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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25
Some Very Large Boards.

A lumber-pile made of boards, each 100
feet long and siX feet in width, would be
an unprecedented sight in the East, but Il
gentleman recently returned from visit
to the coast of the north Pacific Ocean
says that piles of lumber such as that are
common at the mills ON Puget Sound
boards 100 feet long and six feet wide
without u knot in them," he said, "ar,
common cuts from the gigantic fir trees
of the Puget Sound forests. These trees
grow to the enormous height of $50 feet
and the forests are SO vast that, although
the saw mills have been ripping 500, 900,
900 feet of lumber out of them every yeal
for ten years, the spaces made by thes'
tremendous inroads seem no more thar
garden patches. ."-Dstroit Nens.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25
UP AND DOWN.

We're up to-day on fortunes hill
And free from every sorrow,
But in the wheel Of good and i'll
All may be changed tomorrow
We're up and down as time flies on
Now ease, now hardest labor
No millionaire can safely frown
Upon his lowly neighbor.
Riches take wings-the man Of wealth
May meet with sudden losses,
While he whose only store is health
May ride behind his horses.
Then do not slight the toiling poor,
For labor ne'er disgraces,
And though your fortune seems secure
Some day you may change places
God help us all-were poor at best
Dependent on each other
Though crowned with ease or sore dis
tressed
Weak man is still mans brother.
Then when on fortunes top we stand,
Noill our state attending,
Let us extend helping hand
To those about descending.
Francis S. Smith, in Ne,o York Weekly
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Electric lighting on man-of-war ships
Is so great success that IL Is now con-
ceded no such ship is complete without
il.
The first submarine cable manufactory
was started in Italy two years ago; now
il has an output of 10000 metres per
day.
An increase in phosphorus in iron has
been found to decrease its conductivity,
and the same peculiarity has been no
ticed with manganese.
The critical temperature of recales-
cence defines the stages Mt which hot steel
when suddenly cooled becomes either
hard or is annealcd.
The shortest time occupied by the tor
nado cloud in passing II given point
varies from "an instant" to about twen-
ty minutes, the average being seventy
| four seconds.
During the last ten years an oculist Of
Cronstadt is said to have treated thirty
eases of photo electric ophthalmia, new
disease due TO the action of the electric
light on the eyes.
Two travelling platforms Of ten tons
capacity moved by elcC sricity and
mounted on girders are used to carry Wis
itors around the machinery hall of the
Paris Exposition.
An English club man wagered S25 that
he could stand for thirty minutes without
moving muscle outside of those required
for respiration. At the end Of twenty
two minutes he fell over in a tit.
The boring for oil in the United States
is not always succcssful--for instance, a
boring at Southbury, Conn, has lately
been abandoned after 200 feet had been
explored and $4,000 lost in the under
taking.
A fragment of n meteor which recently
fell in Chicago, was. analysed and found
to contain 73 per cent. of iron, 81 of
nickel, 2 of manganese and small quanti-
ties of aluminium, cobalt, tin, copper,
arsenic, etc.
Coal dust trituratcd into dust as fine as
-four has Just been tested ms fuel for
iron-making ut the Morchcad Mill,
Sharpsburg, and found to accomplish as
much in one hour as the gas furnace does
In an hour and II quarter. Being mine
refuse it costs nothing.
DIR. Imlach, of Liverpool, has come 20
the conclusion that consumption can be
transmitted from cows to human beings
through milk. His experiments prove
that guinca-pigs, rabbits and monkeys,
fed on the milk of tuberculou3 cows de-
velop tubcrcular disease.
An official report gives the number Of
British boiler explosions Tor the year end
| ing with last June as siXty-one, with q
loss of thirty -one lives. More than hall
of the explosions were due to the use oil
worn out boilers, seventeen to defective
designs and fittings or undue working
pressure, seven to ignorance or neglect oi
attendants, and six to miscellaneous
causes.
Mushrooms are but tender toad-stool
grown where the soil is very much OF
vegetable substance. All such objects
are but the cells Of plants in the soil given
a discharge from the ground by force
of electricity which the earth discharges
wherever plants or corals are grown. A
form is given the object by part of tho
substance being spilled over the top of /;
stalk and contracted by the dryer con
dition of the atmosphere. The seams il
the top are but consequence of the
shrinking of the substance.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

The Oriental Congress which is to tal;,
place in Stockholm, in September, will bs
of unusual interest. Five hundred foreign
members have announced their intention
to take part in the proceedings. Deputa.
tions, single members from Persia, Arabia
India, Egypt, Japan, China, ETC., will at
tend, and many renowned savants of the
Tar East are expected. King Oscar il
honorary President. Several fetes viii
DO given in honor of the strangers.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25
A Poetical Cobbler's Sign.

A cobbler on South Twelfth street,
Philadelphia, has a card on his window
reading as follows:
Here lives man
That don't refuse
To make and mend
Your boots and shoes.
His leather is good,
His work is quick,
His profits are small
But he gives no tick,
And when he dies
He fears no Goals
As he has saved
So many souls.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

al wrote IT," she repeated, with q
woman's impetuous eagerness to atone for
any injustice; "but oh, never dreamed
how could Il-what harm / was doing
never! neveri And to think how 1
enjoyed writing it, and read bits Of IL to
my friends, while all the while Can
you ever forgive mc9"
"My wife and l never had but one
quarrel, said Ashley Melincourt, some
years later; "and that, luckily, was be-
fore our marriage, over book Of mine
that she cut up. She'll hardly cut up
any more of them now, though, for
make her the heroine Of every one /
write !"-Frank Leslie's Monthly.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

The English company who are work,
ing the Nacoochce mine in Georgia took
out the other day a nugget of gold weigh
ing 1900 pennyweights, and valued al
S250O. Not long ago they took one mug
get that weighed thirty pcnnyweights
and another of 5O7 pennyweights. Sucl
finds as these, muses. the New York Sun
are calculated to make fellow feel ricl
strcaks run up and down his back.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

The death Of Mrs. Hayes leaves bun
five women living whose husbands were
at any time Presidents of the United
States. These are Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Polk,
Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Clcve,
land. There are two other women still
alive who also acted as mistrcsses Of the
Presidential mansion-AIrs. Harriet Lane
johnson and Mrs. McElroy.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

The Chilian Government has engaged
many railway engineers from this coun.
try for the building of its new roads
some 2jOO miles in length-from coast
sites to the interior parts
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

The year 1889 is the ffticth anniversary
of the establishment Of the penny post in
England, 1t was in 1889 that a com
mittcc of the House of Commons reported
favorably upon Sir Rowland Hill''
scheme for tho establishment Of cheal
postage. The bill received Il majority OF
100 votes and became n law on Angus
u. 1880.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

In Hungary the whole system of ran.
ways is to be divided into fourteen zones,
and within any such zone all the fares ar,
to be equal; the rates may be guessed
from the fact that the third-class fare in
the outer zone is four forms for more
than 800 kilometrcs-i. e., about 81 81
for about $50 miles.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

The reduction OF the death rate 70,
England and Wales from POS TO 1S.S,
which has been effected between 1881 and
1887 by the progress of sanitary science,
means a saving per annum Of 93S, l15,
600. This, it seems, is the money worth
of that amount of human life, at an aver
age value of $795 per life.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

As a New York Wor'd correspondent,
looking from the vantage ground of the
Isthmus of Panama itself, sums it NJ
that 90, 600 lives and 5000, 600. 600 have
been thrown away on the grand DeLes.
Ncps iiaSCC.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

Jerusalem seems now to be q rapidly
growing city. This is due TO the great
number Of Jews who are flocking there
yearly. They now number 1000 more
than the Moslcm and Christian population
combined
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

Miss +. A. Southworth, who has been
made assistant mycologist at Washington,
is said to be the first woman TO receive an
appointment to q scientific post at Wash.
ington. Her specially is fungold growths
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

The Prince of Thurn and TGxis ha,
taken his place among the comparatively
limited number Of royal patcntecs. This
cntcrprising potcntatc has invented yet
another method Of making paper.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

A shoemaker named John Ryan, oi
Joliet, H., has won the international
prize of $500 offered by boot and shoe
journal of Boston for the best essay on
boot and shocmoking in all its branches.
Every State in the Union contested for
the prize, also Canada, New Brunswick,
and Nova Scotia.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

The New York Herd6 states that trace
and religious prcjudices are making po.
li,ical conditions in Canada that appear
to threaten the disruption or the Domin.
ion
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

\ project is being considered for add.
ing 2j0, 900 acres to the irrigated area in
Egypt, the water being taken from Il
point so high up on the Nile that the
canals shall never run dry
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

According to the Prairie Farmer "tho
Farmers Alliance is actively at work in
the West and South fighting obnoxious
trusts and other monopolies."
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

Under the sceptre of the Car of Rus.
sia live thirty eight different nationalities,
each speaking its own language, which is
toreign to all others.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25
The Curfcw in New York's Capital.

There is custom in Albany, n. y,
which has been maintained for two hun
dred years, which, l presume, isn't
known in any other city of its size in the
Union. The curfew tolls promptly, and
to the half-eighth of a second, at . each
night. The City Hall tower has a deep
sounding bell, connected by electric wire
with Dudley Observatory, and it strikes
u stroke OF one at . O'Clock night and
morning. All the private clocks and
watches are set by it, and il is curious
revelation To the theatrical companies
that visit there to see nearly everybody in
the audience pull out his or her watch at
apparently preconcerted moment and
look at it. The effect is very novel 1t
nearly upset John Mccullough and Mary
Anderson when they played there to-
gether some years ago. Mccullough had
Just seen the air-drawn dagger, and he
thought the audience were going to ring
the chestnut bells on him. The effect is
also very funny in the churches. But
the same bell also tolls the fire ALARM
and, by numbers of strokes, signals the
district where the fire is. II j. customary
on these occasions for the good pastors to
remark: III any one feels called by that
warning, there will be no objection TO his
now Withdrawing, and there have been
occasions when u number do so.-NcD
York Star.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25
MiDDLEBURG, PA. July 25. 1889.

The cattle industry of the United
States represents the immense capital Of
81 200. 900. 600.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25

Wood can be sawed in veneer -
two-hundredths of an inch thea
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-15

A HEALTHY DEMAND.

Sofa Boom Causes the Advance IN Iron.
PusBUBe. Oc,obsr14 Manufactures
supbatcally deny that the advance in
tbs prices Of iron sn5 steel products is the
result Of o "boom" or that there is any
thing dcatous 10 the values Of their ms-
larials
Because OF The rise in prices macy per-
sons have cried boom WroDgfuliy,n said
one of the heaviest producers Of iron and
STEEL iu this country. 'Tbis term be
continued. ''is 90 IN advised at this time
that rm moved 90 say that people who
use 10 DON'T know what they re talking
about when i'm an old country like
Eog.sni the price Of Bsssemer pig goes
Iom sI to 6) sbilhrgs the ad-
ssrcs is not the result of a boom.
$50. 3ces the demand account for
fh. slv.rce F.eights are higher, ms.
ura. .s higher, ferro-mar g7nese is now
ttl per- .l. and for every dollars ad-
vance l. mIal The finished product
must .oraI. 81 25 becsnse the shrinkage
in manufacture ,s over 25 per cent No,
s.r tteafvarre r be market is the re'ul'
Of demand and ,ts better condition Of
trade I- n1 b,0m.N
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-15
LATE TELBGRAMs.

President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania
railroad, is said TO favor st. Louis as the
place for toe Worlds Fair.
The State Democratic Association Of
Pennsy lvania will meet in convention at
Philadelphia to-day.
A German syndicate is negotiating for
dozen Of the most valuable iron ore mines
in Michigan.
A large sugar refinery is being erected in
the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, by Chi
csgO capitalists.
P. T. Barnum left New York Saturday
for England, where his big show soon fol-
lows him. Mr.. Barnum carried with him
30 tons of posters.
General Thomas B. Van Buren died at
San Francisco yesterday. he WAS brother
iu-law of William Walter Phelps. Gen
eral Van Bursn was Consul General to
Japan between 1874 and 1885.
Henry Ffi'z, a 81. Louis blacksmith,
quarrelled with his wife and crushed her
skull Both had besn drinking.
Euqineer Palmer and Fireman Pearca
were scalded to death by steam escaping
from a wrecked engine in DstrOit.
David Meucia and his SON, Alphonse,
Texas ranchmen, quarrelled and the father
was killed and the son fatally wounded.
Geo. and Richard Hawkins, two duck
hunters, we're both fatally shot by another
hunter, on Cayuga Lake, New York.
H Z. Martin, manager of the Hotel
Dslmonico, has disappeared, lesving sew
ersl thousand dollars in debts
The iourneymen bakers of Newark, n.
J.. sre out on strike against non-unlon
employees.
Ata public meeting in Samoa for the
election of king MslietOs made an ad-
dress advising the election of Mstsafs.
The French government will send TO
representative 10 be present at the wed
ding of Princess Sophie, Of Prussia, to the
Orown Prince of Greece.
The French government has decided to
double the army corps along the Rhine.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-15
REVISE THE TARIFF.

Blaine and Window Favor II and Hsrri-
son VIII So Recommend.
New YORK, October IA A Washington
special says it is widely believed here that
the President will recommend in bis mes
sage some decided notifications of the
existing tariff. Ffem remarks he hss let
drop to persons who have cOnversed with
him on the subject, it IS inferred that be re-
alizss the party expediency of such a course
and two membeTs of his Cabinet whose
counsels would be most likely to lphuence
him, are OF the same opinion. Secretary
Windom's Northwestern education tis him
to favor revision, while Secretary Blaine
has within few days expressed himself
decidedly in hope that Congress will take
up the question at once and dispose OF It.
In conversation with frienl Blaine Is re-
pot d to have said that all other legisla-
iiou ought to tie deferred until the tariff is
revised.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-15
Attempte Burg ary at Ravensrood

Attempted Burg ary at RavensvoOd.
Special Telegram to the Register.
RAvENsweoD, October 14.-One of tha
bOldest attempts at burglary was made
Sunday evening that ever occurred in our
town About 1880 o'clock, as people were
passing. every minute, n. o. Rudman,
John A. Mcintosh & Co. 3 head salesman,
went to the front door OF McIntosh's hard
ware room, where be noticed dim light
Just going out. Supposing that something
wss wrong Rudman followed the intruder
back through the store, ther up stsirt
through the roof, ther out through another
side room, where be Jumped q distance oi
twenty feet to the ground below, escaping,
leaving no trace whatever to his identity
This is the second Burglary here inside Of
two weeks.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-15
BLAMEs THE PILOT.
Kespousibnty IN tho city Of New York
Accident.

Responsibility IN tho city OF New York
Accident.
NEW YORK, October l4-In his report
10 the Ipman Line Steamship Company Of
the sccidert 10 the steamer City Of New
York, Capt Lewis says;
''The steamer was in charge of Pilo.
Rsardou. We were in good position for
enteria Gedrey's channel, having just
siarboaried We had just ruug one half
speed, when, Is I was standing on the side
of the bridge, I heard the pilot give the
order Port Immediately told the
pilot: Don't port; you will run the ship
sshore-5ard stsrbosrd.' The last order
was carried out, but it was too late. The
ship refused to answer the helm. The
reason the pilot afterward gave me for
porting was that he feared to 20 too close
tothe fAirWay buoy"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-15

Kansas Loan Companies Liable 90 Lose
Heavily.
TOPEKA. EAs O,tober "A rather
startling fosncial disclosure has been
made no Southwestern Kansas by a shIewd
attorney in that region, which promises 20
cost the loan companies interested in West
ern mOItssg loans millions OF dollars. 10
was common practice 10 the old pre-
emption days for the prs-empiors 70 az
range for loans on their claims pricr 60 the
inal proof. 20 enable them 20 pay the gov
eminent, and ia many cases 20 furnish
them with the bare necessities Of life. A
case hss Just been decided in the Stevens
County Court IN which such contract is
declared illegal
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-15
JUSTICE OUTRAGED.
The Earl Of Galloway Guilty Of Foul
Crime, Yet Acquitted.

The Earl OF Galloway Guilty Of Foul
Crime, Yet Acquitted.
EDINBURG, October II The Earl oi
Galloway was arraigned this morning on
charge Of having mtde en- indecent assault
upon a child named Gibson. The court
room was crowded with the leading people
of the community. TIE little girl gave
testimony in regard 10 the nature OF the
Eari'o offeuse, and her testimony was cor
roborated by other witnesses. A state
ment prepared by the defendant was then
read, in which the explanation wae made
that no intentional aiisnse was committed.
In helping the child of a wall his hand
had accidentally come into improper con
tact with her person. After the hearing
further evidence, the EAIl wa acquitted OF
the charge.
The announcement Of the decision wss
received with hisses. The guilt Of the &C
cused was so clearly established that the
audience could not conceal it's disgust.
The threats Of the Judge were Of no avail
10 prevent the cries Of shame" In Lon
don the Earlis best friends scarcely hoped
for more than the Scotch verdict, not
proven, " and an scquittal outright pleaaed
them az much az it Outraged the sense OF
Justice of all other EoglishmeD.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-15
Merit Wins.

We desire to say to our citizens that for
years we have been selling DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, DR.. Kings
New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve
and Electric Bitters, and have never
handled remedies that sell as well, or hat
have given such universal satisfaction We
do rot he .itate to guarantee them every
time, and we stand ready to refund the
purchase price, if satisfactory results do
not follow their use. These remedies have
won their great popularity purely on their
merits. Logan & Co., Druggists.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-15
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
Important but Dssultory work Yester-


Important but DssulrOry work Yester-
day.
NEW YORK. October 1.-THE eleventh
day g session Of the General Convention Of
she Protestant Episcopal Church opened
This morning ct st. Georges Church at the
usual hour. There was a general discus
sion Of several subjects. Dr. Huutirg.O .On
spoke in favcr Of revision Of the prayer
bo.k. NJ. S Corning Judd spoke
ca resolution for p-opOrtionate
representation, and also presented
a resolution in favor Of changing the name
OF the Church to the American Church. Z"
All these matters were referred. The
Missionary Convention began at ll:30 a.
NJ. The Missionary Bishops Of Texas,
Nevada aad New Mexico made their re-
ports, and emphasized the necessity of ad-
diiional aid for their fields. The Commit
tee on Colored EyaDgelizatiOn presented
its report and moved that $40, 900 be appro-
priated for the purpose for the ensuing
Two yesrs. Tue Bishop OF Kentucky and
Rt Rev. Thomas U Dudley were appoint
"a 10 travel through the North and engage
The interest and sympaJhiss of the people
u the crusade for the colored race.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-15
PLEAsANrs COUNTY NEWS.
A Fatal Accident "A New Railroad
Scheme

Special Telegram to the Register.
EUREKA W. VA, o t ber IA "A young
man by the name Of VIM Gsult was scci-
dentally shot ard killed while assisting a
companion in loading revolver at dance
near Horseneck, Saturday night.
The corps of observation are looking
over the rouie for TIE propO ed new rail.
road from Marietta to Clifton Forge, In
Virginia. TIE engineer corps will COM
mebce work next week. There is every
prospect of this road bsing built ia the
near future, as a gap of 26O miles here and
another of about 80 miles between Zaues-
VILE and Marion, OHIO, lie all that needs
10 be fl led to make continuous line from
Chicago to the seahoaTd at Norfolk, Va
rhe laud-hOldsrs along the proposed route
seem disposed to meet the enterprise in a
liberal spirit, as far as right Of way is con-
cerned, as they appreciate the fact thai
the building of the road wOnld be q tIe-
mend0us boom to this part of the State.