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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-21
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Copper, il suddenly cooled, be-
comes soft and malleable; if slowly
cooled, it hardens and becomes brittle.
According to Mr.. Fairthorne, ben
zine may be freed from all offensive
odor by shaking it up well with quick
line, about three ounces to the gallon.
The excessive resonance of church
es, NJ. l'Abbe Barrett says, can be mod
ified 10 any degree by the simple expe-
dent Of stretching iron wires across the
dome.
The experiment of lighting the
streets of Albany, n. Y, by electricity
has so far been successful that the Su-
perintendent of Lamps has been author
lied to cut off the gas lamps on the elec-
tric-light circuit. One hundred and six
teen gas lamps were accordingly cut
off. Twenty-Five electric lights are on
this circuit.
The French Government intends to
establish an observatory at Cape Horn
for the purpose of accumulating data
regarding terrestrial magnetism. Those
who are to take charge of the establish
ment will sail in the same vessel which
is 10 bring out the astronomers, who
will try to make what use they can OF
the approaching transit of Venus.
When in Africa NJ. d'Abbadie wit
messed lightning without any thunder.
He contends that in this instance the or
dinary explanation of so-called Z" heat
lightning" s" as the mere reflection of
storm below the horizon is not applica-
BILE, because it was thin fog occupying
a narrow valley which was suddenly
Illuminated by the sheet lightning.
Pitch paper, the same as that used
in covering roofs, when cut into slips
and placed in convenient situations un-
der carpets and behind sofas and chairs
in a room, will effectually repel the
moth miller from depositing its eggs. If
similar strips are placed inside the backs
and seats of parlor suits they will render
the furniture moth-proof.
The discovery of another new vine
is announced. NJ. Armand Desvignes,
missionary in China, has sent to the
French Academy of Science some seeds
of vine which grows wild in China,
and produces edible fruit, which, after
fermentation yields wine the bouquet of
which resembles the aroma of raspber-
ries. There are two species; one is
thorny and grows at an altitude of TO-
600 feet above the sea level; the other Is
found on granite soil.
"A number of railroad companies are
now trying the experiment of using the
hulls of cotton seed, with the small
amount of lint usually attached as they
come from the oil mill, as q substitute
for the ordinary cotton waste at present
used for packing the journal boxes of
cars, and with every prospect of COM
plete success. The advantage claimed
for this material is great reduction of
the cost, saving of oil, and prevention of
hot boxes, while the producer of the
seed finds ready market at advanced
| nrice
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as q settler of disputes Vice-presidents
were selected from Scripture proper
names, abbreviations, and noted names
of fiction, and Record elected secretary.
The meeting being duly organized, the
chairman announced the business to
come before it, giving brief but spir-
tied account of Ups history and suffer-
ings.
He was followed by argument, an old
and experienced debater who had spent
much time in court, and was noted
chiefly for always being on the contrary
side. For this once, however, he hap
PLY agreed with the prevailing opinion.
Said he:
"No doubt the Americans are well.
meaning race. But they are extreme.
" careless and seldom think. And nc
doubt the Joneses are, at this very
moment, serenely sleeping in utter un.
consciousness of the pain and misery
which their dullness has inflicted upor
poor little Up. Of course they mean t1
do right, and would not knowingly in.
lure any one. But that is poor excuse
Now these same Americans have soci
ETY. for the prevention of cruelty to ami
mails. They seem to be in greater need
of society for the prevention of cruelty
to the English language, a society whose
rigid laws should be strictly enforced.
Perhaps my words seem strong, but, my
friends, Dps case is not an unusual one.
1 see before me even now two Words,
You and KrloU, who have had an equally
bitter experience. Whenever some peo-
pie summon us to the aid of their ideas,
You and K,soIC are hitched in with the
other Word. Sometimes they trot be-
fore and sometime behind. In either case,
while they do not help the expressions,
but are rather a hindrance, they become
quite as fatigued as if doing regular and
proper work. Now, If Mr.. Jones, for
instance, should see pair of horses
used in the same way, he would at once
set down their driver as an idiot, if not
something worse. But the two cases
are not unlike, although our unthinking
friends seem not to perceive this.
Another speaker thought that, "As
the Joneses and others have probably
never looked at the subject in that light,
it might be that If it were so presented
to them they would see the justice of the
complaint and offend no more. 1
should, therefore, move, Mr.. Chairman,
that our friend -Prefdce should be ap-
pointed committee of one to call their
attention to the matter, and urge q re-
form"
At this point, Mr.. Preface arose and
addressed the meeting in a sorrowful
manner. He thought the appeal should
be spread far and wide by some able
and influential advocate. Reminding
his hearers of his own neglected posi-
ton and waning powers, he moved to
amend by having an account of the
whole affair prepared for publication.
The amendment being accepted, the
resolution as amended was passed by C
unanimous vote, after which the meet
ing adjourned Nicholas.
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PITH AND POINT.

-"Go to the ant, thou sluggard," Is
all very well; but If the sluggard will go
to a picnic, the ant will come to him.
Puck.
Two thousand doctors propose to
meet together and discuss medical sub.
jects. The benefits that will result from
this can not be estimated. While the
doctors are in convention everybody will
get well.-BoSto11 Globe.
CLANS are now made of India rub.
ber, and painted so artistically that they
can not be told from the egenuine article
For making clam chowder few dozer
of them will last a restaurant lifetime
Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
"A man need not flatter himself or
everything about his house being as reg.
uiar as clockwork, simply because he
buys everything on tick. Unlike clock.
he will run down when his affairs are
wound up.-Boston Transcript.
In one of his verses, Oscar Wilde, the
aesthetic poet, alludes to "the barrer
memory of unkissed kisses" An un.
kissed kiss probably is the barrenesi
thing within the range of human ex.
perienc Philadelphia Bulletin.
"A boy of fourteen, who goes tc
school in London, has been earning 6
living by rising at four O'Clock in the
morning and waking men who have tc
60 to work very early. The police, who
consider that they have q monopoly o.
the business, arrested him.
=" Pa" quoth Sammie to his sire
sswhy don't you go out WestP" "Why
do you ask, my boyp" "Because Bill
Higgins father went, and he struck q
bananal" ga bonanza, you mean, Sam.
mie!" "Well, what's the differenceP''
"Why, when people strike bonanza il
sets them up, and when they strike q
banana it sets them down-and very
emphatically, too."-Yonkers Gdzette.
An Austin man, whose name we
suppress, Is closer than the bark on o
tree. He walks home to dinner through
the hot sun and dust every day, not
withstanding he lives right on the line
of the street-cars. "Look here" said
Gilhooly, "you would have twice as much
appetite if you rode home in the cars"
'That's just why l walk. It's so hot
and dusty that L can't eat a bite after
I've walked home. 1 save both dinner
and car-fare. If was to ride home I'd
eat myself into the poor-house in less
than year, L am such a hog. ."-TerGS
CiffiH0S
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Outfit furnished free, with full Instructions for
YAH conducting the most profitable business that
NH any one can engage in. The business is SO
III III to learn. and instructions are so SIM
- pie and plain, that any one can make great
profits from the very start. No one can fail VINO Is
willing to work. Women as successful as men.
Boys and girls can earn large sums Many have made
at the business hundred dollars In single
week Nothing like IL ever known before All who
engage surprised at the ease and rapidity with
which they able to make money. You can engage
in this business during your spare time at great pron
You do not have to invest capital in IT, We take all
the risk Those who need ready money should write
to at once Allfunshed free. Address TRUE Co.
Augusta Maine S-1Ya
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The Grasshopper liz a Burden.

The grasshopper is flippant bug.
They are born of eggs, and are an
inch and a quarter in length when they
git ripe.
They are Matched out, get their
growth, and die off in seventy-five days.
This IL bizzness, and shows that they
have enterprise in hi degree.
What they are good for iz a prize
konundrum, but the evil they sumtimes
do liz equal to a famine.
/ hav seen every green thing on the
face ov the earth for fifty miles in cir
conference ct up bi them, and milyuns
ov them besides starving to deth.
hav seen the air filled with them
like shower ov sand, and nothing but
stone fences proof against their destroy
ing appetights.
They travel on the jump, and fill the
heavens with their song ov ruin.
They are a consuming fire, and no
power ov man kan stay their journey.
One grasshopper iz a mizzerable item,
but when sum edikt of heaven marshals
them in countless legions they are an
appalling terror.
To be ct up bi grasshoppers, to be con-
sumed bi musketoes, or mangled by a
mule hav alwus ben the three deths that
l have dreded.
But az much az fear the deadly
grasshopper, / had rather face mile
square of them all alone in the munth of
August; / had rather cross the Newark
marshes hi moonlite in July, when mus
keters are in their consummate glory, or
even fondle the sportive mule, than to
hav nuzepaper kritick who writes for
S12 a week git after me.
Oh! it il awphull to hav the laurels
ov years torn from ones forehead, and
trampled in the dust, and be annihilated
for life, and perhaps eternity, bi the
scathing fury ov the newspaper kritick
who writes for II dollars a week and
pays the highest cash price for clam
Cruel.
This IL purely awphull.
This beats mules, grasshoppers and
musketers just as eazy as sticking a
thistle intu yure finger.-Josh BiHt,sgs.
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JOINS WIFE.

an say Yes to thee, John, can 1 thy love
retain?
For Pm no beauty. dear; there's plenty call
me plain.
Lilies and roses don't blend their tints in my
face;
L have no witching blue eyes no wonderful
grace;
But I have health and truth, and youth, and
Hove no other but thee:
John, thou must take me all in all, or else
thou must let me be.
"I am no scholar, John; of art could not
speak;
Icould not pose or dress. and look like an
ancient Greek;
I'm not aesthetic at all do not paint or play;
Nor could write tale or poem, no matter
what the pay;
But I can keep the house place bright, and
love no one but thee:
John, thou must take me all in all, or thou
must let me be-"
" Come to my heart, dear grill Give me thy
sun-browned hand.
Fairer art thou to me than the fairest In the
land.
Dear little womanly womani Love shall be
Love Is better than witching eyes or sunny
hair;
Love is better than beauty or wit; love is bet
ter than gold
For lose q NOT oHnd IN ts nsGrket place; Iove g
not bou0h and sold.
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a ScRntiIy Dressed Bachelor IL Put ia
Flight by Party Of Maidens.
ICharIOllesyiIle JthsrsOnian,I

There lives not a thousand miles from
town a fascinating young bachelor. who
til's his ancestral acres with his own hands.
During the recent heated spell he was en-
gagged IN ploughing his corn, and the eX-
cessVe redhotedneSs OF the temperature
constrained him to shed more than the reg.
ular amount of clothing, in order that be
might extract as much comfort as possible
from the shy breezes that occasionally fit
yed about his undraped eXtremities. While
the amount Of his drapefy was limited al
most to that one snowy garment which the
lines OF Hood have immOrtalzed, some evil
spirit moved bevy Of fair maidens TO call
upon The industrious bachelor. Finding his
mansion locked they proceeded TO the field.
At The turn Of 4 row the unfortunate
ploughmau caught a glimpse OF the fair in
VadeTs. His pantalOOns were at the other
end, and terror seized him. What should
he do? Should he meet the maidens at so
great a disadvantage, or should he escape
to the friendly shade Of the neighbOring
thiCket? Discretion finally gained the mas
terry, and his two stout and unenCumbered
legs bore him homeward with the velocity
Of the wind. AT a convenient distance bis
tormentors followed, aud as they reached a
crest overlooking the bachelors hall they
saw a figure half draped in robe OF flowing
white disappear through the window OF
his rustic lodge. They had come; they
had seen; they had conquered.
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latia snd Rodeuss. A detachment Of French
troops are making a reconnaissance, and the
dispatch says; "The Arabs can be seen
within four miles OF TuDis. There Il great
alarm many Of the shops arc closed.n
TONS, July ZS.--The Arabs have left the
vicinity, and the psnic has subsidized, but
the greatest anxiety prevails concerning the
safety Of the troops IN The interior.
GOodweed overwhelmingly Pnssaie
seeona for the Racing stakes.
LONDON July 2S.-At the third days
racing at the GoOdwood meeting TO day the
race for rhe Goodwood cup, distance two
aud one-balf miles, was run and secured by
Mr.. e. PsTkins's six-ypaF old bay mare
Madame du Barry. Mr.. Cfaven's fye.year
old bay horse Nottingham came in second,
and Mr. +. ttretton's four-ycar old bay colt
Fernandez third. -Four ran, including Sir
j. ID. Astleyrs hve.year old chestnut horse
Peter, who was the favorite IN the betting
at IL to on him. but who was not placed.
The race for the Racing stakes for three.
year-old colIs and tiIlies, distance one mile,
also came OF, and was won by Mr.. JardIDe's
chestnut colt PTiyateer, with p. Lorilard's
bay colt Pass1ic second, and Mr.. Chsplin's
chestnut lilly Wandering NuB third. Five
ran.
The race for the Singleton stakes, distance
one mile, was won by Mr. Lsirever's three
year-old chestnut colt Tristan; LoriIIaru's
bay colt Barrett second, and Colonel Il. b.
Ingrams brown FLY Rose third.
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July 26.-B eevss- Receipts to- Day. 81 carloads,
OF $50 head-24 carloads for two city.irade
hrms and 81 carloads fer erpori stion
and about 40 car loads were safe from ne vsrv
late receipts OF yeserdty THESE were selling slowly
at fraction reduction from rates OF yezfer-
day. intending 40 carloads ~ medium aud fair
Texas steers st TX Sc ID to dress IS fbs u the
100 rs Of live weight. sBd 20 csr-ossis OF medium
10 choice native steers from Chicseo ADD ST. Icuis al
l. ksa1lAc., to dress So TO 81 ~. DFesss beef
ruled dull I'm Washit gton Market NJ SAFE. "A n.
from Texas sides, and al 7fdsfc. for poor to good
native SIDES.
The steamer BROOKLYN City took out tate yester.
day 100 live cattle the saxon Monarch sailed to-
day with 20 live cati'e; the Wisconsin with 800
quarters OF eef ard 800 carcHsses of mulon. aad
the Ahambra with As live fheep.
Sheep and Ldhabs.-Rsceip's. carloads, or
i 3 head. No demand. nothing doing up 70 a late
hour, aud the market closes dul and depressed. with
about ID carloads OF Unsoid stock Ia the pens. A
carload or Kentucky lambs changed hands late
YESTERDAY A. 4Nc. y n. Nominal quotsi ons to day:
4fd7c q n. Tor lambs aud Sac. q 10 for sheep.
Dressed mutton duli AZ 7kd9lfc. p n prtssed
smbs weak aud selling at the widc rage Of 6@l3c.
D n
Stoine Receipts, 20 carloads. OF 3.170 hogs.
None for sale alive. Tone Of the market nrmer.-
JOug nat Of Commerce.
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DR.. EDISON.
Guiteau Not In Solitary Confinement
What ne Reads.

Warden Croker. in an interview, said:
"TbeIe is no such thing AS solitary con-
fnement in this Jail. There is separate
confinement. He can hear other prisoners
talk and can talk with them, though he Is
separated from them. The guards talk with
him on subjects connected with his prison
life, but not about the President. Nobody
here wants to talk with him about biz
crime"
docs he know how the President is y
Z" | do not think he has any knowledge OF
The Presidents condition"
Then there is nothing to say about him
at alf"
"No. He eats and walks, and lounges
and reads. He reads a good deal"
"DOes he get the newspapers Z "
." He has 20 newspapers. He reads mostly
The Bible and serious works.
"There's nothing peculiar about bin "
mo. ! take no stock in his insanity.
There has been nothing in bis action here 10
indicate 1t any more than in the conduct Of
other criminals. Their thoughts all run in
q peculiar way-they are eccentric or er-
rate. lie is an extremist. do not think
he Is man Of strong moral conviction"
Does be attend TO his deYOtiOns?"
They say he is a Christian man. | have
not heard Of bis singing or praying"
According TO the letter addressed to
you by Colonel COrkhill," said the re-
porter, " be wanted you 10 contne Guitean
IN part of the jail where there were no
other prisoners TO commit him TO solitary
confinement"
81 think Colonel COrkhiPs request and
course baye been very proper. To comply
WIN TIE request made in his letter required
no change at all. He bad been kept Just as
Colonel CoI6hill requested ever since he
mas been here. AS / understand it, Colo
mel Corkhi!l only wanted to prevent his
escape, aud 10 prevent bin from cOmmuni-
eating With outsiders"
does he get any letters 2"
lie does not receive any. He gave an
oider, You know, 10 Colonel COrkhilI 10 get
DIS mail. II any came for him / don't
Know. They d. not come here"
WHAT GUITEAU READS.
should like to know what books he
reads" said the reporter.
lie has had those three this week." said
lne warden, pOintiOg to three books from
'he jail library which an attendant had Just
jumped on table. Il" He has now only
Inc Constitution and The Bible"
The reporter, before leaving, turned over
the leaves OF the books. The titles were
From the CLOUDS TO the Mountains" by
JULES Verne; GLOW She Came into Her
hlngdom, a Romance" and "Nine Years
Among the Conyicts; or, Prison Reminis-
cehees," by Eleazer Smith.
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SHAD.HATCHING EXPERIMENTS Hartford
Conn, July 25.-The experiments Just con-
cluded by the Connecticut Fish Commits
sioners in artificial Matching Of shad in salt
or brackish waters have been unsuccessful,
and also similar experiments with water
taken from the Connecticut river within
twenty miles Of Long Island sound. The
conclusion reached is that sbad will hatch
only at natural brceding'grounds far up
streams. The contrary belief has been dls,
puted by scientists, and as earnestly athrmed
by experienced fishermen OF the lower Con-
neclicut, who have asserted that they have
seen Young fish that must have been hatched
in small bIackish streams on the southern
coast OF this State.
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satisfaction at The result, and the prospects
Of the road are considered brilliant.
Probable Murder OF Participant I'm
the Mountain u ead0W Massacre.

CHICAGO. July 2S.--A special to the
Times from San Francisco says: News has
been received here that Bishop Phillip
Kinven Smith, ut one time Of high standing
and Influence 10 the Mormon church, and
the exposer OF the MouhtSin.mcadow mas
sacre, and a participant therein. ~ dead.
His BODY was found IN prospect bole In
Sonora, Mexico, under circumstances indi-
eating his murder. Bishop Smith has died
as he expected, after eonyictlng John ID.
Lee OF the Neutrality-suspicious. massacre.
lie said 81 know the church will kill me
sooner or later. II Is only question Of
time" After returning from the trial, by
ORDER OF the church his wife left him, aud
be started south and lived in Arizona. In
that Territory two attempts were made to
kill him.
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GENERAL MARKETS.
CHICAGO LUMBER MARKET.

July 26.-At the yards trade WIS fairly active.
The current prices Tor dry lumper, Shingles, etc.,
inch. $50; drs, and second clear, two~inch,
SAC FIRST and second clear, u and 1x-inch. *44;
third clear ~ IA o and 2- ssa 49, :,.c
ect, together, s29; 2x6 snd 2xs clear aud select,
finishing. *3s; sel,ct. inch aud upward
sS3: =. and s-inch select. l-inch finishing.
S2s: select. l-nch Gushing, S24 A stock
boards, l2-nc6, II, ia, and iG feet, ESQ; %,
.iocS boards, l2.l9ch' ~, H. and IS feet,
feet. ssoi d stock boards, Is-neh. ~; IA, and 10
s22; d stock board, i2;lnch, is net: s2l;
ss7:i OIiHe Io.acS SA stock - ana 70 feet ,
S32; c l0.inch stock. IL feet and upward, s26;
box SSrd and IL ,es ed SewaTs s
upward. $50: - box, Is inches and upward,
$40; first common, 6-ineh flooring, y. aud NJ.
i34 third common, 6-inch Gooring, s26
fencing 6ooring. G-inch. sl7 lOfoot ien-
cling flooring, $40 80; clear aud hrsi common,
G aooring. 4-Inch. t25: Norway clear and nrst
common. A or 6-inch, s3l; Norway second COM
boards (seieciedl d. NJ sl7 first and second clear.
IL. IA. anc 10 feet siding. SIT first common
Srs common mn SU siding sncing dns $780,
common boards, IL. ideh, 10 and 20 feet : %;
common boards, l2.inch. ~ 20 Is feet, $3.50;
common boards, III ana ~ ietI, so cODuloH
DO Iris H. "a, 10. aud Is feet. $3.50; No:
boards. q IA. 16, and : feet, $3.50: = ana
] " inch common boards, 400; hrst quality and
Norway fencing, SIS; No. fencing. IL 10
feet. {I3: joists and scantling, IL. Ia aud 10
feet. ga 30 timber : 4 It 2x4 20 exe, inclusive.
SIG 2x4 AKA. aud small ilmOtr ~ aud 20 feet
long, tl7: 20 feet long dimension, SIG %; ~
and "a fee long dimension. $40 80; 20. 20, and
30 feet lone dimension; t22 30; Linen Gull plank
promiscuOus width $3.50; 2xi-inch cnlls. al
lengths. Si2: fiat Dicktts. common, ~ pickles,
fat rough aud good 3 10: lS.inch square plcSets D.
H. selected $40: 2-uch ba tens, q. g.. or Deyee-f,
"A 100 llneal feet. zoe clear shingies, f3.Oo ex-
ira shingles, 1880; standard Shingles, s3.2Oi
iaih, g., 35.-Times.
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Sale Of the South Carolina Railroad.

CHARLESTON, 5. c., July 2S.--The south
Carolina railroad, which at the time of It's
completion to Hamburg in 1888 was the
longest continuous railroad in the world,
was sold to-day at public auction under
decree Of the United States Circuit Court.
There were only two bldders-nameiy ::
The purchasing committee, who represents
nearly the whole OF the bonded debt below
the first mortgage and seven eighths oil the
stock, and the Charleston syndicate, VINO
loaned money to the company as security
for its bonds. The only object OF the syn.
dictate was to bid enough TO insure fund
sufficient TO cover their claim. rms
done they ceased bidding, and the
property was knocked down TO w. H..
Brownley, for the purchasing committee,
for Sl,275, 900 over and above the first mort
gage debt, which isabout SO 100000. There
Is no opposition nor objection TO the sale,
which will he confirmed by the court In
September or October. In the mean time
there will I've no changes In the management
aud the work Of extending the tracks to thu
waterAde, the construction OF watersi dc
walls, and the relaying OF the road with stee
rails, will 20 on rapidly. There Is genera