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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-10-07

HET % Yonrssives by Daking m"5''
IALbJE when golden chance 10 "her'
ed thereby always keeping poverty from solr
door. Thos~ shO nlwtys tske advantage ~ itr
GOOD chances for mskiug mooey thnt are offer
i, generally heeOme aetltbY while thoss Nbp
10 tot Improve such chances retnain w foverii
Ne want many men, women boys sod gifis :"
work for us titht in their own locaiiiifs Jh7
business wili pay more than ten fir1ts ordinary
wages We furnish ~ expensive cuiht snd al
thai you Beei Tree 80 oue 1h0 rrgsFes ia'i'
20 make money very rapidly Yen e'n GO
vote your " bole time o. The work. OF ouiy Jour
spare moments. Pull information snd aii ihFl
IS needed sent ffes Address STifSON co D.
Portland, Maios Dec % 1850 -ly
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Letter from Washington.

WAsHINoToN, ID. G. Oct. 9Th, 1881.
MIR. HARPER: Is this TO be an "Iu
Memoriam" administration. or will the
new President stamp it with an indivil
uality and will of his own? These
questions. OF greater or less interest ia
the entire country. are questions OF life
and death To hundreds 10 Washington
If it is to be an in menaoriona admins.
.ration, the Cabinet OF the deceased
President will be retained. and humid
reds of officials, who hold places direct
~ under the present Cabinet, will eat
their bread in peace. II The Cabinet is
to be changed. many chiefs of bureau,
and large clerical force, must be chan
Sed with it. For IL is an unwritien la "
OF our civil service that q new Cabinet
officer may appoint his own corps of
assistants. 1t is now pretty definitely
known that there will be an entire
change Of Cabinet, but it is not believed
that this change will 10 made before The
called session Of the Senate. and may
90 not before the regular session OF
Congress. Two members of General
Garfelfs administration have such ex :
perience. talent, and reputation. that it
is expected they will almost Immediate
iY.roappear in public life. Mr.. Win.
dom will, IT is thought, be returned to
the Senate, and Dir. Blaine 10 the
llouso, where, it is believed, he eonlS
easily be elected speaker. Such a
course by Mr., Blaine would be grea,
disappointment to Mr.. kasson. anil 9th
or aspirants, to this Office, the shiId in
dignity in the United States, aud second
In influence only to the Office of Presi-
dent. On the other hand. II is said tina.
Dir. Blaine will be urged to retain the
portfolio OF State, and that Mr.. Copk-
ling will be made Secretary Of the Treas.
ury. The appearance of Mr.. Blaine
and Mr. Conkling at the same table
would seem 10 be an impossible specla-
Gle, but 1t is said to be the wish Of
President Arthur TO enforce harmony
between these two stalwar, leaders
whose political views ere entirely har.
monlous, and whose antogonism ia per
sonal. 1t Is evident that Obi, is no
longer to be the most favored nation at
the Capital of the United States, and
the idea Is gaining ground that New
York IS as big state as Ohio. Well.
anything for q change, O Cabinet with.
out one or two Ohio men in it will lack
long familiar monotony.
To-day | was at the Jail and saw the
most execrated man in the United
States. "What do you think of nv
case z" said he. l said, II think yoa
will be hanged" "But wait, watt" he
replied, lyon have not heard my sile OF
the question" 81: will make no differ
ence what your side of the question
may be, you are going 10 he hanged
II anyone thinks this was inhuman. let
him remember that the capital penalty
is inadequate punishment for the crime
committed, and tue agony suffered by
the victim, his family, and the country.
"Cowards die q thousand deaths" in
anticipation. " il right 10 contribute
your mite to keep Guiteau in a state of
anticipation. ).
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-10-07

HE Observation-Disclosures have
long been in possession ofinstrunents
commonly small mirrors-design-
eI 10 assist them in getting n look at
the interior parts of the human body,
such as the back part of the mouth,
the throat, the inner ear, &c. The
dentists mirror perched on Il flexible
joint ia familiar TO all. But it has
long been desirable to penetrate to the
stomach of q patient afflicted with
gastric troubles and see by actual in.
spection what il It's condition. Tins
may often be gained during the life
time OF man the valuable informa-
ton obtained at present By post.mor-
TEN examination for the mortuarv re-
port, and what has hitherto served too
late to CRAFTY the curiosity OF the doc
tor may go to saving the life of his
patient. In u word. means of dag.
nOsing the condition of the stomach
by sight rather than guessing has
long been wanted, aud Herr Letter,
OF Vienna, has patented an instru-
ment destined to supply the want.
The gastroscope is an electric lantern
and mirror combined, which, fixed up-
on the end of flexible tube, is inser-
ted bodily into the stomach, being
passed down the throat of the patient
with its equipment of wires for pro-
ducing tho electric light. The Ian
tern is a small hollow glass globe con
tanning the platinum foil which, when
heated by current of electricity. is TO
produce the illumination OF the inter.
Tor of the stomach. 1t is made double
90 Chat 80 heat can be communicated
90 the stomach, and 10 make it the
more sure, the space between the in
ner aud outer globe is kept supplied
with current OF cold water by means
Of two small India.rubber tubes in
closed in the main tube. The tissues
of the human body are comparatively
| translucent, and when the current Of
I electricity il turned on the internal
/ organization, IL il said, becomes dis
. tinctly visible. The experiment OF H.
. Eliminating the interior OF fish has Of
. ten been performed by amateur cleo
triciaus, tho straight lines and simple
structure Of the fsh facilitating the in
PRODUCTION OF ihe apparatus. What
is really novel therefore in Herr Lei
tet'sapplratBs remains To- be described.
II is the addition he makes of a series
OF mirrors and lenses by means of
which the light coming from the it,
Eliminated stomach is sent back mp the
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-10-07


Storage of Ifeat.-M Ancelin n
Frenchman, has invented an appliance
for the storage of heat, which, under
the hundred different forms he designs
giving it, may prove TO be an article
OF extensive popular use. The 'hea.
ter may be OF u size and shape 10 he
carried IN lady's mnff to keep her
hands warm, or larger it may serve .,s
foot warmer, or put into an entirely
different shape it may be placed on the
dinner table 10 keep dishes hot long
after the fire has been extinguished
Inc invention IL based on the proper.
ty OF acetate of soda TO absorb heat
when it has been subjected to it for
some time, and then give it ont after
ward over Il prolonged period. The
acetate is inciosed IN vessel of brass
OF the desired form. and ~ be prepar
ed for use the vessel needs only to be
Immersed i'll boiling water until the
desired temperature has been obtained
1t has been found that foot-warner
made by NJ. Ancclin retains its heat
about four times rs long as a similar
vessel filled with water would do
For example, it was found that being
raised to ~ heat OF 1853 degrees Fab
renbeit, at the end OF eleven hours its
temperature was III degrees. No
special skill is needed i'm the use of
the apparatus, as it is soldcred tight
and Is never opened.
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The gossip about The Cabinet includes
The rumor that there is 10 be an entire
change Messrs. Macveagh and Blaine
will certainly leave, and there is scarce
Iy doubt Of Gen James retirement
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West We. University

NJ iNE departments of 1t. Sy--t"G'-books fur-
1 y nisnrd at Cust-- calendar sfrsptgd to suit
observation-disclosures tot one wear from fl,b g.
$500 non -.rctarian libefHi. ,hurough Pail
FERN begins september 7,h 1891 Aierdaecs
last year from y c0uutiss sc West YifRiois sbd
fr"'u S,.'es ard Territories Number 81 tto.
desss larger than for trn years prtyi0us
-s'FCr entsiOgues and other information APP
lily to The Actiug-Presideui, d Is FuRlNrON,
Aorgzntown, Nrsi Va.
juno "a 1881 I'm
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Newspaper Advertising Bureau, 10
Spruce ST., ~ Y. Oct. z.
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@aN 8EaAr ASh.

We are receiving a fresh stock OF
NEW GOODS, many Of which have
arrived, including large stool; Of New
York clothing, full line of Boston
Boots and Shoes. handsome assert.
ment of staple notions, and a cons
pletc stock OF Hardware, with other
goods to arrive in a few days
Springfield store is also beginning
to fill MP with New Goods.
/. III. G.. Pancake.
Romney, Oct Z, 1881.
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HENT I.ohr coal OH. 80 ifs's'i 80
L oulg % sfa.s zee gaion 80,
y. RUSSELL s3HJ.
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U,t. T. 1881.
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-28
Woodcock Telearaphv.

On number of occasions, writes Maurice
Thompson to the Chicago Tribune, 1 have
closely observed the woodcock's system of tels-
graphy. The birds mandibles are furnished
with extremely sensitive nerves, SO arranged
that when the point of the bill rests upon TIL g
ground the slightest sounds are conveyed to its
brain. Standing upon the water saturated
earth of spouty bog, our bird utters faint.
keen cry, scarcely audible at two rods distance,
then Immediately lets fall his head till the tip
of the bill touches the ground, and listens at
tertively. If his mate hears him she replies,
puts her bill to the ground and listens in turn.
So the love messages go back and forth as long
as the birds have anything to say. This sort of
thing usually happens in the soft twilights
from May to the middle of August, though oc-
casionally have seen and heard it in the
broad light of summer day. In June, 1868, I
made the following note: To-day sketched a
woodcock in the listening attitude. Shall try
to get further studies
Five years later succeeded in getting three
more sketches ond last year d8S0) got four
more. Many of these and kindred sketches
have been obtained at the end of indescribabe
care and labor. The woodcock is so shy, SO at
tentive SO sensitive, that the least sound will
cause it to skulk and hide-a thing it does with
even greater cunning and success than the
quail. The only way in which have ever been
able to get near enough to the bird to sketch
its natural attitudes has been to crawl on the
wet ground through tangled weeds and shrubs
until reached hiding place on the border of
its feeding range, and there patiently and si-
lently watch for its coming. This / have done
over and over again for days together without
getting single sight of the bird.
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-28
Americans in Mexico.


The American element here few years ago
was very exclusive, and made up of superior
set 1t was before the "boom" on Mexico, and
the Adventures had yet to arrive. The Fourth
of July was celebrated every year in one of the
gardens Of the city, and, from the few Ameri-
cans present. the occasion was similar to large
family party. This observance of the nations
anniversary has been given up for the past two
years on account of the large influx of Ameri-
cans. 1t would be necessary to extend gen.
eral invitation, and as the order of the day has
been considered polite to continue these picnics.
This decision was not reached from an econo-
mic point of view. 1t was thrsugh fear that
the festivities would wind up with Donny
brook fair. An American, ordinarily peace
able, comes to Mexico, and is seized with a
great desire to fight, and unless he has an idea
of remaining will be possessed of this desire.
The surroundings are in such contrast to the
north that it is some time before he accepts the
inevitable. The streets are narrow in Mexico,
and the ladies recognize no pedestrian rights
that they are bound to respect They move to
the right or the left as sweet will dictates, and
group will stop on the sidewalk to exchange
salutations and Mexican hugs, forcing passing
pedestrians to take the road If Americans
die not have certain indelible characteristics
they could be distinguished by nervous, jerky
walk, which the majority acquire in Mexico.
1t is physical impossbility to walk rapidly.
1t is the most violent exertion to walk moder-
ately fast. From bouncing to the right and left,
and lodging into the highway to avoid the
lamp-posts, a half mile will break down the
toughest pedestrian. Old residents know bet
ter than to hurry, but the novice gees through
the severe lesson, and after his nerves are COM
pletely shattered will settle down to the re-
quired speed of locomotion. The Mexican dog
seems to have rights most respected. He can
go to sleep sprawied out at full length in the
middle of the street, and everyone carefully
avoids stepping upon him. Where the canine
is savage, the reason for this precaucion is OBJ
vious. The danger of losing piece of ones
calf would teach due respect But in many
cases it is a dirty little piece of poodle, sur
charged with fieas, and judicious stamping
would hardly leave the fgurative grease-spot;
yet the same care is observed that not hair of
his body shall be injured. This stepping over
dogs and conforming to the regulation speed Of
the streets is an unknown quantity that goes to
make up the Irritability and combativeness of
the American.
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-28
BOSTON K MAINE RAILROAD.
Fall and Winter Arrangement.

-, Oa and after w snday, Oct.
I.sssseaesssssss ~, 1ssl, Passenger Trains
EaasL=-sias:sTi,, ! LEAxE PoRTLAND
and $50 p. M, arriving at Boston at lis, $50.
and 500 p M Returning, leave Boston at 7.3O
9. m, 1890, $50 p. m, arriving at Portland at
seaT scarf S,O hn seaeH Pine Peins. oia onr
chard Beach, SacO, Biddeford, and X en-
nebnnk, at 9.45 a. m. 1 90, $50 and $50 p. m.
Great Falls, Dover, New Market, Exeter,
HaverhiIl, Lawrence and Lowell, S.45 8.
M, LOO and $50 p. m. For Rochester, and
$50 p. m. For Alton Bay, at S.45 a. M. and
$50 p. m. For Manchester and Concord,
N. h, (yia Lawrence,) at S.45a. M; (via New
leaves RemneSu.L 9 for ae nj at an
Parlor Car on train leaving Portland Portland at
LOO p. m. Returning on train leaving Boston at
1870 p.
Parlor Gar Seats secured i'm advance at
Depot Ticket OAlce.
E-The leo p. M train from Portland connects
with Sound Line Steamers for New York
and all rail lines for the West, The $50 D. m,
train connects with all Rail Lines for New
York and the south and West.
SUNDAY TRAINS Leave Portland for
BOSTON and Way Stations at LOO p. m. Boston
for Portland at 6.O0p. m.
Trains on Boston & Maine road connect with all
steamers running between Portland and Bangor,
R0ckand, Mt. Desert, Machias, PASSPORT, Calais St.
John and Halifax. Also connect with Grand Trunk
trains at Grand Trunk Station, and Maine Central
and Portland 9 Ogdensburg trains at Transfer Sta
ten.
All trains stop at Exeter ten minutes for refresh
ments; First class Dining Rooms at Portland,
Transfer Station, Exeter, Lawrence and Boston.
THROUGH TICKETS to all points West and
south may be had Of w. l.. Williams, Ticket
Agent, Boston 1t Maine Depot, snd At Union
Ticket Dfsice, 40 Exchange st.
JAS. I. FURBER, Gen. Sept.
8. Fl. STEVENS, Cen. Agent, Portland.
oct15 diff
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-28
TIE PRESS.
In Menoriann.

Our best. our brayost, tenderest, dearest loved,
Our kniQhtliest son, untimely to the grave
R1 bitter stroke of cruelest tate removed,
M se s os We S eugRt the awful seat6y foe
Thai menaced him with qaiveriDg poisoned dart
FOR weary weeks till hope beat faint and low,
And gloom lay heavy on the nations heart
Our love for Garfield mated with our pride;
He lowered majestic tar above the throng,
Like some tall pine that on mountain-side,
Nv Wreste with the storms grows 1.-the and strong.
Heroic motherhood his cradle rocked;
Heroic struggle nsrved his ardent youth;
No siren false his stainless manhood mockedj
To simple duty faithful, true as truth.
His was the leaders calm, undaunted soul,
Too self-restFaned to sway at passions preatn;
His the grand fortitude that took control,
And smiled cha lenge in the face Of death.
What matchless patience! tried %lth utmost pam,
BY anguish tortured under weakness crushed,
MARTYR and saint, he bore the fearful strain,
Till in that presence lesser griefs were hushed.
Above his pulseless form what shadows bend
That glory wraps him. coffned, could we zee!
The victors II the ages call hia friend
OF Lincoln, Washington, the peer is he.
ColnmbiH's hand shall write his name in light,
Her sone chad lisp it by the hearth's red flame,
And generations hence snail measure height
By this great mans white altitude of fame.
SAN must we weep We stand, the Thirty-eight,
Joined hand 10 hand, with broken hearts to-day.
The mournful guns proslaim the mourning state
Its Chief SO foully, rangeiy reft away.
Droop lowlier, flags, TO symbolic our woe!
Toll slowlier, bells, and time you with our tears
Tread softly, soldiersi There are those shall go
Uncontrolled through all their lonely years.
Our leader fallen! But his work remains
Unfinished as he left it. East and West
And South and North arise the stern refrains
That call his country to the hour of test
No dwarfed ideal can we brook, who hear
His voice serene and steady from the skies.
The listening air throbs palpitant. and clear
Around us glows the fire of sacrifice.
-Harper's BGzar.
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-28
The Revised Testament.
Brother Gardiner Finds no Essential
Changes in the New Edition.
Detroit Free Press.l

81 take pleasure an satisfaction" said the
President as he held up parcel, lin informin'
YOU worthy citizen of Detroit, who does not
car to have his named menshun'd, has present
ed dis revised edishun of de Bible to de Lime
Kiln Club. We do not open our meeting wild
prayer, nor do we close by singin' de Doxology,
but neberdeless 1 am suah dis gift will be high
ly appropriated by ALL Oar has been considu-
BILE talk in dis club about dis revised edishun.
Some of you have got de ideah dat purgatory
has all been wiped out an heaben enlarged
twice ober, an have heard odders assert dat
it didn't forbid lynn, stealth an passin' off bad
money. My friends, you am sadly mistaken9
Hell is list as eber, an heaben hasn't got any
mo- room. In looking ober some OF the changes
las night selected out q few paragraphs whic
bab a pineral BARN Fur instance, it am list
as wicked to steal watermellyons as it was las
var befo, an de skeercer de crap de bigger de
wickedness.
in aroun' de streets. De loafer am considered
list as mean and low as eber he was, an | want
to add my belief dat he will grow meaner in
public estimashun all de time.
"De ten commandments am all down heah
widout change Stealin an lynn an covetin'
AM runnin' out nights am considered jist as
bad as eber.
"I can't find any paragraph in which men
am excused from payin' deir honest debts and
supportin' der fam lies
II can't fin. whar poo man or poo man.
wife, white or black, am 'spected to sling on
any particler style. s
SDog fights, chicken liftin', polytics, playin'
keerds for money, an hangins aroun' fur
drinks, an all SIGH low bizness am considered
meaner dan eber. Fact is, can't fin, any
oha,oa xphafahar eyhirh lata mr. IN mo from
bein' plumb up an down squar' an honest wild
de world. Dey have changed de word He'll
to 'Hades, but at de same time added to de
strength of de brimstun an de size of de pit,
an we want to keep right on in de straight
path if we would avoid it. Doan' let any white
man make you believe dat we's lost any Gospel
by dis revision or dat Peter or Panl or Moses
hab undergone any change of sperrit regardin'
de was of libin' respectfully an dyin' honora-
bly,. M
The Portland daily press., 1881-10-28
History of Zero.

"Zsro' on the common thermometer, like
the fanciful names of the consultations is a
curious instance of how wise mems errors are
made immortal by becoming popular. 1t may
be worth while to say that the word itself (zero)
comes to us through the Spanish from the Ar
able, and means empty; hence nothing. In
expressing 100 deg Fair" the abbreviation
Fair stands for Fahrenheit, Prussian merch-
ant of Dantzic, on tho Baltic Sea. His full
name was Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit.
From a boy he was close observer of ma
ture, and when only nineteen years old, in the
remarkably cold winter of 1709 he experiment
ted by putting snow and salt together, and no
ticed that it produced degree of cold equal to
the coolest day of the year, and that day was
the coolest that the oldest inbabitant could re-
member. Gabriel was the more struck with
the coincidence of his little scientific discovery,
and hastily concluded that he had found the
lowest degree of temperature known in the
world, either natural or artificial. He called
the degree zero, and constructed thermom-
eter. or rude weather glass, with a scale gradua-
ting from zero to boiling point, which he num-
bered 2l2, and the freezing point 32-because
he thought, mercury contracted the sod OF its
volume on being cooled down from the temper
AZURE of freezing water to zero, and expanded the
180th ON being heated from the freezing to the
boiling point. Time showed that this arrange
ment, instead of being truly scientific, was as
arbitrary the division of the Bible into verses
and chapters, and that these two points no
more represented the real extremes of temper
ature than from Dan to Beersheba" express
ed the exact extremes of Palestine. But Fab
renheit's thermometer had been widely adop-
ted with its inconvenient scale, and none
thought of any better until his name became
an authority, for Fahrenheit finally abandoned
trade and gave himself up to science.
The three countries which use Fahrenheit
and England, Holland and America. Russia
and Germany use Reaumur's thermometer, in
which the boiling point is counted so degrees
above the freezing point. France uses the
Centgrade thermometer, so called because it
marks the boiling point 100 degrees from the
freezing point On many accounts the centri-
grade system is the best, and the triumph of
convenience will be attained when zero is made
the freezing point, and when the boiling point
is put 100 or 1000 degrees from it, and all the
subdivisions are fixed decimally. If Fahren-
heit had done this at first, or even if he had
made it one of his improvements after the
public had adopted his error, the lack of opporss
tunity, which was really his, would have Sc
cured to his invention the patronage of the
world