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AGRICULTURAL MACHINES,
Russian Is Finding Out Why it Is That Her
Machines Fail to Sell.

Russian is Finding Out Why it Is That Her
Machines Fail to Sell.
The Russian Agricultural Department of
the Ministry of the Interior appointed q
commission to learn why more agricultural
machines of foreign manufacture are sold to
Russian farmers than of domestic make, de-
spite the high import tax levied on such
machines. The commission, says the New
York Sun, after due investigation, reported: !:
The machines built in Russia are most in
accurate in workmanship and unreliable in
their working. Ten sewers of foreign make
were taken apart, their various parts mixed
up, and then they were put together, work.
ing with perfect exactness. regulating the
flow of the seed and their speed according to
the given register, without the least impedi-
ment. One machine of Russian make was
taken apart, and the wheels of one side did
not fit the axles on the other, the screws
could with difficulty be fitted IN their re-
spective mothers; and when the machine was
put up again it could never be made to con-
troll exactly either the flow of seed or the
speed of motion. Similar experiments with
harvesting and plowing machines showed
similar results. The farmers said the Rus
sian machines need repairing as soon as
they are put to work, and with the best care
bestowed on them last only three or four
seasons,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
INVENTION OF TRAMwAYs.
Their Modern Extension is Due to Il
Efforts of an American.

Their Modern Extension is Due to the
Efforts of an American.
The earliest recorded tramway in Eng
land, says Spare Moments, was one made of
wooden beams and laid down in 1902 at
Newcastle-on-Tyne by Mr.. Beaumont.
About 1630-72 Mr.. Beaumont introduced
tramways with wooden rails at Newcastle
on-Tyne, and the first iron rails seem to
have been used at Whitehaven in 173S In
1901 regular iron tram road was built be-
tween Croydon aud Wandsworth, and what
appears to have been the first street tram
way was one of stone in the Commercial
road, London, which was laid in 1880.
The modern extension of the tramway svs-
tenn is, however, mainly due to the efforts Of
Mr.. Train, an American, at whose instiga-
tion Jramwavs were laid at Birkenhead in
1850, and at Bayswater the next year. 1t is
an error that the name originated in that of
Mr.. Benz amin Outram. The term is Scan
dinavian, and was applied first to the car
riage itself and later to the road upon which
it was used.
Steam tramways, though in use for many
years past at several continental towns, do
not seem to find much favor in England. A
steam cable tramway (the first in Europe,
it is said) was started on Highgate Hill,
London, on May 29th, 1884.
In the beginning of 1873, AZ miles OF
tramway had been opened in the Metropolis.
and 81 miles in 1876. The number OF miles
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
AN AGED PENSION APPLICANT.

A Centenarian Sends Her Photo With Her
Petition, but is Disappointed.
Lucy Wood is 1o5 years old, and she lives
in Barre, VT, says the Washington Post.
She is the widow of John Wood, who was
teamster in the war of 1872, and her appli-
cation for pension has been denied on the
ground that she is not the widow of a
soldier.
The interesting point about the petition is
that it is accompanied by her photograph,
evidently taken for the purpose of showing
Congress her appearance at the age Of 105
years. Her wrinkled face bears calm ex-
preston, and her white hair is covered with
little old-fashioned lace bonnet, and in her
bony hands is little square of embroidery.
She does not seem to be over 70 years old.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
BILLS OF FARE FOR THE FAIR.
A Typical List of Orders Which q Watchful
Reporter Cleaned.

Reporter Cleaned.
Four hundred and sixty-seven girls
lunched In cafe the other day, says the
New York Sun, and by the courtesy of the
head-waiter the writer was permitted to
play sentinel at the kitchen door.
Only 13 orders contained meat-2 of
steak, lamb chops, ham and mutton
stew. Twenty-seven bowls of soup, chowder
and broth were served; damsels called for
fsh, 140 had an oyster stew and 81 took
lobster or chicken salad. An even 200
made meal on ice cream and cake, with
glass of ice water. Forty-fve had hot
apple dumpling; 800 cuts of pie were
consumed, with 102 charlotte russo, 20
chocolate eclairs. SO cream puffs and one
square yard of Washington pie cut into Sec
tions of three inches each. One hundred
and seventeen drank tea, 20 called for cof-
fee, % for pop, ale and beer; two had claret,
IT sodc-water and the rest, 167 in all, filed
themselves with ice. water.
1t lis to this kind of diet that SO many Of
our sallow-faced, bloodless, feshless, shape
less women and children can be traced.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

Sheridan, to the effect that "the best Indian
is a dead Indian"
One of the best Indian authorities in the
United States is Captain Bourke, who was
on General Crooks staff for Is years, and
who has spent the most OF his life upon the
frontier. Captain Bourke has made study
of the Indians. He has written number
of interesting books about them, and he is
now writing a volume for the Government
on Indian medicine men. He knows more
the dances of the Sioux and the other In
diaus than anyone in the country, and II
was be who gave to the National Museum
necklace of human fingers, which be cap
tured from an Indian medicine man. L
talked with him last night about this phase
of Indian character. Said he:
JUGGLERs CAN WORK EN-
1.-THE Indians are very superstltlous.
They believe in the supernatural, and an
adroit sleight-of-hand performer can have a
great influence over them. One way TO beat
them is to fight them with their own fire by
sending first-class American jugglers out to
them. When the medicine men of their
tribe do their wonders let these iugglers per-
form their tricks and the power of the medi-
cine men will wane. This was the method
I pursued in nv work with them. I never
discredited the power of any of the medicine
men, I only told them that my medicine
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

Of tramway in the United Kingdom has
now reached very nearly a length of 1000
to e3,000,0 900 annually. Perhaps the most
curious tramway is that in Ontario. 1t is
laid in one of the principal streets on which
are some very steep inclines. The car is
drawn up hill and along the levels by mules,
but as they are not required on the down
grades the animals mount the car, and ride
with it to the bottom, where they are again
harnessed
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

HE Indian
troubles will
form one of
the subjects
of legisla-
ton during
the present
session. A
great deal Of
quiet talk
is going on
among the
members as
to the Sioux,
and not a
few express
selves
in the words
of General
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

was better than their medicine, and that
could do a great deal more than they could.
Il had once an old electric battery with
me when 1 visited big camp of these Sioux.
There was some excitement at the time ana
the medicine men were boasting what they
could DO. l arranged nv battery and took
q silver dollar and placed it in pan OF
water and told their best medicine men that
I would give the one who could pull it out
IS provided he took hold of the brass handle
OF the battery with one hand and picked the
coin out with the other.
ELECTRICITY DowNED THEM.
"There were, perhaps, 1, 900 Indians look
ing at US and they conceived a deep rev.
erence for me, as they the most famous Of
their medicine men attempt to 90 this and
fail, being almost thrown into convulsions
in the attempt. At last one OF the strongest
Indians in the West came up to make the
trial. He seized the battery and made
grab for the dollar. The electricity went
through him like a shot and he kicked the
battery all to pieces. He wanted to try it
again and we patched the battery up, and
he finally succeeded in getting the dollar,
owing to the weakness of the broken battery.
He was twisted out of shape almost by the
effort and the Indians of that camp looked
upon me for the time as a great medicine
man.
"At another time was at a sun dance of
one of the Sioux Indian tribes and an Amer
ican iuggler, who was quite sleight of hand
performer, begged to be allowed to 60 along
with me. 1 thought he might do some good
and took him. 1 shall not forget how he as
tonished the Indians.
PULLING OUT GOLD PIECES.
HE went up to one of the chiefs, and
without a warning gave him a slap on the
cheek, nearly knocking him over. Then
with his other hand be got hold of the other
cheek and apparently pulled a twenty
dollar gold piece out of it, while the rest of
the Indians looked on with open-mouthed
wonder. lie went up to another chief who
reioiced in the title of Little Big Man, and,
grabbing him by the nose, pulled twenty
dollar gold piece out OF his nose, much to the
chiefs surprise. l saw him a number of
times afterWard, and when he thought was
not looking would pull his blanket up over
his nose and feel the end Of it to see if there
were not some more twenty-doIlar gold pieces
where the other one had come from.
"I remember another medicine man, big
Apache, who called upon me in the sur
geon's office of one of the stations I was
very anxious to see his medicine charm,
which be carried carefully concealed under
his shirt, and which not even the other In
dians ever saw. / told him / knew he was
q great medicine man, but that believed
that nv medicine was better than his medi-
cine, and with that L picked up bottle of
nitric acid. 1t was not bigger than your
thumb.
SCARED BY MEDICINES.
II said: L will put drop of this on your
tongue, and in one minute 1 will burn a
hole clear through it, He opened his eyes,
but when again asked him to stick out his
tongue, he SAID he believed I could do it
and that he would not test my skill. I then
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
STANDARD OIL IN ENGLAND,
Tank Wagons Have Taken Up All the Busi-
ness in the Cities.

Tank WaSUnb 11dV6 IHKen Up All the Busf-
ness in the Cities.
The monopoly of the English oil trade is
fast falling into the hands of the Standard
Oil Company of the United States. Tank
wagons have been introduced in the princi-
pal cities, and the house-to-house trade is
enormous.
The competitors tiied to down the Ameri-
cans in the courts on the ground that this
way of transporting kerosene was menace
people, however, introduced expert evidence
to the contrary, and won the suit in Man.
chester. The American oil 10 sold cheaper
than the English product and naturally the
trade is diverted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
What Ministers Endure.

CIoth1et ana Furnlsher,1
Mrs. Bingo-You know you spoke about
giving those old clothes of Tommy's to the
poor. On second thought, hadn't we better
send them over to the minister's children.
Bingo-Capital. But in that case guess
you had better let Tommy wear them few
weeks longer2
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

McSweeny. Before the doctor knew what
terrible blunder he had made he was out OF
the stand. 1t is needless to say that Nc
Sweeny won his case, and that the doctor
was the laughing-stock of the community"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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DIR. johnson Was No Fool.

Notes and Queries.1
The sage was seated in the midst of
large dinner party. He inadvertently placed
in his mouth hot potato, but, suddenly
ejecting it, be turned TO tine hostess with this
remark: Madam, fool would have
burned himselfP'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

picked up bottle of chloroform and said:
Here is more of my medicine. If you
smell this l can put you to sleep and no one
can wake you until want to wake you, aud
with this, picking up another bottle, I can
strike you dead By this time he was
thoroughly scared and he showed the won
derlul talisman by which he performed his
tricks. 1t was chamois bag covered with
mysterious characters. He wore it over his
chest and it never left him night or day."
The Sioux medicine men have to hang
themselves to ropes by skewers which are
put through the muscles of the breast, and
they hang on to these ropes until the flesh
is torn off There are no more superstitious
Indians in the world than these Sioux, and
though the present dangers may be exagger-
ated, still it is easy to see how such story
as that of the Messiah might cause trouble
at any time provided there was a clever
sleight-of-hand Indian among them who
would pretend to perform miracles.
RED CLOUD SURPRISED.
Judge J. J. Noah, of the Census Bureau,
is full-blooded Israelite, but he has also
the dignity of being chief of the Sioux
Indians. The Judge is one of the best lin
gusts in Washington, and he claims to have
a perfect knowledge of the Sioux language.
Not long ago Red Cloud and number of
other Sioux chiefs were at Washington,
and they had a meeting or a reception at
which Major Noah was present.
At this reception Red Cloud talked to
number of ladies and gentlemen through an
interpreter. He did not think that there
was anyone present who understood the
Sioux language except himself and the in
terpreter, and he kept guying the ladies
and saving all sorts of mean things about
the people present In Sioux to the inter-
prefer, who translated his denunciatioBs
into compliments. Major Noah waited until
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
The Homing Pigeon.

The homing pigeon is coming more and
more into practical use. The illustration
shows how the pretty birds are done up in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
Carpenters Amusing Stories of the
Wild Species and Some Who Are
Supposed to be Tame.
JUGGLERY CATCHES THE INDIANS.
How an Old Electric Battery Puzzled
Sioux Braves and Made Hero
Of Captain Bourke.
AN OcULISTS EXPERIMENTS ON EYES.
The Lats John Mcswssny's Clever Trap for Learned
Qusck Cut IN oho

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcH.1
WASHINGTON, Dec, 6,
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PULLED GOLD PIECES OUT OF HIS NOSE.

after the rest of the party had gone and
then, with a smile, asked Red Cloud how he
liked Washington, using the Sioux language.
Red Cloud started back in surprise, and
when he found that Noah had heard his
whole harangue, he was verY much
annoyed and begged him not to tell anyone
of it
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scARED BY MEDICINES.

81 said: L will put a drop of this on your
tongue, and in one minute 1 will burn a
hole clear through it, He opened his eyes,
but when again asked him to stick out his
tongue, he said he believed could do it
and that he would not test my skill. then
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MADAME AND FRIEND:

have had the pleasure to receive your letter
of the 18th instant. and 1 am charmed, as is
also my wife, to hear that you are we'll. NV
engagement at Covent Garden was sIpned on
the 4th of this month. Here are the terms: For
the iirst year 20 40 francs "a. (ss COY week; the
bssp changed, and instead Of 90 francs pef
week, and Tor three yeaIs, my enearemsut q
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-15

Creston, Iowa, will endeavor to dis
tance all competitors iu the ''palace"
line this year. The blue grass palace ex-
position will be held the last ten days of
August, in conjunction with the Cresson
Fair. The fair association offers about
81, 900 in the speed ring, and is in the
great racing circuit with Omaha, Lincoln
and Topeka. The new palace will be
more than double the size it was last
year. 1t will front east upon the race
track. It will be 265 feet long, 1870 feet
wide, and contain 30, 700 square feet of
floor space for exhibition. In addition,
there will be an auditorium with capa-
city of 1850 seats for popular concerts,
lectures, sermons and addresses when
racing is not in progress. The central
tower will be 100 feet high and the north
and south towers each 80 feet high. A
wide bridge, 1900 feet high, with bal
comics from which the races may be wit
messed, will extend from the north to the
south tower. The building will be de-
corated principally with blue grass, but
color will be freely used this year almost
as profusely as on the Sioux City corn
palace. Prizes will be offered the counties
making the best exhibit, Union County
being barred. One night of the exhibit
ton there will be carnival, with all
branches of industries represented in a
parade. - Chicago Herald.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-15
Polo is a Very Ancient Sport.

Polo is without exception the most an
cient of all the forms of equestrian sport
now in vogue: Its origin is shrouded in
mystery. Over a thousand years ago the
Princes of the Mikado's family were ac-
customed to play it in the vast grounds
of the Imperial Palace at Kioto. At a
less remote epoch the British conquerors
of India found that polo was the favorite
pastime of the Rajahs, who wagered their
finest Jewels on the outcome of the game.
1t soon found favorin the eyes of the
English officers. Inter-regimental matches
were played, and the game became more
and more popular. Moreover, it was re-
garded with the utmost approval by the
Government, which quickly realized that
game of polo, stiffiy contested, did
more to improve the horsemanship of its
cavalry officers than months of work in
riding school. About twenty years ago
polo was imported into England, the
first match being played at Shoencliffe,
by cavalry officers just home from India.
1t quickly became exceedingly popular,
and its fame soon spread to the Continent
where it is now played by Frenchmen,
Germans, Russians and Italians. 1t was
introduced into this country in 1878 by
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, and 6 took !"
at once. i New York Tribune.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-15
Han dsome Dinner Cards.

Five hundred thousand visiting cards
have been engraved in Washington this
season. One stationery firm has turned
out three hundred thousand in the last
two months, and the money spent on
pasteboard during a season amounts to
tens of thousands of dollars. The most
ordinary card costs cent apiece after
the plate is made, and some Of the dinner
invitations sent out cost ten dollars a
dozen. a prominent item ON the ex-
pense account of Washington belle is
her engraving and printing, and society
ladies who give dinners spend at times
hundreds of dollars upon the stationery
for feast. Mrs. Leland Stanford lately
paid eighty five dollars for fifty cards to
be used as menus for one of her big din
ners. The map of the United States was
stamped in silver on the cards, and the
drawing and engraving were exquisite.
At the dinner which Gen. Breckinridge
gave, the cards cost one dollar apiece,
and Mrs. Justice Blatchford gave not
long ago a luncheon the cards for which
were carved by hand at acost of eighteen
dollars dozen. Noone thinks of giving
big dinner without something fine in
the way of cards, and great many of
the menus are hand-painted. Some Of
the cards are in raised silver and gold.
They look as though the gold and silver
had been melted and poured into letters
on the cards. They cost seventy-five
cent? apiece. - Argonaut.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-15
when ON the High Seas.

On the rail- on q steamboat, aboard fishing
smack, or yachting on the coast, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters will be found reliable means
of averting and relieving ailments to which
travellers, mariners, and emigrants are pecul-
iarly subject. Sea captains, ship doctors, voy-
ayers, sojourners in the tropics, and all about
to encounter, unacclimated. an unaccustomed,
or dangerous climate. should not neglect to
avail themselves of this safeguard of weli-ascer-
tained and long-tried merit. Constipation, bill
iousness, malarial fever, Indigestion. rheuma-
tism, and affections of the bladder and kidneys
are among the ailments which it eradcates, and
it may be resorted to not only with confidence
in its remedial efficacy but also in lis perfect
freedom from every Objectionable ingredient,
since it is derived from the purest and most
Balutary sources. 1t counteiacts the effects Of
unwholesome food and water,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-15
How Base-Balls are Made.

Automatic machines for making base
balls have been so successfully contrived
that their introduction is likely to con-
stitute a practical industry. Each
machine winds two balls at one time, in
the following way:
A fine para-rubber ball, weighing three
quarters of an ounce, around which one
turn has been made with the end of a
skein of an old-fashioned gray stocking
yarn, is slipped into the machine, then
another, after which the boy in charge
touches lever, the machine starts and
the winding begins. The rubber ball is
thus hidden in few seconds, and in its
place appears little gray yarn ball that
rapidly grows larger and larger.
When it appears to be about half the
size of the regulation baseball there is a
click, the machine stops, the yarn is cut,
the boy picks out the ball and tosses it
into the basket. When this basket is full
it is passed along to another boy, who
runs similar machine, where half
ounce layer of worsted yarn is put on.
The next machine adds layer of
strong white cotton thread a coating of
rubber cement is next applied and half
ounce layer of the very best fine worsted
completes the ball with the exception of
the cover.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-15
The Great Spring Medicine.

twill be gratifying to all who realize the
vital necessity Of purifying the blood to
be relied upon as blood medicine. Mr.,
B. Q. Robinson, of Marshall. Mich, says:
GENTLEafEN--I have suffered intensely
from biliousness and rheumatism for over
three years, and had tried so many renee
dies that had lost all faith. Hearing Of
Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup I bought a
bottle and found it helped me. Ihaye now
liver and kidneys to healthy action, and
done more to purify my blood than any
thing have ever taken. am pleased to
recommend II as q wonderful blood medi-
cine. Very truly yours.
B. G. ROBINSON, Marshall. Mich.
Sold by all druggists. Prepared only by
The Charles Wright Medicine Company.
Detroit. Mich.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-15
They Kneu Each athsr

Two men stood leaning against the
fence in lot back of saloon. On the
face Of each there was look of agony,
and occasionally they heaved distress
ingly. They were not aware Of each
others presence, being so engaged indi-
vidually; but suddenly they looked up
Looked into each others eyes. Then
simultaneously they reached out and
shook hands. They did not speak a
word, but in that look and in that shake
there was a world of acquaintance.
They had never seen each other before.
Three years later, q man heard q
noise in his house. He crept down
stairs, and after struggle captured Q
robber.
Il have you, villainI'
"Yes."
@Let me see your face"
The robber turned his face. The
man sprang back. The robber was one
of the men that had heaved while lean
ing against the fence. The captor was
the other"
%Ah, my old friend" said the captor,
@you can never know how it grieves me
to see you here"
my dear old friend" said the rob-
ber, "my tried and true companion,
it does not hurt you more than it does
me-"
who would have thought that you
would have come to such an end?"
Hold, the end has not yet come"
What do you mean?"
Why, you can let me escape"
-True, said the captor, sadly shak-
ing his head, "too true. Go, you are
free; and may heaven bless you"
The robber fed. The generous cap
tor went up stairs and meditated deeply.
Had he done his duty to the state? No,
for he was an officer of the law, as we'll
as gentleman. What should he do?
"Wait!" he cried, %waitp Then he
went to medicine chest. measured out
q spoonful of poison and took it. In
the morning he was no more. Trans
LGtlO7l of q French ROm13lce.