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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
75c A YARD.

All remaining of our superior
lines of 5o-inch wide Cheviot Plaids
and Stripes, the very highest class
seasonable novelties, mostly ex-
elusive styles, now reduced from
81 so and So to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
b. g. b.

Handkerchiefs-A large pile, mussed and
soiled in the crush of last few days, on
counter this morning at halfprice and less.
BoGGS s. BUHL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26

KRAUsE's Headache CAPSULES are more
pleasant and convenient 70 take than pow.
ders, waters, eli<irs, etc. EoD .
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
STRUCK BY Z CABLE CAR.

A Police Patrol Wagon Disabled and one
Officer Painfully Injured.
No. ? Patrol wagon OF the Eleventh ward
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26

GROUP, whooping cough and bronchitis i'm.
mediately relieved by Shiloh's Cure. Sold by
Jos. Fleming & Son. Az Market st.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26

Cor. Fifth Ave. & Market St.
de2l-MwFsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
DRESS GOODS.

DRESS GOODS.
A splendid line of Novelty Plaids,
Checks and Stripes; regularly worth
75c, now
soc A YARD.
Camers Hair, English and Rough
Effect Checks and Plaids, the new
est and most desirable styles shown
this season, reduced now from
81 IS to
7sc a YARD.
We direct SPECIAL attention to
line of High Novelty Stripes, 50
inches wide, which are also reduced
from 81 IS to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26

Jl5. HlRNE K els
PENN AVE. STORES
OPEN IN "FULL BLAST"
TO-DAY.
FOR THE
PARTY SEASON.
We are showing very fine
collection and complete
lines of
PARTY
SILKS
In plain colored Indias,
plain white Indias, pure
white Indias, Crepe de
Chenes, Satin Stripe Grena-
dimes, all the new shades,
buff, nile, pink, cell blue,
etc.
Also plain and fancy
Gauzes and Lace Grena-
dine effects in all the de-
sirable tints for evening
wear.
Also fine French CASH
meres, Silk Warp Lans-
downes, in cream and
other evening shades.
Rich, dark colored Silks
and Bengalines, for dinner
and reception dresses.
And very complete lines
of Suede and Kid Gloves
for reception occasions.
All our fine Wraps for
reception and carriage use
at reduced prices.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
HUGUs & HAcKE
SOME OF THE
EXTRA RARGAING

Offering for this month. Choice
secured by early selection.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
GONE ABRoAD WITH THE 81

Tn another letter, dated February &C.
1889, w. A. Pinkerton says, among other
things:
The people who got this money are either in
gambling is carried on in Europe; they sailed
on the steamer Larne three or four weeks ago
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30

The puma or cougar is OF the largest
of the American Fetidg. and is some
times called the mountain lion, al
though the resemblance to a lion is
very slight 1t is the dreaded panther
Cor painter) of North America, and
many tales of its ferocity and blood
thirstiness are current.
1t is now rare in the United States.
but in South America the punt, to
give its proper name, abounds, and
there it seems to have lost its ferocity
and is actually a friend of man.
Claudio Gay, in his Natural His
tory of Chilli" says, when attacked
by man, its energy and daring at once
forsake it, and it becomes we Tx, in
offensive animal, and, trembling and
uttering piteous means and shedding
abundant tears. it seems to implore
compassion from a generous enemy.
The enemy is not often generous but
MANY herderS haye assured me, when
speaking on this subject, that although
they kill the puma readily to protect
their domestic animals, they consider
it an evil thing TO take its life in desert
places, where it is mans only friend
among the wild animals.
When the hunter is accompanied by
dogs, then the puma, instead of droop-
ing and shedding tours, is reused to a
sublime rage; its hair stands erect; its
eyes shine like balls of green flame, 1T
spits and snarls like furious cat.
The hunters presence seems at such
times to be ignored altogether, its
whole attention being given to the
dogs and its rage directed against
them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30

Considerable discussion is going on
just now about the decay of true re-
ligious principles and feelings in the
rich churches of the cities, SAYS the
Louisville Courier-J ournal. If any are
disposed to despair over this fact let
them turn to the rural districts and
have their hopes Renewed by witness
ing an exhibition of literal adherence
to the spirit Of the Great Teacher. A
sanctifcation meeting is going on In
Union county, and in connection
Herewith this incident is told by the
Henderson Cleaner:
"rhe result OF specification in one
particular instance at Blackford is
astonishing. A young man, who. prior
to his joining the church and becoming
sanctified, was well known for his
personal courage. 1t was not necessary
to knock chip off his head, for he
was at all times more than willing to
knock it himself. He was absolutely
fearless and was feared. He became
sanctifed and Il marvellous change in
him was the result. He lost all dis
position to fight and became at once
the most peaceable OF the peaceable.
A day or two since he was met by the
wife of a man at Blackboard and grossly
insulted. She spat in his face and he
submitted without word. Her
husband attacked him and knocked
him down. He got up and started
away without a word, when he was
again knocked down. Without a
murmur he arose and started away
again, when he was pursued and the
third time knocked to the ground. At
this juncuure another man, standing
by and who had witnessed the outrage,
rushed up, and, with the remark, BY
-, am not sanctifed, knocked the
attacking party heels over head, and
there the difficulty ended"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30

Lewiston journal: / never hear an
instance OF meanness mentioned with
out thinking of an aged man whom
met one day last summer on the Ken
nebec Valley camp-ground. In speak
ing of the late war he dwelt upon its
horrors SO pathetically that l was led
to inquire if he had participated in the
struggle.
NO" he answered, Il wasn't in the
army, but my son was a soldier. He
was drafted and wanted me to get him
a substitute. 'Twould have cost $500.
| couldn't see any money in it. and
there's where ! was short-sighted. My
son was killed before ned been a
month at the 'front.' and I've been hir-
ing man ever since to help carry on
the farm. It's cost me hundreds and
hundreds of dollars over and above
the price OF q substitute, and. besides,
my son was a master hand to work,
and the smallest eater l ever saw"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30
tsGrant Rode Like a Demon. y

Speaking of General Grants fine
horsemanship," said General n. p.
Banks, reminds me OF an incident
that occurred soon after the battle of
Port Hudson, in which he gave me the
race of my life. General Grant paid
the army under my command visit at
the period mentioned and was asked
to review it. He brought with him no
horses and loaned him for the occa-
sion the magnificent bay parade horse
which the patriotic citizens of Massa-
chusetts presented to me when l went
to the front in 1862. All of my old
soldiers will remember that bay horse
j rode on the review a thoroughbred
black mare, and / was in u constant
state OF anxiety lest she would run
away with me when warmed. Well,
the troops were drawn up in line and
we rode down the front lines at slow
pace, but when we reached the rear
lines Grant would put the bay at his
utmost speed. and as he was nearly
thoroughbred he could run. Grant
sat on the hay as if he were part OF
him, but the difficulty l found myself
in was not to keep up at the regulation
distance. but to prevent my animal
from distancing the general and rum
ming off with me. Grant rode like
demon and after him until the review
was finished, the troops in the mean
time watching the scene with interest
mingled with establishment. For some
days afterwards the troops were hoard
discussing the event, and. as far as l
can learn. never settled the question
as to whether it was a horse race or a
military review"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30

A tablespoonful OF soda added to the
water in which ironware is washed will
facilitate the cleaning.
A crealzing hinge can be cured BY
the use of a black-lead pencil of the soft
est number, the point rubbed into all
the crevices of the hinge.
Keep large squares of thick PASTE
board hung conveniently to slip under
pots, kettles, stewdishes and spiders
whenever you set them down.
To extinguish the flame, should the
oil in kerosene lamp accidentally
take fire, throw over a wooden blanket,
rug, piece OF carpet, shawl or any
other wollen fabric at hand.
Jewelry can be made to look like
new by washing with ammonia and
water or alcohol. then rub. drying and
polishing with prepared chalk applied
with flannel or chamois skin.
If, before grinding the morning.
coffee, the berries are heated for four or
i've minutes, or until they take on a
darker shade OF brown, the flavor of
the coffee will be much improved.
Always mix starch in cold water I'M
till free from Jumps; pour on boiling
water. stirring well until of the proper
consistency; boil ten minutes, add a
little lard, butter or shavings of
spermaceti or prepared gum arabic;
then cool.
For washing red table linen, use
tepid water with little powdered
borax, which sets the color. Wash the
linen separately and quickly in weak
suds. Rinse the tepid water contain
ing little boiled starch. Hang in the
shade, and iron when nearly dry.
Mittens may be made easily and look
neat by knitting one stitch plain and
purling one alternately, They are
nice made of black or any color of
Saxony. Stockings knit of soft wooden
yarn with two stitches plain and two
purled alternately, fit well and are
warm
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30

man to another till all within the
square is excavated. Should the min
ers fiud the soil fairly firm at the bot
tom of the pit, they tunnel all around
for about TWO feet, drawing out the
gravel and sending it up also to be
heaped with the rest, which usually
completes the work of the second day,
a Waterman remaining near 1T all
night. On the third day, it is all wash
ed in wicker baskets by a. circular
jerking motion, which throws out all
the surplus light stone and rubbish,
till a good quantity of heavy gravel is
left in the bottom, which is carefully
examined. There is hardly a bas-
ketful that does not contain some
gems of inferior value, which
are usually sold by the pound for
about nine rupees. Should no valuable
stones be found, another pit is sunk.
and so on till one or two or perhaps
three really valuable gems are I'M
earthed, when the work is stopped and
the whole party goes off to Ratnapura
with the prizes. If these are worth,
say a few thousand rupees, they are
kept secret, and only shown to one or
two men of money who make the own
CTS all duNdUC0 anu lOOh dIGSt GI1S SdlC
custody of the precious stones. Then
they gamble and drink for some time
till another advance becomes necessary,
and so on till half the value is obt lined.
Then the party, with the mortgage,
proceeds to ColumbO, or Italutara,
where rich Moorish traders are sum-
moned to purchase. and the gems soon
find their way to London. The general
public know nothing about these tran
sactions, and valuable gems are never
heard Of in CeyIon, and scarcely see
the light of day till they reach Bond
street. The natives have a great fear
of exposing their finds till they are
sold, and they have most extraordinary
superstitous ideas about showing
them. This system has been in vogue
for centuries past. 1t is only occasion
ally one hears of any native having en-
terprise enough to dig a few feet below
the first gravel to see. if by sounding,
a second bed of gravel is within reach,
for they fear the expense of bailing
out water, which increases as the
greater depth is attained, although the
second gravel is we'll known to be
much richer than the first -Ceylon
Observer
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30
CAN WE CHANGE CLIMATE?
Among the Possibilities of the
Coming Century.

Among the Possibilities of the
Coming Century.
1t has been maintained that the
mild weather of this winter thus far
and of the entire period of last winter
is owing to a detection of the gulf
stream. If this is SO, why could it
not be detected some more and make
New England tropical and raise
or ,nges in New Hampshire and pine
apples in Maine? We believe that
certain audacious engineers have Of
fered to do this, provided capital
enough is furnished for the under
taking.
To a limited extent. even, now, it is
an admitted fact that a man can make
his own climate The meteorological
conditions of the west have been
greatly modified since it was first set
tied. Perhaps New Englanders may
decide some day that, instead of
changing our flannels every winter, it
will be cheaper in the long run to
change our climate and dispense with
tlannels entirely.
Of course it sounds preposterous to
advocate the detection of the gulf
stream, but many preposterou5 things
have happened in the nineteenth
century, and who shall say that any
scheme which is proposed for the
twentieth century is chimerical?
After we have married the Orient and
the Occident by bridge across Behr-
ing's Strait, and are able to 60 to
Europe via Siberia in Pullman car,
we may turn our attention seriously to
the gulf stream.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30
He COuldn't Tell.

A late respected general manager of
the St. Paul road on one occasion ap-
peared at the repair shops of the COM
pany in this city, says the Milwaukee
Wisconsin, and becoming interested in
the work of one of the mechanics. re-
marked: Young man, it seems to
me you are not doing that CORRECTLY"
The workman looked up with supreme
contempt at the stranger and replied
promptly: Its none OF your business,
YOU blamed IDIOT This nettled the
old man, and in voice trembling with
rage he paralyzed the mechanic with
Yes, sir, it is my business. l am the
manager of this road" Excuse me
sir" responded the poor fellow, Fl
was not aware OF the fact; but you see
when a durned fool comes around here
we can't tell whether he is the man
ager or nobody" The old gentleman
saw the point and passed on.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30
A Missouri Wild.


In the southwest counties OF Missouri
bordering on the state OF Arkansas and
along the slopes of the Ozark noun
tains, nature has made the finest hunt.
ing and fishing park on the American
continent. Splendid rivers and noun
tain streams abound in game fish oil
every description, while forest, dell.
copse and jungle afford safety from
gun shot and scent of hounds to bear,
elk. deer, wolf and fox. 1t is said
thousands OF acres of this mountainous
region still belong to the United States
government. If this be true, why not
ask Missouris Representatives in Con-
gress to mite in an effort to secure the
cossion of these lands by the federal
government to the state of Missouri
for the purposes OF a game park. This
ccssion might be made conditional.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30
HISTORY OF BILLIARDS..
& Kansas City Writer Takes 1t
Back to Cleopatra.

The game of billiards is very ancient.
asst how old it is nobody seems to
know. but in .'Antony and Cleopatra"
SAakespere has Cleopatra mention the
game. and so we have authority for
crediting billiards with nineteen CEN
tlries of existence. SHAKESPEARE is
Known to have improved little on
history at times for the sake of help
ing scene, but it is not improbable
that when Antony returned from
5laughtering whole lot of people he
would put off his cast iron pajamas
and while away the hours with his be-
loved Egypt in a quiet bake line or
three cushion game. with CHAIRMAN as
marker and kisses for stakes.
In curious and very rare book pub
lished a century ago the Chevalier
Badella tells us all about the history
of billiards which, he says, was intro
duced into France in the twelfth CEN
tury. At that time the cushions as
well as the balls were of ivory, and at
court the bed of the tables was of the
same costly material, so that the game
was confined to the mobiles, and the
flcheSG at JndU- IL IS 0ODl6 game
vet, but d man does not need to be
rich to play it. Anybody with half
dollar can etrife with it for while,
and may be longer, if he be an expert.
This same Chevalier Badella, who ap-
pears to have had some remarkable
sources of information, says that in
the first excavations made by the
French government in the very ancient
ruins of Ghizeh some fragments were
found which were undoubtedly the re-
mains of a billiard table, not greatly
unlike the tables of the present day in
the material OF the cushions, but they
were octagonal in form. The remains
were found in chamber of a royal
palace, and it is safe to say that His
Royal Jags and the princely jaglets
must have been very expert to play on
a table that would give Slo55on or Jake
Schaefer paresis in thirty minutes. For
the sake of novelty some billiard
manufacturer might construct table
after this Ghizeh model ana see how
it would work A table with eight
cushions ought to draw big crowd. -
w. E. Baker. in Kansas City Referee.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30
Our Southern Letter

Tho iron ore deposits of Alabama
are classified as hematite, or red ore,
limonite, or brown ore, siderite, or
carbonate ore, and pyrite or pyrites.
The hematite, or as it is usually
called, red hematite, is the most i'm
portant When pure it yields about 20
per cent of high grade metallic iron.
This deposit is not only the largest in
Northern Alabama, but is regarded by
scientific men as one OF the mineral
wonders of the world. One seam has
in places a thickness of nearly 80 feet.
The ore is regularly stratifed between
layers of hard sandstone and shale.
If the different workable outcrops of
IS inches or over in Northern Alabama
were connected in a straight line, they
would extend over 800 miles, and every
foot in depth would yield 2S7, 900 tons
of metallic iron; or in other words, if
worked to the depth of one hundred
feet. it would yield %, 100000 tons. or
"a. 800, 900 cubic feet OF solid metallic
iron.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30

FIG. l. TROUGH FOR SMALL CHICKS.
washed and kept clean. This trough
is set inside of the box. seen in Fig. 2,
the same in width and length, inside.
and eight inches high. 1t has hing
ed cover fastened down with hook,
and handle to lift it about by. Each
side is open and fitted with wire bars
placed two inches apart, each end of
these wires being bent right angles,
driven through the the strips of wood
and clinched. The food is placed in
the trough by raising the cover of the
box. A tight cover is necessary TO
protect the food from their droppings
when they jump on the. box and
make a roost of it, which they are cer-
tain to do. Feed at one time only as
much as they will eat up clean
and keep the trough we'll washed
out Nothing it more productive
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30

Cases of poisoning due TO meat which
seemed thoroughly wholesome have
sometimes occurred and have remained
unexplained. In the Revue d. Hygiene
of this month M. Bourrier, inspector OF
meat for the town of Paris, IN kes a
valuable suggestion. He describes his
experiments with meat impregnated
with tobacco smoke. Some thin slices
of beef were exposed for q considerable
time to the fumes of tobacco, and after
wards offered to a dog which had been
deprived OF food for twelve hours. The
dog, after smelling the meet. refused
to eat it. Some of the meat was then
cut into small pieces and concealed
within bread. This the dog ate with
avidity, but in twenty minutes COM
menced to display the most distressing
symptoms. and soon died in great
agony. All sorts of meat. both raw
and cooked, some grilled, roasted and
boiled, were exposed to tobacco smoke
and then given to animals, and in ali
cases produced symptoms of acute
poisoning. Even thesprocess OF boil
ing could not extract from the meat
the nicotine poisoning. Lancet.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30
CauspS of DiyOrra.

1t is ex-Minister Phelps's idea that
the most prolific cause OF divorce is
the average novel reading by the
average woman. He thinks that wo-
men who are the novel readers get
loose notions of morality and ideas of
men which are so false aud absurd that
nothing but disappointment can follow.
They discover that the perfection
which they are trained to look for in
men is only to be found in other wo-
mems husbands, and divorce follows.
We fear the trouble is deeper than the
novel, and that it is in men and wo-
men. Otherwise the novels would not
be written or published or read. 1t is
undoubtedly true that the novels CON-
planned OF are a record of depravity,
the reading of which increases the
tendency of which the unwholesome
stories are a product Merely to shut
off the supply of these novels is not
enough to insure moral life. though
they do give encouragement to. vice
of bad example.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30

| was for Union-you, agin it
Pears like, TO me, each side was winner,
Lookin' at Now and all 'ats in it.
Let's go 10 dinner
Le' s kind o. ies set down together
And do some partnership forgittin'-
Talk, say, for instance, bout the weather,
Err somepin fittin'.
The War, you know, g all done and ended,
And amt changed no pints o. the COM
pass;
Both North and South the health IS les
splendid
AS fore the rumpus
The old farms and the old plantations
Still occupies Their old Positions
Lee IS git back to old situations
And old ambitions.
Lee s let up on this blame, Internal,
Tongue-lashin' and lap jacket vauntin',
And get back home to the eternal
CAIN we're a-wantin'.
Peace kind o. sort o. suits my diet
When women does my cookin' for me-
Their was MT overly much pie eat.
Durin the Army.
James Whitcomb Riley, in The Century.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-30
A Valuable Decision.

The English courts have lately de-
cided that in q case where a wound
is given, which, in the opinion of COM
petent medic j advisers, is dangerous,
and the treatment which they adopted
is the immediate erpse of death, the
party who inflicted the wound is GRIM
inaliy responsible" This decision was
was reached in case in which it was
sought to shift the responsibility, from
the person who inflicted the wound, to
the doctors, who sought to save the
mans life. Thus the surgeon is free
from more than ordinary responsibility
in treating such cases. AS a result he
will be inclined to undertake opera
tions that otherwise he would not, and
so give the accused a better chance oil
avoiding the charge OF murder.