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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16
An Odd But sinple Puzzle.

One of party suddenly asks: "Can any
body put one of his hands in such position
that the other hand can't touch it2' OF
course, every one in the room tries at
once. and there is generally great deal
of fun at the clumsy attempts. The po-
sition is to clasp an elbow with one of the
hands.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16
THE HOME.

II IA not souh,.d that men have . home In that
lace where ench one has established his hearth and
the sum Of bis possessions ard fortuues whence he
will not depart IL nothing calls him away NnsnS II
rsturns he ceases TO wander.-Dehnition from Oivii
Law
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16
A Pretty Chemical Experiment.

Put piece of beet-root into glass
Add little lime-wster, and the piece will
become white. Into this colorless mix
ture dip piece of white cloth, dry it
rapidly, and behold the cloth viii be dyed
red.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16

"Then stay al home. my heart, and rest.
The bird is safest in its nest;
O'or All that fiutter their wings and ny
A hawk Is lowering In the sky.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16
WILLARD HOTEL LOTTERY
PoSTPONE led
FOR A FULL DRAWING
To April 7, 1881.

The Drawing win take place at Louisville. Ky,
under authority OF q special act Of the Kentucky
Legislature, and will be under the absolute con
troll of disinterested Commissioners appointed By
the act.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16
LIST OF PRIZES.
AMOUNTING TO $500, $50

Whole Tickets, IS. Halves, 81. Quarters. 81
Remittances may be made by Bank Check, Ex-
press, Postal Money Order or Registered Mail
Responsible agents wanted al all points For
circulars giving full information and for tickets
address w. c. d. WHIPS
Willard Hotel,
Louisville. Ky.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16
ERRORS OF YOUTH.

Recipe Free for the speedy cure of Seminf
Weakness, Lost Manhood and all diseases brough
on by youthful indiscretions. Address DAVID
SON Il CO.. 70 Nassau street. New York.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16
Pleasantries Concerning the Fair Sex.

Pleasantries Concerning the Fair Sex.
Jenkins tries to avoid meat in the morn
ing, but since he got married he says he al
ways has tongue for breakfast.
When you ask Boston girl for kiss she
replies, 81 have no objection to a plaionic
OSCILLATION, but permit me first to remove
my glasses"
\ Michigan man who is handsome and
all that, can drive with one hand, and yet
the girls don't like to go out sleigh-riding
with him. He lost the other arm in saw
mill
"Well. miss" said knight of the birch
rod, "can you decline kiss?" eyes, sir"
said the girl, dropping her perplexed
courtesy, 81 can; but l hate to most
plaguily."
A Boston musician has just written for q
soprano voice beautiful song entitled
Would That Were Young Again" So
much time wasted. The woman can't be
found who will sing it.
81 declare said gentleman to his lady
love, "you are very handsome" "Pooh, !"
said the lady, $50 you would say if you did
not think So? And so would you think"
answered he though l should not say So"
Professor Amos's new book on Remedies
for Warfare" is dedicated to his wife. We
asked high and presumably grave Judge
of this State if he thought there was a covert
satire in this dedication. Eyes" he replied.
"feme covert. Albany Law-Journal.
She was modest and sedate Boston
school-maam, and absolutely afraid of a
"man." No male lips had ever pressed her
hers. But when one of her favorite schol-
ars came slyly behind her and rubbed her
cheek with the rough side of fig leaf, she
turned suddenly, and blushlng, said: "Well,
declare, it felt like a mans beard of three
days growth"
81 don't believe in these secret societies"
said one lady to another. That's very sin
gular," replied the other. Your husband is
Forester, knight of Pythias and a
knight of Honor, and you will have at least
$4,000 when lac dies" "But what good
does all that do me-" was the fearful re-
Spouse, "when he never dies?" and the
poor creature burst into tears.
The Norristown Herald says that 'fhe
number Of patents issued to women during
the year ending July, 1880, was seventy, or
ten more than the average. Most of the in
ventions have TO do with household appli-
ances, but among them is notincluded con-
triyance to prevent the stairs from creaking
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-16
DIscovERER OF
LYDIA e. PuNKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND.

The Positive Cure
for all those Painful Complaints and Weaknesses
socommon 20 our best female population.
IL viii cure entirely the worst OF Female Gem,
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Change ofsIife.
will dissolve and expel tumors from the uterus in
n early stage OF Development. The tendency
1rous humors there's checked ve:yspeedy by its
removes fantness, fatulency, destroys all craving
~ stimulants, and relieves weakness OF the stomach
IL cures Floating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration,
General Debility, Sleepsessness Oppression and lndi
gestion.
That feeling OF bearing down, causing pain, weight
and backache is always permanently cured by lite
win at all times and under all circumstances In
harmony with the laws that govern the female system
For the cure OF Kidney Complaints OF either this
Compound is unsurpassed
LYDIA f PINEHAM's VEGETABLE CON-
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Lynn Mass Price e. sX&ottlesfor o. Sent by mail
IN the form or pills, aiso In the Iozenges on
receipt OF price, q per box for either Mrs Pinkham
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let Address as above. Mention 1tis Puper
No family should be without LYDIA Z PINKHAM,s
LIVER PILLS. They cure constipation, biliousness.
nd torpidity Of the liver. Is cents per box.
SOLD BIZ
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15
LET IT SPLIT.

The MALONE caucus was held at
Richmond OH Tuesday night. Every
member who went into the caucus
pledged himself in writing TO carry out
the behcsts Of the Boss as they should
be agreed upon.
The first and foremost purpose of the
caucus WAS to nominate to the United
States Senate, u man disqualified by the
laws of Virginia TO hold any office in
that State, and one whom the Republi-
cans in the L. =. Senate have been UNI
willing to promote to a subordinate
office. But the purposes of the Boss are
not to be thwarted by trifles.
The Republican-Readjuster and Re
adjuster-Republican program will now
move on with harmony. The alliance
between power and reputation is again
solid in Virginia, and Riddleberger, the
author of the shameless bill to rob the
creditors of the State, with the full APP
pTOval of the administration and by the
aid of the Republican contingent in the
Legislature which il controls, is TO be
brought into the United States Senate.
This marks the contamination Of the
first act in the Republican scheme for
splitting the Solid South" eff the
Solid South can only be held to the
Democracy" remarks an exchange, "by
compromising with such Bourbon eX-
tTemists ~ MALONE, the sooner 1t is
split wide open the better. If the De-
mOcracy can keep power in the South
only by submitting to the domination of
those who urge reputation, fiat money
and other ruinous doctrines, We trust
there can be no doubt that the De-
mOcracy will perfer defeat. The Re-
publican party of the South is almost
wholly composed of negroes, and it can
bring no respctability or character to
this element of the Democracy, which
leaves the Democratic party only be-
cause there is too much honor and de-
cency in the Democracy to give it shell
ter.
While such an alliance, therefore,
may win temporary successes, the ulti-
mate result will be to the great advan-
tage Of the Democracy, which will be
purified and strengthened by the eXpul-
sion of their bad element. What it will
lose in the South will be more than
compensated by gains in the North, and,
above all things else, will the country be
relieved at last from the sectional divi-
sion of parties. TO those Democrats
who want to fallow MAHONE, we say,
therefore, GOd-speed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15
NIB. BARNUM As A TEMPERANCE
REPORMER.

P. T. BARNUM, the great moral
Snowman" Is an avOwed promoter of
humbugs but he makes them pay. They
are practical kind Of humbug and al
ways more or less profitable.
There Is a good deal of business i'll the
old Snowman. He has suggested to the
commissioners for revising the liquor
license laws of Connecticut plan which
is original, practical and possessing some
good points.
BARNUM isn't prohibitionist, but he
would improve the license laws by es-
tabGshing uniform system or limit for
granting license TO sell liquors.
He would limit the number of licenses
TO sell in the proportion Of one license
to every 1000 Inhabitants in any city,
town and county. This would justify
the seller to pay larger fee, and would
not decrease thereyenue, while 1t would
reduce the number of places at which
liquor is sold and put it in better hands.
He instances his home, Bridgeport.
There are two hundred places in which
liquor is sold to its thirty thousand resi-
dents. The license fee is 500. Increase
the fee to $500, and reduce the number
of saloons to thirty. This would in
crease the revenue and diminish the
number of attendants, who would be
compelled to pursue some useful work
for living. The value of real property
in the Vicinage of saloon is dam
aged by the proximity, to the
extent of $4,000 in some eases as Mr..
BARNUN thinks. "To say nothing
about the injustice of thus injuring the
property of those who pay taxes for the
protection of their persons and property,
It is evident that if Bridgeport had but
thirty liquor saloons instead of two
hundred the taxable real estate of the
city would be enhanced as much as
S7OO, 0OO-and more likely 81, 100000. If
the number oflicenseS in Bridgeport was
fixed at thirty, being one liquor saloon
for each thousand inhabitants enough
in all eonSeience), the financial adyan-
tages to the public would be at least
twieeas great as above indicated, to say
nothing of the increased peace and pros
perty of our city"
Mr.. Barnum's proposition Is simple
enough and practicable enough. 1t
might be applied to any city, town or
county without much objection from
any source. The dealers would not OBJ
ject because it would make their bust
ness more certain and reliable by shut
ting out excessive and disreputsble COM
petition. ~
The public could not object, because
it would decrease the number Of saloons
and especially would it close up the low
and disreputable novels where cheap
liquors are dealt out. The large license
fee would bring more revenue, more
protection to the customer, and doubt
less les occasion for crime. The man
who could pay q large liquor license
would have sufficient property to be in
some degree responsible, and his inter
ests would be with the maintenance Of
good order.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

AS HERETOFORE noticed in our dis
patches Senator DAVIS, of West Viz
ginis, has again introduced his bill to
repeal certain laws relating to perman-
ent and indefinite appropriations. In
offering the bill DIR. DAVIS explained it
in few remarks, rs follows:
"a similar bill was introduced by myself
and passed by the Senate, at the last session
of Congress- l will state to Senator's that
rs many Of them are aware, there are from
$15, 900 900 to 81, 0O0, 900 appropriated, other
than for interest on the public debt, that
are annually used by the different depart
ments for various purposes, upon which
Congress does not pass. The bin is intend
ed TO repeal all laws under which such
appropriations are made, sxeepta few, such
20 interest on the public debt and that re-
lating 70 the Smithsonian Institution, the
Soldiers Home, and one or two other mat
tiers. As I said. a similar bill passed the
Senate at the last session Of Congress, but
il failed IN the other House. i move that
the hiH be referred to the Committee on
Appropriations, with the report that &C
companies is"
The motion was agreed 10.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15
RHR MULE

~ l -
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company proposes TO complete its
@Hempfeld branch and make 1t the
main line between the East and West.
1t proposed to pass through this city
by way of q tunnel.
The City Council granted the right to
pass, with certain conditions ineorpoFat-
ed in an ordinance.
The ordinance with its conditions was
duly considered by the b. & o. Com
pany, one OF its conditions declared I'M
reasonable, and the city's proposition
unanimously declined.
That's the first chapter.
The B. & o. Company Is apparently
still intent upon making the Hempfield
its main line, and Is prosecuting the
work outside the city.
So far as the city is concerned, the
road has choice Of two courses.
II can use its present route through the
city down Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets, or cut more practicable route
outside the city.
But il is for the interest ofthe road to
have a practicable route through the
city, and It prefers it.
Ii is also for the interest of the city
that the proposed route through the city
should be adopted, and it is generally
desired
But the ID. & o. road, we say, has
made its propositions.
The city has made its propositions.
A slight disagreement upon one of the
conditions imposed by the city, which
might have been harmonized by con-
ference, has brought the whole matter
to halt.
The Baltimore & Ohio Company
stands on its dignity.
The City Council stands on its dignity.
The excess of dignity does not set well
on either side.
What We want is less dignity and
more business.
In this age of the world dignity is
very poor substitute for railroad.
Somebody ought 10 label this assumed
dignity, "Mulishness," and prod it out
of the case with pitchfork.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

THs people OF the country viii await
win great interest the advent Of the
''sfe Too Of Virginia politics into the
Senate Of the United States. The RID
DLEBERGER bill for scaling i've hundred
million dollars from the national. debt
will be expected as logical result. 1t
will, of course, receive the earnest sup
port of the Administration.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

The report comes that Mr.. X. B..
HAYES will sail for Europe in few
days. The money he will offer hotel
and shopkeepers at his various stopping
places Is the saving from Mr.. TILDEN's
salary. If it is refused he will probably
say he has no other, but he will not be
.1o,IoI
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

THE Pittsburgh Post says that two
iron mills in that city, out Of service,
''leave one thousand men temporarily
without employment, and increases
orders upon other mills, now unable to
meet the demands of their customers.
The demand for iron Of all sizes at this
time is without a parallel in the history
of tho trade -
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

THERE was a perfect avalanche of
bills introduced in the Senate last week.
The net result Of four days works was
the presentation ofS5O bills, nearly as
many rs were introduced during the
entire last session of Congress. One
Senator indicated that he had been
busily engaged during the recess by in
Producing 80 different measures. A
large number Of the bills introduced re-
lated to private measures and matters
that have failed 10 be acted on before.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

The Chicago Tribune makes an clab-
crate argument, and quotes decisions of
the Supreme Court, that a protective
tariffs unconstitutional. This is the
last Republican Free Trade assault on
Protection. Just now the Republican
Free Traders are much more lively than
the Democratic revenue reformers. The
Cincinnati Commercial joins the New
York Times and Chicago Tribune in as
sailing protection.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

SENATOR VEST, of Missouri, has in
trOduced the Eads Ship Railway bill.
II provides that Captain EADS shall
demonstrate the practicability Of the
scheme by expanding $4,000 i'll pre-
Hminary work, and that when the plan
has been proved practicable Congress
shall guarantee bonds to the amount OF
500. 900 900.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

BRADY vibrates weekly between New
York and Washington, smokes his cigar
pIacidIy, devours his dinners serenely,
and informs the reporters that he antici-
pates no further trouble. at looks
he says, las if MACVEAGH has come
out at the little end of the horn"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

THE Senate committee that has been
studying the question OF new bank
ruptcy law promise immediate action,
and will report bill probably what is
known a. the LOWELL bill-before the
holiday recess.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

CHANT and his wife are to be- the
guests of the President at the White
House for a month or more. ARTHUR
considers him handy fellow to have
about the house. He might u well OPP
c-ate the machine on the ground "a
from distance.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

CONGRESS should begin early in adopt
ing the suggestions of the President, by
framing law providing for perma-
uent plan Of determining the results of
national elections, by guarding the
country against revolution, by defining
''the inability Of the President" and
establishing the Presidential succession.
These are three great questions Of in
calculable Importance, and should be
brought before Congress at once, 80 that
they may be determined before the
adjournment Of the present session.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15
Rel.gioo That is Religion.

Henry Ward BescheT.
Religion without pleasure is mere super
stition and not religion. Honestly &C
quired riches elevate the man and at the
same time place him uuder obligations to
the community which has contributed to
his wealth, and these obligations must be
discharged by the foundation and endow-
mcnt OF institutions which educate, elc-
vate and afford genuine, rational pleasure
TO the masses of the people, and become
an honor to our country.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

THE prospect is that neither Of the
circuses now performing At Washington
the GUITEAU trial and Congress will
fulfil the reasonable expectations ofthe
country before the holidays.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

SENATOR DAVIS has purchased 5000
tons OF steel rails for the extension Of his
Piedmont road.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15
Forty Years Experiences or.n Old Nurse

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is the pre-
scription OF one of the best female physi-
clans and nurses in the United States, and
has been used for forty years with never
failing success by millions of mothers for
their children. II relieves the child from
pain, cures dysentery and rdiarrhoea, GRIN
ing in the bowles and wind collie. By Civ
ing health TO the child il rests The mot6es.
Price IS cents bottle.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

People who are 80 confident that the
REGISTER il wrong in stating that the
Legislature meets in January, had bet
ter examine the laws and point out our
mistakc-if thcY can.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

THE charters OF over 100 National
banks in various parts of the country
expire ON January l. The important
inquiry is, what are they going TO do
about it:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

EXISTENCE will be more or less a
burden until the GUITEAU family shall
have been relegated TO private life.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

FORTY farms seized in County Cork.
under execution, were offered for sale,
sud in ten cases tenants settled by pay
ing the rent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

THE fight is now on between the gold
hes and the dcvOtees ofthe daddy's dol
lar. VOORHEES, will inject regular fire
brand to-day
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

The wonder Is not that one of the
GUTTEAU Jurors is sick, but that all are
not sick.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15
NEW ApveRriseMEHrs.
A I

During the time between this and
special line Of Decorated Ware from
we offer purchasers Of Holiday Pres
and Decorated Dinner Sets, Moss
offered and selling at retail during
Covered Dishes and casseroies for
someIy decorated, also astonlsh
Special attention Is called to our
tasteful Toilet Set made by the
pleasing, novel and low in price that
home come in and see US. 1t is a
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

The iron manufacturers held pow
WOW ut Pittsburgh yesterday.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15
Will She Straddlec
UuSbja6foD p,,SI

WtLNITFIVIUT IUNI.
The Hon. Victoria Woodruff, now that
she has returned to us, will probably exalt
herself to the seat Just vacated by the Hon.
David Davis. Victoria doesn't make as
graceful a pose straddling a fence as
the Venus OF Milo, but like a true woman
would sooner be out of the world than out
OF sight
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15

PlrTSBURGH SOUTHERN RAILWAY Co,
PTrrSBCRGH, december llth 1881.
Notice is hereby given that the regular An
nual Meeting Of the Stockholders OF the COM
pany will be held at No lT5 Wood street, Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the second Monday (thl OF
January, \. ID. lsS2, at one o'clock 2. NJ, for
the purpose of electing Board of Directors.
and the transaction OF such other business as
may be presented. j. W. ROWLAND,
decl5i Secretary.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15
DIED.

MILI.ER-On Tuesday, Decemberl II, 1881, at
l. o'clock NJ, WM. ". MILLER.
Funeral services at family residence, No. 1919
Market street, Thursday, 18th inst, at Ii o o'clock
q. IN. Interment private.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-15
Cincinnati TTnes-l9ar.

There is an effort in certain quarters TO
make it appear that the Virginia fish is
whale. But people should not put faith in
the story without better evidence. The
honest sentiment OF the country is solid as
q rock in opposition TO the MahoneScpudi-
alton movement