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The Press., 1886-05-20

PATENTS Sa Setoinfa sor TGe s ones. Caveats, Infrine eemenss Trade-Marks, and aA patent business promptly attended to:
 INVENTTONS THAT HAVE BEEN REJECTED may still, in most cases,be pateAted byns. Reing oDDOeite the U s Patent 0ffce, &nd engaged im RA- TENT BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY, we can secure patents in less time than those who gre remote fron Washington.
 f7 When Inventors send model or sketch Wa peke search in the Patent Oce and adgige to S HA$4AF ability, FREE OF CHARGE. COrrespo c0na- dential fees reasonable ARd Np TIA " HSS1
 We refer by permission to the City Poetmastef, and to the Superintendent of the Post QHce Money OrdsE Division in Washin4teIls Hog spee1el ear- cular, advice, &c.,, address,
 C. A, SNOW & CO. | oPPosrTR PATENT OFTiCe, WAsHIkaEoN,D ID. c.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-25
HUMOROUS.

"A Pittsburgh girl who has been
visiting here has returned to her nat
i've city; she says the atmosphere of
Boston does not SCOT her. Boston Com.
mercial Bulletin.
Book agent-''Now. then, here is
Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress. Aunt
Susan-"NO, sar, Use got two bunions
already and dey's never been no help
to dis yer pilgrims progress. life.
Say" called old Mr.. Crochet to
the new boy, "bring me my boot
jack" my name amt Jack" re-
sponded the boy, quickly, IAN amt
got your boot, neither -Harper's b.
sar.
--"Well. this is q world of change"
sighed lie Diggs lis it?" replied De
Wigs If you had asked about
dozen fellows for the loan of a half
dollar, as l did this morning, you'd
change your opinion.
--"Ah. what do you charge for a
suit like thatp" said the dude to the
tailor as he pointed out piece Of
cloth. Nothing, sir; we do strictly
cash business "Um-um," said the
dude, pulling his chin. "Ill call later
and see you abou: it. - Chicago Mail.
-Pedantic old gentleman Ito res.
taurant waiter)-"I believe it is i'm
proper to speak unexpectedly of ones
elders?" r. W.-"So I've card, sir. "
p. 0. Citizen l will be silent con-
corning the duckling you have just
brought me. London Judy.
10, yes" wrote Bostonian who
believes that his own home is the cool
est spot on earth in midsummer, "it is
all very we'll for you to ask me to come
down to your famous hotel for rest and
change. l tried it once; the porter got
all the change and the landlord took
the rest. "-Boston Journal.
Buttons Letter, sir. Bearer
wants a answer" Mr.. Bumptious
Blow ard 'Iwho has "got on")-.'Don't
speak like that, you dreadful boy!
You never hear me say "a answer. ,"
Buttons-"No, sir; you puts hatch
in, sir 'Tain't your fault, sir; there
weren't no school board when you was
boy, sir" (SackeD. London Fun.
Now comes an jconoclast and says
that "there is colored man who lives
at Mount Vernon. where George is
buried. and he told lady that once
there was little slave boy named Ike,
who lived in Mr.. Washington's family,
and that what George really said was:
II can not tell lie father; Ike did it,"
but that the father didn't hear straight
M Y. Post.
Some time ago teacher in charge
of a school in West Georgia county
was approached by a pupil and re.
quested to explain the meaning of "49
B. c." The teacher read the sentence
in which the hieroglyphics occurred.
and observed that it referred to an. in
cident that had taken place in a remote
period. "Ahem!" he said, 'them fig
gers an them letters is frequently
found in history books. You see. a
long time ago, folks didn't know 9
much s we do. an they sorter guessed
at dates. Now, 40 b. c. means ~
bout correct "-Atlanta Constitution
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-25
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

President Folks papers have been
put in shape and shortly will be pub.
lished.
Mrs. Marina Wright. Of Addison.
w., is over one hundred and two years
old, and has lived in her present resi-
dence over ninety-nine years.
|. A Mexican editor, Seuor GARLIC,
asserts that the Government under
which he lives flogs newspaper men
for uttering incendiary sentiments.
Lieutenant Goazson has invented
. method for firing dynamite shells
from ordinary cannon, which has just
been tried successfully in San Fran.
cisco.
The London Athenoum thinks the
nationality Of the author of a popular
novel is betrayed by the sentence:
WAS leaden-heeled justice clinching
its iron hand for another blow?"
The monument for the grave Of
Henry B. Shaw (Josh Billings), the
humOrist, which will be placed in the
cemetery at Lanesboro, Mass, will
bear only the simple inscription, Josh
Billings. Boston journal.
Mrs. Lovejoy, wife of Major Love-
joy of Bethel, Me-, while fishing re-
Gently IN the Rangeley lakes, caught
the largest trout ever hooked by .
woman in those waters. It weighed
eight pounds nine ounces.-Bosso"
Post.
Among the first installment Of
Chinese that went to North Adams,
Mass, was Lin Gin Gong. He be-
came converted to Christianity, studied
hard, saved money, and is now about
to return to his native land a. mis-.
sionary.
Joseph Chamberlain, the English
Radical leader, is described as dudjsh
and wonderfully boyish in appearance.
and though turned fifty might we'll
pass for thirty five with bis light, act.
i've figure and gay dress, decorated in.
variably with rich, fresh orchid.
AT Spring Creek. Roam County. NOT
many miles from Charleston, w. Va.
lives Thomas Simon, aged ninety four.
who was bugler for General Taylor
in the Mexican war. The old man il
blind, but he has a clear mind and
loves to tell stories about the stern old
warrior. N O. Times.
Among the members of the new
British Parliament will be Mr.. Mac.
donald, an Irish Protestant, who has
been elected as q Parnellite in Ossory
He is an honor man of Trinity College
with splendid powers of speech. HI
has been blind from his birth, and is
as Henry Fawcett was, led by his wife
-Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen's grave
is now marked by monument, forty
feet high. The shaft bears the words
"A diligent and conservative states
man. a sincere friend and counselor
busy in the affairs OF life. he walked
humbly and trustfully with his God
Blessed are the pure in heart, for the!
shall see God IN. Y. Tribune.
One of the finest tributes to tn
personal character of the late Judg
David Davis is that which says: eth
most marked beauty Of his characte
was that he seemed to think that great
ness and purity and loyalty were mat
ters of course" There is nothing tina
more surely argues noble mind thai
the belief that nobleness is not un
common trait.-DetrOit Chr,stian Her
aid.
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Washington Star
In submitting the new seal, which vas
adopted by tho Senate the other day, the
Committee on Rules reported that care
iul examination OF the journal and arch
ives failed to disclose the history OF the
existing seal or authority for its use, but i
was engraved Al has been learned,
about 1881, by Edward stabler, post
master at Sandy Springs, Nd, from ls2s
until his death in 1883, The device
Was designed by Il. z. Lamphear, Jr
a French artist, then resident OF Wash
ington. Mr. Edward Stabler, JrI oil BAlti'
more, son Of the engrayer and postEuas'
ter, has the correspondence relating to the
matter. Mr.. Wagner, u wood engmYeT, Of
York, Pa in letter 10 the elder Stabler
in 1881, wrote; "The seal OF the Senate Is
not yha. it ought to be for the money i
cost, The figures are very awkSaid
specially tue middle one, which appears
TO be falling over. The drapery ,is very
stiff and TOO scanly pattern OF 1t
The committees report adds that nc
ono has yet ever discovered what those
figures we're intended to typily, or whal
relevancy they had to the United states
Senate OF lis proceedings, AT the leGt ol
the central figure are the words, July j.
l77B." and on scroll at her right The
words and figures, "ConstitGtion, March d
l770," Theselnscrptionscannot6 be discern
ed on any Impressions made Wlthin h'teeu
yeats from the old seal, but they are
plainly leglble on the original proof in'
pressions III the possession OF Mr.. staherr
who has large collection OF sea!a made
by his ilther for government departments
| at Washington and for States and conrts'
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a Book lblers Ingenuity,

| The Crdc'
When read in thppapeB description
OF aghopIiiler's muh ! congratulated the
book trade that it was too small Tor the
secretion OF anything larger than avoIume
OF C4ssell's Miniature Library, aud that
the booksellers counters were sale from
the depredations Of the willy shoplittGr.
But, alas Yankee ingenuity is not SO
easily bdtlled, and tho booksellers are nOti'
ied to be ON their guard, II is not the alb
gnnt.minlCd old gentleman with CapaclUus
oyer.olt pockets whom they have to fear,
but busting young man wh1 carries a
large parcel in his hand, neatly tied about
with strings. II is heavy parcel, and he
ia glad to set II down upon convenient
pile Of books while he browses about
among the counters GLfewn with current
literature. When the eager salesman Is
deep in the suhtlCties OF selling
an edition de haze to wary
buyer, the owner OF the parcel
tNGe5 ii up c4rOlGssly to leave the shop;
but Us he lifts II from the counter he slips
half dqzyn books up into its cayernaus
dopths-lor II is bottomleRs and hollow
fraud. Notwithstanding tho iaunty man
ner OF his exit there was something in the
appearance oil one OF these gentlemen that
attracted the attention Of salesman in H.
p. Dattou Il Co.'s store tho other day, and
when no asked him what he had in his
parcel the man cast Reconstruction glance
at the clerk, dropped his bundle and fed.
Upon examination the ialseness Of its
pretensions was discovered; also the TACT
that II held copy OF Webster's Una.
Ibridged that had q few moments before
been resting quietly on counter.
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women schUol plreotoTa.

Philadelphia TINES
All parties are prone to forget that one.
half the pupils Of our public schools are
urls, and that women are now eligible to
the Office OF School Director.
Every School Board should have at
least one intelligent woman In It, and
there Is no reason why an equal number Of
our directors should not DO women. They
would do much to elevate tho standard
and aims OF the direction Of our public
schools, and rs they are ineligible to the
higher political offices, they would be free
from the temptation to sacrifice eduCa
tional interests 10 ambition, Us Is common
amongst men.
OF course, women do not "set up the
boys" at precinct saloons; they do not
yell around the primaries; they do not
organize ballot.thieves nor do they run
with the machines but every citizen who
has q daughter to educate, should feel the
necessity Of intelligent fidelity aud refine.
nUnt III the management oil our public
schools.
Women who are best fitted for the
duties Of School Directors, will, hs a rule,
he reluctant 10 become candidates; but
they should DO nominated and voted iot
without involving them personally in Tie
contest. Under snCh circumstances, even
defeat would be no discrelit, IS failure to
attain an rnsought office can bring no 10.
pfoach upon any. In cases oil tbs defeat
Of competent women, the loss would be to
the schools and not 10 the defeated Candi.
me Republicans have, by their nomina-
tlonV, exhibited little appreciation oil the
value Of women ID. the School boards,
and Che DsmoCratsBhould give anObler ex.
ample Of the appreciation OF women's
rlptt aud duty Iii tho education Of the fl.
itfs wives and mothers Of the country,
Lei intelligent and respected women be
presented In every ward for the School
Board, and Intelligent citizens Of oil par
Ties should vote for such candidates, not
as matter oil cumplimonttu woman, but
as matter Of justlCe 10 the iulnte women
Of the land now 10 DO educated aud fitted
for honor and usefulness.
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what can Repnr tho ullsehISlg

uOOd IiOust6elHg'
And eyen,-and hero We say It in The
tenderest way, knowing full well what 1t
costs to refuse our hearts dearest instincts,
we should sometimes hesitate to watch
the siCk.bed II, in order to do 1t, we must
resort to strong coffee, tea, or more power
full stinulant, nightalter night. viii be
any comfort oil returning health, for the
dear one to see that his faithful friend Is
utterly worn out Rs to his nervous system,
perhaps unable 10 sleep, certainly incapa-
Citated for healthful labor, or mental lileP
What can repay tho mischief Who is 10
blRmo2 Certainly not tho sick person who
was in no condition to cay, "Get the train.
cd nurse who has been fitted Tor this very
thing. Save your strength, my dear
friend, for the over sight Of those countless
things outside Of her duties, and for the
sweet consolation Of my spirit, and for my
mental tonicinmy Convalescence." Surely
we did not look for him to say II The
whiplash was applied to our back by our
own hand, and We must bear the Conse-
quenCes now.
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An,r VINO undpr,tnnh. ,Em.

Detroit Frce PreS.
The other morning boy about II years
OF ags knocked at the door OF a house on
Brush street and asked the woman II she
didn't want tho snow cleaned oil the walk
"lIOw mlch2" che cautiously inquired
"Thirty cents"
81 won't pay 1t. Ityou want to do the
work for ten cents you can 90 ahead"
Ilu leaned on the handle Of bis snow
shovel and looked thoughtful, and she
finally querled:
"Wefi, what do you say2"
'IEs just as that woman around the
corner told me-" be replied, ~ shoveled
of her snow and she gave me fifty cents
l told her | was coming to ask you, and
she said
Il don't know her. What business Is Il
to her.
"Yeg but"
"What did she say2"
"she said I'd get Left. She said that
any woman who wore plush saCque and
passed II off for q three hundred dollar
geGlskin would DO mean enough to 90 out
nights and shovel her own snow."
"BoyI" whispered the woman as she
turned white clear around her neck. ~
Tort you TO clean of the snow. When
you RrO through Ill give You a silver
dollar, and l want you TO 60 around and
tell that woman that any one who buyt
and wears dollar store iewelry and four
teen.shilling ghoCs hasn't gotsenEe enough
10 fail oil bob.tGiled Car
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IMpoRrANr MEETING



AmoTtcn.-Its offsets.
The members OF the Executive Commit
tee Of the above named Association have
fixed the place OF the next meeting at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, on the 23i, 9th and 25!h
days Of February, 1885, The membership
of such Association Is made to include
"any person who is member OF the Edi-
to,ial Association oil any State, province or
nation Of North America, or q properly &C
credited representative oil such Assocla-
ton" II has been thought best that each
State Association, in order to make the
Association truly representative In char
acter, be asked to appoint and send, al
least, one delegate iog each twenty mem
bsrs, or fractional part thereof, OF such AS
ISOLATION, or one from each Congressional
district OF each State OF the United states
and two at large from each State or Terri
tory. This meeting will be- for business or
discussions, for devising methods for ad-
yancing the intereEtsol the press, especially
for the upbuilding OF the country press.
| The following members OF the West
Virginia Press Association have been ap-
pointed az delegates to the Cincinnati
meeting by President Holt: G. L.
Thompson, Huntington; NJ, w, Donually,
Charleston; q, +. Poland, Romuey; X.
+. Homer, PIrkereburgi b. Q, Smith
RayenswoOd; Geo. Bsstaole, UlaIksbuEg
| VIM, NJ. o. Dawson, Kingwood; A. b
White, ParksrsDurg. State papers please
copy. GEO. bAsrAbLE,
Secretary West Virginia Press Association
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Ghe lpItallIQenr&r,
-


The Second Comptroller Of tho Treas
urv. who has been looking into the ac'
counts OF the Sigual Service, finds that
disbursements have been made without
authority and ci.eR ior unnecessary sup
plies This Comptroller appears to be q
very unreasonable, commonplace sort OF
person.
For example, under the hgRd OF many
improper expenditures ne notes certain
purchases ior the Point Barrow eXpsdi-
ton; viz, 10 gallons OF whisky, s-O= 5Oj
sportsmen's r.lies, ammunition %c',
$3.50 45; Marryat.d works, lRnceent's
Abroad, RoughiGg 1t, CooPar's Sea Tales,
Bosweils Lie .! Johnson land other
books having no relation whatever to the
science OF meteorology.
An Official more d,sirous OF doing JUS
Lics than Of casting reproach on men in
another brauch Of the pHb!ic service,
would not have taken il ior granted that
The dIsburssme made were necessarily
improper expenditures.
Would hu bGys had the Signal Service
men 90 on such TN expedition without the
time.honored remedy for snake'bites?
Forty i've gallons may be thought good
deal OF remedy. Yet it may bo ths! in
tho Point Bltr3g rss,on snakes ne very
rumsrous and the Lits II tho same par
tcularly yiulent. Four dollars and 4
hall per gallon would be very high for
some whisky, but for medicinal purposes
the best is always tho cheapest.
Tne sportsmen's rIlsl may not have
been absolutely necessary, but il the
Comptroller has ever been in the Wild
wood, holding communion with nature in
her visible forms, he must know how
tsntallzlng it is to balm happy hunting
ground uuprovided with the implements
Of the chase! Even mcteorologists can
not content themselves forever with shoot.
ing Ltars.
The books complained OF are oil stand
ard works, Of high tone. There 10
nothing in any Of thOm to demorNl2e the
Signal Service. There may DO a little too
much gaiety in BoswelPa johnson, but
surely there Ia ample compensation for
thisin the severely philosophical lnnccents
Abroad. Surely there is no objection to
our public servants being well.read.
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FOR RENT,

No. 21lB RoG street, I've rooms, $500.
No l7Iwenty third ItEeel six rooms and attic,
$1,000,
No. II Seventeenth LtrIG., thre rooms onieCond
No ~ Seventeenth street, ionr rooms on second
llonr, 500
No. 40 Seventeenth ItVcet, Xix rOcnlS, sljCO.
No l5S sixteenth street, four rOlmA, Sill W,
No. W EighteGuth street, five rooms, SI2 C0.
No. 2li6 Alley A, two r0OmE, %
Store room No. 2l63 Main street, $1,000,
No 2lSb Maiu street. two rOOTs on I'd tlOor, 50 90,
No ~ Eighteenth street SIX rcCmS, Slb co.
No ili2 Baltimore street, four looms, s9O
No. " n Orih Front ST. Get, $3.50,
No. 2lil Main street. three rooms on first llonr
Two Thrse lLl0ued Houses In rear Ol 2ll2 Water
street 81 OO each.
business House No, lil7 Main street, and No.
l4G9 south street, $3.50 per annlrl
JAMES A. HENRY,
lam OllCO Nh 1914 Market Street
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rhn i,tAnnhDr tinrr,bl.,l.

fti,buph CSroncls. telegraph
"well, Mr.. Talmago is certainly wrong
for once" said Mrs, Snagg7, looking ~
from reading that gentleman's last sun
days sermon.
"Eiow 60, my dear n asked her husband,
"Why he says there arc no perfect
men,"
"And you think you found one when
you married me, l suppose" beamed Mi
Shaggs.
INDEED don't" was the quick reply.
"But | know there was a perfect man
once, and his name was Mark"
"Mark," repeated Mt. snaggS in a..
tonishment.
WYes, Mark, for the Bible distinctly
speaks Of Marx, the perfect man."
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through Ikea gentleman, and then SEN
sibly went to work as theatre manager,
His wife Is u member Of tbs Anderson
company, and ia only Is, and ia as pretty
as picture. A daughter Of Lydia yhomp,
sou, whom some Of the elderly dudes oil
Pittsburgh may barely yes, bdrey-re'
call, 10 also member Of the talented Ken
tncky actress company, aud is also quite
attractive, and mot by any means the
worst actor in the lot Forbes Robert
son, a graduate Of Cambridge, is leading
gentleman. ITO this complexion DO We
| come at Last"
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mWrlttsu Of Uuurss by mr. JHatic6 GreOn"
1t Is great pleasure to know that tho
there is in being such body as the West
country is boing conatantly reminded that
Virginia Supreme Court Of Appeals. II
would be still greater pleasure itthe great
world beyond could be made to understand
that we do not like to have our Supreme
Court spoken Of Contemptuously, rs in the
following comment by the Central Lar
Journal Of january %, 1885.
~"soMKTHING TOO MUCH OF TnIs."--In the
case OF Williams rs, County Court Of Grant
County, 20 w. Va. ISS, tho question for
decision was whether bill in equity
would lie TO enioin the collection Of dog
tax, The report Of the case Is foTty.ax
pages in length and tho opinion Of the
court written OF course by Mr.. Justice
Green) ia forty.oue pages IN length, We
are tempted to oxClNm with tho WHEEL
mo INTELLluENoER, "How long, oh Judge,
how long2" OF course tho opinion is eX-
haustive; IL will exhaust anybody to read
1t, and therefore VS. believe We will put 1t
into the waste basket.
1t was not necessary for tho Central Lar
Journal TO remark that the opinion is ex-
haustive-thlt goes without saying; nor
that 1t will exhaustanybodyto read it, for
the initiated will pass it by, and those who
have never bathed in these turgid waters
ought to be allowed 10 take just one plunge
before being warned off the premises.
The reference to the waste basket is I'm!
necessary, unprotessionul and brutal. How
much moro dellCately the same thought
would have been conveyed II the Journal
had said 1t had carefully laid aside the
learned and instructive opinion, TO be
read some day when 1t could take Blk
months from more important matters.
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Preston County Journda
The best arranged calender-iIs clear
print and open type make 1t easy to find a
date--is that issued by the Wheeling In.
rRLLiaRNCER. We always retain the In.
TELLiaRNUER calender for our own use.
lis thirty fourth annual issue, for 1880, Is
In the usual fine topographic style oil lie
predecessors. Printed In ColOrS, it is as
line piece Of printing as one often sees.
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~ virtue oi Feed Of TIus: made by Elizabeth
McKeOwu and William Mex Gown, her husband, TO
INC is Trustee, dated the II h daYoi November a
d. 1851, recorded In the office Of the CLERK Of the
County court Of Ohio County, West virginia, IN
DCGl II Trust lOlk M. II, page 26i, VIII tell NJ
the front door VI the.C5urt House 0I I'D county,
ON MONDAY, MARCH !, lsSi, commencing ct 10
O'Clock AN, tho following described proparty,
situate In the city Of wheeling, county Of Ohio,
and state Ut Vest Virginia, t6Gt Is 70 say: Lot
numbered 20S) Two Hundred and Eight, lltuRled
on the lUnthessI corner o! sixteenth aud MCCol'
loCh suurts, Ia The said CltY Of Wheellpg,
1hU tue Is bailey ID 10 be gOlli bat selling as
TIubtge will convey only the tile vested In me
by said iced NJ Trust
TER is OF sALp-OnG'hGli and Gs much moro
rs the purchaser eltc's 10 TRy In cash on the day
OF sale the balance IN two equal inslallmgnN NJ
Xix aud twelve mouths noes Dtarlug ntsTts!
ON lte day Of sale TO be given for the deferred
AMBROSE s. list Trustee.
b, Jan Is A. Henry, his Ageut.
Wutfiu IItII'pu Aup,inupaF ilnl
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WALLACE-At Mound Vile, ". Va, January 2S,
lss6, at l;IO O'Clock a, H., JOsEn WALLACE, IN his
;G,h year
Funeral Friday NJ, from the residence Of
], Il, TheenY MouGdWiIIe, Fdauds OF the fam
lily are luyiNd lou attend.