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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-22

is that the work was done by non-union men,
Such rows occur frequently" Commissioner
Morris remarked that the union committee
ought to have informed the board if its speci-
fcations were wrong. The work had been done
strictly according to the manner prescribed in
the contract, and the Commissioners thought
that they had succeeded in getting very good
job Of plumbing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-22
Sentenced to the WOrk-House,

Eight prisoners, sentenced by Mayor McMaster
to various terms of punishment for violating
State laws, were taken to the work house yester-
day. Judge Norton sent two who had been tried
in his court for petit larceny, Frank Powell and
Charles Davenport. Each will serve a term of
SIX months. These are the first prisoners in that
institution direct from the courts. Those in
Jail who come under work house sentences are
to be taken there to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-22

coal-vases, all of which we are Offering at re-
duced prices. No trouble to show goods, and
invite an inspection whether yon buy or not.
Hldebrand g. Fugate. 80 South Meridian street.
TIE Estey organ factories are the largest in
the world, and the demand for their instruments
is such that they have now manufactured and
sold upwards of 160, 600.
The greatest care is practced in the manu-
facture of the Shoninger organ. They are made
of the best materials.
The Shoninger organ. with chime of bells, is
very beautiful and effective.
D. H. BALDWIN & Co,
IS, 81 and SO North Pennsylvania street, Indian
apolis.
ORDERING OF PIANOS AND ORGANS BY PARTIES
LIVING Our OF THE City.
We make a specially of selecting pianos and
organs for parties who live at a distance from
the city. and write to us what they want. Be-
1ieving that our interest can best be served by
faithfully considering that of our customers, we
make it point to use our best judgment for
those who trust to US.
We do not print catalogues Of second hand
pianos and organs but are always ready to send
full written descriptions of the same to BUYERS
at distance, who will give US an idea of what
they want. We make it point to sell these in
struments at very low prices.
d. II. BALDWIN e. Co.,
90, 81 and so North Pennsylvania street, Indian.
apolis, Ind.
In buying pianos and organs many persons
have the idea that they must pay all cash.
There are thousands of families who have an
income Of fifty to to one hundred dollars per
month, who can easily spare from Eve to ten dol
lars of it and scarcely miss it. To all such we
would say, do not wait to lay up to pay for an
instrument before buying. but see or write us at
once for our terms No matter if you cannot
pay but FIVE dollars month towards an organ,
or only ten dollars towards piano. let us hear
from you without delay, and we will satisfy you
that we are giving easier terms than any music
house in the United States. We furnish hun
dreds of homes every year with pianos and or
gans, and take our pay in small installments
each month or quarter. that, were the purch as
ers obliged to pay the full price of an instru-
ment in cash. they could not buy one. All let
tiers of inquiry cheerfully answered. We have
men for that purpose alone so do not hesitate
to write and tell us just how you van afford to
buy. D. III. BALDWIN & Co,
95. 81 and 80 North Pennsylvania street, Indian
apolis, Ind.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
" There are some queer couples in

"There are some queer couples in
this world" remarked a Dearbon
street estate agent. The other day
a man and woman called to see me
about renting a fiat on the North
Side. The woman did all the talk
ing and turned to the man for con-
tirmatlon or confederation. He al
ways agreed with her and he did it
very meekly. "Well," says the wo.
man, finally, 81 will give you S25 for
that fiat; won't we, John ?" "Yes'm,n
replied the man. "And I'll pay my
rent promptly, too won't we,
John "Yes'm.n "And I'll take
good care of the house; won't l.,
John ?" "Yes'm.1 "But," I inquired,
as usual in such cases, "are you man
and wife ~ "Man and wife - ex.
claimed the woman, sharply, "indeed
we are not are we, John ?" "No'm.n
" What ~ says /, "not man and
wife 7" Not much. I'd have you
know that in this family we are wife
and man amt we, John n"Yes'm.'"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
CHRISTMAS In MIDSUMMER.

Wouldn't you think it funny, chill
dren, to see Christmas come in the
middle Of summer; to have NO ice
and snow on the ground, and no
merry sleigh-bells ringing, and moth
ing to remind you that it is winter
Well, away off on the other side of
the world Christmas comes in the
middle of summer. In Australia on
Christmas morning the children say,
"Oh, dearg how hot it is. lido wish
Christmas came i'll the winter time.'
For when it is winter here it is sum.
mer there and when you are lying
under a shady tree in July, the little
Australia children are running
around with winter clothes on blow,
ing on their fingers to keep them
warm. But whether it comes in
summer or winter, wherever the
English language isspoken ills atime
of jolity and plenty of tender
feeling and kindly gifts of "peace or
earth and good will to men."-Select
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
rie"fqn TT a',f Italy.

= WI
Wives poison SO freely admins.
tered by Italians in the seventeenth
century, was termed aqua tofano, from
the name of the woman Tofania, who
made and sold it in small fat walls. She
carried on this traffic for half a century
and eluded the police: but, on being
taken confessed that she had been
a party in poisoning 600 people.
Numerous persons were implicated by
her, and many of them were publicly
executed. All Italy was thrown into
ferment, and many fed. and some per
o n OF distinction, on conviction, were
strangled in prison.
1t appeared to have been chiefly used
by married women who were tired OF
their husbands. Four or six drops
were q fatal dose; but the effect was
not sudden, and therefore not sus-
pected- 1t was as clear as water, but
the chemists have not agreed about its
real composition. A proclamation OF
the pope described it as aquafortis dis
TILED into arsenic, and others con.
sidcrcd it as o solution of c~rystaiized
ersenic- The secret of its preparation
vas conveyed to Paris, where the
Aarchioness de Brinyilliers poisoned
her father and two brothers; and she,
with many others, was executed and the
preparers burnt alive"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12

DAMMING THE POLAR SEA.-The
polar current passing between Lab
rador and Newfoundland appears to
defect the Gulf Stream from the
shores Of the United States and the
British Provinces, interposing a cold
wall of water between the land and
the genial warmth of the current
from the tropics. BY building a dam
across the narrow Straits of Belle
Isle-about ten miles wide aud aver.
aging $50 feet in depth-Mr. John C.
Goodridge, Jr., suggests hal the lev
stream might be turned aside into
mid.ocean. Then, it is believed, the
Gulf Stream would skirt the Amer.
can coast and materially change its
climate from Cape Hatteras to New.
foundland, freeing the Gulf of St.
Lawrence from icebergs aud giving
to Nova Scotia the milduess of Cane
May.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
WOMAN AS A FRUIT GROWER.

Ayoung lacy brought upon a farm,
though receiving between the ages
OF fifteen and twenty the benefit OF
a first class education in a distant
city, was suddenly bereft Of both
father and mother. After the set
Element of the estate she found her
self possessed of a farm of thirty
acres, a team of horses, and the i'm
plements of farm work, together
with the sum of one hundred and
fifty dollars in cash, with which to
begin her fight with the world.
After due deliberations, she decided
to retain the small farm and work it.
1t so happened that about two acres
had been set to strawberries some
time before, which would bear its
first main crop the summer following
her removal to the small farm. She
Immediately had this bed cultivated
and MANFRED, doing all but the
heavy work with her own hands.
The crop Melted her about one hun
dred and ten dollars. The next step
was to increase the plantation, adj.
ding raspberries, blackberries, ETC.,
until now, to make a long story
short, less than six Gears from the
time the work was commenced,
the original farm of ninety acres
has been purchased, and paid for in
cash, too, and is being rapidly laid
out into orchards II poultry yard Of
no mean dimensions adds vastly to
the income, and a snug bank account
is ready for a rainy day. More
than adj, she has DEVELOPED from a
dependent girl into strong, healthy,
self reliant business woman; and
the secret Of her success is good
sense, a lack Of that bane to Amer
lean girls, false pride, an indomi
table will, and a determination to
succeed Farmer and Household.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
UNIVERSAL CoLoR.BI1Nnr.

UNIVERSAL CoLoR-BLINDNEss
Color blindness, as usually under.
stood, is n blindness to red, to rreap
or to blue or violet; and about ore
male i'll every twenty five appears ia
be unable to discriminate between
the principal colors of the spectrum.
In a stricter sense, all persons are
color blind, for although Cheyreul i,
said to have been able to distinguish
14,420 tones of color, ii has beer
proven that the human eye is total,
incapable of receiving all the vibra
tons OF color which must exist il tn
spectrum.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
CoppER-PLATNe Copnsnm

CoPpER-PLATING CoRpsEs
French chemist proposes eoatlu.tha
bodies of the dead with a skin -
copper by means of the well koowa
electro-plating process. A second
plating of gold or silver could ha
added if desired. This treatmont
which permanently preserves eorns'
es has already been applied to scv
eral human subjects and to MANY
animals.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12

The rem0rkaDle interest III tue Wal idpSis
and in the many timely articles and strong
serial features recently In The CENTuRf mas
given that magazine a regular circulation
Of more than goo, OO0 Copies Monthly.
Among the features for the coming volume,
which begins with the November number.a are:
THE WAR PAPERS
BY GENER VI GRANT AND OTHERS.
These will be continued (most of them illus
trated( until the chief events OF the Civil War
have been described By leading participants on
both sides. General Grants papers INCLUDE
descriptions of the battles OF Chattanooga and
the Wilderness. General Mcclellan will write
Of Antietam, General D.. G. Buell. OF Shiloh,
Generals Pope. Longstreet ana others OF the
second Bull Run, etc. Naval conibats, lncind-
ing the fight between the KeaYsdroe and the
Alabama, by officers of both Strips, will be de-
scribed.
The ReeolIections ola Privat6' and special
war papers of an anecdotal or humorous char
acter will be features of the year.
SERIAL STORIES By
w. ID. HoWELLS, MARY HALLOCK F0OTE,
XND GEORGE w. CABLE.
Nj. Howell's serial will be in lighter vein than
"The Rise of Silas Lapham." Mrs. Foote's Is q
of the Acadians of Louisiana. Dir. Cable will
also contribute a series of papers on Slave
songs and dances, including negro serpent
worship, etc.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Include "A Tricyle Pilgrimage to Rome" IL
Illustrated by Pennell; Historical Papers by Ed
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Articles, practical and popular, on "Sideral
Astronomy Papers on Christian Unity by
representatives of various religious denomina-
tons; Papers on Manual Education, by various
experts, etc., etc.
SHORT STORIES
By Frank r. stockton. Mrs. Helen Jackson(H.
H. Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote, Joel Chandler
Harris, Ii. H. Boyesen, T.. A. Janvier, Julian
hawthorne, Richard NJ. Johnston. and others
and poems by leading poets. The Departments,
-" open Letters " Brie-a-Brac,' etc., will be
fully sustained.
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
Will be kept up to the standard which has
made THE CENTURY engravings famous the
world over.
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the IL back numbers November, 1881. to Octo-
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with November 1885, for $500 for the whole. A
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Back numbers only supplied at these prices
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A free specimen copy (back number) will be
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All dealers and postmasters take subserip-
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12

A stranger in a printing office
asked the youngest apprentice what
his rule of punctuation was. Said
the boy: 81 set up as long as | can
hold my breath, and then l put a
comma; when | cape, | insert a
semicolon; and when l want to
sneeze, | make a paragraph
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
A GREAT DISCOVERY!
HOLDSTEIN'S

The only sure cure for Dyspepsia, and
all Kidney, Lirer, Blood. and Skin Dis
eases. Is warranted not only to relieve
but TO cure the wost cases of Dyspepsia.
and is a panacea for all diseases arising
from a disordered condition of the Liver
or Stomach, such as Indigestion, Bilious
ness, Sick Headache, Distress after eat
ing, weakness of Kidney or Bladders.
call at A. nj. GU.RERT;g
Drug store and get a bottle. Price %
n 10 Also, all kinds of Drugs, Pat
ent Medicines, and Toilet and Fancy ar
tcies, and everything kept in a first
class drug store.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
coMErARY DUST.

On November 9th and 2Sth the
earth in its orbit passed through
what WAS once the tail of Biela's
comet, and the meteoric shower that
was predicted at that time came on
time, This is a remarkable verifi
cation OF the theory that Biela's com
ct has broken into minute fragments,
and it gives solid ground for theories
as to the origin of the other meteoric
rings that intersect the earth's orbit
and give rise at intervals to meteoric
showers. The Greenwich Observa-
tory, near London, recorded $500
motors during two nights-27th and
2S.h. At Milan the shower was
splendidly seen, but it was in Asia
that it was best observed. 1t was
only partially visible here, for the
finest showers were during u day
light hours and in the night of Asia.
Still, at the Yale observatory forty
four meteors were counted in twenty
minutes.
Biela's comet, one of the few in
terplanetary comets, in its prime re-
volyed around the sun in a period
of about seven years. In 1916 it
split into two when near the sun,
and each had its tail. 1t seems sub.
sequently to have subdiyided and
disintegrated until it disappeared,
and is now only a great cloud of
cold, dark fragments scattered over
millions Of miles, and, of course,
widely acknowledgements vary
ing in size from a small mountain
down to mer gravel. These re-
volve around the sun in an orbit
corresponding with that Of the late
Biela's comet. This orbit intersects
the orbit of the earth, and when the
earth and gravel cloud happen to
meet at the intersection, there is a
magnificent display of shooting
stars; for these cometary fragments
are moving through space with cos
mic velocity, compared with which
the flight of a cannon ball is exceed
ingly slow. The earth is also NOV
ing with enormous rapidity. Thus,
when n of these fragments enters
the atmosphere of the earth its mo-
ton is resisted by the air, and in
part converted into heat-the heat
of friction-and thus catches fire
and burns up. If it be q small piece
it is wholly consumed; but they are
sometimes SO large as to fall to the
earth partly burned or melted. Such
fragments may be seen at any mus
cum. In 1872 the metoric shower
was so intense that it was estimated
that more than fifty thousand were
at the same place on the
earth in the course of a few hours.
More than one of these cometary
intersects the orbit of the
earth, and it is fair to infer that
they had a similar origin. The fall
Of meteors upon the earth is almost
continuous, and on any clear night
one who looks at the sky for a. few
minutes may see a meteor. Plan
etary space swarms with star dust,
minute fragrants c~easelessly fall to
the earth. They are found on the
tops of towers and dredged up from
the bottom of the sea. In the course
of ages they may add appreciably to
the weight of the earth.-American.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
Railroads.
CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD.

tSNh LII hAlLIfOAD,
On and after Sunday, Nov. %, 1885, trains
Will run as follows STANDARD Time.)
Fast Mail leaves Martinsburg at 10 a m
B~edington 80, Falling Waters : So, williams
port station IS, Hagerstown s 10, Chambers
nurg %, Carlisle 10 %, arrive at Harris'g IL 10,
Phi!a. Q Is pm.
Mail Express Train leaves Martinsburg Mt
; % p m. Bedington 3 10, Falling Waters 325, Will
Transport station 3 81, Hagerstown 4 90 Cham
bershurg > 90, Carlisle 8 Is arrive at Harrisburg
at ! 10, Phira. 4 % p. m.
WESTWARD.
Accommodation leaves Harrisburg at : 45 q
m, Carllsle'S %. Chambersourg 8 55, arrives at
Hagerstown at IL 90, Williamsport Station IL
IL, Failing Waters IL 80, Bedington IL 80, Mar
tinsburg il 55.
Mail leaves Harrisburg at / % d M, Carlisle
l So, Chambersburg 5 10, arrive at Hagerstown
at %, Williamsport Station IS, Falling Wa
tiers 4 So Bedington 5 %. Martinsburg 5 80.
Day express leaves Harrisburg at 8 40. Car
Isle ! IS. Chambersburg . 80, Hagerstown 6 Is,
Wiiiiamsport Station 6 IL, Falling Waters 6 IS,
B~edington I o.. arrives at Martinsburg Is d. M
w. A. GARD, Agt. j. #. BOYD, Supt.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
OLD FAMILY GROCERY,
STILL AHEAD -


Having enlarged my storeroom, Ihave
concluded to keep in addition to groceries,
a stock of
DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS,
such as Muslins, Ginghams, Fannels, &c.
FAMILY GROCERIES of all kinds, Sugar,
Coffee, Tea, Flour, Hams, Molasses, Coal
Oil, Tobacco, Cigars, at lowest prices. I
call especial attention to my "Wine Bit
ters and "E~lderberry Tonics,n both
homemade and used as appetizers in sick
ness. Keep also a large stock of
OLD HOMEMADE WINES.
Grape, Blackberry, Currant, Wild Cher
ry, &c. Also Coal and Wood.
- Pure Grape Juice for Communion
purposes. With thanks for past patron
age, solicit a share in the future.
JOHN SNODEAL,
Winchester Pike, Martinsburg.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
WESTERN MARYLAND RAILROAD.

M ESIERN MARYLAND RAILROAD.
Time Table in effect Nov. %, 1885. Daily ex-
cept Sunday.
Leave Martinsburg, e. v. r. R.,l I Is a m,
Hagerstown 5 90 m, ar M~echanistown 9 OS'.
Frederick II 30. York II 81, Westminster 10 II,
Baltimore II 40 a M.
Leave HagerstoWn for Baltimore 7 IS a m-2
~ p m, for Chambersburg, Waynesboro, and
Shippensburg Q 45-ll 90 a m aud z 90 p M.
WESTWARD,
Leave Baltimore 4 40 a m, Westminster 50.
M~eehanicsburg y 81 a m, arrive Hagerstown Z.
IS. Martinsburg1 IL Is a M.
Leave Baltimore 90 a m and A 90 D M. arrive
Hagerstown IL 10 ant 3 90 D m. Leave Shin
p~ensburg q 10 a NIL Is and 50 pm, Chambers
Q 10 q MI 4S and 3 Is p m, Waynesboro rs a
m, q and 4 Of p m. arrive Hagerstown 80 a
m, 8 Is and 5 90 b m.
b. II. GRISWOLD, ]. NJ. HOOD
General Ticket Agent. GenI Manager.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
HANOVER AND BALTIMORE R, R.

HANOVER AND BALTIMORE r. r.
On and after May 25, 1884, trains will runand
connect as follows.
WESTWARD,
Leave Htllen Station. BALTIC. Q IS o m. 4 p m.
burg, Harrisburg, York, Philadelphia, New
york. Connect at Emory Grove with trains
on w. M. II. X. for Hagerstown and Frederick.
Sunday at 2 p m for Hanover.
EASTWARD.
Leave Gettysburg 81 NJ. q d p m, through
cars for Balto., connect at Emory Grove with
trains for Frederick and Hagextown, at
baito. with trains for ~ashington. Pittsburg.
fhiia, New York. A. r. Eichelberger, Pres.
Hanoyer. Pa.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
ASTRAY NOTICE!

A STRAY HOG came to the premises of
LEVI PITsNoGLE, in Falling Waters Dis
trict, three months or more ago the
owner will call. prove property, pay
damages, and take the hog away.
LEVI PITSNOGLE.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12

Mnn0 nAAfn presents gaccn dsody. Send us
VJIkU IS cents postage and by mail you
1LUu. UuUwiIl get free a package Of goods
you in work that will at once bring you in mon-
ey faster than anything else in America. All
about the $500 900 in presents with each box
Agents wanted everywhere, OF either SEX, of
all ages, for all the time, or spare time only, to
work for us at their own homes. Fortunes for
all workers absolutely assured. Don't delay.
nv29 IL. HALLETT & Co., Portland, Maine.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12

Parnell's strength in the next
House of Commons will be eighty.
six votes.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
sRIIPG HERALD. SATURDAY, E y, 1885.
THE CENTURY
FOR 1885-S6.
Of more than 200, OOO Copies Monthly.

The remarkable interest in the Wal Papers
and in the many timely articles and strong
serial features recently in THE CENTURY has
given that magazine a regular circulation
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12

Is unsurpassed anywhere outside of the
large cities. We have already received
the second invoice, and they are going
yery fast.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12

&E COMPAKE tbs &fZES aid EfCES Of our
Engines. We hapo No 4 q tst Is nr niiaais :;,nn to pro-
tact by adding commissions which customers mast pay.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-04

There was an unusual interest mani
Tested by the patrons of the Abilene
schools during the week of the final ex-
animation. Hundreds of our citizens
witnessed the work and expressed them
selves as being satisfied with the progress
made in all the departments. The exer-
cises in every room showed that the
teachers are careful and methodical in
their work, and have trained their pupils
to be ready, accurate and decisive in theil
answers. The questions to test their
scholarship were practical and calculated
to develop thinking and reasoning. The
people of Abilene may we'll feel proud Of
our city graded school, which is second
to none in the State.
The school board will probably retain
the old corps of teachers for the ensuing
year. They are wide-awake and enthu-
siastic teachers and understand how to
handle and manage a school.