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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

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Bro. Fleming, ofthe New Domin- :
ion, is off his base again and should
be more careful about his political
constitutional breaks. A short time
since he was booming Gov Fleming
for re-election in spita Of u constitu-
tional provision prohibiting it,
Now he wants the Hon. Charles
Edgar Hogg, of Point Pleasant,
nominated for Congress by the
Democrats of the Third district.
We believe Mr.. Hogg is popular
enough down that way to run in the
Third district as we'll as in the
Fourth, his own district, if the CON
stitution would allow it, and we
think the Democrats of the Fourth
district should lay all factional diff
ferences aside this year and nomi-
nate Mr.. Hogg by reclamation, and
with him as their standard bearer
they wouid march on to7victory. A
great biunder was made when the
convention at Parkersburg depart
ed from all custom and precedent
and failed to re-nominate Mr.. Hogg,
who had made a brilliant represen-
tative and carried the district by an
overwhelming majority against a
very able opponent, and if he had re-
ceived the nomination he was Justly
entitled to, there would have been no
possible chance fora contest. Judge
Mon jackson was determined to
try his hand at it and would not be
satisfied till he did. The result was
dear lesson for him and q much
more severe one for the party, and
we hope they will profit by such
bad breaks and make gallant
fight to redeem the district this fall.
We believe that Charles Edgar
Hogg is the man to lead on to a
glorious victory and we hope the
party in that part of our little noun
tain State will see it in the same
light.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
Curious Facts Respecting Man.

Every adult man has l 400 square
feet of lung surface; or, the mucous
membrane lining the air cells would
if spread out on smooth plain SUR
face, cover an extent equal to the
above figures.
A man breather Is times min
ute, and uses, 5000 cubic feet, or
about 375 hogsheads of air per hour.
The weight of the heart is from
eight to twelve ounces, and it beats
about 100000 times every "a hours.
The capacity of the stomach is
about five pints; it daily produces
nine pounds of gastric juice for the
digestion of food.
An amount of blood equal to all
the blood in the body passes through
the heart every seven minutes.
The work performed by the heart
is equivalent TO raising its own
weight 1900 feet each hour. The
strongest machine yet built by man
can only raise its own weight to a
perpendicular height 200 feet per
hour. Medical Classics.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
Avn Enormous Sfnmn.

Undoubtedly the largest stump
in the State of Washington is the
one located just below Shohemish
City, on the farm of w. S. Clay. 1t
is huge cedar, and its diameter is
twenty feet-a surface sufficient for
forty men to stand upon. The tree
was burned down some sixteen
years ago, and its wood was used
for fence rails, shingles, etc. There
was enough material in the tree to
furnish rails for the fencing of a
large Texas farm.
The wood is red cedar and is SIM
liar to the timber from which lead
pencils are made, and would also be
cherished by any builder for the
special wood finish and decoration
of a house. The farm upon which
the stump is was taken up as a
homestead by Royal Haskell in the
year 1873. Mr.. Haskell continued
to improve his farm for period of
ten years. 1t was by his hands and
his sons that the giant tree was
Frustrated by the agency of the
flames; and it's bulk-to other trees
as the elephant to the horse-form-
ed an article of plentiful distribu-
ton and utility.
Two years ago the stump was
photographed, when five horses,
standing abreast, three feet apart,
and thirty men were upon it. A
circle, whose diameter is 20 feet,
must be 63 feet in circumference,
and contain an area of 314 square
feet. The tree belonging to the big
stump was 80 feet in height, and its
volume was, therefore, 6374 cubic
feet. This was a giant! Poetry
has Landed the majestic oak, but its
size is often eclipsed by Washing
toms cedars.
The people of this State are aware
ofthe high estimation of our shin
giles in Eastern markets. They are
manufactured entirely from the
cedar tree, which is usually larger
than the ordinary fir. 1t is no ex-
aggeration to say that a tree like
the giant above mentioned would
last shingle mill of considerable
capacity through three months saw
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
A Curious Mental Trait.

A singular instance of the trans
mission of hereditary peculiarities
has been brought to the notice OF
the German Anthropological So
ciety. The correspondent tells OF
his meeting a farmer by the name
of Loewendorf who had peculiar
habit of writing "Austug" for
+" August" his Christian name
Some years later he was inspecting
u school, and heard little girl read
"lencb" for "leben," "nadel," and so
on. Upon inquiring, he found that
her name was Loewendorf, and that
she was daughter of his former
friend, the farmer, now dead. This
defect was noticeable in the speech
and writing of both father and
daughter. 1t appeared in the faith
er as a result of fall that occurred
some time before the birth of his
daughter.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

The brigands and outlaws are
having u gay time just now with
Cuba. Since the strong hand of
Captain General Salamanca has
been Withdrawn they have increased
in numbers and audacity. One
night an attempt was made to blow
up the Antilla Cabana Cigar Facto-
ry at Havana. A dynamite bomb
was exploded close to the walls of
the main building Hardly had
the people recovered from their
fright when a tremendous explo-
sion took place in the Batayins
Railway station at the Plaza de
Armas. The station was destroyed
and thirty injured persons were
taken from the ruins, many of whom
afterward died. The warehouses
of Henri Zurrieta, at Cardenas,
were destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of 100000. The brigands are
fairly swarming in the country
around Puerto Principe, and two
wealthy men of the latter city were
carried off to the mountains and
held for ransom.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

The Federation of the Kanawha
Valley Miners which met at Char
lesion, w. Va, last week, seems in
tent upon demanding the rights due
the profession. Fully two-thirds of
the delegates came instructed to vote
for the Columbus scale, which. is a
twenty per cent. advance on pre-
sent wages. The operators have
signifed determination to resist
the demand, and a strike involving
some six thousand miners is looked
for.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Captain Boutelle, who is in COM
mand of the United States troops
stationed in the Yellowstone Park,
gives very gratifying account OF
the condition of affairs there. The
Captain said that the forest fires,
which were formerly so prevalent,
have been checked, and during the
past year no fires of any consequence
have broken out. He also said that
not gun had been fired during the
year within the confines of the park,
and rs a result the elk, deer, buffa-
loes, mountain lions, bears, beavers
and other wild animals are increas-
ing rapidly and becoming quite
tame. He mentioned it as Curl
ous fact that the animals seemed to
know that they were safe in the
park. They seemed to have no
fear in the presence of man while
in the park, but il. they happened to
be outside of the limits and a man
came in sight they at once ran
away. The herds of buffaloes, deer,
ETC., are increasing in number, and
the fear that these animals will be-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Sullivan says that as soon as his
Mississippi case is settled he will
fight Peter Jakson for twenty
thousand dollars. He will also
fight Jim Corbett, the "Californa
Wonder" upon the following terms:
Should he knock Corbett out inside
of four rounds he is to receive
twenty-five hundred dollars.
Should he fail TO do so in that mum
Der of rounds then Corbett is to re-
ceive the money.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
mckinney and the Farmers.

There are a good many contemp,
tible features in the New Mckinley
Tariff Bill, and when we say this
we mean that its concocters have
made a good many attempts to
swindle and deceive. None of these
attempts is so fragrant and SO mean
as that which is intended to induce
the farmer TO believe that he is
profited by tax upon all that he
consumes in his house and business
by putting alleged compensatory
taxes on foreign products similar to
his own, but with which his own
products are not brought into COM
petition.
The farmer supplies most of the
commodities which, make up our
foreign commerce. He, of all 9TH
ers, is interested in enlarging our
market. He is concerned in secur.
ing low-priced foreign goods in pay
ment for his wheat and corn. He
is compelled. under the present tar
iff law, to pay to the Government
part of the price which he receives
for his goods, by way of a customs
tax, and his price is that which OBJ.
tains in the London market aud is
fixed by the wheat grown by the
ryots of India and the poorest
peasantry of Europe. He competes
with the pauper labor against which
the imported miner is protected.
And to compensate the wheat-grow-
ers and corn growers for their trials
and tribulations few hens along
the Canadian border are to be pro-
tectedl
The present tariff on important
farm products is useless to men who
grow more than the country can
consume, and who must look abroad
for that market which the protec-
Zionist promised them at home.
Last year We sent abroad s42 ,00O,-
600 worth of wheat, $4,000, 900
worth of wheat -four, s33 3,00O, 900
worth of corn, s17, 900, 900 worth of
cattle, more than 100000 worth
of butter, and sS,O00,O0O worth of
cheese. The farmer is to be protec-
ted BY the Mckinley bill from COM
petition with similar foreign pro-
ducts. Having supplied his own
market, protection having failed to
give him that generous demand
which it promised to him, he sends
this large surplus abroad, and yet
Mr.. Mckinley has faith enough in
the farmers ignorance to tell him
that he must have more protection,
that he is suffering from foreign
competition in the visionary home
market.
We imported last year less than
one-thirtieth as many cattle as we
exported; less than $4,000 worth of
wheat, about 81 200 worth of corn,
less than $4,000 worth of wheat
flour, only $4,000 worth of butter,
less than one-fifth as much cheese
as we exported. As to potatoes we
exported about as much as we i'm
ported. In other words all our ag.
ricultural importations are in incon-
siderable quantities along our bor-
ders, and constitute smaller trade
than might have been expected to
go on between neighboring farmers.
The attempt TO delude the farmer
is likely to turn out as useless as it
is dishonest. 1t is a desperate eff.
fort to mend the chains of q slavery
which were first voluntarily assum-
ed and which are now rapidly break
Iing.-N Y. World.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07


The Republican party is bent on
revolution. The leaders of that
party are bold unscrupulous men,
and are determined to hold on to
the reins of government at all haz-
yards. If any one doubts this let
them read Speaker Reeds speech
before the American Club at Pitts
burgh last Friday. After referring
at length to the Southern States he
said:
"It seems to me that the only wise
course is to take into Federal hands
Federal elections. Let us cut loose
from State elections, do our own
registration, our own counting, and
our own certification. Then the
nation will be satisfied Against
this course no constitu-
tional objection can be urged. The
Marlborough case, the decision of the
Supreme Court covered it all over.
No objection can be urged against
it on account of sectionalism. n
applies North and South, East and
West"
Hero is the foremost man in the
Republican party to-day declaring
boldly in favor of changing the form
of the government, so as to central
ize all power at Washington CITY,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
ADegenerate Party.
Chicago Times.

Governor Hovey, of Indiana, is
President of the United States Ser.
vice Pension Association. AS such
hc telegraphed the Republican eau
Gus of the National House: ain all
earnestness, we cannot carry the
Western States in the November
election without the passage by this
Congress of the Grand Army ut CO.
lumbus and Milwaukee. So with
more or less formality, the warning
goes along the line. The protected
interests say, in effect: Take care
of US or take care of yourselves.
The subsidy hunters declare, with a
menace, that unless the Republican
party meets their demands, they see
no need of Republican party.
Tax high, disburse lavishly, or get
outl That is tho menace to this Re-
publican Administration, and when
Congress will have adjourned, it
will probably be discovered that the
threat has been successful. The
party has -degenerated to briber
and corruptionist. 1t would sus-
tain it's existence by appeasing a
rapacious following with spoils from
the National Treasury. 1t has
ceased to be even a whited sepul-
cher.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

ing. No cross. cut saw yet mann
factured is large enough to make a
cut through such tree at the bntt;
and if there were, it would take
two men two days to saw a tree of
that size Seattle Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Objections are sometimes made TO
the secrecy attending the doings
of what are known as "secrct socie-
ties" All churches, orders and So
cieties have their basis laid on Sc
crecy. One writer beautifully says:
Thoughts will not work except
in silence, neither will virtue work
except in secrecy. Like other
plants, virtue will not grow unless
its roots are hidden, buried from
the light of the sun. Let the sun
shine on it-nay, do but look at it
privately thy sclf-the roots wither
and no flowers will glad thee. {"
Hidden from the eyes of the "pro-
fame" virtue blooms in perennial
brightness. Carlyle says: "God
has put this veil of secrecy before
the soul for its preservation; and
to thrust it rudely aside, without
reason, would be suicidal. Neither
here, nor as think hereafter, will
our thoughts and feelings lie open
to the world" If virtue is hidden
in the sacred rcecesses. of the heart.
and the soul is yelled from the light
by its Creator, surely Faith, Hope
and Charity may be screened from
the gaze of the rude, uncouth and
gross. Charity, the capstone of our
Order, fourishes best when even
"the left hand knoweth not what
the right hand doeth." This is
God-like, this is just, this is humane.
Let croakers croak; let hypocrites
shed their crocodile tears; let those
who have felt the icy fingers of "re-
lection" howl; the great secret benev-
olent societies of the age will still
move gradually onward, visiting
the sick, relieving the distressed,
burying the dead, educating and
caring for the orphan, and doing
those several acts of mercy, benevo-
lence and charity, without consult
ing such as these.-Er.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

come extinct, the Captain said,
would not be realized as long as the
park continued to be protected from
the inroads of the hunters.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Strange to say, comparatively few
people are intimately acquainted
with the composition of our nation
al flag. In engravings and pictures
one daily sees misrepresentation of
it, and even upon poles or in pro-
cessions on holidays. They are
made with more than the required
number of stripes, more or less stars
in the union than there should be,
or the arrangement of the stripes as
regards colors is not right. Then
again the flags are not made OF
proper dimensions. The official flag
is made as follows: There should
be thirteen stripes, representing the
thirteen original States of the Un-
ion, the border stripes of red; the
union of blue, should be seven stripes
square, resting on white, with four
red and white stripes on the sides;
the entire flag should be twenty-one
stripes long and thirteen stripes
wide. Very often flags are seen
with from fifteen to twenty stripes
and over fifty stars in the union
Aside from these Irregularities, it is
quite common on holidays to see
flags with the union down. BY the
union down is meant having stripes
where the union should be. 1t
should always be uppermost. Ifit
is down, it signifies distress. All
good Americans ought to know
these things, but hardly one in fifty
understands the composition of our
emblem or how to display it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Some farmers think that they can
afford to spend a frequent balfholi-
day in town as their crops are grow
ing. Sad mistakel A farmer can
not neglect his business any time
without loss, no better than the
merchant or mechanic.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

Where one COW only is kept there
is little trouble in obtaining all the
butter the milk is capable of pro-
ducing- But where there are twen-
ty cows this is quite impossible, as
the milk of different cows requires
varied management and treatment.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

With sach a law as Mr.. Reed pro-
poses elections would be a farce,
and the party in power would per-
petuate itself from year to year.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

The practice of clothing soldiers
by regiments in one uniform dress
was not introduced by Louis XIV
till 1865, and the practice did not
become general in the British army
for many years afterward
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

The largest lot of bananas ever
brought into New York arrived
recently ON fruit steamer. There
We're 2o,5Oo bunches, and they came
from Jamaica.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

If a hen will leave her nest when
any one approaches she should not
be used for setting purposes. She
viii generally prove an unsteady
sitter and breaker of eggs.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07

- ~--t' -1tAAAAN y
is filed with respectable, genteeI
Io5king men asking for light en-
ployment They are not able to
stand rough outdoor labor, and they
arc qualified to fill clerks and book
keepers places. But they can not
find work, and the question is, re-
marks the Atlanta Constitution,
what shall be done with them?
How are these men to live, and
what will finally become of themP
The chances are that the majority
will become tramps or drift into a
criminal career. They can not all
be expected to commit suicide, or to
accept hard labor beyond their
strength. They will join the an
arehists, and live by preying upon
society. The increasing number of
women engaged in light occupations
makes it more difficult every year
for a young man to secure q clerk
ship. We have reached a point
where the poor man must be the
master of a trade or starve.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-05-07
Am AutolnalIc RoIler.

An Ingenious little device has just
appeared which will put an end to
one, at least, of tho troubles by
which the soul of the housewife is
vexed. This consists OF the auto.
matte boiler. a little clock, which
can stand ON the range, with its
face divided into four spaces of
minute each. Setting the pointer
ut the minute or fraction which is
required, the eggs, contained in
wire basket suspended from a lever
connected with the clock, remain
in the boiling water the required
length of time, when ratchet is
unattached and the wire basket is
lifted out of the water.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-04
B. & L. INTERESTS.

The Industrial lTutuars Prosperity.
Other Associations
At the annual meeting of the Industrial
Mutual Building and Loan Association
Monday evening, at Dramatic Hall, two
loans were sold, one Of the shares at a
premium Of $3.50 per share, and the
other of fourteen shares at premium of
500. so per share. Then $50 shares of the
new fifth, series were subscribed for, and
the following officers were elected Pres
ident, John e. Macarthur; vice president,
John II. Horstmann; treasurer, w. r.
Trimpf; secretary, e. w. Insley; direc-
tors, holding over, Messrs. Houriet, Saw
array, Nestler and Winckler; elected for
two years, Wortendyke, Stork, Campbell,
Schaeffer, Keuhne and Pfeiffer.
President Macarthur was presented by
and resolutions of thanks to all the OIL
GERS were adopted.
The official reports make an excellent
showing for the four-year-old association.
The receipts of the year. including bal
ance on hand of So, ,056. As, amounted to
$50, ,21499. The earnings were So, 909. 33
and the surplus of assets over all liabili-
ties amounts TO $22, ,679.2S.
The Excelsior Building and Loan AS
sociation will meet at the Avenue House
this evening A loan will be sold
The Hudson County Caledonian Build
ing and Loan Association held large
meeting at Palisade Hall last evening
Two hundred shares of the new series
will be subscribed for by thirty-four new
members.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-04
THREE THIEYEs UPON TaE sTREET.

One Had Sack Full of Notions, the
Others $40 in Pennies and Nickels.
Patrolman Kielt, of the First police
precinct, made aclever arrest of burg
lar about nalf-past four o'clock this morn
ing. He espied man Juggling large
sack along Brunswick street. and as the
answers to the questions he put
were not satisfactory he marched
him off to Police Headquarters.
Examining the sack he discovered it
contained about 300 worth of kid gloves.
socks and notions. The man gave his
name as John Morton, No. 595 Water
street, New York.
In Justice Stilsing's court this morning
member of the firm of Guest q Carpen-
ter, dry goods merchants, No. 587 Com
munipaw avenue. appeared and identi-
fed the goods. They had been stolen
from the store during the night. The
store door had been forced open.
just before the arrest of his man
Patrolmen Burns and Murray had ar
rested two suspicious looking characters
in the same eighborhood, who gave their
names as John Murray, No. 118 West
Fourth street., New York, and Frank
Greig, Christie street. New York. They
were running for a car to convey them to
the ferry. In their pockets were found
some twenty dollars, all in nickels and
pennies. 1t is not known whether they
were implicated In the same burglary.
All three were.held for further examine
ffon