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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-27

times that our plumber does in winter
Every inbsbitant in the village is grist that
must come to his mill, from the infants Up.
The children have their eyebrows shG,,i
often in order that when thaJ grow up
they will De thick and black The boys
have the hair shaved below q lina drawn
around their heads which corresponds to
the trOpic Of canoe around the globe. The
girls have a bald sppl shsve on their heads,
in order probably that they may be dis.
.tlnguished from the boys Then the
women come to have their necks
shaved at the edge of the hair,
this is considered a mark Of grsat beau.
~. and the Japanese belle is care
full that her clothing is cut Pom padour"
in the back. But when a man presents
himself TO he shaved a contract is under
taken by the barber that would dishearten
any o her poor slave, aud the victim sub
nits to it just as if time was not money az
six per cent. he first goes over the skin
with an invisible lsther then with a tiny
razor he scrapes every portion Of the skin
visible above the clothing o emitting the
nose and ears. Ga the Interior OF the lat.
ter he USES very foe instruments. Then
after powdering the customer he begins the
tedious hair brushing, which is q ceremony
10 itself
10 Japan the barbera go around from
house TO house, and are the gossip mongers,
as with us, though their 'nex.s' are fur
ther apart
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An evidence CT how, by nature, we are
all kin is found in the attention paid 10 the
Japanese mother who walks up and down
the village street with her babe in her
arms and q youngs,er cliUging to her mar
row skirts. The babYs counterpart is
seen in the Japanese dolls "of commerce.
as Nye would cay, only that this babe is
bundled up in layers Of clothing even
greater than our American babies ere in
hieted with. Every American mother
scans hat baby costume as /! they were
anxious to see how it came oil and went
on. These clothes, by the way, were Of
dark colors aud not the traditional
white Of our nurseries. What your
correspondent, who has had some
experience with Aabies, wondered
at was whether the japanese veriety pos-
sessed the faculty of turning night into
day. or whether its mother ever answered
it's Japanese father when he complained Of
the racket it was making in its Japanese
way that be should have more patience
with it while it was cutting teethT Bent
on learning more Of this baby the writer
extended his hands TO take il. The
mother politely granted bis dumb request
80 that be had the privilege Of holding 1t
in his arms for g time. The only thiog
peculiar about it was q feeling that it was
without bones, at least without any back
bone. 1t had also a decided Japanese doll
odor. Like its American prototype it de-
voted its time 10 chewing or !ts little
hands or anything else within reach, and
was frightened when it found itself in the
arRs OF q stranger and q pale face,
One thing commendable about the Jap
anese mother che does not crsmp the
child feet like her Chinese cousin over
the q All the inhabitants ofthe village
even Three little maids from school,
who dispensed tea 10 the visitors had
really larger feet than their stature would
warrant. The feet in all cases are GOV.
cred with q mitten stocking.
According to the oriental custom the
wooden sandals are always left outside
the door on entering the house. The
artist has caught one Of the inmates OF
the tea house in the act of stepping into
her shoes. The costumes Of the women
in the two civilizations are here brought
in contrast and the reader is left to Judge
which is the more sensible. In q small
box in this bamboo house is a FIRE OF
charcoal, on it, in a fancy teapot, is
drawing the tea which is afterwards
dispensed in diminutive cups to the Wis
itors without a trace Of milk or sugar,
The women perform all their work kneel-
ing. with their feet only bent under them,
while the men sit tailor fashion.
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You nsy hare seen 'contOrtionists,
who shut themselves up like a single.
bladed pocket knife in order to worry their
doubled up bodies through a ring. Well,
the Japanese carpenter also requires AT
exceedingly flexible hinge to his back to
reach the attitude necessary in Using the
saw. All other work be performs sitting
down, but to saw he must hold the wood in
place with his left foot, then bend over an
til his face almost touches the floor, then
he saws away with q saw that resembles a
meat chopper with hicks IL il. In planning
be draws the plane towards him instead Of
pushing it as we do. In fact the
Jap" seems to take the contrary way
about dong many things. THE longest
way round, is the shortes! way home sp.
pears TO be his motto. And here while
the carpenter is saving car best be seen
tie detormed condition OF his lower ex-
tremities produced By the constrained po-
si,;on OF his les, while under him when
he sits The knee joints have become Gb-
normally large and the legs dwsrfed from
being so little used this possibly accounts
for the shortness in statue Of the whole
japanese SAGE. Their minclng step in
walking may also be produced By this dc
formity Of their limbs.
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MILL NOTES.

The Boston steel works, Canton, Ohio,
are on double turn
The ST. Louis wire niIl Is running day
time now bat may be started double turn
shortly.
Blacksheep have once more taken the
place Of union men a. the Hartman steel
works Beaver Falls, Pa.
The Cumberland Najl sud Iron Com
pany. Of Bridgeport, y. j, has given 40
tice that 9 tive ger cent reduction 10 wages
will be made in two weeks.
The forge department of the New Phil
adelphia, ohio, mill is on full, with pocd
prospects. The sheet mill department had
not started up ct last accounts.
The rolling mill OF the Oxford !soa
Works. al B4ly;derA, n. j., has been idle
for se7era! months, but will De started up
in a few day
The inch mill IS OF double turn St the
mill a. Canal Dover, OHIO, as is the lC,
inch mill. This mill mas large orders tor
muck car, which makes the outlook Tor the
winter encouraging.
The steel works snd the old mill OF the
Hansse,er Works are still ousilY employed.
Ii looks az thoagh the steel works might
continue 10 run until New lears.-troy
STANDARD.
The uailers Of the Wsrehsm nail works,
Wareham Mass have Just had an add.
,ionsl Increase OF 10 per cent. A similar
increase was given them about two weeks
before.
It is stated upon good authority that the
proprietors Of the Hartman steel works az
Beaver Falls, Pa are writing letters TO
different sections inquiring tor non.union
workmeu to operate the rod mill. There is
u strike there.
The new steel nail factory Of Chess,
Cook i Co at Rankin station, this county,
will be finished in about two week. The
workmeu we're engaged last week in put
ting the rollers into position.
The departments OF thu Albany Iron
Works in operation are the nail and river
factories, the l+-inch tram, finch train,
axle hammer and pudding forge. II is
expected that next werk one or two sddi-
tionaI trains will run.
A company has been formed at Sharon.
Pa 10 srsrt a nail mill 10 Parkarsburyh,
". Pa. tits made up Of = dozen Sharon
aailers possessed OF considerable means,
who have been thrown into enforced idle.
ness since the beginning OF the strike. The
mil will be run OF the cooperative plan II
built. Psrkersburg citizens appreciate the
advantages Of securing new industries, and
will make liberal donations 10 have the
mill erected there.
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She Embraced the Opportunity.
Bri!tsi Mrt.ra.


The Rev. E. G. Gange, speaking at Brls-
tol the other night, said that in his early
career he was earnestly requested by q
deacon TO vist q member Of the copgregs-
ton who was very i'll, and it was suggested
that he should call at II o'clock in the
morning. He did 80, and found the poor
woman very much better, but greatly put
out at his visit, as she had her hair in curl
paper, her sleeves tucked up to her elbows,
and was doing a bit Of household !sweep,
ing and busting. lie begged her not to
mind him, as he was used TO that sort Of
thug. He would have q short prayer-he
would not be long. He selected a chair
and knelt down, she selected another, and
he began the prayer. He heard the door
open once, he heard it open a second time
he concluded an earnest prayer on the
poor womsns behalf; and. on looking
round-lo perfect transfer NATION While
he was praying she had slipped up to her
bed room, washed her hands and face, curl
ed her hair, changed her attire, and there
she was in her very beat silk, fttingly pre-
pared to receive company, while he had
been praying among the empty chairs.
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TRADE NOTES.

In MitSaukee cigar making Is dull;
printing, SUBS plenty nsilers IN a strike;
machinery noltinE extremely dull; Piano-
ing, fair. The boycott committee OF the
Trades Assembly held a consultation pre-.
partory to doing some sharp quick work
this week.
New York Typographical Union No. 8
elected Everett; Glackln, president; Theo
c Wiidmsu, secretary and treasurer, and
Thos. : Condor, JOS. f. Rymer, Robert
". Muir, Frank NJ. Horn delegates to the
P.;,sburs session of tine international
Union. The delegate system wss indorsed.
Il is said that parties from Beaver Fails
sad Martin : Ferry have formed a company
fos the erection OF q tool works st Burling'
ton, .. The works will De run on the CO.
operative plan. a large amount OF stock
has already been taken.
The international C~igarnakers Union
has voted By a large majority in favor OF
making the fist Monday in September IN
every year O holiday.
The strike Of the Cincinnati shoe cutters,
that has been on for several weeks, and
which promised to result so disestrously tor
the shoe manufacturing interest, Is at last
over.
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IL the Whole range Of JapaE~-- L,rur d,
IA thi, village Il might h aid thai
il their product excel ours 1t j. ~ >olr!y &c
the F~aiustaIJGg application which they Civ,
to their work. They are not ambitious |,
accumulate money or 10 their work quickly.
Their eadrayor j, - do ii wglL They know
little and care less, about any other Lranci
OF lator but that in which they are engaged
a. were their ancestors ~probaDl! before
them. hey Gre patient, ureless plodders.
Evidence ui this ale seen IN the Te.i!Lg
twisting and weaving d sin, all e.
which operation, are done 10y hand as i
there was no such thing Ia tho VOL,
a. steam power. The potter also set hi
wheel spinning by hand. then he mods TIL
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CLARKS8URG.
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eral News-Personal.
Special 10 the Sunday Register.
CLARGsBURG, W. Va, Dec. 2G.-At this
city it was an exceedingly dull Christmas,
however everything passed of as pleas
sntly as could be expected. Several OF
the churches gave entertainments which
proved more than ordinarily anticipated
successes.
During the week a photograph Of Ar
chitect Bell representing the plan OF the
proposed Government building at this
place was exhibited at the store OF K. +.
Lowndes, Esq. 1t is a beautiful structure.
1t is to be hoped that Congress will make
al additional appropriation of say s25, 900,
which would be sufficient to add much to
is size, convenience and ~permanency. A
commodious building OF this character will
add much to the general appearance OF
our enterprising city.
Mrs. Jas. Lynch, after a very serious Ill
mesa of sometime, died at her home north
Of Clarksburg, on last Monday. She leaves
n husband and many friends, who have the
sympathy Of our community in their cad
bereavement.
Alton Powell, who has been confined Tor
several weeks to the house. is now IOWA
~lescent, and we hope he will SOON be able
to be out.
Our ~jogial, social and good natured
Maj. Gardner is home again. He thinks
the Indians can care for themselves during
the holidays. Though a Republican, he
has been honored by a reappoiatment as
Indian Commissioner under tho present
administration, which has kindly granted
hin q furlough to Welt his friends.
A very exceedingly pleasant, musical
and social entertainment was given on
Wednesday evening at the Clarksburg Fe
male Seminary, under the management of
Prof. C E Ysung, the principal, who is q
most excellent gentleman. thorough schol.
ar and able instructor. The exercises are
a credit to the institution and Indicate the
iadefstigsble effort OF both pupils and
teachers. Such a school should and will
have the % cooperation of ali our citizens,
WHO recognize the need of educational ad.
vantages.
Miss Jennie Wilson gave one OF her ex-
cellent recitstions, which was net with a
storm OF applause. Mr.. Macroth, the Ger
man professor of music, and Miss Bessie
Young rendered q duet, which was the uni
versal subject Of compliment and encomium'
al! the participants did remarkably well,
and especially Mr.. Frank Moore and Mas
ter Johnle Davis end the Misses Basel,
Hornor, Gilmore, Farland, Fountain aud
Peck.
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Look q, This Picture anu on That

Thirty workingmen elected to the British
Parliament from England and Ireland,
and that, too, on the very frat occasion ct
IL secret and general ballot Think c. n
oh ye mechanics and lsborers OF the | nited
S,ates who have listened to the delusive
batteries Of the stump orator and pot house
politician about your superior advantage
OF intelligence and general condition over
the pauper labor Of Europe. Thirty
workingmea, depending for their pay upon
their humble trades unions, elected by their
brother workmen to seats in the most
a~,istoc-atic legislative body in the world
and not one-no, not one nottingham SIT,
ting il the Congress OF the United States
Thirty workingmeu elected to frame toe
laws of the land in mouarchical England,
and a bankrupt raiiroad corporation IN the
United States torhidding its employees 10
hold even so much as & municipal office!
Surely Mr.. Lincoln muSt have had some
other country in his mind when, over the
raves OF thousands Of men who had fallen
70 the cause OF freedom, he spoke OF q gov,
ernmeGt by the people, OF the people ana
for the people.
TaiIors aud shcemskers, common
Isbo,srs blachsmiths and b~rickiayers'
-monopoIists, bankers, brokers and man
ufacturers in the American Congress -
Mechanics Journal.
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A GLIMPSE OF The ORIENT.
Artisans from the Land of the Rls-
ing Sun.
interesting Sketches in a Japanese Village
---The Occupation Of Its Inhabitants
-.-where They ExceI---Wtat
We May Learn from
Them.

Nav YORK, December 23.-Our Mstl-
son Square Garden is a veritsble kaleido,
scope on q large scale, the change OF
scene and color there exceeds anything on
the continent. You enter 1t ct one time
to listen 70 the earnest eXhortation or aol'
emn hymns OF Moody and Sankey; the
next week P. 5. Gilmores superb band
nav be discoursiug sweet music, or Mr., j,
L. sullivan, of Boston, may be earning
further lsurels in the prize ring, Walking
matches and dog shows, c~ircuses and
horse shows take their turn in appearing
there. The latest move Of the ksleido,
scope has brought US a scene OF
bewildering ~enchsrtnent and
beauty. II carries Us
away over the SEAS to Japan the Land OF
the Rising Sun, though 10 use 1t is geo,
graphically and metsphorically the land
OF the setting sun. We find ourselves, on
entering the garden now, in a japanese
village of about seventy inhsbitants-men,
women and children all engaged as they
would be were they at home IN the orient
The object CT the manager, DIR. Harry Dea'
kin, of Milwaukes, was 10 transport to our
soil a veritsbls Japanese village so that we
may study the people and their arts with
cut the Inconvenience of a trip to their
land. The scheme is a laudsbls 4 and
exceeding valuable in an educational way
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plainly the conventional character Of
Japanese art. They couldn't for the life OF
them paint the portrait of au American
without giving it a japanese cast The
eyebrows ara ~dsrkened, The eyes become
almond shaped and the akin an olive hue
at the hands OF the kskemono painter.
The same thing may be noticed in Faro,
pean wood eugrsvers. Let a French,
German and Eoglish wood epgraver De
given a cops each Of the same photograph
Of Psrnell, for instance, and each will in.
corporate his nationality go uumistsksbly
in his work that you can Immediately see
Parnell as a Freedman, German or Fog.
lishmsu. So this failing is not confined to
the Jap
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-27

JOSEPH NCANS. Is usually tnc space
occupied by q capital N in u piece OF printed
matter. The reader can calculate the mum
Der Of ems in a piece Of printed matter by
inding the number Of times the space occu'
pied by a capital N is contained therein
The greatest feat at type setting, one which
aas never been excelled, was that Of the
Dutch Velocipede," George Arensberg,
who In February, 1871, set up 2,O6i ems,
old minion, containing e,ls2 pieces Of
METAL In one o
Stories Of fast type setting are many, but
seldom are they sufficiently we'll at,ested to
be worthy Of record, for printers are but
human after all, and liable, like other
mortals, to exsggerste their own accom
plishments. For instance, it e the
rounds of the press once that Mr.. George
Dawson set up 81 90 m Of solid BREWER
in ten hours, and This while he was a mere
apprentice. Later, when he became an
editor on the Albany Evening Journal,
and possessing that high regard for truth
which, a. is we'll known, accompanies such
position, he vas asked about it, and 80.
k%nowledged that it was On honest $4,000
tUbI Dut luhl ~ tDOh ulm tulttcSu uOuIo "
accomplish it. Mr.. Robert Bonner, OF the
Ledger, is said to have get up $4,000 ems
in a little over twenty hours without q mo
ments rest.
Away back in the fties, and during our
civil war, before the mechanical portion
Of the production Of q newspaper was
brought to the perfection it has since at
tanned, printing an edition used up 80
much time that rapid compositors were in
great demand. Particularly was this the
case in California, that State having
gathered into it at one time the tastest
c~ompositors in the country, our Henry
George among the number. The pay at
that time, about the close Of the war, Was
seventy-6ve cents per thousand m
One of the most remarkable fests Of fast
type setting is said to have been performed
by Andrew ". Mccartney, in 1870, on
the Chicago Evening Post. In six days,
working altogether forty hours, be com.
posed and corrected IS 900 ems.
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polishing Of CloiSonnc warc-thc French I'm
doubtcdly excel. The time required t. maxi
a piece Of ~CloiSonnc-or Shippo ware, Il
they call it in Japan-iS fifty days. Will
wool carving AMI silk embroidery there az
no p~c,"lc under the sun that would Srcu'
the time at it they do.
The Japanese seem TO understand per-
fectly the value Of contrasts in showing
of their art work. In some of their most
beautiful designs and particularly their
wood carvings do they choose the most
hideous subjects. In the excellent piece
Of wood carving, OF which q sketch is
given, they show odd Boreas' Tor their
deity. who controls the winds. Terrible
dragons and horrors OF all kinds ale ia
vorltes in japanese art.
We are Just now passing through Il
Japanese craze, which may leave some
impressions on our tastes and TO which
this village in it's passage through the
country may contribute It's share. What
we are most in need of learning from them
ia the choice Of colors and how to combine
them. 5. d. MORnAN.
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exceeding e,

The various occupations take place IN
booths, as in 8 tsir, the floor OF each one
being covered with mating. The srrsans
perform their various occupations sitting
with their leEs doubled up as a cushion
under them, the luxury OF a chalr being
unknown in Japan, The first booth ina
attracts our eye contains the lightning
sketch srtist Aoki, q specimen OF his Skill
sketched to order for our readers 10 re-
nroduced in fac-simile herewith. 1t was
drawn with q brush in less than three
minutes. This is lightning work, but the
artist who contributes the remaining
sketches TO this article could make a
more lfe-lke sketch in one halt the time.
So much for Celestial versus
Yankee experiences at sketching'
In this same booth 3 the
Kskemono painers. hskemono is the
japanese for hanging thing, and refers
70 pictures, panels and window decora'
tons. Here we a stop and bow our
heads to the superiority Of the "Japs, out
in their arrangement of color only. Their
designs are OF course quaint and tasclns''
ing 10 US, but the refined taste and beau
tifpl harmony displayed in thei. selections
of color are we'll worthy OF study in our
+ civil zstion. Nature has endowed the
land Of the crysanthemum with the most
~vsri.colored flowers to be found on the
earth. and it is from this source that they,
"a well as ourselves, draw inspiration.
uCouLder The lilies Of the deld,
Behold they toll not. neither 10 they SPA.
Yet solomon in all his gory,,
Wa not arayed as one OF these.
The artists slso undertake the painting
Of portraits il Gil or water color from pho
togrspbs FURNISHED them. Here is seer
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All that Science and Skill

could do 10 make Benson's Cspcine Plasten the
be.t porous ~plasters, and also the best general eH-
,ernal remedy in the world, has bsen done. When
ever it (, possible 10 improve them 1t Ii done.
B~eu,on's pla,ters are lot made 10 impose upon the
credulous. but to cure lISease. Their eminent sue
cess has procured for them the voluntary endorse
ment OF 5,C0I physicians, pharmacists and drug
gi.ts throughout the country, and the outspoken
prompt, powerful, Clearly and certain. They cure
where no others will even relieve. Refuse imita-
tIuns styled "CspslcIn. t" "Cspsicum" OF "Capueln"
p~lastsrs. Reputable druggists emily. The Three
seals trademark on the genuine and ths VOID
"Capclue' cut inthe centre Of the plaItpT.
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BRIDGEPORT.

At the Mammoth rink, on Christmas
night, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard both cue.
ceeded in defeating the several contestants
matched against them.
Rev. c. {. Hays has returned from ALE
gany.
Miss Kate Cook is in Bsliaire visiting
friends.
William johnson was fined IS and cost,
Yesterday.
George Muldoon was h1ed $50 and costs
Tor asssulting Mr.. Evan Howell
On Tuesday, Miss Msrrie Mcconnell, OF
this place, and Mr.. William Showalter, OF
Lorain, will be married.
All persons knowing themselves in.
debted 10 F. A. Maybe'ry, will please call
on Joseph NJ. BSggs and settle at once.
J. NJ. BAGGs, Agent.
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clay into SHAPE, on
~ I" stop again to
start the whecI 60
ing. UUr American
potter keeps the
wheel SPiuniug 81
with II lreudie at
his .lcet, and cam
thus turn OutN
double the amount
Of work Of the
Jap SO 1t is IN
decorating pottery
in the designing
gDI .p.p,.1ipg md