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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-02-08
ELECTRIC LIGHT IN CARS.
| New York Times.


Persons in the rear car of a local train
leaving Jersey City at 7:3O o'clock last even
ing on the Pennsylvania railroad were sur
prised at the ease with which he can read
the evening papers, and discovered with
manifested pleasure that the car was lighted
with electricity. In the car were several
guests, invited by Col. j. K. Hosmer, of the
of the Light and Force Company, of this
city, to inspect the new light, a trip being
made to Newark The car was lighted by
seven incandescent lamps of the Edison make,
fed from thirty Faure accumulators, which
were placed in two boxes underneath the
car, one on each side. The cells were part of
the number brought over from Europe in the
Labrador and which were fully described
in the Times of May 13, 1882, together with
their working. Each cell is III inches in
length and % inches in breadth, and II
inches deep. They are connected in series,
the main circuit to the lamp leaving the bat
terry at the extreme ends. The boxes in
which they are placed are seven feet six
inches in length and sixteen inches wide.
From switch in the closet in the cars the
lights can be turned on or extinguished,
while each light is provided with switch
socket, so it can be used independently of
the other lamps. The wires pass from the
batters along the side of the cars, crossing
over to the each other where the lamps are
placed.
The lamps in the car last evening gave
steady, powerful light of twelve candle
power, and when the train was going at full
speed did not flicker in the least When
half the lights were turned out there was no
appreciable difference in the total light of
the car, except that it was softer and more
pleasant to read by. The heat from the
lamps was about one-tifth Of the amount
produced by gas. The electricity stored in
the accumulatOrs under the car is sufficient
to keep all the lights running for sixteen
hours without recharging. The car on the
Pennsylvania road is the first that has been
lighted in this country, and the light has
been in use for several months. 1t is under
the charge of w. Lachlan, who first intro
duced the system of car-lighting in Europe,
and it has been experimental with on behalf
of La Societe la Force ct la Lumiere, the
owner of the Faure patents, which has in
trusted the patents to the Light and Force
Company, of this city, a special branch of
railway car-lighting having been formed.
For the use of the Pennsylvania road the
were charged by means of
small Edison Dynamo driven by small en-
CINE used for pumping gas. Five hours are
necessary for recharging. 1t is claimed by
the company that the cost of lighting cars
will be one-half that of gas. 1t is proposed
by the company to equip the Chicago Limit
ed Express with thelight as soon as possible,
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IT WAS AFTER THAT.

On train coming up from Phila,
delphia, the other day, a New Yorker
shared his seat with a stranger, who
proved to be an ex-C County Treasurer
from Ohio. After some little CONVEX
sation the citizen inquired:
$50 you were County Treasurer
ehY"
II was"
"What was the amount of your de.
falcation?"
my books balanced to the very
cent, sir" was the indignant reply
"Ahp' growled the New Yorker in q
disappointed voice, and it must have
been easy to see from his looks that
he was deeply chagrined. The
stranger doubtless felt sorry for him
and after few minutes Of painful
silence remarked:
But subsequently acted as post
master and cheated the government
out of $1,000"
"Oh! you didw chuckled the New
Yorker, and a feeling of quiet salts.
faction settled upon his face and
friendly relations were again estab-
lished.
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EXCHANGING COATS.

The python at Bridgeport has
claimed considerable attention from
the public recently, first by escaping
from confinement and being recap
tured in the folds of a rough wooden
blanket, and then by shedding its
skin on Friday afternoon. The big
snake, like all other ophidians, must
in the ordinary course OF nature shed
its skin once q year. Unusual inter
est has attached to the shedding
process, as, if the snake failed to cast
off its coat, it would be compelled to
shuttle off its mortal coil and would
in fact be unable to coil itself in
serpentine folds. The snake for
some days has appeared stupid and
had no appetite for kittens and other
small animals which it has hitherto
taken with great apparent relish.
While it W, s watched with great
anxiety on the part of, those inter
ested the lifeless coils rolled lazily
over and the body of the serpent
showed new and beautiful color.
BY the next morning the old integu-
msnt had almost entirely disappeared,
and the health of the snake appeared
to be much improved. On Saturday
night pigeon and rabbit were fed
to the python and were quickly swal-
lowed.-TNew Haven Palladium, Aug.
7th.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-10-13
A WOMAN ALMOST RousED.

Once there was deliberate little
lady who did not keep house for
several years to her regret. Being
at length allowed under protest to
reinstate herself as a gracious figure
upon the most becoming OF all back
grounds, a pretty home, she got on
we'll till the inevitable moment came.
Disorganization in the servants de-
partment threw the little lady for
once out of her serenity. She turned
to her husband foolishly to confide
these only distresses which the wise
woman will not contide, except to a
fellow housekeeper, at seasons not
too frequent even then, and carefully
chosen. He, equally foolish, at
tempted to reason, and finally de-
scended to an implied, Il told you
So" Quick rose in irritation the first
display OF unlovely temper which the
poor lady had furnished to her hus-
band in all the years Of their married
life.
do yon say" she almost Kissed,
after all the comfort we have had
in our home--that you wish We had
not gone to housekeeping! If ever
you say so again, James, or hint such
thing to me, ] warn you, ] shall be
rousedv
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SHE WANTS TO KILL A BEAR.

Miss Fuller is a bright and attract
i've young lady. who is doing her
share in the worlds work by conduct
ing school at Grand Marais. When
not teaching the young idea to handle
its musketry. she has been learning
how to shoot herself, and by practice
has become quite an expert with the
Winchester. It didn't take much
pleading to win promise from Mike
Brazel, with whose family Miss Full
Ter boards, that he would give her
lesson in deer Staying. Choosing
favorable night the plucky school
ma'am, armed with her rifle and at
tended by Mr.. Brazel, repaired to
small lake where deer were known to
be frequent visitors A jack light
was rugged in the stern of boat,
and, with rife ready, the lady pa
tiently waited developments. Soon
fine buck came stamping through
the brushwood, attracted by the glare
on the water. Plunging in, he SWAN
toward the light, until he was near
enough for a shot SHOWS your
time," whispered Mike to his com
panion.
"Where shall I aim fori' inquired
the girl, in tone OF intense excite
ment.
"Right behind the ear" was the
answer. No moro words passed.
An instant after the schoolma' ANS
rifle sent forth binding flash and
deafening report. did l hit him :"
querried the girl, as she took the
rife from her shoulder. In answer
MIR. Brazel sent his boat forward with
a couple Of powerful stroke, and there,
struggling in the water, lay the gal
liant buck, the blood pouring from a
bullet hole behind his ear. attesting
the accuracy of the teachers aim.
The sight overcome her. Sinking
down in the boat, she clasped her
fair hands, raised her eyes to heaven,
and exclaimed: mo. let me only
capture bear and I will be ready to
die! = Marquette (Mich.) Mining
journal.
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WASN'T A PIG.

"Well, sir, what'll you have?" said
the waiter, as he brushed the crumbs
of the table with a napkin. Tomato
SOUP"
anything else, siri' "Some blue
fish"
'"With saucei" Eyes; and a sirloin
cooked rare and some fried potatoes. !"
Anything else, sirf" "Green corn.
baked beans. stewed tomatoes and
and-a cup Of tea, a slice of water
melon, a piece Of gooseberry pie,
some fruit cake, a plate of ice cream
and some nuts and grapes"
ANY pudding. airp "Pudding!
Didn't / order pudding"
mo, sir" well, bring me some
plum pudding"
Anything else, sirf" Anything
elsel Do You take me for q pigT-
CNsw York World.
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THE TROUBLE 1T WAS TO FIND AN
OWNER FOR $4,000.

Mrs. Cody, sister of Secretary
Teller, has just succeeded in an ex-
traordinary errand which called her
to Philadelphia. Her mission was to
find the wife and children of a GER
tain John Scanlon, the son of David
Scanlon. who died last year in Den
yer, Col, leaving a property valued
at $25.0000. The only clew which
she had was the knowledge that
John Scanlon had murdered his
mother in Philadelphia and hanged
himself while awaiting trial. After
some trouble she discovered that
Scanlon was arrested under the
name of Davidson. 1t seems that
David Scanlon, who was born in
this country, went thirty-six years
ago to County Donegal, Ireland,
where he married pretty girl. Re
turning to New York, they stopped
at a cheap boarding house. One
night, a short time after landing,
Scanlon deserted his young wife and
took to peddling suspenders and such
articles, and little by little drifted
w 06C, udltlnS IN Cn0 Clues On his way;
and finally settling in Denver. Here
he fourished by dint of strict econo-
my and application to business, and
acquired snug fortune, which at the
time of his death he willed to num-
Der of charitable institutions. The
sons Of two OF his brothers broke the
will, and had the property awarded
to them. After Scanlon deserted his
wife she went to Philadelphia, like
wise turned to peddling small wares
and, after waiting for years for news
from her husband, concluded that he
was dead, and married man named
Devidson. A son by her first hus-
band had been born meanwhile. He
married, but proved to be worthless
fellow, and in q drunken quarrel
killed his mother ON May 4, 1882, and
hanged himself in his cell in the
following July. When Mrs. Cody so
luckily found his widow and in
formed her of the wealth that she had
inherited, she refused to believe the
story, and it required good deal oil
urging to induce her to set out fo1
Denver. She has two sons.
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THE CANDLES AND LAMPS OF ANTIQUITY.

1t is from passage in Apuleiue's
Metam, ". that we get the most val
liable and conclusive information on
this point. A noise being heard IN
the middle of the night we are told
that the household come in with
"tad.s, lucerna, sebaceis, ct ceteris,"
that is, with torches of pine, lamps,
tallow candles. and was tapers, which
therefore clearly proves that candles,
both Of wax and tallow, were in use
at this date. 1t seems, however. that
the candle was probably used by the
poorer people. At all events, the
lamp was a mark Of responsibility, as
in another verse of Martial (Apoph,
42) we find that an apology is made
for the use Of wax light instead of
lamp:
"Hic tibi nocturnos pr0stabit cereus igni -.
Subducta est pusro namque lucerna tuo.'
Juvenal Gil. 2S7) also speaks of the
"breve lumen candel@." In the Brit
ish Museum, too, there is q fragment
of large candle found in Watson,
near Orange, and said to belong tC
the first century A. G. Such candles
were probably provided with wicks
consisting of the pith of rushes rude
ly covered with crude wax or tallow.
Candlesticks Tor these existed, and
later on they had spike to penetrate
the butt of the candle. However, the
name candelabrum was more gener-
ally applied to the pillar on which the
oil lamp stood or from which it was
suspended Since no attempt was
made to provide for the current OF
air so necessary for proper combus-
ton, these old lamps smoked exceed
ingly-so much, indeed, that it was
the duty of one of the slaves of the
household to go round each morning
and wipe the SCOT from the pictures
and statues. In one case, however,
at the Erectheum of the Athens,
Acropolis. the lamp, which was OF
pure gold, was provided with fue.
This was very large lamp, requir-
ing to be filled but once year. Cal
limachus designed it for the new tenn
pie about 400 b. O., but the smoke
was found to he so great an evil in
anything designed forsuch purpose
that the lamp wee provided with a
chimney in the shape of a bronze
palm tree inverted. But however
magnificent and elaborate the design,
ID is certain that the economy of the
lamp remained stationary. 1t was
generally filled with olive oil and pro-
vided with wick of either oakum or
of the dearer Caspian fax cotton
Occasionally, Pliny informs us, btu
men was used to fill the lamp, Italy,
in some parts, being rich in springs
of that mineral and petroleum. Fur
Their east, and especially among the
tribes dwelling on the shores of the
Dead Sea. bitumen and naphtha were
much used as Illuminating agents,
and for other purposes. 1t may be
suggested that the sacred pit fire Nep-
ii was of this nature. The we'll
known Psychologist, Mr.. Basil
Cooper, has suggested the following
as the origin Of the word naphtha,
namely: N A, water of Phtha, the
Heph@stos, or Vulcan of Egypt's
dei.ies, the god Of fire. This idea re-
ceives some support from the fact
that the Indians who sold the first
petroleum las Seneca oil, and used it
largely in their rites of worship,
termed it fire. water, which name is
now applied to alcohol Journal of
the Society Of Arts.
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READ WHAT AN EDITOR SAYS.

Mn. RoBT S. AMMEN:-Enclosed you will fine
your proposal for advertising accepted. Ihavt
all the advertisements the Bulletin can wei
carry, but recently we had an epidemic of chest
and throat diseases, and your medicine Am
mems Cough Syrup was used in my family
with good results, though my faith in all sort,
of so.called patent medicines il little indeed
That it did good in this case, however, l be
lieve, and for that reason Will advertise it. II
you will take the trouble to glance over the
columns of the Bulletin you will discover they
are clean from all nostrums and quack RENE
dies, though applications reach me almost every
week for space. Yours respectfully,
G.. MULHoLLAND,
Greenville, Cal. Editor Bulletin.
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tContinued.l
VITAL QUESTIONS.


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PILES! PILES! PILEs.!!

A sure cure for Blind, Bleeding itching and
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POLITE SCIENCE.
Who are Responsible for Changes In Fash
fonable Dress?-Publie Opinion the
Guardian.

1t is an open question whether
fashion varieties are the results OF
caprice in the originators or a care
full regard for the mean between the
extremes of public opinion. There
is much good reason for believing
that style is really polite science,
an easily determining method OF
reaching into the mystery of society
and Analysing the conditions of HUI
man nature. We take the position
that style is not individual, but pop
ular; that is to say, the fashionable
differences encountered in successive
seasons are not the DEGREES of arbi-
trary autocrats of the millinery and
dress-devising world, but are the
products of a balancing of public
opinion.
The history of the dress sustains
this hypothesis, especially that por-
ton of the history coincident with
the freedom of newspaper utterance.
The fantastic liberties taken in the
making of fashion plates may seem
to be the offspring of an erratic en-
deavor to strike a novelty, but it will
be found, almost invariably, that the
changes are due to criticism of al
ready existing styles. There can be
no more mistaken notion than the
sometime complaint that women pay
no attention to public opinion in
matter of dress. Public opinion is
their guardian.
The effect is not always instanta-
neous, since in the very nature Of
things it cannot be. But it uniformly
happens that where there is a unity
of censure upon any form of dress,
that form as speedily retires from
elegant and refined adoption as is
consistent with the understanding of
q positive expression of opinion. 1t
needs but glance back over few
years to prove this.
What are we to conclude from the
experience Of dress in its obedience
to the dictatorship of change7 1t is
not altogether clear that the devotees
of fashion are the capricious ones,
with no settled ideas of what they
want. Is it not, after all, public
opinion that is 80 erratic and vari-
ablei Are not the newspaper critics
or censors of fashion directly respons-
ibls for the multifarious attempts of
the fashion makers to invent some
thing that will give delight to deter
mined fault-fnders?
The ladies show a most amiable
readiness to adopt every new essay
at gratifying sense and taste. They
put Oh loose or tight, short or long,
decolette or high -necked dresses, as
they come into supremacy, with the
purpose of making themselves not
only agreeable to sight but to avoid
seeming to cling to garments that
have been decried by masculine NAL
contents. There is no tangible rem
edy against the misfortune of dress.
1t follows the wake of the general
taste, and the general taste is sup
posed to represent the highest form
accepted as excellence for the COM
mon good. It is not fair to assert
that styles alone are whimsical, when
their critics cannot be pleased because
Of fipicai notions.
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W. L. HUEsTIs, of Emporia, Kansas, says
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GENERAL DEBILITY AND LIVER COM
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THE LITTLE MODEL REPUBLIC.

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use of ST. Jacobs Oil, the great pain banisher.
He makes this public.
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Many times you want to keep meet or fish
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one troubled with heart disease to know that
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ay Nothing so simple and perfect for color
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DIR. G. III. Hill, FRONT ROYAL, VA, says:
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BED-RIDDEN AND CURED.

English jackets and jockey cap bonnets will
be much worn.
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j. w. Foshee, of Bluff Springs, Ala, says
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Drs Newton & Blair, BUcKHANNoN, W. VA.
report that Browns Iron Bitters are giving
general satisfaction.
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"RoUGH ON RATS" Clears out rats, mice
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For cough or cold there is no remedy equal
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1t seems proper to assert that Samaritan
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