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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12

BALTIMoRE, June 1.-Hendeuon's wild
and ineffective pitching gave to.day's
game to Brooklyn. Ferry was hit hard,
but the home team could not bunch their
hits and ran the bases stupidity. Clinton
has signed with Baltimore and will play
center field tomorrow. The score was:
- InnIngs""~. ".."~l 2 tG7sg
BfooElsH.::.:::;": BS5t'RlS5s:" StSss 81 S-l
Earned runs, Brooklyn /. Base hits,
MCTammany, Mcclellan, HsuCk 9. Pass.
cd balls, MCCauley 5; TrafIley 4. Wild
pitches, Henderson 5. First base on balls,
off Ferry 2; of Henderson 9. First base
hits, Brooklyn II; Baltimore 0. Errors,
Brooklyn I; Baltimore4. Umpire, Kelly,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12

"TowERs are measured by their shadows,
and great men by their caluminHtors.
How much bigger than the Washington
monument Mr.. Blaine must be.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12
WnIrsuNDAY sEnYICEs,
Fine Musical Programmes Arranged for the
Churches Tomorrow,

Tomorrow Is Whltsunday, the anniver-
sary OF the most ancient festival Of the
Christian church. 1t will be impressively
observed in the Episcopal and Catholic
churches. st. Luke's P. Il. church on
the Island Is to be elaborately decorated
with flowers, and the sermons and ad.
dress by the rector, the Rev. ]. Gibson
CAN'T, will be on the subjects suggested
by the season. The music has been
specially prepared for the occasion and
will be excellent. Miss Annie Sage Ia
organist, Miss Mary Vardy, soprano, Mrs.
J. ?, Rogers, alto, Mr.. W. D. Mccoy, basso,
and Mr.. Beaumont tenor. The program.
me Of the music is as iolloWs.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12

BELFAST was the scene Of another battle
Of the Boyne. This isn't the age iOr that
sort OF thing.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12
DIED.

ZIMMBR -on Friday, June II, lRs6, at i0'a0
o0l0ck ,. H. at the residence Of his iathet on kOn
llFeet, EDWARD ZiHARR, hOn Oi John Elmmef, aged
u yearA.
FUNERAL notice hereafter
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12

Cincinnati Defeats Pittsburgh In Good
GRms-OthSF Results.

Cincinnati Defeats Pittsburgh In q Good
GRms-OthSr Results,
CNcENATI, June ll.-CinCinnatl won
to.day's game through superior fielding.
McPhee played good game at second and
made two fine catches. Smith did well
for the Pittsburghs in the same position.
The home team on the ninth inning, by o
base on balls, singles by Snyder and
PiChney and doubles by Baldwin and
Maskrey. Attendance 1880. The score
was;
lnnIngs zee, .,,.,,. ,...,,. 2S460 07sO
Pittsburgh. ...."" Q 9 8 Q Q %
CInclnuGti..."""..""l o. 0 o o 0 0 D.
Earned runs, each. Two base hits
Carroll, Smith, Baldwin, 2, MaskrOy, 9
Passed balls, Miller, 9. First base on balls
of PlcAney, 9; off Calvin, 8. Errors
PittSburgh, 8; Cincinnati, 3. Base hits
each,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12

AVERY successful counterfeit Civil Ser
vice reform is current in Washington. 1t
has deceived some Of the experts,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12

once, Nos. aS and ~ Fourteenth street.

KENTUCKY merchants believe in AdVsr-
tising. Their enterprise takes the form Of
murder.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12

John W, Woodruff, Of Fargo, D. T., has
been expelled from the order Of Masons,
iof having, as Grand Secretary Of the
Grand Lodge oi Wisconsin, embeSSled q
large amount oil funds,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12
MORNING,
Opening sCntCncc-The Lord is In Ills

HOLY p!e".'".'".....r.'..." Morrison.
hnlneln .'''lemOl
Gloria Mood ward
Gloria In ExcelSiS, De0"..."..".m."".""..
10 Deunl, .".'" bVrB
JuDHhNt andrews
hymn No EO.',.'.."' llVeTtOn
Gloria Blalla
LYNN NO. l3l.".. .''''" federal Street
OneFtOFy Come Holy plrlt.""..."..."."".Wa Warren
salClu ;IAylGr
hymn NO. DI.,,, ....,,,,Se eDOTthA
Gloria In EXcelSls""""."."..""."". Hopkins
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12

At st. Mathews P. L. Church, the rec.
tor, the Rev. Il. Rush swops, will conduct
special and appropriate services. Tho
music will be a leading feature OF the SER
vices. 1t will be rendered by special
double quartette, composed as follows:
sopranos-Mrs. O. W. Eof, OF Kansas
City, and Mrs. George B. Caldwell.
Contraltos-Mrs. w. Clarence Findley,
OF Akron, and Miss Sadie Logan.
Tenors-Mr. w. Clarence Findley, Of
Akron, and Mr.. John L. Mendel.
Basaos-Mr. Oscar Seeley and Mr.. Joseph
Hall.
There will be interesting services at the
Cathedral. Mrs. NJ. +. Whitaker will
have charge OF the music.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-12

Mr.. Findlay then continued TO review
the action OF the Baltimore postmaster.
This ingenious young man, he said, with
tho aid Of more expert nsnipulatorS still,
had violated the law and rules ol the
Civil Service Commission and still boasted
that II be had only been spared a little
Longer In his place he would have turned
oyer Democratic Civil Service reform
postolEiue 10 his successor. Laughter and
Mere was not man in the House who
did not know what the effect Of the pro.
vision would be. The establishment Of
OWL Service reform in England had had
IA origin In the revolt Of the Commons
against the appointments by the aris.
toCraCy. ThGt state Of affairs had lie ex-
act Counterpaft In what was called free
America. There we're no Dukes OF Mar.
oulBes here, but there was their exact
Countefparts In the shape Of political
wardfoundefs and heslers. Though
America had no ahstoCracy which ap.
pointed 10 office, II had sort oi feudaI
Nh Compton, Of Maryland, said thai
the assault his colleague had made on the
iAIe postmaster, at Baltimore was as 1n
deserved az any one man had ever made
on another. Who was that postmaster
lie was the peer Of the gentleman from
Maryland Mf.Flndlay) or any another gen
Ilenan on this floor, or anywhere 9 mar
Of character and intelligence and . Demo
ofGt. The Civil Service Commission haC
sought by every effort and By every mean
Il would employ 10 show that he had VIC
lated the law Of that service beCauee h'
had removed from Office lot Of polltiCa
acAlaMaRa and q loi Of nnpflnUipled Bcoun
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24
Sailing an lce-BOat.

An ice-yacht is always sailed with
her sheet trimmed flat aft. With the
wind dead astern, however, the reader
may very naturally infer that only the
actual speed of the wind can be at
tanned. In a race several miles to
windward and return the contestants
do not point straight for the stake on
the homestretch by any means. You
shall see them steering from one side
of the river to the other, seemingly
under the control of very erratic steers
men. Not at all! Each of those men
is getting the best PAGES out of his boat.
As soon as he finds the wind astern he
sheers off to port or starboard, as judg-
ment dictates, his boat gains Roadway,
and now comes in the sailors skill.
Presumably he knows his boats Pc
culiarities and he puts her on exactly
her best sailing angle. When he feels
'.in his bones that with the existing
wind she has attained her highest pos
sible speed he gently puts her helm up
and away she flies with her acquired
momentum dead to leeward through
the wind. Sometimes she will keep
up this for half mile or more, and as
soon as the trained nerves of the helms
man tell him that she is losing head
way he puts her on the wind again and
inspires her with a fresh burst Of speed.
Such a race, it will readily be under
stood. calls, out the highest qualities
of skill and judgement on the
part of contestants. Indeed the
result of race to leeward de-
ponds on skill pure and simple far
more than does race where the
course can be laid both ways with the
wind abeam.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24
Some Things Yet to be Found Out.

The genial Bob Burdette writes: l
see some of the newspapers are making
no end of fun of Harvard graduate
who could not tell who discovered
America. Oh, well, my son, that is. one
of the things you don't learn in COL
lege. 1 am like the Harvard graduate,
l do not know who discovered Ameri-
ca. If you know, or think you know a
man who does know, wish you would
tell me. would give some money to
learn just that much. ! am also away
down in the spelling class. [ cannot
spell Shaikespear as Shakspere himself
spelled it. wish you would tell me
the proper way of spelling that great
mans name. I do not know why there
are so many gray horses and no gray
colts. l do not know whether the egg
began with the hen or the hen started
with the egg. I can't understand why
we can't find the North Pole when we
know where it is. don't know why a
matinee should come in the afternoon.
I don't know why man wears buttons
on the tail of his coat. | can't see what
earthly use an elephants tail is to him.
I don't understand why people in town
are always wild to 60 to the country
and people in the country are crazy to
come to town. Why don't they change
places at once and be done with it? l
do wish I could somewhere hear of a
wise man who would devote a few
hours every century to teaching me a
few simple things that everybody ought
to know and that everybody except my
self seems to know already.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24
1T was not my fault, Z he began.
ghastly with terror. ''.5s.==.a


1T was not my fault, 4 he began.
CHASTITY with terror. ''s.s.s:5
tried to lift Gertrude.
Mary she whispered. ..the key
open for the clergyman
The minister was on the staircase.
Basil Humphrey had turned to Bessie,
and the girl was reviving. H
''Help me up" said Gertrude Has
kell. We raised her and placed her in
chair. She held her hand upon her
breast.
:'Marry them,'' she said, s'and quick
y. l must see them married before I
die, else
Humphry started. Perhaps he feared
she might accuse him of murder.
Other occupants of the house came
crowding into the room. And there
was a doctor, though / did not know
when he entered.
And there, in the presence of death,
the clergyman read the briefest mar
rage service.
II pronounce you man and wife, -
he said.
And then some one else spoke. 1t
was the doctor.
'Who fired the shot?" he asked, with
sudden sternness.
And Gertrude smiled.
"Accident!'' she gasped, and fell
back in my arms, dead.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24


my standing joke at home that ia the
absence Of fire they poke at me.
There have been number Of wells put
down in gainesville but none of them
were successful except mine. Mrs
De PAW, at Albany, Ind, has spent
half million dollars in effectual efforts
to strike natural gas by boring. 1t ex-
lists in veins and you must strike one of
them before you get the gas. Its
beauty is in cleanliness and conve-
nience. I heat my house by steam.
The boiler is heated by gas, fed auto
matically. The heat register is auto
matte and the water fed in the boiler is
automatic. All that is necessary is to
look the thing over once day. In
cooking we can have a hot fire or a
moderate one in second and no
kindlings to split" New York Tribune
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24
Some History Ia tho LILO Of the Grant
~ Boys Mt (30lOnA. So ts

Boys nj Gelena.
heard an amusing story q day or
two ago about the Grant boys when they
were children at Galena. The family
lived in plain house on High street,
which since the General first began to
achieve greatness has been an object of
interest to tourists and strangers visit
ing that city. Their nearest and most
intimate neighbors were the family of
A. M. Haines. The Haines and the
Grant children were fast friends dur
ing the residence of the latter on High
street. The boys of each family had a
game rooster and were wont to pit the
fowls against each other whenever a
favorable opportunity presented itself.
The Grant rooster was named General
Graut'' and was very gamey bird,
usually coming out first best in the
contests. The Haines fowl was chris
tened "Jeff Davis not, however, from
any love the young owners entertained
or it's trai torous namesake.
On one occasion the two birds were
set at fighting and in the battle the
Haines fowl whipped General Grant"
badly and drove him from the field.
The contest between these two chiefs
of the roost took place at time when
Grant and Pemberton were pitted
against each other at Vicksburg, and
when it began to look as though the
former would have to give up the idea
of capturing the city. News was
brought to Mrs. Grant almost hourly
from the seat of war, and that lady, as
a matter of course. was very anxious
| about the result, although she knew
that sooner or later ''Ulyss'' would
get there. A messenger had just left
the house, after handing Mrs. Grant 8
somewhat discourging dispatch, when
in rushed her boys, Fred and Buck,
shouting, Indignantly: Mother, Gen:
eral Grant has been licked! General
Grant has been licked!;' l guess not
my children,' said the mother coolly
who at first gravely imagined thai
some latter intelligence than that she
had received had come to the front
eyes, he has, said Fred Indignantly
jeff Davis licked him just now
behind Mr.. Haines' barn, and il
that bird don't go into the pot it will
because can't catch it to wiring its
neck General Grant, it is related
suffered an ignominious death thai
night and the next day furnished
meal for the family.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24
Convenience of Natural Gas.

The problem of heating and lighting
becomes more and more complicated
every year by the electric light and
natural gas discoveries. Thirteen
years ago General j. S. Easement, of
gainesville, Ohio, put down the first
natural gas we'll in this country. He
told me about it yesterday; 81 ran a
pipe down six hundred and sixty-two
feet" said he "At that depth the
drill dropped two yards in one jump.
The gas Immediately began to pour
and it has supplied my house with heat
and light ever since. The only trouble
l find about it IS that it deprives the
women folks of fire to poke. It is
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24

''They will tell you of ribbons, of cambria
How cheap they were sold, and will tell
You the place. -Salmagunde
Now, as to shopping, the only fun l
could ever find in it is to see how far
you can make your money 60. Hyour
pocketbook is plethora, as mine is not,
why you then just 60 with your eyes
shut and say:-"I'll take this, III take
that and plank the cash for it.
There's no chance at all for brain work.
There's no play at all for your genius;
there's no discrimination, no poetry
in it, There's so much cash against so
much trash, and done with it. Any
fool can 20 shopping with money in his
pocket. The whole snap and ginger
of the thing is to go with a depleted
purse. Then you begin to make in
quiries; then your brain is brought in
to healthful exercise; your organ of
number is awakened and your talent
comes to light. You become a think
ing being, and you begin to ask:-Do
| really need this thing? If l take it.
must | not 90 without something need
more?' Then begin to say:-"Doesn't
it not be cheaper when the song birds
Gomez Then you put the questions to
yoursclf:-'Docs it really become me?
Will my husband like it? Will it wear
well? Will the trader trust me for it?''
So you see the real fun and intel
lcctuality in shopping is to 90 with but
little money in your purse. Here all
the wit. the wisdom and the music
enter in Hence often saY:-'It is a
glorious thing to be poor; that is, when
one must 20 Shopping; that is, if both
ewes are open. Shopping then becomes
"a means of grace to those who do
not 20 often.
Now, from the above, you see that l
have studied shopping and hence you
may be pleased to take dozen gentle
hints from me to do your shopping
with this winter. Here they are:
/. Make up your mind before you
90, both as to what you want
and what you don't want.
2. Don't carry your pocketbook in
your hand; it invites the fingers of the
snatch thief.
3. Take but little money with you
and pay as you 60. 1.-THE first sin is
running into debt; the second, lying
4. Patronize the stores of your own
town; for what could you do without
them?
S. Never buy an article simply be-
cause it is cheap; for in the end, it will
be dear to you.
6. Please tell no fbs for the sake
of cheapening goods.
7. Don't boast of your great bar
gains. The trader understands a bar
gain better than you do.
g. Do not handle over every thing
you intend to purchase. There is q
limit to the traders patience even with
the ladies.
8. Remember the best goods are the
cheapest in tho long run. Shoddy
may look we'll enough at first; but be
sure it is fraud.
10. Reserve little of your money
for the morrow. Fashions change, you
know.
IL. Take the trader for an honest
man until he has deceived you; and
then make some allowances for mis-
takes.
II. Please thank the clerk for his
attentions; and also me, if you think
best, for these suggestions.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24
An Indian Fable.

A great drought prevailed in coun-
try in the East at one time. There was
hardly any water to drink. In the
chief city there was a great cistern,
from which the water was measured
out every day to the people of the town
and in the provences. One night the
Waterman came running to the king
and said,-
s'Sire, there has been leak some
where in the cistern, and the water is
flowing OUT
The king with all his court, came
out to see the leak, but it could not be
discovered. However. some time after
the water ceased to flow Still, to
make sure that all was right, the next
day the spot where the leak had hap
pened was carefully examined. The
| workmen found out the whole. and Saw
a frog blocking it. They were about
to fling the frog on the ground with
violence, when the king said,-
s'Oh, no, he is our benefactor: but
for him all the water would have gone
out
The workmen laid him tenderly on
the ground, and he escaped into the
cistern, saying to the king
''Sire to discover merit in the 1owly
is harder work than rulingove king
DOM
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24
A Sumatra Girl of High Degree,

The appearance and attire of Lam
pong miss on state occasions is thus
given: The centre of attraction is the
long line of maidenhood, glittering in
silver and gold of native workmanship.
The hair of each girl, neatly arranged
and odoriferous from an abundance of
cocoanut and cajaput oil, is tied in a
knot behind and transtixed by high
backed comb overlaid with gold plate.
Her head is crowned with a coronet of
gold, of form and magnificence accord
ing to her "pongka.t'' A shawl worn
sashwise hangs from the shoulder to
the ground, while from above the mid
die hangs rich sarong or petticoat OF
homegrown and spun silk, interviewer
with gold thread and decorated with
hundreds of small coins of the Dutch
mint, VIII ich jingle pleasingly as she
dances. Above this the body is girt
with silk sledang, half concealing,
the breasts. The arms, shoulders and
chest are bare, except for the numer-
Gus gold and silver collars and brace
lets of patterns peculiar to her marga,
territorial division,) with which she is
loaded. Often these collars are COM
posed entirely Of the large dollar
pieces of Spain, Holland and Mexico,
and of half-crowns. Of the highest
born maidens, the arms from the wrist
to the elbow are almost concealed by
the display of pure "barbaric gold, -
for they may wear as many bracelets as
they choose, while their sisters less for
tunate in the matter of blood and rank
must conform to the regulation num-
Der corresponding to their degree. The
breast is OVERLAND with crescent shaped
gold plates suspended in tiers. The
waist is encircled with belt of one of
the precious metals, secured by al ell
aborately carved buckle of the same
material. The rather bony fingers a e
encircled with many rings, and even
the nails are heightened by additions
of silver into talon-like claws, so that
altogether the Lampong maiden pre-
sents dazzling appearance in the
dim, uncertain light of lamp-lit balai.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24

1880. MEM
HARDWARE
strong-Hackett Hardware Co.
Farwell, Ozmun s. jackson.
Adam Decker.
IRON, STEEL AND HEAVY HARDWARE.
N''' ! Dry GOODS AND NOTIONS.
Auerbach, Finch & Van Slyck.
Indexes, Warner & Schurmeier.
Powers, Durkee Co.
NOTIONS AND FURNISHING GOODS.
Blabon, Warren & Chipley.
Arthur, Warren Abbott.
GROCERS.
p HI. Kelly Mercantile Co.
Allen, Moon d Go.
Maxfield T. Seabury.
Beaupre, Keogh & Co.
YAM, criggs Il Howes.
TEAS, C0PFEES AND SPICES.
Berkey, Talmadge Co.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
C. Gotzian j. Co.
Kellogg, johnson & Co.
F. Jo &: is ssn%'5 & Co. 6 Co.
HATS, CAPS AND FURS.
Gordon s. Ferguson.
Lanpher, Finch & Skinner.
stre1sseuth & Drake.
DRUGS.
Noyes Bios. & Cutler.
Ryan Drug Co.
CHINA, CR0CKERY AND GLASSWARE.
Craig, Larkin & Smith.
Pollock, Donaldson & Ogden.
LEATHER, SHOE FINDINGS AND SADDLERY
HARDWARE.
p. X. L. Hardenbargh & Co.
Scheffer & Rossum.
Chas. G.. Schmidt.
PAPER AND STATIONERY.
Ward, Hill & Mcclellan.
Pioneer Press Co.
BOOKS, PAPER AND STATIONERY.
St. Paul Book & Stationery Co.
CLOTHING Ind FURNISHING GOODS.
Campbell & Burbank.
MEMS FURNISHING GOODS.
Guiterman Bros.
TAIL0RS TRIMMINGS AND W00LENS.
Yallop, DeGroot & Co.
RUBBER GOODS AND Betting.
St. Paul Rubber Co.
Goodyear Rubber Co.
- CIGARS AND FOBACCOS.
WhIteman Bros.
G. H. AcL8fu.
NOTIONS AND COUNTER SUPPLIES
i. 8ommexS 4 Co. :.-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-24
st. Patrick and Snakes: A OuerV.


Can it be possible that St. Patrick
did not rid Ireland of snakes after all?
In the English Country Gentleman
Mr.. Grant Allen discusses the question
why certain animals, such as snakes,
vipers, water-rats, etc., are not found
in Ireland. For the real solution of
the problem, he says, we must 60 back
to the time when England, Ireland
and the Continent were united by a
broad belt of land across the beds of
the English Channel, St. Georges
Channel, and the North Sea. It is
now an ascertained fact that in the
very latest geological period, known
as the glacial epoch, the whole surface
of the British Islands Except an
insignificant strip of the south coast)
was covered from end to end with a
deep coating of glaciers, like that
which now envelops all polar lands,
and while this condition of things
prevailed there were, of course, no
animals of any sort in all Britain, or,
at any rate, none but a few Arctic
types. After the ice melted, however,
the existing British fauna, such as it is,
began to occupy the land, and the
fact that it did so is one proof,
though by no means the only
proof, that communication with the
Continent then existed across the bed
of the North Sea. Now, the animals
only pushed their way very slowly into
the newly-cleared region as the ice
melted away, and the consequence is
that only some forty kinds of mammals
out of the whole European fauna had
penetrated as far as England before
the gradual submergence of the low
land belt separated it from the Contin.
ent by forming the enclosing arms al
the sea.
But Ireland lies even further ives,
than England, and there is reason to
believe that St. Georges Channel had
all been flooded some time before the
waves of the Atlantic broke down the
last link between Dover and Calais.
Accordingly, Ireland never got her fail
share of land animals at all, for though
the wolf and fox and the Irish hare and
many other quickly migrating creatures
had time to cross the intervening belt
before the submergence, several smaller
or slower creatures, including the vi
pers, did not get over the ground fast
enough, and were thus shut out forever
from the Isle of Saints.