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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-09-08

NOtte tue DlemouO.
There were but two Association gan -
yesterday and they resulted a. folloWs:
At Brooklyn: Brooklyn 8, Louisville 6 at
Philadelphia Athletic 7, Ksnsss City /.
The two Leagues games were at Indian :
spolis New York Q, indianapolis 2; st
Chicago Chicago II, Boston 9.
Phil Tomney has been secured from Al.
lentown by Louisville. and will plsy at
short for the latter club. The price peld ID
said to have been 600 Tomney 10 another
graduate Of the old lronsides club, OF this
city, and this year he was considered the
best short stop OF tho Central League. He
IL quiet, hard working player, Of exem
plary habits, and will not give q manager
any trouble.
indianapolis lost the game yesterday
through muh OF Paul Hines In the ninth
inning.
The Athletics gained four points ON the
st Louis yesterday.
Lstham, Of the st. Louis Browns, wsa u
badly spiked by Darby o. Brien, OF Brook.
| lyn, the other day, that he will scarcely bs
a. 10 to play again this year.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-09-08
THIRTfEWTH 10

You know that there Is no
worthy hot weather (or any
weather) thing for wear or
home use but we have it. If
you can't come to the store,
write for whatever you want,
samples or goods. Shopping
by mail has come to be simple
and certain. A few scratches
Of a pen, and all the facilities of
the store are yours.
JOHN WANAMAKER,
Philadelphia.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-09-08

wECAN SELL YOU
CniId's Kid ana Pebble, Heel and Spring
Heel shoes. Sizes from 10 ION, for q 90.
Child's Grain Solar Tip. Heel ana spring
Heel shoes. Sizes to l0k, for 80 cents.
Misses Grain Sutton shoes. Broad ana Mar
row Toes. sizes II TO 2, for el.00.
Mi.ses' Grain Solar Tip Button Shoes. Sizes
IL to 2 for el0J
Misses Kid and Pebble, Heel ana Spring
Heel shoes. eizes IL to 2, Sl.2b.
Youths. B0ys' ana Mems Veal Calf Hook
Lace shoes. Sizes II to 2. 8 10 ana TO ll-ol.OO
per pair.
Ladies' Pebble Button Shoes. Sizes ~ TO 7.
95 cents.
Ladies' Grain Button Shoes. Sizes ~ to 7.
q O1
Ladies' Kid ana Pebble Round ana Square
Toe shoes. Sizes 2k to 2, el.2s
Remember these are no Auction Sale Goods
(as We do not buy Une Dollars worth OF shoes
in that wAy). but arc made by Good Reliable
Factories, ana We Will guarantee they are the
Beet shoes YOU can buy in the City at the
prices quoted above, as We are Building Up
Our Trade by Selling Goods on q Close Mar
gin.
Most OF these Shoes We have sold ever since
We commenced bssiness. almost three years.
We have nlled our EAST WINDOW with
SCHOOL sHOkS ana have marked the prices
on them. 90 that you can compare them with
those you buy elsewhere.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
No Remedy for a Red Nose.

A physician was asked by Phila- delphia Press reporter recently if there was any way in which man could be cured of his red nose, and his answer was an emphatic "no."
 'It is bad thing to have red nose," he said, ''because most people think that it was brought about by whiskey drinking; and while this be- lief is justified in a majority of in- stances, it is not always the case. Ono of Philadelphia's most prominent mon has nose as red as rooster's comb, and I know that he never drank a drop of liquor in his life. He will carry it with him to his grave. Cheese, if eaten frequently and in large quantities, will delay reckoning of the nose, but if a man is confirmed toper the whiskey and the cheese will have tussle, and tho whiskey will ultimately get there and fresco the nose for him in the most approved style"
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
Delaware Peach Farms.

Peach farms in Delaware not infre- qucntly contain 15, 900 trees, and some years ago one farmer alone was said to own 100, 900 trees. Benjamin Riggs, the governor of Delaware, owns at least a dozen peach farms in Delaware and Maryland. The great shipping point on the pcninsular of Delaware and Maryland is Wyoming, a village of Kent county, Delaware, and ono of the chief growers is the Rev. J. s. Willis, mus cular M,thodist preacher, famous for his fine physique, his daring pulpit ut tcrances and his love of horsefesh. It is sub ject of curious comment in D.l- aware that whatever i'll luck befalls the peach crop the few small orchards on Lion hill or Eniaence, in the northern part of the state, always produce good crops. It is an odd property of the peach that seedlings seldom produce the same kind of fruit as the parent tree. New varieties are obtained from seed and all the large orchards are ludded (grafted) so as to obtain uni formity.- New York Telegram.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
Magic Among Finnish Seamen.

Tho opinion Is said to be common among sailors that the Films are skilled in magic. If the following story, which is told by a seaman, is tru", then theso people are more than a match for the Pied Piper of Hamolin in dealing with rats. H, was once ship m ate with Russian Finn who had all the horn buttons eaten off his oilsk in clothing by tho rats. So, on the next dog watch after he found it out, the Finlander went to the rc-hatch, and, sticking his shcath-kuife upright n the deck, called upon all the rats ia tho ship to appear before him. Up came all the rats, one after the other, anl .rawled before him in solemn process sion, rat after rat, every rat in the ship, until hundreds of rats hal passed close by his feet. Then there was delay, and tho Russian Finn called in louder tone the same words he had called at first. Instantly poor, little, perspir- ing, bcdraggled rat, with all its hair turned the wrong way, limped out of the hatchway, and went up to the up- right sheath knife, and sawed its own head off!-[ [Argonaut.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
The Pinelands.

The solemn song is over, for the wind has
 left the pines All silent, with their stately heads upraised
 in serried lines, Their music hushed as though they wait
 message from on high, They stand, like sentinels of God, against
 the crimson sky. The glowing sun is sinking, sets aflame the
 purple west, And gilds the fitting messenger" that cry
 the hour of rest, While dark against the afterglow the pines
 stand one by one, More stately yet, their somber heights ob'
 scure the horizon. So still they stand as daylight dies ani twi-
 light beckons night, That cen the passing buzzards pause and
 lingering, alight, While midst the shadowed canopies of never
 fading green The sparkling play of nre-fy gay at hide.
 and d-seek is soen. An, many a dre,m,S-ye drifting winds
 among the fragrant boughs, Your heaven-pervaded harmonies within our
 hearts arouse, Such dreams shall, like the stalwart pines
 that rear their heads on high, Uplift us on their winged flight toward the ambient sky. -lAda M. Trotter, in Yankee Blade,
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
Uses of Castor Oil.

Among the various industries which are comparatively but little known be- yond their speciality, that of the prod uct of the castor bean may be mentioned as one of the most unique. The oil is specially adapted for lubrlcating all sorts of machinery, clocks, watches, etc., and it is an excellent lamp oil, giving white light far superior to that of mineral oils, petroleum, rapeseed, lin- seed and all other oils, whether vego- table, animal or mineral; it also gives very little soot, and all things consid cred, has been pronounced the cheapest oil known. All the great perfumers of London and Paris use castor oil for the manufacture of golden oil, so well known for its property of keeping the head cool, and tho skin and its pores, as we'll as the roots of the hair soft and open.
 The oil is used for textile fabrics, to fit them for dyeiug or printing, for which purpose the India dyers and printers invariably employ it; and it is one of tho best oils for dressing tanned hides and skins of all kinds, on account of it's imparting to them such degree of strength, durability, tenacity and beauty. From the oil cake in addition to its other uses, gas is obtalncd which gives superior light; som, of the stations on the East Iudia railway being illuminated this way. Tho oil dissolves completely in alcohol, and this, incorporated with a solution of copal, make, varnish, which it is said is very useful in polishing all kinds of first c.ass furniture, carriages, picture frames, cloth, canvas, etc.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
The Derivation of Ink.

The nut gals which form the bases of our modern ink are excressences grow Ing upon the leaves of oak trees, caused by tho puncture of an insect which de- posits its eggs in the puncture thus made. The especial variety of oak on which the gals grow with tho greatest abund ce arc to Dc found largely in Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia and Asia Minor, and thence are exported to this country in vast quantities. The best are the Aleppo gals, while those from Smyrna are held in high rcpute.
 The gals contain that astringont veg etable quality known as tannin, in larger quantities than any other known substance, and this quality is resolved into tannic and gallic acids. From tho combination of these two acids with the sulphate of iron the blackness of ink is derived. -[ Boston Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
Jananese Devotion to Tea.

The way in which the Japanese drink tea is beyond our most liberal concep- tions of devotion to any single bever- age. It fills with them the place of water-except for purposes of ablution of whiskey, of the effervesceat prod uct of the soda fountain, of the cooling beer, of the poetic wine, of all the vari- ous cups that cheer with or without iu- ebriation. It even constitutes in social life and courtship a sort of substitute for the missing ice cream. A band of convicts sitting under the trees that were Gods first temples, and making and drinking their tea as tho sun goes down, is sylvan scene as common as it is touching in Japan. What is that ap- propriate poem of Gilberts about when the burglars done a-burgling or com pletcd his little plan, he's as fond of in- nocent enjoyment as any other man? There is something wrong about that quotation, but the idea is all right. - [Graphic.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
A Monster Trout.

A monster trout has been captured in the riverI tchen at Winchester, weigh ing sixteen pounds two ounces, and measuring 32 inches in length and 21 inches in circumference. The bait was live mimi ow, and he was not landed till two hours after he was hooked. He had haunted the stream for years, was almost as we'll known in the city as Queen Anne's statue in the High street, and had acquired quite reputation for the number of rods he had broken and the quantity of fishing -tacklc ho had carried away. His captor was laborer named Turpin, who disposed of him for $5 to fishmongcr, on whose slab it at- tracted almost as many visitors as a monarch lying in state. Ha was in splendid condition and has now gone into the hands of taxid ermist for pres ervation.- London Times.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
Skill of the Hands.

We hear great deal about the won- dcrful precision and accuracy of machin- cry in these days, and of course it is wonderful; but the degree of accuracy to which tho human hand can be trained is equally wonderful.
 P.ayiug-cards are required to be cut with the sides quite parallel to each other, because if pack be trimmed by a machine slightly wider at ono end than the other, and they become turned lend for cnd' in dealing, the excess in width of some cards over others at tho end of the pack will be double tho variation in any one card, which would facilitate cheating, a very minute variation being perceptible. The men who test these cards for this make calipcrs of their fin ger and thumb, and by passing them along from one end to tho other, detect difference in width between tho two ends which it is difficult to measure by any other means.
 There arc men employed in factories where dried yeast is madc, whose busi- ness it is to put tho yeast into packages weighing a certain amount each. It is on table in front of them in large plastic mass, and there are the scales for weighing it. But the men do not use the scales They simply separate from the ID ass with their hands lump of it and put it up, and you may choose at random and put it on the scales, and it will weigh exactly the right amount, the scales beam just balar cing.
 Whore large numbers of eggs are handled and shipped to market, there is process known as ''candleing' eggs, which consists in taking them into the hands, usually two eggs in each hand at time, and holding them up before lighted candle. Tho light shining through thom reveals to the practiced eye the exact condition of the contents. But some of tho men soon get so that they do not need to use tho candle, tho mere contact of their hands with the shells denoting tho condition of the egg just as infallibly and much more quickly. And they distinguish in that way not merely eggs which aro decid- edly bad, but those which are just barely le5inning to lose their freshness.
 Here are three different ways in winch extreme skill of the hands is shown by persistent training: First, in detecting slight differences in magnitude; second, in weight; and lastly, in texture or character of surface handled. Amer ican Machinist.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
Back to the old Home Once More.

DuOh tV shO OAu AAVAAV OhSO AuVAos In the golden glow of the setting sun There it lay, nestled down by a hill; The soft, gray shadows fell here and there On green meadow and running Till. saw the fields of golden grain;
 heard the caws and song of bird; But at the door where the hollyhocks grew heard no welcoming word. I strayed out in the orchard fair;
 Old trees stretched their arms to me, As if they would say, we remember you
 we'll,
 And they whispered these words to me: Have you back the hopes of youthl
 Are your castles peopled with lifei Is your heart as brave and full of glesl Were no dreams crushed out in the strifel Do you bring to your home the book of life, With it's pages just as clean As in the days, when child, you played Ere the years drifted in betweeni Is life as fair as in the days
 You gathered the flowers sweeH Are none of the pages plotted or stained In the book that will soon be completei The old homs lays fair in the moonlight, As it falls on the waving grain; But the. old folks are gone, and the green
 trees
 Say, never to return again.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
Gotham's Three.Letter Streets.

There have been many arguments over the number of streets in New York City the names of which arc spelled with three letters, says the Now York Sun. A study of the directory of 1888 gives the following information on the subject:
 There are fourteen streets in all. They are Ann, Dey, Oak, E m, Jay, New, Fox, Ety. Ash, Fir, Hoo, Kip, Poe and Rae.
 The first six are below the Harlem bridge, and the last eight arc in the an- nue in New York City which is spelled with three letters, Oak avenue.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
Gratitude of a Reformed Drunkard.


 Four ears ago drink had reduced Conrad Shenfeld, formerly wealthy business man of Erie, Pcnn., to deepest poverty. Ho was a drunken outcast :; friends cut him and relatives disowned him. Ragged, filthy and hungry, he went one night to the Murphy temper ance meeting, where he took the pledge, and to the amazement of his friends kept sober day after day. Then he wanted to go West and mako another fortune, although past fifty years of age, Lut one of his kin would help him by loan or gift.
 Finally Colonel Charles M. Lynch, an attorney we'll known in Western Penn sylvania, loaned him $200 aud he dis appeared from the city. A few days ago Shenfield die in Kansas City, and certified transcript of his will was registered in tho Eric County c, urt, giving bequests of few dollars each to all his relatives and $150 900 worth real and personal property to Colonel Lynch, besides valuable mining property at Albuquerque, New Mexico. --[New York World.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
The Reward of Rashness,

''My young friend," said old MT. Surplus to young MT. Giddiboy, ''do you not think that you were rash to ask my daughter to marry you when you are ot able to support her2'
 "Well," said the young man, craftily, 'perhaps was. admit my fault and throw myself on your generosity, sir"
 ''Thats right" declared the old gen. tleman. "You shall not lose by it, assure you. There, sir, is nickel to pay your car faro home. No thanks, if you please. Good-day, MT. Giddiboy." :" -EChicago NewA
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
America's Largest Tree.

MT. Warren, who has seen tho big tvees of Mariposa, those of tho Big Tree Grovs in Calaveras county, Cal, and all the big troos of the coast range, says there is no place in California a tree that approaches in size that on the Kawcah. The mea had with them no rule, tape line or measure ofany kind, but MT. Warren measured tho treo with his rifl,, which is four feet in length. He found it to be A lengths of his gun in circumference, at point as high above ground as he could reach. The top of the tree has been broken off but it is still of immense height.
 This monster tree stands in a small basin near the Kawcah, and is surround ed on all sides by wall of hugo rugged rocks. There is so much brush in the vicinity that the little valley iu which the big treo stands is almost insccessi. ble A landmark and notable feature of tho andscape is an immense rock hAO 0o AAOuAOA ANVSOs uAS ASOA stands on a mountain that has an ele vation of from 5000 to 5000 feet above the level of the sea. The rock itself is about 500 feet in height. It is visible above the pine forests from Tulare val. ley. The small valley Tn which the big tree stands is a mile or two east of Ho. mer's Nose. About it are many giant trees, several larger than the big trees of Mariposa.
 Lower down tho Kaweah is what is called the Giant Forest. At this place a colony of socialists have taken up ten square miles of timber land. Oa their land are many trees that are from 12 to IS feet in diameter. The mountain men say the big trees 0he scquoia are Q cross between the redwood and the fir.-[Nevaia Enterprise.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
A Black Snake Doctors Himself.

Some time since the Rev. Thomas c. Travis, living within five miles Of Berm- ingham, Ky, while travelling through the woods near his farm, heard fuss in Q hollow log which he was passing. He stopped to investigate, and found two snaks in deadly conflict. He watched them fight. One was a rattler and the other black snake. They would fight a while in the hollow, when the black snake would come out an d eat of weed that grew close to the log, after which it would go back and fight more, and then go back again to its weed. This performance was repeated several times. MT. Travis concluded he would pull up the weed, and did so. The snake short ly after came out and, on missing it's weed, died immediately
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
The magistrate of tn mix d court at

The magistrate of the mix d court at Shanghi, China, has proved himself Haroun al Raschid of no mean ability. He had before him a most complicated family dispute about lard. ca invssti- gatiug matters he found all the liti- gants were related, and that one lawyer represented them all. He promptly decided that the lawyer had prompted the quarrel, and ordered that unlucky gent to be brought before him and soundly whipped. Then hc invited all tho disputants out to dinner, in the course of which he lectured SO success fully on the beauty of harmony among relatives, as to induce them to settle amicably on the spot.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
Good Use for n Parasol.

Anunber of little boys went n-fish- ing in the Don, at the foot of Spruce street, on Saturday afternoon. Gao lit- tie fellow fell in and would have been drowned had it not been for tho strenu- ous efforts of one of two ladies who saw the accident. She rushed to the brink of the river, ard held out to him her brand new, long-handled, silk parasol Tho drowning boy grasped it aud held on securely until he was safely landed. The lady sacrificed her pretty parasol but she saved life.-[T Toronto (Can- ada) Empire.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19

Two Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul recently captivated the Sultan of Tur- key according to the New York World. A poor Mussulman of Constantinople had been condemned to death for some trifling offense. Ho had large family and the Sisters were moved to compass sion ly the distress of his eight chill drcn. They decided to visit Abdul Hamid. He received them graciously, listened to their eloquent appeal and sent them to the prison with State officer that they ight release the con demned man with their own hands. He further told then not to forget tho way to his p,lace, as they would always be welcome.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
Artificial Badness.

'Tt is the custom of several races, l" the London Hospital says. ito produce artificial badness by shaving tho head. The Chinamaa is perhaps the best ex- ample of this. He slaves the hair from the forehead and temples, and leaves only a circular patch, which he allows to grown into a tail. The Andaman Island CTS shave almost the entire sur face of the scalp, as thoroughly as the imperfect implements at their command will allow them. Formerly they used chips of broken flint for this purpose, but since the arrival of Europeans upon thoir islands they can indulge in the luxury of shave with piece of bro- ken glass It is said that wife takes a peculiar pleasure in shaving the head of her husband. Towards the close of the fifth century shaven crown began to be regarded, both in the east and the west, as necessary mark of the sacer- dotal caste; and the barber's razor was reQulreu to co-opeEaIe Wltu Iue OAsAopS hand to constitute the priest. Two modes of shaving tn, clerical crown--- the circular and the semicircular---c cana into use; but who were tho inventors of themf History, with blameworthy carelessncss, has neglected to record. The Roman clergy gave preference to the circular shave which was and is performed by making bald small round spot on the very crown of the head and leaving it encircled by halr. The Scottish monks, on the other hand, adopted the semicircu.ar mode, and shaved the forepart of the head from ear to ear. in the form of crescent"
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19

It is estimated that about 500, 900 persons, or about one-third of the en- tire population of New York, require to travel on the elevated roads to and from their places of business every day all the year round. It is not too much to assume that tho railway will economize for each at least two hours in the week, or say on aa average of five days per annum each. This for 800, 000 people means 9, 500, 900 days, or a saving of 8, 300 years of 300 working days each. Supposing the average earnings of the 800, 900 people to be $500 per annum each, not too high an average when it is remembered the number of millionaires included in the aggregate thero will logically ensue total money saving, in the sense of time being money, of equal to e, 160. GOO per aaAum.
Connecticut western news., 1888-09-19
Signed His Name Millions of Times.

c. N. Jordan, of New York, csti- mates that he has signed his name mil lions and millions of times as bank president and Treasurcr of tho United States. When he was president of the Third National Bank, he signed his name as often as fifteen tho usand times in one day, and he used up from fifteen to thirty pens day. His coat-slcevcs suffered greatly in the work, but they could be repaired, while the fish on his wrist, which suffered tho ost, could not be repaired, though he rubbed it freely with vascline and cold cream. MT. Jordan writes with light stroke, and he says that as Secretary of the Treasury he consumed only one-third d as much ink as his predecessors. s.-[Ar- oOnaut