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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-05

There Is an improved demand tor choice gradcs
of Flour and the markets generally arc firm. Wheat
is steady with but little change in quotations Stree
| Saturday last. The offerings this morning wCro
small and prime lots find ready sale at full fig
| ures. Corn is scarce and higher. Rye and Oats
are strong and active. Potatoes more album
| dant and prices unchanged. Other produce is
| quiet and in liberal supply
BALTIMORE, October 5.-Va. Gs consolidated
49, past due coupons 5s';. new 10 4os 35i new
IS 591b bid to-day. Cotton firm; middiing 9tl
Flour firm and quiet Howard street and West
ern super So OOa3 40; do extra So 5Oad %; do
family 81 40a5 90; City Mills super 50 OOa
3 so; do extra 50 75a4 % do Rio brands 81 81
a5 co. Patapsco family s. 49, do supc;lativc
patent SO 90. Wheat Southern easy and quiet;
Western easier and dull Southern red 95a97
do amber 10Oa101; No 1 Maryland % bid; No
2 Western winter red SPOT 9la91 =; October
a9Gas: January 99a98at Corn-southcrn high.
er for white yellow lower; Western steady and
dull; Southern white 56a57; do yellow 5na51
Western mixed spot 1915 bid; October dSl,t5O.
year 451aa46; January 45l.a45lb. Oats steady
and quiet Southern and Penua 3oa3G Wes.crn
white 33a35 do mixed 30a3l. Rye finn at
GAGS. Hay dull; prime to choice Western 5 Ia
-. Provisions lower and quiet; hess forK
sides packed 4lba6A. Bacon shoulders 8;
clear rib sides IA; hams 1l1Aa12. Lard
refined 71h. Butter steady; Western packed
11a14 creamery 19a2l Eggs quiet at I'm
171a. Coffee steady: Rio cargoes. ordinary to
fair ASA. Sugar easier; A sof. G3s. Whiskcy
steady at 81 14a1 Is.
Gu cAGo October 5.-11:15a m.-Wheat open
ed easy, sold off to S61s for November became
stronger frmer foreign markets, advanced to
81 and is now S6ai. Corn fifner, lac higher.
Oats 14c higher. PorE Sc lower. Larl 2'4c lower.
NEW YORK, OF. 5.-Stocks quiet and steady.
Money easy at l. Cotton firm uplauds 101.1G;
Orleans 10 3-l6; futures steady. Flour quiet AID
unchanged. Wheat lower Corn higher. Pork
dull at 50 5Oa1O 90. Lard steady a. So 22ls.
PHILADELPHIA CATTLE MAEKET. October D.
Cattlc.-Fair selling; prime Sac; good .ltiai"i
medium 3t4a4 common DAB Sheep.-Fair sell
ing; prime 4a4A good l2a3%i nedium 3a33'4
common 1lha2&. Hogs.-Market fair; selling
FAIL
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-05

NEW YORK, OF. 5.-Stocks quiet and steady
Money easy at l. Cotton firm: uplands 1O1.1G
Orleans 10 3-l6; futures steady. Flour quiet AID
unchanged. Wheat lower. Corn higher. Pork
dull at SO 5Oa1OO0. Lard steady a. So 22l2.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-05

Gu cAGo. October 5.-1115a m.-Whcst open
ed easy, sold off to S6ls for November, became
stronger GA firmer foreign markets, advanced to
81 and is now S6",. Corn ffIner, l4c higher.
Oats tc higher. PorK Sc lower Larl 2i4c lower.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
WISCONSIN EDUCATORS.
Annual Meetings of the State Teachers Asso-
citation and Wisconsin Academy of Science,
Arts and Letters

Annual Meetings of the State Teachers Asso-
citation and Wisconsin Academy of Science,
Arts and Letters.
MADISON, Wis, Special Telegram, Dec. So
The State Teachers association met this morn
Ing, with but fair attendance. Prof. Heritage,
Of the state university, discussed The Methods
Of Teaching Elementary Latin, advocating thor
ough grounding in grammar. The report OF State
superintendent Graham, advocating an arbor
day to be set aside by the governor for school
children to meet and plant trees with appropri-
ate ceremonies was considerably discussed, the
matter of forestry laws receiving attention. The
report of Prof. II. D. Maxson ON supplementary
Reading advised a committee TO select course
Of coordinate reading for schools, suited to the
advancing capability of the pupils. In the after
noon paper by Prof. III. II. Belteld, director OF
the Chicago manual training school was read by
Prof. w. D. Parker of River Falls. His subject
was THE New Education. He explained the
aims and enforced need of bodily as well as
mental culture. superintendent v. =. Ander-
eating doing away with the course of Readers, :"
and substituting periodicals suited to the age
of pupil. and good books. In the discussion it
WAS held that the primary end of reading should
not be elocutionary training, but the cultivation
of a taste for good literature. Courtesy among
members Of the fraternity was discussed by
Prof. A. +. North. In the evening DIR. j. Il. Pick
ard, president of the Iowa State University, read
an interesting paper on increase OF crime in the
United States and relation of the school thereto.
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences. Arts and
Letters met In the capitol this morning under
the presidency of Dr.. Irving of the state uni
versity Papers were read by Dr. p. r. Hoy of
Racine on the manner in which Indians made
stone implements, and on science and society.
Rev. s. ID. Peet CT Clinton read paper the
cmblematic mounds of Wisconsin, showing the
fact that this state is very rich in these of
a primitive race; on the autochonous origin
Of man in America, and on the antiquity Of man
in America, holding the negative view as to the
former, and belief that man not old
the tertiary epoch. Prof. w. +. Allen, of the
state university. discussed changes in the social
condition of the English serf during the feudal
period. In the evening President Irving deliv-
cred his retiring address.
Officers for the ensuing three years were chosen
as follows: President, Prof T. O. Chamberlain of
Beloit. state geoloeist; vice presidents, George
W. Peckham of Milwaukee, W. +. Allen. of the
state university and A. R Sprague of Racine
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
Time to Swear Off.

St Louis Post Dispatch
"I'll match you for it." The 'it'' re-
ferred to in this sentence was particu-
Iarly toothsome- looking dish of sweet
breads in cases, la Refine Margot,
which a waiter had just deposited on
t he table in the Southern hotel din
ing room, and the speaker was an
eminent comedian, John I. Ray
mond. A Post-Dispatch reporter was
Iunching with Mr. Raymond, and the
waiter had by mistake brought one dish
of sweetbreads instead OF two. The
comedian had one hand in his pocket
and assumed ca earnest expression and
attitude that would have brought down
the house. "By iingo, / forgotP he
exclaimed. II have sworn off" Ray
monds ruling passion, as every one
knows who knows him, is to match.
No matter where he is or under
what circumstances, he is ready
to match for anything from punched
copper to a $40 gold piece. If he were
on his death bed he would match nick
els with the cold Boy" for his immortal
soul. "Tll tell you how | happened to
swear off. You know / am pretty
much of hand at matchmaking, and
sometimes | get started and / never
know when to stop. Well, was play
ing an engagement won't tell where
it was, because it was announced that ]
was sick-and was to appear for the
last time one night. happened to
drop int friends room in the after
noon, and, before we knew it we were
matching for dollars. The company
didn't know where / was, and luck was
against me, and 1 was so deeply en-
gagged in the game that / forgot all
about the performance. 1t was
nearly daylight when / came to, and
perhaps there wasn't racket at the
theatre Why, it is fact that 1 had
matched away a weeks receipts and al
the money / had about me. 1t wa
time to stop"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS-.

SENATE-The first session after the pro-
secretary of war transmitted to the senate the
engineers report advising the purchase by the
government, of the Portage Lake and Lake Su-
perior ship canal for S350,000
Mr.. Miller (Gal) offered resolution, which
was agreed to, calling upon the secretary of
state. for copies of all treaties, except postal
treaties entered into by the United States, the
ratification whereof have been exchanged, with
such notes as are in his possession indicating
such treaties or parts of treaties as have been
changed or abrogated
Bills were introduced to create tariff COM
mission; to repeal the statute of limitations on
allowance of pension Arrears and regulate
proof in pension cases. and to amend the laws
regarding the lease of Indian lands for grazing
purposes. Mr.. Wilson of Iowa spoke on the
Cullom interstate commerce bill
HoUsE-At the first meeting after vacation,
John A. Swope was sworn in member from
the Nineteenth Pennsylvania district in place
of Duncan, deceased A resolution was offered
calling on the president for informa-
ton regarding the empowering by the
government of John 4. Kasson and Gen
Sanford to represent the United States at the
Congo conference, now in progress in Berlin
Bills were introduced to create a river and
harbor department; to appropriate s7,000,000
for the Improvement of the Mississippi river;
dppIopIlatnB So,oNo,ouV ior thS eIecuon VI
public buildings; to increase the number of
Judges of United States courts; to provide for
the issue of 81, 81 and SIS silver certificates
motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill
alolishing internal revenue tax on tobacco, cigars
etc, was lost A motion to suspend the rules
and agree to the senate amendments to the
Mexican pension bill was lost A motion to fix
as a special order for Jan. - bill to establish
a uniform system of bankruptcy was lost, the
vote being 195 yeas to IS nays-not the neces-
sary two-tllrds n the affirmative While
the vote shows large majority in
favor of the bill, the shortness of the time re-
manning of the session makes it very doubtful
whether it can be relieved of the parliamentary
obstacles which environ it. The measure is
not pre- JUDGED by the action, but retains its
position on the speakers table, and if reached
in order may be taken up for consideration
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
ZEE rHunpEREa,s ORIGIN.
John Walters Cranky Paper That Be-
came the London "Times."


came the London ''Times."
From James Parton's ''Captains Of Industry"
The starting of this great newspaper
ninety-nine years ago was mere &C.
cident in the development of another
business. Almost every one who has
stood in printing office watching COM
positors set type must have sometimes
asked himself, Why not have whole
words cast together instead of obliging
the printer to pick up each letter sep
arately? Such words as land, "the, I"
'but, "if I" is" and even larger words,
like although" and Notwithstanding,
occur very often in all compositions.
How easy it would be, inexperienced
persons think, to take upa long word,
such as extraordinary" and place it in
position in one stroke! In the year
1885 there was a printer named John
Walter, well established in bust
ness, who was fully resolved on
giving the system a trial. At
great expense and trouble he had all
the commonest words and phrases cast
together. lie would give his type
founder an order like this: "Send me
q hundred weight, made up in separate
pounds Of heat, cold, wet, dry, murder,
fire, dreadful robbery, atrocious out
rage, fatal calamity and alarming ex-
plosion. This system he called logo
graphic printing. In order to give pub
licity to the new system on which he
held a patent, as well as to afford it a
fuller trial, he started a newspaper,
l.. 4. L. IL A,.I
Register. The newspaper had some lit
tie success from the beginning, but the
topographic system would not work.
Not only did the compositors place OBJ
stacles in its way, but the system itself
presented difficulties which neither
John Walter nor any subsequent expert
menter has been able to surmount.
"The whole language. said Walter,
in one of his numerous addresses to the
public, clay before me in a confused ar
rangement. Its multitudinous mass /
reduced to about nine thousand by sep
arating the parcels and removing obso-
lete words, technical terms and com
mon Examinations. After years of
labor this most resolute and tenacious
man was obliged to give it up; it was
TOO expensive, TOO cumbersome, TOO
difficult. 1t required vast amount OF
space, and, III short, it was system
which could not and cannot be worked
to profit. But though the topographic
printing was failure, the Daily Uni
versal Register proved more and more
successful. 1t was a dingy little sheet,
about twice as large as sheet of fools
cap, without word of editorial and
containing a small number Of well-se-
lected paragraphs and news. 1t had
also, occasionally, a short notice of the
plays of the night before and few
items of what we now call society Cos
sip. The advertisements after the pa
per had been in existence three years
averaged about fifty day, most OF
them very short. It's price was three
pence, English, equal to about twelve
cents of our present currency. The
paper upon which it was printed
was coarse and cheap. In the third
year of its existence, ON the first of jan
uary 1888, the name was changed to
the Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
Forty-five Years Steamship Build.
ING,

The Cunard Steamship Company
have recently put two of the largest
and most powerful merchant steam
ships ahoat in the world These are
the Umbria and the Eutruria. 1t is
now about forty-five years since the
Britannia was launched. That steam
ship was considered the wonder of the
world. She was the first steamship
put afoat by the Cunard Company.
That ship was 207 feet long; her ton
mage was 1855; she carried 500 tons
of coal, and was of $50 horsepower.
Her speed was eight and half knots
an hour. her freight capacity was 22O
tons beyond her coal supply, and she
had accommodations for 100 passengers.
Forty-five years afterward the same
company launched the Eutruria, a ship
500 feet long and of about 5000 tons.
She will carry 2, 500 tons of coal, to
supply her IA, 000-horse-power engines,
and is calculated to make a speed OF
nineteen knots an hour, and to
accommodate 1 800 passengers, besides
a crew of probably not less than
100. The Umbria substantially
answers the same description. Two
or three years ago the Arizona,
owned by the same company, made the
passage across the Atlantic, from land
to land, in seven days and seven hours.
The owners of the Eutruia expect that
that steamship will make the passage
twenty fonr hours sooner or in six days
and seven hours. Upt this date no
steamships have been built for the sole
transportation of passengers across the
Atlantic. A steamship enterprise was
planned on paper, but never got much
further. The builder of the Eutruria
intimated that the time had come when
there would be a profit in constructing
ocean steamers solely for passengers.
High speed, good profit and all the
Accomodations of a first-class hotel
were the conditions of success. The
travel to and from Europe by
steamships is now so great that it is af-
irmed an exclusive passenger steam
ship line would have all the business
wanted. Passengers are ready to pay
for speed and accommodations. 1t now
looks as if in short time passenger
steamships would be constructed to
make fye-days' run across the Attain
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
Current Notes.

The Philadelphia Ledger prays that
"some day these October states will get
tired of having their local officers chosen
on outside issues, and then we can have
presidential election undlsturbed by
straws showing which way the wind
blows or the money goes"
Kentucky brags of an intelligent COW
that digs potatoes with her horns and
then eats them. This example in indus
try we commend to several gentlemen
in that gallant state who would go with
out potatoes long time before they
would dig them, preferring all the
time the famous Kentucky breakfast
two cocktails and chew of tobacco.
The College of Physicians, of Phila-
delphia, has among interesting and in-
structive curiosities the skeleton of q
man who was fully eight feet in
height. He was Louis lana canalman,
and after his death the skeleton was
surreptitiously obtained and brought to
that city.
About three thousand six hundred
duu Alby WdtCHeS are ulstelo III Oilc
United States each day, and the annual
output of the world is 5000, 000 The
average life of ticker" is 5 years. A
European hand worker turns out &C
watches year, but the American ma
chineworker makes $50.
The Greek Church at Sitka, Alaska,
is declared to be the most ornate house
of worship in America. 1t is built on
the plan of a Greek cross, and the inte-
rior is a mass of gold and silver, of the
magnifcence of which one enthusiastic
writer says he can give no idea. The
walls are hung with pictures of royalty
and the priesthood, the gift of Rus
sian Princess, who has taken this tenn
pie under her special charge.
Does the man rush?" eyes, he is Q
rusher." F'Why does he hurry along
the street in that fashion? Perhaps his
house is afire." Perhaps he never had
one. That man is lawyer, who posi-
bly, makes SO week. When he leaves
his office he puts up sign: Back in
three minutes; please waltz" but
why does he rush % ''To make people
think he is carrying the Supreme Court
of Michigan under his hat" Wouldn't
some of his creditors tackle him on the
street if he didn't put on so much
steam?" "K'rect, my boy! You might
guess thousand times and not hit the
nail any closer Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

Gen. Sherman's scheme for ma
tional militia is not likely to be adopted
Immediately, but it has elected great
deal of discussion, and something very
like it will probably be the future out
come. He proposes an organization OF
a battalion of four companies in every
congressional district and territory,
each company to have maximum OF
100 men and minimum of 80, making q
total army of 1872, 600 and minimum
of 1000. The expense he would have
divided into three parts-one part to be
borne by the national government, one
by the several states, and one by the
communities in which the companies
reside This is not move in the diree-
ton of large standing army, but away
from it. These companies would in.
clude the pick of the young men il
every community. The outcropping OF
lawIessness has become to common il
many parts of the country. The time
NAV come when a posse comitatus OF
this sort would be the one thing need.
full.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

The savings bank system of Massa-
chusetts now includes 168 institutions,
with deposits amounting to 1862, 72O,-
146, or SO, 100000 more than yeal
ago. The open accounts number $780,
008, having increased by 1898 within
year. These two items of gain show
the esteem in which the banks are held.
OF the 168 concerns, III have paid
a per cent. interest to depositors this
year, 90, 5 per cent, 10, Al per cent,
and only 2 have returned as little as 3
per cent. The greater part of the loans
made by these institutions from their
deposits stand at Al, 5, 81, and 6 per
cent. All Massachusetts savings banks
are mutual corporations-that is to say,
the earnings in full, less expenses Of
operation, go to the depositors.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08
Sneeziug in Church.

The manner in viii CHI one sneezes is
purely matter of habit. Some people
delight In making the process as bois-
ferrous as possible, and when they have
acquired that habit, sneeze without
shout is stuffed and unsatisff Glory. On
the other hand, we know lady who,
when a school girl, used to shut and
cover her mouth and pinch her nostrlls
with her right hand when about to
sneeze, in order not to disturb the
school. She has always done so since,
and her sneeze is absolutely noiseless.
Yet she declares that she enjoys
sneeze as much as any one. The per-
son who sneezed in the following fancy
sketch, from the Detroit Free Press,
must have been one of the former class:
Did you ever sneeZe in church Ev-
er have feeling go all over you with
creepy sensation. and something tickle
the inside Of your nose, as If
fy were creeping up, and then
make the alarming discovery that
you are going to sneeze in the most
solemn part of the sermon? Now the
IckInS mas gob lH1o your cal anu eHe
roof of your mouth. You start, you
move. and seem to feel it all over you
h-ach-ch-ch--
The minister pauses; there is silence
that is painful. It's coming. Arms
and legs are extended; the roof may fly
off the meeting house, or off your head.
Zach oh chewi"
1t is over; you are shaken up, and so
is the congregation. Nobody ever
sneezed just once. From two to three
is the orthodox number of sneezes, just
as nisfortunes never come alone. You
remember the story your father used to
tell the old gentleman who, worn out
with a REPETITION of sneezes, cried out to
himself
go on sneeze away, sneeze your
head off if you want to: / don't care"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

The Canadian Government is main
tanning this winter on the shores OF
Hudson Bay seven stations, with four
men in each station. These parties are
taking scientific observations, noting
the conditions and state of the ice, and
securing other data which will enable
the Dominion Government authorities
to determine how long during the sum
mer season Hudson Bay may be en-
ployed as an outlet to Europe for the
products of the western provinces OF
Canada. 1t is expected that these sta
tions, which have been established at
cost of about 800, 900, will be main
tanned for three or four years, and that
they will complete the survey of the
bay and strait, and of the most import
ant harbors and rivers. The evidence
of the Hudson Bay Company and of
many whalers shows that from twelve
to fourteen weeks of navigation can be
depended upon, and We have no facts to
show that the water is not open for
longer time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

From present indications says the
New York Sun the sorghum sugar in
dustry of this country must receive a
severe ceeck, if not be entirely destroyed
through the decrease in the price OF
sugar in all European countries. The
German Government gives a large
bounty on all exported sugar, while
France has recently passed a new
law which will have the effect of in
creasing the production of sugars, anu
this, too, at a time when the world is
producing more than it consumes, or at
least has any real need of. Beet sugar
has recently been selling in London for
two and three-fourths of cent per
pound, and China raw sugar at a cent
less. This is certainly a heavy blow to
our new and very promising orghum
sugar industry, but it is to be hoped
that it may survive it, for these low
prices may not last for many years, al
though it must be confessed that pres
emit prospects are not very promising.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-08

Uncle Sans back yard is still pretty
roomy, in spite of all that railroads,
surveyors, settlers, ranchers and land
grabbing specg rs generally have
been able to "get away with. " Accord
ing to the report of the commissioner OF
the general land office, the estimated
area of the public domain yet unsur-
viewed, exclusive of Alaska, is SOC, 494 !,
ASA, acres or 100, 900 square miles. Adj
ding Alaska's 577, 900 we get an area
equal to the aggregate of the total pos
sessions of Germany, France, Spain
and Austria Hungary. To be sure,
there is a good deal of rock and ice to
the acre in some parts of this vast do.
main, but there are still immense tracts
of valuable land open to the settler, and
there is yet no immediate prospect of a
land famine in this country.