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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-24
Notable Events.

First jury go.
Pins made 1850.
Needles used 1545.
First cast iron 1914.
Matches made 1929.
Surnames used 1852.
First newspaper 1894,
Coal used as fuel 1884
Lead pencils used 1894
Window glass used 694.
First gold coin B. Q. 2O6.
Tobacco introduced 1888.
First steam railroad 1880
First postage stamps 1850.
Kerosene introduced 1926.
First Illuminating gas 1896.
Electric light invented 1874.
lion found in America 1915.
First insurance, marine, 5S3.
First wheeled carriages 1853.
First American express 1871.
Musical notes introduced 1888.
latin ceased to be spoken $50.
RibIe translated into Saxon 637.
Gunpowder used by Chinese so.
Bible translated into Gothic S12.
photographs first produced lSO2;
Old Testament finished B. Q. 4SO'
Emancipation proclamation 1863 sos
Paner made by Chinese B. Z. ~.
1. ~ .-ansIated into English 1884
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Gsmmoning the Public.

There are iauumeTable ways OF eo!Ig
49, Not the least Objectionable, ls the
commendation by irresponsible dealers Of
tooth powders, pasies and WASHES s,, e..uI'
nositively injurious or utterly lnenectuAi,
Protect pocket and teeth by purchasing
wholesome sOZ0DQNT,
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No. 1214-Pslindio ONES.


(El blanks rh PdliRdr0mes)
In Bombay for money the '*'ee is used
For Cuba's 4s'eo lis never refused.
The *ttft are dear to the Norseman bold,
With the 'tsts truth for himself they hold.
In Turky the 'ts. born TO command,
May s*asa enforce or dogma withstand,
The Greenlander's *ssfF Is light and strong
And helps him to ssfse in fishing and song.
On high *sses and deserving renown
Stood the Roman who won 't''' crown,
No seaman would In *sstt leave port
To seek for 'sts* where Gree held court.
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No. I2I3-Nurious ArtIEt.

No, I2I3-DurIOus artIEt.
Now that winter is retiring,
We are waking from our dream,
Quick TO serve with zeal aspiring
Our lord the vernal beam,
Our art is painting faces
Odd, with many a stippled streak:
Stained with red and brown in places,
They present sight unique.
Weare impish, knavish creatures,
Dainty maid, and your fast foe;
Yet how strange our basest features
or give yours the faintest show.
E. 7. ScHR JfS.
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HINES on LABOR.
.sNsRAL INDUSTRIAL !NFoA-
NATION


Che only department 1t
-ring ths pist week IHe
ale % M'nd'y
Co. having closed out
,,1 racts bat two, shut
.sskto ase stock.
made only bali time the
....s u cls causing some
sr.e i- closed down
~,s in conditions at the
as. IRON Co. All de-
-,.irg zulu, but general
---- making its usual
Ind working TO q fair
lei Masking sccumu-
.ade.
....- apartments are do
the pipe mill and
-.e new factory. The
-u,Ar output.
-. are runaing %
work. but outside
Co. iswo-sinS TO
than usual for
% no discourag-
u tss- Lsmbsr Co. is
rF u iab vo.k.
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SPHINX KNOTS.

Any communications for this department mus
: addressed TO E. r. CHADBoURs Lewistown, Ne
No. 1210-Grandfsther's Oddly.
~ chew I chew chew"
Our grandsire said one day,
Why tells he what we know
IN this emphatic way?
at you at you at you"
be shouted drawing near,
and swift the youngsters flew
With well oissembled fear.
"Atye. at yel at yen
We hear him shouting still.
VIVA. can the matter be?
Why shrieks he loud and shrill-
"Ker-chiel ker-chief ker-chleG'
All this explains his manner,
FrOm-he would cease,
And seek his old bandsna.
P. 5. SHAW.
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No. 121I-Anagram.

Do these men wish TO dissemble?
Some say "OnC tho" some say two;
It's enough to make one tremble
To hear them tell their story through.
Alas this member It's unruly;
II cursed our parents Adam and Eve;
II never really serves us truly
Where trusted most It may deceive,
owl,
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No. 1212-A snnare.

/. Eighty tods Of WOOL. ?. A crystalized sub
stance resembling camphOr 3. Fundamental
T. The kings share OF merchandise taken as law
tul prize AZ sea .. One who settles. g. Eleya
ton of mind 10 things celestial :. Learns again.
OBS Q. BEBs
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No. 12l5-khombsId.

ACROSS
/ A necklace for ornament or restraint.
Caught. g. Making divine. 4. A god OF fields
and Shepherds. Rom MYTH. 5. State condition.
G. A deep and gloomy place.
DOWN.
1. A letter. g. Upon. 5. A STRIPPING 4. Gladly.
5. Another name. 6 To compete. :. A petty
imaginary money Of Persia. S. Clever. a
Latin proposition denoting under or below. 10.
An abbrevlalion II. a letter.
PAT RIOT.
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No. 1219-ChrOnograms.

J.
Write one hundred and add one,
And then with five unite;
When one and fifty you have joined,
You'll have what Is polite.
H.
Ito one thousand you add one,
Then fly and five hundred,
You'll have what's gentle good, and kink,
or else must have blundered.
MARY Z. COLE.
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M 121r-iIf Great U.e.

I am part Of a stairway, a mountain or hill;
| am known to the debtor when paying n bill;
On sewing machine am useful and handy;
7 am often the pride Of ddde or Dandy,
I'm applied by the clerks in adding column
I'm useful to poets, both witty and solemn
An carpenters use me q measure their wages
| am a so a name found on history's pages.
URIAH.
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AnHWara.

1l95-"A simpleton. "-Reade 1000 pounds
a simple tom o,-,-. ,,,.,.,-...
ll96-Ve(s)ta, Jupiter, ceres minerva
Venus. The hearts Siren, serin, risen.
llg7-Notch-b
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-24

Horsford's Acid Phosphate
For Wakefulness,
HysterIa, and other diseases Of the nervous
system,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-24

A few moments before the starting ofthe
train selected 10 bear the money the car is
attached. The detectives are Informed,
and one detachment is placed in the car.
Other detectives distributed through the
train closely watch the movements Of the
passengers This system Of surveillance is
continued until the train reaches Washing
ton, when the same method of tranfer is
employed as occurs at the Sub'Trsa;ury
waits in this city.
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DETECTIVES ARMED TO THE TEETH.

Each detective carries two loaded pis-
tolls ready for instant action. Two pairs
of the finest automatic handouts and
blackjack complete his defensive outfit.
Any attempt to moiest ths precious load
would invite O volley of pistol balls from
every detective, as their orders are to shoot
upon the slightest attempt OF robbery.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-15
Die and Save Money.

By dying now man can save money.
Never in the history Of our distinguish
ed profession has it been possible to
secure respectable interment for so
small an amount of money as at pres
ent. The inventions and improvements
which always cheaper commodities
have, in our business, kept apace with
the times. A decade ago there was not
much difference in prices and methods.
Ten years ago any funeral would aver
age $3.50; now there is no average. A
man can spend profitably SIS, 900 in get
ting planted, or he can have the thing
done in pretty good shape for weeks
salary, and he'll feel just as satisfied as
though he were investing fortune in
it. Some people are very apprehensive
concerning their funeral. and others
don't think about it at ALL II man
wants to have the thing done properly
and go without hitch, $50 will make
a pleasant display in his neighborhood.
There has been cut in rates among
undertakers of late, and prices are at
bottom rock. After little the trouble
will be adjusted and the old scale re-
stored. But our inducements at pres
sent should not be overlooked. Now is
the time to die.-St Louis Globe-Denl-
OcTlt,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-15
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.

The present system of government in
Russia is the same that was created by
Peter the Great toward the close of the
eighteenth century. There have been few
changes since. 1t is an absolute, heredi-
tary despotism, the whole executive, leg
islative, judicial, and religious authority
is law, and who receives his power, ac-
cording to the theory of the empire, from
the Almighty himself, whose vicegerent
on earth he is. The Gear, therefore,
combines in one the power and the juris-
diction of the Pope and the King.
The administrative system comprises
four boards or councils, possessing sepa-
rate functions, whose acts are those of the
Gar, but must be approved by him. First,
there ls what is known as the Privy Coun-
Gil, q sort of kitchen cabinet. Second,
there is the Council of the Empire, COM
posed OF as many aud such persons as the
Gar shall select, whose duty is to exercise
sort OF general supervision over the
affairs of the empire, frame laws for the
government of the people, direct the collec-
ton and expenditure of the revenues, and
confer concerning the foreign as we'll as
domestic policy Of the Government. Next
comes the ministry, body similar to the
Cabinet in the United States, or the Min
istry of England, divided into eleven de-
partments, as follows: The ministry OF
the imperial household, of foreign affairs,
OF war, of marine, of internal affairs, OF
public instruction, of finance, of Justice,
of the imperial domain, of public works.
and the comptroller and auditor general.
These several ministries are subdivided
into bureaus, as in the United States.
The empire is divided into general gov
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-15
The Greatest American Crop.

The corn crop of the United States
for 1888 is the greatest ever known. It
is the great American tillage crop.
There is no other of half its area.
Wheat has nearly half, and cotton a
quarter, of it's breadth. It is sufficient
to cover Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois,
with slice of Iowa in addition. It's
area last year, though reduced by
drouth, was 81 per cent. of that of all
cereals together, and it's product was
90 per cent. 1t was grown by the In
dams before the white man appeared
on the continent. 1t is now grown in
every State and Territory in the Union,
though sparingly in those of high ele-
vations in the Rocky Mountain region.
The supply as population increases is
enlarged rather than diminished. It
was 25.5 bushels per head in 1850; 26.6
in 1860; 29.7 in 1870; and IS in 1880.
The crop, large as it is, is exported
in small proportion. Only 4 per cent.
of the production of seventeen years
have gone abroad for market. The
home market is SO per cent. OF all, and
It's relative abundance or scarcity makes
| the price. If scarce, the price is high,
and foreigners decline to buy; if low
enough to compete with foreign feed
ing stuffs, o larger quantity is exl or ed.
Neither Liverpool nor Chicago N kos.
the price, but the farmers and cousltl.,
feeders, who use five sixths of all. 1t
is crop Of which railways carry but a.
small part. Less than one-fifth cross; $
State lines. Half is used for feedi .
for milk or flesh, one-tenth for human
food, and four-tenths for the food O.
working animals. For spirits scarcel
per cent. is used, and yet We hcat
demagogues, not to say statesmen, who
insist that prices would go down if the
farmer was deprived OF the distillery
demand.
The uses of corn it would be difficult
to limit, in food in drink, in clothing,
in bedding, in meat, milk and wool,
starch and sugar. The past year saw
the largest area ever grown of this dis
tinctiyely American crop. Aside from
the area intended for grain, there were
millions of acres drilled for forage, the
silo and the summer dairy. No other
plant will produce so much nutritious
feed on a given area No other is worth
so much for American tillage. -Ameri-
can Exporter.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-15

and the state, for none but the residents
Of Petersburg are satisfied with the loca-
ton of the Government there, and still
regard Moscow as the capital of the en-
pire, which it legally is. There is scarcely
foot OF ground that is not historic and
holy, for Moscow is more than thousand
years old rs it stands, and there was an.
other city on its site whose origin is lost in
the mists of fable.
the year $50 by Oleg, the brother-in- law
of Rurik, the Emperor of the North, but
fires and decay have caused most of the
original structures to be replaced from
time to time by new ones, SO there is really
very little of the old town left. The orig
inal Kremlin was built by Daniel, Duke of
Moscow, the son of the famous Alexander
Nevski, the most conspicuous saint in the
Russian calendar, but it was not recog-
nized as the seat of the Government till
the time of Ivan L., who brought his
throne there from Kiev in 1928. Fifty
years after the holy city was captured by
the Golden Horde. and remained during
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries I'M
der the rule of the Tartar khans, who have
left their impress upon everything-the
customs, the architecture, the methods of
the place, and particularly in the gorgeous
SOIO1o dlllt DttI JULY sp1cullSI VI lu6 pull
aces and the ceremonials that take place in
them.
Moscow is as different from Petersburg
Us Constantinople or Cairo from Chicago
or New York, or mining town in the
mountains of Colorado from q country
village in England. -Four hundred years
ago the ambassador sent by the Emperor
Macmillan to negotiate for the opening
of trade with Moscow wrote description
of the city which still holds good to-day
7 he buildings, the streets, and the Gus
toms have suffered little change by the
advance of time. There is more of Asia
there than of Europe, and while Peters
burg was built in imitation Of Paris and
Berlin, Moscow still retains it's likeness to
the Asiatic towns of the time of Christ.
In the central portions there has absolute
ly been no change, and everything stands
as it did in the time of Ivan the Terrible,
but in the outskirts since the invasion of
improvement, and it is now the largest
manufacturing center in Russia and one
of the largest in Europe.
Moscow has a population of between
seven hundred thousand and eight hundred
thousand people. The belt railroad which
encircles the city is twenty-four miles
long, and the shortest route by tramway,
from one side of it to the other. is nine
miles. Within this radius are to be found
nine cathedrals, four hundred and eighty
four churches, and twenty-five monas-
teries and converts. From the top of
Sparrow hills, where Napoleon caught
his first view of the place-and it is one
of the grandest and most fascinating
spectacles in the world-fve hundred and
twenty nine domes can be counted, every
one of them glistening in the sun. Pious
people often leave legacies to pay the
cost of regilding the dome of their favor
lite church. Besides these gilded domes
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-15

rising from an ocean of green and blue
rooted houses, grOtesque cupolas and
minarets, all forming bewildering mass
of Oriental and barbaric splendors which
cannot be seen elsewhere.
The Sparrow hills. from which this all
can best be seen, are group that rise Just
beyond the limits of the city, and are
separated therefrom by the Volga River.
At the summit, and the crest of the bank,
which rises abruptly from the river bed to
q height of five hundred and fifty or six
hundred feet, is hotel and pavilion much
resorted to by the people of Moscow. It
is called the Fill of Salutation, and it was
here that the advance guard Of the French
army IN 1872 got their first glimpse of the
metropolis they had come to loot. Mos
COW! Moscow" they cried, and the shout
was carried along through the entire army
of 700, 900 men, worn and weary with their
long march over the desolate plains.
When the French approached the city
The people fed, leaving nothing bohind
them that they could carry, and one man
in nearly every house with orders to set it
on fire before he came away. Thus began
one OF the most serious CONGREGATIONS of
modern times, which was fastened and
aggravated by the release of 5000 prison.
ers, maddened by the liquor they found
in the deserted homes. In the public
buildings bombs and barrels of powder
were deposited tocomplete the destruction
of the place, so that the French army,
when it finally reached the destination il
had marched and fought so long for, was
turned into q INDUSTRIOUS fire corps, en-
deavoring to save what it had come to
destroy.
who would have thought that nation
would ruin its own capital, said Napole-
on, when he viewed the debris.
The temporary prisons for Russian ex-
lies are on the Sparrow Hills. Here those
who are condemned to Punishment and
imprisonment in the mines are kept until
the trains are organized for Siberia It is
the rendezvous for the condemned from
all the western provinces, and it is from
these submits that they have their last
view of the holy city. They go on foot,
carrying four pounds weight on each foot
as they march-murderers, patriots,
thieves, and conspirators chained together.
1t is said that 1000 leave Moscow every
year, and 5000 die on the road of hunger,
disease, and exhaustion. If an exile is
rich enough he may pay the expense of the
transportation of himself and his four
guards by post-carriage, and many Of
them go that way with comparative COM
fort
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-15

| supreme CONTROL both civil and military,
! and he has a council Of regency, or cab
| met, similar to the ministry at Peters
burg, but subordinate to him and to them.
| Then there is the Senate, an organiza-
ton of mobiles, also appointed by the Gear,
| whose duties are those of a supreme court,
with extraordinary powers.
This completes the civil establishment,
but in additions the holy synod, in charge
of ecclesiastical affairs, which have re-
ferred to elsewhere.
In European Russia the people are di-
vided into communes, or Mrs, which elect
an executive known as the starchina, or
elder, and he has charge Of village affairs.
The communes, or Mrs, are combined in
to districts and controlled by the zem-
stoves, Or assemblies, composed of mobiles,
whose duties are similar to those Of County
Commissioners in the United States. They
collect the taxes. see to the repair and con-
struction of roads and other public works,
and have general supervision over the
district affairs.
There are about six hundred thousand
mobiles in Russia, composing what is
known as the tshin. They are the great
landowners, and formerly held the serfs.
The landowners who are not mobiles are
known as boyars, and hold large estates
which they have acquired by purchase or
by descent from their ancestors who OBJ
tanned them from the crown in early
times as rewards for military service or
gifts of money.
The base of the Russian system is patri-
archal government. The father of a fam
lily is little czar, while the Gear is the
father of all. Those who are interested
in the communal organization of Russia,
which is one of the most curious in ex-
istence, may read the admirable work of
Mackenzie Wallace, which has been ac-
cepted as authority in Russia and all parts
of Europe.
1t is rather remarkable that the first of
all republics was organized and existed
where the greatest despotism in the world
now remains. Before the republics of
Italy, away back in the centuries. long
before America was discovered or demo-
cratic ideas prevailed elsewhere in Eu-
the Great that resisted the encroachments
of the Taltars and the Mongols, and
stood alone, an ideal government "of the
people, by the people, for the people,"
but it persisted from the earth Wallace
tells the fascinating story in his book.
The Russians. who are usually the last
of all the peoples of Europe to adopt the
Improvements of modern civilizat on.
were, however, one of the first to adopt
the mode of communication by railway.
which was owing in great degree to the
military necessity of having means of easy
and rapid communication from one part
of the vast empire to another, for the
movement of troops; and otherwise to the
cheapness and superiority of their iron
which, as all know, is the best that is pro,
duced in the world. But twenty-five Years
ego it required from ninety to hundred
hours TO make the journey from Peters
burg to Moscow, a thousand carts known
as kibitkas, drawn by two, three, four, or
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-15

slowly and cautiously, making not more
than fifteen or eighteen miles an hour,
and stopping every few moments at sta
tions, or section houses, and sometimes at
bridges, for the Russian engineers know
there is danger everywhere, and if fatal
accident occurs they are punished without
mercy. 1t was beautiful night, the sun
did not set till nearly nine o'clock, and
the twilight lasted nearly two hours
longer. At ten o'clock we could easily see
to read by the car windows, and there was
no chance for the darkness to gather, as a
brilliant moon came up that showed US
very plainly the face Of the landscape.
The country is desolate, like all other
portions of Northern Russia, either sandy
or swampy, with clumps of fir, alder, and
willow trees. Sometimes there we're thick
and extensive forests, and, as we drew
nearer to Moscow, great plains that
seemed more fertile than the northern
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-15
Movement of Shot When Fired.

If man could only stand thirty or
forty yards away from the muzzle OF
the gun and watch the charges OF shot
fly past him, he would be astonished at
what he saw. The shot not only
spreads out into a widening target as
they fly, but they string out one behind
the other to much greater distance
than they spread. Thus, with cylinder
gun, when the first shot of a charge
reach target that is forty yards away
the last shot are tagging along ten
yards behind. Even with choke bored
gun the shot lag behind eight yards IN
forty. This accounts for the long swath
that is moved in flock Of ducks on
whom the charge of shot tai Just rlgh IT,
About 5 per cent. only of the charge OF
shot arrive simultaneously at the target
but the balance of the first half OF the
charge is SO close behind that bird 3
muscles are not quick enough to get
it out of the way, although those VINO no
have watched sitting birds when {. shot
at have often seen them start as II 10
fly wher the leading shot whistles py
them, only to drop dead as they ~e eai
overtaken by the leaden hail that 1oi-
lowed.-Neav York SaAa.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-15

to the towns situated from two to twenty
miles from the stations of the main stem.
This road was constructed by Mr.. Winans,
OF Baltimore, who built many other lines
In Russia. and amassed an enormous for
tune, which he is now enjoying in Eng
land
The entry to Our Holy Mother Mos
cow" as the pious Russians call it, is not
so interesting as the approach to Peters,
burg, and the first sight of the city from
the car-windows is neither impressive nor
pleasing, but to the eyes of the Russian it
COW to the Muscovite is what Rome ia to