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Evening journal., 1889-11-26
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
seml-Annual Meeting at the Central
Hotel To-day.


seml-Annual Meeting at the Central
Hotel To-day.
The Delaware State Board of Health
held its semi annual meeting in the
Central Hotel this morning, beginning at
II. 80 o'clock.
DR.. L. P. Bush presided. Besides DR..
Bash and Secretary E. b.
Frazer the following members
were present: w. T Skinner. Glasgow.
New Castle county w. r. Pearson, Mid
dletown, New Castle county; Albert
Whiteley, Frederick. Kent county; g. l..
Mustard, Lewes, Sussex county; r. g.
Ellegood Concord, Sassex county. Sec
retaryFrazer reported on the vsrioEs mat
ters that had come under his notice since
the last meeting.
The Committee on Milk and Food In
spection, through DIR. Bush, reported
that there was little hope of accomplish
ing anything in this city, on account of
the lack of appreciation Of the import
ance of the matter by City Council. For
this and other reasons the matter was
dropped.
Secretary Frazer HAS received a letter
from ]. s. Billings, surgeon U. 5. A. at
Washington, asking for information con-
corning the hospitals and asylums of the
state, for the next census. The informa-
tion was sent
The board then discussed the needs of
the towns Of the state which have no
boards of health. Secretary Frazer re-
ported that in New Castle county, VIII
mington and Newark have boards OF
health, while ten towns have
none; in Kent county, Smyrna,
Dover, Camden, Frederick and Milford
have boards and eight towns have none
in Sussex county Georgetown, Milton,
Bridgeville, Lewes, Laurel and Seaford
have boards, and three towns have none
The law makes it a duty of all towr
councils to organize boards of health.
At 1910 o'clock the State Board ad
journed for dinner.
Evening journal., 1889-11-26
Catholics to Build a nan.

The annual meeting OF the stock
holders of the Catholic Hall Company
will be held at the Rooms OF the Shields
Library Association in the Smith Build.
ing next Monday evening. A large
amount Of the stock OF the company has
been already subscribed for and build
ing will be erected during the coming
year which will be both an ornament TO
tue city and great accommodation to
the several Catholic societies which now
have meeting rooms in different parts Of
the CITY
Evening journal., 1889-11-26
Thanlsglving pnr sports.

The Wilmington Wheel Club will give
an athletic entertainment at Base Ball
Park, Front and Union streets, on
Thursday afternoon, Thanksgiving Day.
The Wilmington Wheel Club will have e
series Of bicycle races, beginning at 2
o'clock. A foot ball match between Del
aware Field Club and Warren Athletic
Club elevens, beginning at $3.50 o'clock,
will conclude the afternoons exercises.
Evening journal., 1889-11-26
The Fleet Earndale.

The Earndale, the vessel which was built
to take the place Of the lost Earnmoor,
passed up the Delaware yesterday on her
way to Philadelphia. She developed re.
markable speed, having made the run
from New Castle to her dock in two hours
and twenty minutes The new craft is
built entirely of steel, with all her cabins
amidships, and is supplied with triple
expansion engines and all the latest i'm
f1rOvaments
Evening journal., 1889-11-26
-ersev Cattle for Delaware civ.

There are two carloads of registered
Jersey cattle at the West Yard. The
cattle were brought there by the b. & o.
railroad from Trenton, early this morn
ing, and belong to H. R. Higgins of Della
ware City. Mr.. Higgins missed making
connection with the Delaware train that
left here at 1885 o'clock this morning
and as the cattle are very nervous he is
very anxious to have them home.
Evening journal., 1889-11-26
New Letter Bo1.

A new street letter box was placed at
the corner Of Front and Market streets
yesterday. It is Of the new design re-
Gently adopted by the government and
makes theft impossible. and protects the
letters from the weather. The old boxes
win be replaced by the new design as the
old ones become useless.
Evening journal., 1889-11-26
Healdmoor Rifio Rnnpe.

At the Healdmoor rife range yesterday
afternoon the following scores were made
in pistol match at fifty yards:-E. J..
Darlington, so, 90, 90, 90,SS; E. jackson,
SO, So, Sc, 50, So, IS; H. Simpson, 81, Sc,
Sc. S5 81. SO; w. H. johnson, 81, 81, 80,
10, 79; o. E. 6armany, so, So; j. W..
Geyer, 70, So; E Darlington, "a, 20, sc;
w. Floyd, 61, w. j. Darlington, 81, 81;
Mr.. McGinty, 81, 80, 40. 40.
Evening journal., 1889-11-26
No nInbtherla

The New York Herald in telegraphic
brevity announces the startling news
that diphtheria and membranous
Group are epidemic in many towns in
Delaware, and two and three deaths are
reported daily in the small villages of
FELTON, and Magnolia DR.. Whitley of
Kent county, few miles from Magnolia,
says there is no truth in the report.
Evening journal., 1889-11-26
Robbed an Frpress car.

Special Despatch EVENING JOURNAL
FORT WoRrH, Texas, November &c.
Fifteen masked men boarded Santa Fe
train in Indian Territory last night and
robbed the express car Of $50,
Evening journal., 1889-11-26

Mr.. John Hutton and Miss Eliza Brad
ley of Bancrofts Banks leave to-day for
Florida where they viii spend the winter.
Evening journal., 1889-11-26
WlImIneton clearinr EEonne.

The exchanges Of the Wilmington banks
at the clearil z house to-day v's-o Clear
Ings, $3.50. leS. 2S. lalAaces. $vS, las ca.
Evening journal., 1889-11-26
L|CHTENSTEIN & HART
NO. 226 MARKET STREET.
DRY GOODS, CLOAKS AND UPHOLSTERY,

Tomorrow morning will the STYLES Of Seal
Cloth Garments Our stock Of these goods every description
never been extensive complete.
We showing superb with
extraordinary stock cannot fail to attract
Ladies' Seal Cloth Coats from inches grades
OF Seal Cloth in the latest design, with good grade satin lining real
seal skin loops, price S25 co.
Ladies' Seal Cloth Coats, Cloth Sizes trimmings
price $4,000.
Ladies' Seal with handsome satin real seal
olives, price $15 90
Ladies' Dhectoo Seal Jackets exquisite designs the a
Ladies Seal Cloth Modicsa Wraps line styles
$1,000 @ each.
Ladies' Newmares We have twenty different Styles
grades, from $500 to $25 90 each
Ladies' Jackets, Stocknoe Corkscrew Cloths
nals A choice assortment from 50 90 to 500 each.
Our line Misses and Chdrens large and we are p
pared to show patrons stock Of them equad any oha
A choice line OF Novelties
Gretchen Coats for children from $500 o $1,000.
Newmarket for misses from 81. o $50
All made especially for this market and
better value than before.
Manufacturing garments and selling direct consumers
a big profit o the
The Order Department s especially busy this
just think You select your material and make it to order
under our own supervision any kind Of garment desired
We Coakngs which will sell tho
yard or make garments to your order.
UPHOLSTERY.
LACE CURTAINSWe made purchase Of twenty-eigt pairs
Curtains tapped handsome borders
Of the effective things shown They considered cheap
their regular price, s400 enabled by taking the lot to offer
them a $3.50.
Another very antique at per pair.
The most attractive line Poores Window Draperea shown
in this market be found here.
China Silks Madras, for sash and yebue curtains, in pretty
designs and colorings.
Screens in cherry, ash walnut antique oak bamboo.
looking for something furniture should
not miss line of goods.
Cherry ash ebony walnut poes with trimmings
25 each.
handsome line of Chains and Loops from $500 per II.
Evening journal., 1889-11-26
The sew castIe Rioters.

George Bratton and his convicted COM
panions in the New Castle rioting case.
were brought into court, and argument
heard on the motion of L. g. Vande
grift, Esquire counsel for the
prisoners, for arrest of judgement. Mr..
Vandegrift's ground was that
heretofore stated faults in the iadict
ment. He argued the point at leagth,
read copious excerpts of law in support
Of his position and asked for new trial,
Pending the attorney. generals reply,
court adjourned until 2.30 o'clock tais
afternoon.
In the Superior Court, Walter Fl.
Hayes, Esq. stated that the case of the
Diamond State Loan Association VS.. Will
liam F. Robinson and wife had been set
tied
John Fl. Rodney. Esq, filed a petition
from Sheriff Allen to pay money into
court in the case of Hanson VS.. Cochran.
There is dispute about the person 10
whom the money, about 500, should be
paid.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25
Why 1900 is MOI n Lean Year

The following explains why the year
1900 will not lie counted among lean
years: The year is 315 days. : hours and
40 minutes long; | 1 minutes are taken
every year to make the year 1861 DAYS
long, and every fourth year we have an
extra day. This was Julins Casar's ar.
rargement.
Where do these l 1 minutes come from
They come from the future and are paid
by emitting leap year every 100 years.
But if leap year is omitted regularly
every l0Jth year, in the course of lOo
years it is found that the IL minutes
taken each year will not only have been
paid back, but that whole day will
have been given up. So Pope Gregory
MIL. who improved on CT, sar's calcn-
dar in 1882. decreed that every CEN
turial year divisible by four should be
leap year after all. So we borrow IL
minutes each year. more than paying our
borrowings back by emitting three leap
years, in three centurial years and square
matters by having n leap year in the
fourth centurial year.
Popo GregoIy's arrangement is so OK.
act and the borrowing and paying back
balances so close that we borrow more
than we pay back to the extent of only
one day in 1856 years.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25

Extensive explorations. CONT; n.lA
through several years, ami extend, Il.
over II vile rc.ion in ,hc upper par, of
The Oaon ln-a Valley, about cv'n,cc II
mics southward from the CT Of SRA.
cnsc, have been rewarded with comp etc
success. U der tho direction OF Wiz
liam ID. Go :;swc!l, general manager of
OF the s .vay Process: works. w.ua,
have been sunk i, iiv, diiT,rc locAii--
tirs-oac OF the hill side ut m,svi.lc,.
another at Cedarvillc, ono near Oaon--
daga Wiley (viilngc ono in the south,
part OF the town OF lafayette. and now
another in that tow, also up ,hI valley
ncnr. Cardiff
o. the fourth trial full SUCCESS was
attailcd. Tie Ii III, now in progress,
promises ike result 1, other in--
stances salt water WAS found The sue
ccssfu. boring was at a point seventeen
miles sou Ii of this city, on the oaster;y
side Of the valley ut tn, foot OF the
hills. 1t was cirriei to sufficient
depth nnd solil bed of rock salt
forty-liv, feet in depth was discovered.
The boring was in tho shalcs throu ;hL
735 fect of the deposit, then through.
500 feet Of limestone, when Underneath
aad next to it. at depth of /, a10 lect
from the surface, n sold body Of rock
salt forty-iive feet thick was reached.
Tho boring was carried through the d.
post. Operations were bogu, carly in
I'll, season, but somo obstacles were en-
countcrcd, making necessary change
OF location, when the work was prose.
cutcd TO this successful termination.
The we'll now in progress is Thirteen
mics south of tho city, four miles
nearer than tho place at which the
great find' was made, and there is
every prospect of equally good results
there, without tho necessity OF boring
more than /, 600 feet. Tho process is
expensive and laborious, and the Solvay
Process Company has expended thereon,
not less than $35, 900, for which the
success attained will give ful recon-
pense. -4Syracu,c IN. W Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25
CnnningIr DeYised Wirs

The wig of today i, not like that or
last century. n thing of horschnir,
which pro claimed itself at once. But
it il a real work of art, cunningly de-
vised arrangement of human hair.
which deity intcrminglcs with our own
stras CLING locks, and so nearly defies
detection, whom properly fashioned, as
to almost make its worry woarcr believe
in its rsallty after few day, u,o. That
wig making is an art that ha, made
wonderful stridos Of late years, like the
manufacture of artificial tceth, il an in
disputablc fact. happily for us and for
our children. The human race may not
just yet become utterly hairless and
toothlcss as some prophosy it one day
will be, but both fail US much earlier in
life than Of yoro; aud as false tooth arc
now no. longer source of reproacls.
among us, so universal IL their use,
neither will false hair in tho near future
tempt the finger of tho scorner, SO alb
solutely necessary will it become to
most OF us.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25
CURIOUS FACTS.

Portsmouth, Ohio, is to have corn
England bnil, her first steamboat in
Every mineral abouuds in Kansas ex,
ccpt borax.
The Emperor of Austria pays two
cents apiece for his cigars.
The first male Chinese baby born in
Boston, has Just made its advont-
The word "asihorce." occurring in
Irish songs, is simply II term of endear-
mcnt. 80
The penny or dcnarius Of the New
Testament was worth 1875 cents of our
money.
In the population Of the world China
stands first, the British Empire second
aud Russia third.
Charles Mitchell. of Indiana, has gone
cray over trying TO find peach tree
which would bear fruit in the winter.
Fireworks me said to have been known
to tho Chinese in remote ages. They
were invented in urope, at Florence,
about 1850.
Whenever twins are born in Hartford,
Conn, certain lady Of that city visits
the mother and gives each baby u hand
some present.
Charles JacFson,a Yirginian, has spent
thirty-two years looking for buried
treasure, aud is not discouraged yet. lie
says all things come to him who waits.
Among the students ut Princeton Col
legc, New jersey, is one seventy two
years old. lie is studying for the Minis
try, and poets to graduate this term.
In st. Pauls. London, there Is n
whispering gallery. A voice uttered
most feebly ut ono side of the gallery is
heard distinctly at the opposite SIDE, a
great distance oil.
The largest continuous slccping.cnr
service in the world is that on the Santa
Fe system. which runs through sleepers
from San Diego, Cal, to Chicago, dis
lance of 2311 miles.
Egyptian topaz. brought up from the
ruins of Hcrcuancum and Pompcii,
shows the same incxtiDguishable color
to-day, after it has been buried hundreds
and hundreds Of years.
When the doctors can't save natiye
of China, the Ling Hoop, or prayer man,
is called in. For one fourth Of cent h:
will pray half an hour, and if the victim
doesn't rally with that he is left to go on
with his dying
~ citizen OF New Ulm, Mimi, owns a
horse which he considers an uncrrine
weather prophet. lie can always tell
when n storm is coming by watching the
animals eyes, which change from very
light color to dirk blue twcnty-foui
hours before Il change in the weather.
The white potato comes from Peru and
Chilli, where 1t grows wild even now. II
was introduced into England by Sir
Walter Raleigh in 1886 and into Ireland
about 200 years later. 1t is called Irish
because il is staple article of food
there now; perhaps because if it isn't
Irish, it ought to be.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25

In China it is The ma j.sty of tho law
which goes in for brutality. Tho official
organ of tho government, tho pokin
Gazette, givos in tho calmost way IN
account OF two mon bcing tortured to
death on n trumpod-up charge. A
Chinese draper il tho Kungau district
was robbed, and no determined to fix
the crimO upon = responsible person in
order to rccovOr his property. With
the connivanco of q magistrate, pros.
porous dealor and his son wore arrostcd
and tortured to mako them confess what
they know nothing about. They would
not, and their boatmon wore tortured
in thor turn until thoy confessed what
they wcro asked to-1amoly, that thor
master had committed tho crimo.
Thercupon father and son wero again
brought before tho magistrate and sub.
mitted to torture. Thoy declined to
confess, and both died under tho or
deal Tho law, howovor, did not refuse
redress to tho widow and mothor. who
brought suit against all tho persons
concerned. The magistrate is to be
bnnishcd, but the othors go free. Jus.
how the legal Chinese man works these
things out it is difficult to imagine.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25
A Presidents Equlpaye.

Itisa curious fact that oil the cabiS
not officers arc furnished with horseis
and carriages at government expense
but that the PRECEDENT is not. II the
president wants any of these things he
must supply them himself Thore is /,
stable near tho white house, built dur
Ing Grants time, with plenty of room
for horses, but every president whc
comes flnds 1t empty. And, OF courses
it costs him lots of money to fill it.
Whoever soils horse or carriage to tho
president Of tho United States expects
to got about 20 per cent more for it9
than he would IL no sold it else where.
or course the president must have
three or four carriages and several
horses. Whether Gcaeral Harrison will
bring any with him or buy them Is not
known. Probably no will buy new car.
riages, and, o: course, a prcsidontaS
horses must DO thoroughbrcd,. Aud no.
need not expect much Of than after h,
gets through his term in tho white
house either. for Washington pave
ments nrc hard on horses, as President
Clcvclands big seal browns show. The
president is also Obliged to furnish his.
own driver. Albert II wilkins, big
colored man whom Grant brought horo,
before ho bocam, president, is still
driving at tho white hou,o, az he In,
done ever since Grants term, aul will
probably DO rc-cng ,gcd by NJ. lI,Tri-
sou; but il ho docs it will DO 1T his.
own expense. For the government doe.-
not pay Albcrts salary.
Iusi lie the white house Mrs. Hrrri,on
will fad omploy,s waiting to DO rc-cn--
gagged and paid for their scrvic.s The,
steward, who hns charge OF tn, kitchen
and dining room, tn, variou, su orii--
mates who sweep and dust and cook and
attend to the table and tableware
they arc all private employees, DIVA
in the basement, il you pass q. The
proper time, you sea tbs lauu dry Work
OF the white house goiag OF. All these,
empl' yes are, however, paid privately.
or course, ther, is y-nry npprorri;--
ton for the contingent expense, OF tho.
white hou'c. but thi,i intcnd. mo y
to keep up the furnitur, and furnish
ings generally than to p,y tho cot of
the presidents livia. or III, hire OF his.
servants. ST. Milwaukee S.n,iiel.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25
True Source OF the Mississippi.

Parties from Minneapolis while on a
hunting expedition near Lake Itasca,
discovered that neither the Lake Itasca
nor Lake Glazicr properly Elk Iake)was
the source Of the Mississippi River. The
true source is number of large springs
that pour out from the mountain about
three miles southeast Of Itasca. Tho
springs burst out from the foot of the
mountain and form n small, round lake
about forty yards in diameter. This
luke has au 0utlet-a creek about a
rod widc-which flows northwest for
mile and IL half and forms another lake
IN ravne. This creek is from six
inches 10 ten inches deep at this season
oil the year, and in wet season much
lnrger and deeper, and is fed by numerous
other small streams, rs is also the second
lake. The creek runs on through the
second lake. which is about sixty yards
eide by eighty or ninety long. After
leaving this lake the stream flows on to-
ward ltasca, rapidly increasing in width
and depth till 1t is from one to two feet
deep and in the ncighborhood of thirty
feet wide. There is no doubt that this
IL the true source of the Father OF
Waters, as the volume OF water that
flows in by this channel is vastly more
than that VIII CHI comes from Lake Gla-
zier. From the latter there is only
small stream, three or four feet wide
and two or three inches deep There are
other streams emptying in the principal
one described and which aid in increas-
ing the volume of water which flows
INTO the ltasca. On the west another
creek emptics INTO axe Itasca which also
helps to feed the Mississippi This creek
is somewhat smaller than the one first
described, but still carries considerable
volume of water with it. The informa-
ton concerning the new discovery is yet
incomplete and is being held back by
those who know the most about it until
they can get the most minute details.
Pi.0Uunc.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25
The Cancels Humps.

Structurally, of course, the humps are
nothing-mere Jumps of fat, collected
under a convenient fold of the skin, and
utterly unprovded for in the framework
of the skeleton. When the animal is at
its best and well fed, they are full and
plump, standing up on his back firm and
upright; but on long journey they ore
gradually absorbed to keep up the fires
That work the heart and legs, and in tho
caravan camcls which arrive ut the coast,
the skins hangs over, an empty bag,
upon the creatures TANKS, bearing wit
ness to the scarcity of external food
during the course of his long, forced
march from the interior. a starved
small camel in this state OF health far
more closely resembles Peruvian llama
than any one who has only seen the fine,
well-kcpt beasts in European menageries
or geological gardens could readily
imagine.
But water is even scantier in the desert
than food; and against want of water,
therefore, the camel has had to provide
himself, functionally, at least, if not struct-
urally, quite US much rs against want of
heritage. His stomach has accordingly
acquired the power of acting as an in
ternal reservoir, and he can take in as
much water at the Bahrs or Wadys,
where he rests Tor while on his toll.
some march, as will supply his needs for
four or five days together There are
some differences in this respect, how
ever. between the two chief varieties of
the camel. The African kind is most
abstemious, and best adapted to sandy
deserts; the Bactrian, product of more
varied and better watered country, is
larger and stronger, but less patient of
hunger and thirst, while at the same
time it can manage to subsist and make
its way into somewhat rocker and more
rugged country. -Popular Science Month.
In
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25
A Lecture on Nipht.Wrauucrs

When the air is cold and the weather
Indictment it is the general custom tc
wear garments of extra thickness and
warmth, and to SIT round roaring fires.
But, on going To bed, what takes placci
In ninety-ninc cases out of one humid cd
people will pass from the warm living.
rooms into chilly bed rooms. As if the
sudden change from extreme heat fol-
there can be little doubt that what with
fires, gas and insu hcicnt ventilation,
people are in the habit of breathing an
atmosphere the temperature of which j.
considerably higher than it should hy.
chemically be 10 excessive cold is moi
sufficiently absurd, they proceed to di.
vest themselves of their several wal
garments, to garb themselves in thir
linen nightshirts, and to consign theii
heated booies to the cooling influence oil
unsympathetic sheets Convcntionality
has habituatcd one to the custom; but
a really serious contemplation of it can.
not fail to make an utter absurdity o,
the custom clearly apparent.
The Chinese, from whom many useful
lessons have been learnt by more evil ed
nations, can give us wrinkle ON this
subject. John thinaman sleeps in the
ehhAC IL hb VI 'ipNitS ia liz WCtIS III Inc
daytime, the easy and flowing garments
to which he is addicted allowing of this
without causing inconvenience. West.
ern nations are not favored i'll the latter
respect; but still it would be quite nos.
sible to replace the airy nghtshirt at
present in vogue by some garment which,
as regards warmth. was equivalent to
the several distinct articles of clothing
constituting the working dress worn by
dry. jewellers in foreign countries in.
variably sleep in flannel garments, and
the bachwoodsman wraps himself in n
stout wooden blanket and dclics the Gle.
ments. They are sensible. The human
frame should, undoubtedly, be clothed
in wooden garments, for wool is n bad
conductor of heat. developed in flannel
the body maintains q normal tempera.
ture, which is of the greatest importance.
No sooner does the tenn perature fall than
the action OF the various functions be.
comes impaired; the nerv get out OF
gear, and the whole system suffers dis.
organization. = Washington Star.