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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-21
The Rule of Contrary.

How things do go by contraries
In this sublunary sphere
And mems names, of Fate's vagaries
Are the queerest of the queer.
Mr.. Goodman is bad man,
Mr.. Wellman's always i'll,
Mr.. Joy he is a sad man,
MIR. Wiseman's wisdom's nil.
Mr.. Blackman is a white man,
MIR. W hite he is q black;
MIR. Stout he is slight man,
Mr.. Neat is mighty slack.
Mr.. Winters full of ardor.
MIR. Summers always cold;
Mr.. Gamble ne'er card or
"Chip" was ever known to hold.
Mr.. Long he is short man,
Mr.. Mildman he is meek;
Mi. Learned an untaught man,
Mr.. Meek has got the cheek"
MN Tailor nc'er made brooches,
Nor did Nailor drive n nail,
Mr. Pitcher never pitches,
Nor does Sailor reef sail.
Mr. Wait is always early,
MIR. Early's always late;
Mr.. Sweet is always surly,
Mr. Crook il always straight"
And 80 through tho categories!
Oh what il there that can lie
Like mems names-except the stories
Told by tombstones when men diet
Boston Globe.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-21

The truth or falsity of the charges
made against the management of the
Pontiac asylum remains to be proven.
In justice to the people of the state cf
Michigan as well as to themselves, tho
management should be SUBJ ected to the
most thorough and rigid investigation.
If there are no grounds for the charges
made the officers and attendants of that
institution will be the ones most bene-
flied by the investigation, and if there
is the least suspicion Of any wrong the
people of the state should know il.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-21
Blood viii Tell.

Lady Gas blood-curdling war
whoop is heari in the kitchen)" What
is happening Walters?"
Maid-"That is Dinah. She always
yells that way, ma'am, when she sue
seeds in turning the omelette without
letting it drop on the floor. She's
the daughter of Zulu chief. Time
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-21

They tell ola judge in Bennington, VT,
who, having spoken of buying safe,
was interviewed by two rival agents,
each of whom had so much TO say in
favor of his own particular safe that
the judge was quite at loss to decide
which to buy. In happy moment he
thought of Burglar Price, whom he
had himself sentenced, and going to
the Jail, he obtained this expert safe
breakers opinion, and then gave the
Order
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-21

The campaign for the adoption Of
the prohibitory amendment in Massa-
chusetts has opened with equal
yigor, enthusiasm and confidence.
The representatives OF 100000
church members and 1,000,00 adher-
ents of christian churches in Massa-
chusettB" have formally and unani-
mously resolved that prohibition is the
only right principle of legislation, and
that "in every prohibitory state the
number of liquor dealers and the per
capita consumption is calculably less
that in license states" The momen-
tum of this movement is assuredly to
be great.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-21

Gen. Harrison has not permitted the
excitement by which he is surrounded
10 Interfere with his lifelong custom.
Every morning before sitting down to
breakfast the family--the general and
his wife, Russell Harrison and his
wife, Mr.. Mckee and his wife and those
who are with them assemble and the
general reads passage of scripture
and kneels in prayer. Mrs. Mckee
says; Papa thinks it quite rs i'm
portant as his breakfast, and would
not be able to do anything unless he
had prayers first. OF course, he will
continue the same custom in the white
house. Now he is president he thinks
it is moro important than ever"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-21
A Fair Warming.

The skill OF the ordinary advertise
ment writer ia continually illustrated.
1t almost pays TO read the advertise
ments to get the queer examples Of
business English that they contain.
The other day the writer noticed this:
''if you buy n pair of Dumkoprs
pantaloons you will never buy an-
other. boston Transcript.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-21

Prof. Pasteur, the great French sci
enlist, expresses his opinion that in
the future diseases will be unknown.
"Our children are in luck;" he says.
ut will be much pleasanter TO live ir
the twentieth century, when epider1icf
will be done away with.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-21

Even New Mexico plucks up heart
over the prospects of statehood, and
the legislature proposes TO educate its
half-breed population TO sense of the
responsibilities of citizenship. A ter
iitorial university, a school of mines,
an insane asylum and an agricultural
college are projected.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-21

The proprietors of an iron works in
New Jersey wished their men to wear
boots while at work, to avoid the dan
ger OF burning their feet. They Offer
ed TO supply the boots free OF charge
and to pay damages TO any man so in
jured while wearing them, but the mon
refused and, when the employers in.
sisted. struck.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-21

President Harrison's typewriter,
Miss Sawyer, has aroused the enthusi-
asm of the Washington correspon-
dents. She cannot whistle, like Elijah
Halford, but she can sing with The
best amateur in the land. She has
plump, round, red checks, brown hair,
light gray eyes and trim little figure.
She looks about 20 years old, but is
probably older. She knows more
about Harrison's political secrets than
Halford himself, and she knows how
TO keep her knowledge to herself.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
The Mannrsmeut Or s,r.., Lamp..

The city of Boston has adopted an ar
rangement for lighting the gas at certain
hour each night and turning it out at GER
tain hour in the morning. This is, in fact,
newly-invented machine, designed to do
the work of the lamplighter. with the single
exception of the cleaning Of the lamp. It
has clockwork arrangement which is so
regulated that it conforms to the moons
changes, and lights the gas and puts it out
early or late, according to the fullness of
the moon or the change in time Of rising.
or setting. Each lamplighter now cares for
about "a lamps, whereas by the new method
he can care for 30 lamps a day, or $50
week, as all he has to do is to once week
clean the lamp and wind up the apparatus.
Last year the cost of labor in cleaning and
lighting the lamps of Boston was $8 "a per
lamp, while it is claimed that with the new
system each lamp can be cared for for
cents a week, or 81 08 per lamp per year.
As there are over 10000 lamps in Boston,
this saving of Sc year on each lamp would
aggregate, for labor alone, about $50, 900.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
Statue Of Patrick Henry.

and connection OF the great Nicker.
Whether or not he studied and improved
upon the theories of the French Financier
we cannot say, but it is now conceded that he
was one OF the ablest if not the ablest,
ministers OF finance Of modern times.
1t was he who for II years, under great diff
fculties, shaped and carried out with sue
cess the financial policy of both Jefferson
and Madison, and who acted as United
States Commissioner in almost every nego-
tiatIon with foreign powers from the close of
the Revolution to the War of 1872, whose
versatility of talent was such that he had to
do with nearly every domestic Federal
measure of importance from the foundation
of the Government until 1876, and was
withal voluminous and profound writer
on ethnology, philology, international law
and finance. He was a born Republican,
and in 1850, the year following his gradua-
tion from the University of Geneva, he
emigrated to America and cast in his lot
with the struggling colonies. His great
ability was at once recognized, and soon
after his enlistment in the Continental
army he was placed in command OF Fort
Passamaquoddy.
After the close of the war he purchased
large tracts of land in Virginia, but was de-
TERED from forming a settlement there on
account of the hostility of the Indians. 1t
was while surveying this land that he first
met Washington and Patrick Henry, and it
was by the advice of the latter that be pur-
chased the tract on the Monongahela in
Fayette county, Pa, which embraces the
site of New Geneva and the magnificent es-
tate of 800 acres of manor land, which he
brought under cultivation and where he es-
tablished his first home. To this home he
brought his sweet but obscure Virginia
bride. Sweet, we say, tor tradition calls her
so, and winsome she must have been to have
won the admiration of man so keen of per-
ception as was Gallatin. But his life was
brief
Well, from New Geneva the boat starts
out to-day on her new departure for
Morgantown, and as she crosses the mouth
of Georges creek, which separates the
town from the estate, now owned by the
heirs of the late John L. Dawson, and
steams slowly by the old stone mansion
house, the traveller gazes wistfully through
the half bare branches of the stately trees,
and pictures TO himself three lonely, un.
marked graves in the woods behind the
orchard ana near the bapk Of q little
sulphur brook. One Is the grave Of the fail
young wife, and two are the graves oi
servants of the family, but in which one
rests sweet Alice Gallafin, no one now liV.
ing can tell. But the brook murmurE
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
New DIstreas sIgnnI.

A new shell, to take the place Of all dis
tress signals now used in marine signaling,
such as rockets and firing of minute guns,
which involve the loss of much valuable
time, has lately appeared. 1t is intended
that the shell shall be distributed about
ship. but particularly kept on the bridge
within easy reach of the captain. When he
desires to give signal of distress, instead
of losing time in loading and firing can
non, or touching of rocket, he seizes
shell. pulls the cap off the detonator,
scratches the illuminate with the rough edge
of the cap, and throws the shell overheard.
In 25 seconds there is an explosion, and
loud, booming report is heard, while col
umn of water, fame and smoke shoots up
for at least 100 feet in the air. An extra ap-
pliance of a rocket Is attached to the she'll
used at night, and this is thrown to great
height by the explosion, and itself explodes
in the air. The tin cylinders of the shell
then float about on the water, and as they
have the name of the ship stamped on them,
they serve in time of disaster to tell Of the
ship they came from.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
The Limited East Mail.

The Union Pacific Railway, the Overland
route, has just put on a limited fast mail
train to carry the United States mail be-
tween Council Bluffs and San Francisco and
Portland. This daily fast mail train will
carry limited number of passengers, and
in addition to the United States mail cars
and baggage car, will be composed of a
Pullman Palace sleeper and Pullman dining
car for Portland, and Pullman sleeping
car for San Francisco, thus accommodating
a limited number of passengers.
The sleepers and the diner will run
through from Chicago, via the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway. Only frst-elass
tickets will be honored on this train.
This train with its connections, makes the
extraordinary time of 10Y hours, New. York
to San Francisco, and 104 hours to Portland.
As accommodations are limited, early ap-
plication for same should be made to the
Union Pacific agents in New York, st.
Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, or to E. L.
Lomax, Gen. Pass. Agent, Omaha, Neb.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
PrOtectiOu Of Steel Ship Bottoms.

The Japanese have discovered a mixture,
kind of lacquer such as is used on most of
their work, which is claimed to be an ex-
celIent coating for the submerged portions
of ships hulls to protect them against
marine growth and pitting by voltaic action.
1t is, however, 50 expensive in its present
form as to be practically out of the question
for use on the vessels of the navy. Sheath
ing, or the fastening Of sheets Of alloy Of
copper on the submerged portion of the hull
of the vessel is being extensively adopted.
A bronze metal has been invented which,
for this purpose, has given very satisfactory
results. It will unquestionably add to the
displacement of vessel. but this disadvant-
age will be more than counterbalanced BY the
absence of the weight of the barnacles
which would otherwise cover the ships bot
tom,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
Nav ArtlnclaI Ear Drum.

A new antiseptic artificial ear drum has
recently been described in the Lancet, and
also in the Br ritish Medical Journal. 1t is
of soft material and easily adjusted. The
new membrane is for the improvement ofthe
hearing power in conversational intercourse,
and for the protection Of the injured organ
during the ordinary purposes of life. Ex-
cellent results are said to have followed its
use. The intensity of the sOnorous vibra-
ton is often Immediately increased, and pa
tieuts have been able to define sounds which
before appeared to them to be only noise.
The sensibility of the organ is magnifed,
and the hearing power is so far improved
that the patient does not appear deaf in or
binary conversation. 1t is stated, too, that
the hearing distance is appreciably in
creased.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24

l. No. s, which assures a
navigable river at all seasons between PItts-
burg and Morgantown, was hailed by the
citizens of the latter place as heralding
new era of hospitality. West Virginia had
done her part. For years Lock No. y,
splendid piece of masonry, had at her ex'
pense been completed, but the placid pool
between it and Morgantown was almost as
useless for purposes of navigation as duck
pond. True, when there happened to be an
unusually high stage of water tug ran up
from Greensboro, carrying freight
discharged at that place by the regular
packets for points above navigation. These
trips were intermittent and uncertain, and
the cost of re-shipping at Greensboro almost
as great as that of transporting from this
point in the usual way, by wagon, to Nor
gantown. Between the struggles of the
navigation company to hold on to their tolls
and that of the people to have free river,
the intermediate lock, No. s, has remained
for years unfinished, thus blocking commu-
nication between slackwater above and
slsckwater below.
Carriage by water being so much cheaper
than by rail, the people of Monongalia and
adjacent counties in West Virginia natur-
ally preferred to trade in Pittsburg, pro-
vided transportation in unbroken bulk
could be had. But as the freightage on the
re-shipment by wagon FOR the 13 miles, be-
tween Greensboro and Morgantown, nearly
equaled the freightage for the 90 miles by
boat from Pittsburg to Greensboro. shippers
would not pay the excess, and so the volume
of trade from this region has been diverted
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
A Good Endorsement,

From Philadelphia Musical Journal,
Aug, 1889:
At the New York State Music Teachers
Convention the Miller Artist Grand was
used by Americas greatest pianist" Mr..
VIM. q. Sherwood. Mr.. Sherwood's per-
formance was considered by his musical
friends to have been one of the grandest and
most successful of his life, and he was
greeted with storm of applause on its con-
cIusion. While receiving the heartiest con-
grdtulations from the officers of the New
York Association'and the many musicians
present, he publicly stated it would have
been impossible for him to have produced
such magnificent results in tone eoloring on
any other grand piano made in this country.
A fine selection of these famous pianos
can be seen at W. G. Whitehill's music par
lor, 152 Third avenue, opposite Government
building.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
Greensboro. which until to-day has been the
end of the river voyage.

1t is a rather pretty and busy town,
with several extensive potteries, which
furnish stone hollow ware and roofing
tiles for all parts of the United
States. This town and New Geneva
on the opposite bank of the river are inter-
esting to Pittsburgers for having been the
locations OF the first glassworks west of the
Alleghenies. The men who established and
owned them were Albert Gallatin, the great
Minister Of Finance, and George Reppert,
father of the venerable Mrs. Jacob Reppert,
of Allegheny City.
New Geneva has nothing new about it ex-
cept its name, but it has an interesting his
tory and contains some old and curious OBJ
jects. Here, in the possession of Judge
Yeager, of the Yeager house, may be seen a
block of the first glass melted at Reppert &
Gallatin's works in 1894. 1t is of a bright
green color, quite opaque and apparently
very tough, for the Judge has frequently
used it during the last 80 years to prop open
his sitting room door. The town, like
the older part of her Swiss name
sake, is perched on hill side,
and it was for this similarity of
situation that Albert Gsllatin founded the
town here and named it in honor of his
birthplace. The present generation should
know more than they do about the career of
Albert Gallatin, the man whose services to
the United States were more valuable than
those of any other foreign born citizen and
more varied and prolonged than those OF any
public man of American birth.
AN ABLE FINANCIER.
He came of notable family, his father hay
ing been a distinguished Counsellor OF State
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
EVERY DAY SCIENCE.
Latest Applications of Electricity for
Useful Purposes.
A NEW ARTIFICIAL EAR DRUM.
Japanese Method of Protecting Steel Ship
Bottoms.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES
rrnrrARrp roR rHE p1spAroH.,

TPREPARED FOR THE DISPATCH!
Readers of The DISPATCH who desire
information on subjects relating to indus
trial development and progress in mechani-
cal, civil and electrical engineering and the
sciences can have their queries answered
through this column.
A notable example of the way in which
the enterprising adoption of the latest mod
ern scientific appliances is rewarded by in
creased efficiency and economy is afforded
BY the Erie Colliery, Mayville, Ba. This
colliery is not only lighted by electricity,
but has an electric mine locomotive. It
thus saves S25 per day on the cost of power,
and is enabled to increase the output Of the
mine from 1000 tons to 1, 500 tons per day.
It has fully-equipped, blacksmith's shop
underground, blown by steam with cold
blast; patent device for pulling the cars
off the dumps, at the head of the breaker; q
hydraulic arrangement at the bottom of the
shaft which lifts up the carriage to height
from which the empty car is automatically
removed from the carriage; and pump
that discharges $50 gallons of water q
minute.
Not long ago an official railway report
stated: 'The storage battery is slowly but
surely pushing its way to the front as most
perfect system Of street car traction, and is
now only awaiting the development of q
battery which will stand the hard knocks
and usage which it must necessarily get in
the operation of street car, without de-
stroying its component parts" This bat
terry is undoubtedly in existence, for i'm
proved batteries which have already been
demonstrated to have life of two years are
in everyday use on tramcars, and further
Improvements are being affected daily. As
indicating the economy of the storage system,
the bids for the construction Of certain
line recently started may be mentioned:
They were, cable construction, SS84O, 900;
electrical overhead wire construction, $780,
600, and storage battery, $4,000. The
storage battery was adopted.
Electric incandescent lamps are now used
in the dark rooms Of photographers, and in
order to render the light non-actinic it is
recommended that the bulbs should be
painted over with mixture of the red
''fuchsine" in negative varnish. The lower
the current the redder the light from an in
candescent lamp is, and hence the less need
is there for the paint
Herr Liesegang gives an interesting &C
count of some experiments which he re-
Gently undertook with view of rendering
images visible at a distance by means Of
the electric current. The results attained
were that an image the exact reproduction
of a Photographic image is produced at an
indefinite distance from the original object,
and this image can be re-photographed or
projected on screen for exhibition to an
audience.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
To CHICAGO vim B. g. O.

The B. & o. R. R. Co. now operates q
through car line between Pittsburg and
Chicago via Wheeling. A Pullman vesti-
buled sleeping car leaves Pittsburg, daily,
on the 7:30 P. M. express, and goes into
Chicago on the vestibuIed limited, arriving
at Chicago next morning at 1855. A din
ing car is attached to this train at Garrett,
Ind, and breakfast is served as the train
approaches Chicago. This service is su-
perior to that of any other train between the
two cities upon which no extra fare is
charged.
For tickets and sleeping car space call at
B. B o, ticket Office, corner Fifth avenue
and Wood street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
A New Thermometer.

The thermometer system of recording
temperature at distant points is developing
. very extended sphere of usefulness.
Among its many applications may be men,
toned that Of the exact registration at all
times of the height Of the ocean tides or OF
the water Of a river or reservoir. It is
probable that lives might have been saved
at Johnstown if the people could but have
had the warning of this sleepless water tele-
graph. There are such attachments that 9
bell is rung to announce the rise and fall of
the indicator beyond reasonable limits. It
is constant, watehful safeguard, protect
ing property and lives by its unalterable
and certain exposure of every instance Of
carelessness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
shnrneninr Knirna.

It Is fact wsll-known by dealers in cut
lery that not one man in 80 knows how to
sharpen pocket knife. A razor must be
laid fiat on the hone, being hollow ground,
and requiring . fine edge. The pocket
knife, however, requires q stiff edge, and
the moment it is laid fat on stone, so as to
touch the polished side, its edge is ruined.
$50, and have an edge similar 70 chisel.
This is called the ''eameI, and is marked
on all new knives BY fine white line which
does not remove or touch the polished sur
face.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24

CaDlu, IN klgllIy Dub sue u6duS lOT In6 bnOre,
and this time she grinds her bow into the
sand of
A LONESOME LANDING
to leave a cider press for the farmer over the
hill and to take on an old colored woman
with her basket OF eggs; and so it keeps on.
The managers of the packet line have built
up an important river trade Dy despising
not the day of small things and the boat
will land for a small normal boy or hand
barrow as promptly as for 3 dozen large
headed nabobs or a hundred barrels of
whisky or oil.
The sun has set, and the glowing colors of
the landscape have faded to somber hues in
the gathering darkness. The air has grown
chill and everybody takes refuge in the
saloon, and as the evening advances disap-
pear one after another into the tiny state
rooms. All night the boat keeps on her
way. At intervals the swish-swash and the
vibration of chandelier pendants in the
saloon announce to the hslf-waking sleepers
that she is entering 8 lock or making 8
landing. Brownsville, the Fort Red Stone
council place of colonial times, is touched at
and passed in the darkness.
In the morning breakfast is discussed leis-
urely, for heavy mist hangs low upon the