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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
THE SENTENCE TO THE CROSS.
A Fac. Smile Of the Original Plate Contain.
ing the Savior's Death Order.


Fac-Simile Of the Original Plate Contain.
ing the snvior's Death Order.
New York Telegram.l
In an odd collection Of bowie knives,
pistols and other rlff-raff at one of the many
museums on the Bowery, few days ago, 1
came across a small brass plate, the surface
of which was covered with Hebrew clfarac-
tiers. A small card that hung above it read
as follows:
The following is copy Of the most mem
orable judicial sentence which has ever been
pronounced in the annals of the world
namely, that of death against the Savior,
the knowledge of which must be interesting
in the highest degree to every Christian.
The sentence is word for word as follows:
Sentence pronounced by Pontius Plate,
Intendant o the Province of Lower Galilee,
that Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer death by
the cross. In the seventeenth year OF the
reign of the Emperor Tiberius, and on the
18th of the month Of March, in the most
holy city of Jerusalem, during the Pontifi-
cate of Annas and Calaphas, Pontius Plate,
Intendant of the Province of Lower Galilee,
sitting in judgment in the Presidential seat
of the Praetors, sentences Jesus Christ of
Nazareth to death on a cross between two
robbers, as the numerous and notorious testi-
mOnldls OF Lne peOpie prOVe'
One-Jesus is a misleader.
Two-He has excited the people to sedi-
tion.
Three-He is an enemy to the laws.
Four-He calls himself the Son OF God.
Five-He calls himself falsely the King
OF Israel.
Six-He went into the temple followed by
a multitude CARRYING palms in their hands.
Orders-The first centurion, Quintus Cor
nelius, to bring him to the place of execu-
ton iorbids all persons. rich or poor, to
prevent the execution of Jesus. The wit
nesses who have signed the execution
against Jesus are: One, Daniel Robani,
Pharisee; two. John Zorobabel; three,
Raphael Robani; four, Capet. Jesus to be
taken out of Jerusalem through the gates of
Tournea.
, A card below the plate states that the
translation is literal, and that the plate,
once owned BY one of the commissaries OF
art in the French army in Italy, is a fac
simile OF the original plate. which was dis
covered in the year 1880, in the city of
Aquill. in the kingdom OF Naples.
The original relic is now kept in the
Chapel Of Caserta.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
Shelter on Board Shin,

An invention which will be heartily well
coined by seafaring men is an improved
shelter for watchmen or officers on watch on
board steamships or sailing vessels. The
usual shelter ior the watch or officers on the
bridge or other part of steamer Is COM
posed of canvas sheet lashed taut to up
rights, top rail and foot board, the canvas
being carried to about the height of mans
shoulders, so that his head is exposed to the
force of the wind, and serious strain is
imposed on his eyesight. The invention,
which has just been patented, improves the
position of the man, shielding him from
wind by directing it over his head, and en-
abling the shield or screen to be turned to face
the wind. A screen frame is pivoted, and,
instead Of canvas, sheet iron, galvanized, is
used as the screen, which is Of such depth
and so curved from the feet downward that
the wind becomes pocketed and somewhat
compressed. The consequence is that in
rising up the hollow OF the curve so as to
give it an extra impetus upward along the
face OF the screen, the wind is forced up
over the head OF the man or officer on watch.
1t will be readily understood that such
device will be OF the utmost value in di-
minishing the physical strain in severe
weather, when the duties of the watchman
become doubly anxious and onerous.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
Fire QuenchinR nj Sen.

Investigation into the causes of the recent
fires on steamships have shown that the use
OF very simple means of fire extinction, the
injection Of carbonic acid gas into the hold,
is very often not resorted to when it would
be of the utmost service. It is matter for
surprise that this effective safeguard, which
requires for its generation only a few bar
rels of marble dust and 20 or 30 gallons of
hydrochloric acid, with hogsheads for the
confinement of the gas and hose for its in
lection, is not universally employed for
the preservation of life and property on the
high seas, especially as in the hold of YES
sci. which can be tightly closed, the prin-
ciple of chemical extinction can be applied
with almost certain success. The adoption
of such system would result not only in
the saving of property, but it might at any
time prove the means OF avertine loss Of
life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
Latest Form of Rubber Pavement,

The municipal authorities of Brussels
have decided to experiment on the new
compound, "caoutchouc macadam." A
portion of one of the principal boulevards
of the city is being paved with this material.
The compound consists of a mixture of
India rubber and different kinds of stones.
ground up together, and converted into q
sort of cement by means of heat. The
material is stated to be hard, elastic and
endurable. and to be unchanged by either
heat or cold. 1t is antici pated that it will
prove extremely we'll adapted for running
tracks, and lawn tennis courts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
Danger in Excessive Exercise.

A surgeon states that of 5000 decrepit or
aged soldiers that have been brought under
his notice, fully 80 per cent were suffering
from heart disease in one form or another,
due to the forced physical exertion OF the
campaigns, and he predicts that as large a
percentage of the athletes of to-day will be
found % years from now to be the victims Of
heart disease, engendered by the muscular
strains that they force themselves to under
20. With regard to the effect of exercise on
the prolongation of life, it may be said that
there are more people living in France To-
day who have passed the age of go than
there are in England, the home of athletic
sports; and there is probably no nation In
Europe more averse to athletic cultivation
for its own sake than the French. Great
athletes die young, and the mortality list OF
Oxford men who had rowed in the varsity
races, published few years ago, showed
that comparatively small percentage of
them lived out the allotted time. A physi-
clan has compiled some very elaborate
statistics to demonstrate that men of thought
live, on an average, 3K years longer than
men In the ordinary voeations OF life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
Excellence of Railroad Service.

A traveller on the London and North
Western Railway, while going southwark
from Edinburg by the West Coast route,
states that noticing the great speed of the
train, he took the trouble to reckon what it
was. In the space of six miles he found
that it averaged 80 miles an hour. He was
sitting in a compartment of an eight
wheeled coach weighing about 10 tons, and
notwithstanding the extraordinary speed,
there was an entire absence of oscillation,
and both the carriage and the permanent
way are described as being in state of
perfection. So far as any motion of the
carriage was concerned, it was impossible
for the passenger to tell whether he was
going at the rate of 80 miles an hour or 18.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
New Use for ConI Gns.

A leading English technical journal
points out that now that the electric light is
SO rapidly supplan ting gas, inventors are
eagerly searching for new fields of useful
ness for the older illuminating medium.
As a heating agent it is almost perfect, and
the bye products have been utilized to an
astonishing extent. It is strange that in
ventors have overlooked the utility of the
asphyxiating properties of the nonoxide of
carbon contained in coal gas. Workmen in
gas works are frequently poisoned by fumes
be brought to by liberal use of alcohol. 1t
is suggested that this Notwithstanding
the alcohol-might lead to solution Of the
problem of the humane execution of GRIM
inals.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
EVERY DAY SCIENCE.
Statistics Show That There's a Good
Time Ahead for Farmers.
EXERCISE AND HEART DISEASE.
Travelling Eighty Miles Per Hour on an
English Railroad.
UTILIZATION OF COMMON COAL GAS
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. J

WRITTEN FOR THE D1sPATcH.1
The population of this country is increas-
ing to such an extent, and SO much OF the
old land has gone out of cultivation, that 1t
has been suggested that within ten years it
may be found necessary to import large
quantities of wheat to feed the ever-increas-
ing population The acreage of cultivated
farm land is rapidly decreasing, Vermont,
New Hampshire and Massachusetts, being
full of abandoned farms on which the trees
are again encroaching, and MASSACHUSETTS
has to-day as much wooded land as when 1t
was first settled, and far more than GEN.
tury ago. The statistics which have been
issued by the American Department of Ag-
riculture for the year 1889 contain some in
teresting figures on the state OF agriculture
in the United States during the past ten
years, period which commenced in great
prosperity and ended in great depression.
There has been a great decline, not only in
yield OF crops, but also in prices, during
this period. Now, however, prices seems to
be recovering not only in the case of wheat,
but also for farm stock, and calculations
have been made to show that by January,
1894, population OF 72, 900, 600 will require
in staple crops an area OF 226, 800, 900 acres;
and, allowing an addition f12, ,000, 900 acres
to be made to the cultivated land in the in
terval. there would be, by the time named,
a deficit of nearly 1000. 900 acres, which, OF
course, will 60 on increasing at very rapid
rate. If these calculations be correct, they
show that farmers are about to enter on
new era of prosperity, and that most i'm
portant industry will be again placed on a
solid basis,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05

A suggestive use of photography has been
recently made. Landscape features are
photographed here and there, figures being
posed to fit the theme; the different parts
are then collected into an effective group and
the assembled groups are rephotographed to
form one complete picture. Something of
this kind has been done by artists IN CYCLIC
ramic painting, the different views being
grouped together in sections and painted on
the canvas in connected groups to form a
complete representation of vast stretch of
landscape.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05

A new machine has been designed for the
excavation of sewer trenches. The material
in this system of excavation Is handled but
once, and the operation is continuous, line
of loaded buckets passing out, and a line Of
empty ones returning to be filled at the
same time. Ordinary excavating machines
require the empty buckets TO be returned
over the same line over which the full ones
are sent out, and it is claimed that for this
reason the new machine can work more
rapidly and cheaply.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
coCHINEAL AND COFFEE
The Crimson Bug Has Attacked fbs Pl.xt
Where Cactus Isn't Grown


In many places in South and Central
America, where the cochineal bug was
formerly grown with care, the cultivation
has been abandoned owing to the introdue-
tion of aniline dyes, which has all but
Ousted cochineal as a dye stuff from the
market. But the abandonment Of coch-
meal culture has had curious consequence
on the coffee plantations which have been
substituted for the cactus previously
grown Tor the sustenance of the crimson
bug.
In Guatemala, according to the report Of
the British Consul in that place, the coffee
plant has recently been attacked by dis
ease which was previously unknown. In
vestigation. however, has shown that the
supposed disease is nothing more or less
than an attack of the cochineal insect,
which, in default of the cactus previously
provided for its use. has adapted itself to
the coffee plant.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
MILLIONS IN IT.

How Ames Got the Idea of tho Long Han.
died shovel He Manufactures.
Detroit Free Press.1
Ames, of long-handled shovel fame did
not invent the implement. A boy who was
digging out . woodchuck, broke the handle
OF his shovel and fitted in temporary one
Of double the length. Ames happened to
pass by, and noticing how much easier the
shovel was handled, he caught on and
started factory. The boy got dollar hat
and the woodohuck out Of Il
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05

his position in the center of action to watch
everything, and be ready to modify the
original plan, swiftly. il needful. The
change from brilliant uniforms to those OF
somberer and safer hues will involve such
expense that it is likely to be deferred TOR
awhile, but the glitter of hemlets and bay
onets is now so dangerously visible that al
ready the French Minister of War has
given orders that in the army of the Repub-
lie these shall be dulled with bronze.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
modisca,iou. .. War Tactics.

III ID pointed ont ap one of the conss-
quences Of universal introduction of smoke
less powder which is now imminent, that,
as soldiers will have to seek all possible
cover, it will be necessary 70 multiply the
number of orderlies and messengers, and
the cnmmruder in chiefp will have to take
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
Complexion Specialists

Nine. A. Ruppert's world-renowned face
bleach Is the only face tonic in the world which
positively removes freckles, moth patches,
blackheads, pimples, birthmarks. eczema and
all blemishes of the skin, and when applied
cannot be observed by anyone. Thousands OF
ladies and gentlemen are using 1t daily in Pitts
burg and in all parts OF the world, with pleas
ing results. Call at nv office and see testt-
m0nials from ladies of Pittsburg and vicinity
who do not wish their names published The
face bleach can only be had at my branch office,
No. 90 Fifth avenue. Hamilton building. rooms
203 and 204, Pittsburg. or sent to any address on
receipt of price. Sold at 81 per bottle or three
bottles. usually required TO clear the complex
ion, IS. Send cents postage for full particulars
iyl6-lOl-su NINE. A. RUPERT.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05


CAPTAIN BRoPHY, chief inspector of
the Electrical Mutual Insurance Company,
in an address on electric light wires, and
the protection of iremen from injury by the
electric current, avoids the error into which
many electricians fall in writing or address
ing miscellaneous audience, OF employing a
mass of technical phrases. which serve only to
bemuddle and embarrass many of the persons
whom they are designed to instruct. Cap
tain Brophy made point of insisting that the
generation of the electric current or the pro-
ductiou of light and power is not surrounded
with that degree of mystery that most of those
who do not, and some Of those who
should know better, would have the public
believe. The law of the electric current, its
generation and distribution, is just as simple as
are the laws of hydraulics mechanics. The
electric light is the result of the conversion of
the energy of the steam engine or other source
of power. A 1000 candle power arc light ab-
serbs something less than one horsepower
while burning, or to speak accurately, 67-100 of
an electrical horse-pov er. Fifty arc lamps in
series would require 331a horsepower. inde-
pendent of the power required to overcome
moving parts of the engine, dynamo and shaft
ing. To grasp the cross-head. crank-arm or
rim of a fy-wheel while the engine is running
at full speed would be an act of madness, and
it may to SOM suggest the force of electricity
when 1t is stated that to place ones self in the
path of the current from so light arc dynamo
would be equivalent to attempting to stop
S5 horsepower engine in the manner just de-
scribed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05

IT is noted, as showing that even the
greatest and wisest of men sometimes make
mistakes; that about II years ago Mr.. Ed
ison stated that the carbon would not make an
efficient filament for an incandescent lamp,
and that the only reliable material to use was
platinum. Experience, however, has taught
Mr.. Edison that carbon makes the very best
flament obtainable, and now, in fact, he uses
nothing else.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05

a PLUCKT WHALE.-Dr. Warrington
Cafyn writes from Adelaide to the Pail NuH
Budget as follows: As far as can learn IT
is the rarest thing for whale not to fear a
steamer. On the morning of July II. in
l}stituGe - s., longitude 7s F., Captain
Hiepworth, R. n. R., OF the steamship Port
adelaide, was taking his sight when he
Hqticed large sperm whale alongside. 80
cldse that his sPouting wetted the deck.
THE creature had evidently lost his school, /"
and mistaken us for one OF his own species.
Hei remained with us for four days and
nights, and travelled $50 nautical or 1,O25
tJLtute mics without a rest, and, as far as
on e could gather. without iood. He was
ndSver more than 20 yards away, and for the
md st part close against the ship, under her
QUARTER, where the draught made swimming
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05

A VANQUIsHED FIGHTER-Sullivan is
an intelligent bulldog, who is part OF Oil
Citv's fire department. He is as deaf as a
post, is a great rounder and wears the scalps
OF score or more CANNES of the neighbor.
hood at his belt-metophorically speaking.
takes good solid hold around the neck and
then goes to sleep until he is clubbed away.
Sullivan has never been "licked"-that is,
he had never been clicked" up to a few
nights ago. But then he met his Waterloo
by little Insignificant animal which Sulli-
van -deSpised, and now, as be medirates on
the fading glory of past prestige, he has a
greater respect Tor this animal, which he
would have crushed and forgotten.
A few nights ago it was chilly, and the
guardian OF the hose house dozed by the
stove with one eye open as has become this
ancient lamily's custom. Suddenly his
other Eye opened, and his brow wrinkled.
He perceived an invader, q little black
skunk over in the corner by the door. As
quick as a fash he made for the skunk, and
it darted through a small hole in the door.
Sullivan grabbed it just as the headquarters
and as quickly let him 90. He drew back
ward, wrinkled his brow again, shut one
eye, lifted his nose, gave O snort and looked
long and meditativeIy at cobweb on the
ceiling. The full appreciation Of the sweet
aroma then struck him all In a lump; with
shrek of terror, disgusted and vanquished,
he fed at a furious rate for three blocks in
q vein effort to outrun the scent Grip, his
yellow companion, approached Sullivan
and then retreated. From q nook in the
stable be viewed with thoughtful air, as
much as to say:
Run how you will, do what you will,
The aroma of polecsr will cling round you still.
Sullivan rolled on the ground, snorted,
yomited and repeated these performances
for half hour. His face grew long with
the intensity of disgust. Suddenly it all
changed to anger; his hair bristlsd, he ut
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05

A wELL-KNown electrical authority of
the United States navy, in alluding to the
important part which electricity is destined
to play in the naval warfare OF the future,
says that a comparison of the art of electricity
in warfare at its present stage with that pre-
vailing five years ago shows how comparative
ly insignificant application may come to be a
matter of supreme Importance. He takes this
as an indication also of the tendency in mod
ern warfare to accomplish desirable end by
any effective means no matter how complex
or how expensive. If a ship is to go into a
fight she must whip. A lost battle is national
regret for ever. So modern ships are coming
to be the foremost examples of the application
of science to practical things Science is daily
coming more into our lives. but in no depart
ment of life is she making more progress than
in warfare, and in warfare no branch of sci
ence is making more progress than electricity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05


Gates the assumption by the Government OF
the existing telegraph lines. He says: Gas
to the advantages to the people which would
result from a Government telegraph service,
it is sufficient to refer to the fact that the cor
poration which at present does nearly all the
telegraph business of the country, pays out OF
its profits good interest on caDital about
four times as great as the expenditure which
would be required to duplicate the entire plant
the latter figure being admittedly less than
$4,000 000 The Government telegraph service
could then be furnished at one-fourth the cost
of the present service, even assuming that the
same interest would be paid on the investment,
which is an unnecessary assumption, as there
would be no need to issue bonds for the small
sum required to buy or build the lines" The
fact is ignored that where Governments have
taken possession Of telegraph lines in the
past, the result has not by any means
been an unmixed bleDsing. Mr.. Bellamy also
says: "Nationalists everywhere are ag1tating
in favor of the assumption and conduct by
municipalities of local public services such as
transit, lighting, heating and the water supply.
which are now rendered by corporations: and
they vehemently oppose the granting of any
franchises for such purposes" So far as the item
of lighting is concerned. it is well known that
the assumption by municipalities in this
country of city electric lighting plants has been
compile failure. A city in south Carolina has
recently sold out Its municipal electric lighting
station, the purchasers agreeing to relieve the
city of all pending liabilities in connection with
the light plant Negotiations are pending in
several other cities for a sale of their plants to
the local or private electric lighting company,
as they have found that 1t was impossible to
produce the light, when managed by politicians
with no interest In the business, as cheaply as
could be dune by private corporation whose
managers were financially interested in its sue
cess
PAPER tubes are coming into use for
carrying gas, water and electric cables, and
some OF the latest samples Of these pipes
now being exhibited in Vienna. are highly
spoken Of. The method Of their manufacture
is curious and interesting. The width Of the
paper Is equal to the length Of given pipe.
The paper runs frst through molten asphalt.
and IL rolled upon mandril Of wood. the size
of which determines the inside diameter Of the
pipe When cool the mandril Is removed, and
the inside Of the tube Is covered with kind of
enamel, the composition of which Is kept
secret. The outside is covered with bitumfn-
ous lacquer and sand, and 1t 10 said that com.
paratiyeiy thin Pipe Will vishstana very pow
erfui uYeA9ufA.