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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
A School Mans Advice,

During the fall of 1882, while my
daughter was teaching in the country near
here, she contracted a severe cold and
cough. 1 sent her bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and the effect was so salts
factory that on her recommendation the en-
tire neighborhood began its use, and with
the most satisfactory results, which has con-
tinued with increasing confidence ever since.
j. II. REINHART, Druggist, Alton. Kan.
Seventeenth and Twenty-fourth SITS, Penn
ave. and cor. Wylie ave. and Fulton st.;
Markell Bros, cor Penn and Frankstown
aves.; Theo. E. Ihrig, 3610 Fifth ave.; Carl
Hartwig, Forty-third and Butler sts., Pitts
burg, and in Allegheny by E. E. Heck, 70
and 1914 Federal st.; Thos. r. Morris, cor,
Hanover and Preble aves.; F. H. Eggers,
172 Ohio st., and +. H. Eggers & Son, 1893
Ohio st. and IL Smithfeld st. wsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
Remarkable Coppsr Rolling.

Some interesting trials of skill have
recently taken place among the workmen
employed in the rolling mills of Birming-
ham and Ansonia, Conn. One operative
rolled an old-fashioned copper cent into a
strip 18 inches long and 3.2OOO-inch thick.
In a spirit of emulation other workmen
essayed cent rolling. and the record was
broken by an Ansonla roller, who, COM
mencing with modern alloy cent, finished
with a strip of metal 38 inches long and
L50O inch in thickness. Afterward, with an
1888 cent, the same man obtained a ribbon
Of bronze 90 inches long, q inch wide and
10000 inch thick. Trying again with
cent of this years coinage, the Ansonia man
succeeded in producing strip SO inches
long and less than 2.1000 inch thick-so
thin that there was no instrument delicate
enough to measure it, while it had to be
glued to strip of ribbon to prevent its
breaking. Considering that the rolls used
were those employed for forming great bars
of copper, it will be seen what extraordinary
skill and delicacy of touch were required.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
Munroe,s New Explo.ire.

The new explosive discovered by Prof. G.
E. Munroe, the precise composition of
which is kept a secret, is reported to have
given very remarkable results in the tests
thus far made. The new explosive is
claimed to possess greater violence than any
now employed either in blasting or military
cartridges, while its chemical stability is
said to be assured. It is proved to be insen-
sitive to any friction or percussion yet ap-
piled, having been exposed to the blows of
a steam hammer and those OF blacksmith
striking with sledge upon an anvil. Un-
like many explosive mixtures, it is de-
scribed to be a true chemical compound of
definite composition and well-defned proper
ties. Its main field is to be in military
uses, and the discoverer asserts that the con-
tents of common shell would be sufficient
to rupture the heaviest armorclad afloat,
Though more powerful than the explosive
"a" which produced such tremendous
effects at Annapolis, it is much safer.
Further advantages claimed are that it is
smokeless and as nearly noiseless as explo-
sives can be. Its manufacture is said to be
simple and to require no elaborate appa-
ratus.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
New Use for The Psonorr.Db.

DR.. A. N. Blodgett proposes to use the
phonograph for obtaining durable and trust
worthy records from the lips of hospital pa
tients, and also insuring the accurate deliv-
cry of the directions of the physician. DR..
Blodgett says: can instrument of this kind
might be made portable, and visiting
physician in hospital might give his d.
rections into the funnel, when they would be
recorded on a small cylinder, which can be
put upon another machine, and the physi-
clans directions as to treatment can thus be
accurately recorded. 1 know how difficult
it is to get full directions in the wards from
the visiting physician, and here we have
legal cases 1 think it would be of great
service, because the utterances of the patient
could be reproduced at an infinite period
afterward, and should suppose would be
evidence in the case"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

interest of any considerable number of peo-
pie outside Ireland, though it is very small
Irish town which does not boast at least
two courts.
Every village has its champion at hand
ball, and the name of Buck Ewing cannot
excite the enthusiasm of American admir-
era of our national game to greater pitch
than that which is inspired in sport-loving
Irish hearts by the name of Tommy Jones,
Of Tralee, Kerry county, the greatest living
player of handbaD in all Ireland.
Tournaments are continually under way
in the larger cities of that country, and a
meeting between well-known PLAYERS will
always draw a crowd of spectators as large
in proportion to the size of the city as a base
ball game between two clubs struggling for
the pennant in America.
THE REQUISITES.
The first thing requisite for contest is
court of special construction. The room
must be 35 feet in height, 25 feet in breadth
and the distance between rhe front and rear
walls IS feet. A straight ne marked across
the floor divides the court into equal parts.
The side and front walls are of hard cement.
smoothed to as perfect a level as possible,
The roof, through which all the light is ad
mitted, is covered over with a strong wire
netting.
The only requisite for the game beyond
the court is the ball to be used, and this the
rules specify shall be about 2 inches in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
Boxing the Ear. and 1t. Results.

The Lancet has just made another vigor-
Gus onslaught on the injurious practice of
boxing the ears, once common in schools,
but now fast and surely becoming obsolete.
1t is shown that serious injury may result
from slight but sudden blow. Given early
and skilled attention the wound may heal
very kindly, but if the beginning of mis-
chief be overlooked, as it often has been,
further signs of Inflammation soon follow.
and deaf and suppurating tympanum is
the usual result. There is practical wisdom
in the statement that this consequence most
readily follows in the case of poorly devel.
oped and underfed children. In them an
earache might not receive very strict at
tention, and disease might for
time work havoc unimpeded.
Where chronic suppuration exists already,
and it is only too common, a random knock
on the ear may, and has resulted, in fatal
brain complications. The close connection
between ear and brain should never be for
gotten. The practice of striking the heads
of school children is also most reprehensi-
BILE. The writer has in mind the case of a
schoolmate who was struck on the head with
ruler by bad-tempered tutor. The tenn
porary effects seemed to pass away; but
years after brain trouble developed, and the
subject of the injury died in a lunatic
asylum. A postmorTem revealed the fact
that the cause of death was the blow received
years before
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
A Lady and La Crime,

From the Des Molnes Mail and Express1
We know a refined and cultured woman.
whose modesty will not permit any newspa-
per to mention her name, who was as misera-
BILE as one we'll could be last week. Her
whole body was racked with pain. Her
headache was spasmodic in character, but
when it did ache the pain was uncommonly
severe.
Her spells of sneezing were frequent and
protracted. The lining membrane cf the
nose was in a high state of inham N alton.
Her cough, especially early in the morning,
was painful, while her expectoration was
copious. She had an exaggerated case of
hay fever. 1t destroyed her appetite and
drove her at last to bed. At one time her
family became seriously alarmed, as her
symptoms had assumed, it was feared. a
dangerous character. She refused to have a
physician called, and said: "Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy had helped her out of
very bad cold," and she would try
it anyhow. There was a bottle of the
remedy on the sideboard, but it was half
gone, and as it had not been used for some
time, it was suggested that its strength and
virtue were gone. The fair patient per-
sisted and at last she was permitted to have
her way. She began taking it in the even
ing, and the next morning, though the medi-
cine seemed to make her slightly dizzy, she
was much improved. The cough had
ceased and the sneezing was infrequent, less
in duration and violence. The next night
she slept soundlY and arose the following
morning realizing that though she was
weak LA Grippe" had retired from the
conflict
For sale by E. G. Stuckey. Seventeenth
and Twenty-fourth streets, Penn avenue
and corner Wylie avenue and Fulton street;
Markell Bros, corner Penn and Frankstown
avenues; Theodore E. Ihrig, 361O Fifth ave-
nue.; Carl Hartwig, Forty-third and Butler
streets, Pittsburg, and in Allegheny by E.
E. Heck, 70 and 1874 Federal street; Thomas
r. Morris, corner Hanover and Preble ave-
nues; f. H. Eggers, 172 Ohio street, and F.
II. Eggers & Son, 199 Ohio street and IL
Smithfeld street. Wsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
Novelty in Tramway Practice.

The town of Ontario, San Bernardino
county, Cal, has railway which passes
through Euclid avenue, broad and beauti-
full street, bordered with orange and lemon
trees. The avenue is some six and half
miles in length, with heavy grades as it ap-
proaches the hills. The car is drawn up
hill and over the levels by pair OF mules,
but in going down grades the mules ride
and the car moves by gravity. This is
which runs under the car when not in use.
On down grades the platform is drawn out
from beneath the car, and its movable sides
and guard rails are properly adjusted. The
mules are then driven on the platform, the
gates are closed, and all is ready for the
descent. The mules quietly stand. we'll
fenced in, while the car rapidly runs down
the grade.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
Resemblance In Married coupI...

1t has long been accepted as a fact that
married couples, who are not only exposed
to the same conditions of life, but the in
fuence of whose minds must necessarily re-
act upon each other, assume a more or less
strong facial resemblance to each other.
The Photographic Society, of Geneva,
Switzerland, with a view to determining
this question, have made photographs of 78
young couples. The result is that in "a
cases the resemblance in the personal ap-
pearance of the husband and wife was
greater than that of brother and sister; in 80
cases it was equally great, and in only "a
was there total absence of resemblance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
petsrmInIpr Acou,rIc ouaIirIs..

A recent writer, referring to the matter Of
determining acoustic qualities, says that
1--WE have never discovered the principles
applicable to the proportions of great hall
by which the voice is spread and conveyed
evenly and in the most perfect manner to
all parts. After the building is completed
1t is, confessedIy and notoriously, a matter
of accident, and question to be solved only
by experiment, whether it is good for
sound Furthermore when the acoustic
quality is not satisfactory, it is often not
easy to explain why or to devise means to
remedy it." Here is a field for discovery
that should be worked out. It would ap-
pear that the properties of sound are still
only imperfectly understood.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
sub.trrurs for Gum Acacia.

The high price of gum acacia has caused
a substitute to be sought for, and this is
believed to have been found in the mucilage
of faxseed, which seems especially adapted
for the emulsionizing of cod liver oil, for
which gum acacia is largely used. The
boiling with dilute suIphuric acid and
water, and subsequently adding strong
alcohol. The gum IS in the form of trans
lucent, grayish-brown, brittle fragments,
easily pulverized, and without odor or
taste, and thirty grains will emulsionize an
ounce of cod liver oil.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
The PerIls Of Damp and Cold Beds.


If trustworthy statistics could be had of
the number of persons who die every year,
or become permanently diseased, from
sleeping in damp or cold beds, they would
be astonishing and appalling. 1t is peril
that constantly besets travelling men, and If
they are wise they will invariably insist on
having their beds aired and dried. even at
the risk of causing much trouble to their
landlords. But the peril resides in the home,
and the cold "spareroom" has slain its thou
sands of hapless guests, and will go on with
its slaughter till people learn wisdom. Not
only the guests but the family often suffer
the. penalty of sleeping in cold rooms, and
chilling their bodies at time when they
need all their bodily heat, by getting be-
tween cold sheets. Even in warm summer
weather cold, damp bed will get in its
deadly work. II is a needless peril, and the
neglect to provide dry beds and rooms hasin
it the elements of murder and suicide.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
Slipping of Belts.

If there is anything annoying about an
electric light plant or around any ma
chinery for that matter, it is the slipping of
belts. An excellent remedy is to paint the
face of the pulley. This can be done BY
using hot asphaltum or white lead made
very thin with turpentine. 1t will adhere
nicely it allowed to dry thoroughly. A
thicker coat of white lead should then be ap-
piled and allowed to dry thoroughly before
being used. These coatings will not scale
off if properly applied, and will give as good
results as any pulley covering.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

feel very stiff and sore in the morning. His
urine was high-eolored, his appetite poor and
he had belching of gas after eating. His achea
and pains continued to grow worse until there
was hardly spot in his body free from pain.
He says: Il had four doctors. but all failed To
give me any relief. When I began treating
with the physicians Of the POlypathlc Insti-
tute1 had not been able to work for 1--WE
months, and often was not able to walk OF get
around in the house. except by crawling ON nv
hands and knees. After taking their medf-
cines for four weeks became greatly i'm
proved. and at the end of two months was an
Hrely cured. I could not ask to feel baktar
than now do. "WrLLIAM HURIEY1
Mr.. Hurley il Well-known in Pittsbur0
and his many friends will gladly testify to bis
condition and his complete cure. All lorna N
kidney and urinary Diseases chronic diseaasa
and surgery successfully treated.
once hours. 10 A. N. TO P. NJ and Ito Rp
n. sundays, to P. n. Consultation fras
and strictly confidential. Patients at a dist1noS
treated with success By letter. Wnte for 4
4UeSA1On OiAnk' iAzIrrs
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
FortunnIn Me.rern Penn .rI-nn,.n.

Higdon & Higdon, Ameri can and foreign
patents, 95 Fifth ave-, P;ttsburg, and St.
Cloud building, Washington, D. G., report
the following patents granted this week:
Pittsburgh. T. Duff, trimming edges of
hollowware; G. J. h. Goehler, safe and
vault; b. E. Hunt, protecting plate for
grip cars; John McDoT lald, steam boiler in
dicator. Oil City,. NJ. Harding, in
suf1ator. MeKeespor I'll. B. Lynch, ma
chine for coating metal. Beaver Falls
VIM. A. McCool, chu,c ,ck.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

One of the prettiest calendars for 1890 is
issued by Messrs. C. Hood q Co., of Lowell,
Mass. The calendar is ornamented with a
picture of lovely little girl, the work close
ly resembling fine water color painting.
with the pages attached to the
sheet is a humorous rhymed account of q
cause he refused to use Hoods Sarsparilla.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
A Pneumntic Tire for RiO1cle..

A pneumatic tire for bicycles which
promises to make new era in bicycling, is
reported from Belfast, Ireland. The tire for
full roadster is about ~ inches in diameter,
and is composed of an outer covering of
rubber, graduated in thickness from about
quarter of an inch where it touches the
ground and protected by canvas, where it is
attached to the rim, which is very broad and
nearly fat. Inside this covering is an inner
tube, which contains the air. The air is
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

diameter and ~ ounces in weight. 1t is
made of the same material as the League
baseball, though trife more lively and not
as hard.
A handball contest is always between two
or four players. When two play, one man
is called the server and the other the player.
The server stands at the line drawn across
hall 80 feet from the front wall. Holding
the ball in one haEd, he faces the side wall
Upon the signal to play from the referee he
bounds the ball upon the floor. As it re-
turns to a level with his thigh the server
strikes it with one hand, his intention being
70 have the ball hit the front wall and re-
bound before coming in contact with the
hoor. As the ball rebounds the player, who
has taken his position anywhere inside the
SS foot line, must strike the ball with his
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
FOUND AT LAST.
Anew Make of Carpet which for DurnbIIlr,

Surpnsses Any Yet Found.
There is but one place now in Pittsburg
where the new carpet called agra" can be
seen.
That place is at Groetzinger's, 627 and 629
Penn avenue.
The Agra is similar to 3-ply ingram in
appearance, but will outwear three of the
latter.
The ladies are especially invited to call
and inspect this new carpet
introduced for the first time this season,
and its sales are enormous wherever sold.
The sale of the Agra in Pittsburg is con-
fined solely to the house Of Edward Groet-
Finger, 627 and 629 Penn avenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

pumped in with football blower, and
patent air valve prevents its return. Vibra-
tion is practically arnihilated. 1t is inter-
cepted between the rim and the ground and
consequently the frame receives no jar, ex-
cept when an unusually large hole is en-
cOuntered. A frame so protected is said to
wear out two frames with solid tired wheels,
and the riders are able to use very much
lighter frames without any danger of their
collapsing,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

For finely cut, neat-ftting SUIT leave
your order with Walter Anderson, 700
Smithheld street, whose stock of English
suitings and Scotch tweeds is the finest in
the market; imported exclusively for his
trade. an
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

that almost battles de-
scriPtion. The dis
eased condition of his
kidneyscausedapuRy
appearance under his
eyes, his skin was
very yellow. his feet
and legs would often
bloat, he had q very
severe pain in his
back and kidneys,
which at times was so
sharp that it seemed
asif = knife was cut
ting through them,
and he Would oftan
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

Some Psychologists suppose that in the
Somnambulic state the hemispheres of the
brain are completely asleep. Yet this is
apparently inconsistent with the generally
accepted theory that somnambulism is an
intelligent automstism-unless we give up
all our present notions about the operations
of the hemispheres as the organ of intelli-
gence. 1t is true that some Psychologists
consider the hemispheres as the seat of con-
sciousness, and thus it seems that if con-
sciousness is asleep the hemispheres should
remain inactive. But the experiments of
somnambulism, no less than other and
kindred facts of unconscious soul-life, prove
that acts of automatic intelligence are posi-
BILE, and thus point to another solution. The
piano virtuoso has the complex motions of
his fingers not in his hand alone, but
in his brain, in the storehouse of his memo
ries. Ii he executes these movements un-
consciously the hemispheres of his brain do
not remain inactive. Yet the activity of
the hemisphere structures is not always
connected with the consciousness of the CEN
trail soul. After long process of conscious
exercise they have become sufficiently fixed
as to work automatically. Automatic
means "selfmoving," ''selfactirg," or Gin
dependent" Acts of automatic intelli-
gence are such as are performed indepen-
IDENTIFY of the Capitalization of consciousness.
Unconscious cerebration can no longer be
considered as extraordinary. On the con-
trary, it is distinctively normal feature of
soul-life
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

You will be we'll pleased if you make use
Of the Iron City Brewing Co. s ale and beer.
Competent judges pronounce them the lead
ing brews. All dealers keep them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
TTSu

CABINETIphotos 81 per dozen, prompt de-
livery. Crayons, etc., at low prices.
LIES GALLERY,
TTSu 10 and IL Sixth st,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
AuctIon saIe Japnueue GoodU.

Balance of annual holiday display. Large
selection. Goods delivered. No. 10 Sixth
street, near Suspension bridge.
WIN. HASLAGE & Son.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

REMEMBER that o. Wainwright & Co. s
ale and beer are the proper drinks for this
season. Telephone 6525. wsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

REMEMBER that 2. Wainwright & Co. 3
ale and beer are the proper drinks for this
season. Telephone 5525. wsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

HIGHEST prices paid for ladies' or
gents cast-of clothing at De Hams Big
6, Wylis ave. Call or send BY mail wsU
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26

that it has really become the center of all
the interests of the game
james Burke, John Long and Edward F.
Lynch are considered as good player as may
be found in Philadelphia. Chicago pos
sesses an excellent court, and much interest
in the sport is exhibited in st, Louis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
She Thought She Would Drop Dead. but She
Didn't

Mrs. Carroll, of SO Irwin ave-, Allegheny,
the lady who received the elegant Everett
piano, on certificate No. 70 in the Everett
Club, this week, was so pleased and sur
prised that she remarked that she thought
she would die, but she won't. We are not
killing the people, only giving them q
chance to get the finest piano now manufac-
tured at the lowest wholesale price, on pay
ments of 81 per week. If YOU want fine
piano, come and see us or send for circular.
ALEX. Ross, Manager,
wsu 1877 Federal st., Allegheny.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
srac,oI R,bbon R.rv,,n

Pure silk Nos. %, 80, 40, fancy ribbons,
25c, reduced from Soc, &c, Toe, at Rosen.
baum & Co.'S.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
Handsome CrayOn, Elegantly Framed.

And IL fine cabinet photos. all for $5, at
Aufrecht's "Elite" Gallery, 516 Market st. ,
Pittsburg. Come early.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-26
FOUR DOCTORS FAIL.

Mr.. William Hurley, living at No. l3I Seven
teenth street. Southside, has had an experience