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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23
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DEs MONIES, February AIN the family
of Mrs. Wesley Tennant, this city, there
have been nine cases of Russisn influenza.
Some were very seriously afflicted. Mrs.
Tennant says: "We are now all well, ex-
cept myself, and I am getting better. We
have all taken ChaInberlain's Cough Rem
edy, and it proved effectual in every case.
It has proved itself to be a useful and vain
able medicine"
For sale by E. g. Stuckey, Seventeenth
and Twenty-fourth sts., Penn ave. and cor.
Wylie ave. and Fulton ST.; Markell Bros,
cor. Penn and Frankstown sves.; Theo. e.
Ihrig, 1910 Fifth ave. Carl HartTig, Forty
third and Butler sts., Plttsburg; and in
Allegheny BY T.. E. Heck, 70 and 194 Fed
eral St; Thos. +. Morris, cor. Hanover and
Preble aves.; u. II. Eggers, 172 Ohio g.,
and .. b: EsgAkS q Son, 1e0 Ohio st. snd =
smithasld O. WA
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23
PASSES FOR EMPLOIES.
A Veteran Brakeman Who GOt n Free, RIds
Very CIeVerIy.

Very CIeverIy.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Colonel Tom McKissick, the Superinten.
dent of the North Missouri, was sitting in
his Office one morning, feeling cranky, when
there entered a switchman who had been
compelled to give up his position by ILL
health. The switehman asked for pass 70
Moberly, his old home. "Why should I
give YOU pass?'' queried the Colonel.
''You have quit the road, and been paid in
full, haven't you?"
"Yes, sir, but have been always, faith
full, have worked hard and only leave now
because 1 am crippled with rheumatism.
thought, after so many years service might
ask Tor favor"
''Well," said Colonel McKissick, eff you
had worked for a farmer a year or more and
quit and had been paid up in full. would
you ask him to hitch up a team and take
you 10 or 20 miles to town?''
''No," said the man, "but if he had hig
team hitched up and was going my way !
would think him an Internally mean man IL
he wouldn't give me ride. -
McKissick Immediately filed up an "an-
nual."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23
A CANE FOB USE AT NIGHT
Provided With Arrangements to Light th
NJ

Provided With Arrangements to Light the
Pedestrian ON His Way.
Chicago Herald.]
A man who was engaged the other day in
examining the canes in the showcase of Sam
Brown, the Dearbon street haberdasher and
tailor, accidentally touched a secret spring
in the head of one Of the sticks and little
lid flew up, disclosing a mysterious recess.
Fearing that he had unintentionally COM
mitted crime he summoned the proprietor
and showed him what ne had done.
"Oh, that's all right" said Brown, reas-
suringly. tits patent stick from Ger
many. Here, let me show you how it
works." and, taking the cane. he. pushed up
a slide and small candle popped up out OF
the aperture. Then he lifted little lid
and disclosed some wax matches.
''This is darkness cane, he said. 'If
its owner is caught anywhere in the dark he
can light up and see his way clearly. It's
just fad Maybe it will be CO."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23
THE ALPHABET In A SENTENCE.
Each of the Twenty-six Letters In n Nine
Word Statement.

Each Of the Twenty-stx Letters In n Nine-
Word Statement.
St. Louis Republicl
The Republics "Notes for the Curious"
have directed very considerable talent to
the work of constructing "the shortest SEN
tence containing all the letters of the al
phabet." A St. Louis reader, so super
fuously modest that he tears the printed
caption from his letter-head, contributes the
following: "Blocks-offve methods will
quickly jeopardiEe extensive rights" If
Messrs. Harrison, Dudley, Quay and Reed
can put more truth into as few letters OF the
alphabet the Republic will be pleased to
make room for it in its Notes for the
Ourious."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23
A SINGLE EYE TO BUSINESS.
A Court Whose Omcers Were All Alike In
One Respect.
Rochester Herald.

One Respect.
Rochester Herald.l
Who that saw can ever forget Judge Bal
CONS wide-eyed amazement when he beheld,
entering one after another, the unique col
lection of monoculAr officers who composed
his famous "one-eyed court" A constable,
an Associate Justice, the clerk, and the
crier beamed affably upon His Honor from
out of their solitary optics; and then in
walked Henry Van Duzer, Schuyler coun-
tvs able, one-eyed District Attorney.
Dazed for q moment the astonisbed JUS
tice closed first one eye and then the other
to convince himself that his vision was still
duplicate, and then, arising, opened the
term with the remark that "this court will
now enter upon its labors with a single
eye to the furtherance of the business be-
fore IT
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23
LAND OF HOSPITALITY.

Too much cannot be said respecting the
hospitality and geniality of our Canadian
cousins. They are good nature personiied.
The little French hotels and the English
inns, which are fac SMILES of what you see
to-day in France and England, are so home
like and comfortable that you want to re-
main there forever. The meals served are
we'll cooked, palatable, wholesome and
cheap. The wines and liquors are ridicu-
lously cheap. The cigars, cigarettes and
tobacco are cheap. The service and attend
ance are invariably good. To anyone who
enjoys healthy outdoor sport, fishing,
trapping and shooting, who wants to get
away from the fierce pressure of life in the
great cities of the United States, recon-
mend a few weeks sojourn in the great
woods of Canada.
II. A. GILDERsLEEvE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23
Political Economy In California.
.ro fN.I E2anuhIfcan

Entirely too much money is sent away
from home with which to buy beer for Fres-
no. Our city must either have 9 brewery
or our citissns must gait drlnkins 70 much
beey,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23

targets used are the Concours National,
French carton, which counts ten for the
bulls eve; the Standard Decimal, which
also counts ten, and the Massachusetts, target,
which is graduated to one-eighth of an inch
and which counts II. The French target
has only lately been introduced here and is
a favorite, because each ring on the carton
is graduated so as to admit 44-caliber
bullet between the lines.
''It is quite true" said Mr.. Conlin, "that
revolver shooting has become exceedingly.
popular among New Yorkers; indeed, it may
be said to amount to passion with hun
dreds of men who find it not only pleasant
exercise. but a capital thing for steadying
the nerves. Here is target made the other
day by Mr.. Alfred Brenon, the artist, who
is one of
THE MOST RELIABLE SHOTS
in the country. You see, there are six shots,
all we'll on the bulls eye, and only one of
them impinging on the line. That is the
French target. Here is one by Major W.
r. Pryor, a son of General Roger A. Pryor,
with the halt dozen shots so fairly on that
they look like three single bullets. The
Major and DR.. Joseph Henry are matched
against each other for medal in a con-
test with rifles on the French carton,
This target was made last week by Captain
George L. Garrigues, who was one of the
Arctic explorers, and who came near freezing
to death in the ice with the Hall expedi-
tion. He uses the Massachusetts target, and
has scored 60 out of possible 72. Phese
two remarkable targets are by George Bird,
of the Calumet Club. Look at them closely
and see how neatly he cuts the bulls eve in
both. They are the French carton, and 1
believe they can hardly be beaten anywhere.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23
vAsTNEss OF THE FORESTS.

Fast as the lumbermen eat up the forests;
fast as they push their little narrow gauge
railways up the sides Of the mountains and
clear away the trees; fast and close as the
settlers follow in their footsteps and turn
into fallow fields the land that was lately
almost untrodden by the foot OF civilized
man. the extent of the woods is SO enormous
that but little impression seems to have
been made upon them.
Walking through these wonderful forests
the hunter becomes almost poet in senti-
menL The universal air Of awful age is too
much for even the most trifing mind to
Withstand. The venerable trunks, covered
with the moss Of wears, fills him with rever-
ence and peace, and when he meets the fall
len trunk that stood as the king of all the
forest about he walks around IL, knowing
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23

ing men would make poor shooting as a
rule, and they probably do. but I've seen a
great many exceptions
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23

A Mr.. Gibson had a store on Market
street, opposite McKennan's drugstore, in
those days. 1t was general store, with
little of everything needed in a frontier
town. The Indians traded there considera.
bly,. One day Mrs. Gibson was in the store
alone, when three of the savages went in
and asked her for pocket knives, which she
showed them. They told her that they
would take them without pay. Mrs. Glib
son seized her goods, and was having
scuf1e with them when Mr.. Gibson, hearing
the noise, ran in and seized gun and gave
one of them thupp over the head with it,
knocking him down and cutting deep
cash along his sacred scalplock. That
ended the fight, but such row was made
about it that Mr.. Gibson had to pay the
doctor bill and give them all presentsto
keep them quiet as the whole village was
afraid of an outbreak.
A daughter of John McClintock. at that
time married to George Grier, and still
living in her 91st year, was living near
MherO Flsming'S drug store now ID. George
GTieE was Considerable Of wAg and enc
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23

''One of the faVorite pastimes of the crack
shots is splitting a card with a half-ounce
Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-09
THAT TEMPORARY TAX.

Of course all the merchants and others
 who see a chance to make money by in creasing the prices of their goods Ion ac count of the new tariff law" are going to do it, and of course many will make some money. But it is not at all probable that there will be any very great and sustained rise in prices The Arrangement in prices bids fair to be only temporary, and by and by they may be quite as low as they have been. American production will be stim- ulated, and this will have tendency to keep prices down. The Springfield Union pertinently says: The Union adheres to the counsel which it has frequently given, that Americans will best conserve their own interests if they confine themselves, as far as possible, to the consumption of American goods. If the people show patriotic disposition to help Amer ican industries in this way, the manu- facturers will meet them half way, American goods will improve in quality and be offered at lower prices by reason of an increasing demand for and consump- ton of American goods. The eventual re- suit will be-and it will not be very long in coming-that all American manufactured products which are duly protected will be sold at lower prices, quality for quality, than foreign goods have brought under the old tariff. This has already been the his tory of the prices of paper, iron and steel, carpets, woolen, cotton goods, and many others under protection. The tariff is tax on foreign producers and not on our selves, except temporarily during the ad- justment of business.
 The free traders are bowling as wildly and continuously as they can about the great rise in prices caused by the new tariff. They will probably not have a chance to howl long.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-09

is that the best and finest silk waterproofs are made in Rhode Island, but on account of the foolishness of American consumers, they have to be sent to London and stamped with an English trade mark, and re-shipped to this country before they can be sold here -.s. This extract from speech in the Cana dian parliament by Premier Macdonald sheds light on one part of the tariff ques- tion: Suppose the man has 100 acres on the Canadian side of the line and 100 acres on the American side of the line. Sup pose he grows ,000 bushels of barley on each of his farms. He takes his 1000 American bushels to the American market and gets $1 bushel for it. He takes his 1000 bushels of Canadian barley to the American market and gets but eighty-five cents per bushel, because he has to pay fifteen cents duty for taking it across the line. How can it, in this case, be said that the consumer pays the duty. It comes out of the pockets of the Canadian farmers"
 A terrapin farm is described by the Fer nandina Florida) News. It is an inclosure about twenty feet square, one-half of it filled with loose sand and a tank occupy ing the rest of the space. The tank is be- low tide level, and at high tide the salt water runs in from the marsh to the depth of four feet. The sand was all perforated with holes, and the owner, digging down with his fingers, unearthed some baby ter rapins an inch or two long. They were lively little fellows and were restless in the daylight. The earth was full of them, only few days old. The mud at the bot tom of the tank was also full of them. Af- ter they are few days old they seek the water, and, burying themselves in the mud, remain there until spring, when they come out to make start in the world All this period spent in the mud they live by suction. They sell for SIS dozen in New York when fully grown. The little fellows are from the eggs deposited by the old females. The terrapin lay four or five times in a season, beginning with about nine eggs at the first laying and winding up the season with a lay of about three
Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-09
sam Smal1ss Conversion. TFroua fin. pl,fiaaairs,sa T,c,,s-.,,. T


 ''out of F years bitter experience, said MT. Small, 'T can say that do not believe the man was born who has the power to restrain his unguided passions" Continu- ing, he told of the humiliation and alarm the discovery gave, of his fruitless efforts, by the aid of physicians and drugs, to ov- ercome the mad thirst for drink, and how he moved from one place to another, even abroad but found no relief At last he settled in Atlanta, Ga, as one of the edi- tors of the Constitution and official court reporter. He described the helplessness of his daily career in drunkennes, of his faith ful wife's efforts to save him from ruin Once he went with his two little children to hear Sam Jones at a revival He had almost been converted; when he crushed back the door of religious conviction and rushed from the tent with his little ones. A prolonged debauch followed. Seated in saloon, with his head in his hands, he was debating whether he should kill him self or not, when his wife found hira and took him home in her carriage When they arrived there he went straight to his room, and thought his case all over. Some distant voice from his mothers memory came back to his fevered brain It called him to righteousness and seemed mingled with the eloquence of Sam Jones's sermon of few days before. He went from his room to another one above, locked thedoor and prayed. For four long hours he strug- gled in physical and mental agony with be- seeching supplication to the almighty, and at last, with great cry, he fell forward. When little later he awoke he felt curious numbness of the body, and imag- ined he was paralyzed. But this feeling soon gave away to one of case and com fort.
 Rushing down stairs he clasped his wife in his arms and told her of his grand gift of righteousness and declared he would make her the best husband in the world He then went out and got 6 lot of circu- lars, on which he had printed, sISam W. Small will preach this evening at so and so street, P. m. sharp"
 A lot of newsboys soon had this all over the city, and promptly at the hour he opened a discourse on a platform of two whisky barrels. His little children were again with him. A great and curious crowd of old acquaintances had gathered to hear the drunkard preach. He told them of his past life among them and his of going away to life devoted to God. The very next morning the old feeling of desire came over him, and for two hours he prayed and struggled against it and it disappeared, land from thai hour to this" said Dr. Small, .sI have never felt the desire again"
Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-09
IS TIT A STILL HUNT?

The Democrats in this State are unusu- ally still in this campaign, so still that some might think they are making what is called a still hunt. If they are it is very still one. The more natural explanation of their quiet is that they cannot get up en- thusiasm enough to make ahy noise They have very respectable State ticket, but not the one that the Democrats who are capable of enthusiasm wanted. They know that they cannot elect it, and their work for it is of the most perfunctory character. If they wake up at all it will be on account of the candidates for con- gress and the legislature. There are, how ever, few signs that they will be much stirred over anything this year. The Re- publicans are wide awake and vigorously and harmoniously at work. They have every reason to be hopeful and zealous They have a first-rate state ticket, they are to elect 8 legislature which will send Sena- tor Platt to Washington again, and they will try to elect all their candidates for members of the lower branch of congress. They are pulling together, and strongly pulling, too. Let every Republican do personal work from now until the polls are closed. Such work is the most eff fectiye.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-09

Smith, was in perfect harmony with the horse. On these days Mai acted as if he had the universe to carry, walking up and down the mountain many times, always in advance of the team; looking back impa- dently as if to say, Do hurry up, John, the most energetic and business-like of the trio. It was a busy time when the car re- ceived its freight: a half dozen of the sur face men worked with @ will, to be in readiness for the engine on it's re- turn trip from the village, Mai, from his perch en the topmost sack, in the mean time looking approvingly on. As the train steamed away he would watch it in- tently until bend of the mountains hid it from view; then, turning away as if re- heved, would commence to help the "roustabout" gather the empty sacks. which were placed in a pile, Mai. laying the one he carried precisely and carefully on the top.
 have not space to enumerate the many wonderful things this dog did. He climbed ladders, jumped through hoops held high in the air in true circus fashion. drilled in fine military style, and brought in the wood for his masters stove.
 Late advices from the mine state that Maj. is growing quite obese His master, discovering that be was being surrepti- uously fed, placed him upon a diet of crackers, of which he is very fond. He does not know that every night, as the hour hand of the big clock near the en- zine points to twelve, Mai. rises from his bed, and going to the mouth of the shaft. peers anxiously down the dark abyss. Presently dim specks of light are seen in the thick blackness, which gradually grow larger and brighter, fiickering at times and almost extinguished by the gyrations of the bucket, which soon appears at the sur face with its load of human freight: with short, joyful barks they are welcomed by Maj. The might shift" have come up for their very substantial midnight lunch; to this Maj. is an invited and most apprecia- tive guest, which may account somewhat for his growing obesity.
 But old age is advancing. Soon, alas, his place will be vacant. He has been so useful and good in his life that he may be transported to a better land. like the cele- brated dog of Ephesus, who, according to the legend of the Seven Sleepers, was ad- mitted to Paradise for his long and faith ful watch over thpse holy martyrs, acting as sort of letter-carrier there, delivering important missives, correspondence, etc
 Maj. might prove a valuable assistant to him, as he has already had quite an expe- rlence In that hne- RACHEL ROGERS.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-09
which has the merit of being curative as

which has the merit of being curative as well as a reductive:
 Breakfast-Beefsteak, lambchops or fish, broild, boiled or baked, and served without any butter, gravy or sauce; sliced toma- toes, lettuce or celery in season and coffee with saccharine, which is a tar and sugar product, and has none of the i'll effects of pure sugar or obesity.
 Lunch-Cold meat and a salad with a glass of wine
 Dinner-Clear soup, shell fish, or plain ly cooked fish; a choice of roast meats or game, minus gravies, sauces and condi- ments, and any non-starch vegetable, such as lettuce, spinach, asparagus, ,tomatoe, ,&c., a glass of light German wine; and for des- sert small quantity of raw fruit or stewed fruit.
 This diet is for the reduction of adispose tissue, but if the patient is subject to gout, rheumatism, kidney troubles, &c., and wants to cure them, she must resort to a strict diet of beef and hot water. The meat must be minced and can be broiled or baked The hot water is to be taken in pint quantities one and half hours before the meat.
 With person who has not reduced be- fore, the first dietary will produce a rapid reduction of flesh, but if previous experi- ments have been made and the system has become used to a nitrogenous diet, it will be necessary to become more rigid ,and not only the food allowance diminished, but systematic fasting practiced-