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PRuDENrIAL PRELIMINARY

before coming to closer quarters This ex-
treme precautionary measure (if indeed not
q slander) was doubtless attributable, not to
lack of courage in the early Quaker popu-
lation of Nantucket, so much as to the fact
that their peculiarly peaceful tenets OF
faith prompted the avoidance Of even the
semblance of fight when the capture of
less pugnacious fish could be made by the
'sdoetrine of selection"-thus giving an
easier catch" as we'll as conscience.
However, the purely ethical points of
whaling did not prevent these Nantucketers
from spiIling tons OF Leviathan gore; the
"shoreswhaling" gradually gave way to the
development Of class Of vessels more
suited to the deep sea and long cruises, ex-
tending to the coast of Africa, the Spanish
main and under the skies Of the Southern
Cross to search out new grounds frequented
by the sperm whale, while still other ships
were despatched to seek the haunts of his
Northern congener, the bone or right
whale. The Beaver, of Nantucket, was the
first American whaleman that ever rounded
Cape Horn. This new departure occurred
in 1871. The Rebeeca, OF New Bedford,
followed in its wake the same year.
These argosies proving very successful
were precursors to q large feet which dis
puted the supremacy Of the Pacific with the
English until the decadehce Of the fishery
OF the latter nation in that ocean after the
cruise Of the Essex in 1874 Ffomlthat
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Bu.inen..Like Women,

Barton (vt.) Monitor.l
The women of Glover village, for public
good, will meet on Thursday, for the pur-
pose of repairing the sidewalk in the vii
lage. Meet at $50 A. M, bringing ham
mers, saws and nails Per order committee.
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book of JObthrows out hints of unsuccessful
attempts to harness LeViathan, but the He
braic whale hunters evidently gave it up as
a bad job. Rnnning down the grooves of
time we find other occasional allusions to
the pursuit in Scriptural writ and the le-
gends Of Brahms, but these references are
as vague and misty as the traditions of the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08

Newport CYt.) Champion-J
P. R. Gardiner, highway surveyor for the
village district, has upon his taxbook 237
taxes ranging from cents to 10 cents. The
poll tax is II cents, and the 3 cent tax is on
q COW owned bY a minor.
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not considered to have very many freckles
on it at present.
But it is upstairs in the Exchange that
things begin to grow both interesting and
complicated. Mr.. A. C. Gray is the chief
operator, and he makes things run smoothly,
and is supposed to have a correcting eve
upon couple of hundred thousaR points
of contact in the machinery of the switch
boards. Mr.. Gray is no relative of the poet,
but a line in the deserted Village" occurs
most forcibly to the investigator who sees
the way this slight, boyish-looking man has
the wonderful minute of the intricate sys-
TEN down fine. "And still the wonder grew
that one small head could carry all he
knew" is the most apropos quotation posi-
BILE
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vENETIAN coNuNpRuM.

1
Two Venetian riddles would be spoiled by
translation. One means much the same as
the Swabian riddle first given:
Pirolin che pirolava,
Teuza gam be It caminava
| Fuza cul il Sc sentava
Pirolin che pirolava-
In the other the snow begs Lady Sun not
to devour her:
Alta DANA de palazzo,
Casco in terra, / no me mazzo:
Blanca son, negra me fazZo,
E lutte me tol su per spazzo.
A fayorite form of these riddles is that in
which the falling snow is represented as a
bird, which is destroyed by the sun, as a
mutilated person or animal, like the Lettish
saying: "Small white birds are settling
down; the hedges are full of them; there
comes the shine and eats them all up"
THE oldest of these riddles is perhaps of
the fourth century, forming part Of Latin
charm or cure for a certain disease of the
chest. named in the first line. 1t reads thus:
Corcedo Corcedo, be quiet.
There came featherless bird,
Perched on leafless branchl
Some shepherds found it
Gathered 1T without hands
Cooked it without fire,
Ate it without teeth.
The suns rays represent the shepherds.
The lines in parenthesis were wanting, but
appear in a similar verse from manuscript
of the tenth century, found in Swiss mon
astery:
There few bird without feathers,
Sat on tree without leaves;
There came man without hands,
Climbed it without feet
He cooked 1t without hre,
And ate it without a mouth.
The answer is given to this-the snow
melted by the sun. The modern forms retain
the same features, being varied as to partic-
ulars. A riddle from Schleswig- Holstein
runs thus:
There came bird featherless.
Sat on the tree leaf1ess:
Then came maiden mouthless,
And ate the bird featherless
That sat on the tree leafess.
The sun is feminine in Teutonic language,
hence the maiden. Versions from the Farce
Islands, from Alsace, and from other parts
of Germany, resemble the last closely. A
Swabian verse gives us new destroyer:
''There came bird featherless
On tree which was leafess;
Then came Mother Bunzio,
Who ate the bird featherless." ~
The English riddle is totally different:
"White bird featherless
Flew from Paradise;
Perched upon the castle wall:
Up came the Lord John Landless.
Took it up handless,
And rode away horseless
To the Kings white hall"
sERvIAN AND FINNISH RIDDLES.
Frequently the birds are only wingless,
as in the Servian lines:
"WingIess birds came flying down.
They fell on a leaf1ess tree;
Then came q boy without lips.
And he ate the wingless birds.n
New features are introduced into the
Finnish riddle:
A bird few without WINGS
1t perched footless, on tree;
A virgin came that was mouthless
She ate the bird without salt
She roasted it without fire.
The fakes of snow are eggs in the follow
ing, also from Finland:
The bird few wingless
The woman ran footless
She ate the eggs.
And also ina SerYian riddle:
A heavenly fowl has laid its eggs on the
stable.
Birds Of every variety are imagined; some
some whole. A second English
riddle says:
A milk-white gull through the air flies down,
And ne'er tree but he lights thereon.
a dove occurs in riddle from Germany
There few dove featherleas
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LONG-RANGE GOSSIP
Some Facts About Pittsburg's
Telephone System.
SlXTYPRETTY HELLO GIRLS
Who Listen Pleasantly to the Kicks
Of Angry Subscribers,
SlXTYPRETTY HELLO GIRLS
PLACING CABLES UNDER GROUND.
wErTEx FOR THE DrsrLrcHI

WO doughty war
riors of modern
times offered to
shake hands across
the bloody chasm
without ex citing
more than the in
terest of the multi
tude. But if they
had declared an in
tention of harangu-
ing each other across
t h e peaceful ex-
panse of several
acres of business
houses, the whole
world would have
hocked to see what
was an impossible
ity prior to 1873
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ing that little sand-spit Of the sea as the
main nursery Of American whaling, from
whence. In the early part OF the last century,
as tradition tells. the first whale boats
cruised within sight of the island, carrying
a few eobble stones as necessary portion Of
the ''gear' to throw at the whale and test
his temper as
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than men in temper, and more patient and
self possessed, and their rejoinders to angry
subscribers struggling to secure number
are upon the old doctrine that ''soft
answer turneth away wrath"
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THE BIG CABLES.

Mr.. Gray went to corner of his room,
where mass of cables sprung from the wall
apparently. ''These," said Mr. GRAY. ARE
our cables. There are two kinds, one un-
derground, the other aerial. There are Al
underground of 90 wires each, two of 100
wires and five aerial cables of so wires each.
We long ago solved the problem OF under
ground wires. Our buried cables work ex-
cellently despite the absence of a steady
electric current The turning of tine crank
in the telephone box generates Just
enough electrici to sound the opera
tors annunciator. Then all communi-
tions over the wires are accomplished
simply BY sound waves. The underground
cables run from the exchange to the
streets, where they radiate like the tentacles
Of some huge devil FIJI. The depth of burial
varies from three to 1e-feets- Tha buncf1fpx
of direct wires is accomplished at some CEN
trail location. The process can be best illus
trated by giving the exact location of the
places where mYriads of wires are brought
into cable and run under ground to the
Exchange, Penn, Hamilton, Dallinger, How
ard, jackson, Stevenson, Bissell, Schmitt,
Stahl, Brill, Bakewell and Carnegie build.
ings.
Bunched upon poles and run under
ground from the pole are the following
cables: Sixth and Wood, Tunnel. First
and Wood, Duquesne way, Second and Smith
field, Third and Wood, Penn and Seventh,
Fourth avenue, Third and Liberty, Forbes
and Boyd. Third and Duquesne, Grant and
Sixth, Penn and Eighth, Penn and
Eleventh, Penn and Sixteenth, Twenty
seventh and Smallman. Separate cables
runs to the Haines and Rienaman build
ings, overhead. Gables also start for the
Anchor and Diamond Banks. There is not
an overhead wire to the Allegheny ex-
change.
There is an immense rack on the front of
which the cables are taken TO pieces and
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MArAaER MErzeAR TALKs.

Manager Metzgar, whose principal busi-
ness Il Is to glue his ear to the telepho re-
ceiTers and listen patiently to wrathful re-
marks about crossed wires, saucy operators
Nd various other bitches bound to happen
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PITTsBURe. SUNDAY,
THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW
A Collection Of Quaint Proverbs
Riddles and Fancies About
FATHER WINTERS WHITE MANTLE.
What the Snow Indicates to the Amateur
Weather Sharp.
WHITE CHURCHYARD LEAN GRAVEYARD
rwRrrrrx roR THE D1spArcH.J

The snow has always been attractive 70
men, in spite of the puns against beautiful
snow" Its purity, its whiteness, and the
silent, mysterious way in which it falls
have given rise to many queer ideas about
it. In many parts OF Germany children are
told sit is Frau HoIda picking her geese.
In the Hartz Mountains it is Peter instead
Of the heathen goddess, and it is said that
"Peter is shaking his bed.' "Peter rules
is said in another place, and in still another
part of Germany, ''the angels are plucklng
feathers and down." Some say "there is
new neighbor moved in overnight"
There are few proverbs connected with
the snow-popular expressions of meteoro-
logical portents. An Italian proyerb says;
"a year of snow, year of plenty" ana
other sayings express the same belief IN tne
fertilizing nature OF snow:
So far as the sun shines on Christmas Day,
So far will the snow blow in May.
Better philosophy than poetry is lsexpressed
in this saying:
When the snow falls dry, it means to lie,
But flakes light and soft, bring rain oft
Snow in the early spring is regarded as
disastrous:
In March much snow
To plants and trees much woe.
1t is said in our own country that there
will be as many snow storms during the sea-
son as there are days left in the month after
the first fall Of the snow, and the number OF
days it will snow during the succeeding
season, is similarly indicated by the num-
Der of days the last snow lies on the
ground.
If there is no snow previous to January,
tits said there will be the more in March
and April. If the first snow sticks to the
trees it indicates good harvests Finally,
the usual Christmas prognostication becomes
here:
White churchyard. lean graveyard
The most apt illustrations of popular
ideas about the snow come to us in the shape
of riddles, of which there are great many.
These represent the snow under various
guises, and are very curious. First are
those which are simply descriptive, or use
no disguise. A Swabian riddle asks: TT
flies and has no wings; it goes and has no
feet. What is it?"
So with the German conundrum:
In the air it flies, on the ground it lies,
On the tree it sits, in the hand it sweats,
On the stove it is lost, in the water it browns;
Who is knowing, understands this.
A Swiss riddle reminds us of Humty-
Dumpty:
Something on the roofs alight,
Catch it with the hand, you may;
But if the wind should blow it down.
Not with hundred napkins, nay.
A fall of snow is thus described in white
Russia:
It flies like lord,
It sits like A peasant.
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No one names Nantucket without recall
, 1889-11-14
DAME FASHIONS DEGREES.
Street Gowns--Sea Gowns-A Dream
of Crepe do Chine.

Street GownS-Sea GoWn3-A Dream
Of Crepe do Chine.
No woman is happy nowadays unless
she has something unique in n tea gown.
A soft wooden stuit OF pale lilac tint
has much to commend II. There are
loose Jacket fronts in the zouave style
which are very stylish just now; also
velvet panels of little deeper purple
shade. The sleeves are tight to the
wrist, and the oversleeves lined with
white, reach the feet and are finished at
the bottom with bows of ribbon.
A yellow and white figured silk has u
round, sleeveless jacket OF dark green
velvet magniticenily embroidered with
gold cord, and angel sleeves OF the silk
which sweep the floor
A very charming dinner dress worn by
n New York leader of fashion was Of
pale yellow silk, the skirt front finished
at the foot with light embroidery In
gold. The train was piece OF brocade'
TO be described by no other word than
gorgeous, striped In pale yellow and
gold.
A high ruif and collar of point lace
finished with gold embroidery passed
about the neck and extended down the
front to the waist line. The sleeves were
moderately close from shoulder to elbow,
then allowed to flow.
The sash of yellow silk, gold en-
broidered, tied in iron' and hung In soft
bows. l...
The same lady had an evening dress of
lovely, but perisbabie crepe lisse. Inc
narcissus with here and there u crocus
bud OF vivid yellow. The gown was OK
ccedingly becoming, was made up over n
glove fitting princess slip OF gold moire
flowing from the throat. A delicate gold
girdIe encircicd the waist. 1t was an
ideal costume and simply perfect.
Street gowns for. young ladies, al
though simple in fashion as those for
evening wear, have adopted and modified
for their own special use al the clements
OF the ANTIQUE and classic styles now
everywhere prevailing Dull rich tones
arc the thing for the present season.
Maize color toned with the ever present
black Is one of the favorite shades at this
time. The only things which are called
novelties are the shawl suitings, which
are growing richer and more elaborate
every day. One very attractive costume
of this kind was worn by matron one
evening recently at an opera.
The body of itwas plMn rolden brown
was heavily fringed was richly orna-
mentcd with intricate Persian patterns
woven in brocadc. 1t was elegant and
must have cost an immense sum oi
money. .v. i.
Alta musical festival recently, Mile.
DeVcrc wore dainty costume OF crepe
dc chine and fine Irish crochet lace. The
skirts were short and draped In graceful
folds, tho back was very full and al
lowed to hang straight IRON, the waist,
the corsage was high-neesed and held
| touatha, ~ tha throat with "A beuutitnl
, 1889-11-14
THE CENTENNIAL QUILT.

A Directory of the Governors of the
States and Territories on Silk.
Mrs. Brinkerhofi, the secretary of the
ladies' society of the First Congrega-
tionh church, was very much delighted
yesterday afternoon over the receipt of q
letter from President Harrison enclosing
u very handsome piece of white silk,
across which were the autographs of tho
president and his wife, dated Novem-
ber 1.
The piece of silk is destined to form
the center square of the centennial quilt
upon which the ladies of the First Con-
grcga .ional church are hard at work.
There will be squares from every state
and territory in the Union, with auto
graphs OF the governors and their wives,
Ii married, on each. Tho ladies have
also secured square from each member
of the Presidents cabinet, and in the ar
range nicnt of the quilt these will immc-
diately surround the presidents square
the governors squares in turn surround
ing them.
4 square has been secured from the
Indian department of the Fisk univer-
sity of Nashville, Tenn, and Is ofparticu-
lar interest, from the fact that the First
Congregational church of Spokane had
its origin in the old Indian mission.
Ii is expected to have the quilt fol
sale by December /, the proceeds TO be
devoted TO the building fund of tho
church. Ii will be very elegant affair
when completed, as IL Is TO be sold TO the
highest bidder A good round sum
ought to be realized for it. Tho quilt
should never be allowed to leave Spo-
kane
, 1889-11-14
THE STORMS HAVOC.
Appalling Reports From the
Blizzard's Path.
TERRIBLE TALES OF DEATH,
II Is Thought That Twenty Cow
boys We're Lost Upon
the Plains.

DENVER, Nov, o.--The Republicans
Trinidad special says; The bodies OF
John Martin and Henry Miller the cow
boys who were frozen to death near
Sierra Grandc last week during bliz-
zard, were brought to Folsom for burial.
Their two companions, Charlie Wier
and Henry Jolly, were taken to Ration
for medical treatment. jolly will lose
all his fingers but otherwise will not suf-
fer greatly. wier will lose all his fingers
and ono foot, while both ears and the
other foot are horribly frozen. Four
other mon belonging to the same party
are missing and 1t is feared they are
dead. Their names are Charlie Rand,
Marmel Jaeger Mexican Joe and Mexi-
can whose name is unknown.
IL is reported by parties who know
that at least twenty men are missing
from this range and 1t is feared that
many of them will be found dead. jolly
and Wier tell hcartrending story of
their suffering. They say the blizzard
struck them Wednesday night last
They were holding herd of 300 cattle
The wind became hurricane before
morning and when Martin and jolly
went on the last guard, about 3 a. NJ.
the storm was so binding that they could
not hold the herd. Jolly started for camp
for help. In the meantime Miller and
Wier had left camp to assist in holding
the cattle, Jolly could not find the camp
and Miller and Wier could not find the
gether by shouting and wandered around
until daylight, when they found Martin.
The cold was so bitter that the men en-
tered an arroga after fastening their
horses, took the saddles and blankets and
buried themselves in a snowdrift. This
was about o. clock in the afternoon and
BY only the greatest effort Wicr and
they were slightly apart from Martin
and Miller and had difficulty in talking
70 each other The snow piled upon
them in such immense weight that they
were compelled to seek another drift.
About O'Clock Friday morning Mil
Ter called Jolly and Wier and told them
they had all better go, and whom they
.crawled out they made scaSch in the
DRIFT for Miller and Martin. The latter
only was found and he was dead They
then took the horses and started, leading
them for a few rods, when they found
Miller on his knees, with his bleeding face
against the blast, swaying to and fro,
his horse standing in front of him, as
though trying to protect him from the
cold. He was asked to get up and go
with them, but was unable to arise and
was assisted, but could not walk. Jolly
started to get assistance, while Wier re-
manned with their dying companion.
Both of Wiers hands were frozen and
he was helpless to render assistance and
was fast becoming insensihie himseii
when the Mexican found, him and took
him to Rhodes ranch, a few miles dis
tant. The men returned to where Miller
had been left and found him lifeless.
, 1889-11-14
AUsTERE FUNERAL RITES.
Laid on q Rough Pine Board, with
Bricks for a PilloM.


The funeral services of the Rev.
Father Gabriel, q, r., Of the Order
of Passionists, who was until recently
connected with st. Joscphs Retreat,
Baltimore, took place yesterday morn
ing in st. Michael's monastery in West
Hoboken, says the New York Sun.
AT an early hour the remains were
brought from the inner cloister, and were
laid on q rough pine board in the main
aisle Of the church. The body was
clothed In the coarse black habit of tho
order. On the breast were cross and
three nails, and around the whist was
leather girdle, to which W as attached
rosary of fifteen decades. The san
dals were removed from the feet. On the
head which rested on u little pile OF
bricks, ashes were sprinkled in the form
of IA cross. Tho solmon mass of requiem
was chanted by the Rev. Father Philip
Berk, q. Z. Other members OF tho order
were grouped In semi-circle within the
chanccl rail.
After the absolution had been pro-
nounced and the priests, students and
congregation had taken q farwell look
Mt the remains, six lay brothers appeared
from behind the alter and arranged
themselves on either side of the bier.
At asignal from the master of ccre-
monies they raised the body of the dead
priest other shoulders, and, followed
BY the clergy and attendants, marched
to the tier OF vaults in the basement oi
the church, where several dcai mem
bers of the community already lie. al
the entrance TO the vault the remains
were again laid on the ground, and
after being sprinkled with holy wstcr
they were put in a plain white coffin and
| slid into one of the openings The final
absolution was then pronounced, tho
opening was ccmentcd up and the name
| OF the dead monk was scratched with .
] trowel in the wet mortar. -as 49, lsi
, 1889-11-14
THE NEXT CENSUS.
Everything Perfected for Beginning
Work Next Ncnr

WASHINGTON, Nov. 0.-'rhe report of
Robert i. Porter superintendent of the
eleventh census, concerning operations
of the census Office since June, 1880. eX-
plains In detail the vast amount of work
that will begin next year. The method
inaugurated by the Office and approved
by the secretary of the interior will not
only accomplish the best work and leave
the superintendent fee to net with rapid
ity when the demand is greatest for
clerks, but Is in the line OF practical civil
service reform. Several important re-
ports of the eleventh census will be
ready for publication during the fall and
winter OF 1890, and he makes tho suggcs-
ton, which il adopted by congress will
secure, he thinks, the publication of tho
volumes spGdily after they arc ready
for tho printer. The plan is to have tho
volumes printed by private contract or
| by having the census office print and
publish them itself. Work preliminary
TO examination is well in hand. The
population schedule has been prcpard
and in addition TO Information called for
| by the tenth census the schedule will as
certain what language Is spoken by
| every person 10 years of age; how long
adult males OF foreign birth have been
In the United States and whether they
are naturalized; how many children
/ tttil iilNTTlctt WOiiiUIi HAS iluu, flOW lnunN
OF them are living, and classification by
race will include mulattocs, quadroons
and octoroons.
| Among the important new features
are: The special study OF birth and
death rates and the principal causes OF
death in twenty-lour OF our largest cities,
the study OF influences of race upon
fecundity and mortality, and the special
study of the relations of occupations to
death rates, and TO the particular causes
OF death; inquiry regarding names and
the organization and length OF service
! of surviving veternus of the rebellion
who served In tho United States army,
will call for u report OF eight volumes oi
1000 pages each. The statistics of agri.
culture, 1t is expected, will be more com.
pete than ever before and may include
some new features in relation to irriga-
ton, dairy and poultry product, ranch
cattle nnd number of animals other
than those Oh farms. Preliminary work
In the division of manufactures indicates
that the statistics will be more complete
and accurate than the country has ever
/ had. .... .r..