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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-26

overspread the city that the cry OF Gre was
raised; and the bridges were lined by
spectators who halted for q moment to
faaat their eysB on the outline ot the
Tower standing ont against background
luminous red, and the lofty dome Of st.
Paul's ccen With clearness which must
have reInined some OF the outlookers OF
the front view OF that still more iRmons
''dome which thought Of Michael An
gelo's hung in the golden air Of Rome,
scene surely worthy OF the artist pencil,
but now, il ia 10 be feared, passed for
ever away. Many attempts, it will be re-
membered, were made to explain these
remarkably beautiful phenomena. among
which the following Seems to be most salts
iactory:-"The magpifcenCe Of the recent
displays was doubtless due to the invisi-
BILE mist in the air, orsperliaps stratum OF
ice particles, admitting OF the rays OF the
departing and rosy sun being reflected
from il; or to the circumstance OF the
larger.Eized aqueous constituents Of the
clouds enabling the undnlatious OF light
to reflect all color Constitucnts-the coar
ser oscillations Of the red and yellow, as
well as the exceedingly delicate vibra-
ton Of the blue. AS the sun sinks towards
the horizon, and the atmosphere through
which the rays Of light have to pass be'
come greater, more air particles necessarily
lie in their path, aud as Dr.. Mann has
shown, more and more Of the less re-
frAngtble roys are arrested with the aug
menting len 9TH OF the tract-frst the blue,
then tho green, sfterward the yellow, and
finally the orange and red. Consequent.
", az that eminent meteorological points
out, although the light reflected from the
sky at noon comprises only the weak
szure vibrations, that which is reflected
from tho varors and clouds after sunset
consists chiefly Of the crimson rays which
have made their way up through the long
air track, and which are thence thrown
back to the eye.
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THE PERFUMED LL-ROOM /!

The Atlanta Coastiu.iOn, speaking OF the Mystic
Owls dhplay adds:
The pefiumed ball room was one Of the novel
and graceful features oi this great event As the
guess entered the OPEN House they were greeted
with the most delicious OdOrB "a from freshly
blDOmlI < bed OF thousand flowers. The air wGS
laden With the soft, sweet perfume that seemed 70
te the very breath OF the goddess Of pleasure and
q woolnE 70 the gzietles Of the OctEsiOn. A fOun.
tain, neatly placed was playing all the evening,
Inc cnoGuc which gave ierih ills prfume, aud
the praCticed EensS VI The RcIes at once detected
whs II waS. We need badly say hat the fountain
and the Two AloniScrs weIe dispensing 70 the NJ
mosphere the odor Of
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A NEW rELEGHApn COMPANY.
Tho "uuited Llus." To open an ONCE ID
This City.

inns SIys
1t seems there ia to be third tele.
graph company in this city at an early
date. Mr.. L. D. Pakin, OF Chicago,
Western Superintendent Of the United
Lines Telegraph Company, is quoted as
saving in recent interview:
"Our wires will soon be strung from
Pittsburgh to Steubenville, parallellng the
Panhandle road. We cross to Steuben.
vile by q sub.mar ne cable which is al
read sunk in the Ohio river. The com.
pletion of our line through steubenville
gives that city the first con- petiDg line she
has ever had. As soon as ii is possible we
ghall throw a loop down to Wheeling from
the West Virginia side Of the Ohio river
and establish an office in that city. 1t is
also our intention to loop number OF the
principal towns oil the main lines OF our
wires aud place offices in all OF them. We
shall have within the next thirty days our
lines stretched from Pittsburgh 10 Cincin.
natl and Indianapolis. From the last
named city We shall string wires to st.
Louis and Chicago, and within few
weeks line will be opened up in Omaha.
We are pushing things in all directions"
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rEI1oR's PREMIUM COLOGNE,

an article Of Southern manufacture that has
promptly won Ia wRy into vide spread popularity.
thIs Cologne Is Of the finest quality. lasting aud
delicious; and an esteemed article on the toilet
table Of all that have used IT, The quick and del
icate sense CT the mystic Owls" at once discover
ed is merits, aud they bad no happier conceit 70
ighttul perfume. Tue fair dancers who found so
gtaIe:ul reirrSher last evening will please them.
seires Aud honor their entertainers By keeping up
the seumt!Dn throughout the TIVE VemOnth by
means OF this delightful agent aus NwVAW
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The cowardly scouudrel who will voluu-
teer his services to defend the vilest Grim.
inal and take advantage Of his position be-
hind the bar to traduce the characters Of
respectable gentlemen who appear as wit
nesses, is worse than a coyote, and it is
time that our courts should prevent such
animals from venting petty spleen on such
occasions, and thereby maintain the dig.
nifty OF the bar.
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LOST SuNsErs.
The Rationale of All sunSesS-A Note.
worthy Illustration.

Ano LAhuopMo OF AL buhbob-A Note
worthy Illustration.
At Journal.
1t is noteworthy illustration OF what can
scarcely be regarded otherwise than as
neglect on the part of our artists, that
scarcely an attempt appeared on. the walls
Of the lasttwo years exhibitions at the
Royal Academy to record the strangely
magnificent surprise and sunsets which
formed the theme Of SO much admiration
and speculation during the autumn Of
1883, recalling Cowper's lines
Fires from bencI'h and metc .rI from above,
POFtenI!Ous, uneXAmpled, unexplained
BAvu kindlsd bcRconS In the Akies :"
Yet the affects were as splendid as they
were novel. One observer tells how, in
London, a certain morning, "the sombre
haze of the east gradually frightened as
tho sun arose, until the whole armament
was ablazs with roseale light, which by
half.pAst six had changed in q broad belt
OF orange and scarlet, surmouuted by
glorious mass Of opalescenCe. The river
seemed rs II spanned with an ethereal bow
Of ruby and gold" Indeed such blaze
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BID me discourse, and will enchant
thine ear with tales OF astounding cures OF
oil sorts Of suffering by Salvation Oil.
Price only % cents
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Weare now prepared to show
the most complete and carefully
selected stock to be found in
this city, consisting of the latest
styles and novelties in
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-26

UTANTFD-LADIES AND YOUNG
w men 70 decOiGtc Chrisimas, New Year And
Esstrr Novelties RSily learned. E6od prGst,,is
Of htrudy employment aud iSit wagts y.ttrisi
lurfished. md all work tbn''ed pOE'psid. Fofiaii
Information address nECpgCTYE AM WrEEs !
Exchange Place, ROston Mas +. o. BOx 5Iis.
C,sg-NWAF
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TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

A RRIVAL AND. DEPARTURE OF
ADMINISTRATIONS or REFERENCE MARKS.
WhaalInr TIna.
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T9ta1Stcd.
a=asg
WOMEN #,

WTANTED-MEN AND WOMEN TO
w stait Il new huiinl4s % their homes, ,ssyiy
learned IN au hour; no pedd,lpg. &c 80 "a M
hour made day ilme or evening Send iOr ,or o.
work IN. AddrlsS ANEc Az surPLY Co AItfgy
n 4. tysg'
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Cor &ent.
Gov sale.

JHOR SALE-A RARE CHANCE
il Not being able 10 give my ptuonAi attention
10 the buSingS / OFFER my Ea!csl RGd Pack 90 H..
livery Wagon for TAls. G. II. LARR, 100 MARKET
gfF ta1ts
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CHARLEY sHAY'S

MATINEEs. "WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY.
Peonles Popular Prices-Highl, Is, ., IS and 30
cts, vat noes, 10, is. rs and 81 cts
ReServ d seats Niihnut extra charge on sale At
thp Academy BOx Uflca from 2tobPN hCB
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THREE VEINS OF COAL,

THREE VEINS OF COAL,
All al which can be miued from the south lIuc 1t
controls the ApprnGf 10 the 90 innds In tClInont
wePes Turnpike and the BellAiFe ElGUsvllU aud
Cincian4ti fGi!oGd runs through the iErEl 1hG
Ohio Valley R&ilTOid Is g!GGe: 70 Within short
distance OF my north line, but no rtIhtoi way has
as yet been granted by me. There Il
A GOOD STEAMBOAT LANDING
On the place where boats can land at all times,
either In hIPh or low water. There Is III o Line
stone and Sandstone Of the blst quality for build
Ing pt rpos'E, and sharp dig sand .! superior
quality on the place.
For further Information apply 10 GARRElT&
Anderson, nOllairr, o, who will show the farm
10 any one wishing to purchase
K. CRANGLE, Wheeling ". Va.
September l6 1885 GplS.NWH
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15

ana playing with his toys; and when 1
have told you some other stories about
the cold these little folks can endure,
you can understand how they can en-
Joy themselves in the snow huts, or
tgloos, as they call them, when it is only
little colder than freezing.
At times, the fire will get too warm
in the snow house, and then the ceiling
will commence melting,-for you all
perhaps have learned at school that
when a room becomes warmer it is
warmer at the ceiling and cooler near
the floor. So with the hut of snow: it
commences melting at the top because
it is warmer there,-and when two or
three drops of cold water have fallen
on the baby's bare shoulders, his father
or mother finds that it is getting too
warm, and cuts down the fire.
When the water commences drop
ping, the mother will often take a snow
ball from the floor, where it is colder
than freezing, and stick it against the
point where the water is dripping.
There it freezes fast and soaks up the
water just like sponge until it be-
comes full; and then she removes it and
puts on another, as soon as it COM
mences to drip again. Sometimes she
will forget to remove it, and when it
gets soaked and heavy with water and
warm enough to lose its freezing hold,
down it comes! perhaps right on the
baby's bare back, where it fiattens out
like slushy pancake,-or into his face,
as it once served me.-From "Chiidren
of the Cold" By LieM. Frederick
SchDatka, in 81. Nicholas for March.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
How He Became City Editor.

When the new reporter, just from
college, started out to write up q fire
the fellows" who had for many years
been in the harness smiled, and the
managing editor, hearing the joke,
laughed and said: "Now we shall have
a thrilling account of the burning of
Rome. 1t is pity that our Greek font
of type is not in working order. He
could tell us of all the great fires of
Athens"
The young reporter came in after
while, and, without running his fingers
through his hair or muttering any
Latin, sat down and wrote the follow
ing:
LAST night about IL o'clock an
alarm of fire was sounded. The city
was not thrown into an intense state of
excitement; neither did any of our
brave tircmcn risk their lives. BY the
time the engines arrived at the house,
an old rat-nest situated in the eastern
part of the town was almost destroyed.
1t is not believed that the fire was the
work of an incendiary; neither does the
impression that it resulted from a de-
fective ilue prevail to any great ex-
tent"
The managing editor, when he read
the paragraph, turned to the new re-
porter and said: You will make your
mark, sir. Come into this room."
pointing. "rake the position of city
editor h-ArkdRSdU 1rdreter.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
Rome Reconstructed.

Since the establishment of the con-
stitutional monarchy in Italy double
problem has been working itself out
how to make Rome modern capital,
healthy, clean, and habitable, and how
to preserve the margin of recovered
ruins, and spread for the antiquary
Chat epicure of decay his due table
of the broken victuals of the past.
Rome has been held in double grasp
of .dead hands, for centuries. There
was the dead hand of the Roman Pom
tiffs, and behind it the dead hand of
time. The Rome of the Papacy has
been disentangling itself from the mod
ern and from the ancient city. The
great barracks of monkery and the
faded paidzzi, with their shadowy sar-
cophagous courtyards and precincts,
where gloom and uncleanness strove
for mastery, are rapidly diminishing
from most quarters of the city. Mod
ern taste and everyday needs have
swept large area into that struggling
rus in urbe patched by tracts of arid
desolation, the vineyard trailing over
leprous-looking rubbish, the lick nod
ding on the moldered gatehouse, the
scraggy tufts of plane and cypress
clothing scantily the ruin mounds of
ages, and squalid cottages or limekilns
clustering fungus-like on the gray vii
las walls. Through these the adile of
to-day breaks his way with plummet
and trowel, and the faded remnants of
shabby grandeur recede as he invades.
Here and there the pioneer of utilitar-
ianism unearths crumbled mosaics,
scraps of painted wall surface, decay
ed frescoes, fragmentary and chaotic
glimpses of the golden age of empire.
They peep from the chasm for mo-
ment, catch the sunshine once again,
and then return to earth and resume
their thousand years of slumber. Yet
surprises and discoveries come thick
and fast, and, sifted from this refuse,
the stock of monumental trophies
which adorns the Capitoline Museum
is said to have more than doubled in
less than ten years. A policy of artist
ic reconstruction of the known haunts
of classic interest wherever possible,
and of careful preservation of frag-
ments where impossible, has for some
years prevailed; and the result is that
the eye of the well-read cognoscente
may reclothe those spots with their an
cient scenery, trace again the pave
ment of the Mia Sacra, and reconstruct
in imagination the temples and public
offices which echoed the footsteps of
Horace.-1He Edinburg Rerietc.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
Charles o'Conor in Public Life.

Hon. John Bigelow contributes
"Some Recollections of Charles O'Con-
or" to the March Century, from which
we quote the following: MIR. O'Conor
never understood nor became entirely
reconciled to his want of success in
public life. Why every one loved to
recognize and do homage to his pro-
fessional and personal supremacy. and
SO few cared to accept him as their
political guide, was a problem which
always puzzled him, and contributed
not little. l think, to weaken his faith
in popular judgments. The true solu-
ton of it probably is that the very
qualities which gave him his preemi-
nence at the bar in corresponding de-
gree untitled him for the representative
duties of a statesman. He went SO
deeply into the philosophy or the
rationale of every subject that he natur-
ally had little respect for the superficial
and often puerile reasons which the
mass of mankind would assign even
for the best inspired actions. He could
never pool his opinions in committee
or in any representative body, and be
content, as every statesman, in de-
mocracy at least, is required to be,
with the resultant decisions of ma
jority. Thus it happened that in the
Convention in 1876, to which he was
chosen more especially to secure his
aid in remodeling our Judiciary, he
usually voted alone on committees,
and opposed almost alone the Constitu-
ton as finally adopted. The logic of
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15

samples. an carried nlm to the CABIN
an lit the candle an punched up the
fire an laid him down on the robes.
After while he sez to me, jest as eff
he'd know'd me all his life, sez he:
This is job lot, an you kin hev it at
cost. 1t closes me out, an want to
git the order in an git back home. I'm
goin' in,' seZ he, before my time is up,
an I'll go up to the house and surprise
the little woman an the babies. sez he.
The blizzard blow'd open the door
then, an great sheets of snow come in
an the fire went out jest like that. OF
course. mister, in our rough part ov the
country we amt got no buryin' ground
fitten for white man to git into. IT'S
big buryin' ground for that matter,
for it lays in the mountains and the
prarys. But we amt got no sexton
'cept the God Almighty hisself, an you
kant never tell one grave from anoth-
er out thar. The dead with we'uns
is like the livin'-all of size, SO to
speak. hope amt a trim you. I've
got his body at the de-put. fetcht it
here myself, an l think you'll find his
sdiHp ItSt Us uc Acit ClH Win tlic. I'll
ennything's missin' I'll make it good.
I'll take his job lot, whatever that is.
Now, ef you will tell me how to find
that little woman and the babys that he
spoke of, I'll 60 an try to break the
news to her an to them ez l hev tried
to break it to you. But I'm afeerd
I'll make botch ov it, so ef you'd
take the job I'll pay the expenses.
Poor things, l don't know how he left
'em, but I'm afraid you didn't give him
enough so he could lay up ennything
for 'em, so here's stockin' full ov as
good Californy stuff as eyerwas dug up,
an l wish you'd take it to the widder
and her babys an say ez how it's hern
and thars."
And that is why the window blinds
in great store on Michigan avenue
were pulled down the other day before
closing time. And that is why an apol-
ogy had to be made to bank the next
day. And that is why the black ribbon
on the door knob of little house on
one of the snow bound avenues of the
the city fluttered in the glistening frost,
and that is why woman wept as if
her heart was breaking and why the
babies cries were hushed by strangers.
Oh, it has been q cruel winter.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
The Maintenance of Plant-Life.

"Hard times" come to most living
things. Plants as well as animals have
periods when they need to conserve all
their energies, husband all their vital
ity. All vegetation obeys the injunc-
tion to multiply and replenish the earth,
but with the greatest determination
when there are present suffering and
impending death. A drought hastens
the processes of reproduction, and in
sufficient nourishment encourages an
early if not an abundant fruitfulness.
In climate where hot and cold, or wet
and dry, seasons regularly succeed
each other, many of our most common
economic plants have adapted them
selves to these stated changes of out
ward conditions, and run their course
during a single growing season. Such
plants constitute that large portion of
our vegetation known as the annuals.
The great sunflower, that grows into a
giant in single season and defies the
summer sun and storm, falls an easy
victim to the frosts of autumn. It,
however, prepared the way for many
successors, in the ripened seeds, each
one OF which when given favorable con-
ditions will germinate, grow, repro
duce its kinds, and thus finish another
cycle in the realm of vegetable life.
The bean-plant, in different way,
climbs its appointed pole, enjoys the
same sunshine and showers, produces its
blossoms, fills long pods with ripened
seeds. and gives up its life like all its
fellows in the field. A compliant COM
pletes its growth in not far from hun
dred days, and leaves its accumulated
vitality stored up in the grains upon
the ear. The prospective life and
activity of whole field of waving corn
may be considered as stored up in
few pecks of apparently lifeless seed
corn safely housed in the granary.
We thus see that in the annual plants
the life of the species is, so to speak,
carried over from one growing season
to another in the ripened seed. The
seed is also the form in which plant life
is easily transported from place to
place. The seed of some hedgerow
weed, as it becomes loosened from its
attachment upon the lifeless mother
plant. and is blown for rods or even
miles over the surface of the incrusted
snow,is familiar and perhaps striking
example that may enforce the meaning
to be here conveyed. The young
plantlet in the seed. snugly packed
within thick coats, is preserved from
death, and at the same time is carried
far from the place where it was pro-
duced. The seed is the offspring of the
plant and the childhood of its kind,
though so fashioned and protected that
it can pass safely through period of
drought or cold when its parent would
have succumbed.-From .'HotD Frngi
LiUe in Winter" 6u B. d. Halsted, in
Popular Science Monthly for March.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
Government Aid to Scientific Re.
search.

Enough has been said in the forego-
ing pages, though very incompletely,t to
indicate what an amount of scientific
investigation and experiment our Gov
ernment is obliged to require. In ad-
dition to these labors of an Immediate
ly necessary character, other scientific
work is frequently carried ON at Gov
ernment expense, which aims at the
discovery OF truth for its own sake.
apart from its direct applications. For
examples, the transit of Venus and SOL
ar eclipse expeditions may be named,
as well as the work carried on by the
Bureau of Ethnology. In the latter Or
ganization, by Government aid, valua-
bic data are saved which would other
wise be lost to science; and this is as it
should be. Too often, in our busy,
everyday life, we forget that there can
be no applied science unless there is
some pure science to apply; and that
the larger problems of science, includ-
ing much of material value to mankind,
are too vast to be grappled by unaided
individuals OF even by private corpora
tions. They can be solved only by the
combined efforts of many trained ex-
perts, working with the best facilities
and under systematic direction, state
of affairs which can only be brought
about by governmental assistance.
When that stops, science languishes;
and the growth of every industry, pub
lie or private, dependent upon science,
is checked. Since every modern gov
ernment is necessarily in competition
with other governments, either in the
way of increasing its resour es or per-
fecting its means of defense, it follows
that aid TO science is one of the factors
essential to success; aud that that ma
tion which fails in far-sighted intelli-
gence will lag behind in material affairs
also. Science. both pure and applied,
has become necessity, upon which the
welfare and very life of nations must
depend. No nation can fairly expect
to receive all the benefits of science
while giving nothing in return. Even
the narrowest utilitarian must see what
vast results sprang from the niggardly
public grant which rendered possible
the first line of the Morse telegraph
Prot. +. w. Clarke, IN Popular Science
Monthiq for March.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
The Quadruped's Superior Power.

One evening, many years ago. the
writer of this attended a social gather
ing of young folks in Wisconsin vii
-lage, and, after various games had been
played. all involving more or less os-
culatory practice, there was a lull in
the exercises, and we all sat around
in the front parlor eating nuts and pop
corn. A very fine Newfoundland dog
lay stretched out near the fire, and
Carrie, the lively daughter of the host
ess, called Bruno to her, told him to
stand up, and amused us for some time
by placing kernels of corn on his nose,
and repeating: lone, two, three
fret when the dog would toss the
corn up, catch it and eat it with much
relish. She then made him lie down
and roll over, and do various tricks,
finally closing by having him stand on
his head. As the noble dog resumed
his natural position, Carrie said to
Charlie w: There. Charlie, you
can't do that" just at that moment,
when all eyes were still on the dog, he
dropped on his launches, and COM
menced vigorously scratching his ear
with his hind foot, in the effort to dis
lodge a wicked flea. mo, l don't be-
lieve can," said Charlie. "nor you
either" And then cyclone of laugh
ter swept through the room, and Car
rie's cheeks were the color of the red,
red rose. Those were the good old
days.-Detron Commercial Aduertiser.