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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
DiMINUTIvE MACHINERY.
4 Perfect Engine Built ON Twenty-G five
Cent Gold Piece.

n Perfect ON "
Cent Gold Piece.
The engine-makers, like the watch
makers, have tried to attain distinction
in the matter of the diminutive. In
1870 John Penn, the eminent maker of
great steam engines, who resided at
Greenwich, England, came into possess
sion of what was then the smallest
steam engine in the world. 1t stood
on three-penny spiece. 1t really
covered less space, for its base plate
measured only three-eighths of an inch
by about three-tenths. From the eX-
treme smallness of the model some of
the details were omitted, but not enough
to interfere in any way with its going.
The screws were only one-eightieth OF
an inch in diameter, and these were
duly furnished with heXagonal nuts,
which only could be loosened by aid OF
tiny wrench made for that purpose.
The weight of the whole model, with
out the three-penny base, was less than
the weight of the coin itself.
Six years later. at the time of our
Centennial exhibition, Penn would
have felt ashamed of his 'threepenny-
piece engine" had he had it on exhibi-
tion at Philadelphia During the prog
ress of this great exposition Levi
Taylor, of Indianola, Ia, placed on
exhibition "side by side" with the
great Corliss engine an engine, perfect
in all its parts, built on a twenty-five
cent gold piece, and with some of its
parts so small as TO only be seen by aid
of u powerful microscope. The entire
engine weighed but three grains. In
other words it would have taken 140
such engines to balance an ounce avoir-
dupois. Three OF the Penn engines
would have weighed more than lac like
that made by Taylor. The engine made
by ID. A. Buck, of Waterbury, Conn,
is usually given. in lists of small things
as the smallest engine in the world,
but this is mistake. The one mem
toned last above so far takes the palm
for smallness. The writer cheerfully
admits that the Buck engine is more
perfect in its details than the Iowa
wonder, but the fact that its base plate
is gold dollar forever kills its claim
to being the smallest, as the Iowa en-
gine, as mentioned above, uses a
twenty-five cent gold piece for the pur-
pose. Bucks engine has l4S distinct
pieces of machinery, held together by
So screws. Three drops of water filled
the boiler to overhowing. The diane
ter of It's cylinder is one-twenty-eighth
of an inch; the length of stroke, three
thirty seconds of an inch; its entire
weight. four and half grains. -Wes'r
ern Manufacturers
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
EDISON AMONG KINGS.
The Great Inventor Honors Any Sovereign
to Whom He MAY Sneak.

to Whom lie May Speak.
Thomas A. Edison, the greatest in
ventor the world has ever known, is
now receiving honors in Europe from
the hereditary royalties who are far
less use to the world than he. There
have been inventors before whose dis
coveries have revolutionized the in
dustries OF the world-men like Guten-
burg, Watt, Stevenson Whitney, Full
ton, Morse and Ericsson; but it is
doubtful If there has ever lived a man
of such versatile inventive genius, OF
such bold originality in conceiveng, and
OF such painstaking patience in carry
ing out his marvellous conceptions as
Thomas A. Edison. His invention OF
the telephone, of the electaic light and
the phonograph, each in itself honor
enough to immortalize n man, places
him at the top of the list OF the worlds 8
great inventors-not to mention his in
Vulnerable minor inventions. many OF
them of the greatest utility to man.
kind.
Measuring him by the standard of
the practical good he has done the
world what man is worthier of honor
than Mr.. Edison? Surely none of our
living Observation-Disclosures of Con-
gres, Governors and diplomats-ar TO
be compared with him in this respect.
We have probably produced no poet or
literary man who will be remembered
longer than he. Considering the won
derful inventions that may still lie in a
formative state in his mind, there is
surely no man whose death would be a
greater loss to the country.
The kings of Europe can not honor
Edison by granting him receptions and
giving him titles. In accepting these
gifts at their hands he honors them.
Surely Tom Edison, the ragged news
boy and impecunious telegraph opera
tor, honors any king to whom he con-
descends to speak. He is the biggest
king of the whole crowd. Yankee
Rloda
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
Cost of a Locomotive.

One man can bald an eight-wheel
passenger locomotive fo' standard
gauge railroad in LOO days; it will rs-
quire 1850 days work for hir to build
consolidated ten-whoel locomotive
.or standard guage. The average
cost of required labor would be 81, 635,
and the cost of the necessary metal is
usually estimated at about $1,000. The
profit may be put down at another
$4,000, which would include the ex-
penses OF sale and delivery. This
would make an engine, when absolute-
ly ready for service and complete in
every way worth about 50, $50. IN. Y.
Commercial Advertiser. ft.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
Sunday No Day for whistling.

Doctor Macadam used to tell of a
lips; Scotchlnau inulsiug his way home
on bright Sunday morning when the
good folks were vending their way to
the kirk. A little dog pulled ribbon
from the hand of lady who was lead
ing it, and as it ran from her, she APP
pealed to the first passer-by, who hap
pened to be the inebriate, asking him
TO whistle to her poodle.
"Woman," he retorted, with that
solemnity of visage which only a
Scotchman can assume-''woman this
is no day for whustlin' Pm. Y
Ledger.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
EIGHTY RADICAL CLUBS.
The Gain That Socialism Is Making in
the English Metropolis.

the English Metropolis.
There are eighty Radical clubs in
London, and as many working-men' s
clubs, to which the Socialists proffer
their services on Sundays. Some of the
speakers are extremely intelligent, and
grapple with social problems with
ability. Among these are VIM. Morris,
already mentioned, who speaks in
Broadway, Hammersmith, and has u
lecture hall attached to his house;
Annie Besaut, notorious for her partner
ship with Bradlaugh, and an extreme
Socialist; Eleanor Marx-Eveling, duugh-
ter Of the famous Karl Marx; Rev.
Stewart Headlam, a member of the
London school board; Cunningham
Graham, Socialist member of Parlia-
ment, VINO served three months i'm
prisonment for taking part in the dis
turbances in Trafalgar Square in No
vember, 1887; George Bernard Shaw,
who has written several novels and is
known as an art critic; ii. NJ. Hynd-
man, the founder of the Social Demo-
cratic Federation and author OF text
books on English Socialism, and Sydney
Webb, lecturer on polical economy
at the City of London College, Each of
these speak once or twice in the open
air or inthe halls-every Sunday. John
Burns says that he has delivered an
average of hundred Socialist speeches
in London and provinces every year.
He was the leader in the recent strike
movement. London Cable
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
TO PREVENT CONSUMPTION.
Tho Latest Medical Views Concerning
Tubercular Diseases.

Tho LATEST Medical Views Concerning
Tubercular Diseases.
Medical views of consumption have
greatly changed within the last few
years. 1t was once regarded as in
curable; it is now regarded us durable,
If the right treatment is begun early.
1t was once regarded as specially
transmissible; so much so that children
OF consumptive parents often looked on
themselves as doomed-a feeling which
of itself did much TO induce the
dreaded result. Now the disease itself
is not believed to be transmitted, but
only condition of special suscepti-
bility to the diseuse, susceptibility
which may be overcome or guarded
against by proper precautions.
Consumption was formerly looked
upon as incommunicable. 1t is now
believed to belong to the great class of
infectious diseases caused by microbes.
The discovery of the microbe-the
tubercle bacilus-was made by Koch in
1882, and has been confirmed by nu-
merous original Investigations con.
ulCIcu ny hpCEbS.
Tests on animals prove that this mi
crobe communicates tubercular disease
when introduced into their systems;
and that the result, fatal or otherwise,
depends mainly or wholly whether
the animals are closely confined amid
bad surroundings, or are allowed free
exercise in the open air.
AS to the durability of the disease,
post-lnortem examinations at the New
York hospitals constantly show that
once been consumptive have fully re-
covered, and have died long afterward
of other diseases.
In consequence of these near views,
the question of prevention has become
extremely important. But to know how
to prevent consumption, we must know
how it is propagated,
Typhoid fever, the seat OF which is
in the walls of the intestnes, is propa-
gated mainly by the microbes in the dis
charges, which later find their way into
the intestines again through infected
drinking water.
Consumption, on the other hand, hav-
ing its special seat in the lungs. is
mainly propagated by microbes con-
tained in the eXpectorations.
The microbes are harmless so long
as they are in fluid state, but when
allowed to dry, they are taken up in
the air as dust and inhaled.
This infected duct may lodge on the
walls of the room, and communicate
the disease to tenants of the house. 1t
has been scraped off with sponge,
and animals inoculated with it have
become tuberculous; while animals
inoculated with scrapings from unin-
fected rooms showed no signs of the
disease.
To prevent consumption, therefore
l. Observe all the conditions of Wig
orous health. Most kinds of microbes
are powerless against high health.
2. Have all sick rooms thoroughly
ventilated. 1t requires many microbes
to infect. Ventilation greatly reduces
the danger.
3. Let the expectorations be invari-
ably received in spit-cups, and care
fully disinfected.
But consumption may be commune
Gated by the milk of consumptve cows.
Therefore, let all milk be boiled. This
destroys the various kinds of microbes,
and should be made permanent habit
as guard against all infectious dis
eases.-Youth's Companion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26

lowing morning the dogs body was
found. The panther had evidently at
tempted to take a tree when the dog
came at him, but the canine had caught
him and but one dying howl had been
heard. The dog was simply torn to
pieces, killed instantly, and the panther
had not suffered at all, for he came
back tn" next night after the colts and
was shot. Times.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26

"A lawsuit in New York developed
the fact that latter the owner of lot
in Cypress Hills Cemetery has buried a
deceased mem Der of his own family in
1t he is absolutely forbidden, by the law
under which the Genet cry is incorpor-
ated, TO ever transfer or sell the lot
outside of his family"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
He Would Feel Safer.

Knuckle-How much is that tomb
stone for my wife's mother going to
weight
Agent-One thousand pounds.
THAT amt enough. l guess you had
better make it II ton, and (anxiously)
get II up as 500 as possible. '-,Time
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
Cause of the Complaint.

'.When a man gets more than he
thought he was getting in horse-trade
he ought not to kick, had hep"
''Well, i should say not"
"Gimlet bought an animal from mo
last week and now is furious"
"You don't mean to say he got moro
than he asked forP"
"Yes; but only two spavins. y
Judge.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26

"A New York physician recom-
mends the Jewish custom OF washing
hands before meals as preventative
against typhoid fever. He says that
contagion can be conveyed into the
system by the hands
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
Brave as a Lion.

"See that armless man over there?
He's the bravest man in the car"
"WhyP"
"Why, when the highwaymen jump
ed on the train and told us all to hold
up our hands he was the only fellow
that didn't do it."-N. Y. Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26

The boys of the Mannheim Pa.)
High School were having a scientific
experience. short time ago. and to
illustrate it tallow candle was placed
in a gun and John Martin was to fire 1T
through board. The gun kicked with
such force that young Martin was
knocked senseless.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26

Ono county (Custer) in Montana is
said to have an area about five times
greater than that OF Massachusetts
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
CARPETS

Our second offer is in Wool
Extra Super Ingram Carpets.
We give you these Carpets at
soc per yard. You pay that
much for cotton carpets. Look
around your friends before
buying, examine what is offer
ed you, then look at what we
give you for soc, and wonder
how we do it. Simple enough,
we are on the bottom floor of
carpet prices and want to put
you there with us. The shrewd-
est shopper will at once consid-
er it bargain to get a good
carpet for soc.
Our third offer is in 80 inch
Smyrna Rugs. We have an
overstock of this size Rug and
have concluded to place this
lot at the very low price of
$2.5o. Every body knows a
Smyrna Rug can be turned,
wear it on this side and then on
that, and still its good.
Can you crowd so much
service and reliability into any
other Rug? No not for $2.5
nor SIS.
Is such a Rug worth So. 50
to you? Come while we have
them for you, as we cannot
always give them to you at
this price.
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
N. MEGARY & SON,
No. GIG TatnalI Street,
AND
s. E. Cor. 6th and TatnaII Sts.
Plush Floor Rockers.

We have this week a few
bargains to offer you, which are
too great to pass by unnoticed.
First we offer you our line of
Plush Floor Rockers at greatly
reduced prices, to make room
for new stock pushing us for
admittance.
Our prices in these Rockers
ranged from $4 to $40, we have
cut them as low as S2.75.
Each Rocker has received a
cut of from one to three dol
lars, the frames are polished
Cherry or Antique Oak, Up
holstered in different shades of
Silk Plush, they are just the
thing to buy now while they
are going SO cheap.
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
They Are the Ronl nnnhers.

OswEGo, Kan, Nov 20-Four witnesses
who had known the Bender family Of muir
derers have identified the Michigan suspects
rs Kate Bender and her mother. The pre-.
liminary trial of the two women has begun
Q. w. Booth, I. c. Dick, j. A. Handley and
Mrs Della Keck all declared positively that
the woman known as Sarah Eliza Davis IS
the notorious Kate Bender, whose fiendish
deeds were almost beyond belief Two Of
the witnesses also testified that the elder
woman known as Eimira Griffen is old Mrs
Bender, the mother Of Kate. G. b. Smith
and Rudolph Brakeman, the other two wit
nesses, agreed that the hair, eyes and size Of
the women compared with those Of the Ben
der women County Attorney Morrison and
his associate are confident they have the
Benders
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
The NEWS IN BRIEF.
Fresh Tips from tho Wires Carefully
Culled.

Fresh Tips from tho Wires Carefully
Called.
Henry G. De Forest, Of the law firm Of
Weeks s. De Forest, Of New York, is dead,
aged so years
The details of the consolidation OF the
barbwire mills are about complete, and tho
new combine will have an Illinois charter
and a capital Of $l20O0,Oo0
The sum Of $4,000, appropriated by the
Pennsylvania railroad for the relief OF its
employees who suffered by the great food,
has been received at Williamsport, and dis
tribution win soon be made
All the candidates for speaker Of the house
of representatives are in Washington,
though but few Of the congressman have as
sembled. Senator Quay refuses to interfere
in regard TO influencing the Pennsylvania
delegation in the matter.
Judge N. e. Bremen, Of Topeka, Kan. /;
Henry Hitchcock, of st. Louis; George w
McCreary, Of Iowa, and John Mason Brown,
Of Kentucky, are mentioned in connection
with the vacancy in the supreme court.
Stephen w. Dorsey has satisfied the judg
ment of S1l2,92S recently. obtained against
him by Arthur A. Lovy, Of London
Miss Ada Tanner, daughter Of Corp. Tan
ner, who was appointed by her father conf
Dental clerk TO the commissioner Of PEN
sions, to-day rendered her resignation, to
take effect at once.
Walter Camp and Capt. Gill, of the Yale
foot ball team, say that Yale will play
whatever team Princeton brings forward,
and will not protest against the inclusion of
men who have returned to the college solely
10 strengthen the team.
George Meth and Fred Meth, of East Au-
rora, Erie county, indicted for counterfeit
ing, were tried and acquitted at Albany.
H. H. Warner hos sold his "Safe Cure to
English capitalists for 100000.
Henry Beard, the artist, who was asphyx-
lated by gas at New York hotel, has died
Mgr Rotelli, papal gpncio TO France, has
received instructions from the Vatican TO
favor the adhesion Of all Catholics in France
TO the Conservative Republican party.
The celebrated brewing establishment Of
Guinness Sons has donated tho sum OF
e2O0, 900 for hepurpose of erecting dwellings
for the laboring poor Of London and ESQ, 900
for like purpose in Dublin.
William Schnauffer, agod So years a wide
ly known German citizen, has just died at
Baltimore. Mr. Schnauifer was the propri-
etor of The Weekly Wecker.
Charles II. Montague, city editor OF The
Boston Globe, died Of typhoid fever after an
illness Of four weeks.
William w. Converse, aged IS years, pres
ident Of the Winchester Repeating Arms
company, is dead.
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
DIED.

DANIELS.-In this city. on November IA.
Jacob Daniels, aged 50 years
DICKINSON Suddenly, on the 18th in
stant, at Townsend, Del, Mary p, wife OF
James l.. Dickinson. and daughter Of Dodo
and Rebecca Sparks Of this city.
HYRONS,--On the 18th instant, Helen,
youngest daughter Of John w. and Margaret
Hyrona, aged years
KANE.-In this city, on the 18th instant,
Maggie c.. daughter Of John anu Mary Kane,
aged 10 weeks.
PETERS. AT Greenville, on the 10Th in
slant, Lee Foster Peters, aged 20 years.
SAVERS. In this city. on the 18th instant,
James L. Sayers, in the 9th year of his age.
Relatives and friends are respectfully in
vited to attend the funeral from his late resi-
dence. No. SO West Second street, on Thurs
day morning. at o'clock. High Mass at IT.
Peters Pro-Cathedral Church. lnterment at
New Cathedral Cemetery.
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
Facts worth Knowing.

In all diseases of the nasal mucous
membrane the remedy used must be non
irritating The medical profession has
been slow to learn this. Nothing satisfac.
stuffs, powders or syringes because they
are all Irritating, do not thoroughly reach
the affected surface and should be aban-
doned as worse than failures. multi
tude of persons who had for years borne
all the worry and pain that catarrh can
inflct testify TO radical cures wrought
by Ely's Cream Balm.
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
MARRIEn.

BROWN-ECKEL On Thursday, Novem-
ber IA, at 3 o'clock, in st. Andrews Church,
Wilmington. by the Rev Edward Henry
Eckel, brother Of the bride. assisted by the
Rev. Charles e. Murray, DR.. Thomas A.
Brown and Miss Laura l. Eckel.
GREGG-WRiGHT In this city, on
November IA, by the Rev. John ID Q. Hanna,
Millard f. Gregg ana Lille Wright, both Of
Marshalltown, ii Del.
HAMILT TlN-STRAUSS.--In this city, on
November IA. by the Rev j. simpson Trotter.
Samuel J. Hamilton and Mrs. Minnie a.
Strauss, both of Wilmington.
RAFr-CL0WER In Union NJ. Il.
parsonage on Sunday evening, November II,
craft and Mary A. Clover. both OF this city
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
A BIr coal striI,e.

MAHANoY PLANE, Pa. Nov. 20-Law-
renee a Brown, Of Mahanoy Plane colliery.
have made tremendous hit in striking
new mammoth vein Of anthracite coal. The
vein is said TO be 200 feet thick, containing
millions Of tons. Il will go on record as the
greatest accidental find Of pure coaln ever
known. The vein was struck while making
a drift 40 yards under the surface It is
now believed the mammoth vein basin has
been found. II is impossible at this time to
accurately compute the millions of tons Of
anthracite fuel contained in it, but the ope-
rators regard it as inexhaustible.
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
Tbe pIvmouth Chnrch Trouh,.

WILKEsBARRG, Pa, Nov. 2O-Bishop
O'Hara visited Plymouth yesterday after
noon to adjust the church difficulty there
between the Poanders and Lithnanians
He has divided the parish according 20 ma
tionality, and decided that tho Polanders
should pay the Lithnanians $1,000 for their
interest in the church edifice, The Polanders
decline 10 aceeds to this arrangement, and
say they will carry their grievance to the
cardinal
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
The COLLIN nIurder nrrstnrr.

MEXICO, Mo, Nov 2O.-Interest in the
Collins murder mystery has been increased
by the arrest OF Mrs Collins and her two
sons on the charge of murder The evidence
shows that the pistol with which Collins was
shot belonged 70 his son, and the boy says it
was taken from his pocket and used by the
assassin. This and other facts lead TO the
belief that the Collins family know more
than they have told.
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
A Newspaper sold.

LYNN, Mass, Nov. 2o-Messrs. J. NJ. and
J. J. Potter, respectively president and
manager Of The Daily Bee newspaper com
pany, have rendered their designations, the
property having been purchased by Mr.. c.
NJ. Smith, who has assumed the editorial
and business management. The Bee will
advocate Jetfersonian principles.
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
Dynamite friends in Michigan.

IRoNwooD, Mich, Nov. 20 Three dyna-
mite cartridges were exploded under the
Alcazar theatre at Hurley, Wis Fortu-
nately the explosive was so placed that the
building was but slightly damaged and no
one in the audience Of 400 was injured The
attempted wholesale assassination caused
great excitement There is no clew to the
Perpetrators
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
The Evolution squadron Detained.

NEW YoRg, Nov. 20.-The squadron Of
evolution, which returned and anchored in
SIDE OF Sandy Hook bar, is still there wait
ing Tor the weather to clear up 1t blew
heavily at Sandy Hook last night, and at
midnight the wind had velocity Of 58
miles an hour. At noon to-day it was
blowing at the rate Of So miles an hour.
Evening journal., 1889-11-20

to partly cloudy, slightly warmer
weather will probably prevail with vari-
able winds, preceded by lower tempera-
ture and rain on the upper Maine coast,
and on Friday warmer, fair weather and
variable winds, becoming southerlY in
this section.
Baynard's thermometer, a. m, As;
a. m, 46; II a. m. 46; l p. m. A.
Evening journal., 1889-11-20

Indications at 1. m. for Delaware
and Maryland Fair; stationary tempera-
ture, southwesterly winds.
New York Herald Forecasts The
cyclone central yesterday morning near
the capes Of the Delaware has moved
slowly northward. 1t is now central in
northern New York, and viii probably ad-
vance along the st. Lawrence Valley to-
ward Newfoundland, attended by high
winds or gales Oh the New England
coasts Temperature was nearly station
The United States yesterday. On
J. day in this city aud sections fair
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
Bosus Priest and swlndler Sentenced.

NEW YORK, Nov 90 Samuel 1.obley, the
bogus priest and swindler who has victim
lied jewellers in this city, Washington, Phil
adelphia and Canada, has been sent 70 state
prison for ten years by Recorder Smyth. In
sentencing him the recorder said that it was
his duty TO society to rid it Of such dan
gerous man for the longest time possible un-
der the law
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
Look. Children. Looki

Five thousand Christmas presents to be
given to the children calling and register
ing there names commencing November
10 at the cheap shoe store of Benjamin
+. Chalfant, No All King street. All
are cordially invited to examine our stock
OF shoes and holiday slippers.
Evening journal., 1889-11-20
cnrner lrnocI,s ont nInrnhr.

NEW YORK, Sov. 20--Jack Carney and
Tom Murphy, 100 pound pugilists, fought for
q stake in the dining room Of hotel near
Paterson, N. j., early In the morning. Car
ney knocked Murphy out Of TINA in The
fourth round