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VOL. XXII. NO l
VIENNA,! QA. THURSDAY AUGUST 0, 1903
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This paper is 21 ysars old this week. It was started in 1882 and has run continuously.
OBSERVATIONS.
We bate to see people get excited.
Even good stories cm bo repeated
too often.
Everybody loves to watch a bride
■and a groom.
One of the worst things iB to be*
tray confidence.
Lots of things go on that you
•don’t know about.
Ignorance and meanness together
will land any man.
It seems that men have quit doing
what they promise.
Getting out of debt is about like
getting out of a well.
A girl who wears white is n*t apt
to do her own washing.
Love in hot weother reminds of
the kitchen on ironing day.
A girl dislikes to be called sissy
after she oan do up her hair.
We cannot understand how people
have patience with drunkards,
Making wishes is a sign that you
are not getting what you w-int.
A wreckless remark often causes
a heart to aohe and does no good.
A woman must be very mad to re
fer to her enemy as “the old guiup. ”
When a mother lays down a rule
to a child, that is generally the last
of it.
It will ruin any man to be hen
pecked. They ■ never amount to
much.
Do not condemn the peculiarities
of others while you have so many
yourself.
When the starch in a woman’s
collar falls, we know the weather is
Very Hot
Too many people think of pleas
ure before they get through with
their work.
Very few men will go to hear a
Woman lecture: They hear enough
of it at home.
This world would soon become a
dreary place if things were always
'What they seem,
I dread to get so old and dried up
that mosquitoes will not find good
picking about me.
We have about reached the time
When none but the girls themselves
know how to spell their names.
The most prominent men of our
country are those who attend to their
own business and stay out of debt.
It takes a shrewd woman to make
the same dress over and keep it in
style as fast as the fashion changes.
In proposing marriage to a girl
write it; then she will have less diffi
culty in making her friends believe
it.
The soft down we once admired
on a woman’s face has stiffened up
into whiskers and s not pretty any
more.
It would scorch some men pretty
deep, though- it would beappropiate,
to be described by their children as
“the man who scolds mother.
Parents are always at a loss to
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
The athletio girl wears bloomers
or kniokerbookers under her skirt
and they are made to fit carefully
over the hip
Are you going to be a promoter
of public beauty this season? The
best place to begin is right at home
in the dooryard.
The American girl has to thank
the manufacturers who look out so
well for her needs for this change in
athletic clothes for women.
Miss Anna M. Lang is reoeiver
in the U. S. land office at The Dal
les, Wash. She is said to be the only
woman official in the U. S.
The old fashioned sunbonnet, the
kind our mothers used to wear, prom
ise to be much in evidence at the
fashionable resorts during the com
ing season.
An English woman died the other
day from the effects of eating raw
rice. She thought it would make
her palo and beautiful. Instead it
peforated the stomach.
The cereal food in a cartoon cost
two and two-third cunts, the package
one and one-third cents. The prioo
to the grocer is eleven and one-third
cents, and to tho consumer 15 onnts.
Miss Marshall Kaiser is sugar in
spector for .he Sprookles Sugar Corn-
pay of Hawaii. Miss Kaiser is a
Kentucky woman and began the
study of chemistry at the stale col
lege at Lexington.
Mrs. Tsilka, who shared the cap.
tivity of Miss Elon Stone among
the brigands, has started with her
husband and child for this oountry,
the disturbed state of Macedonia
making it unsafe : or foreigners to
remain.
In Boston, 18,500 women pay
taxes every year on over one hundred
and fifty million dollars’ worth of
properly. They therefore bear an
important part of the publio expen
ses. They possess every character
istic which is deemed, in the theory
at least essential in the male voter.
More sohool teachers are wanted
for ihe Philippines. The supply al
ready sent over would have been suf
ficient, if so many of them had not
gotten married. In fact the Philip
pine board of education has proved
to be one of the most effective mat
rimnial agency.
It is maintained that Mrs. Hum
phrey Ward’s profit on tho single
novel, “Lady Rose’s daughter,” will
amount to $150,000.
Mrs. John L. Borsch, a woman
well known in Philadelphia society,
is tho only person of her sex entitled
to the distinction of having climbed
Mont Pelee.
“Why do I not marry?” said the
bachelor girl. “Because, O, because
I haven’t been asked,” was the unex
pected reply. The real fact is they
would rather be single and have a
good time than make a home and
rear children. They have no idea
of the love a mother has for her
babe.
“Never till I came to. America,’
said Dr. Lorenz, “have I known'
knowhow strict to be with their what a woman could be in the way of
daughters, to keep them from meet-L lm W. I a Australia they are wo-
ing worthless men and cause the*V„, l ' * - - ~r
«A,oot rrnnrl anV cla8S °f My SOrt. IS
to meet and marry good men.
Young people’ who visit^s
HUM
not sit out on the front porch-^and.
giggle until midnight while the old
folks inside are trying to sleep.
rica they are ladies! They are
ing! Never have I seen such a thing,
never!”
VARIOUS THINGS
Scarlet fover is unknown in tho
tropios.
Tha average American usos 120
pins a year.
More than 150 books on the war
in South Africa have boon published,
Give the easy-going man half a
ohance and he’ll cease to go at all.
The anchors ot some ships weigh
8 and a half tons and the cables
over 86 tons.
Safety pins are peculiarly Ameri
can. We use 144,000,000 of them
oaoh year.
Canada’s export trade per capita
is just two and one-half timeB as
muoh as ours.
Only 24 per cent of dootors reach
tho age of seventy years, but 42 per
oent of clergyman do so
The Salvation Army journal, the
War Cry, appears weekly in thirty
different languages.
Within o ! ght months wo havo re’
coived enough emigrants from Eu
rope to repeoplo Ireland.
The best stook a mau can have to
his credit is a good investment of
sound, common sense.
Five years’ abstinenoe ia said to
be required if the inebriate’s oure is
to bo absolutely permanent.
A colt, by Cresous, only a day old
was sold tor $20,000 the other day.
Almost his weight in gold.
At Peoria, IU., a baby belonging
to tho captain of the Salvation Array
was raffled off the other night.
If tho earth were equally divided
among its inhabitants each person's
share would be about 28 or 24 acres.
Don’t make your friends a dump
ing ground for your troubles. Keep
your woes to yourself and they will
grow less.
The city treasurer of Chicago re
ceives more than twice as muoh mon
ey as his salary as does President
Roosevelt.
As night draws nigh strive to for
get tho annoyances of tho day. Do
not handicap tomorrow with the
leavings of today.
In Sweden books are placed in
third class railway oars for free use
of tho passengers. A similar plan
is about to he adopted in Denmark
There are at the present moment
in France, 200,000 houses which
have no windows, beoause there is
still a French window and door tax.
Cider is now so cheap in German
Switzerland that it is being supplied
in unlimited quantitiss in many cafes
at so much an hour, the consumer
drinking at discretion.
In making acquaitances try to cul
tivate the noblest and best. A man
is known by tne company he keeps,
and life is too short to cement and
then to break friendships
Don’t let anxiety about the past,
present or future gnaw at your heart,
It is a good polioy not to cry over
spilled milk. Hold up your head
and look the coming days bravely in
the lace.
Painting a house makes it more
attractive to thepye and also pro
tects arid preserves it;- ; Its attract-,
iveness very much depends on the
wisdom and taste of the selecting
the colors aud upon the lastiigq£al.‘
. IN THE BUSY WORLD.
The greatest dock in tho world,
tho dial of which will be 120 feet
in diameter, is being built in Chicago
for use at the LouiBana Purohaso ex
position next year.
Only tho bauds and machinery are
being made there, for tho dial is to
be a brilliant bed of flowors. Tho
olook will be placed on the side of
the hill uorth of the agricultural
building.
Tho minute hand will bo sixty
feet long, and the ring at tho end,
whioh will bo fastened to the ma
chinery, will be eight feet in diame
ter. The minute hand will move
five feet every minute. Tho num
erals marking the different hours
will be fifteen foet in length and
made of bright oolored ooleut. In
a broad oirele surrounding the dial
will be twelve flower beds, one op
posite each hour and each two feet
wide and 15 feet long. At night
the time piece will bo illuminated
with 9,000 inoanosoont lights.
The United States Weather Bu
reau employs 1,400 trained observ
ers at 180 stations.
President Roosevelt and Ex-Prosi-
dent Cleveland may differ on tho
tariff question, but they are both
stalwart supporters of the stork plat
form.
The treasury officials have uo fear
that the vessel oarrving the $260,000-
000 of silver Filipirio coins will be
waylaid. The swag would ho too
heavy to oarry away.
Baer aunounoes that he will add
10 cents per ton to coal each month,
from now on until the prioe gets up
to $5. Baer is doing with his goods
just what other peoploareapt to do,
selling them as high as he can.
There is a party of scientists from
Philadelphia who are near Canyon
Diablo, Ariz., making preparations
to rxoavato the famous meteorite
mountain. On the top of the moun
tain is the ruin of immenso round
the one mile wide and 000 feet deep,
with almost perpindicular sides.
AGRICULTURAL.
To grow a big crop of disoase
germs throw slops around the kitoh-
eu door.
A full size farm horse at work will
require twelvo pounds of crushed
oats and thirty pounds of hay a day.
Putting tho cart before the horse
is like the wisdom ot Solomon by tho
side of letting the weeds get two or
three weeks the start and then try
ing to oatch up with them.
It is claimed that salt will preservo
timber for an indefinite period but
the usual process of getting the Bait
solution into the timber is too expen
sive. Here’s au opportunity for in
ventors.
Do not keep your boys and girls
grinding all day long without a bit
of time to play and be boys and girls.
Give them a ohance to love you and
the old farm. \ ou nover will regret
it.
Do not live beyond your means.
Thousands have tried that to their
sorrow. There is more comfort in
living in the old bouse, if free from
debt, than living m a palace weight
ed with a heavy mortgago.
A man in Freedom, O., is said to
have owned a horse whioh worked
on his farm 80 years, being 42 yean
old. This horse worked to within
one week of the time he was killed.
The sixty-horse-power traotion en
gines UBod on western ranches will
pull simultaneously seventeen 14-
inch plows plowing twenty feet.
The outfit will plow Irom forty to
s ixty acres per day, or will plow,
drill and harrow, all at one time,
with properly arranged tools, from
thirty-five to fifty acres per day.
The farmer boy has the whole
wide world for his field. He needa
not fear that there will be no chance
for him to do his best. Ho oan ex
pand in every direction and not be
afraid of crowding any ono else out.
A pair of horses nineteen hands
high were sold to the Barnum and
. ‘.V , , Bailey show last week. They are
Tho hole was evidently muoh deeper 3 . . , . „ /. ,
.. , . 3 . ‘ : bays, with white faces and feet,
at one time as its bottom is a plateau< 3 *. ...
of about forty aores.
built in perfect proportion, like po-
jnies. Their combined weight is
An official estimate made of the; 4>840 p0U nds. They are of English
forest area of the United States puts j shire 8took an d their quality, style
it at 700,000,000 aores. Had tho | an d manners are perfect. They are
forests been intelligently managed | the i arge8 t and fines pair of horses
ever sold in New York City.
the amount of merohatable timber in
them would be ten times as great.
The scienoe of forestry is now taught
in more than forty schools. Yale
and Cornell universities and the
speoial colleges at Biltmore, N. C.,
have advanced classes and give de
grees in forestry.
JLlevators are under construction
in many harbors designed especially
for raising grain lrom the holds of
vessels and delivering same to any
desired place. The handling capaci
ty will bo:. receiving grain from
boats, 18,000 bushels per hour.
Receiving from cars, 20 oars per
hour. Shipping to vessels by means
of conveyors 80,000 bushels per
hour. Shipping to cars, 48 oars per
hour.
.The annual demand for railway
ties is 400 each mile of trao’k, and !
the average life ot
years. It ii
a tie is seven
acre of for
est that has’ 300 trees that will make
three ties each, and if takes fifty
years to-grow a tree that will make
three tieB. Therefore twenty-five
esof forestave necessary for every
ities of the colors used.
acres ot lorest, are necessary ior every quiring two days to pass a give
mile olfttra^,' : Ei«btfi«TaiRvavs in- point, you will see the animals
eluded/ *bere ate intfnfeUnit&d vityed to death in the “ '
States about 250,000 miles of road.' of Swift & Company
The world’s largest asparagus
farm is situated near Stockton, CaL
aud contains 1,700 acres. The an
nual crop when cooked and canned
will fill 825 freight cars and may be
found on the bill of fare of nearly
all the hotels, restaurants, dining-
cars and steamship lines in the
world. The total acreage planted
to asparagus in the vioinity is 3,900
acres; but, as the supply has never
been equal to the demand the acreage
continues to inerease and probably
will for a long time.
Imagine a procession of tenthona-
and cattle, marching two by two, us
a line fifteen miles long; let twenty
thousand sheep follow them, bleat
ing along twelve miles of road; after
Vhem drive sixteen miles of hogs,
twenty-seven thousand stlong; then
let thirty thousand fowls bring up
the rear, clucking, quaokingand gob-
ling, over a space of six miles; and
in this whole caravan, stretching
forth for nearly fifty miles and n~
packing-bower
in a single day w