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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-26

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Steamers every Saturday from New YORK 10
GLASGOW and LONDONDERRY.

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Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
How Cards Are Marked.

"IIow do you mark card?" said a
Graphic man to Charley Mosster as he
stood ON Fourteenth street and Sixth ave-
nue. last night watching the world as it
passed.
Easy enough, was his answer. owe
do it in the same way that the blind man
reads-by the sense of feeling Before
we can read these cards they must be put
in shape. This is done with ring which
is worn on the most convenient finger.
On the inside of the ring-I mean the
part under the finger-is a little steel
spur, not sharp enough to penetrate the
cards and make hole, which would be
detected, but a slight indentation, re-
sembling a pimple on the back of the
card, but so small that with close obser-
vatiOn it would not be noticed.
This we cannot see, but we can feel
it, and the location is the cipher to the
denomination of the card. OF course we
have to see and handle TIE cards before we
they can be marked but as we can handle
from five to ten cards each deal, it does
not take long to have all the important
cards punctured. Reading cards marked
in this way is easy to me. Ihave one sys-
tenn as to the location of marks, and it is
just as simple as telling the same by the
location of the hands of clock in the
absence of the regular dial figures. Sharp
players make their punctures so slight
that they cannot be detected by the ordi.
nary sense of feeling.
''The reading is then done with the bal
of the thumb frsm which the outer cuticlC
has been removed by acid. The mother
skin is very tender, and readily responds
when it comes in contact with the mark.
! Greeks of this class can be detected by
watching the thumb of the right hand il
dealing. If it has sliding motion up anC
down the cards then you can bet two t,
one that the dealer has got book for tn
blind to read. New York Graphic.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
The nelirhts of summer.

Summer is the season of growth and
physical prosperity fer everything. an
innate or inanimate, except man in the
four season climates, and even there some
exceptions prove what the rule might be.
The farmer sweats freely while hoeing in
his coFpfeld, but, with his straw hat, suit
of light Jeans and bare feet he feels the
same grateful exhilaration as the veg
etating shoots which spring up greenly
about him. The pores Of his skin are
open FOR every passing breeze, and the
wet drops which soak into his light
clothing are not an expense account upon
his physical bank.
A similar regulation of clothing prevails
in hot climates. The Hindoo who works
all day in the rice fields is not subject to
sunstrokes. Australians, Cubans and
Mexicans live easily during six months of
hot weather, because they know how to
adapt themselves to climatic conditions
as fatal as pestilences in the cities of this
part of the globe during some weeks of
the summer The Greeks, in the days
when Athens was great, when Pericles OF
Alcibiades ruled and Socrates, Plato, Zenc
or PythagOras were living thinkers, did
| not suffer from heat in their robes OF
snowy linen. Aud the Romans Of the
heroic age, when Virgil sang, Cicero talked
and Cesar led armies to victory, thought
summer a delightful season Of happiness
| and comfort.
The same possibilities exist for men. o.
today, if they will only clothe themselve!
sensibly and diet reasonably.-NewY YOrl
Press.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
Tho Language of Grasshoppers.

These grasshoppers, as if aware that
their beauty resided in their wings, rise
in the air to sing. The noise is made by
rubbing the upper edge of the true wings
against the under surface of the wing
covers. have often watched them while
in this aerial position, and wondered If
the song was always love call If be-
havior means anything among grasshop-
pers, they have at times, especially late
in the season, other business aside from
love making. Many times I have OBJ
served one of these creatures mount up
a few feet above the ground calling, call
ing, until sometimes half a dozen or
more would congregate beneath him,
when he would drop down in their midst
and touch the head Of each as if consult
ing about some grave matter; then the
little flock would disperse and the musi-
clan, or orator, or whatever he was,
would go to another place and call another
crowd, and after the harangue he would
again alight and communicate with each
individual. AS far as l could see there
was TO love making connected with this
affair.
Entomologists who have made the
brains Of insects study tell us that the
orthoptera, especially the grasshoppers
have a good development of brain, but mo-
equal to the ants, or to the social beeI
and wasps.
Another class of grasshoppers remain
on the ground to play. These are tn
violinists among the musicians; they us
their hind legs for bows, which they draw
across strings situated in the wing covers
The Rocky mountain locust (Coloptenu
spretus) belongs to this class. And her
is an instance where an insect ceases t
be insignificant and becomes a great an
mighty power in the land, compelling til
government to supply men and means t
try and thwart the vast armies that swee
over sections Of the west, devouring a
vegetation before them.-Mary Treat
the Chautauquan.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
National Habits of Erneotoration.

The streets of Paris are pure delight
TO me for many reasons, but chiefly be-
cause they are so clean. Why cannot our
streets at home, the streets of Pittsburg,
New York, Philadelphia and Boston, be
clean, too? Certainly there is enough
money spent on them to insure It'll But so
long as one thing is permitted in our
American thoroughfares, which is punish
able with arrest and fine here, just so long
will our avenues and cross streets, our
pavements, aye, even our train cars and
ferryboats, be disgusting and dirty, un-
seemly and constant reproach. allude
to the national habit of expectoration, the
national disgrace, for it is to my mind
nothing less. Were to see man, whom
l had previously adored, indulging in this
habit in my presence in street, piazza,
house or car. l should-not adore him any
longer, that is all; and here it is followed
promptly by arrest, so consequently the
streets are (other means being not only
paid for but used), the streets Of Paris are
what ours are motif to walk in.-"Miss
Marigold" in Pittsburg Bulletin.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
Alma Tadema,s Famous Picture.

Anent Mr. Alma Tadema's extraOrdi-
nary painting Of "The Roses Of Hello
gabalus," writer in Life, London, says:
"When the great artist and his wife were
In Venice some two years ago they were
exceedingly popular in Venetian society,
and on leaving, Mrs. Tadema was literally
deluged with bouquets of pink roses. In
travelling, however, the flowers soon be-
gan to fade, and Mrs. Tadema amused
herself by tossing the leaves about. Mr..
Tadema, like all good artists, is ever on the
watch for "a bit of color or fine scheme,
and the falling rose leaves aroused his
enthusiasm at once. why not paint
themp he thought. Having chosen The
Feast Of Roses for his subject, the next
difficulty was to find the rose leaves. I'M
itation leaves were sent from Paris-some
Of paper, some Of thin silk, but none
seemed to produce the right effect. AT
last it was arranged thRt large box OF
real roses should be sent from the south
of France every week, an awning was
placed on the balcony, and the artists two
daughters took turns in tossing the
leaves. As a result Of this care and pa
thence Mr.. Tadema's rose leaves are the
finest piece of work in this years Acad
my."-New York Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
Invention of tho Honey Extractor.

A foreign paper notices the death at
Venice, Italy, of Maj. Won Hruschka, the
inventor of the honey extractor. He was
retired Austrian officer, and the inven-
tion of the honey extractor occurred in
this way: His apiary was in Italy, and
one day when he was in his apiary his lit
tie boy came there. The boy had a small
tin pail tied to a string, which he was
swinging in a circle, holding the end Of
the string in his hand. The indulgent
father gave the youth a small piece Of
comb filled with honey, putting it into
the little pail. The boy after awhile be-
gan to swing the pail again as before,
with the honey in it. A few moments
after he became tired of that amusement
and put the pail down to talk to his
father, who took it up, and, by chance,
noticed that the honey had left the comb
and settled down into the pail, leaving
the comb perfectly clean that had been on
the outside of the circle when the boy
was swinging it around. The major won
dered at the circumstance, and turning
the comb over bade the boy swing it
again, when, to his great establishment,
the other side of the comb also became
perfectly clean, all the honey being ex-
tracted and lying at the bottom Of the
pail.
During the following night Maj. Won
Hruschka, after going to bed, commenced
| to think the circumstance over. On the
morrow he commenced a series of expert
ments which resulted in his giving to the
world the first honey extractor, which, by
whirling, something like his son whirled
that little tin pail, gave him the pure
liquid honey, extracted by centrifugal
force, leaving the honey comb entirely
free from the liquid sweet, which he gave
again to the bees to fill, allowing him the
pure honey for making wine, mead, and
metheglin or honey cakes, as desired
without employing the troublesome and
primitive method in use up to that
time of mashing up the combs containing
the honey, pollen, and sometimes brood
too, to let the honey drain through thu
cloth in which it was placed, giving wha
was formerly known as strained honey.
Chicago Times.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
Waking from sleep,

The author of 'On Blue Water" gives
some curious observations upon the man
ner in which we recover possession Of
our senses whenever we are awakened.
He thinks that it is the sense which is
most violently assailed that is first to
wake up. He says:
Il know no place where man has so
many opportunities for observing the
phenomena attending the awakening from
sleep as on board ship, where half the
people are awakened from sound sleep at
least three times a day.
"Often the bright light of my cabin
lamp, just lighted, has been visible to me
some seconds before l could hear or un-
derstand that was being called to get
up. have often called a man, and re-
ceived an answer which led me to believe
that he was wide awake, though he was
unconscious of having answered at all.
You may even hold long and animated
conversation with some men at eight bells
without waking them up."-Youths Com
DaniOu
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
A VegetabIe barometer.

A remarkable little weatherwise plant
is now said to be on exhibition at the ju-
bilee flower show in Vienna According
to the account supplied by the proprietor
of this natural curiosity, it belongs to the
family of the sensitive plants, but 1t is so
extremely meteorometric that it not only
moves if touched, but will close its leaves
forty-eight hours in advance OF any
change in the weather. It seems, more
over, to be the most catholic OF barometers,
for it foretells not only rain and wind
storms, and "set fair" but earthquakes
and other subterranean movements. In
short, the new mimosa is so accomplished
a vegetable that one learns with some dis
appointment that it fails to forecast fall
in rentes, while its pinnules display not
the faintest agitation on the eve Of the
most warlilSe Russo-Austrian rumors.-
London Standard.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
WHOLE NO. l,726.
For the Smyrna Times
The Peach YelloWs.

MR.. EDITOR-In your issue of Aug.
8th, speaking editorially of peach
growing and peach yellows," around
HagerstOwn, Md, you say, "and it
strongly indicates that there as well as
here the nursery may he responsible "
Now w,nurserymen are equally interested
with the grower to have orchards
healthy, and are as honest and cou-
scientiOus as any class of men. and
would sooner burn than knowingly sell
a diseased tree. If as you alege, peach
yellows is prOpagated and disseminated
only through nursery trees, how do you
account for some orchards not showing
any symptoms of disease for 10 or u
years after planting, while the same
trees in other locations remain healthy
during the lifetime of the orchard, and
in still others showing disease soon
after planting? The facts are that the
first planting in any locality are longer
lived and more healthy than subse-
quent planting, and so the more or
chards that are planted in the same
neighborhOOd or county the shorter
lived and more liable to disease they
become. This is surely shown by ex-
perience not only in New Jersey, but
| Delaware as well.
The writer, from 40 years observa-
ton Saying nothing of soil or cultiva-
tiOn) believes that climatic changes has
much to do with the health and lon
gev;ty of peach trees, and an article in
the MiddletOwn Transcript August
9tn, from a Government expert, con-
firms the belief, but continuous planting
in any locality contributes to and has
a share in the much discussed and as
yet little known subject of peach yel-
lows. Yours truly,
DAVID BAIRD.
ManaIapan, Monmouth Co., N. j.,
august 18Th, 1888.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
phraaea nf thn NornlIatn.

London Truth is In state Of mind be-
cause novelists viii never refer TO hand
pure and simple; 1t always must be a
s'Qloved hand" or an 'sungloved hand,
Truth says, and intimates that the next
thing in order is to find the boys of fiction
bathing with ''unshod feet" aud playing
football with ''shod" ones, while the dy-
ing heroine In the last chapter may be ex.
pected to turn her lovely, unbonneted
head on the snowy pillow" and the hero to
walk down Pail Nah with his ''intellectual
head magnifcently hated. New York
Sun.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
Worth Knowing.

Mr.. W. H. Morgan, merchant Lake City, Fla,
was taken with severe Cold, attended with
diStrt sSing Cough and running into COnsump-
ton in its first stages. He tried many sO-called
popular cough remedies and steadily grew worse.
Was reduced in flesh, had difficulty in breathing
and was unable to sleep. Finally tried DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption and found i'm
mediate relief. and after using abOu: half dozen
bottles found himself well and has had no return
Of the disease. No other remedy can show so
grand a record of cures, as DR.. Kings New Dis
cOvery for Consumption. Guaranteed to do Just
what is claimed for it. Trial bottles free at Jas.
p HOfecker's Drug Store.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

News agents of The London Times in
Glasgow have been served with ar
restments at the instance of Mr.. Par
nell the Irish leader wants S250,OOO
damages; two other suits have been
brought by Members of Parliament.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

General Won MOltke has been placed
on the retired list of the German Army
and nominated by the Emperor as
President of the Country Defence
General Won Waldersee succeeds him.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

Germany's new Emperor is distrib-
uting pictures and images of himself
broadcast. One of his latest freaks
was to have himself photographed be-
side Bismarck.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

It is estimated that there are 125,O0O
Hebrews in New York city, a number
a little less than one-third the entire
population of the race in the United
States.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
rndi..s -. -

Marriage customs in India are to be re-
formed. The bride and groom hereafter
must have attained the ages Of IA and 10
respectively. The families viii not spend
SO much on festivitie Chicago Globe.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
One of the most remarkable women

One of the most remarkable women
of the age is Mrs. Azubah Freeman
Ryder of OrringtOn, Me. She was born
in Massachusetts in 1884, and has lived
in Orrington SO years. When she was
16 years of age she was one of the Is
girls who represented the 16 States of
the Union at the funeral of Washing
ton. In 1906 she was married. Her
outfit of wooden, cotton and linen gar
ments, table linen and bed-clOthes, and
her white linen wedding-dress, were all
made by herself from the raw material.
She made her husband the first suit of
clothes he had after he was married.
She is still vigorous, has 10 living chill
dren, 33 great-grandchildren, and five
great Observation-Disclosures
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
SHOE STORE.
NEWS.

We recommend "Glycerole"
as the best Shoe Dressing in the
market. We also keep "Gilt
Edge" and Browns"
We sell for $500 the best work
Shoe in Kent county.
Mems nobby Shoes in stock or
to measure.
Mems fine Calf Boots, sewed or
pegged.
Mundelps Solar Tip !" Shoes for
Children.
Try a pair "Our Perfection ="
$500 Shoe.
Slippers and Oxford Ties all
styles.
The finest and best line Of
Children'a heel or spring heel
dress Shoes ever shown in this
section.
We carry nothing but footwear,
which means to customers more
leather for hundred cents than
if we carried every article OF
merchandise.
You are welcome--buy or not
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

The crop report of the Agricultural
Department for August shows that
corn has advanced from 90 last months
to 95.5. Spring wheat has fallen fro
$50 to S7.6. ~
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

The Democrats did not succeed in
running the National Convention of
the American party, and getting it to
endorse the nomination of General
Harrison, and as a consequence nearly
all the delegates withdrew before a
vote was taken for the nominee.
James L. Curtis, of New York, was
nominated, and we suppose will find
about as many men to cast their votes
for him as will vote for the candidate
of the Prohibition party.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

If you desire to possess a beautiful complexion
take Ayers Sarsaparilla. It cleanses and purifes
the blood, and removes blOtches and pimples,
making the skin smooth and clear, and giving
II bright and healthy appearance. Take It this
month.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

Tammany Hall favOrs Judge DugrO
for mavor Of New York and the COun-
ty Democracy ex-MayOr Grace for the
same position.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

The City Of New York is entitled by
size to be called the monarch of the
seas. She is the largest steamship
ahOat, and, with the exception of the
Improbable Great Eastern, the largest
ever built. She is guaranteed by her
builders, under heavy penalty for fail
ure, to cross the Atlantic in five days
and fifteen hours when reasonable time
has been allowed to overcome the new
ness of her machinery and bring it up
to do its best work This may take
months, but the Scotch builders and
the American owners of this giant
among boats are confident that the
new monarch of the seas has in her
machinery capabilities for becoming
also foremost among the greyhOunds
Of the seas.
The City Of Paris, another steamer of
the Inman line and the sister ship of
the City of New York, will be launched
on the Clyde on September 1st.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
Prof. Loisette wins in Court.
LITERARY PIRACY CONDEMNED.

"Chief Justice Van Brunt, holding
the Special Term of the Supreme
Court on the application of Nelson
Smith and Col. Robert G. Ingerson,
made the injunction in favor of Prof.
LOisette, restraining George S. Fellows
from publishing his Memory System
perpetual.
" DR.. William A. Hammond, Daniel
Greenleaf Thompson, author of a work
on psychology, and several others testi-
fed that Prof Loisette's system was
original, being a new departure in the
education of the memory. The Court
ordered Fellows to deliver up to Prof
Loisette the stereotype plates and all
the books in his control. Over nine
thousand copies of the pirated edition
were delivered up yesterday"
We are informed that full details
will be furnished in the prospectus
sent post free by Prof A. Loisette, 237
Fifth Avenue, New York.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
Artistic Dress Designing.

There are three sisters in Foughkeepsie
who have set up an establishment In
artistic dress designing. They study their
customer and make her look as well as
she can in colors and fabrics that are
suited to her.-New York Press.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

An exchange asks, DO dogs !alK
Well. we've often seen, in shipping IN
telligence, barks spoken.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
raN.n TennIs suifs.

Some one who has noticed that lawn
tennis suits are made loud this year says
that they are made 50 to 60 with the
racquet.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

There are lots Of people who believe
that they should "pay as they CO."
That's the reason they go slow.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22
w L BaggS
Established and Reliable Shoe Store,
OPPOSITE THE FRUIT GROWERS BANK.

While changes in the Shoe Business 50 frequently oc-
curing elsewhere in community, you will find no change
here hope be able be found my post ready to sup
ply you with shoes your taste and at as reasonable prices as
be had regularly elsewhere. am opening large stock
for the Spring Season. which you would do we'll Come
and see me. will take pleasure in showing them.
Smyrna times., 1888-08-22

Mrs. Grover Cleveland has two pets.
One wears an eigbt.inch, and the otner
an eighteen-inch collar.