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The Republican., 1891-01-16
ntannIutinn nf Stnnea.

It is stated that Bohemian has dis
covered a combination of chemicals, by
tho use of which the hardest stones can
be dissolved and nodded into any shape,
sstne cast being as hard as flint, trans
lucent, and capable of taking on brill
liant luster." Very beautiful colors are
said to result from the process, which
the inventor has so much belief in that
he is endeayoring to get some capital
lists to back him to float company to
carry out the invention on large scale.
It ia claimed that while in the fluid
form the dissolved stone can be used FOL
coating any thing having a hard OF
glossy surface.
The Republican., 1891-01-16
RIDING THE PILLION.
Revival Of an Old and Picturesque
Custom.
The Very 0uintessence of Horseback kid'
ing for Ladies' How Our Forefathers
Rode and Carried Their Wives
and Swcethenrts.

Do any one Of our readers recall the
articles printed some time ago on the
much-vexed question as to whether
women should ride astride or not!
Those who did follow that inter
esting discussion were doubtless divided
into two camps-believers and non-be'
levers in the new school of riding. Tc
the enon-believers the announcement thaI
pillion riding has been revived Will
prove extremely welcome. For with
pillion riding we return to the very
ouintessence of modesty in riding. IL
ia a mode of carriage that tlourlsheu
when the mere idea of woman seated
astride of a horse would have been con-
sidered heathenish and grossly immoral
In those days husband and wife OF
brother and sister rode together, as
shown in our sketch, and the effect was
verv charming. Pillions are all made
on the same principle-a cushion Gov
cred with buckskin and quilted. with
handle at the back, which can be put uF
or down, working with hinge. the
whole having attached a cover with large
flaps made of drab-kcrscymere to keeE
the lady's dress from the horses
side. The cover is also otter
The Republican., 1891-01-16

quilted and bound with ornamental
braid. There is, besides, small foot
board suspended by leather straps. Our
larger sketch, which includes some in
teresting outlines of the pillion, might
give the impression that the old method
of riding was not altogether safe. But
the seeming contretemps only displays
the result of unfamiliarity with the
pillion. At present Mr.. K. S. Wilson,
an English gentleman, is the only per-
son who has carried the crusade as far
as practical experiment, and, of course,
his labors alone could not make good
pillion riders. 1t will only be when the
idea has been widely taken hold OF that
it will be worked out with perfect sue
cess. Writing from Mr.. Wilson'S coun'
try place, u correspondent says;
MIR. Wilson was as anxious 20 ex-
hibit as / was to witness pillion riding,
and young cart horse was especially
caught for the service. There were
plenty of girls about ready to mount tho
pillion, and young farmer turned up
who at once volunteered to mount the
horse. The young farmer duly donned
an old cooked hat and buckled on the
belt. He was soon in the saddle and rode
The Republican., 1891-01-16

The best half of life is in front of the
man of forty, if he be any thing of a
man. The work he will do will bo done
with the haEd OF a master, and not of
a raw apprentice. The trained intel
lect does not see men as trees walk
ing" but sees every thing clearly and
in lust measure. The trained temper
does not rush at work like blind bull
at a haystack, but advances with the
calm and ordered pace Of conscious
power and deliberate determination.
To no man is the world SO new. and the
future so fresh, as to him who has spent
the early years of his manhood in striV-
ing to understand the deeper problems
of science and life, and who has made
some Roadway towards comprehending
them To him the commonest things
are rare and wonderful, both in them
selves and as parts of a beautiful and
intelligent whole. Such thing as
staleness in life and its duties he can
not understand. knowledge is always
opening out before him in wider ex-
panses, and more commanding nights.
The pleasure of growing knowledge
ard increasing power makes every year
of his life happier and more hopeful
| that the last.-Hospital
The Republican., 1891-01-16
THE CALF WAS CAUGHT.
A Pup That Know His Business Per-
fectly.

A farmer near Portland, Me-, who had
worn himself out trying to catch & calf
that he wanted to get in from pasture
before winter was advised to send for
certain dog in the next town which was
an expert in catching refractory cattle
The canine was sent for. An insignifi-
cant dog, not much larger than good
sized cat and of no particular breed,
simply dog, appeared. He didn't look
very capable of fulfilling the hopes of
the owner of the calf, but he was taken
along and put on the trail of the calf. at
the edge OF grove of trees, wherein
the latter was accustomed to defy pur-
suit. Soon tho loud believing of the
calf was heard, and following the sound
a novel sight was presented. The calf
was not only caught, but no was an
chored lie was as immovably fixed as
the trees around him. The little dog
sat calmly on his launches with his
teeth firmly fastened in the most tender
part of his captive's nose, any move
ment of which was attended with so
much pain that his calfship had con-
cluded, after few trials, that, on the
whole, it was better to remain quleG-
combustion Traveller.
The Republican., 1891-01-16
RUBBED OUT.
A Pencils Faterul Work Obliterated and
the Evil Consequences Averted.


the Evil Consequences Averted.
During the Russo Turkish war, while
Mr.. Irving Montagu was in Turkey as
war artist Of the Illustrated London
News, he was one day attracted by the
strikingly characteristic features of one
of his guards Having his notebook in
his hand, he jotted down sketch of the
face. Before it was finished the man
looked up and saw what was going on.
At once such an expression OF horror
and revenge passed over his countenance
that Mr.. Montagu was, as he says
thrilled by it,
THE fellows manner became rapidly
sullen and morose; nay more, utterly
wretched," writes the correspondent.
"If ne supposed me possessed of the
evil eye, surely he was possessed OF
two of the most malignant orbs which
ever protruded from human Uranium.
Things went on in this mysterious
way till asked one OF my comrades ii
he could throw any light upon the mat
ter. when he explained that in that SUI
perstitious country, to have ones feat
urcs reproduced in any way was sign
of impending death.
Tho whole thing was explained in
moment. Death, Of whom | was the
agent, had to all intents and purposes
set his seal on my unfortunate fol-
lower, condition of affairs truly terri
BILE to contemplate. Melancholy had
marked him for her own
"However, there was no help for 1T;
| the thing was done, though his settled
rloom affected US all not little, and no
| explanation seemed likely to break the
spell which hung over him"
The mans moroscness was becoming
almost insufferable, when Mr.. Mortagu
was suddenly inspired with a bright
idea" He called the follow and ex-
planned to him that he had a magic an
tidote to the lines of the fatesul pencil.
With it the man himself could blot out
the pencils work for ever, and so break
the fatal spell.
The effect was marvellous; the mans
face instantly lighted up with inex-
pressible delight. At first he took hold
OF the India-rubber with the tips of his
fingers in the tenderest possible man
ner, but on realizing it's miraculous
qualities he rubbed literally for dear
life.
Born and bred in remote part Of
Anstolia, Suleiman had never even
heard of India-rubbor. The picture was
rubbed out. He smiled again, and sc
did we.'
The Republican., 1891-01-16
AN INDIANA GIANT.
He Tips the Scale at Nine Huns
dred and Seven Pounds.
0ohn Hanson Craig, Said to BE the Larg.
est Man In the World-His Phenom-
email Gain in Flesh-His An
cestry and Childhood.
I Indiana boasts OF having within its

Indiana boasts OF having within its
borders the largest man in the world.
This person is John Hanson Craig,
now a resident Of Danville, a town OF
1000 inhabitants, nineteen miles west
of indianapolis on the Big Four rail-
road, and the county seat of Hendricks
County.
John, who was born in Iowa City, Ia,
in 1856, soon moved to the blue grass re-
gion of Kentucky.
At birth he weighed eleven pounds.
He grew so rapidly that at the age of
eleven months he had seven pounds OF
flesh to show for each month of his ex-
istence, weighing seventy-seven pounds.
From this time on his gaini in flesh was
phenomenal, and he was the talk OF tho
community.
= When he reached the age Of two years
his weight was 2O6 pounds. When he
was three years old, in 1858, 7. I. Bar
mum inaugurated baby show in New
York, and his parents. hearing OF this,
resolved to enter him in competition
with the other contestants. He was
awarded the prize offered for the largest
baby present, $1,000.
At the age of five years his weight
had increased until he weighed 3C2
pounds. His weight the next six years
kept on increasing until he registered
4O5 pounds.
The next eight years his weight in
creased 196 pounds, making his total
weight COL pounds. He made it 72'
pounds when he was twenty-five years
old.
During the next two years he only in
creased his weight to T5S pounds, bu
the next year he gained thirty-toul
The Republican., 1891-01-16
TRICYCLE. COACHES.

An idea of What These Quaint Convey
ances Look Like.
The coming introduction of tricycle.
coaches upon the streets of our city has
met with the hearty approval of long
suffering public, whose hopes are now
raised that the new conveyance will be
seme relief from the present slow-golng
street cars. Tho organization of the
new company will in all likelihood be
completed within day or two. A m"n'
The Republican., 1891-01-16
rINsyF.E W5-&reseI

ager for the new company has been a.
ready selected and every thing is pro
crossing in quiet, rapid and successful
manner toward the incorporation of the
Tricycle. Coach Company. The pro-
moters of the new enterprise have been
running a sample of tho new coaches for
several weeks with a view to testing its
adaptation to their requirements The
coaches which arc TO be used here, how
ever, will be twice the size of this one
carrying sixteen passengers while this
one carries but eight. - DetcoiS Free
PrnGE
The Republican., 1891-01-16

In 1s47 Admiral Cochrane, one of the
heroes of the English navy, obtained
from the government perpetual lease
of the pitch lake at Trinidad at nominal
figures, but as the value of the pitch was
then little known, Cochrane was so in
different to his bonanza as to allow it to
revert to tho government The lake is
now leased to firm for period of
twenty-one years at an annual rental OF
S4S, 600. Its area is about ninety acres,
and Humboldt believed that the supply
is inexhaustible. Had tho Importance
of its product been known, as it is now
in the manufacture of Trinidad asphalt
tum, Cochrane's family would be the
richest of the ranks of the Scotch no
bility.-Pittshurgh Times.
The Republican., 1891-01-16

Primus-Spangler has written play.
Secuhdus-Has it been produced?
Primus-Yes, last night.
Secundus-Full house?
Primus--Packed.
Secundus-Dil the audience call for
spangler after the curtain fell3
Primus-Yes, and demanded theii
money back.~Jury. -'
The Republican., 1891-01-16
An Advocate of Reciprocity.

George-If you don't care for him
why did you let him take your hand as
/ saw him do last night?
Mabel-Wcll, George, couldn't very
we'll help it-he had let inc take hia
arm SO often, you know.-Munsey'a
Weekly.
The Republican., 1891-01-16
Monthly.


Keepitt--I can make dollar go much
;arther than you can.
Spenditt - Don't believe it 1 can
make one go clear out of sight in about
aalf a minute. West Shore
The Republican., 1891-01-16

Proud Father Showing off his boy be-
fore company)-My son, which would
you rather be- Shakespeare or Edison?
Little Son latter meditation) - I'd
rather be Edison.
"Yes. Why?"
"'Cause he amt dead Good Newa.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-09

b. q b.
Remnant day tomorrow.
BoGGs & BUHL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-09
STARTED THE PLANT.
P. q. Laufman.& Co.'s New Tin Plate
Works at Apollo in Operation.
SCALE SIGNED AT YOUNGSTOWN.
A Rochester Bottle House Forced to Run
During the Shut Down.
MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIAL ITEMS

The additions to the tin-plate plant of p.
n. Laufman & Co, at Apollo, have been COM
pleted. The first black sheets were rolled
yesterday, and the Timing plant will be put
in operation by Saturday or Monday sure.
There are three pots each with capacity
of ], 400 sheets 2sxl00 in size. This means 200
boxes a day a0x2S or 400 boxes Ax20 This will
give the mill capacity of 1000 a year.
1t will be the largest mill in this country and
one of the largest in the world and yet it
would take so such plants to produce the
quantity of tin consumed annually in
America. So there is plenty Of room for the
many firms contemplating going into the
business.
P. H. Laufman & Co. have been making
six-inch plates for some time and their prod
uct has been placed on the market as
standard article. The architects of the
United States Government have indorsed
it and the Pennsylvania Railway Company
has placed its fourth order for plates.
A box of the home product was sent re-
Gently to the professor of chemistry at the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor who
made a careful test and pronounced it equal
in all respects to Gilbertson's old method,
which is about the highest priced tin i'm
ported. This tin is sold at $22 So while the
home product is quoted at $E.
P. II. Laufman & Co. contemplate chang
ing their mill again, later on, so that the ca
nan naS safd M gesterday ye aD'e0 "ws f intend aen
to conf1ne our trade entirely to
terne or roofing sheets. We cannot fill
half the orders we are receiving Other
manufacturers are also making the bright
plate. and inside of six months there will be
several additional plants on the market.
The magnitude of the business is over
whelming to the ordinary minds, or rather
the contrary, as our people do not consider
what benefits would accrue from all depart
ments of trade, but 1t is coming"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-09
SCRAPS AND SCREENINGS.

ST. FRANCIS CHURCH at Homestead will be
dedicated next Sunday at l o'clock. A spe-
cial train will be run from Union depot at 8
o'clock. Rev. Father Duffner, pastor of the
church, will have charge of the ceremonies.
WORK has been commenced on the new
Sixth street bridge. The middle pier is also
begun and already a large excavation has
been made in the bottom of the river for the
crib work and rip-rap.
Four P1ttsburgers are on the Servia which
is now being towed back to port on account
of a broken crank pin. They are Sidney
Cooper, William Dickson, William Purcell
and B. n. Jacobs.
Ara meeting>of the Board of Managers of
the Church Home held yesterday the re-
ceipts of the fair held June % were found to
be about S, 400, with expenses amounting to
$500
MICHAEL MURPHY was committed to jail
Yesterday by Alderman McKenna on a.
charge of surety of the peace preferred
against him by his wife Mary.
THE Governor yesterday granted respite
to Alexander Killen until November 5. in
order that the Pardon Board NAV more
fully consider his case.
MRS. GEORGE SEXTON, who was severely
burned on the night of Fourth OF july. is
said to be in critical condition Her re-
covery is doubtful.
COLONEL FELIX McKNIGHT has called a
meeting of Company C, Hibernian Rifles.
Board of Erin, for Saturday evening at I
O'Clock.
THE Pittsburg freight agents will meet to-
day. Nothing of importance to shippers
will be considered.
Two additional rooms are to be erected ad-
joining the Reynoldtown schoolhouse
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-09
LITTLE JAGs OF JUSTICE.

OPFTCER CREHAN last evening arrested John
Brinesky for assaulting Mary Crinesky.
WoLFGANG STERN was put under $500 bail
on a common charge made by Michael
Frank. They live out Penn avenue.
ANTON WAssELL claims John Cyfrick gave
him a severe humping. 1t is assault and
battery. They live in the Tenth ward.
SQUIRE BRYAN, of McKee's Rocks, yester-
day committed Thomas White to jail for
court on a charge of assault and surety of
the peace.
THOMAS MCCARTHY charges Joseph Kelly
with striking him on the head with a bat
during a baseball game. Alderman Burns
will hear the case.
THOMAS MENTzER, of Allegheny, was held
for trial at court by Alderman McKenna yes
ter6ay on a charge of desertion preferred
against him by his wife.
MICHAEL KEARNs was committed to Jail by
Alderman McKenna yesterday to await a
hearing on charge of surety of the peace
preferred against him by Mary Burke.
JOHN oRszULAK, stanislaus Haroboulga
and Joseph Schmergel were sent to Jail
yesterday by Alderman Succop to await a
hearing to-day on a serious charge pre-
ferred by Mrs Marianna Haszke.
MRS. MARY FOLEY lives on the hillside in
the Fourteenth ward. Yesterday her hus-
band, Patrick came home drunk, and she
knife. A warrant was issued for his arrest.
RoBERT CARSON was arrested in Allegheny
last evening on complaint of his father, who
alleged the son had taken his horse and
buggy out for ride and had broken the
vehicle. The father made a charge of mali
cious mischief against the son.
JAMES MoCoRD, of Thirteenth street, aged
II years, was sent to Jail by Alderman Nc
Kenna yesterday for court on a charge of
felonious assault and battery. He is accused
of stabbing the l2-year-old son of Patrick
McNamee in the leg with large pocket
knife.
HENRY KoHLER, aged II years, of Mulberry
alley, was arrested last evening by order of
Inspector McAleese for the robbery of the
auction store Of c. Fl. Weinhaus, on Smith
field street. He was identified by the two
little Italian boys who assisted him in the
robbery.
ROBERT CoNLEY, On n-year-old boy, was
locked up in the Eleventh ward station on
suspicion of having stolen a poclzetbook
containing 81 40 and gold ring. The boy
was helping a Mrs. Brady to move her house
hold goods, and is alleged to have taken the
ring and pawned it, and to have put the 81 40
away for q rainy day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-09
1T MAY BE WIPED OUT.

Brushton Threatens to Scoop in Another
Section Of fSterrett tTownship-Why Build
ing Moves Toward the East-Loss of En-
ergy Down the River.
Brushton borough people held meeting
on Monday evening and decided to make an
effort to annex to the borough what was
once Second precinct of sterrett township
in order to get an outlet to the city. The
movement is an amicable one, and there
will be no fight with Williamsburg
This move suggests the thought that if JUS
tice Sterritt's name is to be perpetuated in
the name of q township, as so many of our
Judiciary are, new one must be carved out.
Three boroughs have been carved out of
Sterr1tt township, leaving only small cor
remainder will be absorbed by some
Of these boroughs ere long, as they
are ambitious and are constantly looking
about for chance to enlarge their bound
aries. The boroughs carved out of Sterrett
township are Brushton, Williamsburg and
Edgewood. Brushton people propose to have
CITY conVen1ences along with suburban COM
fort and have fire extinguishing apparatus,
water mains and electric light and expect
within few weeks to come to the city on an
electric railway.
The course of these East End settlements
is in strong contrast with the supineness in
the west and northwest suburbs. There is
some steady improvement in some of the
smaller villages on the Ft. Wayne Railway,
which to live, and to some people the rail-
way gives all the travelling facilities needed,
but Sewfckley people seem to be averse toany
further enlargement unless they can choose
the people who are to come, and this may
be all right but there are other down-river
places that want population and haven't
sand necessary to stimulate its movement
in their direction. Both of the Bellevue
boroughs want electric railways but they
have so far expended their energies in talk
and on the south side of the river those who
could accomplish something lie on the
bank of the pool like the cripple
awaiting some one to shove him in
that he might be cured. They most
either get the steam railway companies to
run half-hourly trains or lag in the rear Of
progress and remain practically as faraway
from the city as Beaver Falls and New
Brighton and without possessing within
themselves the means to induce people to
settle. They are much likel most Allegheny
farmers-so near and yet SO far. These farm
ers are near enough to the city to make
their land investment too high and taxes the
same to compete with farmers on Western
lands that cost one-tenth or one-twentieth
as much, with no substantial difference in
freight rates, and yet the majority haven't
energy sufficient to adapt themselves to
changed conditions, but keep on tilling the
soil, as their fathers and grandfathers did
before them, raising grain crops that do not
allow profit of per cent. on the invest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-09
LIGHTING NOT SATISFACTORY.

Allegheny's Subcommittee on Public
Lighting Postpones Action for Addi-
tional Yard Arms, Pending Report
From a subcommittee as to the Rela-
tive Merits of Gas and Electricity.
The subcommittee on lighting, of Allie
gheny, met last night. The first matter pre-
sented for discussion was a resolution as to
whether gas was not more economical than
electricity, and whether the same re-
suit could not be attained with gas
as at present, with an equal expendi-
ture of money: The committee seemed to be
at sea as to what to do with the resolution.
superintendent of Lighting Hunter was
called upon to express his opinion of the
merits of each system. He said that the
present system was far from perfect, that
there were undoubtedly dark spots in
the system, and that while it was a
fact that electric lighting cost more than
gas, there was no comparison in the result
They had the plant and might as well con-
tinue using it. A motion was made refer
ring the resolution to Mr.. Hunter for a re-
port thereupon, but City Clerk White inter-
posed with q remark as to its illegality.
Messrs. Rudolph, Boutwell,, Paulin, Al
brecht and Winters, was appointed to ex
anime into and report the difference of cost
of the two systems.
A letter from Librarian James W. Benney
of the Schools Library, came up next in the
form of a resolution. 1t asked that the city
Woulu luo Win 0leCLT1C ll2QC,
the wiring etc, being done by the Board of
Control. 1t was recommended affirmatlvely
to the general committee, Superintendent
Hunter remarking that the power could be
spared.
Following ensued discussion as to the erec-
tion of more mast arms. Chief Ehlers said
that the amount of money at their disposal
would just cover running expenses, and he
doubted if there was money to meet the cost
of new work. Mr.. Rudolph said that if he
didn't get more yard arms in his ward he
would put in resolution for gas. A
motion was made to refer the matter
to the Superintendent, but on Mr.
Boutwell, desiring to know what the Super
intendent could do in the matter it was
abandoned. The superintendent said that
he said the Chief could easily determine
where additional light should go. 1t was
suggested to refer the matter of additional
lighting to the Superintendent for report
but Mr.. White pointed out that sub-com-
mittee they could not refer the matter to
him. Finally the question was laid over, as
well as the Consideration of a pile of peti-
tions which came up next.