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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
RHYNKLED RHYMELETs.

Doetor-The poor woman has a sunstroke.
urse-sunstroke. Why the sun has been under
Doctor-I know. but her husband beamed on her
with his sunny temper.-B1Bto Express.
There was Joy in the tunnel for Mamie
and me.
But uIasl like all pleasures, it coud not remain.
Too soon we'd pass through, when, signing. said
she,
.sNoy amt 1t too bad this is through train?''
-ye1o York Herald.
Miss Emersonia Russell (from Boston,
i have read that Venus de Milo will be at the Chi
cago Columbian Exposition. Won that be charm
ingY
Miss Calumetia Porcine tfrom Chicago)-very
lovely! But have never heard the Young woman
sing.-Je'CeiLerS' CircUtHr.
When Talmage doffed his "fre'escapes,"
Folks thought he'd taken to cups:
And brokers think that Russell sage
Is mad enough to be put in cage,
For shaving off his ''scuDs."
Brooklyn Eagle.
sWhat are you marrying her for, Jack?"
s'Her intrinsic worth-nOthing else, 1 assure
you.''
30, about half million or so."-Rdnsds city
Times.
fWhat an original fellow your brotheris,
Miss Aany. You should have heard his remarks
this morning when the big conductor stepped on
his corn"
''What did he say, Mr.. Sample?''
90, as said, they were original; so can't quote
them.-Detroit Free Press.
Alas that the apple-an innocent thing
The sins of earth should have tied to man,
As a little innocent piece of string
The poodle infiicts with the oyster can.
-Chica7o Herald.
'Longblow, where did that Oldest boy OF
yours learn to lie so, like all possessed?''
''Oh, he got to reading a book called Anecdotes
and Incidents Of the War, by an Eye Witness. -
Philadelphia Press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
THE MARTINIQUE DISASTER

The pretty little island of Martinique has
been afflicted with hurricane, accompanied
by an earthquake, during which at least
two hundred and fifty people were killed
and many hundreds injured The natives
Of this sea-bound paradise have long ex-
pected disaster of this kind. They have
q superstition, which has descended from
their ancestors, to the effect that the en-
tire island will some time sink beneath
the ocean. The volcanoes which rise from
the center Of this little piece of land are
seldom without cloudy surroundings and
small earthquakes are frequent Not
withstanding the superstitious feeling that
exiy.5 the population has increased since
Co,-mbus first set foot there in 1902 to
two hcndred thousand, of whom twenty
thousand are white and the balance
colored. During the War of Independence
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Hon. Walter l.. Bragg,

Hon. Walter L. Bragg, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, whose death was briefly
chroniced in THE DISPATCH yesterday, was born
in Alabama in 1898. His parents moved to Arkansas
in 1874 and his boyhood home thencefOrth at
Ouichita, in that State He graduated from
Harvard University in 1855, and soon after began
the o actice of law at Camden, A rk. During the
war he served on the Confederate side, mostly with
the Army of the Tennessee, and came out with the
rank of captain. After the he settled in Ala
bama ana IN 1871 made his home in Montgomery.
For three years. from 1874 he was Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee of that state. and
in 1876 sent delegate to the st.
Louis Convention, where lie made
member of the Democratic National
Committee for Alabama. He eector
on the Hancock-EngIsn ticket for the State at
large in 1880. In 1881 he appointed President of
the Alabama Railroad Commission, and reap
pointed two years later; President Cleveland ap-
pointed him an Interstate Commerce Conmis-
sioncr In 1851, and reappointed him in 1889.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
CALAMITY SHRIEKERs.
This Is a Poor Year for Them in the Great
Northwest.

This Is a Poor Year Tor Them In the Great
Northwest.
American Economist
The Northwest is this year poor field for
calmanity shriekers. Farmers are blessed
with good crops, good weather and good
prices. These coming together always beget
q sentiment favorable to protection among
the people. Reverse conditions are those
under which free trade sentiment grows.
Protection and prosperity, poverty and free
trade, is the way the pairs are made up.
Particularly this year does the advent of
good times strengthen the cause of protec-
ton. They come in the wake of the McKin-
ley tariff, in the face of the confident asser-
tions of its enemies that it would oppress
the farmer by lowering his prices and mar
rowing his market. Insteade the farmer is
receiving excellent prices, and the worlds
markets were never so eagerly waiting for
his abundant crops. American agriculture
has got rid of the overproduction which op-
pressed 1t for few years back, which op-
preston the free traders said was due to
protection. Under increased protection the
adverse conditions vanish, farmers get good
prices for what they sell, and buy their sup
plies cheaper than ever before. What in
genious theory will the "reformer" invent
to account for these phenomena, directly
contradictory of all his fervid utterances in
recent years?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
LAWN TENNIS TEACHERS.
More Practice Needed by Amateurs to
Make Them Good Players.

Harper's Young People.]
1t is great pity that there are not few
professional tennis teachersin America; men
who are thoroughly familiar with the game,
and who could instruct ambitious beginners.
a few 1udicious lessons at the commence
ment might Obvlate many faulty strokes
which may afterwards be very difficult to
cure when once they are firmly fixed by
asking criticism from better players, and re-
ceiving it in good part, and
with an intelligent application or
non-applfcation of it, as the case
may be, an improved game will surely re-
suit. of course. steady practice on good
courts and with good balls must be had; but
there is such a thing as too much practice,
the effect Of which Is to cause your game to
lose Its snap and vim, or to become what Is
commonly known as "stale." Two or three
brisk, hard-fought sets against player bet
ter than yourself are of vastly more ad-
vantage to you than six sets laZily played
against weak opponent. Play against the
beaten; trim next day. and see If you cannot
win more games from him than you did the
day previous. At the end of u few weeks
you will be surprised to see how much your
game has improved.
For general improvement the single game
Is to be preferred to the double, as you have
more chances TO try your strokes For prac-
tice in Judgment the double game is the
better, and in watching the play of q we'll
drilled pair you will seldom see both players
attempt to return the same ball. Each tells
instantly and almost by instinct which ball
Is in his province, and which in his part
ner's, and it is very closely placed shot for
which neither will try. 1t sometimes hap
pens that one of the pair is, by reason of his
position in the court, better able to judge of
the direction of ball than is the other,
whose business 1t is to either return it or let
1t go out, and now and then you will hear
su h advice as Let it out" "Syatch it," OF
Let it strike" In general, however, the
less said between partners the better, and
one should never call to the other when that
other Is making the stroke, unless to warn
him that the ball is liable to strike out.
Above all, never find fault with your part
ner: he is doing the best he can, and usually
els worse over his bad stroke than you do.
1 have seen several matches lost through
mutual recrimination during the progress
OF the contest, the result being that both
men lost their tempers; and when player
loses his temper, the sooner he retires from
the scene the better
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
TAT0OING BURMESE.
Every Man in the Kingdom Is Adorned in
This Manner.

Baltimore Sun,
7 OF all Burmese customs, one OF the most
singular is that of tatooing the person from
the waist to below the knees, with figures in
black ink. Every man in the whole of Bur
nah is thus adorned; and, unless his SKIN be
unusually dark, he looks alta little distance
as If he were clothed in a tight-fltting pair
of knee breeches. This "mark of manhood"
which is usually conferred when the subject
is between II and "A years of age, is IL very
painful one, and the agony, which must
necessarily be OF the most intense, is often
prolonged from three days to week.
The subject, stupefied with opium, lies in
sensible to the pain, while one figure after
another gradually appears on his skin. The
instrument used by the tatooer in doing this
dainty work is a brass rod nearly two feet
in length and one-half inch in diameter,
weighted mt the top with a little ornamental
figure and provided at the other end with
hollow point, divided into four very sharp
points by cross Sits. Deep as the points Of
this stylus sink into the flesh they seldom
draw blood, but the limbs and body soon
swell in Il manner that would alarm any one
who did not know what the final result
would be.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
SUMMER SLEEPING ANIMALS.
Several Which Reverse tho Supposed Usual
Order of Habits.

Order of Habits.
New York Staats-Zeitung.1
Everyone knows that large number of
animals sleep in protected places during the
cold season of tlIe year and wake in the
summer. similar phenomenon is the sum-
mer sleep Of different reptiles-principall
serpents and crocodies-which thus pass
the time of greatest heat in tropical regions.
But that reptiles and amphibious animals,
native to the temperate zones, frequently
spend the hot days in summer sleep" is
not so well known. DR.. Franz Werner has
recently had this discussed in the Zoologi-
calBotanical Society of Vienna, and fur
nishes the following particulars: During
the months of July and August 1t will be OBJ
served by those who pay any attention to
outdoor animal life that reptiles and
amphibians are noticeably fewer in num-
Der than during the spring months; but If
they begin to hunt under large, smooth
stones, in holes in the ground, on the edges
ofmarshcs and ponds, under brushwood and
heaps of dead leaves they will not seldom
find these animals, either alone or in great
groups. in o condition very similar to sleep;
not, indeed, SO sound as the winter sleep, u
but the eyes are fully closed and the BREATH
ing little slower. The frogs sit huddled
burrowing somewhat deeper into the earth.
Lizards and salamanders lie almost motion
less with the tails over their heads, and even
the latter feel almost dry. Snakes are rolled
up like spirals and, as a rule, with the head
concealed. They are, however, the most
quickly aroused.
The reason of this summer sleep is differ
ent, according as the animal lives on land or
in the water. Those on land sleep during
the greatest heat; those in the water only
when their usual dwelling place is dried up,
which generally, though not necessarily,
occurs during the high temperature. The
water salamanders are always in a partial
summer-sleep; those which live in the water
during the whole year do not sleep in sum-
mer, such as the water-frog, which lives in
ponds and marshes well supplied with water.
1t is generally supposed that our reptiles
enjoy the heat of summer, so that, as this in
oreases, they improve in health. But this
is not always the case; rather has 1t been
found that many of our reptiles are killed
by prolonged exposure 20 the heat of the
sun, and If we observe lizards in the open
air, we may be sure that they donot stay out
very long under the beams of the sun, but go
back from time to time to their dwellings.
Only turtles can remain exposed to glow
ing sun any length of time without some
shade. Lizards and snakes often succumb
In half an hour. The summer sleep of these
animals is regular habit wherever the
warmth of the sun annually reaches its
height; that Is to say, from every noon until
rainful is light and infrequent. In places
where intense heat is of rare occurrence a
similar phenomenon is observed in these
years only. In captivity these animals
have neither winter nor a summer Sleep
because the ttmperature of the cages is kept
warmer in winter and cooler in summer
than in the open air.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
VETERANS AT CHAUTAUQUA.
The G. A. R. Day There Brings Out a Large
Assemblage of Old Soldiers.


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPAToH.l
CHAUrAUoUA, Aug. 22.-This was G.. A. R..
Day ut Chautauqua, and the veterans were
here by the thousands from all parts of the
country. A 2opound cannon walked the
echos from early morn till noon, and martial
music filed the air all day. The cottages
were trimmed with flags and flowers and the
Star Spangled Banner WAS unfurled from
many a window. Once year, at least,
Chautauqua is eminently patriotic, and on
that occasion the old soldiers make this
their rendezvous and bring their wives and
children here. The bivouac really began last
night, when the campfires were lighted in
the Amphitheater and sentinels paced to
and fro between the tents on the platform.
Patriotic speeches were made BY the Rev.
Gilbert De La Matyr, of Akron, o.; the Rev.
DR. Il. L. Edwards Mrs. Ella Nj. Putnam, of
Buffalo, President of the Woman's Relief
Corps; Il. B. Brown, of Meadville, Pa, and
Judge Albion W. Tourgee. ofNew York.
The exercises to-day were very interest
ing, and the big Amphitheater was packed
with people. The principal address Of the
day was delivered by Bishop John p. New
man, of Omaha, who said some very spicy as
well as some very patriotic things.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
MADE THE ELDERS LAUGH.
How the Solemnity of a Maine Campmeet-
ing Was Broken.

How the Solemnity of Maine Campmeet-
ing Was Broken.
Chicago Herald
The solemnity of a Maine campmeeting
came near being broken up by 4 festive mos
quito the other day. A deyout attendant be-
came convinced that he had been singled
out by particularly persistent and vicious
insect. As he bowed his head in the attitude
of prayer the little piping poison bottle
perched on his neck, and sense of proper
decorum was all that restrained a blow.
The insect was gently dislodged with the
left hand, but Immediately took refuge on
the right ear of the sorely tempted wor-
shipper.
Up went the right hand, and the bug took
his departure, to reappear on the other ear.
IL was no use, the restraint of lifetime was
thrown OFF, and with a mighty thrust out
went the right hand and snatched at the
little offender, when to the CONSERVATION of
two people and the irrepressible amusement
of O score or less devout worshippers, the
gentleman found in his hand the feather OF
q lady's hat and the lady felt her hat violent
ly wrenched from her bowed head.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

THE cable announces that France expects
to purchase hundred million dollars worth
of wheat this year from America. If orders
like this are received from other countries
there will be some lively times for the grain
brokers who are short on the market.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

GERMAN chemists have attained new
sulphurous compound with acetone, the
odor of which is so powerful as to disable
them. Its effects upon their system are said
to resemble those produced by anti-protec-
ZIONIST speakers in the present campaign.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
Dennis O'Isrien.

Dennis O'Brien, supervisor of the Pan
Handle Railway, died of heart failure yesterday
afternoon at O'Clock at his late residence in
Mansfield Valley. Mr.. O'Brien was almost IS
years old. having been born December 49, 1853, in
Wyoming county, n. Y. When about years old
hir parents moved to Bloomfield, where as a water
boy he started to work on the Pan Handle and for
the past . years has held various responsible posi-
tons having been supervisor OF the first division
of the P c.. G.. X st. L. Railway for the past Is
years. Besides wife and five Children Mr..
" Brien !, avcs host of friends. He was man of
upright Character and in charity liberal to fault
as many deserving poor persons can attest.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
FORGOT THEIR OWN RULES.
Divines Highly Amused by the
Antics of Dancing Bear.

Antics of u Dancing Bear.
Chicago Globe.l
The divines at Desplaines who made the
rules about hammocks, lawn tennis, fishing
swimming and other amusements forgot
themselves recently. Two Italians with
cinnamon bear came along, and being at
tracted by the large crowd, thought it would
be a golden opportunity to replenish their
pocketbooks. They accordingly stopped,
put their bear in a conspicuous place and
commenced operations. A crowd of small
boys, men, women, preachers and doctors
were soon assembled, eagerly watching the
bear go through his antics.
Like a fash it dawned upon some of the
ministers that they had lost their dignity,
and they quietly Informed policeman that
they did not think the bears purpose there
was one of religious worship. The police
man did not fail when duty called him, and
the bear was elected. The two Italians, as
they marched off, looked as If they thought
it was queer that they couldn't get justice,
even at q religious meeting.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
ALL RIGHT AGAIN.
Sunoi, the Famous Trotting FilIy, Once
More In Good Form.

Sunoi, the Famous Trotting FilIy, Once
More In Good Form.
New YORK, Aug. 22.-Mr. Robert Bonner
has received q telegram from Marvin, the
trainer of sunol, stating that the f1lly is GO
ing sound and all right again. and has sent
Instructions to Marvin, so that it is expected
tliat SunoI will gradually be worked into
record breaking form.
"sunol,n said Mr.. a. A. Bonner, OF the New
York Ledger yesterday, "ought to beat Maud
SIS record if she is as game mare as Maud.
She has the speed, us is shown by the fact
that she trotted i'll els as q two-year-old and
in 2:lO14 as three-year-old."
Horsemen have been particularly hopeful
of hearing good things of Sunol this sum
mer and are eager to learn from good au-
thority what may be expected of her. This
opinion from Mr.. A. A. Bonner is significant
he being the only amateur driver who has
driven two horses to sullIy trials better than
driven Rarus a mile in 2:l319 and
Edwin Forrest in 2:l334 on his fathers private
three-quarter exercising course at larry
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
ANATURAL RAZOR sTROP.
The Natives of Florida Don't Have to Pur-
chase the Leathern Article.

The Natives of Florida Don't Have to Pur-
chase the Leathern Article.
jacksonville Times-U niOn.l
There are now blooming in st. Augustine
I6 plants of the agave Victoria regina spe-
cies, or what is commonly called the century
plant. A towering column rises out of the
center plant to the height of 60 feet, but it is
often relegated to the rubbish heap as
worthless, for the reason that, as a thing of
beauty, it has no further charms for the eye.
Yet many thousands of the shaving people
of the old world utilize this shaft of the
plant.
They make use of it as a razor strop. Mr..
W. Chambers, Auditor of the East Coast
Railway Line, has had one in use for many
years, and it shows not the slightest defect
from use. The strop is made by taking the
shaft of the agave and cuttingit into lengths
of l2 inches: these are split into four or rs
many quarters as possible, allowing to
each piece sufficiency of the pulp or heart
of the stalk to present surface of not less
than one inch on which to stropa razor. The
heart hardens in time and presents fine,
soft and naturally fabricated surface for
stropping razor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
Obituary Notes,

ADAM LIPPERT, aged IS years, and prominent
citizen of Canton. died there yesterday afternoon
GEORGE MCCAY, u native of Dublin one of the
Oldest engrayers in the country died at the French
Hospital, New York, Friday morning, aged SS
years.
WIMMIAL ID. HoLrZMoRTH, the famous battle
field guide ex-director of the gettysburg Battle
field Memorial Association and superintendent of
the Soldiers National Cemetery, died Friday from
paralysis at Gettysburg.
HENRY WoRTHINGToN BECKwITH, United
States Consul at bermuda, died Thursday evening
at his home at Highlands. near Chicago. Deceased
was the son of the late Judge Corydon Beckwith,
Chicago,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

A PROMINENT school teacher in Aus
tralia has recently been suspended because
she prayed for the death of her husband.
Evidently she did not conduct her devotions
with the strict secrecy that is supposed to
be observed upon such occasions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

ITALIANS have demanded representation
upon the Brooklyn school board, because
some of their children attend school
for the support of which they pay taxes.
They seem to think It strange that no atten-
tion has been paid to their request, but
the Brooklynites don't look at the matter in
that light
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

IT is not at all likely that Mr.. Blaine has
sent stephen b. Elkins or anybody else to
tell the President about his intentions re-
garding the Presidential nomination. There
is probably an understanding between Mr..
Blaine and the President, as far as is need
full, but that will not interfere with the Re-
publican party's action when the time
comes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
Gutta Percha in Surgery.

1t has been found that gutta percha, soft
ened in hot water, or in hot water and glyce-
rine, may be made to absorb almost any
desired styptic and anti-septic substance
The mass can then be drawn out or nodded
into any required shape, and, as a surgical
dressing, will serve the purpose both of
plaster and splint.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

MCKINLEY does not need much protec-
tion. A man who can marshal facts and
figures as he did yesterday can take care or
himself. But his opponents may well wish
he could be excluded from Ohio by pro-
hibitiYe duty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

cities of the United States children are
forced to work eleven hours q day, seven
days in the week, to support parents who
are to lazy to labor. Evidently the value of
children is decreasing and the law should be
made to take q hand in the matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

THE Clearing House is an institution the
workings of which few people other tnan
bankers fully understand, and yet 1t bears
such an intimate relation to the welfare of
the city's business that every man CONNER
cially engaged should be learned in every
detail of its internal affairs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
CONSCIENCE STRICKEN.
An Investor in Louisiana Lottery Tickets
Sends Them to Washington.

United States Mail.I
A unique conscience" contribution was
recently received at the dead-letter office of
the department, In the shape of 80 81 Louisi-
ana lottery tickets. The moral aspect of
the case is somewhat mixed, from the fact
that the tickets had all matured, but not in
cash. Evidences of an Endorsement of the
anti-lottery policy of the department are
shown in the following note which accom-
panied the contribution:
Dead Letter Office: Here are 80 tickets.
They cost s3S, and never got a cent. 1t is
all humbug. They send out some small
prizes, but the large ones stay ut home. 1t
them There is thousands that got Bit"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

IN Bolivia the wife is always the older
and rules the household. for the support of
which she contributes the larger share. In
this country the wife is generally the
younger, but she rules the household just
the same
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

THE accident in New York yesterday
was the most horrible tragedy that has
happened for many years, although at this.
writing all too little is known OF the cause,
the results, and especially theloss Of life.