The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, April 9, 1897 Page: 2 of 2
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o(\Tlw*> All the Same.
M^rft Twain lived sotne forty years
igof'in the limits o£ a very wild, h&lf-
srazy frontier mining camp. This was
divided into two parties, the so-called
'Boston crowd," which contained the
Detter elements, though few Boston
■nen, and the "Missouri crowd," which
^as a pretty hard lot, though not corn-
'josed exclusively of natives of Mis-
souri. Fights to the death were of
laily and nightly occurrence, gambling
jutfl^s were in constant demand, quar-
•eling, bullying drunkards were omni-
j'reseut, and few used water except to
wash now and then in the little moiin-
:ain stream flowing through the dig-
jin^s. Despite it all the.re was a strict
anip etiquette, which was recognized
tnd considered law by all, aiid it was of
Ihis etiquette that Mark Twain told me
example, says a writer in the New
iork ournal. A "Boston man" v.-aa
mating breakfast early pr.e morning at
i table near the open door and the half
bar, J-alf restaurant of the place. He
was *ust fln'shing his plate of pork and
beans when two "Missouri" men
passed along and saw tho "Boston"
/;ant and hi breakfast. They stopped
ithin a foot or two. "Look at that,"
eiid the bigger of the "Missouri" men,
contemptuously. "Do you see what
that blank blanlcety blank 'Boston'
thing is eating? Why, down in Mis-
souri where I come from, we feed tham
things to our horses. Only the brutes
eat that grub down there." Presently
the bully stepped inside and sat down
opposite the "Boston" man at the same
table. 'JVhen the plate of beans had
been eaten the "Boston" man called out
'0 the bartender: "Pete, give me anoth-
'atfefui. Pile it up. I like 'em."
i the heaped-up plate came back,
'.Boston" man, quick asaf *h, had
fid out his revolver, had tlie "Mis-
" man covered with it, and then,
j ing the full plateful of beans
! is the table, told the "Mip uri"
to "eat i.t and like it," or he'd
jt him like the dog that he wa3.
ie jbuily had his ohoice between beans
or death, and lie knew it. When he
had eaten every bean he was made to
say jthat he liked beans, and then, and
not i till then, did the "Boston" man
put up his pintol, pay for both orders
of beans and leave the saloon. "Now,"
said Mark, "the reason ' • 'Missouri'
man didn't whip out his gun and shoot
as soon as the bean-eater's back was
turned was because of camp etiquette.
Each man had his fun with the othef
and they were even. If the 'Boston'
man had been shot, the 'Missouri' man,
as quick as news could fly, would have
had I V tri'-y with lead from the
revolver f.I ever-. .• i i-> -*rml) rw.nl:-
PEARLS.
Why There Are Very Ancient Specimens
Now in Existence.
According to M. Berthelot, the cele-
brated scientist historian, there are no
very ancient pearls in existence, foi
which a sufficient reason is found in
the fact that pearls, unlike precious)
stones, are destructible. They discolor
and disintegrate. The pearl is not
mentioned by Homer or Herodotus, ha
states. It begins to appear in the
time of Alexander—that is, of the con-
quest of the east, and it is about this
time that the name Margarita—that ia
to say, Pearl—is first given to women.
Not a great deal is known about tha
value attributed by the ancients to par-
ticular pearls. The one that Cleopatra
drank was valued at $200,000 modern
money. Mention is made by frliny of
a practice of Clodius, Son of tho actoi
Aesop, who gave his guests dissolved
pearls to drink, says the San Francis-
co Argonaut.
The Romans appreciated the pearl
and after the growth of luxury began
to have its usual effect in diminishing
the birth-rate one of the laws against
celibacy provided that no childless
woman or spinster should wear pearls
under the age of 55. Pearls are prom-
inent in the royal toilets of Europe.
Catherine de Medicis was said to have
the finest pearls in Europe. When she
married Henri, due d'Orleans, Francis
I. presented her two great pearls weigh-
ing five grams each. She afterward
presented these to Marie Stuart, who,
while queen of France, had them set
in the parures familiar in her por-
traits. At that queen's fall the pearls
were captured by Morton and sent
to London. Catherine instructed her
ambassador to buy them, but they
were bought by Elizabeth for 12,000
crowns. At that time pearls cut a
leading figure in Woman's dress. The
great sleeves were decorated with
them. The favorite ornament, how-
ever, was the paternoster embracing
the waist, then hanging down in front
to the bottom of the skirt. The deco-
ration was completed by a bertha de-
fining the breast, joining in front and
descending in two rows to join the
paternoster, giving the effect of an
opening in the corsage. Pearls and
precious stones were bought as a con-
venient investment and acceptable col-
lateral. Elizabeth lent £20,000 on a
pledge of jewels by the prince of Con-
de, Jeanne d'Albret, Henry of Navarre
and Coligny. The jewels were never
redeemed and now figure among the
crown jewels.
of steel, heavily riveted, braced and
strengthened to the last limit, in order
to withstand the buffeting incident to
such a perilous undertaking. At the
bow of the boat is located what for
lack of a better name is called an ice
destroyer, which is composed of a
combination of toothed wheels not un-
like circular saws. These wheels by
revolving rapidly cut the ice into frag-
ments and open the way through tile
most solid fields. The idea would sug-
gest itself to the critical reader that
this might be very well, provided the
ice was reasonably thin and there could
be any assurance, in case of accident,
that the vessel could be gdtten out of
its rigid environment. But supposing
it were necessary to back out and the
ice had frozen solid behind it, or if
it simply cuts a passage wide enough to
get through and there were an obstacle
in the way of proceeding, how is the
vessel to turn around and get out?
The world is full of the most brilliant
inventions which are perfectly right
and satisfactory if all goes well, but
there must invariably be left a wide
margin for accidents and incidents out
of the common. A piece of mechanism
is not complete, perfect or practical
unless it provides to a certain extent
for emergencies.
;ollection was usually taken during the
sermon and no stingy churchgoer could
fail of detection.
Electrical Equipment of a Warship.
Some interesting details of the elec-
trical equipment of a modern British
battleship have been given in a re-
cent description in the Engineer oi H.
M. S. Prince George. There are, it
appears six search lights and 930 glow-
lamps for the interior lighting, one-
third of which are of fifty candle pow-
er and the remainder of ten. The
currM&>»is supplied by three 600-am-
pere 'Vl^Aiamos and there are fwenty-
nine miles of electric light cable on
board. Electricity is also employed
as an auxiliary in training the four
twelve-inch wire guns, but apparently
is not used for the purpose of hoist-
ing ammunition or of driving the ven-
tilators.
What to Call It.
[ "It strikes me that gown is too loud
for Sunday. I suppose it's what they
! would call a symphony in color?"
The other man in the last pew but
| one laughed a low laugh, suggestive of
the vague borderland between mirth
and .sorrow.
"Symphony?" he repeated. "More
likely a sacred concert."'-Detrolt Jour-
nal.
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less of party. oYoji tsc, we WwC quite
telr- pte*.la>..thoge fayji/i
A New Acetic Idea,
A plan is pr^ r ^sed for reaching the
North I'o.o by cutting ihrci^rh fields
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Bell In the Contribution Box,
Alice Morse Earle tells in the Atlan-
tic of one church where the contribu-
tion box used contained a small bell
Secret Soclecieg in Knglnnd.
The Ancient Order of Foresters have
\ membership of 888,000 in England;
the membership of the United Order
of Odd Fellows is 256,000, and the Man-
chester Unity of Odd Fellows has 751,-
100 members.
The United States last year produced
?6,000,000 barrels of fermented liquors.
Novel Telescope.
A remarkable new style of telescope
is about to be built by Astronomer
Thaddetis S. C. Lowe, the founder of
Lowe Observatory, at Pasadena, Oal.,
nfter the plans of an inventor najmed
Gothnfann. Mr. Gothmann claims to
have found a cement in which a num-
ber of small lenses can be set to form
them into a big one, which would ex-
pand and contract with exact evenness
with the glass under changes of tem-
perature. The cluster of lenses would
therefore remain in exact line and fo-
cus at all times. Mr. Lowe's idea is
to build a sort of fly's eye telescope,
which would comprise one central lens
surrounded by successive circles of six,
twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, and
thirty lenses. Thus, by means of nine-
ty-one individual lenses, there would
be built up a composite lens seventy-
eight inches in diameter. Such a tele-
scope would not only be a monster
novelty, but would probably secure
much clearer stellar views than any
yet recorded.
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Anatomy.
Hippocrates is looked upon by anato-
mists as the father of the science. He
died in 370 B. C. The modern science
began in Italy in the thirteenth cen-
tury. The first anatomical plates, de-
signed to show the size and relative
position of the bodily organs, were
prepared and colored by Titian, All
the great painters and sculptors have
been careful, students of anatomy.
Michael Angclo, Raphael and Leonardo
da Vinci were noted for their anatomi-
cal researches.
J. L. Lea, of iiaird was in oaf city
yesterday.
Jonah Howell has moved to tho
Whitney residence
Josh Rodriguez was in from Leech
Grove yesterday.
Joa McComb is in receipt of a car
load of ice.
MARRIED.
At tho h >me of the bride, in Cisco,
Tfxasi oil Wednesday, April 7th,
1897. Mr. Waiter Gulhdgu of Albany
and lli«s AJyce M-iria Wt~ i neburg.
Rev. IJ. F. Dixon officiating. The
happy couple came to Albany on the
smut) evening where they will make
their home, ainid many friends, all
of whom wish them unbounded joy
and happiness during the coming
years.
Mrs II. C. Arendt was the guest of
Mrs. A A. Rockwell last Wednesday
and Thursday.
D. C Campbell assisted in the
Bank Wednesday.
Miss Alyee Zant was the guest of
M. T. GnlJed gds family this week.
Jainos Z mt was in the city Wed-
nesday.
"The Gold and Silver Gospels."
"The Gollf and Siiv&r Gospels" is the
name of a very peculiar took now pre-
served in the Upsala Li. rary in Swe-
den. It is printed with metal type on
violet-colored vellum, the letters being
silver and the initials gold. When it
was printed, by whom or what were
the methods employed, are questions
which have great interest for the curi-
ous, but have never been answered.
MisS Mollie Baker is now at Shi,do
Texas, taking a course in Spanish.
Our people have commenced to
talk of a grand picnic on tho 4th of
July.
Tho Paducah Headlight is agaio
launched with J. II. Qoolin at tho
helm
(L E. Society of the Presbyterian
church, April 11th 1897, meets Sun-
day at 7. p. m. Topic for tins meet-
ing": The Brotherhood of man.
oi xcc. lao ci'att is not unlike tli0 I concealed in it, which would ring only
avh«rphatikJn.apoEflraace» .and is_made i sriign a contribution wflfl.jEftade. The
The Xevvs man needs a little money.
Call and see about your account.
Mart Gentry came in from the X
ranch Wednesday, in answer to a
letter fioni his brother, who is very
sick.
Ira Sloan called at the News office
Wednesday.
John Power, ex-sheriff of Throck-
morton county, was buying goods
Albany last Wednesday.
We learn that T, V. Baktr will oc-
cupy tho Mrs. Clarke residence.
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The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, April 9, 1897, newspaper, April 9, 1897; Albany, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth414071/m1/2/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.