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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

FORAKER is still monkeying with
Judge Thurman, and worries the old
man about as much a a mosquito
does an elephant.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

THE Martinsburg Independent says
that Hon. j. II. Gettinger and Hon.
Geo. NJ. Bowers are candidates for
State Auditor from Berkeley county
the former as a Democrat and the lat
ter as a Republican.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

THERE is bitter feeling between
the Republican leaders in the western
end of the State Editor White, of the
Parkersburg Journal, is brainy and
wideawake young man who is becom-
ing entirely too prominent to suit the
Wheeling faction that has heretofore
been running things TO suit itself, and
the fight of the two wings-one to get
up and the other to keep it DOWNS
highly interesting. OF course the
Wheeling Register is doing everything
to bring peace into the camp.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

Ninehundred bicyclists attended the
meeting of the American League of
Wheelmen in Baltimore this week.
They were from all parts of the coun-
try.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

Hon. WIN. l.. WILSON attended the
banquet of the Reform Club of New
York City last Saturday evening, and
made an able speech on the tariff.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

NIB. SCOTT, of Wheeling, was elected
as West Virginia's representative on
the National Republican Committee
at Chicago this week. Steve Elkins
was candidate for the place but got
loft
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

THE high tariff beneficiaries are
contributing freely TO fund to be
used to defeat Democratic Congress
men who are in favor of tariff reform.
But tariff reform is bound TO come,
for all that.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

EUROPE is again in a ferment of
excitement, caused by the death of
the German emperor, and the aces
sion TO the throne of his son William
who is said to be a young man fond
Of war
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

NJ +. CHURCH SOUTH.
REV. y. \. L. NEEL, Pastor.
Sheph erdstown 1879 a. M, and 500 p. m,
Marvin Chapel $50 p. N.
LUTHERAN CHURCH.
REV. ID. NJ MoSER Pastor.
UnionvilIe 1879 a. m, preaching by Rev. +.
l.. Folk.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
REV. CHARLES GHISELIN, Pastor.
Shepherdstown lob n. m, hearneysYille 3
p. III. Rev. y. y. Z. Neel VIII preach at kear-
neysyile.
REFORMED CHI RICH.
REV. Is. f. BAUsMANN. Pastor.
Shepherdstown 1880 a. IN.
NJ. T.. CHURCH.
REV. II. &. MCDANIEL. PASTOR.
She pherdstowm 1879 a. ~, and S.UO p. m.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
REV. l.. X. MASON, RECTOR.
ShepherdstOwn al ii "A. N. ana I.5O p. IN.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Services NTH sunday OF every month by
Rev Father Wilson, at II a. IN.
\. NJ. c. 4.
Services at Billmyer's Hall every S"nuay
afternoon AT $3.50.
Forest Grange No. -, will meet the sec.
ond Friday of each month at l.3O and last Fri
day, at b p. III.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

THE red bandana promises to be
much more effective as campaign
banner than the bloody shirt.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

THE Emperor of Germany, who had
been hopelessly ill for many months
from cancer of the throat, died last
Friday, after having been Emperor
only about three months. His son has
succeeded him, and assumes the title
of Emperor William III.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

The various railroad companies are
arranging great many enticing ex-
cursions and pleasure jaunts for this
summer The one fatal drawback,
however, to many persons, is the we'll
filled DOcketbook REQUIRED.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

A Philadelphia youth was recently
married TO girl who had refused him
eighteen times. He wishes now he
hadn't asked her but seventeen times
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

THE fact that the rich capitalists of
the country have subscribed 100000
to help defeat the Mills tariff bill is
sufficient reason why the laboring
men should support it and vote for
the party that is endeavoring to make
a law of the measure.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

The red bandana is as irritating
to the opposition as scarlet pettlcoat
TO bad-tempered bull.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22

FOR Low PRICES OF LUMBER
see
WILLET & LIBBEY' 5 advertisement
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
BAD for His Stomach.

Sam Harrison, young man who has
been glass eater in dime museums for
years, is in Bellevue hospital He is i'll o.
acute indigestion. The trouble was
caused by his abnormal diet. His glass
eating, nevertheless, was, in measure,
tricky. His performance consisted in
taking goblet, passing it around among
the spectators to let them be convinced
that it was genuine glass, and then biting
out large mouthfuls from the edge of it,
which he crunched and ground between
his teeth and finally swallowed. Witnesses
of the feat usually watched for evidence
that he kept the broken glass in his mouth,
and waited for an opportunity to spit it
out, but he always wound up by drinking
copiously of water, in o manner which
seemed to preclude such retention.
Harrison is so sick from the disorder of
his stomach that he will not return to
the museums, and so he was willing to
tell the attending physician how his glass
eating was done. The goblet was not
glass, but was composed of a transparent,
brittle composition of isinglass and sill
cate. This had the feeling and appear
ance Of glass, and the difference could not
be detected by an inezpert examiner. The
substance was pretty hard, however, and.
chew it as he might, it went into his
stomach in a state not at all conducive to
health. Gradually it brought on gas
tritis, and this is what ais him now. He
will never chew imitation glass again IN
til somebody invents less harmful COM
position.-New York Cor. Chicago Herald.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17

At the studio of young portrait painter
I saw yesterday picture which was very
curious In its subject. 1t contained two
upright fgures-one that Of q swarthy
Indian rajah covered with jewels and
wearing star of India upon his breast,
the other tall and lovely English girl Of
about IS, in pink dress, her hair
gathered behind her by ribbon and fall
ing loose again. The rajah is smiling the
smile of proud possessorship, and the
young girl is looking with somewhat
bewildered air at her future lord. They
are two real people. She is the daughter
of an English chemist, and her parents
have consented to her marriage with the
rajah, who after the ceremony, will take
her out to his dominions.
One instance of such marriage between
Christian maid and pagan man is very
well known, and has turned out decided
success. A Miss King, the daughter of a
governor Of an English Jail, married about
thirteen years ago ''the shereef of Oran, !"
who is the spiritual head of the empires
Of Morocco. The shereef, who is de-
scendant of the prophet, on marrying
Miss King, renowned all his other wives,
whom he lodged in an asylum at Tangier,
which it is part Of his duty to keep up
for the refugees from the secular power,
and he moreover gave to his son by his
Christian wife the sacred stick, the pos
session Of which at the time of the
shereef's death determines the succession
among his children to his sacred Office and
great possessions.-London Letter.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
Washington on the Dismal Swamp.

Washington, in 1863, in his own words,
entered the Dismal swamp, and "encom-
passed the whole" He camped on the
east side of the lake. and unquestionably
considered the problem of its formation,
for he was astonished, and he astonished
others by declaring that all the rivers in
the swamp flowed out of it instead of
into it.
Tho Dismal swamp" wrote Washing
ton, lis neither hollow nor plain, but
a hillside" He had discov what
measurement has since shown that tho
lake was twentythree feet higher than
the sea.
Scientists have accounted for the water
in the Dismal swamp from cursory OBJ
servations, by the rainfall, even denying
the existence of springs in the lake. 1
venture with much hesitation to disagree
with this conclusion, believing it to be
impossible that the rainfall can account
for the enormous supply of water, not
only contained within the swamp, but
which is, and always has been, flowing
out of it.
First, it is granted that no more rain
falls on the Dismal swamp than on any
other piece of Virginia 4ox30 miles square.
Second, it is certain that it does not draw
from the surrounding country, for it is
higher than all its environment.
Yet, out of the Dismal swamp run no
less than nine rivers, some of them very
considerable, and still the lake continues
TO overflow, and the whole vast extent of
the swamp remains inundated John
Boyle O'Reilly in Boston Herald.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
Opposition TO Turkish Baths.

There IS not the interest taken IN
baths now as formerly, 1 pelievet'
''on the contrary, there are more bath-
ers today than ever before. In 1872
suppose less than Is, 600 baths were given
in the city in year, Now | suppose the
number is close on to 1.ooo, go in the
same period of time We have IN this
country the finest baths il the world, and
it is safe to say. perhaps. that there IS
more money invested in Turkish bath es-
adjustments in America than IN the
whole of Europe put together. When
first introduced here the business vas op-
posed on every side The medical frater-
nifty, with but few exceptions, denounced
the practice. Persons who knew the
benefits TO be deprived therefron had TO
sneak II and cut OF a bath, so afraid were
they Of being seen 70 enter or come eE-
OF such plaza. | REMEMBER when
l cane into this building what cry was
raised. The property holders IN this street.
waited on ne and offered me- . handsome
boaIs fer NV lease. But they did not
understand thu matter They were Car.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
Against KmYes and Forks.

The other day a wandering paragraph
drew attention to wealthy woman in
New York who is gradually doing away
with the conventional knife and fork at
her banquets, and substituting instead Of
those generally regarded as necessary inn
Elements for dining fanciful daggers and
miniature swords, enriched with jewels
and art work. For instance. roses of
tinted enamel, with the end of the stem
provided with two convenient thorns Of
gold to be used as q fork, the rose being
the handle. The lady argues that ordi-
nary knives and forks were intended for
the days gone by, when the dinner parties
of society included launches Of yenison
and mutton served in huge slices to the
guests and requiring substantial instru-
ments for the subdivision Of the slices
into morsels suitable for the mouth.
Those were days of gross hospitality,
and the table necessities were in keep
ing" observes the anti-knife and fork
hostess. Il am not sure that the Chinese
do not show exquisite taste IN their use Of
chop sticks. San Francisco Argonaut.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
An Unfortunate Combination.

The latest notion In the hoodoo line Is
that the mustache Of a man, carried
within the bodice Of q woman, will insure
good luck Is the mustache detached
from the face on which it grow? Why, Of
course. Otherwise the fetish would be
easy to get and awfully improper. But
to obtain q mustache all alone By itself is
mighty hard. Fellows cultivate them so
slowly and reap the crop so rarely that a
genuine mustache, separated from its
lip, is a scarce article. Once in while a
pretty girl may be able to coax an enam-
ored chap TO make sacrifice Of his hirsute
treasure, but usually one must depend on
a barber, in which case you never know
for certain that it is really mustache
and not a partner of side whisker or a
goatee, or even @ cutting Of an uncom-
monty coarse scalp lock. know a maiden
who obtained the desired mascot from a
devoted and betrothed dude He called
on her again, and vowed he believed she
had already thrown his mustache away.
She produced it.
Seems to me it is bigger than it was, "
he remarked.
Indeed, it was tiny little one when
you gave it to me-" she shyly assented.
and it is half composed of redder hair
than my mustache."
Eyes, so it is"
"Aha! 1 know 1 saw Jim Brown to-
day, and his mustache is gone. You've
got his and mixed It in with mine"
''Do you nindY''
Did he mind? Jim Brown was his hated
rival. The combination hoodoo mustache
may bring good fortune to that girl, but
not in the form of marriage with that
enraged dude. He broke the engagement
of with snap like pipe stem. She will
have to get along the best way she can
with Jim.-Clara Bellies Letter
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
a Wedding in Honduras.

The lHonduranian wedding is an event
of much ceremony, especially among the
richer people. 1t begins at in the even
ing at the brides home. All the relatives
and friends of both families are present.
The patio, with japanese lanterns hung
here and there among the orange and
pomegranate trees-and the moon she'd
ding her soft light over all-is thronged
as well as the house. The gay music
which has been performed by the must
clans for perhaps an hour now ceases, or
else the band go into the patio and play
very softly. The bridal party emerge
from private rooms. The mayor appears.
The civil ceremony is begun and carefully
gone through with. This done the cure
takes his place and performs a small part
of the religious service. After this the
cure goes away Supper is partaken of,
and the ball begins. All night long the
music, the feasting, the champagne and
the dancing continue At in the morn
ing the cathedral bell is heard. Instantly
the merriment ceases. The bride and
groom set out, heading a considerable
procession of friends and relatives.
The priest meets them ct the main en-
trance of the cathedral. There is brief
pause. The bride extends her hand and
the groom places in it thirteen coins, re-
peating the customary phrase-equivalent
to with my worldly goods thee endow."
The bride responds meetly. Then the
company, led by the cure, pass slowlyao-
ward the main altar and all kpeal whilo
nuptial mass is celebrated. This con-
cludes the ceremony. Bride and groom,
instead of departing on q wedding tour,
go at once to their new home, where a
remarkably fine wedding breakfast is i'm
mediately partaken of by the relatives
and most intimate friends.-Paul Roches-
ter III Home journal.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
A Cooperative Telegraph Line.

Lewanee county, Mich, has coop
erative telegraph line which began by
two farmers connecting their houses
with a wire, and which has extended
until now it has sixty-fve miles Of wire
and ninety Offices, two-thirds Of which
are in farmhouses and the others IN stores
where the farmers trade. Every farmer
is his own operator, battery man and
line repairer, and can use the lines as
much as he pleases. They communicate
with each ether, give orders to the stores
and receive early information Of impor-
;ant news over their wire. One farmer
had his life saved by it. he took poison
by accident, and there was no doctor
within several miles, but he telegraphed
to the neares. one. told what was the
trouble. and was directed to I'll himself
up with sweet milk and keep filled until
the doctor could get there. The pre-
scription was succekful--New York
Sim
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
A Hrilcc for the Nose.

DR.. II. ID. Burrell, surgeon of the City
and Carney hospitals, it is who has made
The discovery in the way of furnishing q
bridge for the nose. At the time spoken
of above an otherwise fine looking woman,
from enc of the thriving towns of the
state, with 4 not at all pleasant apology
for nose, applied to DR.. Burrel for
relief. Her deformity was such that she
was compelled to live q most secluded
life, rarely going out, save at night for
needed exercise. 1t occurred to DR.. Bur
rel that al improvement might be made
on previous operations, and that by add
ing properly shaped piece of bone from
q living animal, q natural shaped nose
could be made. An appointment was
given the woman at Carney hospital, and
an operation was performed by cutting
out the side of the mutiated member and
turning it, completely over. A young
chicken was then killed, and a piece OF
the breast bone of proper shape united 20
the root of the hose on the skull by silver
wires Then the flesh of the old nose
was properly stretched over the bone and
secured by Egatures- Tampllins of cot
ton were put il to give the nostris the
proper shape. The new bone became
properly united with its attachment, the
wound healed, aud the operation, thus
far, is perfect success. TIE patient
has now fine Roman nose, and the only
scar is q nearly imperceptible line at one
side of the newly made organ.-Boston
Herald
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
The Big Bells of Russia.

The Russians have passion for big
bells. There are numbers of them in
Moscow. In the tower Of Ivan, in the
Kremlin, hangs sixty ton bell, which is
rung only three times year, and then
the combined efforts of three men are re-
quired to swing the hammer. Above this
hang forty bells of various dimensions, 8
mountain Of metal capable of emitting
the most deafening sounds. The Rus
slams are as enthusiastic as they are a
superstitieus race. and they are nothing
If not demonstrative at their festivals.
On Easter eve deathlike silence reigns
throughout magnificent Moscow. Sud
denly at midnight, from the tower of
Ivan. the mighty congregation of bells
peals forth in tumultuous and dis
cordant crash Then the bells of the en-
tire city join in the metallic uproar, and,
as ii this were not enough. the cannon of
the Kremlin Join in the chorus, and the
people rush headlong into the streets,
crying: Christ Is risenl Christ is risen
from the deadp'-Boston herald.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
thought &c was . Ticket.

The greenest man I ever saw on railroad
was a conductor a suburban passenger
train that l rode On from ST. Louis few
days ago. l guess he was cousin Of some
big official, and had lived In the woods all
his life. Somehow / had expended more
money than had calculated upon, and when
I took my seat found in my poke: but q
fifty cent ''shin plaster" which was pre-
serving as memento. When the conductor
came to take up tickets l handed hin this.
had pulled my hat over my eyes in . negh-
gent way, but judge Of my surprise to hear
the three familiar clicks, and those repeated
twice. Then he walked away. looked at
him in establishment, and asked him to stay
his hand. what in the world are you
punching holes in that fifty cent piece for.
Give Eae my change" Why" he replied,
innocently, Il thought that was one of these
new style Autograph tickets, good for fifty
miles, and that you wanted to ride it out"
explained and got my change, but it shook
my fractional currency procliyities nightly.
-Globe-Democrat.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17

tain that NEEDN'T to keep disreputaoIe
place, and when the builders began to tear
out the front Of the house and the stained
glass windows were put in place, that
settled it. They were sure that / intended
running grog shop In front Of my baths
Old Sammy Wllletts, the Quaker million
sire. who at that time lived just above
here, came to see me one day and said he
wanted to buy me out. The neighbors
could not bear the idea Of having such q
place as Turkish bath In their midst
Why, from the way some Of them went
on you would have thought it was a
harem going up instead OF bath Little
by little, however. the business came to
be understood. since which time it has in
creased in popularity and volume. New
York Mail and Express.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17

One of the NEST prominent inanciers IN
the southern states found himself PENN.
less and an invalid ct the close OF cur civil
war. His business had been solely tho
manipulation Of money end neither he Tor
bis neighbors lad low any money 10
manipulate. Els wife and three chiI5re.,
looked to him for support. What should
he Go to provide them with bread? lie
would gladly have taken . position as a
clerk, but nobody wanted his services. Re
still owned few acres of sterile land, on
which once grew a wild plant with seed
pod Of punseut flavor from which the
negroes expressed the juice to be used az
O sauce On their masters table.
Col NJ, in his perplexity, remem-
bered this sauce. He visited the Cd patch
aad found bat one bush yet standing.
From the pods be distilled Juice enough
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
killing Time In the Earems.

The first impression of the dolce far
niente air which pervades the haremS is
most oppressive to the European mind
Even the most do-nothing dame Paris
ienne, or the most languid devotee Of
London fashion, has some signs of occu-
patton surrounding her, and seems to have
her time taken up in some way or other
with whatever result; but here the ab-
sencc of furniture of any practical use,
except the divans and lounges all round
the room, the lack of any objects sug-
costing even amusement or recreation,
strikes one almost painfully. Even the
familiar piano is not to be seen, or stands
back mute and inglorious. What eastern
Genoiselle would think Of giving en- hour
q day, or even q quarter of en- hour, to
rracticing? Some few may attain to doing
their own fancy work instead Of watching
the servants or slaves eInbroidering lone
lady had worked the whole suit of O room
in gold embroidery or purple velvet, but
the small inlaid cigar stand and accesso-
ries, and tie little trey Of fhgree silver
cup holders aud coffee cups give the Wis
itor indications of the usual mode OF be-
guiling the day and killing time in these
places where feed hours. or business, or
haste are unknown ideas.-.'K. E. E."
IN Home JourCa.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
The Slaves OF authority.

In tie collection OF al acquaintance Of
mine are some curious relics \ portion of
them is two slaves Of polished reddish wood,
each about as tall as an ordinary man The
slaves have iron ferrules, q velvet covered
hand grip, and are topped with gilt cary
ing intended to suggest a flame burning in
the bowl Of torch. They were carried
years ago by the aldermen of this city, and
were the chief among the badges Of the aid
eruianic Office In those days, fancy, alder
men wore robes, too, SO that, in uniform and
with their slaves of authority, they must
have presented quite an imposing appear
ance. As time wore on tho slaves were 70
duced in length, till they became ncre
truncheons. They still, however, kept up to
the torch style Of construction, Is may be
seen from samples Of them in this same COL
lection.-Alfred Trumble in New Y ork News.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-17
In a Gods Stomach.

Nature Is authority for the Statement
that On April %, when Of the Westn,an
Islands. Iceland. the captain Of the Dam
ish mail steamer Laura threw overheard
a letter written in Danish On May
the letter was found in the stomach Of .
cod canght by Preach fisherman oil
Reykjaaas, about one hundred and
twenty miirs distant The man showed
it to the French consul a. Reykjzrik,
who submitted it to tine captain OF the
Laura Is was much decomp0sed. Int
Still readable.-ScieOee.