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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-29

About 9 O'Clock Nichols called for SEots.
bury, intending to hand him the keys and
have him release the prisoners for their
afternoon exercise, but there was no
Salisbury to answer, and Nichols begin
ming to smell 3 rat unlocked the doors,
got beyond the blanket and cav that the
birds had flown. An alarm was at once
raised and telephone messages sent In
all directions, but all to no avail. A boy
told about seeing three men whom, from
his description, resembled Mooney, SLots-
bury and McAndrews, going over the
Hempfeld tunnel hill, and Nichols started
in that objection, but came back empty.
handed.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-29

TnE great Etlss yS, Wheeling, New Fair
Grounds to-day, Admission 70 cent?,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-29

TINS great EtieO Va. Wheeling, New Fail
G[ounds to-day. AdmIsslon 2i cunts.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-05-19
A covonnat vim ,he AnImai4.

There Is something in the nature Of d
covenant with the animals that do our
work and supply oit tables and cover
our limbs. II Il not only that they die
Tor us; they have ever lived for us, and
but for us they would never haye BEEN
Nor Is It consistent with civilized ideas
% parade the unchanged exterior Of the
lnimals we are obliged to use, We
,lothe our ext1emites with skins, but sd
changed as never to suggest the sleek or
lgile forms they once covered. We
leece sheep for our clothes, but nothing
$ less like q flock Of sheep than a crowd
II men. The cowhide, telling It's own
ale, has long disappeared from even the
:rllnk shop and has become curiosity
IN a railway platform.
Well, but how about ladies' muffs and
,ealsEin jacketsa Civilization must con:
Eess to them aud leave the fair sex ID
speak for itself. No doubt the lions skin
became Hercules, and tho custom has
ong since assimilated to our taste the
most outlandish creatures gracefully dis
posed over a fair form. But there is Nd
needless parade, or at least, so little that
We do not notice Il. its not 50 with
;le assumption Of plumnge. Tho poor
bird Is exhibited as whole a. Possiblei
Head, wings and tail are all shown as
faithfully and fully as those Of the
hawk nailed 10 a barn door. But tile
most foolish fashion can always exceed
itself, and, bad as a thing may 10 ticrd
S worse. London Times.
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rh. Il.meal., q onr Ano.,tnr,.


Before the diifusion Of a knowledge d
the circulation Of the blood BY Harvey
in 1919, the theories Of medicine wer,
based almost entirely upon the writing
OF Galen, q physician Of Pergamus, whC
lived under tho reigns Of the Roman en-
peroB Hadrian, the Antonenis, Com
moduS and Seyerus, in the second cen
tury Of our era. The practice OF thC
healing art was mostly made up Of thl
use Of dmples-herbs or mtneras-thC
form or source Of which gave an idea oi
their use. Blood.lOtting, burning III,
skin with the hot iron, the application K
It Of balsams and various drugs having
apleasing or disgusting odor, horrible
farragoes or sometimes hundreds Of het
erogeneous materials, blistering, frictions
bathing IN certain springs or rivers sup
posed 10 have some wondrous powel
over certain ailments, applications t.
the skin or taking into the stomach o.
oils coming from all sorts Of sources
such were the remedies Of our ancestors
Emetics and cathartics held high ranl
alongside Of blood-letting. Rational med
icine, the child Of patient observation
and physiology, was not born. Chem
istry had not emerged from the mist o.
alchemy, and had furnished only a few
valuable products for the relief Of suf
fering. THE -nepenthe' Of the ancien
and mlddle-age writer's was probably
secret preparation Of opium Cor
GlObe-Democrat.
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MallpE . Now lTerr onsl,.

The Russians who are singtlarly sus
ceptble to now ideas and display ar
audacity yinengineering which has repeat
edly led them to act as pioneers in reduc
ing theory to practice, have fixed theil
minds on q new enterprise well calcu
lated to set on edge tho teeth Of English
and Indian statesmen. This Is no othCl
than the formation Of new oasis, Al
large as that Of M@v, along the nov
frontier to the oxus, which The Afghan
delimitation commission will delineatt
as soon as the spring weather enables 4
to quit its winter quarters at Tcllans
hambe.
Briefly, the scheme which by the way
is not mere newspaper project, but /
sober engineering design, complete in al
details, and drawn up on the spot by th;
surveys Of Annenkof, the constructor
Of the Transcaspian railway, provides
for cutting the bank Of the oxus men
TehArdEhni, and allowing the water I,
run afresh through some ancient chan
nels running in the direction Of Mery
There Is no particular novelty in the idea
the oasis Of Khiva being formed entirely
Of country irrigated by an elaborate sys
tenn Of canals running out from tht
oxus near It's entrance into the Aral sea
while the Mery oasis is Of similal
character, and uses up all the water o.
the Murghab.-London Engineering.
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carleAtufo. a AmeIloa5 su,,sji,,

A celebrated English reader oncs
asked me to go and hear him read, az ho
wanted TO hear the candid opinion OF an
American on his methods Of Initiating
the American vernacular at his public
entertainments. 1haye some experience
uf the manner in which the people Of
this planet receive candid opinions, and
50 caudtdly refused and candidly gavd
gave my reasons for refusing. This
made him the more persistent and 90 al
last ! weakly consented!
1spent an hour and a half d agonyl
After 1t was over l told him with tho
candidncss he had desircdthat bis Amer
can limitations were by all ODDS the most
yillainous, ibclOvts caricatures Of Aineds
can speech that 1t had ever been my evil
fortuue to listen 10. He said, quite
good-naturedly, that he had long stiss
pected Il, bat that he did not intend 10
change the style. % the people Of Eng
land expected that sort Of thing, and Of.
co'nS5 he merely supplied a public deS
mand. Cor, Detroit Free Press.
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n. rover = Do.. !, WIN.

The power 9 sleep when and wherl
oneyilis ia IA. Il Providence ouite 3
desirable q nienI5fy beauty, o. ann y
the othefnice things which az presuined
70 DO heaven sent. Men of the hiehesl
ability have been noted FOR the ease via
which they could take those eat naps
Ear more ihyigorating thSn liberation
which repair the neryouS waste AMI
allow them in waking hours 70 accom-
plish herculean tasks With their brains
That III sotnnia B tosaiiy Unknown "a IL
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Mnn.EalInr rlr,r, In a Cnrn

Here, fuHupon the open square, as a
II were part Of thenatural appurtenancel
Of a Rajput capital, are confined eight
man-eating tigers, criminals Of The neigh
boring iungles and hills, taken @red
handed and imprisoned as state cap
tives. The huge brindled beasts crouch a
the bars, sayagoly glaring forth upon tn,
moving crowd outside, too busy witt
pleasure and traffic to notice them. Each
tiger has tasted deep Of human blood
one monstrous brute, lying on his back,
has devoured seven, another ten human
beings, and the tigress growing In thl
last den is declared by her custodian t.
be known 10 have slaughtered fiftoer
men, women and children. Most ol
such malefactoB are shot, but these hay,
been shared in pitfalls, where the tiger d
left until hunger has reduced him to ex,
treme weakness, upon which the captorl
manage to draw him forth, and shut him
up in lifelong imprisonment.-G. A.
salas Jeypore india Letter.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-05-19
The Change. Of The Earth'1 surfao.


Therecent appearance Of new island in
one Of the Pacific ocean groupsillustrates
the fact that hundreds OF geographeu
and surveyors have all they can do to
keep their work abreast Of the never.
ending physical changes Of the eath'G
surface, Great Britain employs ten ships
and 600 men u its admiralty surveys,
and much Of their work consists in max.
ing new charts Of waters that were care.
fully surveyed from ten to thirty years
ago. New surveys along tho east and
west coasts Of England last year showed
important changes in depths and other
features have occurred since the previous
surveys, Navigation charts are likely
after ten or twelve years to hc as valne.
less for purposes Of present information.
as a last months nOwspaper.-Boston
Transcript.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-05-19

That word crank" with its modern
birth and forcefulness, Is sometimes uSed
with too greatfreedom and loses its ohgi
nal incoming, which attached II only K
monomaniacs or people Of unbalanced
minds. Every ruformer is called {
crank BY those who misuse the word
every individual. who secs beyond In,
limo Of vision which contents his neigh.
Dor, Is 80 designated; every specialist
or profound thinker on any particular
subject, or any person who gives utter
ance to fanciful expression OF original
thought, Is set down at once as crank
by persons who do not discriminate
between individual power and mental
weakness, kate Tannatt Woods II
Boston Globe.
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AAAHuAA AWE NAAltuA
Superintendent MacAlister writes that
The conviction obtains among the memE
bes Of tho board Of education Of Phila.
ielphia, and Is, in lis opinion. glowing
in the public mind generally, that every
,hild should receive manual tTainingi
that q complete education implies tho
training Of the mind, and tlidt this
feature must ultimately be incorporated
into the public education. He concludes!
Il feel encouraged to go forward With
:he work. The great principles which
underlie the syStCm are with mo intense
convictions, and they mean nothing lcss
Than a revolution in education. Tho new
,ystem Is the realization OF the dream OF
avery great thinker and reformer in edu,
,atlon, from Comenius, Locke and Rousy
'eau to postalozzl, Froebsl and Spencer:
Ny conviction and action in connection
with this movement are based up1ft
what, in my Judgment, should Constitute
an education designed to prepare d
human being for the social conditions Of
to-day, and not merely for the industrial
demands Of our time. And this must be
realized in the public schools, or they
will fail In accomplishing tho ends for
which tlioy were instituted and are
maintained!"- -Harper's Magazine
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A Couple Of rlmo.Hopore,l Pup.

One Of the society papers recently
exposed a fiction which had become
widespread. When Sir Charles Napier
took Sind, Il was stated that he sent
homo to the government the punning
message, -Peccavi, > to inform tllcm that
u have Sind.H This is not a bad pun,
but the credit Of It Is due, not to Sir
Charles Napier, but to Punch, in the
pages Of which periodical 1t appeared
soon after the announcement Of the tax.
ing Of Sind. The pun Is Of the same
order as Lambs IDccetT Latin for "Thou
teacheSt, and intended to designate a
chest OF tea.-Boston Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-05-19
bud, Of The Palmetto Cabbage

ItwaS only very recently that we Wer,
surprised with some Of the good thing
that abound near Lake Apopka. Mr.
Perkins and his good wife and theil
nabors sent tho sick boy q good dea
more than he can cat Just now, for thost
were fat healthy chickens and orange,
and tangerines that had not been frozen.
and cabbages as large as a half bushel,
and the buds Of the palmetto cabbage 1
foot long and a foot round, which Is re.
garled by the natives as che finest vsge.
table dish In the world. II looks luxe
ivory, pure ivory, and tastes like green
chestnuts, and when cooked Is o delight
ful mixture Of green corn and oystcn
When picked Il Is better than cauli
flower. and the only reason why It Is moi
upon the tables Of The rich Is because yor
have 10 cut down a tree 10 get it.-BiI
APPS Florida Letter.
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pIaad,.ntar,, Of or ll,ndrtIllns

We have a riglt.handed writing to be
written, with centrifugal motion, In ono
direction, across the page from left ID
right, a writing which taxes Tie weaH
muscles Of the hands, and which, tai;es
four or Ave times as long as Is necessary
Tor the representation Of word, "a Il
'hown by stenographers, who write az
last as a person can speak. In view Of
The increase Of writer's crautp due to the
extraordinary amount Of writing 70 bs
done by bookkeepers, book-wtiters,
teachers, and savants, It was sueected
That a new method Of writing should bs
intelligcntly discussed and one inaugirl
ated that should be lejs elaborate. les
taxing upon the small and weak mnscles
81 the hand; handwriting in which tho
letters can be formed a in photography,
disconnected, not recurring such precise
md complicated motions 70 make them
Iegible, and which can be written from
above downward, from right to left 81
EFF 10 right. as one may choose, Detroit
FREQ Press
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seRyANTs o. rAe AaIsTooRAcX.
,ons sfths ob.sr1a.isps Made ~ padsau
-ALAhyfinsh Of Labor.

lOrns Sfths Observations Made hy BadsAu
-ALAhsfiash of Labor
In a great house thirty or forty indoor
Ieryants is a common number, and often
ihere lte as many more In the stables,
md still as many others In the gardens,
u the glass, a the oonServatones arc
;allsd. Ono noblenan whom / knew
was master Of the hounds and kept sew.
inty horses, and for every two horses q
nhn. At an entertainment In the coun-
Ey--a sort Of pageant or play-I heard
,ome one say that 100 Of the servants
sanie into the great ball and stood behind
he guests. The remainder were on duty
slsewheres Several times IN lasgeestab-
ishmenssi lasl;ed permission % yldl the
,tices; and the kitchens and stiIloomS
and SculleEies, the larden and laundries,
she gun.rooms and plate-rooms and
orushing-rooms, the housekeeper's room,
he pantries, and the servants hall, made
labyrinth Of labor difficult to explore.
In making the rounds ] was taken to
he nurseries and the school-rooms, for
tutors and govenesses are only higher
sort Of servant in England. They live
and eat apart from the gentry, and often
get less wages than Wallets and ladies'
maids. saw, too, the bedrooms where
the maids were making up clothes, all
rising when their mistress entered. ]
visited the stables and the carpenters
Ihop, even the butChcry and the brewery
for many OF the large proprietorS hill
their own meat and brew their ownbeer.
Each servant Is allowed beer money, as
well as wages. or else supplied with 80
many glasses, or sometimes literally
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rho Creole IndIo, Of Nov orl.an,

The crcolcs give to New Orleans mucl
Of It's most charming and polished 80
ciety; lis fetes, carniYals, and far-fameC
winter gayotics. They must be seen ant
known to be properly understood. Blu
a few years since and comparatively few
had much knowledge of English. Will
very large proportion to-day, even, bu
little Of II Is heard among themselves
The most Of this little, again, Is with thl
young folks. The latter talk II fiuentl,
enough. though tho foreign accent is gen
orally disccrnable. With the older ones
more particularly in +Frenchtown, tha
portion below Canal street, Is still well
nigh unknown. They may perhaps un
derstand It aftor o fashion. They rarel,
affect to talk It. They prefer, generally
that the young folks should act as inter
prefers. The latter here, again. are b.
no means confined to French and Eng
lish.
Perhaps nowhere else Is there to b
heard such a diversity Of languages. On,
here in French, or rather creole, board
ing-house, for instance, may not infre
auently hear, at tho table, the daughter
of the landlady, or madame, " carrying
on Q conversation in French, English
Spanish, and Italian with those Of thl
different nationalities at the same time
The thing Is so common as hardly to b,
elassed in tie line Of accomplishments
New Orleans Cor. Cleveland Plaindealer
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curlo.l.l.. .t the N.,.l A..d,m,

ThOre are many interesting dghts in
the academy buildings. Among Others
Is tull.rigged ship about twenty feet
long, absolutely complete in every par.
ticnlar, even to the tiny hammocks rolled
up and fastened under the gunwale. In
the museum Is a breech-loadlng cannon
which was originally carried to Peru by
Pizarro. On the walls Of the chapel are
tablets COMMUNICATING those graduates
who have lost their lives in the perform.
anoe Of some act OF heroim.-AnnapolIs
Cor. Chicago News,
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TyLEas SECRETARY o. STATE,


gAe nnrtAAA ~ ; cannon Oh Ne Efint1s
tea-A Itlsofleai "Reminiscences.
Inthecongre. .sional cemetery also lies
buried The Hon. Abel Parker Upshur.
President Iylers SECRETARY Of state, who.
was killed On The Steamer Princeton hy
he bursting d q cannon. This terrible
lccident. By which two members cfg
President Blers cabinet and three othof
persons Lost their lives, occurred tie 2Sth
pfFebrunry, 1874, Gen. John Tyler, If.,
s probably the only sntyfyor q that %.
Gident tnow living. In conversation the
other day he gave mo avery vivid de.
Scrption oi the event. he said.
Commodore Stockton was regarded a
thembs, advanced man in the navy q
bis day. He had made many improve.
menis In various ways, and among others
had made two large wroueht.ifon can.
non. he called these the aPeacemakers.. /.
He invited the president and his cabine.
totake a trip down the Potomac on the
Princeton 70 test these guns. They had
been tho. several times before dinner,
and the sport had been enjoyed greatly
by all present. At the close of tie meal
secretaly elmer remarked 70 Ccmmo.
dore Stocktoni
siEisAgoOd while since we heard
that gum
The commodore regarded this as an
order, coming "a It did, trpmhis superior
officer, and 70 rose Immediately and
passed on deck, followed by Messrs. Up
shur, Gilmer, and the rest. Ny father
was a little In the rear. Secretary Gil.
mer turned % me as ho went above and
said; Nwill you look after Mrs. Gilmer2
! knew what this meant, as Ms. Gilmer
was delicate, and the loud report made
her nervous. So I stayed behind. It
hardly seemed that they had had time
to reach Tie deck before the aw.
ful report was heard. felt sure that
something terrible had happened, and
hastening upthe terrifying scene was be-
fore me. There was some unforeseen
defect in the piece which had withstood
the former discharges but had yielded at
last. Commodore Stockton was up to
that time one Of the most popular men
in the country. BE would, In my opin.
ion, have been president some time had
It not been for this accident. People in
some way indirectly attributed the fault
Of this to him. Cor. Chicapn Trihnna.
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rhe Northorn rnoIfe,, lllr runnnI

The big tunnel on the Northern Pacific
railroad Is the largest In America except
the Hoosae. It will be $3.50 feet long.
Il Is located on the Cascade branch
about half way between Columbia river
and Tacoma, The tunnel will be bored
through solid rock. The summit Of the
mountains Is l,150 feet above tho tunnel
so that there has been no possible chance
to make an air shaft and the work Il
prosecuted from both ends. The tunnel
will enable the Northern Pacific to cross
the same range Of mountains at an ele-
yation Of 2,s50 feet that the Central Pa.
ciAc crosses at an elevation Of 1900 feet.
New York Tribune,
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RsmAllaSlo rsa. In Book RsnorD.IO

heniArkAbie feAt IN hook henoTnton.
A Ftpnchman named Lahontan has
Just accomplished a remarkable feat in
book-renovation. BE had sent him q
copy Of Coyerdales Bible that was COM
pletely saturated with fat, and had beOu
badly eaten by mice. His process was to
Ereat each leaf to q judiCiou course Of
chlorine in solution and ammonia, while
he dirt was removed by some process
,nly known To himself. He then sup.
piled the detective portions by carefully
rafhng on selected pieces Of paper Of
he requisite texture and shade. The
missing letterpreSs was fao-kmiled, the
whole was then sized and afterwards ap.
1ropriatOly bound By one Of the best
Partisan bindsn, the whole cost Of this
treatment being ee00.-Ffank Leslieh.
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n.llrlan, n.ll.f b q. AlllslI


Tho AStcs believed them were three
places assigned as abcdes for departed
spirils. Women who died hi childbirth
and soldiers who persisted n battle o.
captivity want t6 the sHotise ot thesup, I
where they enjoyed endless delight.
AT morning they hailed the luminary
with music and dancing, attended HIM
in his journey 10 the meridian. where
they met the spirits Of women etd With
simIlar festivities accompanied him 10
setting, Aftef yeats u these pleasurcs
their spirits were transformed into clouds
or birds Of beautiful plumage and pleas.
ant song, but had always power Il
ascend at will to Heaven ih6 House Of
the Sun. The notion Of aristocFaey, was
carriedto the ether world, TOT while
kings and MOBILES animated goreeotis
birds and dazzling clouds, and iloated
through the purest atmosphere, the soulf
Of common people were doomcdto crawl
eternally In woasels, beetles and thd
meaner animals.
The spirits of those who were drownot
or struck by lightning, or who died otI
wounds, dupsy and similar diseasesi
with the souls of children who had been"
sacrificed 10 T1aloe, the godioi wateni
went to a delightful plnce, called Tlalol
can, where that god resided surrounded
by everything which could contribute 10
Immortal happiness, The third place Of
departed souls waa Mietlah, or hell, q
kingdom Of total darkness, fulcd BY an
syil god and goddess, where their only.
punishment was the gloomy blackness Of
the realm, cheered by never a ray from
sun or moon nor the glimmer Of a star,
The ancients located this hell II tho
,enter Of the earth, and II may hasG
been but type OF total anhihiiAtipn.-
Fannie B. Ward in Philadelphia Record
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sllIoIuu, p.bbl,, ulth w.tsr rn.Id,

II. Slanislas Meunier has desuribcd
some sillcious pebbles which arc quite
numerous In tho quatenary gravels Of
the valley Of the Loire, France, that are
remarkable for being hollow and enclos.
ing, together frequently with . loose,
stony nucleus, liquid water. They are
about forty.ave milllnetres in diameter,
and the water may be heard 10 strike
against tho walls Of the cavity when the
stones are shaken. Tho only way ".
Meunier can account for the water get.
ting into tho pebbles Is By It's sOCplng
through the pores, for not sign Of a
crack can be seen with the eye OF by The
aid Of q strong glass. Boston Budget.
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The con.tantinopIo Plro Department

Whilst walking along Tramway street,
there was acry Of +yangoon yarl yangoon
yar!" there Is firel there Is fireD and
three baretooted mon, dressed in the
scantiest linen clothes, come charging
pell.mell through the crowded street,
aouriShing long brass hose nozzles to
clear the way; behind them comes q
crowd Of about twenty Others similarly
dressed, four Of whom are bearing on
their shoulders a primitive wooden
pump, while otheBare carrying lsathen
water buckets. They are rotting along
at lively pace, shouting and making
unnecessary commotion, and lastly
comes their chief on horseback; canter.
Ing close at their heels, as though to
keep the men well up to their pace
Cor. Outing.