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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-08-27

THE services of the Massachusetts men are
best represented by the monuments on the
battlefield of Gettysburg The old Bay
State leads all the larger Commonwealths in
the money, care and taste she has expended
on these mementoes of her sons.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-08-27

THE article on the Quartermaster's De-
partment which appears in this weeks paper
is by the well-known Col. Jno. J. Bowen,
of Rochester, N. Y, who during the war
had an acquaintance that extended from
New York to New Orleans in both the Army
and Navy, and had friends everywhere.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-08-27

PUNCH raises his emphatic protest against
the introduction of the American catfish into
English waters. That is prudent. Full
grown Mississippi catfish in the Thames
might wreck one of Her Majesty's ironclads
OF bunt the big bridge over.
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OBITUARY..
Iu,asions OF pea,i, in the Ranks of

Inrasions OF Death in the Ranks of Our Comrades.
BoDIEAt Peabody. Kan, Aug. /, of eonsump-
ton SAM Bod!c. CO. L, Both lad
PA1TEEsoS-Shot by horse thief, at Peabody,
KAN Aug. s. james X. Patterson. Co. G, 9Th WIS.
Both OF the above were buried with the honors
Of war by Peabody Post.
JoNIs.-.it her home in Washington c. H., o.,
Aug Is after n short Illness. Mrs. J.. T. Jones wife
of Mai Noah ii. Jones, and President of Woman s
Relief Corps No. i5 Besides her husband. four
children and II wide cifcle of friends mourn her
loss She was buried by the Relief Corps. and the
funeral conducted according TO its ritual
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THE Philadelphia Progress says that g as
to the monument to Gen. Grant in this city
there is scarcely possibility of failure" Of
course not. Philadelphia people abound in
civic pride. They love their city, and are
eager to do whatever will enhance their in
terest and attractiyeness
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confluence of the great Scioto with the Ohio,
and its people are enthusiastically loyal.
They will, without doubt, give the boys
reception such as will be remembered all
their lives.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-08-27

SOME gentlemen are urging that part of
the money raised in Philadelphia for Grant
memorial be appropriated to endowing a
cancer ward in the Philadelphia Hospital.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-08-27
GEN. BOB TooMBs seizes the opportunity
to come to the front with the remark:

Gen. Grant was the creates. soldier produced by
the war. Gen. Lee very good engineer,
man of fine family but no man to head an army.
Gen. Grant was supplemented and honest, and
had no more luminosity toward the South than
toward the North. Being West Point graduate,
it profession with him. jeff Davis the
wrong man for the Confederate Presidency. 1t
should have been Albert Sidney Johnston Gen.
Joseph +. Johnston. The South was throttled by
Dayis's West Point ideas.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON. D. c., AUGUST q, 1885.

To any person who Will send us
q club of ten new subscribers to
THE TRIBUNE we Will present
n new G.. A. X. watch, inciOsed
i'm a handsome satin-lined case.
ard warranted to keep accurate
time.
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II becomes more evident every day that
the time is rapidly approaching when we
shall have to take Chilli across our knees
and give her good spanking.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-08-27

THE Michigan House of Correction and
Reformatory has "a old soldiers on duty as
officers and keepers.
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First Brigade, First Division. First Corps.

To THE EDITOR: Some time ago corrected
a statement OF Comrade Moody in regard to the
regiments which composed the - Iron Brigade =;
also the First Brigade, First Division, Firs
Corps. In THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE of July
80, W. l.. Hart, of the 18th Ind, regiment that
was not in the First Corps, corrects me in re-
gard to the regiments which composed the First
Brigade, etc. will leave the matter to the
Adiutant- General of the Army ut Washington.
l claim that the 18th Brooklyn tmilitia;. the
ODD, 2ith and 30th n. Y. and battalion of Ber-
dams Sharpshoo.ers, composed the First Brigade,
First Division. First Corps. from some time in
August 1861, till just after the Charlottesville
fight and further assert that the above bri-
gade was known as the Iron Brigade" from
the 18th OF April. 1852. till it WIS disbanded IN
May. 1868. owing TO the time having expired OF
che three New York volunteer regiments. after
which the Z" Wisconsin Brigade took the name
and carried il till the close Of the wars b,
CHANDLER, Co. Z, cath \. u, Yalialsa, Fla
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General sherman on The Tribune.

WASHINGTON, ID. Z.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
From the nature Of the articles published
IN the numbers Of THE NATIONAL tribune
sent me, ] observe that it is Published in the
interest of the soldiers of the civil war. In
this you have my hearty sympathy, and
will enieayOT in my own sphere of action to
cooperate with you in all practicable meas
ures to that end, without money and with
out price. With great respect,
Your obedieut servant,
W. 7. SHERMAN.
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history of its failure to pass. 1t then calls
attention to the following list of men whose
negative votes killed the bill:
AsscmbIy.-Messrs. Andrews, Arnold, c. X.
Baker, Church, Curtis, Ely, Green, Hardenburg,
Heath, VIM. NJ. Hawkins Hendricks, II. c. Howe.
Walter Howe, Hubbell. Hustled Kilby, Kruse. Iiv-
ingston, Lowing O'Neil, Palmer, Seeber, Snyder,
and Van Allen.
Seadie-Messsrs. Arkell, CoggeshalI, Comstock,
Daggctt, DAILY, Ellsworth Esty, Fassett. Gibbs,
Gilbert. Low, Newbold, Otis, Robb Robinson,
Thatcher Thomas, Titus, and Nedder.
These gentlemen will probably find that
the road to reelection has become much
more difficult than when they last Travelled
it.
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In the case of Oscar h. Dean and +. ;. Eastman,
he Commissioner holds that as the arm in both
Asses taken off at or near the shoulder joint,
rom injuries received in the service and line of
month. under the provision of the act of March 5,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
A Lime-KiIn Lecture.

The Honorable Jerusalem Shotwell,
of Virginia, being introduced 10 the
Lime-kiln Club, proceeded to discuss
one of his twenty eight lectures, this
one being on human nature. He said,
among other things: 'It am the
easiest thing in the world to make q
friend. Fust, locate your man. Sec
ond, size him Hlp. If he am vain,
proud man praise his personal appear
ance, his home his wife, chilpen an
speeches. No man am so poo an
lowly dat his words of praise won't
SCUM sweet to an egotist.
If he am a cross, surly, out-o'-sorts
chap, feelin' sartin in his own mind dat
de world wasn't built on correct prin-
ciples, doan' try to argy wild him to
convince him dat dis airth am all o. X.
from cellar to garret. On de contrary
side in wild him. Growl at de world,
abuse mankind, an tell him how sorry
you am dat he wasn't on ham to man
age things about POO Vars b. c. 1t
will be like doin' up a sore toe in a
CREASED rag.
when you meet man who am sort
O. sneakin' frew life on de quiet-neb-
Der heard of outside of his own naybur-
hOod-modest, unassumin', an only
wantin' to be let alone. feed him gum
drops. Tell him you have heard his
name menshuned as a candidate fur
alderman. Ask him what y ar it was he
run fur de Legislachur lnquar' when
his next book of poems is to be pub
lished. AK him if he am de Smith who
invented the comet. He will cringe
and vince, but he will 60 home an
think it ober an be your friend for
life
Oar am cranks to be humored.
Dar' am eccentrics to be praised. Dar'
am circlin' round us day by day a
chain of men and women who doan'
know beans from broomsticks, but
who mus be complimented on deir ex-
quisite tastes an high order of intel
leck.
LAS de time allotted to me has bout
expired, let me say to you, in closin'
dis discourse, dat de man who makes
enemies am no reader of human natur' .
1t am ilst as easy to make ten good
friends as one enemy. Abuse no man 5
pollytics. Slur no mans religion.
Hold no arguments with man who
has been soured by misfortunes. As
fur women-treat all alike by praisin'
all Returnin' you my capacious thanks
fur de emblematical indifference you
have exhibited throughout the delivery
of this celebrated lecture, | draw my
self to a close ''-DStroH Free IrcSS.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
BrignoIi's Appetite.

| 1t has always been a very painful
! thought to me that heaven-born tenorz
4 eat. Nothing is further from my idea
/ OF hero of Italian opera than eating
| Drinking is rather natural, although
| one always associates the tenor with
/ champagne and delicate wines. But
| know that CARDINAL eats. have seen
him. He is not poetic eater. have
had my eye fixed on the Adams apple
of Giannini' s throat, but l believe it is
not good manners, while he has Swal-
lowed toothsome morsel of macaroni.
1t is dreadfully destructive of Ernani,
Radames, and Faust to know that the
sweetness of their music is preserved at
the expense of all romantic ideal. Brig
noli was the boy to eat, though. He
discounted the modern champagne
and oyster tenor. He belonged to the
old school of feeders and he fed like
other lions. The higher a tenor can
sing the more he can eat. 1t is the ball
ance of art.
zoe Polk used to give an amusing ac-
count of Brignoli's suppers, which were
like several dinners of an ordinary
mortal. He used to frequent Morettis
in New York, favorite Italian restaur-
ant. 1t was Moretti himself who stood
sadly on the shore and saw the great
tenor sail for England. eau reVoir,
the silver-voiced tenor cried, and waved
! his fat hand to the restaurateur.
"Signor, S3,000r' cried Moretti. pit
eously, and the words were exchanged
on both sides till they were out of hear
ing of one another.
But Brignoli would go to Moretti's
after performance.
''Signor, good evening. How do you
feel this EVENING"" said the waiter.
''How feel? All, can you not seee
1 am seeck; am very seeck-" !
"What will you eat, signor?" !
'sEat, can you not see am seeck? T
am seeckP l am not well. l cannot
eat"
1--WE have some very nice oysters.
signor."
"Oysters? have no appetite. 1 am
not well. am seeck. But must eat.
My doctor say must force myself to
eat. Bring me two dozen. l will try
them"
The oysters are brought and demol-
ished. {
''Signor, how do you feel now?,"
''What for you ask me how feel?
am not well. | cannot eat anything. /;
"We have some fine fish,"
''Oh, must eat. My doctor say I
must eat. Bring me a pound and 1
Will taste it."
The fish follows the oysters.
"Signor, how do you feel now?'
Feel? feel very seeck. l can eat
nothing"
I've have some very nice chops'
CHOPS? If | could only eati All,
well, | must force myself to eat. T
will try six or seven"
The chops follow the fish.
''Signor, how do you feel now?''
''Oh, am SO seeck-so seeckl l have
no appetite.
There's some good macaroni' i
"Ah. well, | suppose | must eat
Bring in the macarOni. l must force
myself to eat.n
The macaroni follows the chops
''Signor," says the waiter, .'how do
you feel now?''
Now? All! l am better. l ann
mooch better. Brignoh is himself
again. Bring in your bill of fare.
Brignoli will dine. ."-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
The Same Bill.

As south ferry stage passed Cham
bers street going up yesterday morn
ing pretty young woman climbed in
and took a seat by the door. Fumb-
ling for some time in her purse, she
drew S5 bill and handed it forward
to a gentleman who passed it up to the
driver OF course it was handed back
to her.
.'Is there not some gentleman here
who can change it for me?" she asked.
No one answered. "Then | suppose
must get out, and perhaps miss the
train at the Grand Central depot"
Opposite her sat young man who
got up, and. paying her fare, was re-
warded with nod of thanks.
At Union square she left the stage
and entered store. Half an hour
later the young man who paid her fare
was coming down Broadway when at
Sth street the same young woman
hailed the stage, entered, and, without
recognizing her benefactor on the up
trip, handed him the Identical So bill
with little tear in one corner. He
had change in his pocket. paid her
fare, and handed her back S4.90.
That is cents short, SIR" she said,
after counting the change.
Il guess not. paid your fare, miss,
coming up. How many miles do you
ride on the credit OF Il So bill?"
She blushed scarlet, pulled the strap,
alighted, and hurried around the corner
into Bond street.-M Y. Tribune.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
AnecdOte of General Stager.

s"The death of General Anson Stager,
reminds me of how he took the first
telegraph message by sound, liz this
city, about forty years ago"
The speaker, says the Pittsburg
Times, was one of the very oldest news
paper men in Pittsburg, one whose
memory goes away back, from the
present TO the time when Mount Wash
ington was but a hole in the ground,
and covers everything between.
There are various claimants of the
honor of being the first to take by ear"
he continued, .sbut do not think any
of the others go back as far as this. 1t
was about forty years ago when the
! O'Reilly line was the only telegraph
wire into Pittsburg. The Office was in
| the second story of the Odeon building,
on Fourth avenue, over the old Mayors 3.
office David Brooks, who is now lead
ing the underground-wire fight before
the Legislature, was manager, and AM
| son Stager, who has Just died, ex-Pres-
ident of the Western Union Telegraph
| Company, was the operator. Andrew
| Carnegie, the iron prince; Robert Pit
| cairn, of the Pennsylvania railroad
| company; City Attorney Moreland and
George McLain, e4-Superintendent of
Fire Alarm Telegraph, were messenger
boys in roundabOuts.
There was but one instrument, and
when it got out of order business had
to stop until it was repaired. There
were no special dispatches to news
papers and no delivery of press mes
sages. Each paper sent a reporter
around to the telegraph office, who
copied what he wanted for his paper.
| The amount of foreign news was limit
ed to !, 800 night, and other reports
| in proportion, the charge to each pa
| per being - a week. Regular tele-
| graphic tolls at that time were 40 cents
| for ten words and 4 cents for each ad-
ditional word.
lone night when we called to copy
the report we found everything quiet
and Stager sitting at the table that held
| the instrument reading. He told us
| there would be no news that night, as
| as that part of the instrument which
| printed the characters on the paper
was broken. We SO reported, and the
editor poured fresh oil on the gudgeon
of the scissors and made the best ar
rangement they could to get along
without any telegraphic news.
Between IL o'clock and midnight
StaSer came INTO the o1hce OF the COM
nlerciat journal with a bundle of man-
uscript in his hand. He said that while
sitting by the instrument and listening
! mechanically to the clicking it seemed
! to him that he could make out what it
was saying by the sound. He had
| written it out as it sounded to him.
! Here it was. If we would take the
| risk Oh its accuracy We were welcome
to use it, and found on comparing with
| Eastern papers which came three days
| later, that there were very few mistakes
in it. The ''scoop" the Commercial
| journal thus obtained over the Dis
| patch, Post, GGzette, and Union was the
| talk of the town for several days.
But the instrument was repaired
next day, Stager went back to the old
| system, and the first message ever ta-
| ken by sound soon ceased to be talked
about"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
The Art of Jugglery.

ssThe art of jugglery has not advanc-
ed much within the last twenty-five
years." painfully admitted a superan-
uated wizard to q reporter. ''lndeed.
it has nearly all been thoroughly ex-
posed, and the very minute methods
by which wonderful results were at
tanned appear now as easy as making a
coin disappear from the closed fist. So
much for science and civilization"
"What will be the result, do you
think?"
'Some of the results are palpable
now. The old leight-of-hand man has
almost passed away. The wonderful
cabinet of spirits, which at one time
astonished the world, it has been prov
en-, was nothing more nor less than q
trick in which confederates participat-
ed. Heller, Houdin, and the DaVen-
port brothers all were exposed. What
is left for the professionals to do is the
question. They can not all turn sword
swallowers, or knife throwers. because
that requires lifetime of practice,
Some new departure will have to be
taken in which the cabinet does not ap-
pear, and the tricks OF Houdin and
Heller are omitted. This is essentially
the age of realism. and therefore the
tricks in jugglery will have to far ex-
ceed in cleVerness any that We have
ever seen produced. When wizard
has a stage of his own he can produce
startling effects which defy superficial
investigation. But the time has ar
rived when superficial investigation is
never carried on, but instead such a
searching and profound one is per-
formed that the little apparatuses de-
signed to assist are taken into consid-
Grafton and removed. The game is eff
fectually blocked. Heller, with his
wonderful memory, could do many
strange tricks, and Houdin was consid-
cred wonderful by the learned and su-
pernatural by the ignorant All they
both did is perfectly plain now. Some
new method, in my opinion, assisted by
| science and electricity, will in few
years be discovered to .delude and
| create speculation as the cabinet and
MANY other tricks did for many years.
The horse-play jugglery of the present
| doesn't amount to much. The Japa-
nese do astonishing tricks, but there is
nothing mysterious about them, since
their tricks depend altogether on their
personal agility and years of constant
practice All of the tricks and jugglery
of the present day must give way. II
no longer entertains. ThepeOple want
something they can see into, so they
will not go any more to witness cabi-
net trick performances. Who will open
up the new field remains to be seen.
But that the times are ripe for it nc
, one can doubt, and who the wizard will
be to cheat the eyes and physical inves.
tigation of an intelligent and sceptical
public is a matter of conjecture. IN
7. Mail and ETpresS.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
A Bright Boy

While teaching in large school in
PENNSYLVANIA Miss Crayon had sole
charge of Il not particularly bright little
fellow whose education had just begun.
During the reading lesson one day
George stumbled and come to a dead
stop at the word mat.
.'Spell it Georgia" said the teacher.
"M-a-t," read the boy.
"Well, what is it?"
Don't know"
'Oh yes, you do" said Miss Crayon,
encouragingly. Come now George,
what do you wipe your feet on?"
"Ohr' cried the little fellow with a
Iong-drawn sigh of relief, MAT, tow
eli''-RdTper' Bdzdr.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11

The Chinese know the value of adver-
tising. Here is the ''ad' of an ink
manufacturer of Canton, translated:
"At the shop Tae-sing prosperous in
the extreme) very good ink; fine! fine!
Ancient shop, great-grandfather, grand
father, father, and self make this ink;
fine and hard. very hard; picked with
care, selected with attention. This ink
is heavy; so is gold. The eye of the
dragon glitters and dazzles, so does
this ink. No one makes like it. Others
who make ink make it for the sake OF
accumulating base coin and cheat,
while L make it only for name. Plen-
ty of A-kwantsaes (gentiemen) know
my ink-my family never cheated
they have always borne good name.
1 make ink for the Son of Heaven and
all the Mandarins in tho Empire. As
the roar of the tiger extends to every
place, so does the fame of the dragon S
Jewell IN y Tribune.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11
The Judges Dog Story.

You talk about dogs" said the
Judge, "you talk about dogs-l can
tell you the funniest story about a
dog"
''Did you know the dog?" said the
doctor.
Il did. This dog belonged to a
him out with him."
''you should never let dog know too
much"
The dog used to wait outside for
him when he went in to call on a
friend. One night they were a very
merry party and they kept it up late.
My friend got very drunk. The dog
finally got restless and began to howl
A champagne bottle just passed his
nose and he smelt it and shut up.
About o'clock in the morning my
friend came out. He said goodnight,
shut the door. walked in by the garden
gate all over the flower-beds, and final
ly, unable to get out. he lay down on Il
rosebush and went to sleep. The dog
watched by him till the milkman came
along in the morning. picked him up
and took him home"
That's nothing" said the doctor.
''You just wait minute. Two or
three nights later he went and called
on his friend again and took the dog
with him. The dog waited outside a
little while and began again to howl.
Another champagne bottle was thrown
at him. He smelt it, winked to HIM
self, and trotted off He went home,
scratched at the door till the servant
girl opened it, attracted my friend s
wife's attention, made her follow him
to pile of planks and whined till they
got out a very long and broad one.
Then he directed them to where his
master was, and when the door bell
rang and the door opened, the revelers
found the dog. my friends wife, the
servant and q stretcher. That dog
knew what was needed, you bet"
"Wen," said the doctor, 81 thought
I knew all the dog stories, but that's 9
new Qne.p -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11

Editors will have their peculiarities
as well as other people They practice
and inculcate brevity, which is a vir-
tue. They are absent-minded, which
is failing. 1t is not strange, then, that
one should send note to his lady-lov
like the following: Dearest, l have
carefully analyzed the feeling l enter
tain for you, and the result is substan-
TALLY as follows: I adore you! VIII
you be mine? Answer" Then. after a
moment of thought, he added in a
dreamy, absent way: ''Write only on
one side of the paper. Write plainly.
and give real name, not necessarily for
publication, but as guarantee of good
faith.-Bufdlo Courier.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-06-11

The ordinary Atlantic storm waves
are not more than thirty feet high. but
when the barometric pressure is un-
usually low at the storms center and
relatively high around its outer circle
the level of the sea is raised over a
large area, and the winds blowing in
on the center occasionally heap up the
waters to the height of sforty-five feet.
In a monograph published by the hy-
geographic Office, it is stated that storm
waves. at rare intervals. have been OBJ
served mounting from forty-four to
forty-eight feet above the sea level.
That the Germanic overrode such a
mountain of water" sufficiently de-
monstrates her prowess, despite the
scathing she received