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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

Ma. JARRErr'S contemplated retirement
from the head Of the Amalgamated Asso'
ciA,ion is not entirely unexpected. The
Association will miss his cool, clear head,
but it might easily do worse than to take
the Vice President Of the First District.
Mr. Thompson has shown qualifications
ior tho place.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

THR Superintendent Of the Brooklyn
bridge sayE "lf had known that a pauic
was to occur, and just where, l should
have had platoon Of policemen on hand"
II people who build tinder.b hotels
knew Just when and where the fire is going
10 break out they would have fireman on
hand ready to turn on the stream. The
Superintendent Of the Brooklyn bridge
desires to be written down an ass.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

Tur President is going to spend the
,,s.,sr usrt Of the summer at the Soldiers
Home in the hope OF getting away from
,be Dolitcians. But the politicians won't
M. the hint A man who can take a
hint isn,ta politician.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

TnK Washington correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer weeps over the nemi-
nation Of Judge Foraker, because he hasn't
. patiOnal reputation and isn't running
we'll in Washington. But II he runs well
in Ohio that will serve the present purpose.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

GOVERNOR BUTLER takes the lofty ground
,h,. the refusal Of Harvard to LII. D. him
will play hob with that ancient and hith'
ono honorable institution OF learning. The
Governor is TOO hot. He iorgets that he Is
plsying the Chsrlatan. /
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

Thomas Paris shot his step father, Isaac
Adams, dead on Fairfield plantation, Ga +,
yesterday. Adams threatened to kill Paris
and followed the latter 10 the house and
Knocked the door down, when the boy
shot him.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

-i.apily that the Kentucky Repu5li'
..'.b,re pot to fighting. The Republican
r o,,,y in Kentucky is not strong enough to
i,,ri the waste Of internal strife. The
s,ms spplies to West Virginia.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

ry Mr., Tildeu isn't for the 'old ticket
,b., se!tles it, and, by the way, it is no
~onder that he prefers another maa than
Hendricks for second place. Hendricks,
= NAV have been observed, has given him
,sltavay
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

H., I%aynsoLL is exhibiting certain
...nIi.r symptoms which come along with
Ps.u.a Tss,brr. Ifthey don't muzzle him
hs NAV make trouble
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June The three
hundred wire drawers OF divers mills,
who struck sgainst a ten per cent reduc.
ton, compromised this afternoon by ac,
cepting FIVE per cent reduction, and work
will be resumed tomorrow. .--.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

LEXINGTON, KY, June 7.-The question
agitating Republican circles Is the charge
Of Col. VIM. @. GoodIoe against Mr.. A. M.
swope, collector OF internal revenue OF the
Seventh district Of Kentucky, that Swope
WAS dismissing officers in Els district be.
cause they were friends Of his. Swope in
reply to this says that he dismissed only
". J. Wetmore, his deputy collector, for
good and sufficient reasons. and in his
stead appointed Mr.. MCRoberts, Of
Stanford, Ky. Col. Goodloe and Mr..
Wetmore went before the Republican
State Central Committee, and made three
charges, and the result was the committee
condemned the action Of Colonel Swope,
and will demand an explanation, and has
written to Walter Evans, U. S. Commis.
s!oner, about the matter. The tAct Of the
matter IL that Goodloe and his friends,
aside from being enemies OF STope, feel
bitter against him for their recent defeat in
the late convention, for that he was the
cause OF it there can be no doubt. In re-
gard to s,orckeepers and Gaugers not being
assigned, every one knows thati this dull
season there Is not work for all, aud some
must necessarily be kept back. The com.
miltee meet here on the 18th Of the present
month
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

y,x YoRx mother wants S2O'ooo from
:, ysDner ., for drawing an of hand car
,,,r m her cnild's t1ce.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

ANN Democrats seem to think they must
,..s Hamilton county man to face For
10, .tsr Ho.dly is Of Hamilton, and the
A.s ,a;,,,ion is looking towards him.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

d. s.,,roR BECK says the Democratic party
:, ,a1.y has no leader 1t looks 80 and
o..S,ns %% ,ba, is why it never gets anywhere
. ,;,ua
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

.sr that our steubenville friend,
I'M :. the handsomest man on the
I5,e., Se.D' And it isn't bad'looking ticket
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

- increased demand for whisky Is .,",, re,
AN An 'D Yes, the political convention
l.,.on has opened
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

sr. LOUIS, June 7.-sixteen striking coal
miners who interiered with the working Of
new men at a mine near Pinckneyville,
ILL.,, were arrested yesterday on warrants
sworn out by the owners Of the mine, and
fourteen OF them lodged in Jail in default
OF bail.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

AtPittsburyh-Louisv!llo, 0; Allegheny,
~ At Trenton-Detroit, 0; Trenton, 8.
At East saeinaw-SPringfeld, s. East
Al New Chicago, s; New York, 10.
AtHew neutrality-suspicious., 8; Cincin.
natl, /.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

ii, 6e interesting to hear what tne .e.
!, u. "" r,.mocrats have to say about the 'aFln
",, .,J civil service reform.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08

wHES you feel out OF sorts, have the blues,
melancholy etc., II must b. indigestion that
alls you, Browns Iron bttters cures II.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08
Ghs gjstelIigsnfer:

5s,.,, sO.. % aud - f""r,een."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-06
Leopards and DOGS.

The leopard is a dangerous antago-
mist, but, as a rule, it does not aspire to
larger victims than sheep and goats,
the smaller varieties of deer and antel-
ope, calves, and, above all, dogs. Now
the poets, as Broome and Somerville,
seem to think the leopard looks upon
the dog as its natural master and con-
querer, whereas the fact is that the
leopard looks upon the dog as its nat
ural food. The leopard's taste for dog
is certainly one of the most extraordi-
nary phenomena ins snatural history.
We say that cats like fish and monkeys
are fond of nuts, but these are mere
passing whims, caprices of the moment,
compared to the constant passion of
leopards for dogs. 1t is very China
man for its delight in puppy, for it will
follow a man for miles like his shadow
if dog be at his heels, and it viii be a
very extraordinary dog indeed if it does
not at last give the leopard its chance.
The best OF dogs sometimes commit the
indiscretion OF lettering behind its mas
ter or running out of sight round
corner in front of him, and if he does
this with a leopard on his track, moth
ing more is ever seen of the dog, and
nothing more heard of him but his last
squeal as he is swiftly snatched up off
the path and carried, with sudden
rustic of the foliage, down the hillside.
At night, leopards will prowl round the
tent, shifting under the canvas for the
dog that they can smell within, or, in
the hill stations, will boldly come down
among the houses and carry off the pet
of the establishment, though servants
may be moving about. 1t is on record
that in the station of Gumsoor not
single dog escaped, and nearly every
resident of India who has ever camped
out in the jungle where leopards are,
or has lived in 1.-The hills has had
some tragic experience of this mania of
the leopard for dogs. In about the
same degree, but obviously for very
different reasons, the monkey takes the
most profound interest in the leopard,
and when one is afoot, the four-handed
folk follow him as closely as they dare,
shaking the branches in their absurd
rage, chattering furiously at their enc
my, and making faces at him. Some
times, however, the leopard stops alb
ruptly and glares at them, and the
wretched monkeys, gathering overhead,
get so excited in their demonstrations
that very often one Of their number is
pretty sure to lose its balance and tum-
BILE conveniently into the leopard's
mouth. A tradition was once widely
r11rrnnt that the panthnr svvaotly
scented-says Dryden: "The panther's
breath was ever famed for sweet and
that this fragrance was SO fascinating
to some small animals that it enticed
them to their death in the jaws of the
aromatic beast 1t is a fact, however,
that the panther itself is peculiarly sem
sitive to perfumes, and among other
instances is one of undeniable authen-
ticity of panther being tanned with
lavender rMater.-BeLqr0Cin
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-06
The Nails.

The nails are structures which are
very nearly like the epidermis and the
hair, composed of hard horny matter
arranged in the form of cells. They
are, indeed, only altered portions of
the external or epidermal layer of the
skin, and rest upon their nail beds in
much the same manner as the epider-
mis- or scarf skin lies on the true skin
or derma. We speak of the root and
the body of the nail-the root being
that portion toward the hand which is
situated beneath the skin, the body all
the rest of the nail. The matrix is the
bed upon which the nail rests and to
which it is firmly adherent. Nails grow
from the root Just as do the hairs, and
only slide over their matrix or bed, so
that an injury to the matrix, such as
slivers beneath the nail, or run arounds
or even a bad bruise need not cause a
disfigured nail other than of the por-
ton directly injured; whereas injury
or disease of its root will generally
cause distorted and disfgured nail.
| have seen a bruise at the root, and in
one instance the sting OF a bee over the
root of the nail, followed by an irregu-
larry formed nail which lasted for a
long time Thus, also, eczema attack
ING the hand may affect the ends of the
fingers, or even the sides of the ends,
and the nails remain perfect; but when
it is located onShe backs of the fingers,
and involves the roots of the nails, the
latter rarely if ever escape distortion
and mal-grovth.
The nails seldom fail to give indica-
ton of sickness which has been at all
severe, by an arrest of development
which has taken place in the root at
the period of sickness. Some studies
have been made in this direction which
may not prove uninteresting or with
out value in the present connection.
which we will quote from Mr. Wilson.
A French physician, DR.. Beau, has OBJ
served that the nail of the feet are four
times slower in their growth than those
of the hands, The latter increase in
strength one millimeter-that is two
tifths of line, or. one-thirtieth of an
inch-in one week, while the nails of
the toes requires four weeks for the
same amount of increase. According
to him, the length of the thumb nail,
including the root which is hidden from
siSns - elSHb Hnts-tidt IL; twenty
millimetres; consequently, the period
occupied in the growth of the nail
would be twenty weeks, or five months.
In like manner, the nail of the great
toe, measuring in length nine lines and
half, or twenty-four millimetres, and
requiring four times the period of the
thumb nail, would consume ninety
six weeks, or nearly two years in its
growth. -NQaufdctatrer and Builder.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-06
Black Birch.

Are there black birch trees agrowing in the
far-Of woods, | wonder.
With a wealth of bamy essence in their
branches 1.-the and strong.
In the springtime do the children reach with
eager hands to plunder,
While the quiet woodland arches ring with
laugh and shout and songf
can see an old gray school-house with a
ledge and wood beside it,
And the rumpled, messy pasture-land runs
close up TO its door;
While away back in the grcenness, with tuft
Of fern to hide il,
And a flash Ike purest crystal, spring bub-
bles ana runs Ger.
There's a battered tin-cup hanging on a
dropping bough close by it,
Where the sunlight comes in tiickers and the
shadows gather dim.
Oh. the rush of childish footsteps when at re-
cess time they spy it,
Oh, the fash of cooling water! Oh, the warm
lips at its bTim!
Then the pulling at the birches the de-
Hghtful swish and rustic,
And the cracking of the tender twigs, the
noisy bursts of glee;
When the sharp rap on the window calIs-on,
what Il merry tussle
In the hlling out of pockets so that no sharp
eye may see!
The dark room grows strongly cheerful as the
little smugglers gather,
And spicy, woodsy fragrance penetrates its
dingy hooks.
Ah how sly the rodents nibble, while they
make vain endeavOr
To appear absorbed in cleaning from the
wisdom of their books!
When the daily tasks are ended, and with
dinner-baskets swaying,
All the little folks bound homeward and the
house is left in gloom,
Then across the teachers weary face pleas
ant smile is straying
As she brushes out the litter with her clumsy
hemlock broom.
Exchange.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-06
Poolinr With a Bear.

Some weeks since butcher on Mich
igan avenue. says the Detroit Free
Press, bought bear about year old.
Just what he wanted with a bear
around butcher shop has not been ex-
planned, but he got him and chained
him up in the back yard, and showed
him off to the callers. Pretty soon the
boys got after bruin. They yelled at
him from the fence, called him names
through the stray knot-holes, and toss
ed him brick-bat whenever occasion
offered. There was one boy-a chap
about fifteen years old-who had an
aching void. He ached and itched and
hungered to fool with the bear. On
several occasions he climbed the fence,
On VAS discovered punching up the
animal with stick or trying to lasso
him with piece of an old clothes-line.
The butcher caught him and booted
him around and cuffed his head and
called him a double -barreled idiot, but
next day the boy returned to his NUT
ton.
Sunday afternoon the butcher and
| his family went out for a ride, leaving
the bear TO run the menagerie. The
lunkhead OF boy, who had been ach-
ING for such an opportunity was on hand
soon after the butcher disappeared.
The bear was fast to a ring and ten
foot chain, and just why the boy want
ed 10 get within nine feet of him was
another mystery. He got there, how
ever, and the bear got him. When his
screams and yells had drawn a dozen
men to the top of the fence there was
free circus going on. The bear was
having more fun than would load ca
nal boat The boys hat was torn into
| strings, his coat was in rags and he
was working for low wages and board
ing himself
The yells and howls sent forth by the
junior partner of the circus business
seemed to tickle bruin. He stood up
Tor back-hold wreStle and won the
| medal every time. Then he would roll
over and over on the grourd, CARRYING
the boy with him and throwing his
claws around in the most reckless man
ner. Whenever the victim made
break to get away he received a bite in
a new spot, and the bear wasn't a bit
tired or discouraged when a crowd of
fifty men and boys piled over the fence
and interrupted the proceedings They
managed to get the boy away, and with
him bundle of rags which once rep
resented a salt and pepper suit, one
shoe, pair of pants minus most every
thing but the buttons. and dime novel
treating on hunting and the wild west.
One curious individual wanted the boy
detained until his bites and scratches
could be counted and duly labeled, but
the rest hadn' t time. They put him in
hand-cart and drew him to his home
on Sullivan avenue, and when his moth
er appeared at the door the leader of
the procession removed his hat and
kindly observed:
MADAM, here are the remains of a
boy who fooled with bear. The bear, [
am happy to observe, hasn't felt so
well before for three months!'
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-06
Securing Engagement Rings.

Engagement rings are the natural
sequences of the summer campaign of
the bellies of the watering-places, and
many young man is at his wits end
to raise the necessary cash wherewith
to secure the preliminary token of fu-
ture domestic bliss. Ice cream, drives,
boating and pleasure exclusions gener-
ally have depleted the pockets of the
devoted beaus, and in many instances
when the question, the mOmentouS
question, was asked, it was with fear
and trembling that the expected an
swer was received. On leaving, the
happy girl generally says: ''When you
get me my ring, get nice one, Char
ley, for | want to be proud of it, and
all the girls will criticise it, you know.
Get nice solitaire with a skeleton set
ting, so the diamond will show nicely.
l think pure white stone is the best.
That hateful Laura has a colored one,
and | believe it is full of flaws. She is
always showing it, anyhow, and if she
hasn't scratch on her finger she is
continually fixing her hair or arranging
her collar | want better stone than
hers Won't YOU get it, dear?"
VIII, uaIllnSi Set you lHe peol
in the market, and he departs with a
sinking heart.
The next day he makes an arrange
ment with some jeweler by which he
gets an inferior stone at a high price,
which he pays for in weekly INSTALL
ments. Visits to his girl and the usual
presents and theatricals take the re-
mainder of his salary, and when the
wedding-day approaches his or her
fond parent is obliged to hand over the
necessary funds to unite the twain and
send them off on their bridal tour. On
their return they generally settle down,
and the question of the engagement
ring and the attendant incidents form
a subject of jocular conversation be-
tween them.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-06
Agnes May Fleming a Fraud.

The writer of the stories which ap-
pear from time to time with the name
of Mrs. Agnes May Fleming as author
is confronted with the declaration of a
friend of Mrs. Fleming that after her
death a member of her family sold the
right to use her name The seller and
the purchaser to this bargain must have
very disiointed notions of literary hon
esty. Charles Reade bought a plot
once, and was extremely indignant that
he should be accused of plagiarism.
For a writer to palm off the work of
another as his own, and to palm off his
own work as that of better-known
author. are both violations of rules that
are unwritten, it is true, but which,
nevertheless, should not be any the less
faithfully obeyed on that account
PHILADELPHIA Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-06
WHOLE NO. 1918.
In Old Story Revamped.

-Four gentlemen, says the \. 7. World,
/ were seated at table in the smok-
| ing-room Of the steamer Alaska of the
| Gulon Line on her recent remarkable
| trip across. The sea was running heavy
and the smoking-room steward found
| it delicate matter to place glass and
| a bottle before each of the four gentle
men and to uncork the complementary
| ginger ale otherwise than on his head.
| The conversation turned on the extra
| ordinary speed the steamer was max
| inc, anC led to a bet In covering
the wager of a sovereign upon trivial
! matter one of the four gentlemen took
| from his purse a guinea of the reign of
William and Mary.
''There are only two of them in ex-
istenee," he said proudly, land this
! piece is worth a hundred times its face
| value. Had / the other the collection
of two would be simply invaluable to
! numismatists.
| He laid it on the table as he spoke,
and in a moment after the coin had dis
| appeared. Nobody saw it fall or glide
off the table. Nobody saw anybody
! else take it. Its owner searched high
and low; his three companions and the
steward helped him. No other persons
were in the compartment, and yet the
coin could not be found
These four men had been strangers
| to each other when the VOYAGE began
| They had been five days out and were
rapidly nearing port. The owner of
| the valuable coin was inconsolable, sus-
picious and profane by turns.
..IN1l +,1 -l,a+ ~ IL. :.
to dc" said one of the party. The
coin is not on the floor; it cannot have
rolled through the ceiling. Somebody
here must have it, Let all of us be
searched"
All agreed but one gentleman who
had hitherto said nothing. He positive
ly refused to suffer such an indignity.
When it was suggested to him that
where all others agreed no single per-
son ought to object, be simply declined,
made his bow, took ais drink alone,
and left for his stateroom
The good old ship Alaska plowed on
to her sixth day, and just after her
completing it Fire Island was sighted.
The gentleman who had refused to be
searched had been kept in coventry;
the three others who had sat at the table
with him unanimously suspected him.
But just as the pilot came aboard the
Alaska the gentleman who had lost the
guinea found it sticking in the sole of
his boot, where it had been wedged
ever since ne had first displayed it. He
was overjoyed at his discovery, and
anxious to make amends for his unjust
suspicious.
But" said he to the gentlemen who
had refused to be searched, '.why on
earth did you not agree as we ali did
to such simple test? That would have
settled the matter instantly"
''No, it wouldn't" answered the
other.
why notP''
Because (producing his purse) there
is the only other coin of the kind in the
world-same date, same color, worn
the samet That is the reason | refused
to be searched, for rlotiIliIy. vn eaI II
W0lu nave made you believe this was
not your own coin had you not been SO
lucky as to recover it. -
As the Alaska steamed into port a
social glass removed all traces of un-
pleasantness.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-06
Take Good Care of the Seeds.

1t requires time and patience, care
full attention to details, to secure the
good seed you have selected, to put it
in packages with the label and date, and
then to box it where it will be secure
from moisture, insects, and mice. These
are the kind of riches that the moth
corrupts, and thieves break through
and steal. If you have any doubt on
this point hang up your seed corn in a
building infested with mice. 1t is bet
ter to dry the ears, especially of sweet
corn, by artificial heat. and pack the
seed in tin case, proof against rats
and mice. The yellow cucumbers, laid
upon the shed roof to ripen are apt to
be left until rotten and frozen. The
tomatoes need to be washed out, and
the seed spread upon papers or plates
to dry in the sun, or by the fire. The
saving. drying, labelling, and dating
the best seed the land will produce is
essential to thrift upon the farm and in
the garden. Some seeds are better for
keeping, especially those of melons, Gu
eumbers and squashes. Those that are
useless should be carefully burned.
Sort the seed box every year. Careful
y label and date every package. .-Rec.
I'm. CliTt. an -4merican 4griculturiSt
Tor NoUenaber.