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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-23
4 Noted gambler. ro,clations

A celebrated gambler told arc a few years
nso that he had gone qUnDcf the gambling
business because Of tho confidence games
mixed mp with IT, Said he:
"ln almost every community OF this coun-
trywherc there is any molcy there vii Ice
few men who like 10 play a game Of chance
Ike faro These We're more or les, reliable
customers for gamblers. because they some
times won and sometimes lost. and were all
ways kept on the string. But suddenly there
would appear IA the town % travelling gam
bier aud his associates. who take a room and
open q game, or perhaps play IL in hotel
where he las got good quarters. and only the
regular players 81 the town become &C
quaiIted with the fact. Having played a
straight game for one evening. the next
morning the principal IN the game or tue
PLAYER whom he il supposed 90 hire Eill ap-
ploach tue most solvent Of the village play
crs and say: Il would like % arrange with
yOu 20 deal yOua game II YOU viii come up
tonight and bet strong will manipulate the
box and make You q w.nn,f 20 high figure
OF course. YOU Will divide with me. | ain
going 10 leave that man, and / want a stake.
80 the village victim vii, take ont OF bis
hank on stocking n large portion Of his
money and 60 10 the private place, where no
body imagInes any gambling exists. or cs-
pecally that he, the business man, the coal
operator, the bank teller, Is risking anything
IN that outlawed way. The player will have
MS eve on the victim, ami he will bet accord
Ing b. arrangement and for q little while the
cards will wayer. and finally the man will
Lave lost more than ever before He viii
leave the room wondering. sick creature
But the fellow who was 60 deal to him the
gamo will manage % see lin during the
evening or the next morning, and say: 1
couldn't deal yOl that game last night be-
cause old Smith was watching me. Tonight
AN going 10 get rid Of hnI. aud | Will Us ir
for you all right SO come at me again Tho
Ian will 60 the second night. and lose tho
remainder of all his means lis lirs, step 10
ruin is consentng to be partner in O
swindlc, even upon q gambler The whole
game IN comi.g TO that town was TO get bis
particular moccy. aud IN that game were
dealer, boss gambler and everybody. -
Gath's7 New York Letter IN Cincinnati In
quircr
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Do IT.h IceI Pain

The recent instance Cf Dream taking the
hooks OF two anglers IS one Of the cndicss
proofs that fishes cannot feel what wc call
pain, the product Of certain nervous inhu-
ences upon the brain or scusOrum. / have
hal several similar instances in my own cx-
perience, and generally, in manipulating
thousands OF many kinds Of fish during my
angling days, never could detect the slight
,st evidence Of their feeling pam even whilc
being cut open with kaifc Tho only APP
prJach 70 such evidence was slight con-
y1lsivc quiyering lbut not necessarily at
tended with pain on breaking the spinal
chord by pressing back tho heads Of trout,
having been taught % do this from boy
hood, as when instantaneously SO killed they
were believed to keep longer fresh. Twoycars
ago . trout was taken with the ~ In Cam
bTidceshirc having four or five other fly
hooks sticking in its euilet-a most sensitive
part IN warm booded animals.
Sir Charles Bell, the great anatomist and
author Of a famous book on THE Hand,
discovered that the cause Of this immunity
from pain is that In fishes the nerves OF SEN
satiou arc absent IN mammalia the nerves
Of motion and sensation run IN pairs. Fishes
have the former only; but, u course, also
have those for such 'scnses7 as they Possess,
such as sight. etc, hut these senses have 10
connection with sensation lpaiul-a very
different thing. Thus tho gentle art Of
angling is free from any reproach on tho
score Of giving pain. j. d. Dougall.
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NERVES AND MOODS.
A Complex System Of Telegraphy-Causes
Of had IHmner.

Nothing IN nature is more marvellous tnan
the network Of nerves kistituting what we
sometimes carelessly call our nervous system.
Each nerve is tcecraptic cord in itself.
Each is a part Of he whole complex and in
initablc system Of telegraphy 10y which mes
sage from the headquarters IN the brain are
sent to the minute stations in the extseml-
ties IL this telegrapbic system OF nerves
were erected on diminutiye poles outside OF
our bodies. It would be post peculiar cx-
hibit. Happily for us, ~ nervous systems
are, as il were, n harmStOus arrangement
Of underground wires, carefully buried
within US and deity concealed from outside
observation. We cannot see them nor know
whether they are too slack or too tightly
strained. We can tell when they are dis
turted, for neuralgia agony shoots along
their course from station 70 station. when
we are glum, and dismal, and low spirited
the telegraphic apparatus is out Of order ana
the nerve forces are demoralized.
When nerves work wrong, 81 is as when
telegraph poles IRE shaky or wires tangled or
crossed, or currents irregular, OF batteries
confused. According 10 the irreSularity OF
our nerves, so are our irregular moods. III
all is right, we are happy and CHEEKY and
sunshiny. But let the batteries blunder, or
the currents cross, or the wires become en-
tangled, and We are irritable, sulky, III tenn
pered or angry, as the case may be. In some
Of orr distressful moods we pOut, aud suik,
and misinterpret end misunderstood. We
take offense where no ofTense is intended,
and We imputo TO others motives which arc
never conceived by them. at times when
the moods are out OF sorts, VIC think the
whole world is prosecuting Us, and sc, the
afflicted objects Of persecution, are, above all
other human creatures, singled ont for mar
tyrdOm. There are circumstances under
which most Of us can, without insuperable
difficulty, rise from the moodincss which Is
brought about by letting tic nerves have
their own way.
Mental and physical diet has much 20 Do
with IT,, BroOding over real sorrows aud III
aginary miscries will make tho best Of u'
moody and wretched. Nursing grief and AZ
fronts and telling the sad story OF. our Voc,
has rs depressing an effect as narcotic drugs.
Sleeping in umycntilatcd rooms often pro
duccs chronic wretchedness, even il these
rooms be furnished with the appliances 81
wealth and refinement Association VITA
grim persons Is depressing ard dispiritirg
Good health, mental, spiritual and bodily. Is
worth working for 1t casts ont tie ralaria
OF moodiness and lifts Us into the suulish. Of
joy Good health is moro easily attained
than most folks suppose.-Christlana q; Norii
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sabbath urcaiser." I'm Scotland.

Breaking the "Sawbathn is still liable 70
severe criticism 10y the Scotch Lord Fitz-
hardinge and friends, who have been shoot
ing in the neighborhood Of Lairg, have oc-
casionally taken a quiet drive or sail ona Sun-
day afternoon In public meeting, under tie
chairmanship Of tie Rev. Mr. Noble, the
local Free Kirk minister 10 was resolved
that pleasure sailing and driving about
in vehicles" were "A PROCLAMATION OF the sab
bath, an ofTense and grief Of the religious
population, an annoyance and distraction Of
church going people on their way to and
from the sanctuary. and general lowering
OF the moral tone Of the community These
resolutions wero forwarded 10 the parties
concerned New York Sun.
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Questions of Vital Interest to Insurers.

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policies provide for the
cation prevent policies aTsg paid when due
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whoa medical
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Of the
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We would cllat ton % he points in the policies
travel Of the Continent Of North
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4. POLICY Is INCONTESTABLE
calf COMBINATION POLICY cash
twenty years accumulated dividends
really Examine the Wangons Contract ts
nipple SecurP Perfect
Rates premium any age plan information concerning
wilt flnk
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Her Annctifc Wns Como.

One day the chances Of travel brought
Pruc 10 a very common sort Of restaurant,
and she had not looked about the place many
minutes without losing her appetite.
You didn't scem very bungry,' com
mented mamma, when they reached tue
street
"Nom, replied Pruc, gloonily
"What was the matterN
80 mamma / could sec ono Of the walters
cleaning the casters in that little room near
the table. She poked ont the holes IN the salt
shaker with-with'--
With pmf supplied her mother, cheer
fully. seeing that the child hesitatod. "Wel,
that wasn't bad You wouldn't have had
her Use a hair pin, would your
20 mamma, and irue almost shrieked in
the agony OF hearing the terrible fact put
into words, lit was a hair pm!'-Houtb' ;
Communion
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ING whatever The ObserNant priest was an
accomplished linguist, having an ultimate
knowledge Of all the modern as well as Of
many If the ancient tongues. he thought
the matter over for several years, until, as
he SAYS. Zone sleepless night the whole frame
work Of the universal language dashed out
before mc.'
Volapuk is one Of numerous attempts at
solving tic problem OF a common language.
Putting theQuest.1n Of their respective merits
entirely aside, j. is sufficient 10 say that
Nolapuk is the only attempted universal
language that hos ever had the slightest
chance Of life, ana that no other attempt has
ever passed beyond tho experimental stage
or been actually Used, 10 any considerable
extent. for the communication OF thought.
It's inventors ain was first, 70 produce u
language capable IF expressing thought with
the greatest clearness aud accuracy, second,
70 MAKE its acquisition as easy as possible 70
the greatest number Of human beings These
ends he resolved to seek by Observing the
processes Of the many languages with which
be was acquainted; following them as models
wherever they are clear, accurate aud sim
Die, but avoiding their faults, obScui1ties
and difficulties lie tool, from the English
more root words than from any other Ian
guagc, since English is spoken as mother
tongue by more millions than any other
Forty per cent. II the root words are Eng
lAli. Tho grammar Of the language is very
simple. There are 40 unusual sounds IL
can be learned By "A child unable % read or
write any language.
For q considerable time after the appear
ance ct Schleyer's grammar his adherents
were few His project first spread TO Aus
ira. where the first society for Its propaga-
Ton was formed at Vienna in loe-. Until
1881 its adhoTeuts outs do OF tho German
speaking countries were very few and scat
tered, but in that year 1t invaded Holland
and Belgium, and great many societies
spranz up ia those countries II was intro
duced to the French nation In 1888 10y PRO
fessor Kerckhoffs, and many noted French
men became interested 1t IS now studied
enthusiastically in the United States, espe-
cially in Boston and New York 1t IS not
altogether impossible that it may some day
actually be what its inventor intended 1t 70
te-the universal language.
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JOURNALISM n VIENNA.
Manner of Conducting The Austrian Dali
Paptr-Journaiistic Courtesy.

Manner of Conducting The Austrian DaiLJ
Paper-Journaiistic Courtesy.
journalism in Vienna is a quite different
affair from Journalism in either Berlin, faris,
London or New York. Not only Is the mum
Ter Of newspapers published in the Austrian
capital much smaller, there being only eleven
daiies. but the manner OF conducting them
is also different from ihat followed IN tho
other European centers. With the exception
If these the Viennesc newspapers appear
twice a day--in the morning Ia time to eaten
the mails, and at 2 In the afternoos after
tie closing Of the Bourse. Only one appears
three times day, adding 10 the issues already
named supplement distributed about 10
the evening.
The comparatively small rumher OF news
papers published in Vienna is doubtless owing
TO the diversity OF languages spoken through
out the empire, aud which necessarily limits
the circulation Of metropolitan journals to
those provinces in which German Is spoken.
! II is also to be noted that no papers arc al
lowed to be sold in the public streets, there
being no stands, and the police regulations
absolutely prohibiting the lin other cities
harmless and necessary newsboy from plying
his trade. When, therefore, the worthy citi-
zen Of Vienna wishes TO purchase paper he
is compelled 10 wend his way 10 tobacco
shop.
The Viennese newspapers, with the excep-
ton Of The vaterland the organ Of the Cleri-
cal party, never indulge IN heated discus
sions. Thoughtful articles, carefully studied
and generally moderate in tone, foreign in
teuigencc local news, interviews feuillctons,
chroniques, very complete financial articles,
and many dispatches, very long and going
/ largely into detail-such are the usual con
, tents Of Vienna journal A have said
there arc very few arguments between jour
mails. and none at all between journalists
/ The editors Of rival sheets rarely come Iutc
| personal collision. and in the rare instances
III which dues have been fought the greatest
secrecy has been preserved regarding them
Reporters are hold ia great esteem. and theii
enterprise Is In consequence remarkable
/ Foreign Cor New York Press.
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Crimes Committed by series.

Another curious phenomenon revealed 10y
French criminal statistics is that certain
classes OF crimes occur by series We Lad
not long ago q series Of murders ia which The
victims were cocottes, and just now wc are
having a series Of old women murders. There
are those who say that c.. author az an
original crime p-oduces n sort Of hypnoiis.l
among the mass Of criminals who eppropri-
ate aud initiate his manner This strange
influence cxerted over tempcraneuts which
seem 10 have been prelcstinel O. commit
crimes has nothing Abnormal aoJlt u, is
workings lave been noticed in persons who
were perfectly honest \ year or so ago q
lady was caught stealing in one Of tie large
stores: her honesty was above question and
her means werc ample enough 90 permit her
10 Salty any caprice
What size had stolen were little triles Of
no great value, and she declared that as she
was looking at the articles and on the point
of speaking 10 the sa lesman whose back wa
turned. to ask their price, she perceived q
Handsomely dressed lady standing alongside
Of her who was hiding something under her
cloak. She was about 70 deaouncc the iriel
when the latter fixed her eyes Oh her ~ %
strange, half commanding, uall sullthS Va. .
and, completely fascinated, she. initiated her,
followed her about, taking things whenever
she did. Presently she lost sight of the wo-
man in the crowd and no once came o. hcr-
self with a start and was about TO nay tor tlc
articles she had taken whcI she Was arrested
In the room where she was searched she re-
cognized the woman whom she had been ini-
tating aud who like her, had tecu watched
and arrested. / am exceedingly sEeptical on
the subject Of magnetism, hypnotism and the
other tricks with which jugglers arc 80 fond
Of imposing on the public. but IN case like
the one just cited, where the lady's past was
irrcproachable and where the theft committed
was insignificant, en- not inclined 10 doubt
her assertion that she was acting under cn
influence she was powcrless 10 resist Her
excuse did not save her from prosecution and
She received q trifling sentence. Henry
Hayne in New Orleans Picayune.
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Oh Cookerv ard Modern.

"Old fashioned molasses candy" advertised
50 many candy shops. Fraudulent Old
fashioned molasses candy means plain mo-
lasses boiled down, unscentcd, unilayOred and
not pulled 10 britt,eness. IL bends. Tho
modern stuff breaks Too much mixing and
meddiing with the modern made article. Let
molasses candy alone and it Will flavor itself.
Modern cookery often does too much. Uses
too many ingredients. Puts sugar in corn
bread Ditto in wheat cakes. Natural flavor
Of meal much better. Ask southerner -
Prentice Milford in New York Star.
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Visitor 10 Sanctum-How is it, Quillpeni
You always used 10 have ladies dropping in
to sec you about puffs for church sociabies,
etc Now there hasn't a single lady been in
here this morning.
Edltor-No; put a stop to that business
Nisitor-Howf
Editor-Why, | inserted a paragraph
stating that the mice were getting SO thick
in this Office tina; they frequently ran up tire
table legs to sei if there was any cheese IN
our pockets. Since then there hasn't been a
lady inside the building. burlington Free
Press
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EU RE X A!
Something New Life Insurance The Popular ABANDONMENT Insurance.
What il is How it works What il coiS
Before In-uring in Any osher Company Examine
The WaShngons New Stmi-EndOwment Policy:

upon fifteen twenty and twenty-five
full ofte
dividend aumulaons paid Immediately acceptance Of proofs Of
the the the policy
in to his
pup policy for the whole amount besides the
These policies draw cash dividends each are strictly
specified
policy endowment $1,000 the guaranteed
pad-up va $ a follows:
Attended,
years $1,000 and dividends
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sHApRAca PENN. JOHN BbADf"KD'
stead rot control Of the news columns and
established the modern system Of having
local correspondents in all the towns OF the
state 70 report important facts when 'hey
occur instead Of having them Hitter 70 the
city through the slow local weekbes, Is had
been the custom. The Cincinnati Gazette
was TIC FIRST daily paper Of the STATE. ana
Tho Enquirer has been published under ITS
present name, as weekly and daily, for iiity
years. The Cincinnati Daily Times dates
from ls40 and The Star is quite modern. lie
cities OF northern Ohio did not take noticea'
bic rank till some time aftor the complexion
Of the Erie canal and it, connecting rail-
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PlethOric of Cash.

"rm taking this boy 10 the doctor said
the father Of a chubby 4-year-old to n friend
on Cas- avenue car.
Nv hat is the matter with him, he doesn't
look sick"
"Hes plethoric Of cash-full Of money,
said the child5 father; 'he got handful OF
change out Of my pocket, and when | ran
after him | don't know how many pieces be
swallowed He's just full Of dimes and nick
els. ~--Detroit Free Press
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and 50 o. This
condition Of things
is the natura !
growth Of centu-
ries. The result is
disastrous. There
is scarcely such q
thing known there
as a common Ian
guaee. To Il peas
ant Of Hungary the
language Of a peas
ant Of Sllesia was
and is TO this day
III Gro gi5beriSh,
having no mean
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Weak Human Nature.

1t is clearly undeniable fac: that man
Kind generally had rather remain actually
ignorant Of any certain thing not already
Inown 10 them than 10 learn II in any way
which will show and virtually acknowledsc
their ignorance. --Des Mo.nes Leader.
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JOURNALS OF TIE WEST.
HOW, WHERE, WHEN AND BY WHOM
THEY WERE STARTED.

Tho Log Building In Which the First
Newspaper West of The AiIegbenies Was
Printed--rortrsits OF Two Journalistic
Pionccrs -Intersstine "Reminiscences
Tho centfnnials Of Ohio have brought out
oil the preserved copies Of old papers and
books, and the papers contain some racy
sketches Of old tine Journalism beyond the
Alleghcnics
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roads, and the & Eat papers Of that section
are of correspondiugly later date.
i is little surprising 20 learn that kno@-
willie, Tenn, tad a paper ms early as ii93--
The Gazette. It's early files, Lac those Of
most early papers, gave all tho news from
congress and Europe and New York city
what their readers then wantcd-and very
little indeed about the adjacent country,
what we would now like u fad in them
But the editor enjoyed the familiar acquaint-
nnce Of scores Of men who had fought IN the
Revolution. and the survivors Of Kings
Mountain fight and tho Indian war little
later were long a sort Of sacred class in East
Tennessee The Knoxville Tribune has been
published continuously since 1916. Brown
lows Wing has long since disappeared. IL
was suited for a peculiar era and naturally
had no successor
Indiana differs from all its neighbors in
the fact that ii was settled first on the west
ern border: there was q well built French
Miami town on the Wea plains over cen
fury ago. and sonRe 90 600 white people were
in the Wabash and Ohio valleys while Kill
buck and Cap Anderson, Delaware In
dians, still beld rule where Indianapolis now
stands Nevertheless The indianapolis Jour-
nal and Sentinel have been published as
weeklies and dailies something over sixty
years. But the location Of Indiana is not
favorable 10 the growth Of great cities or
great daily papers, and it is matter OF sur
prise and compliment TO their managers
that the Indianapolis dailies have attained
such high rank. On the other hand, no
state in the Union has more influential
country press than Indiana. Indeed, 1t IS
doubtful If the country weeklies in any
other state exercise as much power IN poll
tics The absence Of any overwhelming
central power appears TO have stimulated
talent in the smaller cities and towns, and
decentralization in literature and politics
has been carried TO its utmost practicable
limits in that state
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When a governor panions a convict he H.
lustrates an important grammatical rule, by
putting period to a sentence.
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When Shall | Insure?

IN
answer lie regards WHEN? Wisdom
Console sndI answer, now
Without health something
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London has 100 first class clubs, with Q
membership Ct lsO,oV'
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Where SHALL Insure?

The answer WASHINGTON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
This company all the reliable and popular forms of Life n
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voLApUNs INVENTOR DEAD.


His Life Work.
The parish priest Of the beautiful little
town Of Constance, Baden, Germany, died
the other day.
He lived quietly, for many years, on :hc
historic green island Of Mainau, surrounded
10y the limpid waters II Lake Constance
His name was Scbleyer, and he was a very
remarkable man q scholar, q poet, by many
considered a genius His brain conceived
and evolved a wonderful thing-a universal
language, 10 be spoken and written By all
nations
Father Schlcyer was the inventor Of
Nolapuk Yet, when he died, the big New
York papers devoted but few lines each 10
his death.
Ono million people are now studying Nola-
puk. Nolaruk societies can be numbered by
the hundreds. There are great business
houses all over The world that use Nolapuk
daily in their correspondence. The fact chat
the language has grown TO such proportions,
is studied by people Of 50 many different
tongues, and even recognized by great lin
GUSTS TO bo perfectly practicable, is pretty
good indication that the time was ripe for
the introduction OF the universal language
and that the need for such language had
begun to he felt
The story Of how Father Scnleyer con
ceivcl the idea Of the invention OF Nolapuk
is interesting. Nearly ten years ago he was
travelling extensively in the interior of Aus
tria. He was struck by the number Of Ian
cuagei spoken by the people Of the different
provinces. They each had and have dis
tinct language, or rather dialect, Of their
own. These dialects are corruptions, and
very bad ones at that, Of all the known Ian
guages Of the civilized globe. Some speak
villainous French. others murder the Ital-
inn lnnnv butcher the German and English.