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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

given in Omaha was in 1860, at the old
Herndon House, now the Union Pacific
headquarters. The company had no scenery,
because it was not on a regular professional
tour, so the manager borrowed a bolt of
muslin from Tootle & Jackson's store and
made curtain, allowing the same back
ground to figure in all the scenes.
Later on an Uncle Toms Cabin COM
pany, provided with blind bloodhound
and deathbed, played there to good busi-
ness. Omaha has always been gentle and
kind toward rocky shows. 1 have been
there twice myself.
A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.
My attention has only recently been called
to the discovery made by a DR.. Motschul-
kowsky, etc., of Odessa, in the State of Eu-
rope, of new method for treating spinal
troubles by means of suspension. DR.. Lewis
A. Sayre has also been accredited with the
invention of the apparatus by which the pa
tient is so suspended as to straighten and
elongate the spine.
hope it may prove successful, and in the
future be so perfected as to afford great re-
lief to those who suffer in this way, but it
did not work with us years ago, when we
tried it on q patient known as Big Nosed
George.
B. N. George was q somnambulist, and
had been for years. A somnambuIist, and
troubled with color blindness, so that time
and again he would be found somewhere
wandering around in the night, also en- dis
habille, riding pirate horse, when his was
a black. Color blindness and somnambu-
lism got Big Nosed George into several of
these scrapes, till at last it occasioned talk,
and some people came to speak to him about
it. 1t was then that he got his back up, and
in order to reduce this spinal curvature,
some acquaintance tried this suspension
method.
Possibly it was carried to excess, or then
again, his overshoes might have been too
heavy. Anyhow, when a man went back
there day or two -afterward to ask George
if tine draught was too strong for him, or if
his head seemed to be high enough, he was
shocked TO find that B. N. George was no
more.
People who make scientific experiments
that way cannot be too careful. Big Nosed
George lett wife and four small children.
Also wife and two smaller children. He
left them about two years before his death.
A Western paper at the time of the acci-
dent said: 'sWe were in error about the
brilliant meteor seen night before last at
about II o'clock. 1t now proves to have
been the bugle of Big Nosed George, who
at that time assembled a telegraph pole by
means Of his neck" BILL NYE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
The Royal Palace.

= Half way across the island our driver
stopped and changed the horses of our car
riage for relay which had been sent on
ahead. Then the Malay Jehu whipped up
and we rode on through more Villages and
more jungle until we came to the straits of
Singapore, on the opposite side of which
was the main land and Johore. A Chinese
boat carried us across these and we were
landed at the wharf of the Sultan's palace
A beautiful lawn of many acres slopes by
half dozen terraces to the waters edge.
Above this lies the palace, which is reached
by winding drives, and away to the right
shine the blue and yellow buildings of the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

a great yearning to resemble some of the
tough element described in the Bible. They
wanted to inaugurate somewhere church
which should be self-supporting and en-
courage the social instinct to a remarkable
degree. Their chief ambition was to organ
ize paying church, wherein the elders
would not have TO rely upon donations, and
wherein also the Old Testament idea of
home might be carried out. So they hitched
up their cattle and steered their caravan
toward the West, over sage and salaratus,
across unbridged rivers and through
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
A WONDERFUL TURTLE.

1t Bit an Inch Plank in Two After Its Head
Was Cut OF:
Henry County (Ga.) Times.l
A turtle weighing SS pounds was caught
in Walnut creek Monday by a party Of
fishermen. Its head was as large as a adog's,
and when cut off snapped in two an inch
plank, which Mr.. McKibben placed in its
mouth. Its she'll measured 28x18 inches,
and will hold nearly bushel. There will
be turtle soup supper given at this Office
on next Saturday night. Admission 25
cents. Proceeds to go toward purchasing
"snake bite' for the Piscatorial Club.
We hope everybody will come out and
make the occasion pleasant and profitable
one. Nit Turnipseed is putting rockers on
the shell and it will be raffled off at 10 cents
chance. Those with little ones should not
fail to attend and get novel and lasting
crib.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
ALL OF INDUSTRIOUS LINEAGE.
Each of Us Can Claim Thirty Five Million
Noble Ancestors.
Baltimore Sun.


Baltimore Sum-
Every man has 2 parents, grandparents,
8 great-grandparents, 16 great-gleat-grand-
parents, 80 great-great-great-grand
etc. Now, if we reckon 25 years to a gen.
Grafton, and carry on the above calculation
to the time of William the Conqueror of
England, it will be found that each living
person must have had at that time even the
enormous number of $4,000, 900 ancestors.
Now, supposing we make the usual allow
ance for the crossing or inter-marry-
ing of families in genealogi-
cal line, and for the same persons being in
many of the intersections of the family
tree, still there will remain a number at
that period even to cover the whole Norman
and Anglo-Sa3on races
What therefore, might have been pious,
princely, kingly or aristoratic stands side
by side in line with the most ignoble, pie
beian or democratic. Each man for the
present day may be certain of having had
not only barons and squires, but even,
crowned heads, dukes, princes or bishops. Of
renowned generals. barristers, physicianf,
ETC., among his ancestors. -
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

swallowing up the Sianese. 1t is the same
here and it is the same everywhere. There
have already been lnter-marriages of Chi
nese and Americans, and with the ability of
the Cinnamon to make money there, I have no
doubt that in case they are freely admitted
to the United States we would in time have
a class OF squint-eyed Americans. The Chi
nese here are rich. They have large estates
on the island, and one of the finest car
riages have seen In Singapore was that of
a Chinaman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
Li.ten TO the nIockinr Bird.
Leary, Ca, courier.l

LEFTY Ud-i OOuIIeI'
When a mocking bird perches upon the
topmost twig of tree, on sunny day,
winds up his music box and turns himself
loose, it is mighty fine music that he makes.
The man who would kill mocking bird is
a savage. The world needs all of its mock
ing birds, its sunshine and flowers The
way is lonely enough even with them. II
is proper to remark, however, that this sug-
gestion may be the result of disordered edi-
torial liver.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
The Sultan of Johore.

After waiting moment the Sultan him
self appeared, A tall, fne-looking, broad
shouldered, light-yellow man with gray hair,
black eyes and gray mustache. He woreya
suit of white duck with Lavender skirt
reaching to his knees, and with bracelets Of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

IN the spring
of 1847 Presi-
dent Brigham
Young started
from Omaha by
full team from
Utah. He had
143 picked men
of manageable
age and great
versatility, also
8 of the 12apos-
ties. These apos-
ties were plain
men with thick
set whiskersand
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
AMERICANS AS SMOKERS.
Our People Consume Nearly Twice as
Much Tobacco ns Europeans.

CINCINNATI Commercial GaZette.1
According to population, Americans con-
sumo nearly twice the amount of tobacco
that is consumed by Europeans This
comes of the. great smoking of tobacco in the
form of cigars. In cigar smoking there is
only partial combustion Of the tobacco.
The tobacco in acigar would load an ordinary
pipe four or FIVE times. There is another
thing TO consider. Cigar-smoking is very
expensive compared with indulgence in the
pipe. The habitual smoker who buys the
cheapest cigars could for the same money
provide himself with the best and costliest
pipe-smoking tobacco.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

city of Johore, which the Sultan has built
within the last few years for his capital. and
which he laid out in the original jungle.
The palace is large, gray and white, two
story building with wide porticos and many
large windows looking out upon the water.
1t is, perhaps, 200 feet long and at least half
that depth. Soldiers, in a costume half
European, keep guard in front of it, and
others in turbans march up and down
through its various corridors. Some of these
soldiers are olive. brown Malays, others are
as black as ebony, and the officer who re-
ceived my letters and took them in to the
Sultan was dressed in European clothes
with Malay surong or skirt shining out
under his coat
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

have made the whole suit and they wore
neither. hats nor bonnets. I noticed an
other of these women who had large, pear
shaped pearl fastened to a riyet and hang
ing down from one nostril almost to her
upper lip.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
SULTAN OF J0HARE.
Something About His Kingdom and
Visit to His Palace.
HOW LRAJAH LIVES AND GOVERNS
Singapore Women and Their Wonderful
Ear Rings.
TRYING TO KEEP COOL IN CHURCH
CORRESPONDENTS OF THE DISPATCH,

SIN G A PORE,
March IL. Singa-
pore is just so miles
north of the equator.
Its climate is the
same the year round.
Its sun rises and sets
at tie same hours
each day the year
through, and its fow-
ers ever bloom and
its trees are always
green. Now, at the
last of February, 1
am surrounded by the
verdure of the tropics.
Birds by the thou
sands sing in the trees
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
Halfway Around the World.

Singapore is an island IA miles wide and
q miles long. 1t lies just half way around
the world from New York, and it is the half
way station between the Pacific and the
Indian Ocean. If you Will take your map
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

president, and was addressed at times by
men vino were selected by the club as thor
oughly worthy. These, after-dinner orators
stood on barrel while addressing the club
and at the close of the speech the barrel was
generally kicked out from under them,
leaving them supporting their weight en-
tirely BY means of their neck. But all law
less acts of claim clubs were afterward at
tributed to special clubs who ran an i'm
promptu business, something as the White
Caps do now when they want TO whip a
woman and are afraid to do so single
handed
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
EARLY JOURNALISM.

The Arro1o was the first Omaha newspaper.
1t started out July %, 1854. Itwas devoted
to the arts, sciences, letters, climate, re-
sources, agriculture, mean temperature and
politics. Mr.. j. E. johnson was the busi-
ness manager, and had four wives beside.
1t is needless to say that he was a man of
great ability. Ali day he would manage
the paper and then, weary and exhausted,
take up the task of successfully managing
his four sonl's idols. He also practiced
law. Incidentally he ran a blacksmith
shop and preached. He was an insurance
agent, and kept general store. On
cold day he would frequently, while
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

BEEcHAM's Pills cure sick headache.
PEARS Soap, the purest and best ever made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
NYE, THE HISTORIAN.
He Describes the Rise and Fall of the
Great Mormon Empire.
THE BAKING POWDER DESERT.
A Bright, Early, but Erratic Light Of Nor
mon Journalism.
BIOGRAPHY OF BIG-NosED GEORGE

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.l
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-09
THE NEWS EPITONIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.


FIVE rnurderers now in the New York
Tornbs have been sentenced to be hanged on
August %.
REPORTS of damage by severe thunder
storms come from all parts of New England
PosTMAsTER-GENE WANAMAKER, Sec
rotary Window and Supervising Arcnl-
tect of the Treasury WindT1m met IN the
room Of Postmaster Van Colt, of New York
CITY. to consider some needed improvements
in the Postoffice building and TO get an ap-
proximate idea of the cost. They VIII en-
deayor to induce the city to buy the present
New York Postoffice building, in which case
the Government viii build another PoSto1lce
up town.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE the author, and four
or five other writers and artists, accompanied
by the fifty workingmen selected by the
Scripp's league of newspapers to visit the
Paris Exposition and points Of interest 10
workingmen in Europe, sailed from New
York for Havre.
COLONEL ENMONS CLARK, ex-Colonel OF
the famous Seventh Regiment, New york
National Guard has declined the appoint
ment as Consul to Havre, France, recently
made by President Harrison.
Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR STEPHEN W.
DORSEY has been arrested in New ork clty
at the instance Of the Nevada Bank OF San
Francisco. Cal, because of his failure to pay
judgment of S4525.08.
FIVE Paterson On. j. breweries, Katz
Brothers, Hinchliffe Brothers, Braun Broth
ers Sprattler G. Mennett and James A.
Graham have been sold to an English syndi-
cate for 81, $50, 600.
ASSISTANT ENGINEER CHARLES G. TALL
CoTT Of the United States ship Atlanta, com
mitted suicide in New York harbOr, in the
bathroom of the ship by shooting himself
through the head. No cause for the suicide
is known.
CHARLEMAGNE TOWER, who went to the
Pennsylvania anthracite coal regions from
New York years ago when poor ana IN
known lawyer, died a few days ago OF pa
ralysis at his summer home, at Watervllle,
n. Y, aged eighty-One years. He was
worth $50, 900, 900.
THE New York commission dry goods firm
of Lewis Brothers & Co. has failed, with
liabilities placed at 81, 200, 600. The assets are
said to be sufficient to cover all indebtedness.
Cornelius n. Bliss is the assignee.
MRS WILLIAM IRWIN, of Washington,
Penn, and her three-year-old son were killed
by train at Elwood's crossing.
The Richmond Paper Company of East
Providence r. l., has failed for $8O0,O 900.
ENGLISH syndicates are said to be trying
to buy New York dry goods stores and New
ark n. j. leather factories.
THE new Hamburg-American twin-screw
steamer Columbia has arrived in New York
harbor after sailing from the Needles, Eng
land, to Sandy Hook-2100 miles-in six
days, twenty-One hours and thirty-seVen
minutes That is the best time ever made
by an ocean steamship over that course
GENERAL JOHN KILPATRICK, one OF the
most conspicuous figures in political circles IN
Pennsylvania, died at his home in HarbOr
Greek, Penn, at the age Of siXty~elght. he
stood almost eight feet high.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-09
A ROYAL. WEDDING,
Earl Fife Married to the Prince
OF Wales's Eldest Daughter,

Earl Fife has been duly married to Prin-
cess Louise, the eldest daughter of the Prince
OF Wales The ceremony took place in the
private chapel of buckingham Palace, Lon
don. This was tho first marriage that ever
took place III the chapel, which is small, and
the number OF guests was therefore, limited
Notwithstanding the rain, the route to the
palace was crowded with spectators. There
was vast concOurse of people opposite the
palace. The Prince Of Wales was enthu-
slastically cheered.
Upon reaching the chapel the Queen wss
escorted TO the seat prepared for her, while
the other royal perSOnageS took seats on
either side Of the altar. The Earl of Fife, ac-
c0mpanled by his groOmsnan, Mr.. Horace
harquhar, took his position at the altar rails
and awaited the coming Of his bride.
The Prince of Wales, with the bride and
Princesses Victoria and Maud Of Wales, and
members Of the household, arrived at the pal
ace Just before noon. They were received by
the Lord Steward and conducted to the Bow
Library, where the bride was joined by the
bridesmaids who were PrinceSses Victoria
and Maud. of Wales, Princess Louise, of
Schieswig- HOlstein, Princess Victoria OF Teck
Countess FeodOre Gleichen, Countess Victo-
ria Gleichen and Countess Helena Gleichen
The clergymen officiating were the Arch
bishop Of Canterbury, the Bishop of London,
the Dean of Windsor, domestic chaplain to the
Queen; the Rev. T. A. J. Hervey. domestic
chaplain to the Prince of Wales, and the Rev.
I. Teignmouth Shore. a choral service was
sung by the choir of the Chapel Royal ST.
James. A feature Of the service was the
singing Of a special anthem. entitled "a Per-
feet Love-" composed by Mr.. Joseph Barn
ably.
After the benediction had been pronounced
the Queen kissed the bride and cordially
greeted the groom.
On arriving at Sheen House the newly
welded pair were enthusiastically welcomed.
They passed between files of Venetian masts
decorated with floral festoons. The path was
covered with carpet, upon which wild flow
ers were streWn by girls dressed in white.
Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra Dag
mar is the eldest daughter and third child
Of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Her
Royal Highness was born at Marlborough
House on February 20, 1867, and is a Lady
CT the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
The Earl of Fife alexander William
George DCfD and Baron Skene, of Skene, in
the United Kingdom Viscount Macduf and
Baron Brace, OF Klbryde, County Cavan, in
ireland, was born on November 10, 1849. He
succeeded his father James, the fifth Earl
on August Z. 1879, and was created an Earl
Of the United Kingdom in 1886.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-09
Foreign.

THE King of Greece, accompanied by Pre-
mier TIrarG. OF france, visited the far1s Ex-
hibition and assembled the GifEel Tower.
COUNT SPARRE, q Swiss Of high family,
shot and killed his mistress, Elvlra Madlgan,
a circus performer, at Taasinge, Denmark,
and then put a bullet through his own brain
THE Austrian infantry has been increased
by the addition of 900 men, raising that
branch Of the service to a war footing.
RI. HON. ". E. GLADSTONE and wife have
Just celebrated in London the fiftieth ami.
versary Of their marriage.
The harvest has been very bad in Hungary
and South Russia owing to continual drought
In Vienna this drought has been severely
felt through q decline of the water supply,
which has diminished TO the extent Of 40O,-
900 hogSheads g day.
The American whaling schooners, James
A. Hamilton, Otter and Annie together with
sixty officers and mon, have been lost in the
Arctic Ocean.
THE ParneIl Commission in London has ad-
journed until October u.
The revolt in Crete is spreading. Risings
are threatened at SphGl1ia, RetimO, Milata
and SideTa
THE Yellow River has again burst its
banks i'll ShanJung China inundating an i'm
mense extent of country. There is twelve
mental districts. The loss of life and prop.
erty is lncaIculable. The Government au-
thorities at Pekin are dismayed
SIR JOHN HENRY PULESTON, Member OF
English Parliament for Davenport, gave a
dinner III the House Of Commons to Robert
T. Lincoln. the United States Minister and
Chauncey n. Depew, of New Y DIRK
GENERAL BOULANGER will be a candidate
for the Councils-General in ninety-two can
tons in France.
4 TORNADO IN Hungary, Pennsylvania and
BuI1Ovina swept over several thousand square
miles OF territory. Hundreds OF persons were
killed, the crops We're destrored, and enor-
nous damage was done to houses and
churches. The districts Of Grosswondein,
Szegedin, and Mohacs were completely
raya red
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-09
VIZ shin ItOn.

FATHER JAMES CUELEE. of the Society o:
Jesus, probably the oldest priest in the world
certainly the oldest IN America, and known
wherever the science Of astronomy Is known
four years in the infru1ary Of Georgetown
District Of Columbia College, where he had
EvAd for sixtY-tWo years.
COMMISSIONER PORTER has selected B. r.
Carroll. the editor of the New York hide
pendent, to have charge OF the work Of col
iecting religious statistics for the eleventh
census.
THE Secretary Of the Navy has awarded
the contract for furnishing 42S tons OF steel
for the new cruiser Maine TO the Linden Steel
Company Of PittsbUrg for So, 7753.
THE contract with the Union Iron works
of San Francisco, Cal. for the construction
Of a coast defence vessel has been signed by
Secretary Tracy. The contract price is $780,
000
SECRETARY WINDOW has received letter
from Mr.. c. W. Arnold declining for private
reasons the office of Collector of Internal
Revenue for the district of Georgia, to which
he was appointed few days ago.
President HARRISON has approved the
changes in the civil service regulations
applied TO the railway mail service recon-
mended By the Civil Service Commissioners.
TIE count of the cash and securities in the
United States Treasury, incident to the
transfer OF the office from Mr.. Hyatt to Mr..
Huston, has been completed. The amount
reported on hand aggregated over 500, GU,-
900 in gold, silver and paper, and was all &C.
counted for.
THE retirement of Major Alexander
Sharpe, of Washington, on account OF age
reduces the number Of paymasters Of the
United States army to thirty-two, leaving
the quota three in excess of the number fixed
by the act of 1884.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-09

inent, North Dakota agreeing to pay Soua
Dakota 50 500 to square accounts
FIVE railroad hands were reported to have
lost their lives by an explosion Of dynamite
twelve miles west of Wabash, Ind.
IN Elk Township, Clayton County, Iowa,
Wesley Elkins, but little more than eleven
wears of age, murdered his father and step
mother.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-09
LEAGUE RECORD.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.

HE Iuanau war once mas decided 20 nv
the mobilization of q hundred thousand men
n the autumn. The grand maneuvers will
be given up, and the whole country will be
convulsed with this tremendous experiment.
which will cost So, 100000. A large part OF
these troops ~Till be taken from the militia,
so as to test the country's readiness for war