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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17

been specially provided to fashion and cut
out the existing instrument Every watch
consists of 90 pieces. employing
over zoo persons, distributed among
forty trades, 10 say nothing OF the
tool-makers for the Artisans. III the con-
structIon of the watch were materially
altered all the trades would havo TO be re-
learned, new tools and wheel emitting engines
would have to be devised, and the majority
OF working watchmakers become useless.
The consequence " ould be that the watek
would become enormously enhanced IN,
value and its possession q token of wealth.
You see, in your complicated state of society
even machines in the process of time come
TO surround themselves with q circle OF
vested interests which embarrass attempt
st improvement"
You are interesting me-" remarked the
stout customer. as he placed his watch in his
pocket "You have been many years. sup
pose, in the business. OF course, there must
have been some improvement in your
timer"
''Of course. Watches in the past ten years.
have grown much in thickness Old-fssh-
Toned watches ars thin and fiat I have
had q watch in my charge as fiat IS trade
dollar. 1t is imp )ssible to properly adjust
the works for heat, cold and position under
such circumstances. l should have to give
you long explanation of the packing of
We'll has the increased thickness raised
the value?"
No. On the contrary watches are now
worth % per cent. less than they were
twelve years ago. That fact, you Will say,
bears against my previous remarks. / am
referring to the cheaper grade of watches
worn by the majority OF people. There are
watches which bring 81 500 and watches
which can be purchased for SIS a dozen. II
you are willing to pay for costly work
almost anything can be accomplished.
Il made a watch for q physician which
| fitted into signet ring not much larger
than pea. 1t had only second hands. 1t
was perfectly accurate, and was used by the
| doctor to time the pulse of his patients. It
cost 500. Watches are made from the size
of a ten cent piece to half dollar, and
worn as trinkets by ladies. They are also
/ fixed in bracelets, brooches, tops and
pencils, eye glasses. and even umbrella
handles; but they are very luxurious toys"
The stout man paid his bill and went
home.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
Improving Wheat.

Professor Blount in Agricultural Review.l
Before he can be successful in making the
best better by crossing, the experimenter
must be thoroughly acquainted with his
wheats IL every respect. Should he wish
an offspring with harder grain than either
of its parents, with stronger straw, etc,
he must cross varieties that possess
elements that will make them
so in proper proportions. For instance,
should he cross a hard. hinty, bearded
wheat. that makes very Door -four but has
fine straw and grain well clothed, upon
smooth. weak strawed wheat with fine
grain, the offspring, the first year after
crossing will be of all cOlors, shapes and
qualities diversity of forms. The
ne ads will be of various lengths-some
bearded and fOme smooth, some poorer
in every respect than either parent,
and some far superior, to all out
ward appearances. After the crossing
and after the first crop is ripe in the field,
selection begins In the first place the
best heads are picked that are found on the
best straw ana possess the best chaff; next
after sheIling head by head, the best kernel:
are taken, inst as the s'ockman selects hi:
best pig, pup, or chicken TO breed fre m
Now, il may be, and often is the case, tina
none OF these offspring are worthy or a.
good as either parent; if so, try again anC
again until success attends your efforts.
the proper rules are observed success Is SURE
| to follow, at least in half the trials made bN
an experienced hand.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17

A Boston man calls his wife Crystal, be-
cause she is always or the watch.
The reason the girls lace so tight IN these
days Is because the young man comes short
of duty.
Some men are born slight. some achieve
slightness but most men have sights put
upon them.
Nantucket has girl pilot only seventeen
wears old Knows all the buoys in the
sound, you can bet.
Women's heads are like ssfes-ypu can't
tell how much they have in them by the
number of locks they have on
At least three men on the average Jury
feel bound to disagree with the rest to show
that they've got minds of their own.
Drowning men catch at straws, and catch
ing at straws is the very reason why great
many can't keep their heads above water
Wheeling Journsl.
A Canadian girl has sued a clergyman for
damages for kissing her five times. This
rather ipsipid amount of OSCILLATION extend
ed over a period of three years.
The Chicago School Board has refused TO
indorse a motion that the marriage of any
female teacher shall be deemed equivalent
to tender and acceptance of her resigna
tioD."
Miss Henrietta Newcome-In answer to
your question about ''unkissed Kisses" we
may say we are prepared to uDkiss any
kisses we may have kissed outside OF the
family for the last five years.
1t is quite the proper idea for young lady
| to paint q bunch of pansies on fresh-laid
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
Watches and Personal Magnetism.


"Sir, You should wear an open faced watch
il you desire to De accurate In your time, "
said matchmaker on Chestnut street TO the
stout man; you are too magnetic"
"Why, what the deuce has the case got TO
do with it?' was the interrogative reply.
Everything. Your watch has a hunting
case, necessitating steel springs for opening
and shutting. By constant association with
your body those springs become magnetized,
and they generate their condition to other
necessarily steel portions of the watchworks,
and thus render their movements imper-
feet.
Then, If / were not fat my watch would
not lose two minutes, more or less a day,
said the puzzled stout man.
Exactly" returned the matchmaker. al
have worn your watch for over week and
it has neither gained nor lost a dozen
seconds; but then i am, from a corporal
point of view, your antithesis- am excep-
tionally thin and slender"
The stout man mused- "Accordinglv, ~
said he, 'open-faced tickers for fat men,
closed cases for thin, eh?''
mot at ALL" replied the other. Thin
men have at times more magnetism in their
systems than fat men. Everybody is more
or less magnetic; you happen to be particu-
larly so; happen to be quite the reverse;
hence my remarks and advice. For the
rest open laced watches are always more &C
curate than hunters. They are more air
tight for one thing. As for the steel springs
| i'm hunting cases, mechanical science has not
get discovered anything else TO replace
them; the public like double cases, and
there the matter remains for the present
There are. however, many illcontrived por
tions in watches, ana while the demand con.
tinues for watches of certain price 1t i:
impossible, from a commercial point o.
view, To think of improvements. Ions
used methods and ingenious engines have
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17

OILY, aud of greasy texture sad flavor. No
subsequent treatment can emedy this error.
1t may be spoiled before the cream reaches
the chuIn by keeping IL tho long or what is
practically the same by keeping 1t In TOO
warm a place; fifty degrees il about the
right temperature il the cream is kept a
week; if il is kept at sixty two degrees three
days Is lOrg enough. White specks are pro
duced in butter by over-churning or by having
the cream too sour. Either If these fanhs pro-
duce curd in the milk. and the small hakes
of this can not be washed ont of the butter.
Milk from a Gov in i'll health, and that is
acid when it Is drawn, will produce specky
butter. So will the use of salt containing
specks OF lime, which unite with the butter
and form insOluble lime soap. White specks
are covered up TO a large extent by using
good coloring, which is made of oil as the
solvent. But this use OF coloring, being
used to disguise a fault and to add an unde-
served virtue, is worthy of deDunciation.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
Furnishing Fowls.
Arkansas Travelerl

A colored lady approached a white wo-
man the other day and applied for a sitsa-
ton cook.
You have had experience as a cook, L
suppose"
"Yessum."
why did you leave your former placer
"De biler busted"
"What boilerP'
'At the sawmill. 1 was cookin' fur de
hans"
"What were your duties mainlyf'
"Roast taters an furnish chickens"
Chickens are cheap in the country, aren't
theyp'
"Dese was"
Where did you get them?'
Oats what de owner 90 de mill wanted
TO know, but de secret is what l bases my
iciency on. Eff you wants me I'll roast
taters an furnish de chickens fur a oollah a
week"
"You steal the chickens, don't your"
"Well, lady, some folkSmight cali il dat
but dad soon git used ter it an call it 'tnT
nishin' fowls Doan' want me, yer SAT
Good day, lady. I'll go ober here an stsik
de preachers family"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
Butter.
BY MR. ROSTER JOHNSON.

BY Mr. ROSTER JOHNSON.
when bread goes down and wit goes round
And every palate's I'm = hutter.
The gastric muse Is surely O0und
To sing the praise Of golden butter.
Not only in the winter morn,
When buck heat pancakes smoke and splutte
Nor on aulumnaiears Of corn,
That battle themselves in golden Dutter-
But. slipping on through bistory's page.
Where other uncti"ns clog and clutter.
And dripping down from sge TO sge,
Behold the strains of GOLDEN outterl
When Jason left the shores OF Greece,
Commander of the Argo enter
He went To fad the famous fleece
That Phrixus took IRON golden butter.
And at our great Centennial rout
A.WesIeTn woman defty cut her
Clear way to fame b. carving out
A lovely girl in G Ilden butter.
Let cleo and other shams
Slide back into their native gutter.
While dairymaids, as high tide clans
Are happy in heir golden butter.
With biscuit light and teapot bright.
The storms without may roar and mutIer'
But we sit calm AT c8ndlelight,
And revel in the golden butter
In peaceful days or days OF strife,
When bane or bliss II too, too, utter,
Well grease the iaTri g wheels OF life
With pretty pats OF golden butter.
In dsys of rain or days OF drouth.
With flowing style or futile stutter,
While meits il not within our mouth.
Wen sing the praise of golden butter
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
The Poor Curate,s Family.

"Reminiscences, ETC.. Baroness Blosmfeld.l
az dined at Montsgu House last night,
and had the pleasure of meeting the Bishop
of Oxford, samuel Wilberforce.) | was told
a funny story about him the other day, viz
that when he was dining with large party,
a poor curate who was deploring the large
family ne bad to educate with a very small
income, said: DO you know, my lord,
have nineteen children Upon which q
very red-faced woman with a sgueaky voice
exclaimed, Only fourteen by me, Mr..
Ionpspp
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
The DefauIting treasurer. Polk.

LITTLE Rock, Jan. 12-This afternot
the deiaulung Treasurer, M. T. Polk, a.
rived on the Iron Mountain Rail way from
Texas in charge of Detectives Pryde, of Mem
phis, Porter and Field of Nashville. and
United States Marshal Costing and Deputy
Morrill,, of Texas. and party left on the
Memphis train, and will reach Nashville to-
morrow morning He threatens revelations
that will involve some prominent men in
Tennessee. During the trip Polk drank
heavily, but was apparently in the best of
spirits.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
OUR FARM BUDGET.
A Poem About Butter-A Few Hints
About Horses.
Ex-Governor Bowie's Farm-How
Butter May be Spoiled-Im-
proving Wheat.

Come Southern Notwithstanding for
Farmers TO COgi ate Upon-Farm
and Workshop Notes.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17

A man should never be ashamed to own
he has been in the wrong that he is wiser
to -dav than be was yesterday Pope.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17

Tailors warn ladies that the Jersey ulstsrs
are intended merely for walking, and they
must not sit down while wearing them.
Young men in tight trowsers can avoid 8
great deal of discomfort by always going
with ladies who wear Jersey ulsters.-Phila-
delphia News.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17

ON week. sl2 a day at home easily made
OH Costly outh' free Address True d Co.
Augusta, Maine
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
TABLE GOSSIP.

Mr. Wright went out 10 fish.
And he became a Wright angler.
He thought he would try ana catch a shark,
And became try angler
He laughed TO think how smart he was.
And he became cute angler.
But he did not sea the shark with its nose unde
the stern of his craft.
He was such Obtuse angler.
Until this creature tippled over his boat.
When he became wrecked angler.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
How Butter May be spoiled.
fAmerican Dairyman

Good butter may be spoiled in churning
OteT-churDing ruins the texture end changes
the proper waxiness to dissgreable, sickly
greaslness. This is the more easily done in
a churn with dsshes, which will press the
butter against the side OF the chufn and
squeezs and rub IL until IL is spoiled. The
long churning spoils the Quality by the
oxidation of the butter and the premature
formation Of stropg-havored acids in
il, the full presence # which we call
rancidity. Il may be spoiled at too high a
temperature, by which II is m de soft and
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-31
BELLAIRE OBSERVANCE.
AGood Turnout. But Interfered with
by Weather.

-
by Weather.
Decoration Day was not grand success
in Bellaire on account of the weather. The
early dawn showed the stars and stripes
fiutteriug in the breeze from the top OF
City Hall for the first time. Our gallant
boys on the police force provided the colors
and ran them up sometime in the early
morning. During the day most OF the
prominent business houses were hand.
somely trimmed with fl IS and bunting,
MANY factories were closed down and the
streets were full Of sight seers. The
Spangler Post, g. A. Il. had their Drum
Corps out, and about half past
eight the procession began to form on Bel
mont street, in front of the City Hall. The
children of the public schools, marshaled
by Capt. Jones and Profs. Marchant, Miller,
Hamilton and Anderson, made the most
creditable display OF the day. A large
number Of them turned out and were as
signed position at the head of the process
sion. The turn out from the u. A: K. was
not very large, but credltabe. The lire
companies were not out in full force. The
Fist ward reel, firemen in that ward and
the Fourth ward reel were the only
companies that turned out. The floral dec
orations were exceedingly fine and very
profuse. The procession moved at nine
o'clock, and the rain began to fall at the
same time. They marched down Belmont
street to Crescent, thence to Union, up
Union to Thirty-second, thence to Bel
mont, up Belmont to Central avenue, where
they halted, broke ranks, and started to
hunt shelter. The rain poured down all
the time during the march and ceased soon
after the procession disbanded.
A committee went up to the cemetery
unreturning braves aud the participants
dispersed to their homes, much disappoint.
ed that the weather compelled breaking
up OF the fine time they anticipated. A
number of the members OF the G. A. r.
went to Wheeling in the afternoon to par
ticipate in the exercises at that city.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-31
IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE.
Business Generally Suspended and the
City Dressed In Bunting.

City Dressed In Bunting.
By the time the average citizen found
himself upon the streets, he became aware
OF 3 metamorphosis since the preceding
night. Wherever his eye might turn it
rested upon the National cOIors, red white
Bnd blue, disposed in flags, bunting and
streamers, upon nearly every house,
whether residence, store room or ware
house. Huge banners were swung high
above the streets, sweeping streamers
swung from sill 10 sill and hags OF all sizes
Haunted their bright Colors from window
frame and cornice. Such mum erous and
general decorating had not been in Wheel.
ing since tbs great centennial Fourth OF
July.
Most business houses closed all or por-
tons of the day. Banks, offices and pub.
lie buildings were deserted, and all OF our
manufactures, mills and workshops were
closed TO allow their employees to observe
the National holiday.
Early in the morning the streets began
to I'LL with people. Country cousins came
into town TO see the ceremony; workmen
discarded the insignia Of their trades and
came upon the streets; clerks, business
men, mercantile and professionals joined
the throngs which poured up and down
or fingered in masses on the corners OF the
principal streets. Ii was an immense con-
course of people, and exceeded in volume
any that has gathered here during the past
half decade. As the day wore on, toward
noon the throng became still denser in
central portions and public places, and the
wonder was where so many people came
from. In all OF this Jam the order was
perfect
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-31
DECORATING GRAVES.
The Resting Place of Blue and Grey
Dressed with Flowers

Early in the day, the special morning
work Segan-the decorating Of the graves.
The members Of the Holiday Post had
been apPortiOned among the various Gem.
eteries and each man knew Just where his
duty lay. There were numbers OF volun-
teeFs, and many ladies lent the.r services
in this work. Flowers had been provided
in abundance, and some had been made
up into appropriate devices and designs,
before being paced on the graves. The
LITTER were marked with small flags, and
the work was expeditiously accomplished.
About $50 graves in the several cemeteries
were decorated. At the conclusion, a short
and special prayer was read and the party
retired. In many instances the friends of
the buried soldiers added their own offer
ings and the combined work gave the
cemeteries a beautiful yet touching APP
pearanCe.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-31
AT MARTINS FERRY,
How the Day was CeIebrated-PIaciag
Flowers.

This is the little city where the first Post
of the G. A. r. in this county was organic
ed. Yesterday the members remembered
in most becoming manner their fallen
comrades who with them had stood the
smoke of battle but who unlike them,
were called to make a part OF the awful
sacrihe demanded by the disruption Of
States. Early in the morning our
city began to show signs of some
thing unusual about 10 transpire.
The stars and stripes began to
flutter in the breeze from dwellings and
stores, and the members of the G. \. Z.
began assembling at their hall, which was
and flowers. The members formed in line
OF march with the soul.stirring fife and
drums at their head, with its music draw
ing the memory back to the old
war times. Their forms and faces,
long since mouldered into dust,
arose with startling distinctness before
the mind of the old soldier, and he silent.
ly brushed away the tear that would come,
unbidden on his bronzed cheek. The pro.
cession marched through the principal
streets of the city'and up to Walnut Grove.
1t began rainining just as they reached the
grove, but the impressive ceremonies OF
decorating the graves of the fallen heroes
was gone through with; after which they
marched to G. A. r, Hall and were ad-
dressed in a very able manner by Judge
John S. Cochran. The Judge fairly outdid
himself on this occasion, and those present
pronounce it the ablest speech of his life.
After dinner the Post and large lumber
OF their friends embarked on the steamer
Little Anna to assist in the exercises at
Wheeling.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-31
wELLSBURG CEREMONY.
Decorating-The Registers Full Re.
pOrt-OratiOn Of Rev. WalkinshaW.

Pierpont Lodge No. 9, G. A. r., observed
Decoration Day in a manner that COM
manded admiration. Notwithstanding the
hanging threatening rain, our city began
donning her national colors and by clock
the houses were beautifully decorated with
the alag OF the free" The flag Of the G.
A. R. was displayed at their headquarters
at half mast, heavily draped in mourning.
All forenoon rare and choice flowers were
sent to the hall. Precisely at O'Clock the
different orders were in line and ready for
the march. The knights Of Labor formed
first, fully one hundred in line, under
Geo. Wassor and Frank Roberts. The
Knights presented fine body of men and
deserved the many compliments heard
along the line OF march. The /. D. o. F..
in full regalia, formed next, under COM
mand of A. w. Reeves, Grand Master,
assisted by Past Grand Joseph Mont
gomery. The !. o. o. +. OF New
Alexandra, Jefferson county, kindly as
sisted, thanks to their patriotic hearts.
Wellsburg will remember them in the fu-
ture. The High School scholars from six
ucpdItiueuLo, uuuer COnmhuO Oh EEOI.
Mitchell, assisted by bis able corps OF
teachers, formed next. Then came the
tread of our nations defenders, preceded
by the drum corps, General /. II. Duval
in command. assisted by Captain Geo.
White and Lieut.. c. II. Marks
Programme at the cemetery:
Reading Funeral Address-0eneral I. II.
Duyall.
Solo-H. Caldwell: chorus by choir.
National salute by firing Of guns.
Roll call and responses.
After which Rev. Walkinshaw was in
troduced an d delivered the following
BEAUTIFUL oRAIfoS.
II was the deliverance of the removed
Pericles, when pronounoing his eulogy
over the heroic dead, in the first Pelopo-
Messiah war: That the whole world was
the sepulchre of illustrious men" IL such
sentiment, grand and ennobling, be true,
what shall be said on such Q momentous
occasion Is this? Whose pen charged, as
with the electric fash or in inky fountains
dipped, can faithfully write up our record
Whose voice. in words City telling. speak
the praises NJ those who having fought
their lsst battle are now s!eening their last
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-31

The following graves OF Confederate
soldiers were decorated:
Old Catholic Cemetery: John Roaae,
John Brady, Michael Quinlan.
Greenwood Cemetery: CO.. Jacob Shriyer,
Lieut.. Col. Daniel Shriver. Capt Samuel
Shriver. Capt Eddie 6. Zane, John Philips,
Bud Busbey, Col. Pendleton.
Mt. Wood Cemetery: VIM. Simpson.
Sixteenth Street Cemetery: Richard A.
Ex.Confederases started from Msjor Al
derson's Office in command of the gallant
Major and Bob Love.
Some heavy villain threw rotten lemon
in the rank of the singing societies while
they were singing "Chapel." Lunch him.
Prof. Louis Sass conducted the singing
By the three German Singing Societies. :.
Psrasols and umbrellas in the hands OF
thoughtless persons greatly interfered with
the sight seeing of those behind.
Hempfield trains made great noise aud
racket during the ceremony with their
putting and bells.
The whole affair looks best in print
after all.
The surrounding towns made very
good showing.
The way Gale Sylvis carried his cane at
trscted general admiration.
Squire Felber's stogie was conspicuous
feature of the armed squad.
Officer Dunlap sported gigantic bou-
quet. ,
keeping with his elegant costume.
A Gordon of guards should have been
placed to keep space clear and avoided the
crush when the procession came.
Something less than a thousand persons
occupied the available windows of the
Capitol and blocked up the corridors;
The Mexican veterans were: Rudolph
Myers, Company B, Fifth Ohio, aged so;
Abdallah Nelson, recruit for L. S. In
fantry, aged Sc; Richard Higgins, Co. X,
Eleventh L. S. Infantry, aged IS; Conrad
Myels, Co. c, Fifteenth u. s. Infantry,
aged IS; Geo. w. Anderson, Co. D, Third
Ohio, aged &c; VIM. NJ. Wilkins, Go. d,
Third Ohio, aged 60; Andrew Grubb, Co.
D, Third Ohio, aged 60; John II: Brown,
ST., First Regiment Louisville Artillery,
aged 81, and Michael Roth, Co. F, |. S.
Rifle Regiment. aged 60.