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Clinton New Era, 1895-08-16, Page 13Au ust 28, 1895 i" The IftlinnOlk of Love, n, WHAT , A FROG'S CROAK DID. O • I'eoulipr Ineldent That Led to the In+ vention of the Telepk9ne. It .#It. not oomTUOP knowledge„except to those familiar with electrical and stele,. phoz}e history that the first telenhoop".waii conetxucted be Racine, Win, and .Ghat the inventor, Dr; S. D. Cushman, is now a residue; ot.Chloago. His litigation with the Bell Telephone Coe extending over a parted et Len • vette and oo044 $100,080, has been reported from a legal standpoint, but as it is ono of Mr. Cushman's principles that personal remise:;eenoed aro in bad taste, he has sel- dom given a formal interview. His offices are<in the Stook Exchange building. Here the venerable inventor, 77 years of age, who built the first telegraph lines in his part of the "far West" pursues his business with more alertness to' affairs than the average young man. In the corner of the room is a large. worn piece of muslin on which is painted in thin color a' representation of a tele- graph line stretching away in the distance, convected with a crude instrument5set on two logs near which a frog is sitting by a stream. This old relic represents the telegraph line of"good cedar posts" which Dr. Cushman constructed west from Ra- cine for the 'into & Michigan telegra h company in 1851, and the experimental lightning arrester which led te his diseuv- ery. ' It is a reminder of the days when Dr. Cn'':rnan was associated with Plut.Marse in Jeno pioneer days of telegraph., n his desk is the Brat t lepheno trap -i titter, constructed in 1851, twenty-five years be- fore the )fell patents were taken out. it is a small square box with a speakingort'lce and co..taining mechanism on the sauna principle as that of the modern transmit- ter. In 1851 Dr. Cushman undurtyok thecon- structton of a lightning arrester, in ob- ject being to take thelightning that struck the wire and run it into the ground, the' instrumen t being so conritrected t hat it would not interfere with the light current used in telegraphing. This instrument was placed out un thc'prairio on two lugs sand in order to knew when it had operat- ed a triple magnet with a sheet of thin iron at the poles, similar in construction to a modern "receiver," was plated in the corner of the box In ease the lightning passed through the instrument thet•leotru- n,agnot would pull this strip of iron down into the tonne of a permanent magnet, which woulel retain it until the instru- ment was inepeeted. .A. similar device was placer) in shy base• nient of the betiding HI It trine and e ,n neeted with the other end of the line. 1bit day while a thundorsterii writ cooling up and I)r. Cushman e s wet ehi1.g the in- etrument,the croaking of frogs NVitt heard, thirtyen miles awvr,y. This is the exnLutn- tion of how the old painting with the crude instrument and the croaking frog is identified with the discovery of the tele- phone, Dr. Cushman is the inventor of the fire - alarm system in Chicago. His patent office reports, the says, "would weigh a ton" and contain a great number of his electrical patents. To the priority of Dr. Cushman there is said to be nu doubt, and the contest of the validity of the Bell patents begin in 1885 was at last silken to the Unit d States District Court of Bos- ton in 1893, where it is now pending. Dr. Cushman is a descendant of the his- torical Cushmans who came to Virginia in 1640. He was a friend of Herat* Greeley and most of his prominent contemporaries in what might be called the era of rapid mechanical development. In entry life he was a newspaper reporter. Some twenty years of his life was spent In central Obio, and he says: "I never doubted that God made that country." fl a.'rnttetit Nt,rrift t?:. 'EMI' Mott Tins() WoULD' KNOW THE GRAND ,TFUTRs; THE PLAiN FAOTBI THE NEW DIs- 4 0VERiES OF UEDIQAL SCIENCE As APPLIED TO MARRIED LIIra;,wWHO WOULD ATONE FOR g4BT. F}RRORS 4Np AvoID FUTURE PITFALLS, SnovLI SECURE THE WONDERFUL LITTLE BODE elemenD"CO112PLETE MANHOOD OD HOW TO ATTAIN IT." "$ere at last is information froth a high snedioal source that must wcrk wonders with the generation of men." The book fully describes the method by 'which to attain full vigor and manly power. A method by which to end all unnatural drains on the system. To cure nervoneneea, leek of self control, despondency,. etc. To exchange a jaded and worn nature for one of brightness, buoyancy and power. To cure forever effects of excesses, over- work, worry, etc. • To give full strength, development and tone to every portion and organ of the body. Age no barrier. Failure impossible. 2- 000 references. The book is purely medical and scientific, useless to 3uriosity seekers, invaluable to men only who need it. A despairing man. who had applied to us, soon after wrote: "Well, I tell you that first day is one I'll never forget. I just bubbled, with joy. I wanted to hug every body and tell them my did self had died yesterday and my new self was born to -day. Why didn't you tell me when I first wrote that I would tind it this way?" And another thus: "If you dumped a cartload of gold at my feet it would not bring such gladness into my life as your metbod ha.,•done." Write to the Erie Medical Company, Buffslo,N.Y., and ask for the little book called "COMPLETE MANHOOD." Re- fer to this paper, and the company prom- ises to send the book, in sealed envelope, without any marks, and entirely free; ui.til it is well introduced. KNOW YOUR BIBLE. The Bible contains 3,566,480 letters, 810,697 words, 31,175 verses, 1,189 chapters And 66 books. Longest chapter is the 119th Psalm. The shortest and middle chapter is the 117th Psalm. The middle verse is the 8th of the 118th Psalm. The longest name is in the 8th chapter — Or Isaiah. - - "• - - The word "and" occurs 46,627 times. The 37th chapter of Isaiah and the 19th chapter of the 2nd Book of Kings are Ws►like• • The longest verse is the 9th of the 8th chapter of Esther; the shortest the 86th of the llth chapter of John. The 21st verse •of the 7th chapter of Ezra is the only one of the entire collec- tion which contains every letter in the alphabet. The word "Lord. or its equivalent "Jehovah, occurs 7,698 times in the Old Testament; or, to be more exact, the word "Lord occurs 1,853 times, and the word "Jehovah" 5,845 times. The word "God" dons not occur in tho book , of Esther, but there is wisdoin, 3lnowledfre, holiness and love in every chapter of the entire work. is shouldn't wear high stock collars With bo'Ws, which make you look as thoggh $our head were tied on—they are passe. . i After having postponed its ntvn decision I on the matter until next .Tannery, the Do• minion Government is rather fila;( cel in regnirine Manitcbrim•'t l ,rely to ••6•1e• its position on the separate school (pi stion. • A. infitir. Result of a , Neglected' Cold. DISEAttli LUNGS Which Doctors' Failed to Help, AYR'S ectoal. en my lungs, had I did what IshoftteSettled o go such eases, neglects it thinking 1t'would little while, ithat Wee; but sli test exertion pained me. I then Consulted a Doctor who found, on examining my lungs, that the 'tipper part of the lett one was badly affected. Se gave me some medicine which I took as directed but it did not seem to do any good. Fortunately I happened to read in Ayer's Almanac,of the effect that Ayer's Cherry KFeetoral lad ontothers ands I determined to tr6leible Was relieved, ars before doses my bottle I was•cured.'"—A. LEFLAa, 'tvatehreaker, Orangeville, Ont. .flyer's ' Cherry Pectoral H1gheit Award* ;Ii World'a Mitre •sitior'i tx"Rt1t Ct d ` 'ftdttgeit1oth 'I' • A ' LLUNTO ' NEW ERA FAILUIRE ANI? SUOOBSB It is often all, the little thipge theft ooll- stitute the wide differences bstween.sucoets and Railure. Some men earnest iu purpose Qapable in rnauy ways, _seem ,unable to die- cern the import of minor, nevertheless im- portant elements, and; n consequence to grasp the opportiunities. that if accepted would carry them on to victory, In the same way peopleare imposed upon by mer- cenary druggists, who, to gain an addition- al profit, practise the dishonest method of substitution. Calling for rutnam'e Pain- less OornExtraotor,they accept some worth, less flesh -eating substitute, only to be die. appointed or sufferipjuryt I'µtpagm'a Corn Oure is the only reliable one. The Ferris Wheel Again. Unless sono unforeseen diffleultles upset present calculations the deep rumble of the great Ferris wheel, which helped make up the conglomeration of noise along the Midway during the World's Fair days, will soon be heard again in the neighbor- hood of Wrlghtwood Avenue and North Clark street, where the wheel is being moved for a five-yoars' sojourn among Nroth-Siders. The exact location o: the ponderous machinery is the large vacant lot almost opposite the Amita' station of the North Clark -street cable lint, and the immediate vicinity now presents about the same appoaranee that the Ferris wheel site on the Midway did two years ago. Gr t tt sections of the steel construotlon lit- ter the let where the whex•l will stand, and already the massive supports are pushing their way skywards, encircled and sup- ported by perplexing m•assos of false works as scaffoldings. Nothing is yet to bit seen of the wheel .twit, but the con- tractors expect it will be In place and ready to revolve ,in August 15th, the time now set for the opening. The work of transplanting the great wheel to the North Side began early 111 Apt'il, when the soil was broken for the foundations. Great difficulty wee experi- enced in finding sufficiently stable ground, hut after going down 22 feet through sand, water, quicksand, and clay a firm baso was reached and the oonorete tonnda- tlons for the iron -work laid. Nest the heavy work, such as patting Into place the machinery and erecting the portals upon which the supports and the shafts will rest, was accomplished, and now all that remains to be done is to set up the eupporte and the wheel itself which will be a comparatively easy task. The false•work on nee side is already up 114 flet, and it is eapei tel that this part of the work will be linlshed by the end of the week. One hundred men are emplw- ed steadily, and as many moven are engag- ed in mwlag the great wheel across the city. The removal of the P'erris wheel from its storage place near Its old location to the North tide, in itself, is a rt•markahle undertaking when it is remember, d that the machinery weight+ 5,000 tons or 4,000, - 000, 4dunda, ttmt the dietanppee which it Is being'carried exceeds 18 mileA,aud that, with two exceptions, the eeetions have been moved by horses and trucks, 80 teams having -been kept ih nee almost constantly. The excepitons ase the shaft and the engines, which were carried across the city by railroad on Pennsylvania Cen- tral armor -plate oars made express,y for carrying such kinds of freight. Tempor- ary tracks have been tram the rail- road intersection along Wrlghtwood Avenue, and the great sheet Is now being slowly drawn by horses to ice destination. The wheel originally Dost about $400,000, although it could be built again for some thing loss than that sum. The expense of moving it and setting it up again in its new location will he not far from 680,000. Quite nrnposeibte. "In my bnsiness,'da dy, it is Impossible to get a•day's work'} 'You don't say I 1 What is your busi- ness?" "I'm n night wa .hman." Opportunity, too, er or later, comes t0 all who work and w = •. LITTLE ONES FOR A CENT. A penny saved is usually a penny earn-' ed for the benefit of some one with a sohethe. A woman's pocket is not so difficult for an energetic suitor to find. Tho bricks that flourish in hats ars made without straw. A load of trouble is not lightened by a load of rum. • The tide which leads on to fortune would be all right if it didn't turn back. Tho B. B, League should create a sinking fund for the purpose of pensioning dis- abled players in the future In these days the milk of human kind- ness is soured by the thunder -storm of imposition. Even the colors of the greenbacks are not fast. • Of the two evils we usually choose the more alluring one. In the battle of life we cannot do our fighting at the rear. The jewel' of consistency doesn't always get into an engagement ring. If wishes were horses should now be changed to if wishes were bicycles. Many a than saves up for the rainy day of another. If Father Time had wheels in his head he wvould travel on a bicycle. It steins 1 crfeetly human for the ball- player to err. Thu reason that some people cannot etau,l prosperity is that they insist on having it sitting. DON'T. Don't sit in u draught When warm. When your tons are numb with cold, don't warm them by a hot fire. .Pull oft your shoo, and stockings and rub your feet with snow or cold water, or you may have chilblains. Don't take off your flannels till your flannels !,tick to you. Don't sit on the ice to strap on your skates. Don't lick an iron doorknob with your tongue to lied out how cold it is. Don't think that brandy will warm up the stomach. Alcohol lowers the tempera- ture and the vitality. The virtue of a toddy is all in the hot water. In going for a long drive don't forget to take hot bricks. soapstones or water bottles for the feet. Don't take off your wraps while per- spiring, 'Don't insist that every member of the family shall consult the thermometer be- fore he is permitted to shiver. He may be cold though the weather is not. Don't inuftle your throat or you will soon have to wrap up your heed. Don't takeao ice-co,d bath just because your neighbor has the sensibility of a polar bear. Don's lin down to sleep at any time without an extra covering. SHORT FURROWS. Some men complain of hard tunes who sleep• themselves inlu puvcrty. Don't eoi it stn of vuur wife's extrav- agance, with a cigar in your 81 01 h. 1)ei,urnin8 is cruel,t,hen 111, Gone \Vital club in tltc hands of an angry luno. Why ;un.t these felluww•ti who know the short remix to success over try theta? '1 lie woman who tells uri.er, 1., wc, duo. not u:way's keep 1.er own house the Linin,:. i-taaitl around with your hands h: year potkot.s, and site Low quick you will ;;,•, rich. The commandment to rest one day in Bew••n it just us binding on your burro as it is on you. I wouldn't give notch for that Huai who doesn't, feel a thrill of joy every time ie nnehes the top of a hill. To the industrious farmer no Lards si ig so sweetly as the robins, who 1trike 8,1 eir first notes about four o'clock in the morning. It will pay you to practise the art. of love -making upon your horses. The more they love you the better service they wi,l give. RECEIPT FOR A GOOD LNION. Grit. Vim. Push. Snap. lene•re.y. Morality. Cord lie liy. Talk about it. Write about it Speak well of It Help to improve Fuhscribe fur its papers. Help all pubs), enterprises. . Make the 111011,snhere healthy. Faith exhibit,-,. Ly gixel works. Fire alt loafer oro,': re And dost: -heats. Let ytrur al•j'•o; la i11.1 We:1:11V, trrowvth and pronlo,:run t f J sur un:eru cud its mew berg i-t.eak well of the r1eet spirited Wren, one alt , It nuc vuurc.•,f. GAINED A POiTND EVERY DAY DYSPEPSIA AND CATAKRII OF TRC STOMACH CURED WE D. R. n, AFTER HOPE WAS NEARLY OTVEN Ur. GFNTLEUEN,—For over three months I was ill from what I believe was a malig- nant type of Dyspepsia, I at once con• salted a doctor who treated me for dyspep- sia without success. I could not rest at night and bad tc walk the floor to get any case. 1 failed from 195 lbs down to 135 lbs and was about eiving up in despair when I heard of 13. B. B. as a remedy for dyspep. sia. The first bottle made a change for the better, and I bought 6 mc:re. Under the use of B.B.B. I gained a pound a day. I took 18 bottles in all and am new nearly back to my old weight. I recommend B, B.B. to all dyeeptics. Not one tenupiatnt has ever ben made by those using Ayer's Sarsaparilla accord- ing to direetians, /furthermore, we have yet to learn of a eilne in which 1t has failed, to afford berleflt4 So say buedredsofdrug. gists all over the country. Has .oared others, will our you. • HIS, ViEW OF THg THING. The Little Oirl Escaped, but $o Was Bah tered Tuto a State of Reckless Ruin. The wheelman who was soorohing through Washington Park rounded one of the eurvge NIA as a little girl about 4 years old started to run across the road in front of him. He set his teeth, turned his bicycle sharply to the left, and flew out of the saddle in one direction, while the ma- chine went tumbling In another,the little girl escaping by a hair's breadth. "You careless brute!" exclaimed e sharp -voiced matron, who name running up. "You monkey on two wheels! What do you mean by racing about the park in this dare -devil kind of away? Haven't you got any consideration for other folks? Ilon't you know you're always liable to run over somebody: Do you want to snare people to death? Some people haven't got the sense they were born with. If I had my way about it, I'd stop this business mighty quick. You might have killed my child." "Yes, ma'am," replied the young man who had gathered himself up and was making an inventory of bis damages. "But I didn't. She got off without a soratoh, wthlo I've got a skinned elbow, a bruised knee, a sprained ankle, and a lame shoulder. There's a piece of skin as big as a half -dollar gone from the palm of my hand, my hair is full of dirt, I've ruined a suit of clothes, and it will cost me $15 to have the machine mended. If I'm not kicking ma'am, I don't think you ought to kick." He picked up his broken bicycle, put it over his shoulder, and limped slowly away in the direction of the nearest repair shop. - $7,500 FOR A SET OF TEETH. A Prisoner in an English Prison Paid the Price. A well-known firm of bankers in Lon- don have just made a profitable invest- ment. Some time ago a man who had defrauded them of a large sum of money was taken into oustody,convicted and sen- tenced to a long torn of penal servitude. As may bo imagined, the prison fare did not agree with the man who had by means of fraud lived on the fat of the land. The change affected him in many ways but he complained more particularly of the effect the food had upon his tenth. They were not numerous or in good condition when he was sentenced, and as they rapidly be- came worse he applied to the governor of the prison for a mw set. Ho was told that the government did not supply prisoners with artificial teeth, and at the first oppor- tunity he wrote to the banking firm In question offering, if they would send him a new set, to give them some valuable in- formation. Thereupon, tbo bankers, think- ing the offer might bo a genuine ono sent governor of the prison a check for £5, and asked him to provide the convict with a wt of artificial teeth. Li due course the the convict kept his prontige. and sent the bankers eertatn information, by means of which they were enabled to recover no less than £1,500 of wbieh they had been defrauded. They naturally r,gamest this its tlfo`best tnvettinent over nnidt4, • bat it proved better than pantile 11 td. for they have just received from the prison au:h critics a remittance of £1, rite tenth hav- ing cost uulw ££4. CORE 7 f , 25 eta., Flo els. and 51.00 Bottle. Ono cent a dose. 1: iv sold on a guarantee by all drnggists. It cures Incipient Consumption and is the best Cough and Croup Cure. Coln by .1. 11. "U111117.. • COVIISUMTPtin ..,-act att. .. A. •c'h-• r .^edtc: .ur: t,,. t i . are •..,. 't ulo -TAR SOAP r N lSoQS CoA`: ut (^,Alai tees Sort het JI-W).'TI J. C. STEVPNSON, 1 —THE LEA DINC— UNDERTAKER :—AND— EMBALMER. A FULL LINE OF GOODS KEPT ill STOCK ThebeetEmbalming Fluldused Splendid Hearse. ALBERTST.,OLINTON Residence overetore OPPOSITE TOW BALL MANY PARTICULAR "ADIOS 'Way. iU0 t^. FACE POWDER—White, Flesh and Brunette, 50 cents a box. Perfection}, for puwder users. VOLA. MONTEZ CREME 75c. in opal jars—creates and improves fac beauty for maid, wife er widow. Foe to wrinkles. Mrs Nettie Harrison, America's Beauty Doctor, 40 and 42 Geary St.. San Francisco. Cal. Eastern Cflice, 56Washington Ave., Detroit, Michigan. Who want to look nice, feel good and make the rood of thetuselves, tints me an efficient help, for I make artielea. that make ladies beautiful of face and forte, and hgaltby in body. What I do for others can be done kr you. We Can't tell all about it in this advettisernent. Ask ALLEN tt WILSON, Clint'bn,Ont.,Druggists for my book. These articles are specially good for sum - neer use. FACE BLEACH. $1 per bottle. Clears the complens ton. You must have it if you want to get rid of freckles, moth patches, &c. !L'48" GROCERY ,-....'amp MOO THE letter G stands for GROCERIES, so do we, all the year round, 1 and for First -Class Groceries at that. Groceries are to eat, and what j is to eat should never be tampered with. Any artiole we sell is Top Quality. Buying Groceries from us insures a well supplied table, and a gives yon the benefit of the lowest prices obtainable anywhere for high grade goods. b;,,,,,,, 11"—IFruit is right incline now, and yon will want 0-M1/1 T A R S Our stock of Jars is large and the price is right.3 Farm produce taken as cash.—Telephone No. 23. OGLE COOPER & CO, Cash Grocery 1 door North of News -Record. Red Cap !! Red Cap BINDER TWIN£ A 1"rlited quantity of the old reliable brand, only We. Get it at once. Full stock of Scythes, Forks and Snaths No".-"Ck(.l Stand A1ut ay block d Brick Block Not Damagedby th :...�t...ec.bC:iiih`.t'..`wli�Y�'':it. iim'!.'•sr_�.>•.r 0 Our Stock of Sugars were net c'amnged by Frost, bur es thet.trarktt is hither and excited, we quote no prices, lent will nut be undersold. Prices:obtained by calling atlour stere, alto Larlains in ex; 1'3 it F it cur line I i .Back TEAS we bawe tate Deiu Rola Blend at 50cts a pcur,rl, tit the Sa!adr ackage at 4(:c., best walue in teen. In Japans at 2r. and 33 Ctr,tswwe beat then, all. Ir et no matter what you need in our line, we gnatel.tet to gi- e a- gr d linalltw, and ar L w prices at can be hot anywhere. Cannel el C;eodi- of all kii.ri,. al. tin great warier) ilalua. 1lratc.. Laid. Cottcltnt alrwaw s in stook. ('rockery and (41RS,V,tau 5w51.11 d,. w' Give us a call and see what we tan do for you. 31c311,' :l r ~ 'I TSF„ CC' Y.[w.kt,A T 1. ROC7"RT1L `Tr 1 i `\O' LONDESBORO ;nue-seises/Apts. fer all I'ttl111 In ),'.11 e n t MASSEY-HARRIS Model's, Diowtr•,. Drills Seede,s, Cuttiwetcr . Sct:fll,,14 aLd- all kinds o1 Pious Full line of Machinery and Mow Repairs BINDER TWINE—Rest broods M Twine or .a• prices. A complete lane of ,sees, M g '"•n"i.... ..• 1 ,_.—..•W wu` tl %Y �%"' �' Fine Buggies end Standard Waggons — rr'/� a specialty. Agents for Gould, Eharpiyy- & Muir Wind Mills 001; 5101 TO- Firtt•rles., vim.). end 1,1144 n atetie1; )rites consistent aitb good articles. attention given to hepairing at d a 1 kmcs of Job Wo.kt ..)UttN itltUNSI)ON & SON, Londesboro. uggies, Road Carts, Waggons Prompt aLi M1iILL' s P1.IUZ MC1'o IY rn .ler . 1I-a{ron ! r r c et, Gl�iritaii We have in stock a few Burges and Wagons Which we guarantee to be of first—class material and woikmanahip. If yon want a good article at the price of a poor ono, call and see us. TZ 17 113A TATA - - CT�Tr VC N ..iris EOOTS : and : SHOES i Ansa A,W. We have a large stock of Boots and Shoes bought when prices were low, and although there has been an advance in the price, we have not increased, but on the contrary decreased the price, in order to cleat out the stoat, and will give a goon discoun' 18or Cash on almost every line in stock. It will pay intending purchase.! a to call and examine for them- selves. Any quantity of Good BUTTER in Tuhsj and also Fresh EGGS wanted at highest mark price. ADAIVI8' EMPORIUM, -) /MU/10RO ADAMS