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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-09-02
Not a Good Joke After All.

Life In Leadville is full of excitement
even for barber. The other day clti-
zen named Plug strolled into barber's
establishment where there were two chairs,
both full, and fourteen men waiting. If
there is one thing that Plug despises it is
waiting around while lot of other fellows
get shaved. He figured on how to avoid
it, and espying friend in one of the chairs
he stepped up to him and spoke few
words in a low tone. Suddenly he became
excited Addressed his friend he cried:
"You third-rate mule-whacker, I'll have
your gorel" And the friend yelled back,
''You greaser, l'l shoot you full of holes +"
81 can shoot first" yelled the Plug, draw
ing his revolver. ''I'll let you see you
can't" roared the friend, leaping from the
chair. By this time scene of wild ex-
citement was taking place in the shop.
The whole fourteen waiting customers
were wildly struggling to get out before
the shooting began. The man in the other
chair, without stopping to wipe the lather
from his face or remove the apron about
him, leaped from the window upon the
head of policeman, who at once arrested
him for a madman. One of the BARRIERS
had bumped his head terribly and got his
mouth full of dust, crawling under a sofa,
and the other barber was promptly conceal
ed behind barrel in the closet. As soon
as the shop was cleared the two friends
ceased threatening each other, put up their
pistols and hearty laugh coaxed the bar
bers to come out and shave them. Plug
tried to explain to the head. barber that it
was all joke. "But," SAID the barber,
''you're fighting man." ''No," said
Plug, 81 am regular coward and couldn't
lick fea." ''Then by tunket, yelled
the barber, you've driven over $5 worth
of trade away from me and III take the
value out of your hidel" And he got in
several lusty blows on Plug before the lat
ter could offer to settle. And, somehow,
Plug doesn't think it was such good joke
after all,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-09-02

1t is not too much TO say that no great
invention which had not its beginning III
the decade of lS40-lS50 has appeared In
the past thirty years In that period oc-
Cured the most signal development of the
application of chemistry to manufactures
and agriculture an enormous expansion
of commerce by means OF railroads and
ocean steamships; the discovery of ether
and the perfection and diffusion of some
of the most precious contributions ever
made to the welfare of mankind. In 1885
only 934 miles of railroad had been COM
pleted in the United States in 1910 they
had been nearly trebled (2,SlS;) in 1915
they had been nearly quadrupled (@,T6S).
In 1888 Boston was connected with Wor-
cester, and Baltimore with Washington
from Philadelphia the traveller could 60 no
farther West by rail than the Susquehanna
at Columbia. In 1889, Ericsson brought
over the propeller to these hospitable
shores In 1910 the Cunard Line of ocean
steamers was established, but for time
only 'side-wheelers" were tolerated. The
first regular ship, the Britannia, reached
Boston after trip of fourteen days and
eight hours. Nlorse's telegraph, after vain
offers on both sides of the Atlantic, was at
last subsidized by our own Government,
and in lS45 communication was opened
between Baltimore and Washington. ''What
hath God wrought !" signalled Morse at
the capital TO Alfred Vail at Baltimore.
The news dispatches to the press ''by cleo
tro-telegraph'' or ''by magnetic telegraph"
were meagre, while public patronage was
so timid that the wits of the dav made fun
of delighted father in Baltimore, who
wired" the news of the birth of a grand
son TO postofiice official At the capitol
las If the mail wac too slow at twenty
miles an hour In April, 1910, Goodyear
was in the debtors prison Ga lodging
almost as familiar to him as his own home)
in Boston; he had the year before found
the clue to the vulcanizing of rubber, but
the process was not reduced to a certainty
till 1874. At about the same time QS45-
- the Mccormick reaper was confirming
the independence of the New World to the
Old as a granary CAS- late as 1886 3S,
wheat had been imported into the United
States from Portugal and the Baltic.) The
sewing machine devised by Elias Howe in
1913 was patented in 1916, but the i'm
portance of this invention was not fully
realized for more than dozen years after
ward. The daguerreotype dates from 1882,
and in 1910 the enterprisIng Mr.. Plumb
began taking likenesses in Boston with
small success for some months. Five years
later his galleries" were to be found in
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash
ington, and even in Dubuque, la. Finally,
July "a, lS47, the patent was issued for
Hoes lightning press, with its ''impres-
sion cylinder (the type revolving on
circular bed and printing capacity of
10, 900 to 90, 900 impressions per hour.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-09-02

Australia is the land OF contrariety In
regard TO animal and vegetable lIfe--suoh
as black swans, the duok-mole, fish which
climb trees, cherries with stones outside, and
veritable wooden pears one fact re-
garding spiders and flies Is equally strange,
for here there is fly which catches
spiders. He is wiry, energetic, hard
looking customer; body longish and narrow;
color, literally half-mournlng, and about
| three-q quarters Of an inch long; ne builds "a
| clay nest for his larV9, generally inside
locks under veranda leaves, or even in
cracks of wood work, and sometimes in
the folds of curtains or clothes. In one
case, while staying at a friends house
about twenty miles from Sidney, | left my
waterproof coat hanging untouched for
| about four days, and ON taking II down
| there were a nest nearly built in one of the
| folds, OF about the size of ones little finger
and three or four inces in length. On re-
placing tie coat and leaving it for another
| few days, and then examining 1t, the nest,
was finished; il had three compartments,
with one little white grub in each and fer
Its food several small green spiders, not
then absolutely dead, but apparently In a
state of coma. These spiders were evidently
| taken out of the orange orchard, as there
were plenty of the same kind alive about
the trees; but recently, while up in the
mountains. | watched one of the flies car
ryIng off black house-spider quite as big
as itself; and during the course of the day
saw him three separate times, and on each
| occasion with large spider. | could not
find the nest; but the farmer tells me that
he has occasionally done so, and found as
twenty good-sized spiders of various kinds,
all apparently dead, bat not decayed, and
generally five or SIX larvae of the fly. There
is also large spider which actually catches
small birds occasionally, and kills and de-
YOURS them! lie is like wasp IN color;
body, shape and size of small hazel nut;
legs long and wiry; ana he also looks like a
hard-skinned customer. The web is always
double, one about half as large again as the
other, and made of such strong yellowish
fiber that if accidentally walking into il,
you feel a sensible stoppage of your way
for the moment. One bird-the wreck of
which myself saw left in the web-was
rather smaller than the English wren, and
the web was strong enough 10 stand all its
struggles, although little broken here and
there. AS regards the size of some spiders,
We have a fat-bodied, gray -colored one
here which builds no web, but lives under
the bark of dead trees, behind boards, etc,
the body of which is about the size of q
shilling and not much thicker, but the legs
of which are quite us long as the fingers of
an ordinary sized hand, and the whole
spread of the brute is about a hands
breath. This is fol the fullest sized ones;
but the common run of them are five or
six inches across, and the style in which
they pounce upon and double up the small
cockroaches is "a caution"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-09-02

The district known as the HarZ, is the
old Hercynian forest of which Caesar has
left such terrifying accounts, strangely at
at variance with its modest aspect 1t
covers an area of seventy miles by thirty,
and divides itself into the Upper and Low
er Harz. Both have beauties of their own.
The Upper Harz is wilder, its rock scenery
more grotesque, its water-scooped valleys
more sombre aad precipitous; pines and fir
trees clothe its mountain sides in thicker
pride. The Lower Harz, on the other
hand, is gentler and softer of aspect;
there are more fields and pastures; the dis
tant plains are visible, and furnish a less
confined perspective; the hills are lower,
the mountainous character less pronounced.
For this a curious feature about the HarZ,
that although its highest mountain, the
Brocken, Is only 3, 700 feet high, yet the
whole region has a remarkably Alpine
character as regards vegetation and mete-
geological phenomena. Indeed, this little
district has character sui generis, under
ground, on the ground, and overground
Underground, because it is one of the most
interesting of unsolved geological prob
lens; and for the lover of mineralogy aud
the student of geology here is fine field for
working with the hammer. The mineral
wealth of the Harz is proverbial, its gnomes
and kobolds live in legendary lore; its
minerals are desinated by Mr.. Ruskin us
the aristocrats of their genus. This quaint
writer contends that there is rank among
minerals as among men, and that you
''may recognize the high caste and breed
ing OF these crystals, wherever you meet
them, and know at once that they are HarZ
born" He further adds: ''lf you want
to see the gracefulest and happiest caprices
of which dust is capable, you must GO the
Harz not that | ever mean to go there
myself, because want to retain the roman
tic feeling about the name." This roman
tic feeling clings round what we have
called its overground characteristics; the
witch and wild huntsmen associations
which linger around its name. The Har2
is the home of all the weirdest legends OF
North Germany, the scene of Goethe's
''Walpurgis Nacht," the home of cloud
myths and storms. The lover of legends
will become almost seated here; every
rock, every hill, every prominent spot, has
its story.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-09-02
A Tall Horse.

New York is wondering over huge
specimen of horse which was brought to
that city recently from Ohio. The animal
is of native draft stock, and his registered
height is eighty one inches, or twenty hands
and one inch, a foot taller than the average
man; and his weight is 2450 pounds This
is the largest horse of which there is record,
although great veterinary surgeon in New
York ence owned horse nineteen hands
and one inch in height. Two horses were
shown at the Philadelphia centennial
exhibition, that were nineteen hands and
one inch high, which were afterward pur-
chased by brewer in that city, and Pope
Plus Ninth and Hanoverian horse fancier
are on record as owning animals of equal
height.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-09-02
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Long Rest at Noon.

Travellers affirm that the people of no
foreign country do as much of out door la
Dor during the heat of the day as the inhab-
itants of the United States. In all the
countries about the Mediterranean sea a
long session of rest for man and beast oc-
cuIs during the middle of the day In north
ern Europe shorter time is given to rest
at noon, because the temperature is lower,
and the rays of the sunlight fall SO as to
produce less injurious effect upon labor
ers. Still the time for rest is longer in this
part of Europe than in the Uuited States
of America. With us there is no stopping
work for the sake of taking rest at noon.
Lobor is expended only to allow men and
animals to take food and drink. AS soon
as eating and drinking are finished work
in the open sun is resumed. Without doubt
we should be gamers both in the matter OF
health and wealth, ii We gave consider
able time during the die of the day to
rest More sickness occurs among the
farmers Immediately after haylng and
harvesting than at any other season OF the
year, and the cause of it may be attributed,
in great majority of cases, to the expo
sure to the heat of the sun when it is al
most directly over the head OF the work
men engaged in the fields.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-09-02

Is there any thing on earth,
Where the strongest are not strong,
Half so feeble In its birth,
Or so sure OF death, MS Song
FRAZIER blossom never grew,
Pelted by the summer rain
Lighter insect never flew
Scarcely come ere gone again
Children, who ohaste butterflies,
May pursue it, to and fro
Little maids who sigh, 'Heigh-ho !"
May deplore 1t, when it dies
Loftier deeds to men belong
Larger life than Song
There is nothing on the earth,
Where so many things are strong,
Half so mighty in its birth,
And so sure OF life, as Song,
Never pine on mountain height
So the tn der-o deties
Never 60 Q in It's flight
Scs's with Ii undaunfed eyes
Cor querors pull empires down.
ThiuA tney will not be forgot
But II Song pursue them not.
Time destroys their dark renown:
Nothing is remembered long
But the Life OF Song
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-09-02

Geo. W. Chllus, has put 500, 900 in
cash into limited partnership formed
in Philadelphia for the manufacture of
watch cases.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-09-02

RosetH believes that the temperature
OF the sun cannot be less than ~, ,OOt
degrees T..
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-06
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
HOW THE WORK At THE CENSUS
BUREAU Is PROGRESSING.
The Recent Disaster at 0etroit-Condition
Of Our Alleged Navy Silver
Shekels The Life Saving
Service.
AN OLD SOLDIER WRITES A NOTE.

Occasionally some OF the replies made
10 the Radical circulars soliciting funds
for campaign purposes find their way
into the columns OF the press. The one
rrinted below, from Ralph P. Howe, OF
the Seyenty-second New York volun-
teers, was probably surprise to the
gentlemen who are entrusted with the
very d .fficu!t task Of procuring asuft-
c;en, amount Of the sinews OF war to
place Garfield in the Presidential chair.
A member OF the Cabinet is the author
ity for the statement that in the event
OF row with Spain, our wooded apology
for navy would be amply sufficient to
maintain the honor OF the flag, which
statement should be heavily discounted
before being accepted by the public.
IL will be several weeks before the OH
cial footings OF the population OF the
several States are made public by super
visor Walker. There is now over s'l,-
600 900 in silver coin lying idle in the
vaults OF the Treasury Department,
nearly half OF which is OF denominations
less than one dollar, and this in the face
OF the clamor ior small change. There
is considerable dissatisfaction with the
investigation now in progress as TO the
cause of the disaster on Detroit river a
short time ago, the United States Dis
trict Attorney making himself too con
SDisunuS
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-06
POLITICAL SKIRMISHING.
THE REPUBLICAN, GATHERING AT
KeYSER, YESTERDAY.
Judge Hoke Nominated for Congress
Garfield in New York-Georgia Demo-
cratic State Convention-Con-
gressional Nominations.
NOTES AND NEWS FROM MANY POINTS

The Republicans Of the Second dis
trict assembled in convention at Key
ser, yesterday, and went through the
motions Of placing candidate for Con-
gress in the field. As Judge Hoge, the
Democratic nominee, will be elected by
from 1000 to 6.OO0 majority, the gather.
ing was not OF much Of importance from
a political point Of view. Probably the
most conspicuous part of the Republi
can conference in New York, yesterday,
was the absence OF Roscoe Conkling, the
gentleman who has been 30 extensively
advertised as being entirely reconciled
to the defeat OF Grant. 1t is very sad.
The Georgia Democrats, in convention
at Atlanta, yesterday, took nine ballots
for Governor without choce. Gov.
Cclquitt, the present incumbent, is
we'll in the lead, and will probably re-
ceive the nomination. The convention
adjourned till to-day. Ex-Governor
Tom Young and Hon. Ben Butterworth
were nominated for Congress by the Re-
publicans OF Cincinnati, yesterday. The
Michigan Republicans held their Con-
vention at Jackson, yesterday, and
nominated full State ticket.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-06
FOREIGN ITEMS.
FEARS Of A SUDDEN OUTBREAK IN
IRELAND.
The American Beef Question in the House
Of Commons-Reyiew Of the Vote on
the Compensation BiII-Gladstone
lmproying-Blo Bloodless Duel.
WORK FOR AMERICAN sHlPBUILDERS.

1t is to be hoped that the motion to
be introduced in the House Of Com.
mons to-day, by Arthur Arnold, remov.
ing the restrictions placed upon the i'm
portation OF live cattle from the United
States, will be promptly passed. An.
other addition will be made to our al.
ready large supply Of unprincipled
scoundrels in the person OF Herr Hassel-
mann, an ex.member Of the German
Reichstag, who, being run out Of his ma.
tive country, yesterday embarked for
America. Mr.. Gladstone is reported to
be slowly gaining strength, and the av.
erage Englishman breathes more freely.
Russia has contracted for ten new clip.
per ships, five OF which are to be built
in the United States. A fire at Jaur-
rieta, in the province Of Navarro, Spain,
yesterday, destroyed eighty houses. A
destructive flood has visited a portion
OF the Austrian provinces of Mahren.
Two or three towns were flooded and
several lives lost. Since the rejection OF
the compensation bill, the English au.
thorities have imagined that revolt OF
some kind is about to take place in Ire
land, and yesterday orders were given
for the dispatch Of considerable rein
forcements to the garrisons there.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-06
GIRLS REVENGE.
Unparalleled Deviltry Of an In
diana Miss, Who Is Ably Assist
ed by two Young Boys.

SOUTH BDND, IND, August 5.-There
are three children now in Jail here for a
piece of the purest deviltry ever com.
mitted by such. Their names are Edith
Harsh, aged thirteen, and her two
nephews, George and Henry Rice, aged
seven and nine years. They went to
John Straub's house during the absence
OF the family and broke all the windows
in the dwelling. They then went inside
and found two or three dozen glass cans
of huckelberIes and lot Of canned
huckelberries and raspberries. Accord
ing to the story of the little
BOYS, the girl took the cans, one by one,
and smashed them over the carpets and
furniture and against the wall. A lot OF
a dozen on a cupboard she threw TO the
fl ,or at one sweepof her arm. She then
pened the beds and bureau drawers
q I'd, making the boys help her, poured
en- after can OF huckleberries and juice
in the beds and on the clothes in the
drawers. Handful after handful OF the
Juice was thrown against the white walls
and ceiling. Pans Of milk were emptied
over the carpets and mixed with the
fruit. Every dish in the pantry was
broken, wardrobes were opened and the
clothing was mopped around in the
milk and huckleberry juice on the floor.
The little devils lett nothing undonc in
the way OF destruction. which amounts
to several hundred dollars. The only
reason Mr.. S,raub can give for this un-
won,ed visitation visitation is that the
girl thus revenged herself because he
threatened to punish her few days ago
for exposing her person indecently TO
some boys who were at work with him
i'm a hav-feld,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-06
IHE DETROIT DISASTER.
Dissatisfaction with the Investigation
Now in Progress.

Dissatisfaction with the lnvestigatlon
Now in Progress.
WASHINGTON, August 5.-The Treasu-
nv DEPARTMENT is not satisfied with the
manner in which the investigation oil
the marine disaster at Detroit Is being
conducted. The law requires that the
inspectors conduct the inquiry, the
investigation being only into the con.
duct OF the officers on the occasion oil
the catastrophe. 1t appears from the
report Of the evidence taken that the
United States District Attorney Is really
questioning the witnesses and conduct
ing the matter. The result will be that
should a report finally be made attach
ING blame To the officers, they can take
an appeal from it that would doubtless
be sustained. There is prece-
dent for this. In the case OF
the steamer Metis, in 1873, the local in
spectors were aided in the investigation
by the District Attorney, so that II took
the nature OF a prosecution. A verdict
was arrived at condemning the course
OF the officers, and they appealed ard
were sustained. II this should happen
in Detroit all would have TO be gone
over again. Ii causes some surprise at
the department that this course is taken,
because the inspectors asked il they
could avail themselves OF the assistance
oi An attorney and were informed posi-
tively that they could not. 1t seems,
too. that the inspectors are areoverstepping
their bounds and making such inquiry
as belongs to the coroner and not 10
them, as their functions are defined and
prescribed by law.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-06
THE CEN SUS.
Returns Being Rapidly Received-Sat's'
factory Results Anticipated.

Returns Being Rapidly Received-Sat s.
factory Results Anticipated.
WASHINGTON, August 5.-1here have
been received at the Census Bureau AZ
boxes OF portfolios from supervisors
throughout the country. Each box con-
tains between 80 and 81 portfolios, and
each portfolio represents the labor OF an
enumerator. In all, nearly 1000 emu
merators have been engaged upon the
census, so the boxes contain about half
the total number OF census returns.
Since there are daily invoices OF boxes,
which are becoming now very large, il
is expected that within few weeks all
the returns will have been received.
Singularly there are but one or two
States whose returns are vet complete.
Rhode Island and New Hamp-
shire are two from which full
reports are known to hav'
been received. Announcements have
already been made Of the totals as 10 the
inhabitants in those States. General
Walker, the Superintendent Of the Gen.
sus, saws, however, that reliance should
not be placed implicitly upon such to-
tails for the reason that in cases in which
they have been attempted before they
were found upon inspection to be almost
invariably incorrect. In reply to an in
qurry as to when the first totals Of in
habitants would be reached General
Walker sail he hoped in a few weeks.
The rest would follow them on for
months. lie would not undertake to
predict when the census report would
be completed, hut he was confident that
when completed it would be both ex-
haustire and accurate.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-06
RALsoAp Boxps-Activs and irresu.

SrArE BoNps-Dull and nominal.
SroCKs-Ths market fell OF tSl per
cent. in the early dealings, but soon be.
came strong and prices advanced t(s?
per cent. speculation continuing strong
until late In the afternoon, when . reac-
ton OF t(Gl per cent. took place. This
vas partially recovered in the hnal sales.
and the market closed firm. Granger
and Coal shares, Erie and South western
stock were most prominent In the deal.
ings. Speculation in Central Arizona
continues The activity Is caused by
purchases Of stock by parties who sold
In the spring. &. J. Osborn 4 Co. and
J. 4 ). Wormser were the principal
buvers to day.
The transactions on the stock Ev.
change aggregated $4,000 shares, ot
which lS.UUO Delaware, I.ackawsnna
and Western, 5000 Denver and Rio
Grande, 1900 Erie, 900 Hannibal and
st. Joe, $500 Illinois Central. 900 Iron
Mountain, 1900 Kansas and Texas,
1900 Lake Store. 600 Lake Erie and
Western, $500 Michigan Central, 1900
North western. 200 Nashville and Chat.
tanooga, 5000 New Jersey Central.
l,GOO New York Central. 5000 Northern
Pacific, 1900 Ohio and Mississippi. 5000
Ontario and Western, %.SOO Pacific Mail,
5000 Reading, ~ 900 ~. Paul, $500
St Paul and Omai ., 500 Union Pa.
ciiic, $4,000 Wabash Pacific, 5000 West
ern Union Telegraph. and 10000 Cen.
trail Arizona. and 800 Delaware and