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The Gables of the East River Bridge,

The four cables are each 15a inches in
diameter, over two thirds of a mile long
(3,5784 feet), and each consists of 5, 282
galvanized steel wires, not twisted as in
small wire rope, but lying parallel
from end to end. No. wire was used,
which is little over one eighth of an
inch thick, and each cable was made in
nineteen strands. The coils of wire for
one strand were spliced together, so that
each strand consists of continuous wire
running back and forth across the river,
and at each end passing around groov-
ed piece of iron called SHOE The run
ming out and regulating of the wires oc.
cupied year and four months. After
the strands of each cable were made,
they were united in one bundle, which
was wound from end to end with wire.
All the wire used had received five coats
of oil, and the bundle received another
coat before the wrapping; finally, the
finished cable was painted with white
lead and oil. Where the cables pass
through the tops of the towers, they rest
in grooves of iron plates, called saddles,
which are 13 feet long, feet | inch
wide, and feet 3 inches thick in the
highest part. The saddles lie length
wise under the cables, and their tops
are rounded SO as to afford an easier
bearing. Each saddle is supported on
40 wrought-iron rollers, Al inches in di-
ameter, which rest in grooves on an iron
saddle-plate.
The nineteen shoes, around which the
separate strands of a cable are 1ooped,
are bolted to as many iron bars, which
are II feet long, inches wide, and 8
inches thick. These bars are laid side
by side in two courses, ten in the lower
and nine in the upper. They are bolted
to another set of similar bars by means
of pins running through eyes in the ends
of all the bars in each course. In this
way chains of bars are formed, each
consisting of ten links, which reach
backward and downward to the anchor
plates, both plates and chains being i'm
bedded in the masonry of the anchorage.
The anchor-plates are elliptical, star
shaped masses of iron, measuring III
by 16 feet. There is a series of holes in
the middle of each, through which the
last links of the chains are passed and
fastened by bolts. Four of these plates
lie horizontally beneath and close to the
rear wall of each anchorage The mass
of stone which holds these plates down
measures 129 by 119 feet at the base, is
SO feet high on the front and 85 feet at
the back. The side of the BROOKLYN
anchorage was dug down to the water
leve,, and a platform of timber was laid
under water upon which the first course
of stone was laid. The soil on the New
York side was so loose that piles had to
be driven in order to secure a firm
foundation.-F. A Fernatd. t's Popula,
Science Monthly for Jeslg.
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quiet; yet some congeniality OF spirit
drew the two together, until Ruth, in her
longing for sympathy. made conf
dante of her new friend, and related to
her all her sad story.
Miss Lander listened with strangely
working countenance. and when Ruth
had finished she kissed the girls pale
cheek and smiled even while she wiped
a tear from her own eye.
"My dear brave GIRL she said, show
strangely fate works out our lives. Your
fortune is not SO hard as it seems. l
hold the key to your happiness
'You!" calculated Ruth, staring for a
moment at her friend.
Ruth, listen to me-" said Miss Lam
der impressively. "You are not Ven
nor by birth. When Mr. and Mrs. Ven
nor were travelling abroad they were
childless. l had then the little orphan
child of my brother-a baby scarce two
months old. / was poor and in ill
health.
Mrs Vennor was set upon taking the
baby for her own. She knew of my con-
dition, and was very kind to me. Her
husband came to see me alone one day,
and informed me that his wife was very
low in her mind, and that he feared in
sanity; but as she seemed pleased with
the idea of adopting the child, he hoped
for favorable results, if would consent
to the arrangement. My heart was sore
at parting with the sole creature of my
own left me, but 1 felt that it was for
the baby's good, and consented.
81 shall name her Ruth, after my
dead sister, he said; and she shall be
like our own. No one-not even my
own doctor, who thinks he knows every
thing about me, shall guess that little
Ruth was not born to me during our
foreign tour. And she shall be our heir
ess.'
"Need l add" said Miss Lander,
"that you were that childp recog-
nized you at the very first, but did not
speak because I felt the difference be-
tween my poverty and your wealth, and
am proud.
"As for your own parents, they were
poor in the worlds goods, my dear, but
rich in honesty and nobility; and there
is not particle of insanity or disease Of
any kind in your blood"
1t seemed to Ruth that never in the
days of her childish careless JOY had life
been half so bright and glad as now,
when, with the darkness of great sor-
row past, she turned once more to the
sunshine
She returned at once to her old home,
taking her new-found relative with her.
DR.. Brian was told the marvellous truth,
which at first he was half inclined to
doubt.
But some letters in Mrs. Vennor's
handwriting, addressed to Miss Lam
der, convinced him; and he joyfully ac-
cepted the commission of breaking the
joyful news to Rolf Grennis, who had
accepted his dark fate with sort of
grim despair, that was making cold,
hard man of him.
Our story is ended.
The two Young lovers were happily
united. and Miss Lander, smiling and
peaceful old lady, makes her home with
them, and nurses their children faith
fully
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he Realized It.

An old colored man familiarly known
as Colonel" who gains his living by
doing odd chores and errands, was yes
terday discovered in an ice-cream sa-
loon with a ten-cent dish of the luscious
dessert before him, and he was asked:
''Why, Colonel, isn't this rather an
unusual circumstance"
81 reckon it am, sah."
''And pretty steep?"
eyes, purity high up"
''Can you afford such luxuries?"
''Not hardly, sah-not hardly. Time
rs paid ten cents fur dis, five cents fur
sody an bought half dozen oranges to
take home shan't have mo- dan nuff
left to buy chicken and green peas fur
Sundayr'- Free Press.
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A SUMMER COTTAGE.
How to Furnish it and How to Make it
Complete.

'Mrs. M. b. wishes some hints in re-
gard to the furnishing of summer cot
tage iE the mountains. For my part,
like something on the floor, even of the
humblest room. Mating looks so cool,
and is so easily kept perfectly sweet and
clean, that it is preferable to anything
else; but it is open to the objection that
muddy footprints show ..for all they are
worth" Ito be explicit rather than ele-
ganD, and must be Immediately cleans
ed, and this ought to be done with hot
water with little salt in it. A rug that
will cover the center of the room, and
so give il an air of home, on a rainy day
may be substituted. 1t is wise pre-
caution to provide ones self with an
abundance of cushions. Then seats may
be improvised almost anywhere at will.
These cushions may be covered as SIM
ply as possible, with cretonne or Turkey
red calico, or with coarse worsted goods.
If they are made like pillow-cases. so
that they can be removed and dried if
they are damp, it will be found worth
while. AS for the decoration of the cot
tage this may be safely left for heyoung-
er members of the party, if there are
younger members; grasses, ferns, and
curious objects found in the woods may
relieve walls of barren look. Tack
large sheet of white paper or cardboard
to the wall, on this put with pins the
lovely moths and strange insects which
| abound. They must first be chloro-
formed or treated with benzine, and have
death made easy. The want of good
bed often drives the summer pilgrim
home, and if your retreat is accessible
| and it is possible to do so, by all means
take with you good bed. 1t is not at
all necessary that you should have
bedstead. The springs of the wire mat
tresses may be placed on the floor, or
they may be arranged with pieces
! of board so that they will answer an ex-
cellent purpose. A cottage does not
look habitable unless it has something
at the windows. Curtains of cheese
cloth are certainly inexpensive, but it is
not necessary that all the windows be
neatly curtained. Lambrequins may be
| improvised from old muslin dresses, or
slips of lace, or of cretonne. These may
| be made straight across the bottom and
| be trimmed or cut in points or scallops.
The table in the sittiny-room, which
may be OF an unpaiDted pine board,
| ougn1 10 nave spread. Make this of
scarlet Turkish toweling, or of drab; cut
the edge in scallops and bind with braid;
OF you may possibly find remnant at
/ the store of some pretty scarlet worsted
goods of bright color, but inexpensive
material. Then few books should be
taken, more to be looked at than to be
read, though one might be pardoned
even in the mountains for dipping into
| such books as Hazlitt's liable Talk" or
Essays of Ella BY all means follow
Thoreaus example and throw away
anything that demands dusting is,
much dusting. The less care one can
have the better, and I've no doubt that
lives are prolonged as well as sweetened
by these summer outings.-NeD York
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Mezzeroff, the Nihilist, says he can
convert tea into explosives more power
full than .gunpowder. lie must use a
very strong kind of tea. The efforts of
the Nihilist to annihilate by tea were
probably suggested by feminine explos-
ions over poor extract of the article.
1t is presumable, however, that Mezzer-
offs boast will have little effect on the
war in China. By the way, gunpow-
der tea is no novelty. Sittings.
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WIDE AWAKE DRUGGISTS.

Messrs Robinson & Hinrichs are
always alive the their business, and
spare no pains to secure the best of
every article in their line. They have
secured the agency for the celebrated
Dr.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton. The only certain cure known for
Consumption, Consshss, Colds, Hoarse-
ness, Asthma, Hay Fever, Bronchitis, or
any affection of the Throat and Lungs.
Sold on positive guarantees. Trial
Bottles free. Regular size $1.OO. 3
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l WAS severely afflicted for eleven, years
with hay Fever, after trying almost
everything without avail, gave up all
hopes of being cured, when purchased
bottle OF Elys Cream. Balm. To my
surprise. after few applications. was
entirely relieved. r. WATSON HARRIS,
Letter Carrier Newark, N. j.
1 recommend to those suffering Gas I
have with Hay Fever, Elys' Cream Balm.
l have tried nearly all the remedies, and
give this decided preference over them
all. 1t has given me immediate relief.
G.. L. STEPHENS, Hardware merchant,
Ithaca, N. Y. Price SO cents.
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Professor William II. Brewer, of the
Yale Scientific School, is convinced that
the .'higher the enlightenment of the
people the greater the variety of uses to
which horses are applied, and the Ameri-
can trotting horse is a special product
OF the highest civilization the world has
yet SEEM
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If Lillian Russell and other foolish
young women who run away with iber-
tines, to whom they are not married,
were spoken of as they really are. wom-
en- from whom all womanliness has de-
parted, and who are simply the play
things OF dissolute men, perhaps there
would be fewer anxious to forego the
crown of their sex to join the demi-
monde. As long as they regard dirty
notoriety q synonym for romance, how
ever. she will probably have many imi-
tators.-Bost0n Post.
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RARBER SHOP.

CARL PANGBURN'S Barbershop, in Barnes
I Oblock on n orth Eighth street. Work done in
good taste Particular attention paid to Ladies
and Children's hair cutting and shampooing By
ali means call and see Carl.
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A correspondent who is apparently.
an anti-tobacconist writes as follows:
'sThe native Canadians are not hand
.ome race, and the traces of Indian
blood are often discovered in their
physiognomy. But the dwarfing effect
of the constant use of tobacco for many
generations, early and late, is clearly to
be seen. No excessively smoking and,
drinking race can get or keep ascen-
depcy"
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FRED. SEEGER,

OFFERS TO HIS FRIENDS AND THE PUB
" lie generally, choice selection of Fresh
Meats, Salt Pork and Beef, Smoked Beef ana
Hams. Shoulders Sausages, Tallow and Lard at
the lowest rates. Market on Commercial Street.
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BECKER & TEITaEN have q large as
sortment of dry Doors and Sash which
they sell at an astonishing low figure
Don't fail to see them before purchasing
elsewhere. Every door is warranted to
be well seasoned,
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DR.. Henry Russell, of Quebec, per-
,ormed a surgical operation upon we'll
known Sherbrooke citizen, extracting
fram the calf of his leg a cuff-button
which the latter supposed he had lost
.ome time ago. How the button got
INTO such a singular position appears to
De an inscrutable mystery.
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CARPENTERS TOOT.S

Such as Planes, Chisels, Augers,. Saws,
Files, Boring Machines etc. can be
bought at least 25 per cent cheaper from
the Wagner & Rand Hardware Co. than
anywhere else in the city.
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VIM. MI. SEEGER,

DESTIST OFFICE UPSTAIRS IN ANDER-
sons Block, Corner South Eighth and Quay
Streets, Manitowoc, Wis Prompt attention will
be given to all work entrusted 10 me. apr21-ol
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WILLIAMS HOUSE.

ID. SMITH, PROPRIETOR, CORNER OF
n. Eighth and Franklin streets, Manitowoc.
4 nrst-class American Hotel, centrally located,
offers every inducement to the travelling public.
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CHARLES HOVER.

MERCHANT TAILORING ESTABLISH
Nl ment, on Sth street, near south end of Bridge.
The tailoring department is complete, and con-
tains large assortment of fashionable cloths Gnd
Gert's furnishing goods constantly on hand
Please call and examine before purchasing else
xUhn
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= SINNER SON

gTANUFACTURERAN AND DEALER IN BOOTS
lNl Shoes, Leather, &C., &c. Shop on Buffalo
Street, near the corner of Eighth. Repairing
neatly and Irnmptly exacntad
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NJ. KETTENHOFFEN,

NORTHWESTERN HOUSE, FRANKLIN AND
IN Ninth streets, Manitowoc. Travellers will
ere find the best Accommodations, Sample rooms
attached.
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MRS f. X ERN

WORK STREET, MANIToWoC, WIS, DEAL
er in Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Fancy
Goods, Glass ware, Boots AID Shoes, Ready made
Clothing, Paper Hangings Hats, Caps, Toys, Chill
dren Carriages, Live Geese Feathers, BIRD Cages,
Kerosene Oil and LAMPS, &C, &c. A share of pub
c patronage Is solicited.
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HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, SURGEON
III and Accoucheur, late resident Physician at
Inc Hahnemann Hospital, Chicago, has perman-
entity located at Mauitowoc. ofiice, on Buffalo
streets, west of Rands store.
;, ,Y 8 to 9 A. M,
oFElcE hooAso' to 2 and to 2 P. NJ.
Diseases of the eve and ear treated.
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HAalMocKs of all sizes at Piening &
Fechter's Bookstore.
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Business notices 10 cents per line. Wher con
tinued more than one week. half of the above
rates for each subsequent week.
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r X. PAINE. Si. D.,

physician and Surgeon, successor to Doctor ii.
Il Coaklcy. Office on York street, near Eighth,
Manitowoc, Wisconsin. sep 15
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r 8. I,UHMANN. NJ. D..

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE WITH
DIR. j. L. PRITCHARD. Hours: to 10 A. M,
y to / and TO F. M lmarS
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n O. BARNES. NJ, d.

DREWER AND MASTER, CORNER SIXTH
d and Washington streets, South SIDE. Inc
highest cash price paid for Barley.
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A q FRASER. M. l. G. M

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFCG AT
Residence of DR.. +. Simon, Hancock e.reet,
near the court house, Mantowoc, Wis. del5
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G. K. EsrABRooK. ", a; "ANAAN
ESTABROOK & WALKER,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW. Office corner Eighth
A and Franklin streets in Woods Block over
Wagner's store South Side. Manitowoc, WIS
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q G. SEDGWICK.

TToRNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
4 once in Torrison's brick block, north end
sth street bridge, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Coiieo-
tions promptly attended TO.
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NASH & NASH.
a TrORNEYS ANDCOUN SELORS AT LAW
a Ohce over First National Bank, Eighth 81
Publications promptly attended to-
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II q. g. w. ! TURNER,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW, OFFICE ON SIN
a Street. South side, over htehlers store, Man
tOwoc, " isconsin.
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j. ID. MARKHAM,
WILLIAM RAUR,

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
"A Ofice corner OF Sth and Quay Streets han-
itoyoc, Wisconsin.
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TERMS, TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR.
JOHN P. WICKERT,

NOTARY PUBLIC, LAND LOAN AGEMdj; lj
IN Rudoph's Block, Corner South hisGun iuneI a
franklin Streets, Manitowoc, Wis. Junol
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q. A. FUKRES I,
TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
A one in Carus Block, first ioor, in door 90
leading to County judges office, South ElgntIn
Street Manitcwoc, Wiz. Cohec'iohs Pi9ntPo' ;ntPSo
attended TO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
DISCRIMINATION IN RATES.

Bse-Line Officials Do Not Own One Share
in the Cleveland StOckards.
Thestatement of General Stock Agent Stewart
of the Decline system. In last evenings News.
when speaking of the alleged discrimination
against the Indianapolis stockyards, gives evil
dence that "a conference between the stock men
and General Traffic Manager skinner would lead
to a settlement of the question at ISSUE. 1t
Ia not east-bound through rates which the
stock dealers object to. hut local rates. For an
stance, a stock man at Union City writes that so
much more favorable rates are offered where
stock is shipped to Cleveland than when ship
ped to Indianapolis, he is forwarding his stock
10 Cleveland. A conference between the SHIP
pers and the Decline management would doubt
less result in n satisf aciory adjustment OF rates.
In this connection it would rot be out OF
place to state that there is the best
authority for the statement that neither ]. H.
Deyereux, 4. B. Thomas, Lueien Hill or o. B.
Skinner own one dollar of stock in the Cleve-
land stOcky ards, nor does any other official OF
she Bee-line. system. Each road centering at
Cleveland owns one share, that they may have a
voice In the election of directors. and only in
this manner is the Bee-fine company in any
sense interested in the earnings of the yards.
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Local Notes.

so pleased are the railroad boys on the Bee
line with their home at Brightweod that they
have ehristened it saints Rest"
A new iron bridge lis feet long was completed
at Muncie on the Decline yesterday. The bridge,
which cost $500, has been erected 81 nee the
flood OF ten days ago.
A force OF seventy-five men is employed on
the West Side in the construction of the new
yards of Clie Vandalfa company. Grading and
rrack-laying are moving along briskly.
The Indianapolis & ST. Louis management, to-
day, com the erection of an iron bridge
over walnut creek, at FERN, 2oO feet In length.
The Bee-line people are now making contracts
for bridges 25 per cont. cheaper than they could
q year ago.
The Bee-line passenger department gives no.
tice that to enable their patrons along the line
to visit each other ana exchange Christmas
greeting. all agents will be instructed TO sell
tickets to any point on this line not e Exceeding a
distance of 200 miles at one and one third fare.
Good going Dec %. %, ID and 25, also 80 and
81, and good to return en- any train until Jan. 3,
Inclusive.
One who ia posted as TO the affairs OF the Indi-
annapolis Sc Evansville Straight-lIne. states that
the Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis Airline
has no right TO prevent the StraIglt-line eHrving
their tracks, the latter having owned the rlgh5
of way thirty years and kept its priority properly
renewed during that time; and he says 1t may
vet he a mure extensive matter to the Airline
people than they have calculated upon. q
On Sunday next the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
indianapolis company make a decided change
in the running of their passenger trains. The
fast express now leaving at 6:55 p. M. will leave
at $3.50 P. NJ. on the arrival of the Chicago& In
dianapOlis Airline train, the latter arriving at
indianapolis q half hour earlier than 1t now
does, aud the C0nnersvilIe accommodate train
will be made n through tram to Cincinnati, and
will leave ait $40 p. NJ. instead OF 4:30 P. n.
We're the local passenger agents TO exercise
more caution in the sale of tickets to theatrical
parties to see that the party applying for the
lickets is entitled to the reduction made to the
atrical parties, 1t might DO vol. Yesterday
afternoon a person claiming to represent q the
atIdcal troupe called at one OF the local offices,
purchased tickets, which a half hour after were
in the hands OF a scalper, who sold them at cut
rates, the parties going to Louisville on the
tickets last night.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis man.
agement has abandoned Its scheme of con-
structing extensive yards at Glen the sum-
nit on the c.. H. & | division, having concluded
10 make Connersville IA more important station.
Additional tracks will be put down, and the con-
solidated engines will haut the trains between
Hamilton and Connersville and the mOgul en-
glnes the trains between Connersyille and In
dianapo,is. An engine will be stationed at Con-
nersyille to help freight up the Cennersyif1e
hill.