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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-16
HOME SECURITIES.
A Very Quiet Market, With Small Volume
of Business.

of Business.
The local stock market betrayed considerable
weakness yesterday but more in feeling than
in figures. as price changes were unimportant
except in Two or three instances. Lusrer and
Pittsburg Traction scored advances. while
Philadelphia Gas submitted to a slight conces-
sion. There were no other changes worth
noting. Sales were 120 shares.
A broker remarked: "There are more sellers
than buyers Just now, which is unfayorable to
a stable market. am usually buver, but at
present l think il wise to walt. There is no
probability of much of an advance. if any, until
London and New York brace up, which may
take some time, and there may be a break as
some of the weaker holders show disposition
to unload. l think there is money in waiting"
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Mining Stocks.

NEW YORK October I5.-Alice, 200; Gould
and Curry. 200; Hale & Norcross. ITO; Home
stake. $50: Horn Silver, 325; Iron Silver, $50;
Ontario, Al 90; Small Hopes, 100.
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MILWAUKEE - Flour unchanged. Wheat
quiet; M. spring, on track, cash. 96609Sc:
December, yf'sc. Corn firm. Oats - No 3
white. on track, 43c. Rye firm. Barley firm:
Pork-January, SlI 20.
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Metal Markets.

NEW YoRK-Pig iron quiet and steady
Copper nominal; lake. October SIG rs. Lead
unsettled; domestic. So 90. Tin closed frmer
and more active; straits, S2I 35
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WHY will yOn cough when ShIoh's Cure will
give immediate relief? Price. 10 cts. 80 cts.
81. Sold by Jos. Fleming & Son. Il2 Market ST
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Price of Bar Silver

NEW ToRK, October l5-Bar sIlYer-Iondon.
sg18d; New \ urk, 81 0S34@l O9.
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sex dividend. tEx-r'ts.
Boston Stocks.
PHILADELPHIA Stocks.

Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks. FUR
nished bv Whitney & Stephenson, brokers' No. 81
Fourth avenue. Members New York Stock tx
ahanu
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REAL ESTATE SAVINGS BANK, LIN.

4O1 Smithneld Street, Cor. Fourth Avenue.
Capital, 100000. Surplus, SCI, 800.
Deposits OF 81 and upward received and
interest allowed at 4 per cent. IT'S
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>Carter's Little Liver Pills.
-Carter's Little Liver Pills.
'i0- N-Carter's Little Liver Pills.
sAo -Carter's Little Liver Pills.
noIs-s7.rTssu
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Other Oil Markets.

a. B. McGrew. No. lis Fourth avenue, quotes:
Puts, Sl55ss; calls. $685..
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HIGH CLASS HOUSES.
Better Buildings Being Put Up This
Year Than Ever Before.
FINE DWELLINGS MULTIPLYING.
Speculative Interests Waiting for New York
and London to Brace Up.
THE NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE CITY

The building characteristics of the year,
so far, are all in the line of improvement
over 1889, except in the matter Of number,
which shows a slight falling of. But to
make up for this the buildings are of BET
ter class, and the average cost is consider
ably greater. There has been an increase
in the number of small houses, as compared
with the previous year, but they are still far
short of the requirement These are largely
owned by working people. improvement
along this line is progress in the right direc-
tioD. 1t not only shows prosperity among
the masses, but also a disposition to per-
manently profit by it. Alterations and
additions are of a higher grade. Business
structures are more numerousand of better
class.
But the most notable characteristic, perhaps,
is the large increase in the number of fine
dwellings in the suburbs. particularly the East
End although all the surrounding districts
have done well in this respect. This is some
thing to be proud of, for strangers judge city
by the character of its houses moro than any.
thing else. and in this particular PlttsDurg VIII
bear comparison with any other community IN
the country.
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Features of Yesterdays Oil Market.

Corrected daily by John NJ. Oakley & Co. 45
Sixth street. members of the Pittsburg Petro-
leum Exchange:
Opened. .....S2 Lowest. ..............S1h
tuha
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FIRST SECOND THIRD
CALL. CALL. CALL.
b A Is A b A
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he leading futures ranged as follows:

I Open High Low Clos
ing. est. est. ing.
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, 1890-04-15

Not many things in the life Of a boy
seem more important to him than his
first getting into trousers. 1t is to be
doubted. indeed, II he is likely to find
much in his after life that will give a Joy
SO keen and unmi1cd; and when Master
Jamie, having reached the mature agc of
''most FIVE as he put it, was given his
first pair Of knickcrbockers, the whole
family were naturally called upon to re-
joice with him.
IL was after his first transports of de-
light were over, and he was able to speak
of the great event with calmness, that
Jamie came to his mother, and, after
parading up and down before her two or
three times, said in a tone Of perfect sat
isfaction:
40 mamma, pants make me feel so
like somebody Don't | look real grown
up. mamma
His mother smilingly told him that he
certainly did, and that she could rot feel
that he was her baby any more.
Didn't it make you feel grown up,
mamma, - Jamie began, when YOU
He stopped short. 1t had evidently
come to his mind that his mother had
never hiONh w httD htllkhb NhitI 81
filed his soul. He looked at her n mo
ment, an expression Of the deepest pity
coming over his face. and then he took
her hand in both OF his aud laid il
against his check.
Poor mamma he said, softly. "Pool
mamma! If you'd been my little girl
I'd have let you wear pants just the SAINT
IS If you'd been "A oy.'-Houth's Com.
naniDu.
, 1890-04-15

WHOLESALE TRADE.

Cheyenne is destined to become. in a
short time, oae of the best wholesaling
and iObbing points in the west
The most prosperous period oil the
mercantile history of Cheyenne, previous
to the present time, was when Cheyenne
sent out supply trains of goods to all the
ranches Of Wyoming, Western Nebraska
and Northern Colorado. Cheyenne was
then = wbolesaling point, the supplies
going direct to the big ranches, The era
of vholesaling is now about to return aud
CHEYENNE is now bound to be, In the near
future, a center of wholesale trade as i'm
portant in its contnbutory territory
As is Denver or Kansas City in
their respective localities. The opening
of the Cheyenne & Northern to n connec-
ton with the Northwestern system in
Central Wyoming will add to Cheyenne's
trading territory a number Of prosperous
own and a large extent Of growing
country. With present freight rates;
with the facilities for handling goods in
large quantities enjoyed by Cheyenne
merchants, aud with the increasing
amount of capital ready to be invested in
Cheyenne business enterprises the time
has come when the wholesale trade OF the
earlier days is about to be resumed, but
on a larger scale and extending over a
larger territory.
I'm -.
, 1890-04-15

An old gentleman, evidently a gath
erer of statistics, but with a kindly
face which shaded off to a something
like philanthropy about the edges,
stood at the junction yesterday gazing
~abstractedly down the street. Sudden
ly he stepped up TO a gentleman who
was awaiting a cable train and, touch
ing him lightly on the shoulder, said !:
Excuse me, but did you just drop a
twenty dollar gold piecel" at the same
time holding out in his hand a coin of
the denomination mentioned.
The gentleman questioned looked a
moment at the coin, assumed a look
of excitement, made a hasty search of
his pockets, and said: why, so did,
and l hadn't missed it" holding out
an eager hand.
The old man slowly drew a note
book and said: Il thought So" He
then took the name and address of the
loser and, dropping the coin in his
pocket, turned away.
well" said the other, do you
want il all as a rewardl'
'Oh, | did not find one" said the
benevolent old man, butt struck me
that in a large city like this there must
be a great deal of money lost and upon
inquiry L find you are the thirty-first
man who has a 800 gold piece this very
morning kansas City Times.
, 1890-04-15

An interesting study has been lately
made by Herr Tarchenoff of electric cur
rents in the skin from mental eXcitation.
UnpOlarizable clay electrodes, connected
with Il delicate ~galvanometer, were APP
piled to various purts-hands, fingers,
feet, toes, nose, ear and back, and, after
compensation Of any currents which oc-
CURED during rest, the effects of mental
stimulation were noted. Light tickling
with a brush causes, after n few seconds
period Of latency, a gradually increasing
strong DETECTION. lSot water has u like
effect, cold or the pain from n needle
prick a less. Sound, light, taste and
smell stimuli act similarly. If the eyes
have been closed some time, mere open
ing OF them causes n considerable deilec-
ton from the skin Of the hand. 1t is re-
markablc that these skin currents also
arise when the sensations are merely
imagined. Mental effort produces cur
rents varying with its amount. II per.
son il in tense expectation the g%alvanom.
eter mirror makes irregular oscillations.
In all the experiments 1t appeared that,
with equal nerve e%xcitation. the strength
Of the skin currents depended on the de.
gree to which the part of the skin bear
ing the electrodes vas furnished with
sweat glands.-Electrician.
, 1890-04-15

Comparing the death rate of ministers,
in respect of the causes of death, with
the mortality of other men, the following
results are obtained: OF SO, 1881 clergy
men, 1SO died of infectious diseases. The
Usual experience of an insurance com
parry would have made the number 239;
that il, the mortality of the clergymen
was ouly 20 per cent. of the ordinary
death rate. The death rate of physicians
from these diseases was 1877 above the
usual rate, pointing to the greater danger
of c%ontagion in the case of the physician
han i'll that of the pastor.
of lung affections, excluding consump-
ton, 81 clergymen died, instead of 1928,
the number expected from mortality
tables. Physicians died of such diseases
115 per cent. above the average rate. Be
tween the ages of 20 and 45 the mortality
of Roman Catholic clergymen compared
with Protestant ministers of the same age
was as 1877 to 100, while between the ages
of 46 ard So the difference was as 154 to
100, and between the ages of 65 and 85 as
11S to 100. How to explain this striking
difference is no easy task. 1t is suggest.
ed that it may be connected with the life
of ~celibacy followed by the priests, also
with the rigid penances of Catholic eccle-
s~iastics, which, especially in the case OF
young men, are aptto derange the diges.
tive organs.-Mcdical Journal.
, 1890-04-15
INCORRECT

Tho Sun, in its comments on the Ma
trona election, incorrectly states that the
canvassing board in the election contest
between G. A. Draper and Henry Help
henstein in 1879 did not throw out the
votes of the districts in which Irregular
ties were claimed. As a matter of fact
the canvassing board threw out the re-
turns OF two districts-Cheyenne Pass
aud Upper Horse Greek. amounting to
thirty-tbree votes, reducing Drayer's ma
iOrity from SO to 6. The legality of the
action, however. was never contested in
the courts.
The fact that the town OF Bessemer
cast 749 votes in the election Just held is
on its face such a glazing evidence Of
fraud hat in the interest Of decency the
vote should be rejected. no matter which
political party the throwing out Of the
vote should iniure.
, 1890-04-15

1t may be doubted if there are any
dumb animals" We do not call a
Hottentot dumb because he cannot
speak English. Why, then, should
we call a dog or a horse dumb, simply
because its language is wholly or part
ly unintelligible to usl
The prosecutor in a recent horse
stealing case in London, according to
The Telegraph, declared that his colt
of which he had been robbed, spoke
10 him like when he found it.
On being asked to explain himself,
he answered that the colt ''whinnied, ~
which was speaking to me ~ plain
MS anything not a Christian could"
The same paper reports that an ovel
inquisitive gentleman asked a cabman
if he thought his horse preferred
standing ''on the rank" or pulling the
cab.
We'll, sir" replied cabby, ~ thinks
on the ole, he'd rather pull the cab.
You see he reads the names over the
shop windows, and they make i'm
laugh
, 1890-04-15

Il was introduced t o Old Hutch in
Chicago the 9th sr day" said a New
England man in the Ebbitt lobby.
He is a typical Yankee of the x
trcmist sort, and you remember he was
originally from Vermont. He has a
large frame, and in good flesh would
turn two hundred"
"Stingyf"
Il guess; at least he has that repu-
tation. You remember he was held
up by footpads, and, although he was
worth a few millions, they got only
twelve cents for their bold undertake
ing"
They say he dresses stability"
There is usually some hayseed I'M
der his collar, but l heard a good
story about his getting a new coat.
His son one day u~pbraided him on his
coarse clothing and urged him to get
a new overcoat like his own, which,
though it cost 800, he assured his sire
was made TO order for $40. The old
man yielded, and the son sent word to
the tailor if his father came in to
make the price $40 and he would pay
the balance himself. The 800 coat
was soon on the old mans back, and
the next day on the board of trade a
broker inquired if he was not getting
rather extravagant in his dress;
That's n fine coat you have on; L
would be willing to pay $75 for one
just like it.
" You may have it, quickly re
sponded the king of the pit, thinking
only Of the 1876 profit, and, suiting the
action to the word, peeled his cover
ing as quick as acountry sucker would
shuck a nibbin. That day there was
u net loss in the Hutch family, but
the old man never knew it"-Wash-
iugton Star.
, 1890-04-15

nee visited a large high school, one
of the best in the country, with n science
teacher whose studies have won him the
respect of his fellow workers. But for
some reason, o that day at least, he failed
to bring his own knowledge into the class
room. | heard him quizzing n class of
boys and girls on unimals-not on the
animals of the woods and fields, not on
the animals before them, for there were
none, but on the cdcntltcs of South Amer
lea. An especial point was to find out
whether it is the nine banded armadillo
(novemcinctus) or the three banded ar
madiIlo t]tricInctus) which does not dig a
hole in the ground for its nest. The book,
written by a man who did not know an
armadillo from n mud turtle, gives this
piece Of Information. 1t was in the les
son.and the students must get it. And
on this and like subjects these boys and
girls were wasting their precious time
precious because, if they do not learn to
observe in their youth, they will never
learn, aud tho horizon of their lives will
be always and darker than it
should have been.
Already the work of that day is blank.
They have forgotten the nine banded
armadillo and the three banded, and so
has their teacher, and so haveI. All that
remains with them is a mild hatred of
the armadillo and of the edentates in
general, and n feeling of relief at being
no longer under their baleful influence.
But with this usually goes the determine
ton never to study zoology again. And
when these students later come to the
college, they know no more of science
and its methods than they did when at
the g of l year they first cried for the
moon.-David Starr Jordan in Popular
Science Monthly.
, 1890-04-15

1t would appear, from the codes of
people for whom no divine revelation
is claimed by us, that man by his un-
aided efforts has come to the knowl-
edge of the best principles and prac-
tees of morality, has not only made
admirable rules of conduct, but has
perceived hat the essence of goodness
lies in the character of the soul. If
this be so, it is unnecessary to suppose
a supernatural divine revelation to ac-
count for the ethical phenomena of so
ciety. 1t might be said, indeed, that
all this ethical development proceeds
from "A primitive divine revelation.
But this statement rests ON no histori-
cal proof, nor would it explain the
fact that the ethical progress of a ma
ton goes hand in hand with its
growth in civilization. If the ancient
Hebrews received their ethical code di-
rectly from God, whence ome itthat
manners were milder in Ezra's time
than in the pre-exilian prophetic pc
Rod, less mild in the days of David,
and comparatively rude In the porj"d
of the judgesi 1t would be singuirs. If
the generations which stood nearest
the revelation were least affected by
it.-Professor G. H. Toy in Popular
Science Monthly.
, 1890-04-15
STILL AT 1T.

The Boomerang gets in a home thrust,
when in speaking Of the recent charges
made BY the Sun that it helped distrib-
ute The LEADER in Laramie, it says:
The Suns statement was never true.
1t was not sven known by the proprietors
Of this paper, by its business msnager, or
it. editor. that THE LEADER had been
distributed along with the Boomerang
until the day after the first denial was
printed. The Sun has made n false and
malicious charge against the Boomerang
as a Republican paper and, if il; has any
Of the instincts of honorable journalism,
it will make an apology. But it won't.
We don't believe it is built that way. 1t
doesn't know honest journalism from a
black cat at the dead of night.
, 1890-04-15

When we hear the stories about the
cars peril from Nihilists, we cannot
help wondering why he does not take
the most natural means of lessening
his danger. The threats against his
life are not made in mere wantonness.
The men who would assassinate him
with as little conjunction as they
would shoot a mad dog, feel that they
have provocation and that they
would be doing a service to the world
by sending n tyrant out of 1t. The out
RACES in Siberia, that seem to have as
sumed n more horrible character lately
than for some years previous, have
stirred up the feeling against the gov
eminent TO n greater height than ever.
1t is as the incarnation of the govern
ment that the ear is execrated. Would
not the simplest way TO restrain the
indignation of the people be to show
a disposition to institute a thorough re
form in the methods of ruling2
The car has been told in plain
words, by the representatives of the
awful power hat opposes him at every
turn, and that is all the more to be
feared because it works in secret, that
if he will make certain concessions his
life will be safe. He refuses absolute
ly TO treat with the secret element that
will yet surely compass his death. And
he wears armor under his clothes and
sets his police to work to keep assas-
sins away, even when he goes to
church to commune upon his knees
with his maker. In what sor of spin
he pursues his devotions can only be
surmised. To the ordinary observer,
it appears very much like impious
, 1890-04-15
EATEEuL LETTER M


The Significance of That Letter to Ma
poIeon'- Meteoric Career.
The first one who discovered Napoleon's
genius was Marbosuf in the College
Militaire. The battle Of MarengO was
the first won by Gen. Bonaparte; upon
this Melas yielded his place in Italy to
him. Later, one of his best generals was
Mortier, whose opposite, N~aPoleon's be-
trayer, was Moreau- Murat was the first
victim of his political strategy. Maria
Louisa shared the time OF his highest
fortune; Moscow became the scene of his
fall and Metternich vanquished him on
the battlefield of diplomacy.
Six of his generals (Massena, Mortier,
Marmont, Macdonald, Murat and Mon
cey) and twenty-siX division generals had
the initial IN" to their names. Maret,
Duke of Bassano, was his truest adherer.
Montalivet was his minister and his first
chancellor was a Montesquieu. His last
residence in France was Malmaison. The
captains name who took him to st. He
lena was Maitland, and his companions
there were Montholon and his servant
MArchand.
The wife Of Napoleon III was a Mon
tito and his most intimate friend was
Morny. The greatest triumph for him
and his army during the Crimean war
was the taking of Malatoff and Mamelon.
The names Monticello and Magenta
appear in the foreground in Italian war.
Later it is MacMahon, who played one Of
the most important roles during the
Franco-German war and who was APP
pointed Duke of Magenta by Napoleon.
Then we come to the epoch when Ma
poleon entered Maitland and shortly
after drove the Austrians out Of Mari
ano. His greatest enemy was Mazzini.
After the battle Of SolferinO on the Min
clio, Napoleon closed the gates Of Man
tua. Then followed the sad affair Of
Mexico and Emperor Macmillan.
In the year 1870 Metz was one of the
aims of the French operations. but being
driven bach over the Moselle the destiny
Of Napoleon found a fatal conclusion at
Sedan, on the Moselle. Then followed
the capitulation OF Metz, but all his dis
aster was brought about by the wisdom
Of one OF the greatest strategists Of u
timesand the German fa~therland, Moltke.
From the German.
, 1890-04-15
n CITY LANDS.

The plan for the disposal OF the city
land, suggested by THE LEADER, of plat
ting and selling by lots or blocks to indi-
vidusls, is approved by a large number OF
people who have voluntarily expressed
favorable opinions of the proposed
method.
Plated into lots and sold at present
market prices, the amount realized from
the sale of the lands would doubtless ex-
Deed the amount bid for the whole tract.
Even il the proceeds of such sales should
not exceed the amount of a direct sale Of
the entire tract, the city would be the
gamer in being able to ofer to home
seekers and investors lots at prices which
could not be inflated to figures calculated
to friVhten away would be buyers OF
Cheyenne property.
, 1890-04-15

There is nothing in the world more
pathetic than the meek, timorous, shrink,
ing ways of certain old Pcoplc-wo have
all seer thom-who ha 70 given up their
old homes into younger hands, and sub
sided into some out Of -the-way corner OF
it, to sit by the firesile and table hence.
forth as if afraid of making trouble, '
afraid of being Tin the way" afraid Of
accepting half what is their due, and
going down to their grares with n pitiful,
~deprecating air as II constantly apologi&.
ing for staying so long. There is no
scorn too deep and sharp for the sous
and daughters who will accept this atti,
tude on the part Of those to whom they
owe so much. Christian Union.
, 1890-04-15

A party of gentlemen were discuss
ing the proper place for a napkin
when at dinner. One of the group, an
old traveller and diner out, declared
unhesitatingly that the napkin should
be tucked beneath the chin so as to
protect the scarf of the guest as well
as his clothing. He knew it would be
asserted that such a thing is vulgar,
but in any event there should be as
much care taken of the shirt front and
scarf of a diner as the rest of his attire.
Some people hold that the proper place
for a napkin is i'll the guests lap;
others that it should betucked between
the second and third vest button, but
he favored the chin idea because it is
sensible and nautical. -Washington
Post