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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
Interior Decorations.

It is curious what can be done in the way
of interior decorations with hou1ely mate
rials BY persons of artistic tastes. There is
q firm of architects in New York whose in
come is enormous, and who have a very
handsome suite of offices. The walls of
their largest and handsomest room are COW
cred with ordinary bagging held in place bv
wide strips of cherry moulding. There is
not person who enters this office who is
not struck by the thoroughly appropriate
and artistic effect of this combination. When
the late Cornelius Vanderbilt built his sum-
mer residence at Hartford, at an expense of
over 100000, the decorators covered the
walls of his dining room with ordinary
brown paper, such as is used by butchers to
wrap meat in. There was a cherry wood
dado and rich frescoed frieze. This room
was considered a triumph of decorative
effect.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
Boat Hoisting Apparatus.

A patent has just been granted for a
''boat-hoisting apparatus" This is the
general title of the new idea, but 1t involves
very much more than is implied in the
above term. The apparatus provides the
first practical method advanced for the low
ering of life boats, as it seems to afford for
the first time way for the last man" to
leave wreck with any degree Of safety.
The hoistine of the boat is done BY two men
with a crank apparatus, which permits it to
be accomplished with much less exertion
and in a much smoother wav than the old
method of blocks and ropes. The lowering of
the boat is a great triumph over all methods
now known. The boat is swung off the hur-
ricane deck with but little effort, and when
filled with passengers can be lowered fast or
slowly by the act of single man in the
boat, who, without any direct outlay of
strength, works, by means OF rope a lever
above. The great service rendered is in
providing a peans Of lowering boat iull of
passengers without assistance from above, or
in case all had entered the boat to supply q
means whereby the boat could be evenly
lowered down and controlled in its descent.
This cannot be done where It is being
worked by blocks and ropes, the latter in
the hands of men atopposite ends of the
life boat
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
way as to repay them for what appeared

way as to repay them for what appeared
gratuItous work.
The pike never paid dividend, and Mr..
Short states that in the height of its pros.
! perity, when 20 wagons loaded with faou,
might be counted at one time on Charters
hill, the stock wasn't worth 81 share.
These considerations induce Mr.. Hood to
think that even the State can do but little
more than build trunk-line roads, and he
| argues that street car rails and electric
motor cars would cost less than macadam-
ized roads, and horses might be dispensed
with except for pleasuring or farm work.
Doubtless it will not be many years until
people will regard the last decade of the
nineteenth century as stupid tor using
animal power for heavy hauling.
The sudden craze for rapid transit to the
suburbs of cities, which American railway
companies refused to supply, will in few
years take it all out of their hands, as the
electric tramway car can carry passengers
cheaper than the regular railway companies.
FUTURE OF ELEcTRIc ROADS.
It will not be long until the electric rail-
way will run from the Pittsburg Diamond
to Mansfield, and the ever-increasing popu-
lation OF the CHARTERS Valley will give it
abundant work. British railway companies
have catered to the "short-naul" popu-
lation to such an extent that they will
probably ever hold the trade, and they
did it at enormous expense, one CON-
pany spending $3,5OO,00 a mile to
get to the center of London, and
secure its share of passenger traffic, mostly
third class. Mr.. Rea. one of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company's engineers, en-
deavored some years ago to rouse Ameri-
can railway companies to a sense of the
necessity of copying the British in this re-
spect, but they tailed to heed the warning.
and probably for the general good.
Before another generation passes, either
cars or something better
will monopolize wagon traffic on country
roads. This season has merely emphasized
the need of improved transit through the
business in ordinary years for lack of it is
greater than the interest on the national |
lebt, while the indirect loss can scarcely be
in money.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

At the Animals Institute, London, En-
gland, q very interesting exhibition Of
horseshoes. old and new, was made. Some
OF those displayed were the work of pre- his
toric man, while others showed the latest
developments of nineteenth century ingenu-
ity. Among the former were the early nail
less shoes from Roman camp near May
ence; the earliest form of shoe used in
northern Europe. the spiked toe, from a
Scandinavian tumulus, and two STYLES of
Roman shoes Of the time of the early Caesars.
Among the modern horseshoes were varie-
ties of the modern nailless shoe, a shoe with
a rubber frog pad and a non-slipping shoe of
unique pattern.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
UniQue Barometer.

An old Belfast sea captain is credited
with devising unique barometer. 1t con.
sists OF thin piece of white pine with q
number of cross pieces upon it. This is
hung on the side of the building, and when
damp weather is approaching the barometer
bulges out in the center, while in dry
weather the center sinks in and the ends
come out. The old captain has unlimited
faith in his device, and would not exchange
it for all the patent weather indicators
known
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
Proposed Railway Acro.. the Sahara.

M. ROLAND, an eminent French engineer,
recently read paper before the Academic
of Sciences, in which he insists on the neces-
sity of constructing a railway across the
Sahara. The standpoint from which he re-
CARDS the project is the part which France
will have to make up her mind she is going
to play in the economic conquest of the in
terror OF Africa. In his paper he defines
what are the regions of the Western and
Central Soudan, upon which French COM
merce could reasonably reckon, his conclu-
sion being that nothing useful or durable
could be effected in Soudsn without the as
sistance of Algeria; while, in order to take
any effective action in Algeria, that colony
would need to be connected with the Soudan
by means of railway crossing the Sahara.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

Thousands of cars are now being ordered
BY the transportation lines. One order has
just been placed for 10000 cars for the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg. Last
week the Union Pacific ordered 5000, the
Missouri Pacific 5000, the Baltimore and
Ohio 1000, the Hooking Valley and the In
gals syndicate 1000 each, and the New
York Central 8, 900. This seems to show the
general advance in railroad interests over
two or three years ago, when an order for
1000 cars was considered a tremendously
large one. The quality of steel and iron
used in car building has been improved, in
creasing the capacity of freight cars by 300
per cent. While many of the old ten-ton
cars are still in use, the majority of the
specifications call for 30-ton cars.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
YE 0LDEN-TIME ROAD.
Notwithstanding Steep Grades It Was
Superior to the Modern.
FROM TAVERN TO TAVERN IT RAN.
Pittsburg and Steubenville Pike, How
Made and How Managed.
STATE HELP In ROAD CONSTRUCTION

Some people think Government is growing
more paternal than it was in the early DAYS
OF the Republic. It may be, so far as some
pet corporations are concerned, but an ex-
animation OF the early legislation of this
State shows that 70 years ago no enterprise
OF Importance was thought of save in con-
nection with State help. There seems to
have been less of carping criticism when
the century was young than now, and more
charity. If corporations served the public
good, those who held stock in them seem to
have been satisfied. Some of the men who
bore the burden of the construction of the
pike that is only known now between Saw
mill run and Charters station on the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie Railway never got
dollar out of it. but were satisfied that it
promoted the general veal.
The Pittsburg and Steubenville pike is a
noted example of the way such highways
were managed in the olden time. While it
in its palmiest days never approached any
thing approximating to the com pleteness of
the Appian Way, it was, nevertheless,
much better road half century ago than it
is to-day, and the users got more out of their
money expended at each fve-mile toll-gate
than they do to-day out of their
taxes paid to keep the same thoroughfare
non-maintained. The charter therefor
was granted in 1918. The capital stock was
1900 shares at $50 share, 81 to be paid on
subscribing, and the State paid $12, 900 to-
ward construction.
MORE FROM TOLL THAN FROM TAXES.
Tollgates were allowed to be erected five
miles apart, but people were not required
to pay in passing from one part
of their farms to another, nor when |
going to or from public worship,
to or from militia training, or elections nor
were children attending school, whether |
common or select. On such occasions all |
named were dead-headed. The Governor
was directed to pay 8, 900 for each five |
miles constructed up to Is miles, and it
would appear that the State payment must |
have been applied to the Pittsburg end of |
the pike, as Mr.. John Hood states that it
was pretty well stoned road as tar as Stone
cipher's place, some ten miles out. It |
would seem that $50, ,000 more must have
been spent. as the corporators were not
allowed to do business until that amount was
paid in. Mr.. Hood says that in his boy
hood days the ten miles were kept good, the
limestone being finely broken, and all the
complaint that could be made was that the
grades were heavy. Mr.. Hood saws the
pike was built on the line OF an old road
nodate the farmers along the line, bending
around to reach each just as the Baltimore
md Ohio canal zigzagged from one corn or
,heese district to another, to catch trade.
Along this line taverns had sprung sup
bout five miles apart, and the pike was
,uilt from tavern to tavern and nothing like
he Brooks law marred the harmony.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
Fortunate Inventors,

Higdon & Higdon, patent lawyers, 127
Fourth avenue, Pittsburg. and opposite
Patent Office, Washington, D. c., report
the following patents granted last Tuesday:
Pittsburg-Henry Aiken, manu- facture of
axles; G. K. Flower, typewriter; C. L.
Haight, horseshoe machine; G. A. Macbeth,
machine for grinding glassware; o. ].
Michaels and c. Baeder, glasscutting ma
chine; S. T. Owens, apparatus for shearing
metals; E. j. Sugden, vehicle iron. Allie
gheny-Oscar Kleber, telegraph key; J. A.
Schenkel, furniture; w. G. Stitt, pump.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
Unconscious Education of Childhood

Unconscious Education of ChiIdhood.
From study of the time occupied in
mental acts by children old enough to un-
derstand what is asked of them, the gradual
development of the human faculty can be
traced as well as the unconscious education
passed through in childhood. Ordinary OBJ
servstion shows that children are slow in re-
spending to q stimulus. Actual measure
ments have been taken by having children
press upon tube as soon as they heard a
sound. The average adult time for this
reaction is IA of second. Children from
TO years old require over half a second to
do the same thing. The times, too, are ir-
regular, from minimum of one-ffth of a
second to O maximum of second or more,
indicating an irregularity in the power to
fix the attention upon so artificial a task.
When the time was measured, the curve of
contraction was also written. This in an
adult is quick, sudden stroke, occupying
about "a of second. In three of the chill
dren the movement occupied half again as
much time, and in one child was as long as
two seconds. This suggested test of the
maximum number of pressures child and
an adult make in given time. The adult
makes 13 Gin an extreme case 20 in four
seconds, while the children averaged only
nine pressures in the same time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
HyDuorIam,

The public attention and interest in the
subject of hypnotism is reflected in scientific
circles abroad. Very little attention has
hitherto been paid to it in this country. A
committee specially intended to give earnest
aAd exhaustive attention to the subject has
been formed in New York. This committee
will devote some months to scientific re-
search and inquiry, and may possibly report
before the close of the year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
Cure for SaninfinR.

A cure for squirting, which is not so un.
slightly as the method at present generally
adopted-black goggles with hole in the
center-is highly recommended. Let the
person afflicted take any pair of spectacles
that suit his sight, or even plain glass, and
in the center Of one lens let him gum a
small blue or black wafer (or spot of black
photograph varnish or Brunswick black)
about the size of a 10-cent piece. The re-
suit is that the double image vanishes, aud
the eve, without fatigue or heat, is forced to
look straight, and with time and patience is
cured.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
OUR GENTS FURNISHING DEPARTMENT

Is the admiration of who visits what
look for the matter what ask produce it,
and better than ALL at price far below all competitors Espe
cialy Light Spring Underwear and fashionable Neck
do we excel all other houses control exclusive
articles and patterns the latest novelties the Gentle
will find specially their advantage give call before
they purchase
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

CAPTAIN E. JORDAN is preparing his
swimming school for the coming season in
fine style. Every inch of the palatial boat
will be painted before the boys and girls re-
taught the Pittsburgers how to swim for the
last % years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

LARGE and fine selection Of gold and sll-
yer watches, diamonds, jewelry, ONYX and
marble clocks, bronzes, sterling ana silver
plated ware, Rogers knives, forks and
spoons. Our trade is daily increasing, be-
cause we give you the best value for your
money. Examine our stock and prices.
NJ. G. COHEN,
Diamond Expert and Jeweler, 533 Smith
field st. We handle nothing but first
class goods,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

Our corsets must 90. r. & G. satin cor
sets 81 rs, C. P. satin corsets So 80; the en-
tire lot of corsets must be closed out.
"a Sixth st.,
Directly opp. Bijou Theater.
No Branch Store.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
Electric typewriter.

An electric typewriter is being constructed
which will write letters in New York as they
are transmitted from Boston or vice versa,
the communications being transmitted SIM
Ultaneously over four separate wires.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
BE SURE TO INSPECT
OUR MAMMOTH HAT DEPARTMENT,

Whatever be your choice fine Spring please
We have stylish shape color and shade with the largest
stock in the State select from We give quality
Mems Derby Hats from S9c and incompatible values for 81
81 and 81 In Boys and Chdrens Hats Caps you
ask for the thing We have every pattern of
the We also showing complete line of Juveniles
Straw Hats at a4c 3oc, 4Sc up o8c.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
THE PIKE WAS UNPRoFITABLE.

Mr.. William NJ. Short, whose father was
one of the board of directors of the Steuben-
vile pike, accounts for the rivalry to be
elected to the management when there ap-
peared to be nothing more in it than an
annual dinner, by stating that the officials
managed to farm the toll gates out in such
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

THERE is life and character in the pho
tographs taken by Dabbs that almost every
one recognizes at once. When looking at
his picture you feel that the man or woman
the picture is of was alive and animated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
THE ENTIRE TRADE DISCOUNTED ON
SPRING FOOTWEAR.

Well feel competitors utterly
founded to witness the immense and growing
this department But the people have found they
varab honestly and square treated where
respond to the least money and they always rely
resentaons We absolutely flooded with
being everything seasonabe for Ladies' Gentlemen Youths
and Childrenhe latest fashions novelties out
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

Mixed Coal and Petroleum as Fuel.
Some experiments made with mixed fuel
of coal and petroleum on an italian man-of-
EaE, at spezzia, are well worth attention.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

The vessel. which never before surpassed Is
knots an hour, reached almost II with the
new eombustible. The engineers complain
that the high heat generated iniures the
boilers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

67 = Mems beautiful
pAo Dress Suits in
neat checks,plaids, light and dark
mixtures, all made from best
domestic and imported materials;
are made and finished in a man.
ner equal to frst-class custom
work, and We can fit any one who
may come.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

HEMsTITcHED black nuns veilings, very
desirable for summer wear, at 75c yd.,
regular 81 quality. HUGUs & HAcKK.
TTSSu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

The basis of all security. See page IA, to-
days Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

CT . Will give you the
pio choice ofa superb
assortment of Dress Suits. These
will be found to please the most
fastidious of buyers, and will leave
your pocketbook from So to $40
fatter than had you gone to a
tailor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
CHILDREN'S
Clothing.

All | the Children Who more
enjoy the spring and summer than
the children7 And quite right;
we were all children once, and
know how joyful we felt. Yes,
and don't you forget it, if they
have weakness for mud pile or
sand bank to play in, yet no one
feels prouder than they to be oc-
casionally dressed in a little
style. And pray why not2 Then
bring them round to US, ye proud
and indulgent parents; we have
everything stylish, pretty cute
and fascinating to encourage
them in a pardonable feeling of
self-respect and to accommodate
your means, however slender. We
say come round at once; we'll
show you innumerable elegant
little Suits and the most popular
and desirable Shirt Waists ever
made, with thousands to select
from, and everything to delight
the merry little prattlers. Again
we say, "Bring them along" and
save your money.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

No TAXES, no interest See page IL, to-
days Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

A MAGNIFICENT chance to make money.
See page IA, to-day's Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

REAL EsTATEl real estateI real estste!
See page IA, to-day's Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
BOYS
Clothing,

We wish it to be distinctly un-
derstood that we claim, and can
back the assertion any day, that
we carry the best, strongest and
most reliable Boys Clothing in
the world. Broad as this assertion
may appear, it is nevertheless
fact, and there are happily thou
sands of well pleased regular pa
irons can back up all we say. Not
only do we carry the largest stock
and greatest variety of these goods
found in the city, but our quail
ties are the best and our prices
invariably the lowest. Now, dur
ing the present "Great May
Sale" we shall make special drives
in this department that will utter
ly astound every visitor. Parents
should take special note of this,
as they can thereby save many
hard-earned dollars. Before ever
thinking of going elsewhere, bring
the boys around to see US. Come
and see what we have; it's a
pleasure for us to entertain you,
and we'll prove to you how easily
you can save at least from 20 to
80 cents on every dollar.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

THE most stgenerous offer ever made. See
page IA to-day's Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

az Will buy you splen-
ID 4 did Sack or Frock
Suit-all wool, serviceable and
dependable goods. No matter
where else you go you'll find them
marked So and $40, and cheap at
that. But you must see them to
satisfy yourself. No description
can do them justice.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-01-04

SECRETARY Tracy has administered point
ed and well deserved rebuke to those cranks
land there are coed many Of them--who
have an idea that by lending any counte-
nance either by their presence or otherwise to
an official demonstration in monarchical
countries Americans compromise their Re-
public. 1t seems that several officers Of the
American squadron now lying at Lisbon
were present, by invitation, at the corona
tion ceremonies in that city, and this was
made the basis of a charge Of un-American-
ism, toadying to royalty and other cognate
offences against them. Secretary Tracy
fully justiies the conduct of the officers and
says very plainly that any other conduct
under the circumstances would have been
indecent and an affroDt to friendly power.
This particular kind of crank will probably
make no more complaints of this kind to Mr..
Tracy. He will go on, however, criticising
cur foreign ministers because they seek TO
conform to some extent to the manners and
customs Of the people around them and do
not Extensively proclaim several times day
their belief in the superiority of our form of
government
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-01-04

Mr.. Powderly ought to have the ear Of the
laboring men, for though he has not been
altogether success in managing the great
organization of the Knights of Labor, he has
given abundant proof that he is devoted to
their cause and as a rule perceives correctly
what will be. for their good. His mistakes
have generally been due to inability to with
stand pressure put upon him to induce him
to indorse movements his judgment did not
approve. His remarks on the Australian bal
lot system ought therefore to make deep i'm
impression on laboring men. AS he says there
is no movement on foot at the present day
which will do so much to SECURE the political
independence of the working man as this
movement for the adoption of the Australian
system. 1t is mistake, however, to assume,
as Mr.. Powderly seems to, that the only
source of intimidation which the laboring
man Is likely to encounter is his employer.
But whatever the source of the intimida-
ton. whether it be the capitalist and en-
ployer or the labor union, the Australian
ballot will free him from it, and give to him
in fact as well as in theory the right to cast
his vote as his conscience and judgment
dictates