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Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
The Girls at Long Branch.

MannaS,an III Chlcago JOURNAL
The most slightly and satisfactory
things to study at Long Branch are the
girls. They are constantly presenting
new and curious aspects of femininity.
Just new they are engaged in hight
for and against the bang. Shall or shall
not the forehead be exposed to viewl
The curtain of hair is ordered up by
mandate of fashion, but obedience is by
no means general Girls with low
brows are willing to denude them, be-
cause they know that the effect will be
pretty in itself, besides nonplussing the
possessors of high foreheads, who are
bound to look odd in exposing an expan-
sive portion of Uranium SO long kept
covered. The common result is a kind
OF compromise cropping of front locks,
and frlzzy arrangement like that
shown by Mrs. Langtry during her last
tour here.
The increase of apparent intellectually
is astonishing, but am forced to write
that there is a corresponding loss of
prettiness. The change is improving to
only small minority. Lawn tennis is
played in the most picturesque manner
possible to art. The girls wear costumes
for this game that are doubtless dis
tracing to impressionable observers
Very Jaunty jockey caps; Jersey waists
that are plant to every move of joint OF
muscle underneath; scarfs that encircle
shifting outlines, skirts that are short
and seant, stockings that are bright in a
brief sectional view, and canvas shoes
matching the dress in color, that make
a show of utility in their rubber
soles--all these components OF
the tennis toilets are highly ap.
proved by the admiring eye of
man, when the game is pitched on the
lawn of big hotel, and the adjacent
veranda holds crowd of critical spec
tators, it is stretch of credulity to sup
pose that the girls are other than con,
scious performers; and the success which
most of them achieve in an affectation
of Indifference to the staring. of com
plete absorption in the exercise, and of
unstudiedness in graceful posing, is re-
markable proof of the American trait of
cool self possession.
The expenditure for dress is extrava-
CANT or not, according as the indulgers
can not or can well afford it. Hard
times have not appreciably lessened the
display of costly clothes. A few of the
wearers in former years have 'disap-
peared, but their places are taken by
fresh dressers. On the whole there is
no deterioration.
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26

lol LOUIS SlODe-DenlOCTaCI
The fog signal apparatus is now con-
structed in such manner that in calm
weather its sound may be heard twenty
miles. This power is gained by means
of two slotted cylinders, one fixed and
the other revolving in it. The slots, as
they pass one another, stop or cut off
the passage of compressed air or steam
and thus cause a series of vibrations.
and consequently a musical note, the
pitch of which depends upon the speed
of the revolving cylinder In order to
vary the note, it is only necessary t.
control this velocity The double note
horn is formed with casing within
which is a fixed a slotted cylinder
and a revolving cylinder moving
upon spindle The slots are formed in
each cylinder at opposite inclined angles,
so that the motive fluid impinging
against number of inclined planes
causes the inner cylinder to revolve with
rapidity, carrying with it two disks, at
tached to the common spindle, and upon
their peripheries are pressed levers, un-
der the action of small pistons operated
by diaphragms, TO the outer surface of
which compressed air is admitted.
When the high note is required, one
brake is put on; for the low note, both
brakes
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
THE two leading Democratic paper

THE two leading Democratic papers
at Nashville, Tennessee, are quarreling
over the meaning of the tariff plank in
the Democratic platform. The Ban
! ner contends it means protection and
the American insists it is free trade. 1t
certainly cannot be a very plain state
ment of principle when Democratic
papers thus contend over its meaning.
Cleveland indorses it, but fails to say
which side of it. Hendricks, of course,
is used to the straddle and is therefore
exactly suited.
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26

ters,-(and here Mr.. Allen smiled)-
there is nothing IN them. He was al
ways dutiful and probably helped his
mother But the brothers who went to
the war did more than Grover toward
supporting the family. | don't think he
remained home from the war on that
account. l have always been on good
terms with Grover, but of late years |
have not seen much of him. He never
went into society, and his associates
were men of eonvivial habits. and not
persons of high standing in the com
munity. A good many things that
were known about him were kept from
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There is an immense amount for fashion
ably untutored man to find out, and every
little while get a revelation that as
tonishss me. While in the Long Branch
store, where the bellies buy the adtuncts
and replsnishments of toilets brought from
the city, stood near to a girl who was
examing several pieces of light pink satin
She had pushed up the sleeve of her dress
somewhat and was laying the fabrics, one
after another, across the exposed part of
her arm
This is a match this morning, she re-
marked to her companion; but it's rather
cool this morning, and I'm afraid it
wouldn't do IA case the weather should
turn hot l get awfully pink, don't you
know37
What could she mean7 l considered.
and came TO the right conclusion. She
was selecting material to put under the
lace at the neck of her bodice. and her
desire was to have it the exact hue of her
complexion But her own shade, unlike
that of the satin, varied with the tempera-
taIre, and so was raised a complication
which puzzled her.
How did she solve the problem? By
taking two shades of the cloth, thus pre-
pairing herself for the ruddiness of a torrid
occasion and the pallor of a seashore rain
storm At that rate we shah soon have in
the dry goods market fabrics dyed not only
for compilations as affected by temperature,
but to meet the complex requirements of
malaria etc
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
ses of SaWduat.

When urged to burn, or in some othei
way dispose of their sawdust, lumbermer
have objected that they could not afford tn.
cost. There is hope that the perplexins
problem of dealing with this nuisance may
now be solved for a process has been dis
covered by which the refuse sawdust NAV
be made to yield handsome profit. Whel
dry II Is carbonized in iron retorts, and il
the process there is given off so per cent
of volatile products, the remaining 20 pc
cent. being granulated charcoal, which cal
be used in making gunpowder, hlterA
lining refrigerators, and as q disinfectant
and mixed with little tar 1t could b,
pressed into bricks and used for fuel; %
of the 80 per cent of the volatile product
is in the form of fixed gases, which can be
used for heating lighting, etc; AZ pei
cent is pyroligenous acid, which is crude
acetic acid, and after being purified and
concentrated is used in white lead, color,
print, and vinegar manufactures.
There remains 10 per cent of tar and
one of wood alcohol The tar has the
same properties IS coal tar, the almost end
less uses of which, such as pitching roofs,
Inning water tanks. covering the bottoms
OF vessels, protecting iron from rusting
covering the wounds made in pruning
trees, and in the form of benzole, naptha,
earbolic and sulphuric acids, and the
whole splendid series of aniline dyes
constitute one of the chief glories of mod
ern chemistry. The wood or methylic
alcohol is used ~ solvent for gums. in
varnish making, in the manufacture OF
aniiine colors.
The sawdust from yellow pine and other
wood rich in resin yields also consider.
able amount of turpentine, in the gather
ing OF which so many trees are every year
sacrificed
1t is estimated that in saving inch
boards of nine hemlocE etc tho ono
fourth inch sswkerf uses up one one-fifth
of the log. When lumber Is sawed by the
billion feet, one can easily see that the
question of disposing of the sawdust in
way to yield profit, instead of a first
class nuisance, Is q very important one
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
THE recent election in Kentucky fo

THE recent election in Kentucky for
Appellate Judge in the eastern district
is an Indication of how the current is
moving in politics in other portions OF
the country. The district is composed
of forty-one counties, and last year
gave Democratic majority of 7,2l0.
This year the Republican candidate for
Judge was elected by 625 majority,
the Republican vote being increased
about 1000 and the Democratic vote
decreased something over 800. 1t is
now pretty sure that in this district the
Republicans will gain two members of
Congress-
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26

The astute editor of Harpers Week
ly is thrown upon the defensive and is
greatly out cf humor 1t is not his
custom to explain his positions, but the
rough treatment he is receiving for his
inconsistent course drives him TO it, and
he growls furiously at the necessity. He
can't satisfactorily explain why he now
condemns Blaine for an act which he
fully approved at the time as correct
and proper.
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26

Al faints the breath Of fAdins day,
Az aink the winds when husnsd 20 sleep
Among the stars with ling rnS sighs,
AZ fAlls the twilight on the deep
That throbs beneath the azure skies.
So floats the soul troIn earth away
So dies the raging tempest's blast
Along the desolatsd shore;
So all the maddsned streams ind rest,
Lost in the sea forevermore.
So in the mounsains burning breast
His furied passions sleep at last
So fades and dies upon the night,
pealins note Of some strange song
With feebler breath the last tones fail.
Through yelling shadows dim aud long;
Yet sweeter still the echoes cali,
With harp and singer lost 20 sight
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26

GROVER CLEyELAND Is not much
known to the country, and it Is now
learned he is not much known even In
his own family. Everything connected
with him is, therefore, sought after both
as news and as showing what kind of a
man he has been in the past. Hon.
William +. Allen. of Buffalo, is an IN
Gle of MIR. Cleveland: recent inter
view with him has disclosed few new
facts which are of public interest just
now. Mr.. Allen says:
Mr.. Cleveland came to me when
eighteen years old, and l told him that
he could make his home here and l
gave him his board. He was an intelli
gent, bright young man, and l got him
a place in law firm. He was then and
always has been strong Democrat As
to the stories of his isremaining home from
the war 70 support his mother and sis
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
DEMOCRATIC perplexities are j

DEMOCRATIC perplexities are In
creasing every day. The Democrats in
Montgomery county, in this State, last
week appointed their delegates to the
county convention. Among these were
two prominent and influential Irish
Democrats. named Pat McMannis and
Timothy Ring. The next day, to the
chagrin of the managers, both declined
to serve as delegates, publishing cards
declaring they could not longer actwith
the Democracy and support free trade,
and that they intended to vote for
Blaine and Logan. 1t is claimed that
one hundred more Irish Democrats in
Charlottesville will follow the example
of these in supporting the Republican
ticket.
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
The Earth as q Projectile.
(Exchange1 ]

If, looking at the earth in an artil-
terry point of view, and following the
principles Helmholtz has laid down, the
earth were considered an enormous pro-
jectile, and if it were supposed further
the whole energy stored up in gun
powder could be utilized, there would
yet be required charge $50 times
greater than its own weight, or 900
times than its volume, to communicate
to the earth her ornital motion.
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
THE Democrats profess great man

THE Democrats profess great many
things they do not practice In Indiana
they profess to be opposed to the use of
convict labor in competition with free
labor. Over in Kentucky where the
Democrats are all-powerful they prac-
tice the opposite course. The Louis
vile Times, in referring to it, says:
1t has been demonstrated that six
hundred conyicts, driven to labor in
season and out of season by the lash of
taskmasters. can mine all the coal for
which transportation can be had over
the Chesapeake, Ohio 4 Southwestern
road. 1t has been shown that free labor
can not compete With this slave labor.
and therefore the continued employ
ment of these eonvicts will take the
bread from the mouths of one thou
sand free, honest workingmen.a and drive
them. their wives and dchildren from the
State Of their birth or adoption.
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26


A new horseshoe has lately been exper-
imented with at Lyons, France. The shoe
is made entirely of sleeps horn. and is
found particularly adapted to horses en-
ployed In towns and known not to have
steady foot on the pavement The results
OF the experiments have proved very salts
factory, as horses thus shod have been
driven at a npid pace on the pavement
without slipping. Besides this advantage
the new shoe is very durable, and though
little more expensive than the ordinary
one, seems destined sooner or later TO re-
place the iron shoe particularly for horses
employed in large cities, where, besides
the pavement the streets are intersected
by tramway rails, which from their slipper.
lness constitute = source OF permanent
danger. Eg
Butte, Mont, is advanced enough to
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26

lLOnuOn
If ever this channel of communica-
ton is completed, it will have, like the
Suez waterway, far-reaching conse-
quences. The British public, however,
do not show much interest in the affair,
and therefore seekers after trustworthy
information are driven to the official re-
ports recently issued by the government
of the United States. From these docu-
ments we learn that, though the canal
itself is scarcely begun, much useful
preliminary work has been accomplished
Surveys have been made, the route has
been cleared of trees and bushes, cot
tages and barracks have been built and
hospitals established. Admiral Cooper
states that the undertaking is so gigantic
that it is difficult to believe that it can
be finished by the allotted time, 1888,
but he admits that the work already
done is of a solid and substantial char
acter.
Recently there have been serious dis
turbances both at Panama and Aspin-
wall, chiefly between the native Colon
bians and the imported laborers, some
12, 600 or $4,000 in number, from ia
maica. As these latter are, of course,
British subjects, it is quite possible that
our government may be drawn into some
difficulty. Finally comes the question
whether the canal, if finished, will
prove commercial success. 1t is
reckoned to cost S120, 900, 600, and Will
probably cost great deal more Will
the tolls which are levied on the ships
which pass through be likely to yield
fair interest upon this enormous capi-
tall That the Suez canal was at first
failure and is now success, does not
answer the question, because the circum-
stances of the two cases are not an alo-
gous. There is no region in the western
world to which the Panama canal will
be such convenient short cut as the
Suez canal Is to the countries of south
ern Asia. To Australia the Panama
canal will merely afford an alternative
route OF doubtful advantage; neither
Mexico nor Peru raises much produce as
compared with India or China, and the
western coast of North America is al
ready united with the eastern by several
Lines of railway. Altogether the Panama
canal seems more likely 10 be useful 70
America than to the world in general
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
FASHION IN MUsTAcHEs.
MustaeheIess Men of the Bar-Before
the War.

MustaeheIess Men of the Bar-Before
the War.
philadelphia Record.I
Cup to the time of the breaking out of
the war il was the universal custom for
men to have cieanly shayen faces. This
was the case with the rich and poor
alike A laborer with a mustache
would be the butt of his associates. Mil
itary and naval men alone appeared with
the upper lip covering. | suppose they
had a sort of idea that it made them
appear more ferocious and was better
suited to their calling. 1t was the style
TO be mustacheless. a few men wore
full boards, but they had the hair re
moved from the upper lip. The girls
looked upon young man with a mus
tache as fop, and they did not like
him Hos different the case is now
That is. | have been told that the lover
of the present day is better received the
more magnificent the mustache is.
Here is book of eminent men of the
period, covering the years from 1854 to
1858. There are the steel engravings of
more than fifty men of that period.
Take President Franklin Pierce's cabi-
net There is James Guthrie, of Ken
lucky; j. G. Dobbin of North Carolina;
James Campbell, of Pennsylvania; JEFF
ferson Davis, of Mississippi; W. l..
Marcy, of New York Robert McCleHand
and Caleb Gushing. Not one of these
men had mustache, and Davis only
had tuft of hair upon his throat. So
it was with all the rest. They We're
clean shaven so far as regards the
upper lip. Take some of the leading
men of our bar to-day, especially
those who were in practice years ago
They sti1 adhere to the custom of the
English court. Attorney General
Brewster's face has not hair upon it.
Richard McMurtrie's is clean. Daniel
Dougherty has flowing side whiskers and
a hairless lip. Eli K. Price, true to old
times, is bereft of mustache George
Junkin, David W. Sellers, John K Val
entine, Henry NJ Phillips, Isaac Norris,
James J. Barclay, William b. Mann,
John C. Bullitt, George W. Biddle, and
host of others who are in active prac
tice cannot be reproyed upon the score
that mustaches tend to impede the wave
of sound from their throats and lips
1t was never compulsory to appear
mustacheless. Fashion decreed it, and
every one followed the edict of the tickle
dame During the war period men be
came careless in the excitement. Thou
sands went to the front and had no
chance to shave, so gradually The old
style of being cleanly shaven died out
hardly know what some men would do
to-day without their mustaches. They
pull upon them, comb them, and give
the hp-covering considerable part of
their leisure time. Take the youth of
the present generation What is more
than a young man struggling
with faint covering for his upper lip2
Why, if Chief Justice Cockburn could
get hold Of him no doubt he would mete
out justice to him.
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26

TUE ex-Democrats are becoming a
formidable party, and will soon be able
to execute Judgment on the remaining
portion of the Democracy, who will re-
tire with Cleveland to the wilderness
next November. s.
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
ALVIN e. CROCKER.
anol S.aff
THE TREE BY THE WELL

joaquin Miller
An Arab Sheik in deserts wild
Once sorrowed so for thirsting man
He led before the caravan,
And digging wells, he, thirsting, died
He died of thirst the wells remaini
. daring. patient pioneer,
Gods angels, what triumph here
To know no well is digged in vaini
We led against the sunset gold
We lifted hand in desert land,
Digged ells-and-graves-in drifting
sand
The Arabs piteous tale of old
We plant tree beside this well
OF knowledge in the westmost West;
Ion peaks rise up to call it blessed,
They stand eternal sentinel
Some far-on day when we are dust
And ali this vast vale teens with life,
Some brave souls faintinR in the strife
May rest them here and speak US just;
May say we few, through wilds of rime,
Blazed out new ways for worlds to come,
And murmured not, but bravely dumb
So died, full trusting God and time
Life's lessons bid us bide its worth,
With all its fruitage bound in ton;
Trust God, and trust the generous soil
OF human hearts as trusting earth.
l count it kindlier far to wait,
To work in faith. to wait in tears
Ay, wait and wait Thousand years
Than once to doubt challenge fate
So here we set this little seed,
And trust its tender boughs TO Time;
To grow to touch the stars sublime
As grows and grows some small, good deed
Set deep where lilies ever nod.
Walled round by everlasting SHOWS,
To grow as some great, strong soul grows
When growing upward to its God
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26

SOMETIMES. an incautious Democrat
condemns the acquittal of the Star
route defendants. but it is when he for
gets that the lnssnhxa of the jury, Mr..
Dickson, is a Depoar4e and member
of the Democratic National committee.
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
Doesnst Sell.
lExchange.l

The patent fsh-pole, with self register
attachment. showing exact number OF fish
caught with it. dsplays great inventive
skill, but II doesn't sell worth q cent.
Angisrs prefer to depend On their memorF
In such cases
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
Electric Headlixht.

By new electric headlight for locomo-
tives thirty-thee telegraph poles can be
counted ahesd Of the engine On Q dark
night ThtztysAsse poles cover about one
mia
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THE DAILY PALLADIUM
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Gives the latest news ~ telegraph.
The latest naarhet reporas by tele-
graph. All the general and miseellan-
eOus news OF the day. Full and COM
pIete local news of the city, and II the
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eru Indiana
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STATE IlChE
WILLIAM H. CALKINs. La Porte county.
g LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
EUGENE H BUNDY. Henry county.
SECRETARY STATE,
ROBERT MITCHELL. Gibson county.
AupIroB OF STATE, -
BRUCE CARR Orange county
TREASURER STATE
ROGER r, SHIEL, Marion county.
ATTORNEY GENERAL,
WILLIAM G. WILSON, Tlppecanoe county.
yUDaE SUPREME coUHT. IFTH DIST RIOT.
Va EDWIN p. HAMMOND. jasper county.
- RRPoRrER SUPREME COUNT
WILLIAM NJ. HOGGATT, Warrick county.
sUPERIsTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.,
BARNABAS c. HOBBS, Parke county
> ron CONGRESS-,
.qHiYld s HH0''As y: BROWNE
COUNTY TICKET.
I.EarsLArURE,
JAMES NJ. TOWNSEND.
4-4-~s-e. JOHN h. MAUK.
CRoUTr JUDGE,
ga DANIEL w. COMSTOCK.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY,
JOHN +. ROBBINS.
TREASURER,
STEPHEN s. STRATTAN.
ISAAC A. GORMON.
ooMMssIoSERsl
ABRAM GAAR,
MARK MAUDLIN,
SURVEYOR,
ADDISON Fl. STUDY.
4 a. i ooRoNER, E
CHARLES 8. BOND.
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Butte, Mont, is advanced enough to
support a manicure.
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT.

AMI REPUBLICAN TICKET
FOR PRESIDENT.
JAMES @. BLAINE,
OF MAINE 6@A@
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
sa94gdf GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN,
OF ILLINOIS. 4Ffft
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FOR VICE PRESIDENT.

GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN,
Richmond daily palladium., 1884-08-26
STATE TICKET.

OF ILLISO
Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-03-06

By the kindness of Mir. W. H. Thomas, of Ihe Golden Fleece mine, we gather the following from a long article in the Hhaca Daily Jour, nal of February 21: That no Golden Fleece stock is to be had for love or money, and that the company got by their milling test $l0.S9 in gold per ton, and silver undetermined. Fur ther, that a contract for 20,stamp mill would be closed in few days, and MT. Mack would be on his way back here to prepare for its erectior. A syndicate has taken hold of the matter and the Golden Fleece will now be crowded. Fourteen men, MT. Thomas informs us, are now at work, and an endeavor will be made 10 have at least 4,000 tons of ore on the dump by the time the mill is ready to work it. The gentlemen who have % long and faithfully stuck to the property have our sincere congratu- lasions. We have been confident from our first examination of the mines that they must ultimately prove valuable.