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Thomas County cat., 1886-11-25

III. A. Aldrich. Of Mendon. Mass,
has been postmaster at that place for
sixty years.
"A colorcd girl Of Laurens County.
bears the lovely name: .sFair Ross
Beauty Spot Temptation Touck Ne
Not-SarGnnGh Nescs.
-"Olivcr Optic" says he has written
11S books besides the hundreds of sto.
ries contributed to magazines and
newspapers. He is g. years old.
Rev. John Rodney, of Philadel-
phia, is the oldest living graduate Of
Princeton College. He belonged to
the class of 1916. He is also the oldest
Episcopal clergyman in the country.
-Phiiadclphia Press.
Leonard w. Jerome, of New York,
allows his daughter. the wife of Lord
Randolph Churchill, Chancellor of th0
British Excheauer. $15. 200 per annum.
Lord Churchill's salary is $4,000 .
year.-N. y. Tribune.
-Archduke Joseph, of Austria, has
written a grammar of the language OF
the cypsics. 1t bears the taking title
of akelosziklaaibe." and
the manuscript consists of two hundred
aid thirty mine folio pages. exclusive
OF the title.
The fact that six editors of Boston
have lived to be eighty years old or
more-Major Ben Russell having died at
eighty-threc, Joseph F. Buckingham at
eighty-one. William w. Clapp at
eighty-two. Nathaniel Greene at eighty,
Nathan Hale ut seventy-eight and
John S. Sleeper at eighty-is men-
toned as indicating that journalism
at the Hub evidently promotes lon
gevity."
John w. Mackay says, in refer
ating for Houghton Hall in order that
AIRS. Mackay might be able to enter
tain the Prince of Wales: There is
no reason on earth why should pur-
chase home in England. My busi-
ness interests. my pleasures. my habits,
and my friendships all call me to the
Western World. 1t is well enough to
travel in Europe, but for steady living,
the United States is good enough for
me. ''-Ca,cago Tribune.
Dom Piatt writes, concerning his
appointment as postmaster at Mac-O-
check, o.: ..Itwas greatness thrust upon
me as practical joke. The patrons of
the office do not find it so funny now.
l have moved the office to my house
and taken down the old sign from my
gate, which was: No Admission on
Business and in its place hung up 4
tin horn with directions which read:
ANY one having business with this
post Office will blow the horn and give
the Z. NJ. time to chain his dogs -
Mrs. Alice Tobin, who died in Ar
cadc, y. Y. recently. aged one hum
dred years and three months, was u
remarkable woman. Until within :.
month of her death, she retained all
her faculties. and engaged in house
hold duties. Her cheeks were rosy and
her step elastic. She never used
glasses during her life, and could see
to thread even the finest cambric
needles. Her mental faculties re-
manned unimpaired up to the very
last hour. She was the mother OF
twelve children.--N T. Sun
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There arc sixty art schools and
eleven thousand art students In the State
Of Massachusetts,
Harvard will play football again
With the other colleges. the faculty
having withdrawn its veto.
The First Colorod Baptist Church
of Nashville. Tenn, has q S35, 900
house and membership of S.100.
The Wittenberg Synod at its recent
meeting in Springfield. O., passed reso-
lutiOns favOring scientific temperance
instruction in the public schools and col-
leges of the State.-Clercland Leader.
Rev. Robert Cushman preached
the first sermon in New England. 1t
was delivered at New Plymouth. De-
cember 12. 1921. and was ION the Sin
and Danger of Self Love" 1t was
printed in London, and is believed to
be the oldest sermon extant preached
in America.-EOston Budget.
Rev. DR.. Deems, of this city, thinks
that one reason why so many minis
ters break down early in their work is
because they are constant Sabbath
breakers. The earnest clergymen new
er lets up from Monday morning until
Sunday night, while the laws of nature
demand seventh-day rest-N y.
Sun.
The well-known oculist, DR.. Her
mann Cohn, of Breslau. objects strong
ly to the slate ordinarily used by school
children. and proposes the use of white
stone slabs. DR.. Stefan. in a recent
number of the Monatsschrift FIR Augen-
he:lkunde, shares Dr. Cohn's objections
enameled timed iron IS the best ma
terial FOR writing tablets.
An indianapolis editor thinks that
there ought to be an attractive summer
resort to which clergymen of all de-
nominations should particularly be
drawn. just as there is a Saratoga for
sporting men and a Newport for ultra
fashionables. They would gain much
from the opportunities that would be
offered in such careless assemblage
for brushing against one another and
exchanging courtesies and ideas.
New Catholic parochial schools in
the United States have been opened
during the past summer at the rate of
ten or fifteen weekly, and it is pre-
dicted that before the close of this de-
cade the number of Catholic schools in
this country will be doubled. At pres
ent the most moderate estimate gives
100000 pupils attending the Catholic
parochial schools, with 100000 more
in the higher institutions.-C Chicago
Journal.
Thirteen missionaries left Boston
the other day for foreign lands.
Among them were seven young
women, four of whom-Miss Maggie
S. Webb. Miss Grace Greenough and
the Misses Marion Z. Sheldon and Julia
Bissell-gO to take positions in the
seminaries of Brouse, Adabazar. Adj
ana and Martin. in Turkey. and
Ahmednagar, in India. The others 90
to Central Turkey. Japan and India
Boston Journal.
brooklyn is growing famous for
its long pastorates. Rev. DIR. Il. S.
Storrs has been pastor of the Congre-
gational Church of the Pilgrims since
it was founded forty years ago. Rev.
II. Ward Beecher has been with his
people thirty-ninc years. Rev. DIR.
Samuel M. Haskins, rector of st.
Marks Episcopal Church. began his
ministry with his present charge forty
seven years ago, while Rev. Sylvester
Malone. of the Roman Catholic Church
of SITS. Peter and Paul. has served IN
his present charge over forty years.
Christian at Work.
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-25
a MYSTERY SOLVED.
The Secret OF Spontaneous COmbustloi
Explained by an Accident.

The Secret OF Spontaneous COmbustton
Explained by an Accident.
During those October days when
Chicago was having, in the year 1871.
a somewhat interesting though rath-
er too warm experience. it was noted
that buildings remote from others that
were blazing suddenly burst into
fame, although no sparks were seen
to alight on them. In the forests of
Michigan and Wisconsin tall dead
pines, standing in the woods far from
the nearest fires, were seen to sudden
ly and without apparent cause fire up
and become new centers of destruc-
ton. Fences Of oak mile from the
nearest blaze famed up without the
least provocation, so far as was seen
bv the witnesses. The parched grass
in the meadows and the brusheaps in
the clcarings were. swept by fires start
ed. no one knew how. In "Ragnarok"
such cases were cited as evidence that
the world was at that time passing
through a comet, the heat of which
fired the buildings. trees and fences.
L
theory, and the few who never heard
of it, tried to sustain the belief that
those insulated fires, cases of seeming
spontaneous combustion, were caused
by the dropping of sparks which no.
body happened to see. But the OBJ
served facts were too strong against
these believers. and to many the mat
ter has never been accounted for sat
isfactorily.
An accident that happened in the
laboratory of NJ. COsson, Of the French
Academy of Sciences, suggests solu-
ton of the mystery of the Michigan,
Wisconsin and Chicago eases. While
Nj. Cosson was working in his labora-
tory a part of the boarding of the floor
fired spontaneously. The boards were
near an air hole through which came a
current of warm air from stove on
the floor below, and some thirteen feet
away. Two years before like case
was observed in the same place. and to
prevent a recurrence the boards ad-
joining the air-hO!e were replaced by a
marble slab. The wood which after
ward igaited was next to the marble.
The heat to which it was subjected was
only thai of air at seventy-scvcn de-
grecs Fahrenheit, still the wood slowly
carboniZed, and being thus made cX-
treme'y porous rapidly absorbed the
oxygen of the atmosphere. and hea:
enough was then produced To cause
combustion. A similar incident oc-
Cured ut Passy few days before from
the action of the heat from the air-hole
above a stove upon the woodwork.
If long continued dry heat Of sew
cnty-seven degrees Fahrenheit will pnt
wood into condition in which it is
ready to burst into flame. as the boards
in the laboratory of the French scien-
tist are said TO have done. the sponta-
neous fires of that fearful October are
easily accounted for. The drought had
been long and the heat intense for
weeks, without dew to moisten any
thing. The winds had for weeks
blown from the westward. and had
drawn almost every particle of moist
ure from exposed wood. which may
have become carbonized. ready to
burn fiercely whenever the tempera-
tHrc rose few degrees or other cause
came to start the hlaZe. The facts
stated by NJ. Ccsson suggest precau-
tions that should be taken where dam
ger has not been suspec.ed.-Ch Chicago
Tribune.
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-25
A Considerate Flirt.

Hostetter McGinnis is a male flirt
He was taken to task by Gilhcoly. who
said. reproachfully:
.-You have been courting all four Of
those Longcofiin girls all summer, why
don't you marry one Of them? v
I'D do it, Giihooly. but don't
want toido any thing to forfeit tue es-
TEEN of the other three. "-TeSas Sitl-
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-25
WITHOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Story Of = Sincere lsut Deludcd business
Man.

There are many ways in which men
can deceive themselves. and some of
them lie close TO the border line of that
which is most commendable in rclig-
ious experience anu living. A man
sat thOughtfully in his seat in rail-
way car. and being addressed by a
fellow passenger. began readily con-
yersation on the subject of personal re-
Igicl.. He talked willingly and de-
voutly. bu. with naturalness that
maGc hm impressive; and he revealed
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-25
ABOUT PARCHMENT.
The Skins and Other Materials Used in It's
Manusa cture.

Manufacture.
At the present time fine parchment
is fabricated from the skins of sheep
and shc-soats; and a product still
finer from the skins of kids. lambs and
young calves. The finest vellum is
produced from the Skins of still-born
calves, kids and lambs. Concerning
the coarscr kinds Of parchment. the
following reference from knight S
Mechanical Dictionary" will be apprc-
ciatcd-a dictionary being the last
place one would expect to lind Witt
cism. Coarse parchment" says
Knight, 'for drum heads, etc. is made
from calves. wolves. asses and he
goats skins. The ASS skin is said to
be reuarkably sOncrous, and it is no
wonder. seeing the amount of noise il
has constrained ut various times. The
superior article for making flutes. The
flute and the drum. :, rich asinine COM
bination. which probably suggested
the Scotch bagpipe. whose drone is
nearest the paternal bray of any
thing artificial" The mode OF
Manufacture is described IS follows:
." After removing the wool or hair
the skin is stepped in lime and then
stretched on wooden frame: its facets
then scraped with half round knife.
The next process consists in rubbing the
skin. previously sprinkied with pow
dered chalk or slaked lime. and scrap
ing it with knife. 1t is then rubbed
with lamb skin having the wool on.
so as to smooth the surface and raise :,
very fine nap, after which. if any
greasy matter remains. it is again
stepped in the lime pit for a few days.
The grain surface is then removed with
a knife and the skin pumiced. if nee
essary, to give it an equal thickness. >
A fact not mentioned by Knight is that
the ''hersc." as the frame en- which the
skins are stretched Is technically
called. is now usually surrounded by
screws. resembling in general the pegs
by which the violin is tuned. The old
method. still practiccd by the small
manufacturers, was to nse hoop. Re-
specting the relative durability of ami
NAL and vegetable parchment, there
has yet been no opportunity of deter
mining the fact by the test of time. As
the last named is of a comparatively
recent invention. having only com..
into general use during the past ten Or
fifteen years. The probabilities are.
however, that the skin will outlast the
vegetable. .-ManaJacturer and Buildey.
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-25

"A small boy in bright family
wanted something of his mother the
other day when she was very busy
writing. She was absorbed in her
work. and did not look up at his re-
peated Mammal! mamma" beside
her elbow. ..Well." said he. at last.
fiinging away from her side in a pet.
'Ifs no use to try to make my mamma
hear when she is writing; she is just ig-
nominious of every thing" Cbico2e
Ledger.
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-25

Verdi viii celebrate next year his
fifty years jubilcs as . composer
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-25

And this is life eternal. that they should |
know Thee, the only true God. and film whom
Thou dld'st send. even Jesus ChrisL-JOisa
l.:J
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-10
Conta s
are Prsvalen,al all over the World

all a native OF England, and while l was in
that country / contracted a terrible blood
poison, AMI for two years was under treat.
meAt as II out door patient at Nottingham Hos
pital, England, but was not cured. | suffered the
most agollzing aims I'm my bones, and was covered
with sores all over my boIy AID limbs. | had YER
tigo and deafness, with partial lo,s OF sight, severe
pains I'm my head and eyes, etc, which nearly ran
me cray. ! lost al hope in that country and
sailed for America, and WAS trested at Roosevelt,
in this city, - we'll IS By a prominent physician
IN New York hs7ing no COnueC ion with the hos
Ii'sis.
,aw tho advertisement Of Swiit's Specific, and !
determined 10 give II = trial as a last resort. ! had
given up all no c Of being cured, as j had gone
through the hands Of the best medical men In Not
tizgha i and New YORK. ] toJk six bottles OF S. $.
5. and ! can say with great Joy that they have
cured mt entirely. | am IS sound ard well As /
ever ~ in my life. J. FRED HALFORD.
HsT OK City, Jure l2tt, 1855.
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Blood

Is the he, and re is wise who remember. II. But
In Marca q last year $50, | contracted blood
poison, aud being in savannah, Tia, al lie time, |
went into iIc hospital there Tor treatment. SUI
lerei yery much lyOm TheImausm at the same time.
| DID mo- & well under the treatment there, nor
was ! cured ~ snv Of the Gsusl means. have
now taken seven bottles o. SEiftls Specific and am
sound anu veil. Il drove the poison out through
bo!is on ths sL.n. DAN LKAHY.
jersey City, y. j., Aus. !, 1855.
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IRISH ~SA00TINGS,

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Poison

hal produced great holes in my back and chest,
ami had removed all he hair Oh my head, yet |
began 10 I'm prove n a weeks time, and the sores
hesau TO neal, and vcIr entirely g,ue iGside OF
eight weeks.
WuLJo"Ts. Porter Union Pss.. Depot.
Cisco, Texas. JU!r 70. i.s5.
Tr"a'isr % Blood and : IN Diseases mailed free.
Tur SWIFT S|rtI!rIg Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta,
Ga. New York, -, y. ISL St.
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TEO year, ago | contracted blood poison. After
taking prescriptions from the best ply sicians here
aud Al uGI as, l concluded 10 visit Bot >prings, and
Oh reaching .eNaTEana r doctor me
TO try SSil,S pacific, f~Ssu-ing me that II would
benefit Ice luoTe thag Ito: EprinSI Although the
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-12
WASHINGTON NEWS.
CIVIL sERyIoE COMMISSIONERS
Are Confirmed by the senate in spite of
senator LOgan'i objsouOa to Eaton. who
iSTormsd . "AGuSWumpp-A Number
of Republicans Vote Against Him.

WAsHTSeToS, Jan. 1.-THE Senate to-day
in executive session confirmed the follow
ingsppOiptmsnts: BENZ, +, Jones, Of Louis
lana, to be Collector Of Customs for the
district Of New Orleans; Alfred Elgerton,
Of Fort Wayne, Ind, to be Civil Service
CommiSsionj VIM, L, Trenholm, Of Char
lesion, S, O., to be Civil Service Commits.
Sioner; DormAn B. Eaton to be Civil Ser.
vice Commissioner.
The President has Withdrawn the nom-
lnation OF VIM. McOaFdle, OF Mlsslssippi,
to be Consul at San Juan, Del Norte, he
having declined the appointment
When the nomination OF Dorman B.
Eaton came up Senator Logan madO the
point that he (Eatonl was "mugwump,"
and that the spirit OF the Civil Service law
required that one Of the commissioners be
Republican, SsnatoB Ey9rts and HoAr,
and one or two others vouohed for his Re-
publicanism. There are said to have been
fourteen votes cast against E4ton'a con-
flrmation, one'half Of which we're by Re-
publiC9nA.
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fvMDFR MARHrTs,
THROUGH THE STATE.
Aooidsnts and Iuoidsnts 10 west virEinil
and YIhlhikH.

Aooidonts and Iucidents 10 West virginia
and Vicinity.
Mrs. Annie NJ. Hedrick, Of York, Pa,
has instituted proceedings against the O.
4 o. Railway Co., for damages, for killing
her husband near Fort Spring some time
ago. Major John 8. Rudd and John A.
Preston brought the suit In Greenbtiei
Circuit Court. Damages laid at $4,000.
Some time ago the Farmers' Club, ol
Frederick county, Va, offered $40 as q
premium 10 the member raising the most
corn on an acre ot land. The prize has
been awarded 10 Mr.. Z. w. Lupton, who
lives near Martinsbufg. He raised IS 1.lO
barrels, or g0A bushels 10 the acre, On
another acre he raised IS barrels.
Anew, two.atory frame dwelling belong.
Ing 10 John g. Cox, Of Lewisburg, and 10.
Gated In that town, was destroyed by ate.
Loss, 50 UO0j insurance 81 200, In the Ag.
riCultural Company Of WAteftoWn. The
fire commenced In q closet on the second
floor and Ia supposed 10 have been caused
BY rats getting at some matches.
Aproject is on foot in Wellsburs 10 or.
ganiie 4 company for the purpose oi
building and operating q street ear linu
from the lower end ol The town 10 The
upper end Of LaEeafyille, distance Of q
miles. A charter will be applied for al
soon a. the company 10 organised aud
Council asked 10 do something In the line
Of granting free rights Of way,
Jacob Cllnes, Of pennsboro, q laborins
man, had hig home, which he had juSl
built, but had not yet insured, destroyed
BY FIRE few evenings since, The iitg
started In a eloest Into which Mts Cllhel
had stepped b short time before with !
lighted candle 10 look d some fruit. II d
supposed that she accidentally Get Gre Il
some clothing that was hanging IN the
closet. 75f n.
James A, Robinson, Of Nashville, fiat
ribon county, signed The name Of Hi
brother WeSley 10 two notes, one for t6Dl
and the other iof 600, and took them Il
1lAtkbhufg. 9ohh Runingef, oi thA
place, kindly shaved one Of thesa and 3
i, ehullleWotth the other, NoW. boIt
wished they had not been % kipd. Jamel
has gone West. lis said that Ia addition
10 the ioigeties on bis brother that hC
Alo induVtd another party 10 let hiH
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Alex. Linn, who has been visiting al
WellHburg for several days, returned yes
terday.
viii Smith, who publishes an adyer.
tisiug sheet, was distributing the same yes
terday.
The Moss family, with q brass band,
gave an exhibition at the Eureka rink
last night.
The steamer Climax, plying between
here and the West Virginia shore, has
laid up until navigation re-opsns.
The meetings held In the Presbyterian
church during the week Of prayer will ba
continued this evening and every evening
until further notice.
The Buckeye glass houses gas producer
ID success. Pots are being set and the
works will resume buslnebs in the manu-.
facture OF glass % soon as other improve
tnents In contemplation are effected.
II looks as though the much talked ol
cooperative nail mill will materiallEe,
judging from the interest manifested by
the nGllers who propose 10 take stock In
the concern.
FoR sAIR-one Of the most desirable
pieces Of property In this vicinity, consist.
Ing OF about three.foufth Of an acre oi
ground planted nfruittrees, such as apples,
cherfieS, plumB, peaches, grapes, DC. Altoa
cottage residence containing seven rooms,
hallway, porch, pottlco, cellar, Clstern
and all necessary outbuildlngS. For futth.
or information call on or address j. t.
HaneS, real estate and insurance agent, >
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

The First Presbyterian church, OF Gov
lngton, KY, was destroyed by fire. Losi
s25 900.
Twenty-Five thousand copies OF the
PreSldents message have been ordered
printed.
Jacob Henry, a well.known Hebrew oI
Schenectady, N. T., committed suicide
yesterday by shooting.
The steamer Hytton Castle ioundered
fltteen miles southeaat Of Fire Island, mean
Hunters Point, Long Island. A number
Of the crew areSeported lost.
Rev. Father Jardine, who was sus.
pended by Bishop Robertson from the
pastorship Of st. MSry's Episcopal church,
Kansas City, committed suicide In 81.
+ The furnace men oithe Edgar Thomp.
son steel works, Pittsburgh, have not yet
accept the proposition Of the Rrm and as
the men In the converting depart ment
refused 10 make steel made by the new
hands, the entire mill will close down for
an indefinite period on Wednesday,
throwing out Of employment nearly 5000
men.
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]. L. Estes, Burneyville, Chickasaw Ma
ton, Indian Territory, writes: II have 10
thank Allcock's Porous PlasterB for saving
the LIE Of my vile; She was attacked
q violent chill, great coughing and high
fever. could not get doctor, but for
tuuately had a box Of Allcock's Poroas
Plaaters In the house; placed one be-
tween her breasts, one on each shoulder
blade, and one on the small Of her back.
In two hours her cough almost ceased aud
was very loose; in four hours she broke
into proiuse Precipitation. The next day,
though very weak, she was free from
fever, and the third day wss quite well. I
also cured my child Of dlphtheretic sore
throat, by wrapping the neck In AllcoCk's
Porous PlastaF.n MMRAM