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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-28
ECHO OF THE INSTITUTE.
British Iron and Steel Engineers Send Greet
ings to William p. Shinn.


British Iron and Steel Engineers Send Greet
ings to William p. Shinn.
Twenty members of the British Iron and
Steel Institute, who occupied Car A., in
which were the headquarters OF W. p.
Shinn, President of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, and Chairman of the
Transportation Committee of the excursion,
assembled at dinner i'll Manchester, Eng
land, on their return home, November %,
and cabled Mr.. Shinn as follows:
Members of Car A., assembled at dinner
here tonight, send greeting. Letter to follow.
The letter arrived Christmas Day, and is
a handsomely illuminated engrossment. 1t
follows:
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, Nov. %.
To Mr.. William z. Shnn, Plttsburg, America:
DEAR SIR-We the undersi gned members of
Car A. who Travelled under your guidance and
direction on the occasion of the visit of the
British Iron and Steel Institute to America, in
October, 1890. hereby tender our very sincere
and grateful thanks for your arrangements for
our safety, comfort and welfare; for the inces-
SAINT thought and care you exercised to keep us
free from injury, and for your constant
courtesy and kindness We shall ever remem-
ber our journey and your thoughtful care, and
trust you may be long spared in the enjoyment
of your good health and true happiness.
JOSEPH ADAMsoN AND 10 OTHERS.
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FURNITURE packed. hauled, and stored.
HAUGH & KEENAN,, SO Water street.
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No New Years table should be without
Angostura Bitters. Appetiser of exquisite
flavor. TTSSu
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HUGUs & HAcKE

HUGUs & HAcKE
LAST WEEK OF OUR
CLEARING AND HOLIDAY
SALE.
Exceptional Bargains in all
Departments.
DRESSGOODS.
We offer a choice now from sew
eral lines of plaids, checks and
stripes, all new and desirable styles,
the prices of which have been 81,
81 IS and 81 SO,
AT 75c A YARD.
so-inch wide English Cheviot
plaids and stripes, the most fash
ionable novelties shown this season,
that were 81 so and 81;
NOW AT 81 A YARD.
Comb ination patterns, astrakhan
interviewer, rough effects; the very
newest styles and most desirable
colorings. These have been S3o
and S35;
NOW SIC EACH.
Paris Robes. All that remain of
our superior assortments now at
very much under value prices.
S45 and $50 Robes now $50.
S35 and $40 Robes now SIS.
S3o Robes now $50.
S25 Robes now SIS.
$40 RobeS now SI2 so.
SILKS.
Odd lots of fancy and Pekin
Striped Surahs, Colored Striped
Moire, Colored and Black Brocades,
Plain and Figured Indies, Satins,
ETC., etc.
The regular prices were from 81
to s. so; all reduced now to close
quickly to
75c A YARD.
Cor. Fifth Ave. & Market St.
de2s-MwFsu
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WE GUARANTEE TO SAVE
YOU 20 PER CENT ON
YOUR GROCERIES.

If you have been paying So per week for
your groceries, we will sell you the same
amount and just as good goods for 81. If
that extra 81 is worth having, give US a
trial and you can have it.
Send for our large Weekly Price List and
compare prices with your Grocer's Pass
Book. Take any week you want. If there
won't be saving of 81 out of every So you
have spent, don't order from us.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
MARGHELL,
THE CASH GROCER,
WILL SAVE YOU MONEY.
THE CASH GROCER,
CHARITY.

If you buy your groceries from some par
ticular grocer, because che is poor man
and needs all he can get," don't quit him,
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BIBER & EASTON
From this date we offer you
AT GREATLY
REDUCED FIGURES!
HANDKEKCHIFs,
NECKwEAR,
EMBROIDERED APRONS,
MEN. WOMEN AND cHILDaENs
GLOVES,
ALL GRADES OF HOSIERY,
SMOKING JACKETS,
HUNDREDS OF FINE UMBRELLAS, -.--
sCARFs AND TIDIEs .--' -
ELDER DOWN COMFORTS,
RED AND WHITE COUNTRY BLAN.
KETs.
WRAPS, JACKETS
COATS,
LADIES' AND CHILDREN's DRESSES,
LEATHER GOODS AND SMALL WARES
Many of these goods were slightly soilsd In
window and on counters during the Holiday
rush and crush.
We propose to let them out at
BARGAIN PRICES.
CAN YOU USE THEM?
RIRER K EAGTQN.
sos and 5o7 MARKET STREET.
de25rrssu
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NOW AT 81 A YARD.

Comb ination patterns, astrakhan
interviewer, rough effects; the very
newest styles and most desirable
colorings. These have been $50
and S35;
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LAST WEEK OF OUR
CLEARING AND HOLIDAY
SALE.
DRESSGOODS.

We offer choice now from sew
eral lines of plaids, checks and
stripes, all new and desirable styles,
the prices of which have been 81,
81 IS and 81 50,
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-02-20
BOOTS Ala BARGAIN.
A, Young Lady Gets Pair by Walking to
the Post-O

A Young Lady Gets Pair by Walking to
the Post-O Office.
She was as gentle of eye as soft
gaelic, that is, she was, for this didn't
happen this week. 1t was in a shoe
store in Lewiston, and the gentle
maiden was an acquaintance OF the
proprietor and always bought her No.
2s there when she encased her dainty
foot in any thing brand new. Here's
something that would fit you,' said the
jocular proprietor, passing out pair of
wool boots fitted with pair of lumber
mans rubbers. I'll make you present
of them if you will wear them down to
the post-office and back"
"Wait a minute" said she, and in a
minute. she was arrayed in WOODEN
boots and fumberman's rubbers. watch
me to the post-office," and she was gone.
Her feet beneath her petticoat, like
little mice, stole-inzand2 out as If they
feared the light wrote the poet two
hundred years ago, but he didn't refer to
the Lewiston young lady who did this
feat on foot, or he never would have
said it. She was back in less than ten
minutes, red-cheeked and laughing.
There" said she, as she passed up
the boots. "Do them up. I'll send
them to my father down in Penobscot
County / never lose a, chance to help
the folks at home," and the shoe-dealer
was as good as his word and dad" mar
yelled. at the pair of nice wool boots from
his thoughtful daughter in Lewiston
Lewiston (AIe.) Journal.
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SUCCESS M BUSINESS.


The True Guide to he Found in Integrity
and Perseverance,.
Failure, in business has frequently
been attributed TO extravaganza. Sue
cess, on the other hand, can not always
be attributed to meanness or stinginess.
The true guide to success in business is
to be found in. perseverance, integrity
and praeticability, and with these three
ess entails no one need fear that he will
not succeed IN his business svoea tion, and
in no trade is this rule more applicable
than in our own. The loose way in
which credit is given nowadays often
leads a man who is trying to attain po-
sition in the mercantile world astray
and those who can be trusted least FREE
quently have large quantities of goods
thrust upon them, which they are not
able to provide for at maturity. Anoth-
err feature that may be noticed is the
growing conviction that the stability OF
a man is to be found almost entirely in
the manner in which he conducts his
business. One of the most importans
factors in building up permanent trade
is to keep faith with customers; it is the
very basis upon which commercial
transactions are founded. Capability OF
adaptation to circumstances is one of the
necessary elements of success, more
especially as We are living in such an age
Of rapid changes. London Boot and
Shoe Trades journal -
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4 LIFE.PRESERYER

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=fraught waves, so to speak, and one that
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Read guarantee on bottle-wrapper, which
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years.
AS powerful, invigorating tonic, 1t i'm.
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dressrnakers, seamstresses, shop girls,
=heasekeePeF Hgg--IHlethers sand.f feeble
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storative tonic
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rHE upAs TREE.



Perhaps more fabulous tales have bean
told concerning poisonous qualities u
the death-dealing CD upas trees Of Java
than Of any other tree which has an
actual existence. Accounts of this tree
were first given to the public by DR..
Foersch, surgeon in the Dutch East
India Company's employ in the latter
part Of the eighteenth century Foersch
published several extraordinary accounts
Of this deadly upas," one in particular,
which appeared in book giving the in
trepid NJ. ID. 3 experience while explor-
Ing the isfanndiss OF ~ Java IN I3s3 m course
OF bis narrative he said that criminals
condemned TO die were compelled to go
and gather its poisonous leaves and
that not more than two out Of each
twenty sent out on the journey ever re-
turned to tell the tale of how, overcome
by its deadly emanations, they had laid
themselves down to never again awaken.
The very birds that flew over the valley
in which this deadly vegetable monster
grew, according to this Haggard Of the
eighteenth nturYs fell =Aut teEiHg Into
the branches of the tree, only to die
among the poisonous foliage or upon the
bone-strewn ground beneath. He also
relates how an army of 1000 men camped
one night about IA miles from where the
upas grew, and that only 300 answered
to the morning roll call, ] 800 Of them
having persisted during the night by the
wind changing and silently waiting the
deadly yapors over the sleeping multi
tude.
The facts in regard to the trees. are
these: 1t grows in the forest with othes
trees, and attains height Of about ono
hundred feet The juice of the bark il
somewhat poisonous to the human skin.
but not more So than Chat Of the poison
sumac or even the three-leaved ivy. 1t
is evident that Foersch COMPOUNDED the
horrors of @Death's valley" another of
the natural euriosities' of Java, with the
Legendary stories told Of the upas tree.
The poison gases in the valley above
mentioned escapes from the ground, and
are not the emanations Of any tree, fam
cifuI stories Notwithstanding st
o,iia. Ranuhlic.
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THE FARMING WORLD.
eENEFITs or TILINc.

An ohio Farmer Dives the Resa1ts Of Thof-
ourh Tfling on F1fty Acres Of Clay Soil
On my elayey farm nearly City acres
are tile-drained thoroughly, with mains
where needed. and with laterals thirty
three feetaparband about thirty inches
deep. Each linear rod Of tiles drains
two square rods Of land; eighty rods
drain an acre; ore mile drains four acres,
therefore about twelve miles Of tiles
are buried on my farm. 1t cost some
money, not far from 5000 all told, tile.
As.sfI dT Jwh, f5r sfald
nearly all the tiles with my own hands,
dug about one third of the bitches, cut
nearly all the grooves in the bottom OF
the bitches to receive the tiles as a
snug fit, and made nearly all the joints
where the laterals join the mains. This
is good deal of money to put into
drains on fifty acres of rather compact
clayey land. 1t ought to show some
benefit.
= The first benefit was that It made till
age and rotation Of crops possible con-
I tinuous1y. Some years you could get
oed crops, wheat and clover without
tiles, but not regularly. Some parts
could never be plowed without fearful
wash in high water. The drainage made
it possible to pillow and till large square
| fields instead of irregular knobs or tri-.
angular patches.
Another benefit is that the .stilingp
has made the crops uniformly better
than on the parts not tiled. Some times
in the case of wheat or potatoes the diff
ference is one between good crop and
almost an entire failure. This year the
! difference in the clover and timothy was
very marked, both in quantity and quail
ity.zI had about forty-six acres Of clo-
yer and timothy, about half of it on tiled
land and half not The untitled land is
more rolling, as rich naturally on the
average, and being nearer the barn and
read has had very much more man ure
in the past than the tiled portions, prob
| ably fully twice as much on the average.
And still my Judgment is that the
tiled portions yielded this year from
thirty to fifty per cent. more hay per
acre; certainly SO if we except from the
| untitled portions some three acres quite
! near the barn that fer thirty years at
least has had much more than its share
Of manure Not only was the quantity
| greater, but equality was better, more
free from weeds, better headed and
more uniformly good. This was quite
noticeable in the clover and timothy
seeded two years ago this spring, now
mostly timothy. One strip or plat Of
about ten acres furthest from town was
nearly all tiled, with a little over an
| VI.
tain know1edge, has had much the most
manure for thirty years, but the hay
| from the tiled part am sure Mr.. Petley,
my farm manager, will agree was worth
about twice as much per acre as that
from the untitled part, or as that from
an untitled ten acres lying beyond the
barn nearer town. On the tiled part the
timothy was heavy and long, uniformly
headed with very large heads. On the
! untitled part and on the-etheF- untitled
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Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a
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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-02-20
ABOUT SHEEP.
A Prominent Kentucky Breeder DISGUISE
Their Care and Feeding and Gives Some
Valuable Advice.

Prominent Kentucky Breeder DISGUISE
Their Care and Feeding and Gives Some
Valuable Advice.
Sheep, like all animals but man, are
regular in their habits. They will take
water and salt once day, or even
-oftener Salt is the best of all tonics,
and l give all my stock, winter and
summer, salt at will. 1t is not we'll to
put,salt into feed of any kind, but let
the animals judge of their necessities
1t is mistake to suppose that salt
causes purging; it does when after long
intervals the sheep take too much, but
it prevents diarrhea, which is indiges-
ton.
Sheep require as much water as other
animals. In the winter they will eat
snow and in summer succulent grass,
obtaining in these much of their
needed supply. On dry food they re-
qniEe= as zmueh-Mater- as any other ami
NAL. + find bells on sheep prevent the
raids of banded dogs They make a
great noise and marauding dogs are
scared off; if not the shepherd can come
to their relief. have not had banded
dogs attack my sheep in twenty years
since / adopted bells. l. lose an occa-
sional sheep from neighbors' dogs or my
own, when they get used to the bells,
but no regular raids are made.
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REMARKABLE TRIALS.

Mice, Worms and Hogs Sentenced to
Death According to Legal Forms.
The first eases OF animal trials of
whic h we have any account was when
the Bishop of Leon issued his injunction
against the caterpillars and field mice.
The mice and worms had been eating
up their crop and the county sued them
and won the suit, hence the injunction
that they should stop. In criminal cases
the mode OF trial was similar to that
prevailing to-day The animal which had
committed the crime was arrested and
put in prison. The prosecuting attor-
ney heard and committed to writing all
the testimony in the case. and if the
animal was convicted of being guilty of
some heinous crime-say homicide for
an instance The judge pronounced the
sentence, which was that the animal be
hung by tho neck or legs, according to
the nature of the animal; until he was
dead
An example of a sentence is found in
tho "Annuaire du Department de
hog; June f. f494, for devourfng child.
1t concludes thus: 1--WE, in detestation
and horror of this crime, and in order to
make ansexample= satisfy justice,
have declared, judged, sentenced, pro-
nounced and appointed that the said
hog, now detained in the abbey as pris-
oner, shall, by the executioner, be hung
and strangled on a gibbet, near the gal
lows which now stands within the juris-
diction of the monks whose names are
appended, being near the copyhold Of
Avin. In witness of which we have
scaled this present with our seal"
This remarkable document, now in the
museum at Paris, is labeled: Sentence
on hog executed by justice, in the
copyhold of Clarmont-Avin, and stran-
gled on gibbet at the place last above
mentioned" 1t is sealed with red wax
and kept under glass case.-St. Louis
Renublic
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STABLE DOOR LATCH.

the bottom on piece of sheet iron three
inches square. and bent to an angle on
tie outer edge, and a corresponding
piece is on the outside of the door. A
hole is bored through the door and a
piece Of iron riveted to both pieces Of
sheet iron. On going to the door out
side one has but to step on one and the
rod will throw the latch up. When
coming to the door. on the inside the
door is opened by pfacingethe foot under
its opposite and lifting it. A spring
shuts the door. Farm and Home.
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Washington as winter Resort.

''Our Walking Delegate" in the Gin
cinnati Times-Star, says:
:. want to commend Washington as
a winter resort said traveller who
had been extolling the c. & 0. and the
+. f. V. 1T is the best winter resort in
America The NEST interesting the
most comfortable, the gayest, the most
beautiful. When Congress is in session
the capital is filled with the most distin-
guished people in America; not only
the members of Congress, the Governs
ment officers. and the foreign ministers
and their suites, but men distinguished
in letters, in art, in science, and these
yet more feted individuals, the leaders
of society, make Washington the polite
as well as the political capital of the
country. During the season there is
never week when half dozen lions
are not on exhibition in the brilliant
parlors and ball rooms of the most
beautiful of American cities. No for
eigner of distinction who comes to
America fails to visit Washington, where
he drinks in something of the same in
toxicating social atmosphere that makes
Paris the delight of every visitor. In
deed, Washington is more like Paris
than any European capital is. The ses-
sions of Congress are always interesting
to men, women and children; whatever
the matter under discussion, there is an
active, vital, personal delight in seeing
and hearing the Congressman and Sem
ators at their work. The Write House
receptions are eminently Characteristic
Of American life, and every American
should attend at least one of them.
Scarcely the most obscure person can go
to Washington without finding acquaint-
ances and friends there, who can help
to make visit pleasant. But even if
these were lacking, the points of inter-
est are numerous enough to occupy all
ones time. The Capitol, the White
House, the Patent office, the Treasury,
the Smithsonian Institution, the War
Department., the Washington fmonu-
ment, the Corcoran Art gallery, the Ma
.tional museum, the parks, the monu-
ments and statues, the innumerable
beautiful private houses, the perfect
streets, the historic places all about
Washington, make visit there not on
ly delightful, but almost necessary to
the education of an American
The writer might have added that the
way to enhance all these charms is to go
to and from Washington on the f. E. V.
Limited, the finest vestibuled train rum
ming between Cincinnati and New York,
via Washington. The train is vestibuled
from end to end heated with steam from
the engine, lighted with electricity and
with individual reading lamps, furnished
with an elegant Pullman dining car that
runs through, and equipped with the
finest cars from the Pullman shops.
The c. & o. route is the most pictur-
esque and interesting an America, and
the journey up the Ohio, over the Allie
ghanies and Blue Ridge and across the
fully and swiftly. The c. a. O. is the
direct route to Washington. H. W..
FULLER, General Passenger Agent, Gin
cinnati, 0.
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New Fruits.

1t is always unsafe to buy new. and
high-priced varieties of fruit from other
than the most reliable sources. When
the Worden grape was first introduced
there were so many spurious plants sold
which were really the Concord that in.
telligent cultivators were led to believe
that the Worden was really the Concord.
But it has now become widely known
and extensively disseminated and APP
preciated. The Prairie Farmer quotes
the statement of Chicago fruit dealer
who sold the Worden lately, a hundred
baskets at ninety cents a basket, when
Concords were selling at thirty cents. -
Country Gentleman,
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Egypt and Jerusalem, Via tho Azores
Gibraltar, Naples and Rome.


A tour of ladies and gentlemen to visit
the East. The ocean steamer sCircassian, =
4274 tons, has been chartered to start with
the party from New York February 49, Re
turn, through France, England and Scot
land about May 9th The second section
arriving in New York not far from June 7th.
The main tour will cost less than $500 in
its cheapest FORM Radiatory excursions TO
Ephcsus, Constantincple, Vienna, &c, can
be added to the route for reasonable In
crease of expense.
Rollo Floyd, the prince of Syrian Drago.
men, will have charge of the Oriental sec
tion, and Messrs. Gazo & Son, Of London,
have been engaged to manage the European
section Rev. Dir. q. +. Thomas, an ex-
perienced director of foreign tours, will
have general charge en- route. A number OF
young ladies have already been booked, as
Mrs. Thomas will have charge Of depart
ment for them.
This win be the most for the money ever
before offered in this line. For further
particulars address Geo. May Powell, T. o.
box 700, Philadelphia, Pa.
NoTE.-A ten days special trip from Cairo
to Karnak is also provided for.