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Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
MARKETS.

Chicago, March 24.-Following are the
$3.50 closing prices:
Flour-Dull and unchanged; winter wheat
bbls, 8 3.50@5.5 so sacks, So. 50@3. as; wheat, bbls,
S3.5094.50 sacks, 81. 7O@4. 25; spring, 81. 75@
$780,; rye flour, S2.S5@3.10 per Dbl; buck
wheat flour, S5.00@6. 75 per Dbl.
Wheat--Fairly active, unsettled, nervous
opened Nc lower and closed &c better than
the close of yesterday; cash, 71Tc; May,
76Xc.
Corn-Moderately active and stronger;
opened 4@4c better than the close of yester.
day and closed the same; cash, 1850; May,
soc.
Oats-Remain with yesterdays range with
no special change; May, 80 5-16c.
Rye-Quiet at 5S@5SMc.
Barley-77@S1c.
Prime Timothy-s2. 6192.62.
Flax-seedAS1.45.
Whisky-S1.15.
Pork-Active and unsettled, closing lower
than yesterday; cash, $3.50; May, s13.35@
13.37H.
Lard-Moderately active but lower; cash,
S7.45; May, 81. 47h@7.50.
Dry Sailed Meats-Shoulders, S6.00@6.15
short clear, S7.55@7.60; short ribs, $40.
Butter-Firm; creamery, 2413@3Oc; dairy,
22627c.
C~heese-Steady full cream cheddars, 11@
l114c; flats, 114@l1Ac; young Americas,
12T@13c.
Eggs-Firm; fresh, 16k@17c.
Hides - Unchanged; green hides 41ac;
heavy green sailed, SIC; light green sailed,
&c; sailed bull, 4111c; green bull, 311c; green
sailed calf, SC; dry flint and dry calf, l2@l3c;
dry sailed, 10c; deacons, SOC each.
Acknowledgement! No. /, solid, 44c; No
/ n l. NJ
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Lumber

DIMENSIONS AND TIMERS.
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omcial Receipts.

sheep.
There were two loads here, but they were
not offered on the market.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25

Dry Goods. 80.
DuCEf-Wfs 40ipt 30 in. ssz, lo1ic, West
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BOARDS

No. / conn.,, s l IS. 1850 No. 8 com, S l s.S14.O0
No. 2 com, s ] S. 1850 No. 4 com, s / s. 10. so
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05

1--WE had one dog that received a current
of | 100 volts, acd the old fellow survived
it. We concluded 10 let him live after that,
and he is walking round to-day as good as
ev- ai'cr his shock. We call him Ajax,
bsau.e Le played with the thunderbol s."
WHAT e.si have you been doing of later
inquire hi, Interested visitor of Mr. Edi-
son after HIS
ITO MANY things to tell you. I've been
experiment. g a good deal with microbes,
trying TO understand the be asts and see how
they work. WHAT wanted was to get an
iGea of the germs of the yellow fever.
Something Of the microbe order is probably
at the bottom OF that, and if we could know
how to catch them and take their fangs out
they would be less harmful. But you'll
have to excuse me now, as my carriage has
been waiting half an hour, and it is raining
so hard they will think am drowned if |
do not get home till SO Late
SO, with cherry good night, the great
inventor got into his team and drove off
through the wet, leaving the impression
that here was an American of whom his
country could be proud.
JOHN j. ABECKET,
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which can 10 ,egu'a "a so ms % direct It's
co1 SO with some So =. 10 you think
this practicable thing"
NO, | Go not, II bT an air-ship you menn
balloon, or body raised III the ar by gus
lighter than the air. 1t will always ba At
/. mercy of the wind. None of the
schemes which have been suggested for
securing control of it seem feast ole, or give
promise of success. l have given some
thought to the subject, and have expert
mented more or less with it. But my con-
ciusion is that unless some apparatus could
be devised which would raise the thing by
its working. the air-ship cannot be subjected
to control which will counterfeit against
the influence of air currents"
Nv hat about electricity in connection
with facilitating railroad transportation"
THAT is a great problem. If some
means can be discovered by which electri-
city can be produced from coal without its
energy being spent in heat, and the means
OF doing this can be accomplished at reas-
enable. expenditure, then the application of
electric power as motor to railroad trains
and transatlantic steamers will be a valua-
bic, useful, economic thing, But it has not
been discovered yet, Electricity as
motive power is gain of s. per cent, and
when the means of educing, or producing
electricity from coal without intervening
combustion, and consequent waste of energy
Is brought about, 800 tons of coal wllldo the
work of 1900 now when it is burnt and
steam employed as the motive power; But
this can't be done with large trains now
economically. | am giving good deal OF
attention to this subject. l have accom-
plished this result under laboratory condi-
tiuns, but these will not do to mako the
process available from a commercial point
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05

silver ornamented with real garnets and
sometimes with pc rIs
Some of the most unique lamps brought
out this fall are made OF bisque, the work
able nature of the material resulting in
many odd shapes. A toddling girl, with
round baby face, for instance bends over a
crystal ball which she holds IN her hands
gazing at the fire burning in its center
with eyes of wondering curiosity. A yain
two children play at battledore and shuttle
cock, ana the ball, just poised on the tip of
the weapon held in the lads hand, is of clear
glass, serving as the globe of the light that
burns within it. The bisque lamps are
bric-a-brac and luminaries in one.
If there is one craze in lamp decoration
which prevails above another it is the
peculiar mania for artificial flowers as
ton, porcelain, silver or glass, is given
color and warmth by mass Of huge red or
yellow roses-art flowers which you can
with difficulty distinguish from real
blosSoms-su against its side. If the
lamp be porcelain figured with flowers, the
poSies chosen for decking It's shade will
copy those represented on its surface, daiSes
against daisy porcelain, toTget-me-nots
against those showing that flower. A fine
lamp of English porcelain, for instance, in
pale yellow ware shading into brown and
showing a design of flame colored nasturti-
ums has a shade entirely composed Of
masturtium flowers in yellow and flame
hues.
Next the flower mania comes the feather
and bird mania, a new lamp showing the
torch of the Liberty Goddess in copper having
shade which, possibly with the idea of re-
minding one how destructive that statue on
Bedloe's island is to the featbercd creation,
is made of 100 small green birds pressing in
solid phalauA against the flame.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05
DEFY1NG EDIsoN's 400 VOLTS.

"Still there is clearly an immense field
for advancement in electricity as motor
The steam-engine can't be much more
perfected. The term of Improvement in
that has been about reached. There is only
one force, and that is energy 1t comes IN
many ways, is molecular movement or
mass movement, and heat, light, sound and
electricity are only modes of this motion
Hence you canSsee that if the latent force
in coal can be educed as electricity without
letting so much of it go to waste in comhus-
ton, it will take the great step forward in
this matter. But some IF the conditions
for getting at result or an invention are
about on par with toying to get black
coat made by John Smith in Washington
on Feb. ), 1881, and sold for $14 to William
Jones, of Newark" sold Mr.. Edison. with
snug smile. He is full of dry humor
which crops out in his conversation ire
quertly, no matter what may be the theme
"Do you suppose the internite nature of
electricity will ever be discoversds" was
asked him next
Eyes. l think it can and will be some
day. There are thousands working at
these things, and from the different data
that is collected on the subject of electricity
somebody will strike great law that viii
be a revelation. a great many of the
greatest things are discovered, they are not
invented. Bell discovered the telephone.
he did not invent it. He was making ex-
periments on telegraphy by sound, and
found out about the transmission of the
voice by a wire"
"What do you think of the Keely mo-
torn'
II don't think much of it. The biggest
work it has done so far has been to enable
Kelly to wear diamond studs and drive
good horses. Men that invent thing or
discover a thing don't act about it as he
does about this motor. l don't put anv
faith in it. and doubt if anything ever
comes out of it..
HAS anything been done in this matter
of tele2raphing from moving trainr'
YES. That is perfected now. The Lehigh
Valley road has twelve trains equipped for
transmitting messages in this way. The
sound waves strike the telegraph wires by
the side of the track and through induction
a current is produced, and the message
gathered by an instrument from the several
wires and read. 1t doesn't make any differ
ence whether the wires are up or down.
The sound waves hit them in either case.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05
A NEW CHAPTER ON LAMPS.
Fresh Notions in Parlor and Drawing.
room Luminaries.

Fresh Notions in Parlor and Drawing.
room LuminGries.
New YORK, Nov. 3.-Do you like lamps:
mary day. 1t stands JUS five feet five,
higher than your head if you are a petite
woman. Its upright is of old silver twined
with vines done in bright silver and bearing
punches of berries in yellow gold. On one
leaf crouches a tree toad wrought in green
gold with emeralds for ewes and garnets
and moonstones glittering from the enamel
of its back. The bowl of the lamp is of
oxydized silver, with ivy leaves in a new
amalgam of gold and silver standing out
on it in bold relief The lamp shade spreads
like an umbrella and is made of long, curl
ing ostrich plunes, each one thick, heavy,
pale green, specially chosen and very costly.
The whole 1eecy pagoda is lined with an
inner shade OF ostrich Dlumes in duh gold.
The lamp is worth several hundred dollars
and was made to order from well-known
artists design for a newly finished palace
uptown,
"Do seer"
Isn't it perfectly exquisite.
Il must have tnat for my Pompadour
boudoir. do adore anything in white and
gold
This was lamp number two, but the signs
of admiration spent on it We're lavishel in
vain, for it too was special design to
complete the fittings of dainty malden's
dainty room, its future mistress being still
on the ocean on her voyage from the
harbor of a German convent to the troub-
lous waves of a debutante's first winter in
society.
Lamp number two illustrated one OF the
newest ideas in lamps. The body Of it was
a huge opening rose, its petals shading
from pure white on the outside 10 deep gold
nearer the heart, all done in delicate porce-
lain and resting at the bottom in a Calyx Of
metal gold. 1t was table lamp, not large,
but perfectly wrought. It's shade had the
curve OF a rose petal and was n semi-trans-
parent piece of pale gold porcelain orna-
mented with sprays of pink roses, and set,
like the lamp bulb, into rim of gold. One
could easily imagine the lowered brocades
filling the spaces between the white and gilt
carved panels, the ceilings, painted after
Vatican, the deeply upholstered low furni-
ture Of rose and pink, the cut crystals, the
minute and delicate art, the migndrdjSe of
luxury filing tie bower of beauty in
which the lamp was to shed S fit light on the
picturesque coque.ry Of the age of Louis
w
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ALT INA YER $

Ere week has passed the great question
which has been agitating the public mind for
several months past will have been finally set
tied. Friends who have been more or less
estrangei on account of the close and bitter
fight of their respective candidates will shake
and make up; great deal of money Will
change hands; hatters win do a thriving bust
ness for the next few weeks and just about
this time the "pessmist' will be on hand with
his old familiar moss. covered remark, what
did | tell you" or, Didn't know he was going
to get there!" etc, etc, etc; business will
again resume its activity and wen be ready as
usual to capture our regular share. The fol-
lowing bright and attractive array of popular
bargains are just such goods as will suit both
RICH and POOR. If every Lady in Savannah
could vote on next Tuesday, A. r. ALTMAYER
& Co would be elected by a stupendous ma
jority as the peoples choice for popular prioas.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05

During the blizzard, when the Morse
system was of no use, the Lehigh Valley
road ran its trains and regulated things
along the line entirely by this system. All
the wrecking trains are equipped with the
means to transmit messages by this system.
what do you think Of the application Of
electricity for the purpoe OF executing
criminals who have to suffer the death
penaltyi,
"That is Q good idea. The man will be
killed with current Of the proper number
OF volts in the tenth Of a second. There
won't be time for the eense-bearing nerves
to telegraph the news that he is hurt to the
brain before he win be dead from the shock.
And it will be so lightning-like quick that
the criminal can't suffer much. did quite
a lot of experimenting with currents on
dogs. IL was funny. At first, we used
continuous currents. After the electricity
charged the dog he stood still without the
slightest change in his appearance. He
did not move, and his eyes retained the
same expression they usually wore. Then
after a minute, or a minute and half, he
would collapse and tumble over, dead.
Finally, we tried alternate currents. Thee
are shot out in one direction and then In the
other, In shocks Of infinitesimal duration.
Then il was found that this shock of one
tenth of a second killed the dog,
after that the men who we're handling
the wires were uncommonly careful, said
Mr. Edison. with a grin. "They wear rub Jor
gloves, aud somebody told me that hs saw
the foreman put them on TO make a rote in
his memorandum book.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05

Lamps ara ambitious. Gas voted them
p'ebeian and the electric light denied them
standing ground in a properly conducted
universe. The lamp was supposed to be
quenched, just as it had in days gone by
snuffed out the candle. But the lamp is
newly alight, the candle is afiame and the two
glow with more aristocratic, if not more
brilliant, blaze than gas or electricity. In
the furore for art furnishings there is no one
article which lends itself more readily or
more gracefully to the art furnisher.
The newest table lamps are of porcelain,
preferably SevreS ware, lis fiorid style
adapting itself easily to the rich, bold
effects desired. Dresden ware is also seen
in lamps, royal Worcester, Leeds ware for
simpler pieces and decorated bisque in
variety An immense flower jar is the
shape assumed by a new pattern in deep
red Leeds porcelain, the fame at the top
being the bouquet held by this handsome
Jug. Pale yellow ana pink asters are the
flowers which stand out in double wreath
in the raised work on its surface This
lamp weighs something like thirty pounds,
and Is lifted when lifted at all, by two large
lizards which form handles on the sides. 1t
is 100 hig and too weigbty TO find place on
any but very substantial parlor table.
is fittings are Of old silver and its large
clrcuae sha ie is of silver. II is worth $275.
Anotrer c1nceit in lamps IS a coppery
SERPENT with silverV scales on ITS rough
back aud tail which coils its writing
length into ring aud lifts its fat head to
WON'T out flames. II has eyes Of yellow
topaz and is design d TO charm the unwary
scholar as it lies ready for spring on his
Library desk. Ii charmed him when he
bought IL 70 TIE tune OF Sl6j
A flower lamp for the drawing-room
takes the shape OF u yellow tulip of art
porcelain. IL is small and dainty, overhung
by a miniature umbrella also in yellow
porcelain. II is comparatively inexpen-
sive lamp. costing only S4j
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05

The high piano lamp, for the most part,
Celebrates last years designs. \ favo.ite
standard is still that of cuJ steel, bearing
a series Of three or four square and elabor-
ately etched steel shelves OF tables. T4ese
lamps are expensive and apt to rust. A
favorite shade for oaeof them is a spreading
parasol of green cocks plumes on which
perch two or three blackbirds. The brass
standard is well liked, especially when it
carries fine onyx table. The standard
lamp is made this fall from feet I inches
to } feet inches high. There are many
handsome standard patterns in cast iron
with entwining scrolls for upri2hts A
good shade for one of these is of milky
glass, SET in an open framework Of the iron.
Copper and iron make good combination,
newer than copper and silver, bat not 50
handsome. An upright of. old silver, with
lamp bulb of copper ana spreading shade Of
japanese silk in Oriental coors, makes a
lamp that may cost about $50 and is a very
ornamental piece of furniture. 1t is on the
piano lamp that flower shades are most
used. An umbrella-like mass of dark red
roses with green leaves is the shade of one
wrought-ron lamp, yellow roses shade
second pink asters a third and passion
flowers the fourth of a long list. Soft pink
and yellow silks with long fringes are the
shades next in favor.
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Millinery Dept.
SECOND FLOOR.)

We quote nothing here but
the brightest and best of every
day favorites.
1000 lunches Tips g In a bunch) black and
all the new shades, this week at 19c.; worth soc.
1000 lunches Tip % in n bunch) black and
all the Fall and Winter shades, regular price
75c.; this week 3Sc.
100 dozen Fancy Wings, reduced from l5c.
to SC.
grand lot Fancy Wings and Birds, worth
from 35c. to Soc; down this week to f9c.
so dozen Ladies Walking Hats, in cardinal
drab navy and green, very hobby, price 75c..
down from 81.
lot Nos. 10 and 16 Alsilk Crown Edge More
and Faille Edge Satin Ribbons 19c; reduced
this week from Soc.
The above on display in Millinery Department
on Second Floor.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05

HE BELIEVER ELEor2ICITY IS THE
COMING MOTIVE POWER.

we Must First Discover How o Pro-
duce electricity from Coal Without
wasting lts.Energy II Heat : Lo-k
1T Edison's Laboratory - re has
Little Faith in Aerial Navigation.
copyrighted 1851
New YORK, Nov. 3.-If you meet Edison
fms morning he has just discovered some-
thing, and if you meet him tomorrow he
has added new find in the realm of scien-
tjec inventions. 1t Is hard to keep up with
him. Probably no Investigator in the field
Of science has ever been surrounded by
sr,ch perfect conditions for prosecuting his
researches. This has not always been so, of
course, for Thomas Edison has discovered
among other things the way of making
money.
His laboratory is about mile from the
station at Orange, on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western railroad. His CHARM
inc home is not far removed ia the beauti-
full rural isolation of L'eweliyn park. With
in the enclosure where his working plant is
situated stands large three-sto~i d brici
blilding This is the laboratory. Il Jerfact
bee hive or energetic expet imenril = To
tine north of this building are tolee sins Ter
ones, all about the same size. One ot these
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05

50 dozen ladies Imported French Woven Cor
sets all sizes special bargain. ne; worth 81 IS.
100 dozen Check and Fancy Borders Liner
Doylies, with fringed edge. Gle ; sold elsewhere
at soc.
1000 Black Fur muffs, regular Zoe kind this
week down to }9c.
100 Fancy China Silk Table Scarfs fringed
edge, etc. Sc. worth 81 80.
80 dozen Pongee silk FRED BANDAHA"
Campaign Handkerchief price Co close out
zoe; have been 81.
Nos. II aud IL Crown Edge Moire Silk Rib
bons at l5c. and I9c are the biggest ribbon
bargains ever heard OF in Savannah.
/ case--10 doZen--l.ades Fine Ribbed Jersey
Vests high neck and long sleeves in white only,
price 35c.; a sudden drop from s5c.
50 dozen Gents White and Fancy Night
Gowns, well male. good quality shifting. price
for this week only Gjc. bargain at s5c.
500 Fancy Diamond Shape Standing Mirrors
French plate glass and carved frames, 75c.;
cheap 81 80
100 dozen Ladies' 4-button Real Kid Gloves.
Embroidered backs. in black, tan and colors re-
duced to Soc for this week.
cases New Sateens. newest shades and pat
terms full width regular 121sc. goods, down
this week TO fOc.; an unequivocal bargain
To see the above is to buy
them. To show the above is
to sell them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05

cases Plain and Brocade Dress Goods, SCI
cheap at &c.
case "a pieces Double Fold Body Cashmere
all shades, price this week 1019c.; regular price
15c.
80 pieces 35-inch Dress Goods, in checks,
stripes and plaids, very stylish goods aud I'M
where 25c.
. cases-4s pieces-36 inch Atwood Tricot,
twenty different shades, sold as a leader by
other houses at Soc; our price Soc.
50 pieces of the regular Sec Cashmere 81
inches wide, in all the new colorlngs; price this
week 35c.
Special attention is called to our Nobby Line
of 81 20 Black Silks, reduced this week 20 Csc.
wonderful value.
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A. ALTNrAYER & co.

NoTE.-The great run on SILK PLUSHES
last week compels us TO offer them for still
another week at the phenomenally low price OF
Soc. Every shade imaginable Is IN this Ast-
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everybody.

400 Ladies Wool and Silk Short Wraps, lace
trimmed. silk lined. just the thing for early
Winter wear price So IS; positively worth IS.
lot ladies' Black and Brown Berlin Cloth
Tailor Made Jackets. braided back and front, in
all sizes, s. 49, retailed in New York at 81.
l lot Ladies' Cloth Jackets, in stripes and
checks dob lott, bought cheap, will sell cheap
81 81; C cap at 50.
lot Ladies' silk Plush Wraps, trimmed with
plush ornaments and satin lined, all Sizes prics
this week $40 so; sold elsewhere at SIS So
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05

lot Boys Atwood Scotch Cheviot Overcoats,
with cape and velvet collar, a grand bargain, at
SO IS; worth s..
Just the thing for school wear, 81 98; worth 49,
/ lot Boys Knee Pants, special value, at 49c.
and 15c.; worth double.
Special lot Gents Jersey Coats all
wool, just the thing for Bartenders and Grocery
Clerks, 81 9S; worth s..
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Miscellaneous.

Bargains from a dozen diff
ferent departments will be
found be.ow. 1t will GER
tainly pay you to look well
over the following:
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Boys Clothing.

Mothers, there is no excuse
for you now, these telling
prices must command your
Boys Clothing trade.
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Prime favorites selected for
your personal trade. Goods
and prices to suit the most
exacting.
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ClOakS.

Here's where we smile at
competition as to Style, Quail
ity and Prices. A most sal
able line. Styles to suit
The National tribune., 1888-05-17
Children That Are Born To Die.

L Ofuftith lAt.j i ttSsst
The large size of the families of Canadian
French, as illustrated by the census of the
parish priest at WaterviIle, has already been
noticed and compared with the much smaller
size of the average native Yankee family. An
other very interesting comparison may be made
Of the longevity of the three races-the native
Americans the Irish, and the Canadian French.
From the records OF the city Of Lewiston, where
the three races are we'll represented, quite full
mortuary statistics are published. The popula-
ton of Lewiston is not far from $4,000. Last
year, which was about an average year so far as
mortality was concerned, the deaths numbered
330, Of which 119 were Of Americans 81 of
Irish, and 169 of Canadian French. The NOR
tally among the youth Of the French Cana
dams is startling, as compared with the NOR
tally among the native Americans. COM
parison Of the percentage Will show plainly
how great is the difference The following
table represents the rate at which according to
the ratio Of last year 100 persons Of each ma
tionality would drop into the grave, the figures
in the vertical columns representing the per
cent Of the 100 that would be gone at each in
dicated pcriOd