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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24

wheels which now haul iron castings
through the streets of Pittsburg, the ram
shaekle of q conveyance in Dore's picture
certainly was a mere plaything. But one
other place in the world can exhibit such
strong and massive wheel-trucks as Pitts
burg, and that is Birmingham, in England.
Those that are to be seen daily on Penn
avenue and Carson street exceed anything
that was ever yet built for weight and
strength. The largest timber-wheels that
are utilized here for carrying iron from one
mill to another, or from the foundries to the
railroad depots, weigh seven tons. From
their upright blocks can be swung load of
80 tons, ana this is easily borne without
Etraining the chains or timbers.
A CAR OF INDUSTRY.
e Smaller timber wheels, weighing five and
six tons will also swing burden of 30 tons.
They cost from 5000 to S400 piece. Their
heavy running gear, ponderous wheels with
spokes that look like giants clubs, iron ties
that resemble railroad rails, oak timbers
fitted with chains so big and heavy that
man cannot lift them-these are what make
one of the ugly looking cars worth that
amount of money. For moving the smaller
class of iron manufactures the truck wagon
is used. That is q vehicle with stumpy
little wheels and a strong compact wagon
bed. They weigh nearly as much as tim
Der wheels and cost $500. A load aggrega-
ting 25 tons can be piled upon one of these
trucks at press.
In the olden-time this heavy hauling in
Pittsburg was all done in draws or two
wheeled timber wheels. None of those odd
affairs are left now. Heavy wagoning has
been completely revolutionized. Frank
Ardary, who is at present engaged at James
Ardary's big stables, corner of Liberty and
Thirty-frst streets, commenced teaming for
the iron manufacturers 35 years ago at
Seventeenth street. He says at that time
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Remarkable Armor Piercing.

The remarkable progress which is being
made in gunnery is illustrated by group
of shells now on view at the Royal Military
Exhibition at Chelsea, England, consisting
of IL six-inch cast steel projeetiles fred as
prooi-rounds at Shoeburyness, against nine
inch compound armor plates. Each shell
had gone intact completely through the
srmor plate and through from five to eight
feet of oak backing as well. In the center
OF the group, stands 9.2-inch shell, which
is simply a steel casting, neither rolled nor
hammered, and which has gone unbroken
through feet of wrought iron aud 20 feet
of oak backing. Another notable case, is
that of projectile 1875 inches IN diameter,
which penetrated an 18-inch compound
plate and q si1-inch wrought iron plate
immediately back OF it, 30 feet of oak back
ing, another wrought iron plate, 10.5 inches
in diameter, and, finally, fourth wrought
iron plate two inches thick, or total thick
ness of 36,5 inches of armor plating. The
projectile was found broken in the last
plate.
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G. Winston, in the Architect, says that in
all the glass paintings of earlier date than
the last quarter of the fourteenth century
until which period the material commonly
in use was not over clear, substantial in ap-
pearance or intense in color-the artists
seem to have relied for effect principally on
the richness and depth of the coloring.
Even the picture glass paintings of this
period are little less than exceedingly power
tul and brilliant mosaics. The style of the
painting is simple, bold and forcible. with
out any attempt at softness of finish and nice
gradations of light and shade. The drawing
is effected by thick, black lines, which
always strengthen and in some cases supply
the place OF broader shadows. In all subse-
quent glass paintings until the revival of
the more ancient styles, which took place
about % years ago, in proportion as
the glass became more pellucid, more
fimsy In substance and appearance,
and less powerful and intense in color, less
mosaic and increased pictorial effect was
aimed at. The weakness of the Individual
colors was in great measure compensated
for by their employment in large masses, by
judiclous contrasts and by harmonious ar
rangement. Their depth was increased by
means of broader and more powerful shadow
ing, and certain degree of richness was i'm
parted by the more liberal use of diaper
patterns and other minute Embellishments
The drawing became more delicate, nicely
graduated and hIghly-wrought shadows
were, to great extent, substituted for stiff,
back outlines, and In many instances con-
siderable attention was paid to perspective
and to atmospheric effects. In short, it would
seem that the artists considered that the
more refined nature OF the material demanded
as well as favored more refined pictorial
treatment. and sought to compensate for its
thinness and weakness by the
of beauties of another deserip-
tion
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EVERY DAY SCIENCE.
A Wonderful Machine That Makes
Fine Cloth of Horse Hairs.
NEW ARTICLES MADE OF PAPER.
Wire Rolled From Cold Steel Bars is
Stronger Than if Drawn Hot.
ANCIENT STYLE In STAINED GLASS
rpREpAREp FOR THE pIspArcH.J

rPREPARKD FOR THE DIsPATcH.1
One of the most wonderful instances Of
what can be accomplished by ingenious
mechanical applications is loom for weav-
ing horsehair cloth, which has been intro
duced in England. The hairs, after being
sorted and otherwise prepared, are placed in
a channel at the side of the loom. Into this
channel two sharp iron fingers dip at inter-
walls. These fingers are so adjusted that
they grasp hair, and only one. Occasion
ally finger will grasp two slender hairs,
but this is very seldom, and the mechanism
is so dellcately adjusted that when it does
occur the superfnous hair is Immediately
dropped.
When the dip is successful light arm
rests against the hair, held as it is in ten
sion between the fingers on the upper side
and bar across the supply channel on the
lower side. When the dip is unsuccessful,
and no hair rises in the fingers, this arm
misses its hair support. and in doing SO
causes lever 10 fall, thus dropping the
fingers for new trial within the fraction of
q second after the unsuccessful attempt If
it again misses, it repeats for third time
during the traverse of the shuttle to and
from the other side of the loom,
and if it fails after q third attempt to
seize the hair, the stop motion comes into
operation and prevents the shed changing,
also the let-up and take-up of the warp, and
brings the hair selected by the picker at the
opposite side into the open shed, which
prevents any imperfection in the cloth.
The finished cloth is beautiful substance
of glossy surface, which is largely used for
railway carriage blinds, for which it is spe-
cially suitable.
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A Wise Precaution.

A firm of chemists in Birmingham, En-
gland, place upon all poisons sold by them
directions as to the antidote which should
be applied in cases where the poisons
are taken accidentally or Intentionally by
human beings. An English chemical jour
nal gives an instance where this precaution
was the means of saving life. A woman
poisoned herself and then informed her
cal man was at once sent for, but In all
probability the woman would have been
dead before he arrived but for the fact that
her husband chanced to read on the label,
which accompanied the poison, the instruc-
tions: "Give a mixture of chalk and water,
milk and magnesia, or carbonate of soda and
water, until medical aid can be procured"
The result is that the would-be suicide is
alive to-day.
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those great iron shoes. you will find that it
is slightly more expensive keeping draught
horse than one of the smaller size. These
big animals are remarkably docile and
gentle. The carriage nags Of average size
often combine all the qualities of vicious
ness. They will kick, bite, run off, and do
anything that is mean. But you can crawl
under one of these big draught horses, twist his
ear, whip him, or explode jackson cracker
under his nose, and he will not be mad
about it.
They are beautiful as picture. They
cannot travel fast, but on the rule that big
bodies move slowly they jog along, taking
good strides and keeping a steady progress
all day if need be, but seldom faster than a
walk. When they do trot the effort be-
comes something tremendous, and anything
but graceful. They are usually driven
with one line either from the wagon or from
q saddle on one of the rear horses. They
obey every word of the driver, and with the
attachment that they soon learn to show for
driver who stays with them long, they
place implicit confidence in him.
SOME CELEBRATED LOADS.
The heaviest load ever hauled in Pitts
burg on a set Of timber wheels was an anvil
block of solid iron which was cast at Tot
tens foundry, on Twenty-hfth street, eight
years ago, for the Semens Anderson Steel
Works out Second avenue, in Frankstown.
Mr.. Ardary hitched 16 of his draught horses
to it, and placed driver over every four of
the horses. The big team never stalled once
in the whole journey, but so heavy was the
load that up at the Scotch Market on Sec
ond avenue the pavement was pretty badly
torn up.
The Acton cable of the Penn Avenue
Traction Railroad which was pulled from
the railroad to the power house couple of
years ago could scarcely be called load,
for it was on reel, and by use of block and
tackle was simply rolled along the street.
Frank Ardary and Dan Dempsey furnished
the 40 horses, which, a month later, pulled
the car in from Lawrenceville to the end of
which was tied this cable In that manner
the cable was laid in the conduits.
L. ES
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Chemicals In japan.

Drugs and chemicals are now constituting
a very important feature in the japanese
import trade, large quantities being used
for paper and match making, glass works
and other industries. The Japanese Gov
ernment ia itself manufacturer of caustic
and other sodas, and of sulphuric acid.
Medicines for pharmaceutical purposes are
also made in japan on large scale. One
remarkable feature of the import trade is
that the importers frequently complain of
the great difficulties raised in regard to the
sale of foreign drugs and medicines, which
are constantly rejected by the Government
analysts as not being up to the standard of
the Japanese pharmacopeia, which is higher
than the British.
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THE TICKERS' REUNION.


Pitfsburg TeIegrapher. VIII Try to Attend
the Old Timers' Meetings-The Latter TO
be Held in Kansas 'Ciiy-Nnmes of the
Oficers.
A number OF old telegraphers of this city
will make an effort to attend the annual re-
union of the Old Timers and Military Tel
egraphers, to be held in Kansas City, Sep
tember 10 and 16. There are two organiza-
tions of the veterans, and both have large
membership. The former is called the Old
Timers Telegraphers' Society, and the latter
the Society of the United States Military
Corps.
At 10 O'Clock A. M, September Is, the
Military Telegraphers will hold their bust
ness meeting. September 16, 10 A. M, the
Old Timers will hold their annual business
meeting. The officers of these organizations
are as follows:
Old Timers Telegraphers' Society-Day
X. Smith, President Kansas City, Mo. (;
Barney Hughes, Vice President, Memphis,
Tenn; w. j. Dealy, Secretary and Treas
urer, 1876 Broadway, New York.
Society of the United States Military
Telegraph Corps.-W, r. Plum, President,
Chicago; William B. Wilson, Vice Presi-
dent. Holmesburg, Pa; j. E. Petit, Secre-
tary and Treasurer, 145 Campbell avenue,
Chicago.
The Committee of Arrangements consists
of Day K. Smith, Superintendent Kansas
City Belt Railway Company; J. D. Cruise,
Commercial Agent Central Railroad OF
Georgia; FL. G. Sprague, Superintendent of
Telegraph Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Missouri Railroad Company WV. Smith,
General Superintendent Missouri and Kan
sas Telephone Company; E. G. Fish. As
sistant Superintendent Hannibal and st.
Joe Railroad; E. X. Weeks, General Man
ager Kansas City Electric Light Company;
G. NJ. Myers, General Manager Home Tele-
graph and Signal Company; M. D. Wood,
pany; I. G. Hubbell, Manager Fairbanks,
Morse 8 Co.; f. z. Holtzinger, Manager
Postal Telegraph Company.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
A LIVELY TILT.

Bitch in the @. A. X. Meeting About Iuvit.
ing the Sons.
A meeting ofthe Grand Army Day Com
mittee of the G. A. R. was held yesterday
afternoon in the Common Council chamber.
The various committees reported everything
in readiness for the reunion at Rock Point
on September IL. The committee had q
lively little tilt over the question of inviting
the Sons of Veterans. Comrade Lambert
was opposed to il because the invitations had
already been printed, and could not be
changed Comrade McGrath thought that
the wording of the invitation, which read
that all G. A. r. men and their families
were invited, covered the matter. Comrades
Duval and Jones thought that the organiza-
ton should be formally invited.
The matter was smoothed over by an in
vitation to be extended by the Secretary.
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NAMED THEM AFTER THE LORD.

Old Pete Robinson, who lives at
Worsham, Va, is pious negro, who logged
along with his wife for many years, naming
a new baby every year until II unbleachsd
olive branches bore scriptural names. Then
came surprise. One morning the Presby-
terian munster, while taking his constitu-
tional, met Pete.
Good morning Peter. You seem to be
very much pleased at something"
"Yas, sab, I is. You see, de ole oman
creased the family las night"
San, indeedP'
"Yas, sab, dar's two mo- little iam's ov de
Lord"
'Indeedl and what will you name them?''
''Gwine name 'em both arter de Lord;
gwine call ZEN Messiah an Holloway"
Messiah and Halloway? Where do You
get the name Halloway?"
"Hi, mani Don't de Lords pra'r say;
Halloway be Thy name?"
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OUR SHORT STORIES.
How the Almighty Dollar Creeps Into
a Mans Heart at Times.
SENTIMENT IN KEMMLER'S DEATH.
Heelers' Ideas Of the Eligibility Of Candi.
dates for Office.
NAMING THE TWIN PlCKANINEIES
SENTIMENT IN KEMMLER'S DEATH.
NAMING THE TWIN PlCKANINEIES
THEY WERE NOT SUITED.

THEY WERE NOT SUITED.
An old negro sat under tree, muttering
in that indistinct manner 50 peculiar to his
race, when q white man came along and
asked: whats the matter, old man?"
SER good zeal de matter, sab, dat's whut.
has been er settin' yere er thinkin', an
has come ter er mighty p'inted 'clusion."
"what conclusion have you come to?"
"Neber mine, I know"
"Of course you know, but you wouldn't
mind telling me, would you?"
"Oh, no, fur it amt no secret has
come ter de 'clusion, sab, dat me an my
wife amt suited ter each uder."
"What is the cause?''
"Neber mine, I knows what de cause is.
"Yes, but you wouldn't mind telling me,
would you?'
"Oh, no, Gaze it ain't no secret. De cause,
sab, is de impatibly O. de temper"
"And you have come to the conclusion
then that you cannot live together?
"No, sab, I amt come ter de 'clusion den
Il has come ter it now. Jes erriv at it jes
or mint er 60, sah."
"How long have you been married?"
scratching his head.
"Whut time is it now?"
"About II o'clock"
"Wall, sab, reckons has been married
er bout fo' hours an er hat"
"You don't say sor'
"Yas, / does say so. Eff hadn't said 30,
you wouldn't know nothin' er bout it.
"Whatl Have been married SO short q
time and yet have found out that you and
your wife are unsuited to each other?"
"Dat's what Use foun'."
81 must say that don't understand you" 4"
"Neenter say it lessen you wanter, but
understands dat trifin' an low flung lady"
''What has she done?"
"Neber mine; know what she's done"
"But you wouldn't mind telling me,
would you?"
''Oh, no, Gaze it ain't no secret. We wuz
jes maird dem few hours when I skivered
dat de lazy want suited ter me-dat dar
wus er 1mpatibly O. temper"
"Did she scold you?"
"Oh, no, she ain't said er word"
"Then how do you know that your tenn
peraments are not suited?'
"Wall, eff you mus know, I'll tell You
how it wuz: Dis lady wuz de wider
Markum, and libed er bout er quarter O. er
mile frum yere, right ober yander. She
libed in er nice little laug house wild er bout
ten acres er ground er round it, an ez she
stood dar one mawnin' wild de sunlight
jumpin' often de mawnin '-glory vines an er
fallin' on her face, lowed ter myself dat ]
dubbed her powerful. Wall, I went to see
her er number O. times, did, an den axed
her to mair me. She lowed she would be
nightly pleased wild sech q rangement. I
didn't az her nothin' bout de house an de
ten acres O. groun', Gaze dat wouldnter been
perlite, but after took her up ter my cabin
jes now foun' out dat de place didn't long
to her, an den come right down yere an
skivered dat we want suited ter one nuder.
I kain't put up wild er lady dat's got er tenn
per like dat"
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Rolling Cold steel Into Wire.

A very important new industry Is the
rolling Of cold steel bars into wire. The
generally accepted idea has always been
that cold rolling would destroy the fiber of
the steel and render the wire so brittle as to
be of no practicable value. tits now found,
however, that instead OF the wire becoming
weakened by the process, its tensile
strength is nearly doubled. In other words,
the tensile strength OF hot drawn steel wire
is sc, 460 pounds to the square inch, while
that of cold rolled steel wire is. 1O5, 800
pounds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24


County Centennial Mr.. Ardary sent out ON
a search through the mountains for one of
THE ORIGINAL CoNEsToGA WAGONS.
Sixty miles from here he fually found
the bed of one which was built 10 1882, and
which was one of the largest that piled be-
tween Pittsburg and Philadelphia. This
he reftted with a new wagon top, and, hitch
ing six of his biggest horses to it, hauled it in
the great Centennial parade. The Cones
toga still lies at his stables on Liberty
street.
The weight OF the heaviest draught horse
in the Twelfth ward is 1, 900 pounds. Others
range from !, 500 to ], 800 pounds. The ordi-
nary-sized horse to be seen upon the streets
weigh from 1000 to 1900 pounds. The
Clyde draught horses have remarkably big
hoofs, and therefore require much larger
shoe than the average run of horses. Black
smiths say the amount of iron that goes int6
the shoes for four draught horses would shoe
seven horses of ordinary size, or ten ponies.
GENTLE AND BEAUTIFUL.
So by the time you pay s45 or $50 for
set Of harness, give each horse bushel of
oats per day, and let him lose several of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
special Excuraious.

The B. g. o. r. B. Company will sell ex-
cursion tickets to the G.. A. R. encampment
at Gettysburg, Pa, August 30 to September
inclusive, tickets good to return until Sep
tenn ber B, at rate of $8 80 the round trip.
Will also sell excursion tickets to Union
town, Pa, August 25 to 20 inclusive, good
to return until August 80, at rate of 81 go
the round trip, on the occasion Of the Agri-
cultural Fair. Excursion tickets will also
be sold from September to 3 to Washing
ton, Pa, at rate of 81 30, which includes ad-
mission to the Fair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
Proportiona,ely as much hay is required to

Proportionately as much hay is required to
keep the big brutes.
The harness for draught horses is of the
strongest leather that is made. For iron
hauling extra heavy traces, straps, etc., are
needed. Frank Ardary uses the old-time
harness, with hipstraps. as the best he can
find for the purpose of timber wheel and
truck hitching. These are the same thst
were used on the horses of the Conestoga
wagons in the days before railroading. All
of Ardary's harness also has the old-fash-
ioned Irish collar. So near does the equip
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
Paper Tool Handles.

An engineer of Manchester, England, is
introducing novelty in paper. viz. paper
file hats and tool handles, which are said to
be practically indestructible and much
cheaper than wood or malleable iron hats.
Placed under a steam hammer, although
they can be Aattened, they cannot be split
or cracked,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
Supply and Demand.

A writer in rubber journal after treating
of the growing demand for rubber and the
possibilities OF the future supply, calls at
tention to the fact that one of the earliest
references to oaoutchouc as q substance
capable of practical use was made by DR..
Priestley in the preface of his work on "Per-
spective," published in ITO. He mentions
it as q substance which had just been
brought to his notice as admirably suited for
rubbing out pencil marks, and as being then
sold at the rate OF three shillings sterling for
q cubical bit of about half an inch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
Canal Prof. ects in France.

There are now under consideration two
projects, which, if carried out, will have an
immense effect on the trade of France. The
first is the project OF making Paris into a
port by canalizing the Seine, so that sea-
Havre to Paris. The second proposal is for
the construction of canal to connect the
Mediterranean with the Bay of Biscay, with
the intention OF intercepting great part of
the shipping which at present passes
through the Straits of Gibraltar.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
Improvement. in sand. Bla.tin9.

improvements In sand. Binsfing.
In the improved sand-blasting process
there is jet of steam which creates
vacuum in cylinder surrounding the blast
pipe, and the incoming draught of air
through an oriice in this takes up the
steam and thus dries the sand. Each parti-
Gle of sand is propelled against any desired
material at high speed, and thus minute
indentation is made upon even the hardest
substances. Glass, stone, etc., can in this
way be readily engraved in a few seconds.
Another use to which sand-blssting is put is
the sharpening of files. A stream Of very
fine sand and water is directed against the
back of the teeth of the file with great veloc.
ity by jets of steam. BY this means the
curl produced on the file by the chisel is
ground away and sharp edge is given to
the file. Files may also be resharpened by
this process. The sand-bIast is also applied
to the cutting of letters on monumental
stones and to the cleaning Of metallic cast
ings.
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One Meyer piano. o..................S rs 90
One Marshall & Mittauer piano. -. 100 90
One Parlor Grand Kranich & Bach
piano ...,.....,.....,......... 375 90
One Smith American organ. n....,... 35 90
One Crown organ. n.........,......... go 90
Also, the famous Henry r. Miller pianos
for sale at W. G. Whitehill's Music Parlor,
152 Third avenue. opposite Government
building.
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oaIvanIc Ooa.Ing for PIa,,er Ca,,,,

Hitherto In the Ralvanie coating of plas.
ter oasts there has been difficulty In stop
ping the pores Of the surface SO efeotually
as to prevent the galvanic bath penetrating
into the interior of the plaster and there pro-
ducing first capitalization and then disinte-
grafton. This obstacle appears to have been
overcome by the discovery that ssturstion in
tar not only closes mp the pores Of the plas-
ter. but adds very considerably to its
strength. Specimens 10 prepared have been
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EXCURSIONS TO TIE SOUTHWEST.

Reduced Rates TO ST. Joseph. NO., Via the
Pennsylvania Lines, August "a TO 26.
For National Encampment Sons of Vet
Grams, at st. Joseph, Mo-, August $3.50.
Low rate round trip tickets, good returning
until September /, viii be sold via the Penn.
sylvsnia lines on August "A, 90 and 26.
EuTsu