The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 28, 1896, Page 6

IGCEST HOLIDAY. POINTS.————— RS B ____-—-—_ EXCURSIONS FROM ALL. FRIDAY AFTERNOON EVENING, JUNE 5th Greater Profit and Pleasure than were ever before united in Amusement | save what the inhabitants ar: since rational entertainment was born. A Thousand Sights and Everyone a Shows Two Greatest Menageries, Two Greatest Circuses, Two Greatest Hippodromes. Great train loads of exclusive features: | 2 Greatest Herds of Acting Elephants. —-—GREAT TRAINED SEA LIONS AND SEALS. ——AND THE ONLY ONES. 2 Great Giant Hippopotami —-——AND THE ONLY ONE-—-— Great Full-grown Polar Bear AND THE! ONLY ONE BUTLE “THE: ONLY: EXHIBITION: OF:-HEROIC:SIZE-AND ‘FAME. Based on Millions, 2 Biggest Menaveri Fue, Mara 2 Biggest Circuses. £4 ¥ IMPERIAL ROMAN HIPPODROME. GREATEST SPEEDING WILD BEASTS. GREATEST JOCKEYS AND THOROUGHBREDS. GREATEST RACES EVER RUN. Great Double Circus Maximus 2 Great Stages. SUMATRA RUINOCEROS | ——AND THE ONLY ONE—— A World of Rarest Wild Beast Wonders: THE GREATEST b COLISEUM EVER MOVED Fe Children’s Day in Funland. 4 Great Rings. GREAT ANIMAL ARENA A Great Royal Japanese Circus. TWO GREATEST PARADES CMTED AT {0 4 Me FRIDAY. JUNE. STH Crowning Spectacle of the Universe. One 50 cent Ticket Admits to all. GREAT FLYING SENSATIONS 300 GREAT PERFORMERS Lowest Excursion rates Arranged 4 100 GREAT ACTS. GREAT OCEANIC ACTORS. 15 Mammoth Waterproof Tents. Seating Capacity 15,000. Children under 9 years, Half Price Two Performances Daily. At 2 and 8 p. m- Doors Open an Hour Earlier. en ee 25 Uniformed Ushers. Numbered Coupon Reserved Seats will be on Sale at the Post Office News Depot JUNE Sth The Marriage Did Not Gecur. Jefferson City, Mo., May 22.—In a jealous fit to-day George Welburn of Rocheport stabbed Frank Fisher of Nebraska and probably fatally wounded him. The affair took place at the Monroe house where the par- ties were stopping. They came here with a party of ladies from Tibbetts, Callaway county, Thursday. to wit-| from Martin, who claims to bea spe ness the bridge dedication. Among | cialist the ladies was Miss Todie Wells, | long suftering and anxiety, Lindsay | who, it is claimed, was to have been | managed in some way to get a grip the new/ upon the cancer and pulled it out. bridge to Welburn, but she refused | He bled almost a water-bucket full, to carry out her part of the pro-| and died shortly afterwards. Welburn accuses Fisher | stood well as a man and citizen, and of preventing the wedding and after | leaves a wife and four children. The | filling himself with whisky he went | Martin Woman was forced to leave to the room where Fisher was wait-| the city at one time by the state ing on a sick friend and without board of health for practicing med- warning he drew his knife and stab-| icine without a licence certificate | bed Fisher just beneath the ribs on | from the body. the eft side of the body. tors think it isa dangerous wound. | General Beliet that Silver Will be Sheriff Sone arrested Welburn and | he is now in jail. BUTLER FRIDAY Y RASHLY VOTED. i 4 Pulled a Cancer Out. Waverly, Ill, May 22.—For a year past Wm. Lindsay, an old sol- dier of this city, has been suffering from cancer located in his jaw. | Local physicians and St. Louis spe- informed him that they could do nothing for him and re- cently he began taking treatment you force the bill through in forty minutes if you were not too coward- ly to face investigation?’ Mr. Hep- burn, continuing, sharply criticised the work of the Mississippi river Riyer and Harbor Bill House Without Reading. Washington, D. C., May 22.—The Phillips labor commission bill, which was to have come to a vote in the house to.day under the speeial order was completely crowded out by the conference reports on the river and harbor and sundry civil bills. bill will now go over until next week. The conference report on the river and harbor bill, which reported an agreement on all the items save that relating to the Santa Monica and San Pedro harbors, California, basis of a very bitter attack on the bill by Mesers. Hepburn (republican) of Iowa and Dockery (democrat) of Missouri. The latter said he opposed this measure because it contained extrav- agant appropriations not warranted by the condition of the treasury. He said he realized that his remarks would not be punctured by applause. “We are all in on it,” he added sar- castically, amid laughter. Mr. Dockery’s remarks about the “impoverished treasury” aud his ap. peals to the people were received | with derisive jeers by the republi-| At the conclusion of his time Mr. Hooker offered to yield him fifteen minutes more point outa single item in the bill that was not justified by the engi- neer reports. (Loud applause.) The challenge brought Mr. Hepburn (re- publican) to his feet with a scathing speech against the bill. This bill, said he, had been passed by a brutal majozity without debate, and be made the assertion that not section of the bill had ever been | read in the house. tory of the country had been known | such villainous legislation. ty-five millions carried in a bill, not & paragraph of which was ever read | or considered. After such a pro-. cedure gentlemen now had the assur- ance to ask its opponents to point | out its multiplied iniquities. “Shame, shame,” he cried. “Shame upon such false pretense. Mr. Hooker's motion to adopt the conference report was agreed to— 189 te 56. The speaker reappoint- ed Messrs. Hooker, Catchings conferrees. Mr. Cannon followed with the con- ference report on the sundry civil | appropriation bill cussion the conference report was defeated—59 to 150. At 5 p. m,/| under the rule, recess until 8 p. m. Normans and This morning, worn out by After some dis-| married Thursday house took a} Grout of Vermont, and Bartlett of New York, were appointed confer- rees on the fortification appropria- Railroad Track Washed Out. Fort Scott, Kan., May 22.—Un- precedented heavy rains continue in Southeast Kansas and the damage | Frankfort, Ky., May 23.—The po | litical situation in the state is rather | peculiar. The severe and emphatic | division of the democrats on the | financial issue has tended to confuse | all previous conditions. The tour of Governor Stone in entucky at the invitation of the metallic league has already accom- plished considerable in the way of | developing silver enthusiasm and | The evident desire of | the league was to interest the farm- ers and wage earners, who consti- : | tute the main body of the silverdem- dation with | ocrais,to attend the mass conventions press, shop owners and | of the state on May 30, and see to it store keepers and parents very gen-/ that their friends were elected to the erally in reducing crimes among state convention on June 3. | There is universal dissatisfaction : i The colonel has strong letters! over the course of Secretary Carlisle. Fort Scott and Memphis road side- | from the ehiefs of police at Omaha, It is evident that, even if he should |undertake to campaign the state| this year he would do himself and | the “‘goldite” cauee more h: Lincoln officials report 4 falling off a cee aa runs just above the flood for fifteen | of 75 per cent in crimes and arrests | All towns report a water among the youth of that city for the | bi precipitation of from eight to ten firstmonth. The Mayor of one city g still threaten. | Writes that “for two years before en-' be a silver acting the ordinance 14 boys and This will si girls were committed to the Reform | aspirations and hopes of Carlisle. It | achool, and for two years following | will mean that the Kentuckians do | its enactment none were committed.” | not favor his nomination. St. Louis, Mo., May 22.—Alexan- to crops and property is inestimable. { der Hogeland, president of the Boys as the result of a water-spout in land Girls Natioual Home and Em- | ployment association, who is head. | ing the municipal reform movement | sands of acres of growing crops are/| __the curfew ordinance—is in the IK under water. The entire road con-| city and will through the struction force of the Missouri Paci-| hoard at early day place the ordi-| fio road was called from this city | nance before the St. Louis council. to-day to Garnett on the Kansas, |The colonel stated that the ordi- Nebraska and Dakota division to| pance wasin force at Omaha and Coffey, Anderson and Linn counties many miles of railroad and thou- if he would | organization. replace two miles of washed out) Tincoln, Neb., and St. Joseph, Mo., | It is reported that ten miles | .,4 900 smaller cities, and that it! of track on that line are under water, | ya, 9 theme of commen the result of the heaviest storm ever | the officials, known there, in which ten inches of | water was precipitated. Country highways, railroads and farm houses are submerged. On the Kansas City, | Not in the his- tracks at Boicourt in Linn county, | freight cars are standing half cover- And the main line | Lincoln and St. Joseph, giving the ‘ordinance their heart: roval. ed with water. Suan eM The financial contest here is very tter and apparently close, but the ony is that there will} i delegation to Chicago. gnify the defeat of the eneral testim: inches last night, and ing clouds. It has rained nearly every twenty-four hours for two | Why did | weeks. EARTHLY PARADISES. Portions of the Earth That Approach Climatic Perfection. For an inhabitant of the perate zone the most climate would pro fof Tasmania, which without heat and frest cold, and moreover poss {so equable that th | ture ranges f ling a mean of | to this, ar pos \and the pur breezes, there i | ble for, There are n lands in the South F | deserve the name | but they have t | much like paradise. | mere in northern {in Ecquador possess ¢ | are almost perfect, but th | disadvantage of a great d the Australia is too | Zealand too damp to approact tion; but Tasm. | mean which a ut the d j which is the penalty climes. Of places near home Jof Man probably most n | the conditions of the qu | though so much farther north, its ave jage temperature is almost as high and fe as equable as that of the Isle of Wight, but it possesses the additional advantage of freedom from the fe which are the greatest disadvantag of the shores of the English channel. h} ious stion. TESTING CHRONOMETERS. The Interesting Process of Adjusting Watches for Temperature. Before a first-class watch is sold it has to go through a variety of tests or “adjustments,” and one of the most important is the adjustment for tem- perature. Chronometers are adjusted for tem- peratures varying from 50 degrees to 90 degrees, as a rule, but some makers —especially in France—cool them down to zero, and often they are heated to 120 degrees. Beyond this point it is dangerous to heat them, as the oil would be liable to injury, and even the works might suffer. Pocket watches are adjusted for tem- peratures varying from 35 degrees to 95 degrees. The process consists in put- ting the watch in a close-fitting case, and placing this in a cold room, or a refrigerator with ice, and leaving it there for some time, altering the works so as to make it keep regular time. Then it is very gradually heated, great care being taken not to let the moisture in the warm air condense upon it. Next it is put in a specially con- structed oven, and heated to 90 or 100 or 120 degrees, the machinery being again adjusted to goregularly. Chron- cineters are usually kepta week in the cold chamber, then a week in the hot, and again a week in the cold chamber. After that they are ready to make voy- ages to any port between the equator and the poles without losing or gaining a minute. CURIOUS CHINESE CUSTOM. Calling to Mind the Blessing of Having Written Characters. In a work entitled “An Australian in China” occurs a description of the queer practice in China of honoring waste paper by committing it to the flames. In the center of the green stands the hollow pillar, in which Chi- nese waste paper is reverently burnt. “When letters were invented,” the Chinese say, “Heaven rejoiced and hell trembled.” “Reverence the charac- ters,” is an injunction of Confucius which no Chinaman neglects to follow. Hie remembers that “he who uses let- tered paper to kindle the fire has ten demerits, and will have itchy sores;” he remembers that “he who tosses lettered paper into dirty water, or burns it in a filthy place has 20 demer- its, and will frequently have sore eyes or become blind;” whereas, “he who gets about and collects, washes and burns lettered paper has 5,000 merits, adds 12 years to his life, and will be- come honored and healthy, and his chil- drenand grandchildren will be virtuous and filial.” But his reverence has strict limits, and while he reverences a piece of paper upon which a moral precept is written, he often thinks himself ab- solved from reverencing the moral pre- cept itself. Provoked a Speech. A good story is told of the way in which a New England senator was once aroused to make astirring speech. At the outset of his political car had been known as a remarkably cleve: “orator of the stump,” and later on, in the lower house of the legislature, he | made a brilliant name for himself. But when he became a senator he ceased talking, much to the regret of friends and admirers. Finally liquor Jaw came up for discu his | the y groups of is- e which fully y paradise, s the happy leomfort ation | * | his tail. jan J was no ill-will—as is the manner York World, to run, either on the or ice. A pair of spurred wheels arranged between the runners, @ with a little lever the driver can adj snow justas smoothly as uponice, 0 inventor has also provided against @ danger of breaking through the boat, and is perfectly water tight } the ice should break the sleigh wow float, and the ice spurs would act paddle wheels in bringing you tosh again. rowed across the ice. each oar is sleel point to c rowboat for the ice is rigged with: ing seat and legs with sharp which catch into the ice and show boat forward each time the rower: Considerable speed is obtained by arrangement, although the rowing not as easy as upon the water. Misadventure That Befell an Actor® the wife of a friend of the i a sheet of paper, w in an envelope to the senator. laam’s ass spoke o the senator to his feet and It is reported that th bury cathedral, in the s jJand, is tottering. W was begun, in 12: thought of erectin tral tower. That w and the architec en the catk signed the th of the orig- | most. Ithas w atched, | rthen it by iron bands and ties t to the weigh Of fa’ has been dec 4 spire is in great dangerofcollapsing. | actors, says Lone b | the part of z world is is more than three spans the Galveston south. DOG OF THE IRON way | Althouzh Only an Aristocratie 3 Deceived the Stree! Mongra™ + Ue of a, ‘d_guanda g rwas.a dog, ie he bounded } him ef no evil the street kept o lle ev uber of times to show that ¢ dogs. But the dog of the iron maskaj not budge. My relative says thatha > that even if the street ht around a cat to chase the} dog would have remained ‘unmored, red Irish setter came out finally af yy called the street dog away, The tle BU went with distinct traces of reluet in his mar r. He liked the style q that iron ¢ and had rather play iahi yard with : ARRIVING A CONCLUusions| 4 Unique Methods of Reasoning the Some People Adopt, Charles Daniels 1 » member of gy gress from Buffalo, served 28 yearsq the New York supreme court bead before he was elected to congress, } cently, in talking over old law q With a number of lawyers, says Troy Times, he told astory which w dazzling illustration of the methods pursued by some peo to arrive at conclusions. The in question was that of a man Greenfield, living in Oswego t who had been convicted in the lo court of the murder of his wife, case was carried to the court of peals, which reversed the finding oft lower court. A special hearing ordered by the governor. This held at Syracuse, and Judge Danis was called upon te preside. Inexam} ing the jurors, one man said that Was prejudiced in the matter, W asked if he had gleaned his prejudi from the papers or by talking withi terested parties or by hearsay, he plied to every question that he did know a thing about the case, but he s nevertheless prejudiced. iy wa ‘used, but Judge Daniels 4 not satisfied, and he sent the sh W end had the juror brought to him, & asked him where he had gained prejudice. The fellow replied: don’t know anything about the ¢ but the lawyers made such idiots themselves in examining the jura that I knew the man must be guilty. HORSELESS SLEIGH INVENTED Will Run on Snow and Ice and Eves the Water. Motors for horselesssleighs are: the latest novelties at the patent offe ‘They are light, powerful affairs, can be run by an amuteur as easily those attached to horseless cart The sleighs are designed, says the them so that they will work on the His leigh is formed something lie One patent is for a sleigh thatmay On the end weight with ashe nto the ice. heavy. SPOILED THE PERFORMANCE Realistic Play. inter a number of literary, red from time to time in theatricals. During produced a comedy. One of n Tid-Bits, rand had to of the house im given and @ , which was 2p the out Long Wagon The longest