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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

DErRoir, October it.--C. W. Fonda,
cashier Of the Farmers' National Bank Of
Constantine, this State, left home septem.
Der 2lst and has not returned to date. A
large deficiency In his accounts is now re-
ported asexplaihing his prolonged absence.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

CHAAtGsroN, 8. O., October 1i,-The
Washington Light 1nianlfy viii cary Ia
Yorktown, Col. William WaShingl1nI
battle Gag, used IN the cavalry efifleo y
'pe passle o. Ccwpens and Eulaw spfin
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

1oSboN. October 1t.-At the autumn
meeting Of the Iron and Steel Institute, at
London, to-day, Captain D. n. Jones, Of
Pittsbtirg, read a paper on the manuiac'
t,ire Of steel and steel rails In America.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

1IsBoS, October 1.-THE Portuguese
Court goes into four days mourning for
President Garfield.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

OwBgo, October liz Two stores on
West First street, occupied BY II. L. Mat.
tibOn and j. Rice, for fruit drying, burned
last night 1oss $4,000. AwOman named
Cooper and her child were suitocated.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

O BoHoS, October t1.-Iohn Mahon 1
SS9s, c9, manufacturers and dealers in shoes
y lynn and No,77 Pearl street, Boston, are
SgS[led SS6Si as having failed. Liabilities,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

So;,roS, October ii.-Noles Of the Bcs.
%a Ssn lion Company will be paid Ia full
N.Y.. ss.,ln lew days and the corporation ~
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

NEW YoRk, October iI,-Collon easier ii II s.iO
barrels exports 9,7Ul barrels; idperfne hate and
western s. OOad 0Ge0mm0n to E11d extra d 0a
10; rood 10 choice g 75Ag %; While wheat e8tf6
q i6aa ~ extn Ohio . IOas ~ 81 Louis g %
jSa9 cents lower closing heavy And unsettled Te.
ceipts 1000 btilhQlg exports q, 100 bushels u6.
gfified spfinG q igAt 2I No. 2 Chiae9 q sal d;
ungraded fbd u 2lal l8H, No, ! DO N lttS4i a.
No, 2 do 81 laa60jf, steamer 90 d tiii ti:No 1
led q 81; mixed winter 81 t{X, ungfaded white
d 5lat i6iSi No, DO niles 100 huShei, a d i5jts
! ~ steamer No ! % 70 No, fsd 0ctol1tf,
November, 4lel ~, ,0yg bulheil, III 81 bIai 6aj
closing Al u vi pesembts sAltl ~ 90 bailO Il
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12
BRITISHERS SCOOPED.
NY COUNTRY, TITS OF THEE"
RS4AAll Villas Tie CtarSWiteh Stal" With Hass
OTsr EIAStssn COnPstltOH-FsbllOas Sans
Said 70 Have Bsea WOn by saAEuIAe
AnSriesas-POrsIEa News

LOSDoY, October ll.-At the New Mar
ket races the Czarewitch stakes was
won by Foxhall; Chippendale, sec
Ond; Fiddler, third, Nineteen ran. The
betting against FOxhall just before the
starr, was nine to two. He took up, run.
ming three.quarters Of mile from home,
and won, in the commonest canter, by
about ten lengths. Retreat and Mistake
failed to secure places.
Americanus made the running at a
good pace from Thunder Struck, Fall
kirk and Ambassadress, The most
prominent Of the next lot were Retreat, Fox
hall and Allerton. The horses ran thus,
with but little change, until rather over a
mile from home, when Fiddler drew to the
front, followed byThundersruCk Ambas-
sadress, Foxhall and Retreat, This or
der was maintained anHl within q quarter
Of a mile from home, when Foxhall shot
to the front, followed by Chippendale and
Fiddler, winning the race amid great excite
ment, Fiddler finished bad third, with
Retreat fourth and Fortissimls and Am.
baasadress next In the order named. Amer
icanus, The Star and PetrOnel were the last
three.
Retreat followed Foxhall, when the
latter made an effort, but was eased when
pursuit was seen to be hopeless, There was
q length between Uhippendaleand Fiddler,
Mistake finished tenth. There was slight
rain at the beginning OF the race. Lord
Bradford declared that he would win with
Chippendale, Time Of race, 4 minutes and
second. This evening Foxhall declined
10 his former position Of % to against
him for the Cambridgeshire stakes.
THE WINNINGS
NRw YoRK, October ll.-James R, Keene,
OF fcOlTse, was delighted over the victory OF
Foxhall. His winnings are said to be up
wards II 100000 and operators Of sport.
ing procliyities have won all the way from
500 to $4,000. Keene says himself that
Foxhall was backed to win $2,5O0,000. A
great deal OF American money was on him,
Walton, OF the st. James Hotel, this city,
sends q message from England, or what
putports to be such Is exhibited, stating
that he won 10000.
Keene says Of his horse: " think Fox
hall the best three-yearold in the world,
i thought he would win the Czarwitch
stakes, but there was so much fuss made
about mistakes In rating and one thing and
another, and had to give several horses u
year, which amounts to II pounds that lately
/ began to have doubts. But Foyhall has
justified the faith that we all had In him,
and rs an American, am proud Of the
victory"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

Congressman Jorgensen, who has been a
prominent leader OF the staightout Republi.
cans In Virginia, has decided to issue cir.
cular address to oil the Virginia Republi.
cans urging them to support Malone and
his Readluster ticket. Jorgehsen says that
Mahohe's action yesterday In voting for
Anthony for President Of the Senate shows
him 10 Be as good RepubliCanas anybody.
.tOrgensen says any man who stands up and
votes regularly with the Republicans a.
Niahone does, Is good enough for him and
he intends 70 support him.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

The Democrats talked more or less In
caucus this morning about the secretary.
sliip Of the Senate, but they will not enter
upon an election unless they are confident
OF their ability 10 elect.
Senator Saunders said, this morning,
that the Republicans would not bother
with the election Of Secretary at this ses-
sion, as they want 10 adjourn as soon a.
possible. fe said the Republicans had
been willing TO conCede the Secretary 10
the Democrats, but claimed the President
pro tempore, and that the Democrats had
taken The President and, 10 be consistent,
possibly, the Republicans having accorded
them the Secretary, would let them elect
their man.
President Arthur notified the Republic
can Senators that he will not for The pres.
ent make any nominations, except TO fill
the vacancies Of placesoi minor importance.
He said to-day that he did not think the
Senate session would las. ten days, aud i
this proves correct he will moi, Under the
tenure Ol-oiice act be required 70 make
hl9 nominations II this session, and be will
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

1t Is pretty certain that no attempt will
even be made to question the right OF SEN
ator Miller, Of New York, to his seat on the
protest Of certain New York Democrats,
presented by McPheson to-day. The Dem.
ocratic Senators are generally satisfied that
Miller's election was regular and fair, and
that no flaw can be found In Il. The pro-
test will he carried next winter TO the
Committee on Elections and will there re-
main probably. The uncertainty Of how
Davis, Of Illinois will vote makes the Dem.
ocrats hesitate also about the election Of
the Secretary. II they were sure Of his
vote they would, no doubt press an elec.
tiOh ripEt now.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-12

NHW YoRK, October il.-MoSEY-6 per cent per
annum, l.s2 per dIOm closing easy at 2aS per cent
Prime mercantile papet, bkash per cent. ster.
ling Exchange bankers bills steady at n 70; de-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
Measuring by the Eve,

A correspondent of the Boston Tran
script suggests that children should be
exercised in measuring by the eye. He
says that years ago, when he went to
school in a little weather beaten school
house, the scholars had most exciting
contests over the teachers faverite ex-
ercise of having them estimate with the
eye the size and weight of different OBJ
jects in the room.
He would hold up his zane and have
each scholar tell how long he thought it
was, and it was a lucky child that could
come within a half a foot of the right
length.
He would measure an urchin and then
have the scholars try to reproduce the
measure on the wall. He would mark
off an inch, or a foot, or a yard, in some
conspicuous place, and then see how
near anybody could come to chalking
the same length upon the blackboard.
And it was astonishing how wide
astray one would go. The fact is, our
eyes deceived us ridiculously, even upon
the commonest things.
At first thought which would you say
was the taller, a 3-year-old child or a
barrel of flour? And could anything
but actual measurement convince you
that the same child is half as high as a
s~ix-footer?
There is an old saying that a child 2
years old is half as tall as he ever will
be, and after a few experiments in meas
uring one can easily believe it, but not
before.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13

the narrow window admits sufficient
light without letting in the glazing sum
shine too p~lentifully. Outside, the win
dows should be shaded with blinds. The
kitchen should be on the northeast cor
ner of the house-the coolest part
which Is convenient in the summer and
unobiectionable in the winter, because
1t Is easy to warm a room SO exposed in
the winter, while it is impossible to make
a room cool in summer that is exposed
to the MONDAY sur and has a fire in it.
The kitchen, too, should be protected by
q summer attachment in which the cook
ing and washing may be done. The
windows of this place may be taken out
in summer and closed only by blinds,
and in the winter this room will serve as
a storage room for fuel and for protect
ing the kitchen from the storms and
blasts and drifting SHOWS. The pump
may also be put in this outer room. The
kitchen windows and doors should be
protected by screens of mosquito netting
to keep out the flies and yet admit the
air. A broad porch over the east side OF
the kitchen will be a further protection
against the sun up to DOH and If the
kitchen is recessed or thrown back a few
feet from the rest of the house the main
entrance may be placed here, leaving
q small vestibule in which the front
kitchen doorway opens. Or this might
be made the rear door of a broad hall or
passage through the house. But at this
time it is not our object to discuss the
farmhouse at further length than in
reference to the kitchen. which at this
season is of more than ordinary interest
to the farm housewife.-H. SteWart in
NeU York Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
The Art of Beauty.

Ugliness, once considered fate which
the gods themselves were powerless to
avert, has become of late years a circum-
stance of nc particular account, since 1t
is largely under the control of dress,
and by skillful notifications may become
more effective than beauty itself. FASH
ions were formerly created for pretty
women, but now seem to be in the inter-
est of the plain. A beautiful woman is
of course a princess in her own right;
she is worshipped and accordingly re-
stricted possessing all, and finding the
whole world ready to pay tribute, she
loses in a degree her originality. She Is
SO lavishly endowed by Nature that she
does not require to search curiously for
styles which shall enhance the sheen OF
her hair, the glory of her eyes, the
pearl and rose Of her complexion, or the
perfect lines of her form. With an ugly
woman, on the contrary, it is nothing
venture, nothing have" She is COM
paratively safe in pursuing to extremes
her craving for admiration. By sheer
audacity of inspiration she creates the
piquant, the irregular ; she makes mere
beauty seem tame. Probably few ladies
endowed with plumpness went to see
III II DcluIdlOV idou Wlu1O1 "ioaouS ~
least a passing feeling of regret that
their rounded persons made it impossible
to initiate some of the subtle effects
which make that actress one of the most
elegant women of our time. For in
stance, her flowing white dressing gown
in the last act of "Camille was a poem
of a dress, but a fully-developed arm
would have spoiled the sleeves, which,
Ioso~ ,,,,o1c &c 1oaa rroro onnunh nf
themselves to make the curves, and
needed little or nothing I've a skeleton
beneath. Our pleasure in such marvels
of dress is, of course, a perversion OF
taste, since 10 sculptor would wish to
model a ieshless figure, however grace
fully disproportionately Icing limbs may
assume drapery. But we are all taken
captive by our passion for purely @sthe-
tic impressions. Dress has become an
art in itself, and the woman who wears
it is almost subordinate ; it is a senti-
ment, a language, a confession.-Lip-
pincotts Magazine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
The Blue Laws on Smoking.

In the old time there we're some very
stringent laws in Massachusetts, against
the use of tobacco in public, and, while
the penalties were not SO heavy, yet
they were apparently rigidly enforced
for a time. We quote from o law passed
in October, 1852, a. follows: at Is Or
dered, no person shall take any tobacco
publiquely, under paine of punishment ;
also that every n shall pay n penny
for every time he is convicted of taking
tobacco in any place, and that any Assist
ant shall have power to receave evil
dence and give order for levyeing Oft, as
also to give order for the levyeing of
the officers charge. This order to be-
ginthe 10th of Novemberne1t. InSept.
ember1634, wediscoveranotherlaw on the
same article: s'Victualers, or keepers of
an ordinary, shall not suffer any tobacco
to be taken in their houses, under the
penalty of shillings for every offence,
to be payde by the victualer, and IL
pence by the party that takes it. Fur
ther, it is ordered that noe person shall
take tobacco publiquely, under the
penalty of 2 shillings 6 pence nor
privately, in his owne howse, or in the
howse of another, before strangers, and
that two or more shall not take it to-
geather, anywhere, under the aforesaid
penaltyforevery offence" In November,
1887, the record runs !: Can former
laws against tobacco are repealed, and
tobacco is set at liberty ;" but in Septem-
Der, 1888, "the General Court, finding
that, since the repeating of the former
laws against tobacco, the same is more
abused then before, it hath therefore
ordered, that no man shall take any to-
bacco in the fields, except in his journey,
or at meal times, under paine of IL
pence for every offence ; nor shall take
any tobacco in (or SO near any dwelling
house, barne, corne or hay-rick, as may
likely indanger the freing thereof,
upon paine Of 10 shillings for every
offence /; mol shall take any tobacco in
any inne or common victualing house,
except in a private roome there, SO as
neither the master of the same house
nor any other guests there shall take
offence thereat, which if they do, then
such person is forthwith to forbare, upon
paine of IL sbillings 6 pence fol
every offence. Noe man shall kindle
tyre by gunpowder, for takeing tobacco,
except in his journey, upon paine Of
II pence for every offence"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
The East River Bridge,

The following dimensions of the vari-
GUS parts of the great bridge spanning
the East river at Brooklyn and New
York will prove of interest:
Length of river span, 1886 feet 6
inches.
Length of each land span, $50 feet.
Length of Brooklyn approach, 971
feet.
Length of New York approach, 1852
feet 6 inches.
Total length of bridge, $3.50 feet.
Width of bridge, IS feet
Number of cables, four.
Diameter of each cable, 15i inches.
Length of each single wire in cables,
3,57S feet 6 inches.
Ultimate strength of each cable, 12,-
200 tons.
Weight of wire, IL feet per pound.
Each cable contains 1896 parallel (not
twisted) galvanized steel, oil-coated
wires, closely wrapped to a solid cylin-
der 15a inches in diameter.
Size of towers at high-water line, lao
x59 feet.
Size of towers at roof course, 136x53
feet.
r Total height of towers above high wa
ter, 278 feet.
Clear height of bridge in center of
river span above high water, 1876 feet.
Height of floor at towers above high
water, 119 feet 8 inches.
Height of towers above roadway, 159
feet.
New York tower contains 46, 945 cubic
yards masonry.
Brooklyn tower contains SO, 214 cubic
yards masonry.
New York caisson weighs 1000 tons.
Weight of concrete filling, 5000 tons.
Size of anchorages at base, 129x119
feet.
Size of anchorages at top, 117x104
feet.
Height of anchorages, SO feet front,
S5 feet tear.
Weight of each anchor plate, % tons.
First wire run across May %, 1877.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
A Romantic Girl's Experiment.

Says the Middletown Press : A young
lady, aged eighteen years, with brown
hair and hazel eyes, who does not live
many miles from Middletown, and who
had been reading the story of the mes
sage written on an egg, conceived the
idea of doing something similar. She
is the daughter of a farmer, but as the
product of eggs was not very large and
the home demand was brisk, she could
not get her message to market in that
way. An opportunity offered itself one
day. She overheard her father say that
he must take his apples to town, as there
were more than the family needed. The
apples were accordingly laid in the
wagon-house over night, to be marketed
in the morning. The romantic girl
wrote on a little piece Of muslin, in in
delible ink, her name "a fictitious one),
her address, and the two words : "Write
me-" She then rolled it up in q very
small roll, cut out a little piece of an ap-
pie near the stem, put in the roll and
closed it up, and then put the apple in
with the lot for market. In about a
week she heard from her message. The
letter was written to the address named,
and was evidently from some tramp or
vagabond, who had perhaps stolen the
apple from some grocer's stand. Almost
every word was spelled wrongly, and
the tone of the letter was coarse. The
young lady never replied to it, and it is
safe to say that she will not make any
more experiments in that direction.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
The Great Drought of 1919.

At Pleasant Hill, KY, 7 conversed
with an intelligent and pious Shaker,
who held to the doctrine of final perse-
verance In his undying faith in the good
ness of God, in not suffering a total fail
ure of crops to occur. He was a young
man in 1873, the year of the "Great
Drought" when from early summer to
the middle of January there was no rain,
when the air was hot and dry, when the
clouds refused to form and be condensed
into showers, when the d~ew-point was
not seen, when the stagnant pools of
water in creeks and branches became SO
thoroughly carbonized and miasmiferous
that the cattle died, and all vegetation
was utterly parched up and apparently
destroyed. During that terrible drought
the cattle became afflicted with the shot
weather ITCH" and thousands died, liter
ally tearing the skin from their sides and
backs in their frantic efforts to scratch
themselves to relieve the intolerable
itching. Deer and horses died with
black tongue fowls and birds became
~listless and stapefed, moped in despair,
lost their plumage, and died in utter
misery. Men, women and children grew
sick with disappointed hopes for the
healing showers. drinking the foul car
BOMBED water and eatingdusty food, and
many died of disease not known before
or since. Maddened with the intolera-
BILE itch and frantic with eating the dry
and desiccated grass, deprived of all nu-
tritive elements by the long drought, the
cattle, sheep and horses roamed the
fields and through the forests, moaning
and bowling, or paving the earth in i'm
potent rage. Added to these horrors,
the fields and forests took fire and
burned for weeks and months. The air
was filled with smoke and ashes, produc-
ing another horror in the shape of some
form of ophthalmia that was almost in
tokerable.
Fresh vegetables were o o exhausted,
the cattle were too diseased to be used
for food, water was scarce and unfit to
drink, fires were raging, and the whole
population afflicted with disease in some
shape. This state of things lasted until
the middle Of January, when the blessed
rain and the really beautiful snow came
and saved the country from utter ami
hilation.-Cor. Louisville CourSer-Jour-
| sonT
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
GRANDMA.

The grandpa IL a individual, aged
sumwhare between 30 and 100 years, of
a promiskious temperament, and IL a
common occurrence In all well regulated
familys. Next to a helthy mother-in-
law, they have more aktive bizness on
hand than emmy other party in the house.
hold. They are the standard authority
on all leading topicks, and what they
don't kno about things that took place
sixty-fve years ago, or will take place
for the next s~ixty-fve years to cum, IL a
damage for emmy one to kno. Grandpas
are not entirely useless, they are handy
to hold babys, and feed the pigs, and
are very smart at mending a broken
broom handle, and sitting coal ashes,
and are good at putting up the clothes
line On washing days. I hay seen grand
slider it a mighty mean trick to set an
old fellow ov eighty years to churning
butter. / am a grandpa miself, but i
won't churn butter for no concern, not if
i understand myself. I IN az solid on
this konklusion az a craven image. I
IN willing to rok baby all the time while
the wimmin folks are bileing sope, j am
willing to kut rags, to work up into rag
Karpets, tney can keep me nunt1nS mems
eggs wet days, or picking green cur
rants, or i will ever dip HANDLES, or kore
apples for sass, or turn a grind stun, but,
bi thunder, i won't churn. l have ex-
smined miself on this subject, and i will
bet a iak knife, SC long AZ he remains in
hiz right mind, Josh Billings won't
churn. Az a general thing grandpas are
a set of konsaited old phools who don't
seem to realize that what they kno
themselfs IL the result of experience,
and that younger people hav got to git
their ~knolledge in the same way. Grand
pas are poor help at bringing up chill
dren, but they hay got precept, and kat
ekism enuff, but the young ones all seem
to understand that grandpa minds them
a heap more than they mind grandpa
Josh BILLINGS.