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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-13
GREAT CROWDS IN CANTON.
Grand Opening of ihe Sixth Annual Meeting
of the Ohio Saengerfest.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i
CANTON, August 12-The sixth annual meet
ing of the Central Ohio Saengerfest opened
! here to-day. The city is crowded with visitors.
and is alive with excitement The grand re-
oeptiou and concert held at the tabernacle to-
night was great success, and all hopes of the
local society are fully realized.
I The affair will last four days and will close
with grand parade, with all the societies in
line, TO be folio we'd by q picnic at the fair
grounds on Friday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-13

ANTHONY MEYER.
(Successor to Meyer, Arnold & Co.. Lim.,)
UNDERTAKEN AND EMBALMER.
Office and residence, 1l34 Penn avenue Tele.
phone connection. my1l-l40-MwFsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-13
For Cool Evenings,
Marriage Licenses Granted Yesterday.

Astrachan plush and cloth cspes, at aston
ishingly low prices, at Rosenbaum & Co.'S.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-13

JAMES M. FULLERTON.
UNDERTAKEN AND EMBALMER,
OFFICES: No. SEVENTH STREET AND 62S4
PENN AVENUE, EAST END.
Telephone Il5S. ap24-4S-WF6u
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-13

B. &c. B.
100 Pieces New French Satines Freres
KoechIin 35c Quality
Black grounds, with white figures; newest
and most stylish effects-never before shown
here to-day at
15c A YARD.
This is the Satine Bargain Of them all
only black and whites. Do you want any
to wear now? If not to lay by till next
summer? You couldn't make a better in
vestment. You'll need to come soon, as 100
pieces such choice styles 35c Satipes at 15c
you know won't last long-center counter
rear OF upper store.
The cut prices, or rather the ''slashed"
prices on
SUMMER DRESS GOODS
Are doing the work. Never before such
BUSY DRESS GOODS COUNTERS in
August. We told you through the papers
and you found the evidence when you came.
We will keep up the good work until all
Summer Dress Goods are sold. We can't
and won't carry any over, no matter what
the loss may be.
The first large importation Of
Table Linens, Napkins, Towels,
D'0yIies, Monte Scarfs, Etc.
Opened and on Linen Counter to-day.
Extra wide and fine Bleached
GERMAN TABLE DAMAsKs
At 5Oc a yard, at 60c, 65c, 75c and 81 a
yard. Choice new patterns and values that
will pay you to investigate now.
1000 DOZEN NAPKINS
In this importation at Toe, 81, 81 25, 81 30,
81 Is, So, 81 25 and 50 80 dozen. Superior |
qualities and greater values than we have
ever before offered you.
500 DOZEN
Extra quality, sizes and styles TOWELS;
knotted fringes, plain white and various |
colored borders at 25c each-no less by the |
dozen.
NEW LINEN sPLASHERS,
SIDEBOARD COVERS,
I TRAY COVERS. |
Plain white and drawn work centers, beau
tiful designs, new, clean and fresh, and
you'll say you never saw such nice Linens |
at such reasonable prices.
Come and look at the Linens. Entire |
space around center counters for Linens
this week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-13
Hofman's Harmless HeadacheP Powders

are the result Of persist
ent study and experi-
menting by an expert
chemist, tested in the
most severe cases and
submitted to the highest
medical authority, In
dorsed and pronounced
perfectlyharmless. Thou
sands now attest to their
virtues. and none need
suffer from Headaches IL
they Will use Hoffman's
Powders.
lIAL WILL CONVINCE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-13
READ, WONDER AND CON-
VINCE YOURSELF.

Remember that these prices are
for this coming week only. To
those desiring undoubted bargains
this is the opportunity Of a lifetime.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-12-24

and the Alps, the great bird, the condor.
the American counterpart of the Swiss
lammergeyer. The fishes there have,
also, certain resemblance tc those of
corresponding attitudes and conditions
Of the Old World. proving that height,
as we'll as latitude, exercises a control
ling and analogous influence on every
department and realm of animal and
vegetable nature.
There is very little to relieve the
drear monotony of the Punas of Peru
and Bolivia. Patches of tola. fragrant
shrub resembling somewhat the heather
OF the Scottish highlands, form the only
approximations to vegetation that meet
the eye of the traveller, except occasional
clumps of stiff ichu grass, and kind of
swamp moss where the ground is wet.
These furnish all there is of food for the
mules or horses Of the traveller in these
inhospitable and uninhabited regions:
and few dry stalks of the tola, which
burn out in an instant. constitute almost
the only fuel which he finds for his fire.
The absence of vegetable implies also
the absence of animal life. An occa-
sional condor, circling, mere speck, in
the clear, rarefied atmosphere, or swoop-
ing down with his fierce restless head,
to reconnoiter the little cavalcade OF
adyenturers: now and then biscacha,
rabbit, the rat and the squirrel: stray
chinchilla-these are about the only
birds and animals which the traveller in
the Punas sees for days together, ex.
cepting always the great droves Of
llamas, loaded with ore of tin, copper
and silver, on their way to the seaports,
driven by saturnine Indians, and the
herds of vicunas and huanacos, cousins
german of the llama, which stare at the
intruder from every side. In some val
ley, saturated with springs. sustaining
. short, hardy perennial grass, and
sheltered from the fierce blasts sweeping
down the slopes of the snowy mountains
that rise all around, will, perhaps. be
found flock of alpacas. celebrated for
their wool, and belonging to the same
great family with the llama, the huan-
AGO and the vicuna: only the alpaca
looks little more like sheep and less
like deer, than the other animals
enumerated.
The alpaca is source of real wealth
to Peru, and Its export has been forbid
den, notwithstanding that all attempts
to acclimatize it in other countries and
climes have proved signal failures.
1t is alleged by some that there is
such an animal as the wild llama. but
the nearest approximation, known to
travellers competent to decide on the
question. is the huanaco, which is the
largest of all the llama family, the
llama proper excepted. as we'll as the
shyest. He is, however, like the
vicuna, of uniform reddish-brown
color on the back, white on the belly
and inside Of the legs, with a blacklist
head, while the llama is not only some
times Of this color. but white. black,
mottled, ''ring-stresked" and spotted.
The huanaco is found only in the high
est and least accessible regions, where
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him. he WAS in . dreadful hurry. He
wore q travelling suit aud . look Of
anxiety. He also carried small valise
in his hand. As soon as he saw me- he
uttered a joyous howl, and seized me by
the arm.
g This is what I call luck. You got
my note this morning"
81 have not received any note. 1t is
probably at my Office. have not been
there since early this morning
"' Well. it makes no difference. can
tell you right now what want you to
do. am in regular hole, so to speak.
I've got to have a two-column review of
the art exhibition, and I relied on an
artist, who owes me money, to write it
up for me. Now what do you think
the long-haired fraud has done?'
8" i have no idea
&c Got married and gone of on bridal
tour. / can't write it up myself be-
cause l have got to GO to Berlin to at
tend a meeting of the Press Associa-
ton, so dropped you note to write it
up for me. You know You promised
"'Heavens and earth, man, / don't
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those OF the deer, are c.ean, covered with
short hair, giving them . lighter and
fieeter appearance.
The Hama is the largest Of all It's
class Of animals in the Andes, standing
four and one-half feet, and sometimes
more, from the ground to the center Of
its back 1t is a bright-eyed, furtive-
looking creature. not to be forced or
driven, but amenable to kindness. 1t
carries load of from eighty to one hum
d-ed pounds for a distance of from six
TO fourteen miles a day. Overloaded,
like the camel, it lies down and obsti-
nately refuses to stir. In an atajo. or
drove. there is usually an old and expe-
rienced llama, who is leader. and desig-
mated by a little, tinkling silver bell.
The Indian drivers have sometimes
bamboo whistle. Of plaintive note. with
which they coax and lead their ilamas.
sometimes taking off their hats before
them. and supplicating them. in such
musical phrases as the Quichuas and
Amayras are capable of. to proceed.
The llama is equally suspicious and
irritable. II aught goes wrong. his ears
are down in an instant, and his mouth
puckered for that acrid APPROPRIATION
which is as sure In aim as it is blistering
in result when il strikes the skin. The
animal emits strong and. to the foreign
sense. most offensive odor, which,
when one is obliged to pass through a
large drove. becomes almost unendur-
able. The females are not much used
for burden, being preserved in isolated
localities, under watchful care. for the
propagation of the species. The wool.
or fleece, is much coarser than that of
the alpaca and vicuna, but is. neverthe-
less, largely used for making coarse
cloths, ropes, etc, in which the natural
colors are contrasted with skill and
effect. The flesh is eaten, and may be
suited to the tastes, in no wise epicurean,
of the jewellers in the Sierra.
But by far the most numerous and
graceful Of all this diversified family.
the smallest, and perhaps the least use
full, is the lightSome vicuna, the domin-
ating inhabitans of the deSpobiado, and
which gives something of animation to
its cold and sullen solitudes. Singly q
in groups, often in hundred scattered
groups, he is to be found where naught
else of life is seen, and where his note
of alarm curves hundred neclls, lifts a
hundred graceful heads, and points
twice hundred inquiring ears toward
the weary traveller among the frosty
mountain wastes. On many of the mar
row. family beaten paths of the Cordil-
lera. where travel is least frequent. tho
vicuna is not only to be found in great
numbers, but as tame, if not tanner, than
than the sheep of remoter districts
With his group or family of females anG
young. numbering a dozen or more (foI
he is a Mormon), he will gaze with bi
eyes. as full and liquid as those OF the
gazelle. at the passer-by; and on the re
port OF pistol, which in the rarefied All
is low. dull and echoless. he will retreat
only few feet. even though one of his
family lie bleeding where he stood.
The vicuna may be tanned, but has
never been domesticated- "a result often
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sought, as his fleece is remarkably fine
and silky, in these respects surprising
that of the alpaca. Attempts have
been made to cross the vicuna with the
alpaca, and a certain padre of the Sierra
succeeded in producing several hybrids
said to have been fertile. His por-
trait, in the act of caressing one Of his
hybrid pets, is hung in the Museum Of
Lima. in commemoration of his success.
Many of the vicunaS are killed annu-
ally for their fleece, of which hats and
ponchos of great softness and beauty
are manufactured and sold at high
prices to the traveller and haciendero
The royal robes of the Inca were made
of the fleece of the vicuna. but the an
clients were wiser than their success
ors. They instituted grand hunts of the
vicuna. caught and sheared them. and
let them go to reproduce their precious
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his flock. although roaming freely over
the same grounds with the vicuna, new
ertheless keeps quite apart, maintain
ing distinct family exclusion. The
huanacos are reputed as untamable, and
the only ones ever known in captivity
retained their wild nature unchanged.
The alpaca. like the llama. is only
found in the domesticated state, and,
like the latter. is of various colors,
white and black predominating, and
often mixed. so that feeces from the
same animal require 10 be assorted be-
fore being baled for market. The legs
Of the alpaca are covered down, or near
~ down. TO its feet by wool, or fleece,
while the legs of all its relations, like
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-12-24
THE EARTH'S CURVATURE.

| It Amounts to About Seven Inches to tho
Statute Mile.
Generally speaking, we say that the
curvature Of the earth amounts to about
seven inches to the statute mile; more
exactly, it is 6.99 inches to the mile, or
1862 inches for a geographical mile.
Any amount of artificial assistance with
optical instruments does not make it
possible for the eye to perceive the least
iota of curvature, even though the gaze
is directed from the highest eminence.
This is because the vision is not capable
of comparing heights and distances.
The effect of the known curvature of
| the globe may be illustrated in the fol.
lowing manner: Take down your globe,
place a book, pane of glass, or even a
ruler against it-either of the two OBJ
ject first named being best adapted to
such an experiment: you will observe
instantly that the book or pane only
| touches in one point, the globes sur
face falling away in all directions from
the point of contact. Now suppose the
oceans surface to be calm and frozen
and sheet Of glass many miles square
laid upon it At one mile from the
place of contact the glass would stand
out nearly eight inches (this measure
ment being upon the ocean, the mile is
nautical one), in fact, will lack but
.O3S of an inch of being eight
inches from the pane: at three
miles it will be six feet, at
nine miles fifty-four feet. and so on.
The number of feet of depression is
equal to two-thirds of the square of the
number of miles for any observable dis
lance. The atmosphere plays an inn
portant part in estimating the visibility
of objects; on this account part of this
depression must be cancelled to make
good the phenomenon OF refraction,
which causes objects of all kinds to APP
pear higher than they would if there
were no atmosphere. Careful measure
ments have shown that the error from
refraction averages more than one
seventh of that from curvature. The
rule, therefore, commonly used for cor
rection Of curvature and refraction is:
Square the number of miles and take
four-sevenths of it for the correction in
feet Thus. if an object is visible at
distance of five miles we may know that
its height is at least fourteen and one.
third feet Or, if the height of visible
object is known-say one hundred feet
take one-fourth of this, multiply by
seven and take the square root of the
product (which gives the distance of the
object), in this case fraction of over
thirteen miles. A man swimming in the
ocean can perceive tower two hundred
feet high and nineteen miles away as
mere speck on the horizon: bat if the
man were elevated one hundred feet
above the surface Of the water he could
plainly perceive a tower one hundred
feet high at distance of twenty-six
miles.-St. Louis Republic.
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SONG OF THE MARKET.PlACE.

Gay was the throng that poured through the
streets OF the old French town;
Tie walls with bunting streamed. and the flags
tossed up and down.
'Vive rroi. Viye l'rof.--the shout O. the peo-
pie rent the air,
And the cannon shook and roared and the bells
were all a-blare
But, crouched by ST. Peters fount, beggar
with her child
Weary and faint and starved with ewes that
were sad and wild,
aazed on the passing crowd, and cried, as it
went and came:
aims for the love OF God. Pity in Jesus
name"
Few were the coins that fell in the little cup
she bore,
But she looked at her starving babe and cried
from her heart the more:
-Alms, for the love Of God! Mother of Jesu,
hear
The steeples shook with bells, and the prayer
was drowned in a cheer.
But see. through the thoughtless crowd comes
one with regal face.
He catches the beggar's prayer and turns with
agentle grace:
Aims thou shalt have, poor soul!-Alas not
sou to share,
But stay And he dors his hat and stands in
the crowded square.
Then from his heart he sang little song of the
south.
far-off cradle-song, that fell from his mothers
mouth.
And the din was hushed in the square, and the
people stood mute
As the beasts in the Thracian wood, when Or
pheus touched his lutte.
The melting tenor ceased, and sob from the
Hst'ners came.
.'Mario:' cried voice, and tie throng caught
up the name.
Mario" and the coins rained like shower OF
gold,
Till the singers hat o'erfowed like Midas
chests of old.
SISTER" he said, and turned TO the beggar
crouching there,
81 axe il: the gold is thine; Jesu hath heard
thy prayer
Then kissed the white faced child. and smiling
went his way
Gladdened with kindly thoughts and the Joy of
holiday.
That night when the footlghts shone on the
famous tenors face,
And ne bowed 10 the splendid throng with his
wonted princely grace,
Cheer after cheer went up, and, stormed at
with flowers, he stood
Like dark and noble pine when the blossoms
blow through the wood
Wilder the tumult grew, till out of his fine de-
spair
The thought of the beggar rose. and the song he
had sung in the square.
Raising his hand, he smiled. and silence flied
the place
While he sang that simple air, with the love
light on his face.
Wet were the singers cheeks when the last
note died away
Brightest o. all his bays, the wreath that he
won tina, day.
Sung for the Lore Of God, sung for sweet PHYS
sake
Song OF the market ace tribute OF laurel take
lanes Buckham, in Youths Companion.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-12-24
THE SERVICE BOOK.
A Regulation That Helps to Settle the
Domestic Servant Problem.


Domestic Servant Problem.
Prussia prides herself on having set
tied the servant question. and her
methods are vigorous and summary
as well as successful. All servants, male
md female, must apply to the local
| magistracy for u so-called service
| book, in which on the first page is the
name, age and description of the owner
written by the magistrate, and stamped
with the seal of his Office. The follow
ing page contains questions in print re-
lating to the capacity in which the ser
want has served, the date of entrance
into service, the reason for the discon-
tinuance of such service. and last OF all
a demand for remarks on the character.
behavior and ability which the servant
has shown during the term. These
questions must be answered in writing
by the master when the servant leaves,
and the answer stamped at the local po-
lice bureau. If any punishment has
been inflicted it is officially recorded.
and if any Of the words faithful" in
dustrious, honest" are wanting. the
new master is thus put on his guard.
Any evidence which can be proved un-
just may be complained of. and a SER
want who has been discharged for steal
ing and prohigacy has fresh service
book given to him if his record during
the following two years shows no re-
newal of offense.
Servants are hired by the month, but
if no time is stated, the contract is bind.
ing for three months. Ceremonious no.
tice must be given by either party On
four days in the year and 10 other may
notice be given: February Is, May Is.
August Is and November IS. But sum
mary dismissals may take place for grea.
impudence or disobedience, as we'll as
immoral habits.
a dismissed servant, who had by false
representation dissuaded an applicant
for the place from entering service. re-
ceiyed on one occasion an admonitior
from the police. which admonition was
inscribed in her service book.
Every employer must give some sor.
of an answer to the questions in the SEA-
vice book, and if he write1 favorably OF
servants whom he knowSto be dishoE-
est the next employer may prosecuts
suit against him Owing to these re-
strictions there are few summary
changes. Servants know there is lit,l,
chance Of getting place out of the reg
ular season, and nistresses understand,
too. from experience that they are not
likely TO find good servants in the mid
die of the term. Young housekeepers
are apt to dismiss servants for slight
faults, but older women put up with
grave delinquencies knowing that To
change servants means only a change OF
faults rather than an escape from them.
There is one element which must be
considered as important in reviewing
success OF the system. and that is that
German housewives are proverblally
good housekeepers themselves, and
spend great deal of time in giving
their servants constant oversight-N.
Y. Sun.
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advise one Of the most celebrated paint.
ers in Germany T. 60 to whitewashinG
fences and you pronounce his MASTER
piece, Happy Thoughts for which he
has refused ten thousand th>lers, .
dauh On the other hand, you declare
that . wretched aaub, entitled Susan
nah in the Bath to be the gem of the
exhibition. SusaAnah has feet as big
as canal boats and her arms are ALI
twisted out of shape. The artist is .
wretehed inebriate, and his picture was
only admitted out of compassion. be-
cause he threatens to commit suicide if
it is not placed on exhibition
81 felt very bad about how things had
gone, and learned that was the victim
of practical Joker named Reinecke,
who took advantage of my ignorance.
whenever l went in the coffee
house, club, theater, and even in church,
l excited merriment l was guyed un-
mercifully. But worse was in store for
me. A disreputable-looking character
hurled himself upon me, Rugged me and
even kissed me with his whisky-laden
breath. He said was his benefactor.
He insisted on me accompanying him to
dinner. He was the painter Of Susan.
nah.
"'You must come with me and eat
dinner he said. dragging me along. I
want to introduce you to my daughter.
She is splendid girl. Confidentially,
she is Susannah. She was my model.
She is dying to make your acquaint-
ance.'
81 had to go to his house, and verify
believe if l had gone a second time
Susannah would have married me in
spite of all could have done to the
contrary. Not only that but whenever
her artist father saw me on the street
he insisted on EN- bracing me publicly,
and calling me his benefactor. etc,
until became such an object of popu-
lar derision that packed up my things
and came to New York, where would
never hear or see any thing more Of
Susannah and her grateful pa. Now
you know how became an American"
ALEX E. SWEET.
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Hope for Bald Heads.

DR.. p. A. Morrow, at a meeting OF the
New York Academy of Medicine, said
ne mad had no personal experience with
very much thicker than those men
toned in the paper-grafts which in
cluded not only the entire thickness Of
the derma, but also simultaneous tissues
beneath. He had been led to do this in
the case of man who had become
somewhat hypocondriac because Of a
scar on the scalp, which in later years
became exposed from scarcity Of hair.
He first took gratis from the patients
own scalp. on the opposite side. by
means of the cutaneous punch, and i'm
mediately transplanted them into holes
of the same size made by the same in
strument in the scar tissue. Very much
to his qualification, union was perfect
within a week. Four gratis were first
made. and he waited several weeks to
see whether the hair would grow. Ii
did. He then made transplantations
from another patients scalp. and these
also grew and bore hair luxuriantly.
The CRAFTS were fully quarter of an
inch thick. There was no suppuration.
no untoward result he had employed
the same, method in one or two cases OF
epithel;oma. and, while there was nc
indication of breaking down. there had
not been sufficient time to justify con-
illusions. He thought the method had
wider field OF application For instance,
it might be adopted in lupus. and in re-
moving moles. warts and other facial
blemishes.-Medlcal Record.