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Address DR J C AYER
Lowell Mass
A New Superstition
I learned of what is to me a briuid
ncw superstition just the other day and
I -tremble to think of the risks I have
been running all these years in my ig
norance of it It was at an informal
evening entertainment at the house of
a woman I know and in the room set
apart for the wraps of the woman
guests was a maid who was directed
to see to it that nobodys hat was
placed on the bed for the laying of a
hat on the bed as the hostess explained
later always signifies the approaching
death of an intimate friend of the
house The superstition is I believe
of Sicilian origin and its a very good
superstition I think inasmuch as it
tends to preserve the freshness of
dainty coverings Washington Post
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Chinese women may now be seen bi
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I DO MY OWN WORK
So Says Mrs Mary Rocbiette of
Linden New Jersey in this
Letter to Mrs Pinkham
I was bothered with a flow which
would be quite annoying at times and
at others would almost stop
I used prescriptions given me by my
physician but the
same state
of affairs
continued
After a
time I was
taken with
a flooding
that I was
obliged to
keep my bed
Finally in
despair I
gave up my doc
tor and began
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thanks to your wonderful medicine t
was as wear death I believe as I could
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Broad -vs Narrow Tirea
Early In January 189G a series of ex
periments to determine the Influence
of width of tire on draught of wagons
was begun at the agricultural experi
ment station of the University of the
State of Missouri at Columbia Mo
two kinds of wheels were used one
being the ordinary farm wagon wheel
with a tire one and a half Inches wide
and the other an iron wheel with a tire
six Inches wide These wheels were
placed alternately on the same wagon
and the load was In all cases 2000
pounds With a recording dynamome
ter to show the strain the load was
hauled over macadam gravel and dirt
roads under all varieties of conditions
known to the climate and soil of the
region also over meadows and pas
tures and stubble and plowed lands un
der the varying conditions due to the
difference in seasons The experiments
were continuous until the end of Sep
tember 1897 in all a period of about
twenty months
For the first trial a hard smooth and
nearly level macadam street free from
dirt and loose stone or sand was chos
en It was probably as good a stretch
of that kind of road as can be found in
the nation The load was hauled 400
feet up and back again over the route
For the narrow tire the average strain
required was 994 pounds Then the
wide tire was used and contrary to
general expectations the broad tire
pulled lighter on the hard inelastic
and smooth surface of the rock road
The strain was but 734 pounds or 357
per cent in favor of broad tires
Next came experiments woith a
gravel road with a hard surface and no
ruts but with some loose stones of the
size of black walnuts The narrow
tires required an average power of
2184 pounds and the broad only 1638
pounds or 333 per cent in favor of the
broad tires With a large quantity of
sand mixed with the gravel the road
being dry and free from ruts the nar
row tires needed a power of 2391 and
the broad only 1567 pounds or 455
per cent in favor of the broad tires
With new unused dry gravel road the
difference between the two tires was
694 pounds or 266 per cent In favor
of broad tires
After this a condition of gravel road
was chosen where water covered the
surface and loose sand from one to two
and a half inches deep was found Here
the wide tire forced the slushy mixture
out of the way and required a power
of 2681 pounds while the narrow tire
cut its way along with a power of 2623
pounds Another trial under similar
circumstances showed a difference of
nine pounds in favor of the narrow tire
But It was noted that the broad tire
did no Injury to the road while the
narrow tire cut through to hard pan
and so stirred up and destroyed the
surface material
The next experiment was on an ordi
nary dirt road Here the broad tires
required a pull of 762 pounds while
the narrow tires required a pull of 1306
pounds
On the whole taking the roads as
they are found the year round in Mis
souri or in any similar country where
dirt roads prevail the bulletin says it
would be greatly to the advantage of
any teamster to use six inch tires re
gardless of what his neighbors used
How to Tell the Weather
Spring is the worst senson of the year
for changeable weather Here are
some signs that old fashioned house
wives prefer to the barometer
Blow out the candle and if the wick
smolders a long time look out for bad
weather
When the camphor in the bottle is
riley a storm is brewing
If the sun sets in a cloud look out for
rain next day
Three foggy mornings and then rain
When cattle lie down as soon as they
are turned out to pasture it will rain
soon
A ringing in the ears is a sure sign
of a change in the weather
Cobwebs on your lawn shining with
dew mean that the day will be fair
It you hear an owl hoot you may con
clude that it ingoing to storm
Water boilteg over from the kettle
mans bad weather us
Tliesun shines every Saturday but
one In the year
If it rains while the sun shines it will
rain the day following
If the frogs pipe in the evening cal
culate on a fair morrow
Kill a beetle and It will surely bring
rain
It is a sign of rain when flies bite
Remember that these signs like all
others fail in dry times
The Leaky Missouri River
WTith all Its eccentricities the Mis
souri River leaks badly for you know
there are leaky rivers as well as leaky
boats The government engineers once
measured theflow of the Missouri away
up in Montana and again some hun
dred miles further down stream To
their surprise they found that the Mis
souri instead of growing bigger down
stream as every rational river should
was actually 20000 second feet smaller
at the lower point
Now while 20000 second feet could
be spared from such a tremendous river
that amount of water makes a consid
erable stream of itself Many very cel
ebrted rivers neverhad so much water
in their lives Hence there was great
amazement when the discrepancy was
those points on the Missouri sinking
artesian wells found immense volumes
of water where the geologists said
there wouldnt be any So It is believed
that the farmers have tapped the wa
ter leaking from the big hole in the
Missouri River away up In Montana
and from these wells they irrigate
large tracts of land and naturally
they dont want the river bed mended
Fancy what a blessing it is when the
weather Is dry to have a river boiling
out of your well ready to flow where
you want It over the wheat fields For
of all manner of work that a river can
be put to irrigation is I think the
most useful But isnt that a queer
way for the Missouri to wander about
underneath the ground St Nicholas
A KNOWING DOG
He Had a GlaBS Bye and Never Rub
bed It Out
Marmaduke is dead He was only a
Blenheim spaniel but he was wonder
ful in his way for he had a glass eye
He was bred by the Duchess of Marl
borough who takes a great Interest In
the famous kennel As will occasion
ally happen to small dogs he tried to
show his superiority over the feline
race but on one occasion a pugnacious
cat declined to take orders from Mar
maduke and enforced Its refusal by
giving Marmaduke one In the eye
with its claws The result was that
Marmadukes eye was destroyed The
Duchess then sent the spaniel to a vet
erinary surgeon to be fitted to a glass
eye as she was especially fond of the
little fellovf and the sight of the
empty socket was repugnant After he
was sent back with his new eye her
Grace was made nervous by seeing his
staring artificial eye it being just a
little previous to a visit of the Earl of
Blandford and so a home was sought
for the unfortunate little blue blood
which was found with Miss E L
Moore of Denmark Hill near Wood
stock The glass eye is the right one
and is exactly matched to the other
brown animated one Marmaduke
never tried to scratch or rub out the
eye but seemed to understand why it
was there He was run over by a van
Not a Coward
Nervous excitement is responsible foi
much ithat might pas for cowardice
The author of A Cuban Expedition
speaks of one dreadful day wthen ha
and his comrades sat In a wet ditch
and waited concealed while the Span
iards were so near that escape seemed
almost impossible
The discomfort of our predicament
up to the middle in mud and water
with the rain pouring down on us was
at the momenit unfelt in our excite
ment and eagerness in watching the
enemy Little Joe Storey who was
next to me was trembling all over
Suddenly he grasped my arm and whls
pered
Oh what shall I do I must scream
or fire off my rifle I cant help it
I too felt that he would do either
the one or the other and I -whispered
back ithe first thing that occurred to me
Storey I said if you make the
least noise Ill stab you to death
Then I told Qiim to keep his eyes
closed and try to think of something
else until he heard the first shot fired
Af ter that the might shout as loudly as
he liked I put one arm about his neck
and drew him close to me There
trembling he rested like aquiet child
Presently his excitement tfbre off and
he became used to the situation then
he was heartily ashamed of his break
downT
But Storey was not a coward He
was a gallant little soul in action and
only his tortured merves were responsi
ble for this temporary revolt
Early Writers on Smoking
The fact has been discovered that
Shakspeare never mentions smoking or
makes the slightest allusion to the
habit This is the more curious as
most of his contemporaries Ben Jon-
son Decker and others discuss the
then new fashion at length and the
humorist and satirist of the time lost
no opportunity of deriding and mak
ing game of the votaries of the weed
The tobacco merchant was an import j
ant personage in the time of James I
The Elizabethan pipes were so small
that when they are dug up in Ireland
the poor call them fairy pipes King
James himself was one of the most
virulent opponents of the habit and in
his ludicrous Counterblasts calls it
a vile and stinking custom borrowed
from the beastly slavish Indians
poor wild barbarous men brought
over from America and not introduced
by any worthy or virtuous or great per
Socage xxe argues that tobaec is
not dry and hot that its smoke is
humid like all other smoke and is
therefore bad for the brain which is
nnturally wet and cold He denies
that smoking purges the head or stom
ach and declares that many have
smoked themselves to death Medical
Record
Another Matter
Many persons oppose a spelling re
form so called on the ground that a
simplified orthography would deprive
tihe language of its richness by de
stroying the evidence of the derivation
of words and making the words them
selves look cheap and undignified so to
speak when printed They are not
without examples that seem to bear
them out an their contention
Jones What a magnificent actor Sal
vini was and how his name somehow
seems to fit him
Mrs Jones Yes but wouldnt it be
an up hill job for awoinan to try to be
come famous with such a name as Sal
Veeny
The Other Direction
Do you go in for smoking Bloomly
No my wife has me go out doncher
know- Detroit Free Press
discovered But of late years Dakota The average fish story is a romance
farmers awa to the south and east of j of reel lis
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A Kansas Rat Dance
During the fall of 1874 rats became
a serious menace to the farmers of
Jackson County Kansas and one night
at a meeting of the literary society in
the Coleman school house it was pro
posed to organize a hunt Sides were
chosen and it was agreed that the los
ers were to pay for a supper and dance
Three weeks were fixed as the limit of
the hunt but this was reduced to ten
days when it was discovered that warm
weather -was making it impossible to
preserve the tails which were to be
used in making the count At the end
of ten days both hunting teams assem
bled at the school house with their tails
and a count was made with the result
of showing 6350 dead rats in total
More than 1000 of these had been killed
on the farm of 6 W Reynolds alone
After the count supper was served and
a dance followed until daylight The
affair is still known in local circles as
the great rat dance Holton Kan
Signal
An illusion
An Interesting novelty at the Paris Ex
position will be the Mareorama sic
which will give visitors the illusion of a
voyage by steamer from Marseilles to
Constantinople with calls at Tangiers
Algiers Naples Venice Alexandria and
Smyrna They will be standing on the
steamer which will appear to be in the
sea even to the rolling of the vessel
and the salt breezes The unrolling of
the canvases will make them think the
ship is moving the principle being the
same as that which makes railway
pasengers in a standing train think
they are in motion when another train
passes The voyage of the steamer
will be diversified by various scenes
such as meeting a fleet of warships a
tempest with thunder and lightning
a sunrise etc besides other curious in
cidents Thus at Naples for instance
natives will climb on board and per
form the dances of he country
Heart Pacts and Figures
The human heart is six inches in
length four inches in diameter and
beats on an average of seventy times
per minute 4200 times an hour 100
S00 times a day and 36792000 times
in the course of the year so that the
heart of an ordinary manSO years of
age has beaten 3000000000 times
Public Clocks
Few cities are provided with public
clocks of such a size and prominent loca
tion as to indicate time over metropolitan
districts But it is high time to check kid
ney and bladder complaint manifested to
the sufferer by inactivity of the organs
Hostetters Stomach Bitters remedies this
and cures dyspepsia and nervousness
Another Immortal Toad
When the sexton of St James ceme
tery Bristol Pa opened an old vault
that had been closed since 1793 a large
hop toad was discovered inside jump
ing merrily about The vault was prac
tically air tight and the toad must be
at least 104 years old having lived that
time alone in the vault with the dead
A B T Dent Co
The undersigned having altogether sev
ered his connection with the Dent Grain
Co of Sioux City Iowa of which com
pany he was the founder will open a grain
commission office under tho title of A B
T Dent Co on the corner of Pierce and
Fifth Streets Sioux Cily about the first of
June 1898 where he hopes to have the
pleasure of seeing all his old friends His
Chicago correspondent will be F G
Logan a house which is not only one of
the strongest in Chicago but one of the
most popular in the west It will be
strictly a commission business
A B T Dent
Preserving Butter
Butter can be preserved to keep in
warm climates by a new process con
sisting of first wrapping it in salted
paper or parchment and then inclosing
jt in a pulp or pasteboard box to be tied
by cords after which it is immersed in
paraffin and then in cold water to seal
the box and form an air tight casing
Trans 31issi8sippi Exposition
For the opening of the Tians Mississippi
Exposition tickets will be sold from Sioux
City June 1 at the rate of 250 for the
round trip In addition to regular trains a
special train will leave Sioux City
at715 am arriving in Omaha at 1015 am
For illustrated pamphlet showing ex
position buildings address H C Chey
ney General Agent Sioux City Iowa
A Viennese Superstition
There is a curious superstition in
Venice that if a stranger dies in a hotel
the number of his room will be lucky
at the next lottery
Halls Catarrh Cnre
Is taken internally Price 75 cents
The National Museum in Washing
ton received over 112000 specimens
last year an increase of 50 per cent
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his imprisonment amused himself by
making locks
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From Cole County Democrat Jefferson City
Missouri
When la grippe visited this section
about seven years ago Herman H Evel
er of 811 W Main street Jefferson City
Mo was one of the victims and has since
been troubled with the after effects of
the disease He is a well known contrac
tor and builder a business requiring
much mental and physical work A year
ago his health began to fail and he was
obliged to discontinue work That he
lives to day is almost a miracle He says
I was troubled with shortness of
breath palpitation of the heart and a
general debUity My back also pained me
severely
I tried one doctor after another and
numerous remedies suggested by my
friends but without apparent benefit
Si
and began to
ffive up hope
Then I saw
Dr Will
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Pills for Pale
People extoll
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and after in
v e s tigation
deci d e d to
give them a
trial
et
A Contractors Difficulty iDg the first
box I felt wonderfully rpJinvl nmi
satisfied that the pills were putting me
on the road to recovery I bought two
more boxes and continued taking them
After takinc four boxes of Dr Will
iams Pink Pills I am restored to good
health I feel like a new man and having
the will and energy of my former days
returned I am capable of transacting my
business withincreased ambition
Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo
ple are a wonderful medicine and anyone
that is afflicted with shortness of breath
palpitation of the heart nervous prostra
tion and general debility will find that
these pills are the specific
HERMAN H EVELER
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
24th day of May 1S97
ADAM POUTSZONG Notary Public
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quiry regarding this if stamp is enclosed
Tho Noble Elephant
Elephants on Indian railways pay a
the rate of six cents a mile The bag
gage cars have apartments for dogs
cats guinea pigs rabbits aud mon
keys
I wonder Tvhy it Is that all these
summer resort people advertise for re
fined boarders Thats no mystery
they want to get a class of people who
wont swear when the coffee Is bad
Mis TVlnsIows Soothing Sybop for Children
teething soiteus the Kiims reduces Inflammation
allays pain cores wind colic 25 cents a bottle
He is very unfortunate that has no 1
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