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THE BOAT OF THE DAY
McD0ugall's Derided Whalebacks Will
Soon See Salt Water.
THEY'RE NOW SELF-PROPELLING,
And Are Far Superior to Anything Afloat
for Bulk Freight.
CAPITALISTS OF CUBA INTERESTED

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcH.l
CLEVELAND, September 23.-Readers of
The DISPATCH are already familiar with
McDougalPs whale-backs of the great
lakes. In the early summer of 1888
there was launched from a little shipyard,
newly established at Duluth, steel tow
barge, christened the "No. 1O1," unlike
anything afoat anywhere else in the world.
1t was without spars, and was utterly help
less so far as navigating itself was con-
cerned, and was intended solely for towing.
1t was the consummation of the ideas and
dreams of Captain Alex. McDougall, an
old lake captain, and the model was
patented.
The No. 101 was the butt of countless
jokes. Up and down the lakes every sailor
and vessel man was laughing at "Mc-
Dougall's dreams" and scoffing at the idea
that such cigar-shaped "dugout" should
ever become profitable property as freight
carrier.
M'DoUGALL'S HARD FIGHT.
For nearly 20 years McDougall had been
talking about such boat. explaining that,
as it presented less surface to the wind and
waves than an ordinary vessel, it would tow
more easily and roll less in heavy sea
than boat of the old type, and trying to
convince those who would listen to him that
such barge, 28O feet long and SO ieet wide.
would carry more ore on 16-:oot draft than
a steel vessel of the ordinary type 295 rect
long and Al feet wide.
The old vessel men thought him daft, but
at last he succeeded in interesting capital
enough in his idea to build the No. 101.
She speedily proved the practical nature of
the McDougall model, and the American
Steel Barge Company was organized, with
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
DRINKING BEER FROM GLASS.
Two Wise German Professors Have Gone
Into BnrIIe ON the Subject.

Two Wise German Professors Have Gone
Into BarIIe ON the Subject.
A spirited contest has for some while been
waged in Germany between the beer-glass
and the stone-mug factories. DR.. Schultze
clai ms to have established, by very ex-
tended series of experiments, that beer, by
as little as five minutes standing in any
glass, even when cold and in the dark, will
be materially affected both in taste and odor
Hs sustans his claims by trial tests con-
frmed by some 100 persons. The change,
he thinks, is due to the slight solubility of
the glass substance in the beer. This is Of
further i'm Dortance from the TACT that the
glass most generally used contains lead,
which has been added for its better
and more easy manipulation in manu- acture.
From a series of experiments made upon
glasses obtained from the leading sources OF
supply, he determined that one cubic cent?
meter of beer, by FIVE minutes standing in
glass, dissolved to 26 ten millionths OF the
glass substance containing to 48 thousand
millionths of milligram OF lead-oIide.
This small quantity Of glass substance he
claims affects the taste Of the beer, and, II 1t
also contains this lead, renders it objection
able from sanitary reasons
He gives the following comparative scale
of fitness for beer vessels as made out Of
different material: All lead glazed mugs
are to be wholly excluded. Covered, salt
glazed stone mugs he ranks as good, out tin
ones as better, and gold-lined silver mugs as
the best. Hard lead-free glass he ranks as
poor, but soft-pressed glass as still poorer,
and poorest of all lead glass, either pressed
or blown. Porcelain, even that made at
Nielsen, he thinks not serviceable. Wood
mugs are doubtful on account of the pitch
yarnish, which, even il it should not flavor
the beer, yet Is liable to induce loss of sleep
and headache.
DR.. Schultze's conclusions have been dis
cussed and disputed by Pro sessor Linke, he
claiming that, according to Schultze's own
showing, 2O,8OO litres of beer out OF the
worst kind oil lead beer glass must be drunk
within ffty-seven years, in order to take in
even one milligram of lead-oxide into the
body of one drinking litre of beer day.
From an average quality of lead glass, it
would take "a, 900 litres and two hundred
and three years to accomplish the same.
Moreover, he claims that Schultze's lead
quantities are seventy-six times too great,
and that therefore it would require that
much longer time to imbibe that small
amount of lead.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
ROYAL FISH.
The Sturgeon md Whale When Captured
the Properly of the King.

The Sturgeon md Whale When Captured
the Properly of the King.
W. r. g., in Harper's Young People.1
While old and wise heads OF the United
States and England are carrying on digni-
fed quarrel over the ownership of the seal
in Behring Sea, let me tell you something
about royal fish. You know that kings and
queens have many rights and prerogatives.
Well, one OF these prerogatives of English
rulers in olden times related to royal fish.
Royal fish are sturgeon and whale, which
are considered the finest of deep sea fish.
For this reason, ION account Of their supe-
rior excellence" whenever one of these fish
was thrown ashore or caught near the coast
OF England it became the property of the
king. This seems very unjust to those who
might secure the whale or sturgeon, for they
were compelled to give it up without receiv-
ing any pay. However, the King had some
ground for claiming these royal fish as his
property, because it was he who guarded and
protected the seas from pirates and robbers,
and in those days there were very many of
them.
The most peculiar feature OF the custom
OF royal fish was this-that while the whole
OF the sturgeon belonged to the King, only
half of whale did. For it was preroga-
tive, as it is called. of the Queen that the
tail of every whale caught in the way have
told you was her property, while the head
only was the Kings. The reason for this
division, as given by the old records, was to
furnish the Queens wardrobe with whale
bone: and this reason is more amusing than
the custom is peculiar, for the whalebone
lies entirely in the head of the whale. But
there are many more as strange and anus
ing customs recorded in England's early
laws.
This right to royal fish was considered of
great importance, and was carefully guarded
for many generations. 1t was also pre-
rogative Of the Kings of Denmark and the
Dukes of Normandy, and from one OF these
it was probably derived by the Princes of
England,
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COMPRESSED AIR.
Some Facts Concerning the New Motive
Power to be Adopted at EIIwood.
pa

Some Facts Concerning the New Motive
Power TO be Adopted at EIIwood.
Beaver tPa.) Journal.
II. w. Hartman was seen to-day by a re-
porter regarding the compressed air project
at Ellwood which has recently occupied
some space in several newspapers. He said
the accounts which he had seen, gave very
meager and unsatisfactory impressions OF
this new motive force. He also said he had
been having the subject examined by the
most competent engineer for long time
past and that the Pittsburg company would
utilize all the water power from the big dam
to be built at Ellwood, in tnis manner.
'The surplus power from the dam now
building here. will probably be converted
into compressed air. Whenever large water
powers are available, say for 1000 horse
power and over, then this plan is entirely
feasible. 1t is q great success in Europe
and will Ultimately be adopted on an exten-
sive plan in this country. In England,
they are making it by steam power, with
coal at 16 to 20 shillings a ton, and
selling the compressed air to factories as we
do Datural gas, piping it several miles
through the streets.
when such can be done successfully
with high priced fuel, what may we not ex-
Ellwood? We propose to operate all our
own factories with compressed air as soon as
the dams are completed. What have we to
fear from natural gas failures when we have
harnessed the water that runs to waste at
our feet and with it connected the air we
breathe, into the greatest motive power ever
known?
have recently been through a factory on
hot August day where 10 engines were
running with compressed air and were ex-
hausted within the buildings, thus produc.
ing the most perfect and healthful ventila-
ton. Not steam joint, or even boiler in
the place. Oh it's the only thing ever seen
that beats natural gas. Truly the world
moves nowadays and we must keep up with
the procession, or all away to the rear"
''It is impossible" he continued, ito give
anything like an adequate description of
what it is doing and what it can be made to
accomplish. 1t is one of the most import
ant discoveries of the age"
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Then she began and very slowly and
tenderly she played the air oil Scotch song
-"Annie's Tryst." 1t IS simple air, and
vet pathetic in its way; and, indeed, so
sensitive and skilllul was her touch that the
violin seemed to speak; anyone familiar
with the song might have imagined he heard
the words interpenetrating those vibrant
notes:
Your hand is cauld as snaw, Annie,
Your cheek is wan and whltei
What gars We tremble sae Annie,
What makes your e'e sac bright!
The snaw is on the ground. Willie.
The frost is cauld and keen.
But there's a burnin hre, VINE,
That sears my heart within.
oh, will ye tryst wi me, Annie,
Oh, will We tryst me thenT
I'll meet We by the burn. Annie,
That wfmples down the glen.
daurna tryst wi you, Willie,
daurna tryst ye here.
But we'll hold our tryst in heaven, Willie,
In the springtime o. the year.
ssThat is too sad, Msisrie," her grand
father said, lretiulIy. "Why don't you
sing something?"
She turned to Vincent there was a mute
question in her eyes.
"Will you sing the Claire Fontaine,
Maisrie?" said he.
She seemed little surprised; it was
strange song to ask for on night of fare
we'll; but she did as she was hidden. She
went and got the book and placed it open
before her on the table: then she drew her
bow across the strings.
But hardly had she began to sing the
little ballad than it became evident there
was something added to the pure, clear
tones Of her wholesome quality OF an in
defnable nature-some alien influence that
might at any moment prove too strong for
her self-control.
Sur la plus hau te branche-
This was the point at which she began
LIE rossignol, chantait:
Shante rossIgnol, chante,.
Toi qui as le coeur GAL
And so far all was well; but at the refrain
Lui va longtemps que je taime,
Jamais je ne toubierai
Her voice shook little, and her lips were
tremulous. Vincent curses his folly hum
dred times over: why had he asked her to
sing the "Claire Fontaine?" But still she
held bravely on:
Chante, rossignol. chante,
Toi qui as lie ceur gai;
Tu as lie coeur a rire
Moi je alta pleurer-
And here she could 90 no further for those
choking tears in her voice; she stood for a
moment sll uncertain trying to master her.
sell; then she laid the violin on the table,
and with broken GOOD night, Vincent
and goodbye she turned and left the room,
her hands hiding her face, her frame shaken
by the violence of her sobbing.
There was an instant of silence.
eyes, it is time she was taken away" old
George Bethune said, with deep frown on
his shaggy eyebrows. "Her nerves are all
wrong. Why should she make such a to-do
about leaving London for fortnight?"
But Vincent Harris knew better than that.
1t was not this unexpected departure that
was in Maisrie's mind; it was the words
that he had spoken to her and she to him
earlier in the evening. 1t was of no tort
nights absence she was thinking, but of a
far wider and longer farewell.
To be Continued Neat Sunddu.1
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the sound is by possessions of the United
States. Long Island Sound is as much of
a high sea, and the tide rises as high there
as in Behring Sea, and the British subject
living next to Maine could reach the sound
by fewer days sailing and hours OF time than
the British living next to Alaska.
why not claim for the inhabitants of
Canada the right to enter the Sound and
capture bluefsh and muskrats? They could
do 1t much easier than they could 90 to
Behring Sea for seals and whales to be found
there. Neither the United States nor Eng
land ever claimed that Behring Sea was a
sea open to the entrance of powers others
than Russia prior to the cession to the
United States. There was a contention
about whale fishing, etc., in the North Pa
cific Ocean; but that applied to territory
clearly in the Pacific Ocean, and th at was
settled as it ought to have been with out
even remote reference to Behring Sea-"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21

iron ore property in Cuba are greatly inter-
ested in the McDougall barges.
The Sigua Iron Company, which includes
a number of Phiiadelphia and European
capitalists, expects TO give them thorough
trial in carrying ore from their
Cuban mines to Philadelphia, Baltimore
and other Atlantic ports, nd the
Spanish-American Iron Company, of this
city, in which the Elys and a number of
other leading Lake Superior iron mine
owners are heavily 10 .erested, intends to use
the McDougall vessels in carrying ore
from Cuba to Mobile and other ports.
Hon. George 81. Ely, who is an authority
on lake commerce as we'll as the iron ore
business, says he fails to see any reason
why these boats should not succeed in this
Cuban orc trade and that in his opinion
they are just the thing for it. This is
likely to open wide field for them.
FOR THE PACIFIC.
1t is also we'll known that the Barge Com
pany has for some time been considering
the advisability of building yard on the
Pacific Coast. The city of Tacoma has Of
fered the company extraordinary induce
ments and supported its promises by good
bond. An official of the company in speak
ing of this project recently sail: 81 be-
lieve that in another year McDougall's
barges will be running between Puget
Sound and San Francisco. We have been
guaranteed contracts for carrying coal from
the Sound to San Francisco that will war
rant US in building the yard"
Meanwhile Captain McDougall is more
active and energetic than ever and more
sanguine. The verdict of experience thus
far is in his favor, and the success he has
already achieved on the great lakes assures
him ample reward Tor his originality, even
should the greater plans for development on
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts fail. The
inventor has won his long struggle for recog-
milton, his dreams are made real and the
public will be benefited by the cheaper
transportation that is Certain to follow the
wider adoption of the McDougall model tor
vessels engaged in carrying all kinds of
coarse, bulky products.
SAMUEL G. MCCLURE,
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HE SWALLOWED THE BULLETS.
Wise Fowl That Refused TO be she's
Dead Died of Dyspepsia.

A Wise Fowl That Refused TO be she's
Dead Died of Dyspepsia.
New York SUM-
"I've had some very queer experiences
with OWLS" said the lame commuter.
"There was one owl that came about my
grounds that we killed in a remarkable
manner. He invariably kept his head
stuck right out at us, so that
it was impossible for US to shoot
him anywhere but in the face. And
he seemed to like that sort of thing, for
il the bullet few little too high or too low,
he would simply raise or lower his head, as
the case might be, and catch it in his mouth.
sat out on my back porch and wasted a lot
of bullets on that fellow, just to amuse him.
"Well, kept pegging away at him and
he began to grow thin. Finally, while
was shooting at him one evening, he toppled
off the tree, stone dead"
''That last shot took effect, SUPPOSE"
said the little man with the chin whisker.
mo, sir; not at all. That confounded
owl had got so much shot in him as to in
terfere with his digestive organs. He stood
it as long as he could, and then died OF dys-
pepsia, It's queer about owls"
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THE SMALLEST SCHOOL.
A Connect Man Is Teachinz Six Pupils
for Very HeIHr S1I,rx

A Connecticut Man /. Teaching Six Pupils
fer n Very Heivy SAIlry.
Three little boys, three little girls, and a
teacher comprise the school of District No.
9 in the town of East Windsor. Without
doubt this is the smallest school in Connec-
ticut, and perhaps lew can be found any
where to beat it. The schoolhouse is a good
and com 'ortable one. 1t has seats and
desks to accommodate "a pupils, and
benches for as many more. Twenty-seVeu
pupils were registered in the school in 1873
9. In 1889-90 the number had dropped to
the unlucky thirteen, with an average at
tendance OF 4.8 in winter and 81 in summer.
On the first Monday Of the present month
the school began with three pupils. In the
course OF week three more appeared, and
the register was thus doubled. The teacher
oil this little school is Henry F. Fletcher.
He is young map, apparently not over 20,
and this is his first experience as teacher.
His school is equally divided between the
sexes. With psrdonable pride he informs
the visitor that when all are present he has
a school of 16 classes. He receives the
munifcsnt salary Of IS 80 week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
GETTING OUT OF A ROPE.

Simple Little Trick Tint Always Looks
Very PuzzlinR.
Take stout rope about 20 feet long and
hand it to your audience for inspection.
While they are examining it let commit
tee of gentlemen, that being the approved
style of doing the thing, bind your wrists
together with handkerchief This being
done have one end of the rope passed over
the handkerchief, and let tine cords then be
held up by one of the company. Now re-
quest the person holding the ends to pull
one way while you pull the other, to show
that the handkerchief is tightly tied. There
is now apparently no way of getting the
rope off except the ends are released or the
handkerchief united.
You soon explode this idea, however. for
after making one or two rapid movements
Of your hands and arms you throw the rope
off and exhibit your wrists still tied.
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The oil D0ct or.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.1
They've got a new man down hyere
At Mason's Cove, thet's young
An got a heap o. Parnin'
An quite lily tongue.
Pve nothin' no-way 'ginst him,
But tell ye! when Pm sick
want old DR.. Milspaugh.
An want him mighty quickl
He's doctored all my family
Fer sixty year, ye know,
An when re couldn't cure US
He never told us so!
He never give a case up
Like doctors sometimes do,
But let us die a-hopin'
Thet we was pullin' through.
M most like about him
Is tibet he never tries
New-fangled drugs upon ye,
Like some that amt so wise.
No differ what's your ailment
He'll give ye calermel;
Ef thet don't work he'll dose ye
With quinine fer spell.
Thar amt no form O. sickness
Thet ever showed itse'f
Inside o. mortal critters
Enj'yin mortal breaf
But what old Doc kin spot it
An call the thing by name,
Like he was blood-kIn to 1t
An knowed Rom whar 1t came.
He's hand-in-glove with fevers,
M when he strikes sprain
He's Jest like he was sayin'
s'Well, hyere ye are againp'
An even Death don't faze him
He knows it. branch an roots,
So well We bout 'ud reckon
They both was in cahoots.
An bein' he's so porful,
Eff ever I'm took sick
'S Isay, want old Doctor,
M want him middlin' quicki
IF my times come, naught kin save me;
Eff IL amt, why then old Doc
'Ull fetch me round a-hummin'
An gritty ez rock.
EVA WILpKR Mo0LAesol
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GETTING RID OF RESERVE.

The Most PopnI ,r Dinner Party Among the
FashionabIe of Paris.
Eugene Field, poet, paragrapher, wag,
humorist and newspaper drudge records an
alleged innovation he lately observed at a
fashionable dinner in Paris:
''The guests" he says, "do not sit all at
one table, but are disposed at small tables in
groups OF eight. By this means is obviated
the trigid solemnity which Invariably char
acterizes occasions OF this kind. A flower.
to which is attached tiny card, signifies to
each gentleman which lady he is expected to
escort to dinner, and he sits at the place
designated BY posy. corresponding to the
one which he wears."
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ENGLAND MAY WANT THIS.

Long Island Sound is as Much an Open Sea
as Behring.
New York Press.1
John M. Guiteau, the attorney, has given
considerable study to the Behring Sea in
ternatlonal controversy, and he said yester-
day: "Behrlng Sea is larger than Long
Island Sound, but it is as efectually closed
by the property of America and Russia as
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IL
Rethune was talking of 1.-THE Demon
Lover" Of its alleged Italian origin, and of
a suggestion he had seen somewhere that it
was 10 forsaken sweetheart who had come
to tempt the welded vile, but iend adopt
ing that disguise. When they reached the
little parlor he began 10 search about for
the volume in which "The Demon Lover"
was thus treated; but could not find it;
whereupon he went upstairs to see if it was
not among his books and papers there. As
soon as he had gone, Maisrie rose and came
over to where the young man was standing
by the fireplace.
"What have 1 done, Vincent?" she said.
"Oh, nothing" he made answer, avoiding
her ewes.
Il have a right to know" she said,
proudly.
at is nothing" said he. IL made a
mistake; that is all.
She looked at MIN in mute reproach, then
she turned away and went back to her seat.
There was a paper-knife on the table beside
her; she took that into her hands and began
to finger it; her eyes were downcast; he was
tree to go now, when he chose.
But he did not go. On the contrary, after
a second or two of vacillation, he followed
her.
"Maisrie," said he, in a very different
tone. perhaps it's all mistake on my part.
Ii so, am sorry. l don't want to vex
you"
II don't want to vex you, Vincent" said
she, in a somewhat low voice. 'Tell me
what it is.
WELL" said he, 'I came here this after
noon thinking-hoping-th might be
some more definite understanding between
you and me; yes, was hoping for much
and then-aDd then found you quite care
less and thoughtless, just as ii nothing at all
had happened last night"
Last night?" she repeated.
"Yes," said he, rather reproachfully.
"Don't you remember what happened last
Tombstone daily prospector., 1890-10-15

down and preventing the murderous raids of our hereditary enemies, tlsere by securing to us peace and feeling of security to which We have been strangers for years. is grateful 10 our people and this convention desires to tender it's thanks to the military for their action.
 FouRTH-Mercy, and desire to re- lieye suffering being considered the grandest tributes of human character this convention charaetesizes as in human that section of what is known AS the ''hospitsl law" preventing the extension of public relief to aiien suf- ferers, and hereby pledges the eandi- dates for the legislature fer the repeal of that law.
 FiFTH-Our taxpayers having been for number uf years compelled to endure high rate of taxation, this convention points to the fact tlrsi by reason of the late administration of our affairs during the past two years the rate of taxation in Cochise county Is now lower than it has been for a long term of years and this convention pledges its candidates to an economi- cal administration of afrairs
 SIxTH-for an almost uninterrupt- ed term of ten years Arizona has been represented in the halls of Congress by men Of the Democratic party and they having in that time accomplish ed nothing for the benefit of our Ter ri'ory, we charge them with incom- potency and believe that the time has arrived when we should make n strong and united effort 10 change the rolit- ical complexion of our representative m congress and as joint councilman from the southern district, therefore resolved that this convention dO heartily endorse and ratiiy the nomi- nation of Hon. Geo. W. Clfeyney for delegate to congress, and Hon. ". F. Nichols as joint councilman, and pledge the honor of this convention and the Republican party of Cochise to do all in their power to secure their election.