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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-23
DIED.
Kew Bath Rooms.

Kew Bath Rooms.
TAVING JUST FITTED Up NEW BATH
rooms, hot and cold water fixtures, in con.
pection with my barber shop, No. 2l67
Main street, respectfully solicit the patron.
age OF my friends and the public.
del6eaqd X. KRAFT.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

TOR SALE-A SALOON CENTRALLY
Il located and doing Il good business. Oh.
1cCt OF selling poor health. Address, *"
care Of this office. de2is
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yNTANIED.-A X IOM ON FIRST OR SEQ
w ond floor, furnished or unfurnshed
located near this office, by a gentleman and
lady. Address M,,lnIs Office. delyL
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General Grants Thoroughness.
Washington Correspondence Boston Traveller.

washington Correspondence Boston Traveller.
POSTMASTER general Creswell said re-
Gently while speaking of General Grant:
He is, in many respects, the most remark
able man that l have ever met. When was
appointed Postmaster-genera l took great
pains to look up and study the laws laid
down by Congress for the government of the
department. and had them at my fingers
ends. Then l carefully laid out general
policy which | thought would furnish the
best and most complete service to the
country. 1t was not until after some weeks
of deliberation that | finally ventured to lay
the matter before President Grant for his APP
proval. Well, one day was up at the White
House, and made up my mind that
my plan was laid SO securely that there would
be no difficulty in procuring its adoption by
the President L brought the matter to Gen
eral Grants attention, and he told me to 90
ahead and express my views freely and fully.
He was sitting in a chair putting away at
cigar as [ went over my plan patiently, until
l thought at last that was making myself
tiresome, as the President did not seem to be
paying me the attention which | thought the
subject deserved. finished my story, how
ever, and he told me to call the next day and
he would give me his decision. The next
day I was at the White House at the APP
pointed time, and, intensely to my surprise,
the President took up the points of my policy
one by one and discussed them with an
amount of information on the duties of the
Postmaster-ge which | had never
dreamed Of He told me that he agreed with
the policy as whole, but that there we're
some points on which he did not hold the
same views as those which l had advanced.
Then he took them up and exposed the
flaws with so much hard common sense that
| afterward wondered why did not see the
defects myself before. At our first inter
view thought that he was hardly paying
me the ordinary poiteness which the occa-
sion seemed to demand, but the second visit
assured me that not only had he listened
most intently to what had to say but that
he had devoured every idea had advanced"
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Founding Cooper Union.

The inspiration of the Cooper Union dates
back to 1928. Mr.. Cooper was then an assist
ant alderman of the city, and represented
that part of it which extends on the east side
from Eighth street to Kings Bridge, on the
Harlem river. In the board he met a gentle
man lately returned from France, who told
him how hundreds of young men went to
Paris to attend the Polytechnic School, and
underwent great hardships that they might
receive the benefits OF lectures and, instruc-
ton afforded by that institution. Mr. Cooper
recalled his own early desire for such in
struction, and resolved that when he had
sufficient means he would build such a
school. Twenty-Five years ago, in Eighth
street, just above the spot where the Bowery
branches into Third and Fourth avenues,
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the foundation stone of the Cooper Union
was laid. A scroll was buried with the cor
ner-stone, which bore the inscription:
"The great object that 1 desire to accomplish
by the erection of this institution is to open the
avenues of scientific knowledge to the youth of
our city and country, and so unfold the volume
OF Nature tnat the young may see the beauties
Of creation, enjoy its blessings, and learn to love
the Author from whom comeUh every good and
perfect gift"
The school was ito be forever devoted to
the union of science and art in its applica-
ton to the useful purposes of life" Five
years passed before the building was finished.
1t is brown stone and iron structure, thor
oughly fre-proof of massive Roman archi-
lecture an irregular quadrangle in shape,
having dimensions on its four sides OF 80,
lac, 165 and 1875 feet. Its original cost exclu-
sIve OF the site, which had been purchased
about twenty-five years before for this very
purpose, was 1864, 900. In 1869 Mr.. Cooper
gave deed of trust of the property to a
board of trustees consisting of Mr. Cooper
as president, Daniel f. Tiemann, Edward
Cooper, Wilson G. Hunt John E. Parsons
ana Abram S. Hewitt. In the same year
$4,000 was given to meet the immediate
wants OF the institution, and $40, 900 for the
establishment of a museum. Other gifts
made total of 100000.
vi the splendid success of the institution
IN supplying the want which it was intended
to meet, recent annual report OF the curator
gave. ample evidence. Every department
was full to overlooking. More than 5000 pu-
pills had entered the various classes. Between
400 and 500 applications had been put on file
to await the retirement of those who already
held places i'll the classes. The instruction
and lectures which these pupils enjoyed were
given to them absolutely without charge
The expenses of the various departments
amounted to $50, 769, all of which was derived
from the rent OF stores and offices occupying
three stories of the building, from the rents
OF the larger and smaller halls for public
meetings, and from an endowment fund of
$4,000, chiefly designed for the support of
the reading-room and the increase of the
library.
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incidents and Anecdotes.

Peter Cooper was a member of the Union
League Club from the time of its organiza-
tion," said Thomas c. Acton, the Assistant
United States Treasurer 1.-TWO years ago he
was elected an honorary member-a distinc-
ton which has only been conferred upon
General Grant and but few Others Unless
the president William NJ. Evarts should call
a special meeting in the meantime, 1 sup
pose no action will be taken by the club rela-
tive to Mr. Cooper's death until the next
regular meeting, which will be week from
tomorrow. Doubtless a large delegation
from the club will attend his funeral"
Mr. E. w. Tapp who was Peter Cooper's
neighbor in Burling slip. said: 81 knew
him well, for have been in business TWEEN
ty-eght years upon this spot and of all the
distinguished men l ever met think he was
the ablest L have seen him besieged by APP
plicants for aid. They would wait here for
hours for him. The clerks kept them out
of the office, but they would hang around
outside until he came Many of them were
old soldiers l have seen twenty of these
applicants surrounding his carriage at one
time, and every one of them received assist
ance. Since the death OF William e. Dodge
l cannot call to mind any one of Mr.. Coop
er's old-time business neighbors who is alive
now"
During the war Peter Cooper was one of
the leading men. 1t never occurred to his
placid nature that anybody would want to
destroy such a splendid utility of human
nature as the Union without being tempo
rarily insane. But he had no bitterness in
his nature, and no austerity. In this respect
he was refreshing contrast to some of his
contemporaries, like Bryant, who never
could have a principle at heart without hat
ing some other man for having a different
one Peter Cooper presented the picture, in
a large and grasping society, of a man vino
could thrive without dishonesty, could be
popular without demagoguery, could die
without superstition. He found in this
life plenty to do, and did it WELL without
being in a hurry. Loving intellectual things,
he never let his intellect encroach upon his
heart.
Here is an anecdote which Mr.. Cooper used
to relate, and which shows the kindly humor
of his nature as we'll as his inventiveness:
'In early life, when l was first married, |
found it necessary to rock the cradle while
my wife prepared our frugal meal. This was
not always convenient in my busy life and
conceived the idea of making cradle which
wor be made to rock by a mechanism.
did so, and enlareng upon by first idea ar
ranged the mechanism for keeping off the
flies and playing musio-box for the amuse-
ment of the baby. The cradle was bought of
me afterwards by a delighted peder, who
gave me his whole stock in trade for the ex-
change and the right of selling the patent in
the State of Connecticut"
Mrs. Cooper died in the seventy-seventh year
of her age, and on the fifty-sixth anniversary
of her wedding-day, December, 1869. Mr..
Cooper never spoke of his wife without emo
ton. He attributed all his highest happi-
ness, and most of his success in life, to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-07
The secret of His Success.

He attributed his great success in business
to an early determination that he formed Of
giving to the world an equivalent in some
form of useful labor for whatever he con-
sumed in it. No man was more modest in
his manner To the last he did not know
the distinctions that money and position
make to the human kind. His temper was
equable and pleasant he had a smile and
good word for every one and, though he
was not handsome man, his face wore the
CHEEKY look OF one whose good deeds w ere
easily done. His career was full of patient
toll, of we'll directed inventveness of efforts
to add to the appliances of our civilization, of
devotion 10 the public good and of genuine
charity toward all men. He had lived in the
time of every President, and had stood in st.
PauPs Churchyard where he saw the mock
funeral that followed the death of Washing
ton. He had identified himself with the
growing interests of the country and had
made his influence felt for good in all classes
OF society, but more especially among the
toiiing masses of humanity struggling at the
foot OF the ladder he had assembled. Measured
by the achievements of the years he had SEEN
he was one of the oldest men who had ever
lived; but his heart was ever Young and
his belief In the progress of man to a better
social condition. and especially his trust in
the ability of men to establish and maintain
self-government, were as fresh as when he
began TO travel the path of life. He felt that
nature had provided bountifullly for the
wants of all men, and that all that was
needed was MISUNDERSTANDING political
and religious-and self-control, in order to
eradicate the evils under which society had
suffered in all ages.
There are three things in connection with
Mr.. Cooper's philanthropy that deserve
special notice. 1t was eminently practical;
it went to nourish self-help, and it was that
best of charities which renders charity super
fiuous 1t gave what was better than money
the training necessary to earn it, and forti-
| fled self-respect instead of breaking it down.
He considered that the money he earned was
to be held as a sacred trust for the benfit of
mankind, and that it was given him for the
good of the world. Every dollar he earned
he considered as an increased obligation, and
thus rebuked the selfshness which uses
money for personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT. This,
indeed, is one of the most important lessons
of his life
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-07
UNDER FIRE.
Impressions and Feelings During the Pro-
gress of a Battle.

impressions and Feelings During the Pro-
gress of Battle.
A recent writer thus speaks of his expert
ences and feelings in battle 1T is always
fashionable to give first impressions. Shall |
give you mine? l shall assume an affirma-
tive without atfording time for rebuff. First
war dispelled The lifelong illusion that bat
ties were the orderly moves of game of
chess. Campaigns may be likened, as | have
heard them, to the mani pulations of that
game, but battles are made up of series of
experiments, more or less protracted, ac-
cording to the ingenuity of the commander
and the experiences of his officers and men.
The results of a faro bank can be calculated
with as much accuracy as the results of a
battlefield. 1t is the veriest chance, the
victory, as in all games of course, inclining
to those who are most cool, and therefore the
most likely to perceive advantages. Second
l have overrated the dangers of battles
Here for five hours we have ex-
changed caunon-balls, bullets, bayonet-
thruSts and saber-strokes, and literally
there is nobody hurt the loss in
killed and wounded on our side being about
one in 200 of those engaged. These are my
Impressions. Are they not the counterpart
OF all first experiences on the battle-herd? A
friend asks ME the feeling of a non-combat-
ant under fire. Were you ever caught in the
open fields when heavy thunderstorm was
raging? If you have been, and had no special
fear, you have, nevertheless entertained an
opinion that possibly lightning might strike
where you were standing. For the three
quarters of an hour that l was under fire, as
non-combatant, there was almost a con-.
tlnuous thunder of artillery. | could realize
no special danger, but only an ill-defned
thought that possibly some of these flying
missiles might come over where l stood in
the way. On comparing views with the
others situated like myself, encountering the
same opportunities, and with similar pur-
poses, l find they had the same sensations,
so that may fairly assume that the mass OF
men under fire have little or no thought for
personal consequences, and that cowardce is
not normal characteristic of the human
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The Baby.


o this is the way the baby came:
Out of the night az comes the dawn;
Out of the EN- bers as the flame;
Out OF the bud the blossom on
The apple-bough that blooms the same
AS in glad summers dead and gone
With grace and beauty none could name
o this is the way the baby camel
Ana this is the way the baby woke:
As when in deepest drops OF dew
The shine and shadows sink and soak,
The sweet eyes glimmered through and
through,
And eddyings and dimples broke
About the lips, and no one knew
Or conid divine the words they spoke
And this is the way the baby woke.
And this is the way the baby slept:
A mist OF tresses backward thrown
BY quavering signs where kisses crept
With yearnings she had never known:
The little hands were closely kept
About lily newly blown
And God was with her. And we wept--
And this is the way the baby slept.
james Whitcomb Riley.
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WHAT CURIosITIEs EARN.
The Wages of the Giant, Midget, Bearded
Lady, Fire-Eater and Such.
St, Louis Post Dispatch.

St, Louis Post-Dispatch
There are probably dozen first-class gil
ants in the business" said ]. E. Sackett, in
answer to a question: land they get all the
way from $50 to $500 week Colonel Gosh
en- gets SIS; Brustad, the Norwegian, gets
S75; Chang, the Chinaman, now in London,
gets go a week and his travelling expenses.
Murphy, who is also over there and who is
the tallest man in the world, gets about the
same salary. Cooper, who was with Fore
paugh last season, gets 5000 Midgets are
more numerous than giants. There are
over 100 of them now on exhibition. Tom
Thumb is, of course, high-salaried curiosi-
ty. Che-Mah gets 1925 week. Jennie Quig-
ley receives $50 week and Little Jewel is paid
$50. General Mite and Lucia Zarata, who
travel together, get $500 week and 10 per
cent. of the profits of the management. Gen
eral Totman is paid $50; Major Atom, $75,
like Charles E. Trip, who writes and other
wise uses his feet as other people use their
hands, is worth $40 a week. The only leg
less man in existence, outside of Walter
Stuart, is Eli Bowen, who has only feet and
ankles growing out from his body. He COM
mands $50 week, and is independent own
ing two large and valuable farms in Mchi-
gan. Fat women are numerous and, with
one or two exceptions, do not get more than
$15 or $40. Mile. Myers, the bearded lady,
receives $40 a week. They average about
that figure.
"Ventriloquists receive weekly salary of
from $50 to $50. Cassenovia, the chap who
cuts men to pieces on the stage, got $125
Other jugglers range as low as SIS. Fire
eaters receive from $35 to $50 Patti, the
trained monkey man, got $15; Giovanni, the
bird trainer $50; Anelli and his trained
birds, $50"
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THE LATE PETER COOPER.
The Humble Beginning of a Won
drously Successful Career.
Personal Appearance and Habits of tn
Dead notwithstanding Cooper
Union-Incidents and Anecdotes.
Colloted from New York Papers.

Collated from New York Papers.
Give honor and love forevernore
To this great man gone to rest;
Peace on the dim Plutonian shore,
Rest in the land of the blest.
reckon him greater than any man
That ever drew sword in war;
reckon MIN no pier than king or khan.
Blaver and better by far.
And the wisest he in this whole wide land
or boarding till bent and gray;
For all you can hold in your cold dead hand
Is what you have given away.
So, whether to wander the stars or to rest
Forever husheu and dumb,
He gave with "a zest and he gave his best
And deserves the best to come.
JOAQUIN Miller in the Herald,
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A Wonderful Machine.

Hartford Courant.
At last tine Farnham type setter, which for
the past eight years has been in process of
construction in private quarters at Colts
works, has been perfected, and is now on ex-
hibition in a store of the Goodwin building,
on Haines street. 1t is certainly wonderful
machine, doing the work, as its inventor
claims, of five men. 1t is about the size of
an ordinary piano, with lettered keys, as the
operator touches which the types take their
places with unfailng regularity. The work
of distribution is done simultaneously with
the type setting and even more rapidly, so
that the cases are always full of type. The
chief difficulty heretofore has been in the
justifying, but this has now been overcome
and is done with twice the rapidty of the
ordinary mode. The inventor, Mr. Page be-
lieves that every obstacle has been overcome,
and that the machine is now ready for the
trade. If it really proves to be as successful
as it seems to be, it will take the rank with
the great labor saving inventions of the cen
fury.
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He said she was the day star, the solace and
the inspiration of his life"-words that ex-
press a deep feeling, and also substantial
fact for there is no doubt, from the charac
ter given her by others, that she was a woman
of superior mental qualifications, and had
precisely that fitness and training that made
a worthy and most efficient "helpmate" of
Mr.. Cooper. Certain it is that her position
was one of no secondary importance in Mr..
Cooper's life and the development of his
character
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San FranciscO chronicle.
A mule Stockton, CAL, recently suffered
a dislocation of the fourth, fifth and sixth
vertebre of the neck, and was about to be
killed, when veterinary surgeon concluded
to experiment with him. The animal was
placed in slings, and tackle fastened to the
head. number of men manned the rope,
and after several strong pulls the dislocated
verterbrse slipped into place.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-07

THE mind depends for its health very largely
on bodily conditions. The gloomy fears, The de-
spending views, the wariness OF soul that many
complain of, would often disappear were the
blood made pure and healthy before reaching
the delicate vessels OF the brain. Ayers Sarsa-
parilla purifies aud vitalzes the blood, and thus
conducts TO health OF body and sanity of mind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-07

Miss NELLIE MCGUIRE, 27 South New JERSEY
: rect, Indianapolis, says: Browns Iron Bit
ters Cured me OF nervousness"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-05-12
A Dogs Sense Of Responsibility.

George +. Romanes. in his animal
Intelligence" relates the following:
One OF my correspondents, Mr.. Laurie
Gentles, sends me an account of asheep-
dog belonging to friend of his, Mr..
Mitchell of Inverness-shire, which
strayed to neighboring farm and took
up his residence with the farmer. On
the second night after the dog arrived
at the farm the farmer took the dog
down to the meadow to see if the cattle
were all right. To his dismay he found
that the fence between his meadow and
his neighbours had got broken down,
and that the whole of his neighbours cat
tie had got mixed up with his. BY the
help of the dog the strange cattle were
driven back into their proper meadow,
and the fence put into temporary re
pair. The next night, at the same hour,
the gentleman started out to look after
the cattle. The dog, however, was not
to be seen. On arriving at the meadow
what was the gentleman astonish
ment to find that the dog had preceded
him! His astonishment was soon
changed into delighted appreciation
when he found the dog sitting on the
broken fence between the two meadows,
and daring the cattle on either side to
cross. The cattle had, during the in
terval between the first and second
visits, broken down the fence, and had
got mixed up with each other. The dog
had quietly gone off on his own ac.
count to see if all was right, and finding
Il similar accident to the one of the
previous evening, had alone and un-
aided driven back the strange cattle to
their proper meadow, and had mounted
guard over the broken fence, as have
already indicated.