gentle swaying to and fro, which, if it isn't, the same as a bird wheeling in the air, nevertheless approaches it. It is ex- pected to put the Ferris wheel, the "shoot the shoots" and such like attractions of summer resorts out of business. The system, however, is not alone dr wised for pleasure purposes. Many prac- tical uses have already suggested them- selves to the Detroiters who are putting It on the market. Bicycles are not used in many places where they would be if the roads were better. The trolley rail- way will fix that anywhere. Even where there are good roads they are to be ridden on only at certain sea- sons of the year. This does away with the seasons question. Manufacturing plants on the outskirts of cities can be connected in this way, rural mail deliv- ery can be made the most practicable thing in the world, United States life savers can have these railways built to increase the effectiveness of their patrol of the beaches, and a dozen and one oth- er uses can be called up. So sure are the promoters of this in- vention of its practicability that they are already contemplating a national com- pany to extend its use throughout the country. With this company organized it would be possible to make a great tour, skirting with the easy wire road the great inland lakes, the ocean beaches, the interesting forest paths, the banks of the most beautiful rivers and the myriads of small inland lakes. Tollgates are con- templated to control all these wire roads, and there would be a telephone service along all the routes, connecting patrons with the home town office or with home itself. Caged Through Hie Bird. Victor Chevalier, a clever criminal in Paris, was run down in a shrewd way. He was'knownto be exceedingly fond of a pet parrot, and the police were instruct- ed to look for n loquacious bird of this kind. After a few weeks' searob the talkative parrot was discovered in the Montmartre district. The police kept a close watch on the house, and in time the Criminal appeared to have an affectionate that with his bird, STATUE SURMOUNTING Ni1W BUNGAY.IAN NA- TIONALAIONUMs T. led his people to Christianity. Hence the central huudred foot high column of the monument is surmounted by the figure of Gabriel holding aloft the crown and the cross, a wondrous conception. full of majesty and dignity. At the base of the column are grouped the heathen Icing Arpad and his martial elriefe. Horses and men are striking and warlike, some of the bridles befog of stag - horns, and the figures have that dash and wild fierceness of warriors who had won for themselves the name of the terror ot the plains. Arpad and his leaders de- note the seven clans or families of Hun- gary, of which the Ilubas and the Sze- meres are direct descendants, but the lapse of time has obliterated in most cases the necessarily feebly marked line. The colutnn has on either side a pend- ant in tbe shape of a hemicycie. each con- taining seven niches for statues of all the priucipal monarchs who have figured in the stirring history of Hungary. The whole is designed. as it were, to be an open boak,of Hungary's past and imme- diate present, that he who runs may read. It is u magnificent conception. A BOER STATESMAN ,g',..-M.-.-MM.-h..«.-•-.-6-eN1 Here is a por- trait of Franz Characteristics of the i Vogel Gesang, leader in the Leader In the f Transvaal i volksraad, tbe Transvaal Congress. i Boer congress w h i e e 11 as steadily defied the demands of the English. When you consider that the affairs of the Trans- vaal republic are iu the hands of such men as these, you do not wonder that war clouds hover over South Africa. Franz Vogel Gesang is a typical Boer of the same type as Com Paul Kruger and the rest of his lieutenants. He dis- likes all uitlanders and has a special aversion for the English. He is a rich farmer who turned his attention to poli- tics only after having raised a family of boys sufficiently numerous to look after his broad acres and far driven herds. Like Kruger, this leader in the Boer congress is a man of few words- He is slow of thought and speech, but when STANDARDS OF TIME. THE DAY BEGINS AT SUNSET IN MO- HAMMEDAN COUNTRIES. Any Sort of Time Is tient In China.. While In Africa They Keep very Good Time—Some Countries Use Two Standards of Time. The ordinary method of reckoning time in \lobammedan countries is from sunset to sunset. Twelve o'clock is at sunset, and this is the beginning of the day. Two periods of 12 hours then pass till the next sunset, whereupon everybody sets his watch, if he has one, backward or forward, according to the season. Of course accurate time is impossible un- der such a system. The telegraphs and railroads in Syria, for example, keep anything but exact time, though it might be procured from the observatory at Beirut, which issues its mean time. In Teheran, Persia, a midday gun is fired by the time shown on a dial and this in spite of the fact that the correct local mean time might be procured at the tele- graph office. which is regulated daily by a time signal from Greenwich, and is the time standard for all the telegraphic business. But the merchants and the street ear company keep gun time, and the railroad trains do pot seem to re- quire a time table at all, as they seldom start until full or required to start by a government order. There are out of the way parts of tie world that keep very good time, because their clocks are regulated by telegraph from Greenwich, and then the Greenwich mean time is reduced to local time. ac- cording to the fungitude differences. Thus at Lagos and the gold roast. West Africa. the heal time is checked daily by telegraph from Greenwich and trans- mitted to all telegraph offices in the colo• .pies. The time et Mere is auly 46 see - ands slower than that at Greenwich and Is the time used throughout the gold coast. ,dost any sort of time is kept in China. As a rule the Chinese use an apparent sun time, obtained from sun dials. The foreigners at the ports on the coast use an approximate local time calculated from the Sbangltai time, supplied by the telegraph companies. in the great city of Tien -(sin. with 1,001,000 luhabitants, the time is determined by the municipal chronometer, which is the town hall &wk. It is supposed to he regulated every Saturday. when the community may set their watches. but it has been known to be in error at least three min- utes. in India the standard of time for the whole of the peninsula Is themean time of the Madras observatory, and this time is used on through lines of railroad and in recording the time of sending tele- grams to foreign countries. Local time Is, however, used in most towns and !egos. and and it is announced by clocks strik- ing. gongs, bells and guns, the signals beim; given from churches, treasury buildings, forts and telegraph offices. The loessl clinics are set daily bythe time telegraphed from Madras, and each tele- graph office has a closely printed table, tilling about 50 pages, giving the differ - env.) between Madras and local tune for all the government telegraph offices in India. Not a few countries constantly use two standards of time. This is not trouble- some at all when we consider that, be- fore the adoptiau of the hour zones, the railroads across our own continent em- ployed about 70 standards of time in making up their time tables. Railroads and telegraphs throughout Spain use Madrid time, but for all other purposes the local time is determined by the me- ridian of each locality. Throughout Rus- sia St. Petersburg time is used for tele- graphic purposes, and each place has its own local time besides. In Portugal the country towns keep their local time very roughly, but Lisbon and the railroad and telegraph service have the terve of the Tapada Royal observatory. There is con- siderable confusion In the Netherlands, and it one's watch does not agree with the town clocks as he travels through the land it doesn't follow that he bas a poor timekeeper. In the railroad stations, telegraph and postofces the exact time of the Greenwich observatory will he found. In many towns Amsterdam time is in use, and it is about 20 minutes faster than reliable clocks in many other towns that use Greenwich time, and still other towns use their own local time, so the Netherlands do not lack for variety In time standards. Every place in Newfoundland uses St. John's time for all purposes, excepting Heart's Content, which has special priv- ileges as a cable station. For local pur- poses this little town employs local time, Every day it receives a signal from Lon- don giving the Greenwich time, and as the difference in time between the two points is 3 hours, 33 minutes and 33 sec- onds it is only necessary to keep the local clocks that much slow on Green- wich time to have the exact local time. But in the cable office all foreign business is transmitted with Greenwich time. In Great Britain Greenwich mean time is the standard and is used for all purposes nearly everywhere. Among the few exceptions is the city of Canter- bury, which uses a time about four uiic• utes fast on Greenwich, and clocks at a few railroad stations are kept one or two minutes fast. Ireland uses the time of Dublin, and so all the clocks in the island are 25 minutes and 22 seconds slow on Greenwich time. The official time throughout Argentina is that of the city of Cordova, which is telegraphed every day to control the timepieces in the various cities. .It is used everywhere in the railroad and tele- graph offices, but many citizens in the provinces prefer to use local time of doubtful accuracy. The people of the Hawaiian Islands try to keep their time- pieces 10 hours and 30 minutes slower than those of Greenwich and call this standard time. At Belize, British Hon' duras, the clock over the courthouse, which furnishes the time for the town, is usually regulated by the time kept by the ships in the harbor. We have plenty of time variety in our own country. For example, any town that happens to be on the dividing line between two of the hour time zones will have its oTdn time, and, in addition, at the railroad station there will be two times, differing by an hour, one for the west and the other for the east bound trains. FRANZ VOGEL GESANG. he has made up his mind nothing but a stone wall will stop him, and it must be a good high wail and a thick one at that. This same Franz Vogel has the most utter contempt for the English and their soldiers. He believes that Tommy At- kins couldn't hit the side of a barn at 20 paces with the best Martini ever made, and he is certain that 1,000 Boer sharpshooters ensconced behind the rocks of the Transvaal passes could keep at bay ten times their nuunber and eventually' strew the ground with defunct redcoats. ' Holding, these opinions, it is no marvel that he has opposed the demand of the British government that the Boers grant the franchise and other rights to all uitlanders who have been for five years residents of the republic. FASHION HINTS. What Will Be 'Worn During' Antetaa al*d Winter, Little jackets for fall wear are made of .cloth, the revers being faced with the, same plaid or checked silk which forms the lining of the jacket. For children there are straight sacks, trimmed around the edgewith a circular flounce $louses of various kinds are still worm with different skirts. They do not, how- ever, hang ever the belt. The halt length cape, smooth around; the shoulders and flaring toward the edge,, retains its position in general fator Capital of English.Banks. Compared with the enormous capital of some of the English banks, the largest American institution dwindles into in- siguiflcance. The National Bank of,Eng- land' has $79,000,000; Banca of England, $73,000,000, and London and Westmin- ster bank. $70,000,000. SCHOOL illus. It is sometimes draped a little across the front, fastening across the shoulder with a clasp or other ornament. The newest traveling wrap Is a half length straight sack, having around the shoulders two little circular capes. The reversand pocket flaps are like those of a man's coat. The cut shows a school dress for a girl: 11 years Old. It is of brown serge and has a skirt gathered into a band at the waist. The foot ot the skirt L edged' with several rows of gold and brawn braid. The bodice has a plain back gathered at the waist and a blouse front mounted on a yoke. The yoke is covered with lines of gold and brown braid, which are carried around to the back to simulate a yoke there also. 1;i -- sleeves have lines of the braid at the top and wrist, and the collar and belt are also covered with braid. JvDIa CHOLLET. THiN GOWNS. Bodes of Malting and Ornamenting' Thea). Charming decorations for thin gowns are obtained by applying muslin or ba. tiste upon the surface, outlining the de- sign with cord and then cutting away the goods beneath the application. Mang plain foulard gowns are thus ornamented. The muslin or batiste used for the incrus- tation may be plain, or it may have a printed floral design which is followed in the application. With foulard a pretty effect is obtained by tucking the top of the skirt length- wise. The tucks approach each other to DINNER GOWN. ward the waist and extend half way down the skirt, where their termination forms points or scallops. The fullness which is thus left free at the foot affords the desired flare at the base. Foulard may be used for gowns of both. the simplest and most elaborate charac- ter. All depends upon the color and style of cut chosen. • The dinner gown illustrated is of pink velvet covered with black chantilly. It Is in the princess form, with a very low decolletage, the lace portion appearing as a redingote, which opens over a loose, straight front of pink mousseline de sole,', which continues around the front of the skirt as a flounce. The edge is adorned with applications of black chantilly. The lace redingote has a deep flounce of lace, beaded by a puffing of black mousseline de soie. The sleeves are of unlined chan- tilly, and the decolletage is bordered by a drapery of pink mousseline de sole, a:' bow of black tulle being pieced in front JIIDIC OEQLII ,