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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-27

FAST ROANOKE STEAM DYE
AZ Works.-All kinds of clothing
dyed, cleaned and repaired. Gentle
mems garments, dresses, shawls, rib
bons, sashes, neckties, kid gloves and
feathers cleaned and dyed in the best
possible manner and for the least money.
Black silk dyeing a speciality. LEON
THIERY, Proprietor, l3 Second street
II. O.. Remember location, foot of Ran
dolph street bridge. nov15-tf
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HOUSE AND STABLE FOR RENT
Lion Church street, No. 412. Address
N. NJ. GORE, Cave Spring, Va.
noy24-1w
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ron RENT.

GEE HARTSOOK & ADDISON.
~ Renters, los Jefferson street. ..
room house. Eighth avenue 8. W., with
all oonveniences, $40; s-room house,
Sl1 Campbell street, S35; Groom house,
Salem avenue, with all conyeniences, $40;
Broom house, Can.pbell street, adioin-
ing j. M. Gambill's, S45. nov14-3mos.
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HAY, GRAIN, SC.
DANIEL II IIOLLADAY, ii Kirk, rear p. o.
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HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTERS
W. II. LEONARD u CO., $40 Second street, O
Commerce street.
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CITY DIRECTORY.
OF the Principal Business
Houses of Roanoke.

The following is published daily for
the benefit of strangers and tho public
generally. 1t includes all trades and
professions and cannot fail to prove of
interest to all who intend transacting
business in Roanoke.
ARCHITECTS.
BROTHERS DE SAUSSURE " WATERS,
- Leary Building, Jefferson street.
MM. q. holland, Over Commercial Bank.
WM. l.. REID. Masonic Temple
WILSON IL HIGGINS, 19H Third avenue.
BANKS.
FIRST NATIONAL, Salem ave. Il Henry ct.
BOOKSELLERS AND sTATIoNERs.
THOMPSON u CO., 80 Campbell street.
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, ETC.
]. BACnRACI, 81 Salem ave.
j. w. WONDERS u CO., los Commerce street.
BRICK AND TILE WORKS.
WEST END, on, los Jcr. at.
BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS.
+. j. AMWEG, Commercial Bank building.
FRANK Il. MAY, los Jefferson st., p o. Box 9.
BUSINESS COLLEGE.
NAT. BUS. COLLEGE, 3rd ave. 81 Henry ct.
CANDY, nIAN'FR, FANCY CAKE BAKER
81 ICE CREAM FURNISHER.
CAToGNI'S, so Salem ave.
CIVIL ENGINEERS.
OSCAR SAABYE (Mem. Am. Soc. c. E.), 10S
Jcrcrsonst.
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COAL. WOOD. LIME AND CEMENT.
J. G. F. BELL " CO., 219 Salem ave. g. W.; tel TO-
NOTTINGHAM ~ HALLET Sawed stove and
kindling woody, Commerce street.
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RUSSIAN SuPERSTlTlONs.
Hew Smallpox 10 n PropA gated Amsnl
tho Poor and Ignorant People.

SHew smallpox t. PropAgated Among
tho Poor and Ignorant People.
A few months ago smallpox broke.
put in the Poodozhskiy and Povi-'
enetskiy districts Of the government Of
sOlonetzk, on the coast OF Lake Ladoga.
Since then the plague has spread
throughout the region, and is still UNI
abated. In the villages and towns
where the scourge has appeared ten
per cent. Of all the children up to the
age Of twelve years have died, mostly
such as had not been vaccinated. A
large percentage Of adults has also
died. The medical and the admins
trative authorities are doing all ia their
power to resist the evil, but the pref
udices of the common people ara
against them. Those prejudices are
very curious. The people Of Olonetzk1
regard smallpox (Ospa) as q divinity to
be propitiated and not angered. They
call it sOspa Ivanovna," or 'Matooshka
Clittle mother) Ospa" -appellations
which imply profound respect. Since
vaccination is means to oppose it,
they believe that it would be a sin to be-
vaccinated, and try to avoid the oper-
alton by all possible means. AS soon
as person gets stricken with the dis
ease all the children of the village are
dressed as nicely as their parents can
afford and taken to his house to pay
their respect to Ospa Ivanovna. They
take cakes and fruit to the house Of the
invalid, which they deposit on d table
placed by his bedside for the purpose.
Then they kiss the sick person on the
mouth and sit down around him for
some time talking and partaling Of the
food they had brought with them, or Of
the other victuals which the host pro-
vides Sometimes children are brought
from distance of twenty versts (seven
versts are five miles) to salute Little
Mother Ospa in this wise. As long as
there is smallpox in the house the
rooms must not be cleaned and the in
mates may not wash themselves or
change their garments. No rough ex-
preston or curse may be pronounced
in house where there is smallpox
patient. If such an expression escapes
involuntarily from the lips, the
offender must forthwith kiss the invalid
by way of propitiating Ospa Ivanovna.
No medicine is given to the patient, but
he must be bathed in hot water twelve
times during his illness. The presents
which the children bring must be left
on the table by his bedside for visitors
to partake of. These superstitions are
deeply rooted among the peasants of
the entire region, and serve to propa-
gate the disease despite all efforts made
by the more cultivated.
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"A Sheet OF Plate Glass.

a great sheet Of plate glass that fell
and went to finders in Brooklyn the
other day had queer history. It was
about twelve feet square, and was worth
twelve hundred dollars. 1t could have
been made in this country, but II could
not have, been carried to Brooklyn be-
cause Of the tunnels it would have to
pass through. r was too big to travel
on the canals Soft was made il the
south Of France. It met with trouble
III It's trip across the Brooklyn bridge
and had to be canted to one side to pass
under the passenger platform. After
all that, just as it re ached it's destinar
ton, IL was smashed ss s..s S8i5
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PoiNTs ON THE TELEPHONE.
Tbs Girls at the Central once Talk Int1


5sss5E3 It Properly. s
Telephone users might acquire much
useful information if they would Ii
\ some leisure half hour visit the head
quarters OF the company in Cortland,
street, q standing invitation being open
to them to do SO, says the New York
Times. The manner in which the girls
talk into the instrument would certain
II be revelation to the average sub
scriber. The transmitters are suspend
ed from the ceiling by two wires, and
each is SO adjusted that it hangs on a
level with the mouth of the young
! woman who is seated at the table It
is natural to suppose that in q room
where at least one hundred and fifty
young women are talking over tele-
phones the clatter would make ordinary
conversation impossible. But such is
not the case. The buzz of conversation
is not SO loud by any means as that in
an ordinary Sunday school room.
There is a certain amount of affection
In the gentle way in which a girl
handles a transmitter Holding it
lightly in the fingers of one hand, the
elbow Of the arm resting on the table
in front Of her, the young woman brings
1T close to her lips, in many instances
permitting it to touch them lightly, and
speaks into it with subdued and gen.
tie voice as cooingly musical as ever
tickled the eager ear of ardent wooer
When the user remembers that, no
matter what difficulty he may expert
ence in understanding others on the
wire, he can always hear what "Miss
Central has to say, this explanation Of
how the latter talks should be useful
not only to himself but to his tele-
phonic correspondents.
X. Furthermore, users of the instrument
should know that the vicious ring of
the impatient subscriber has no terror
in it for the girl, for there are no bells
corresponding to those on the telephone
in her vicinity. He may therefore bet
ter possess his soul in patience, as the
clatter of his bell deafens only those in
his own office. The first half turn of
the crank on the box causes 81 small
disk to drop forward on the table of
the operator, exposing the number OF
the calling subscriber. 1t makes no
more noise in dropping than the tick Of
a clock, so that whatever Impotence
the subscriber may indulge in is alb
sorbed in the wooden box in front OF
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A Sad Infliction.

4. 1T is a terrible thing to be ugly,
says George Dawson, the English
lecturer. It is a hateful truth, but
none the less truth, that ''unpre-
sentable'' people men and women with
repulsive ply economies have giants to
contend with at their entrance upon
life. If this be true OF all ugliness
how must it be with the superlative de-
gree of that quality AN ugliness com
pared with which mere plainness or
funcomelines is beautiful. It is said
SUgo Fosco1i, the brilliant Italian poet
and prose writer, was so ugly, not
understanding his dandyish pretensions,
that q Jest upon it as q griInly patent
fact became almost permissib BILE. Once
an acquaintance of his, who affected
not to recognize him at first On enter
ing arestaurant, apologized ~ saying
that he had taken him for al orang.
nYIkam1rS s6ss
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WOLVES IN MAINE.
After a Long Absence They Again APP
pear In the State. e|

After Long Absence They Again Ap.
pear in the State.
About year ago considerable excite
ment was occasioned in Maine by the
discovery that wolves had returned to
the state after an absence of fully half
a century, probably more. They were
first seen around the lumber camps in
extreme northern Maine, says a Ban
gor correspondent Of the Boston Globe.
They have recently commenced appear.
ing very numerously in Washington
county, the southeastern portion Of the
state, near the coast, and not many
miles from this city. They are the old
fashioned gray wolves, gaunt and large,
and the farmers view their encroach.
ment with the greatest alarm, knowing
that their live stock must pay the usual
penalty to the newcomers.
Big lake seems to be the headquarters
for several packs of the wolves. Lum.
bermen there have often seen the ami.
mails and plenty Of their tracks, while
the Passamaquoddy Indians, who hunt
them through that section, corroborate
the stories Of the loggers. Joe Nell
and Lewis Francis saw two recently
Peter Newell saw four, while Teman
Joseph and Wallace Leary sighted three
at the Narrows, just above Princeton.
There is no section of the state so rich
in deer as this Identical one where the
wolves have taken possession, and
should the latter animals range freely
through it the deer will be driven out.
Already it is said that number of car
casses of deer have been found where
the wolves had killed and left them.
The Indians realize more than any
body else the amount Of devastation
which the wolves are able in this man
ner to cause, and they are about to start
with a large party to cover the entire
county and scatter the newcomers if
possible.
Il. In the early days in Maine the wolves
were perfect terror to the settlers,
women and children did not dare to
venture outside the log house without a
strong escort, while the pioneers were
obliged to watch their cattle and horses
to save them from the sneaking gray
pests. In later years none have been
seen within the borders of the state and
it was the general impression that the
genuine gray wolf could not be found
south Of Labrador. That this impress
sion is erroneous is shown by recent
developments. d
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salad Grown u at Table.

4 A novel experiment has been devised
for the enter ainment OF dinner guests,
the serving OF salad grown under the
eyes of the guests who partalxe Ct it.
The secret of ming this magic
feat lies ia soaking good germina
lettuce seed il alcohol for about Dir
hours, and s. 81 an equal mix
IItture off unslacked IS ne and rich soil.
After the soup hos beer, served sprinlkl g
the seeds with lulxe water md
they yills the let
thee wing about the size ofI hazel
ttiir,e y.iina he
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INVESTIGATION

Will show in every case why the road
named below is popular among the
travelling public. 1t is operated through
Central Iowa, Central and Southern
Minnesota, extends from st. Paul and
Minneapolis to Watertown, S. d., and
forms a direct line from Mankato to
Red Wing. Mimi, on all OF which lines
are located the many prosperous cities
of Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota.
It's through train service couples the
Twin Cities of the Northwest with
Chicago, Peoria, st. Louis, Kansas
City, Denver, Pueblo, Colorado
Springs, Council Bluffs, Des Moines.
Cedar Rapids, &c., &C..
Pullman Buffet Sleepers Free Chair
Cars, light and CHEEKY Day Coaches,
L -L-I
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GRASS IN THE NILE.
Very Difficult to Pass Through, But II
. Has It's Good Uses.

Very Difficult to Pass Through, But 1t
Has It's Good Uses.
The grass barriers through which DR..
Junker passed measured from one hun
dred feet to a mile and a quarter in
width, and frequently delayed him for
hours on stretches that he might other
wise have put behind him in few min
utes, writes correspondent Of Gold
thwaite's Geographical Magazine. DR..
iJunker directs attention to the fact,
however, that even grass barriers are
not an unmixed evil, since at high water
their thickly matted substance serves
the purpose of filter in clarifying the
stream. So it happens that the White
Nile is 1.-THE clear" while the Blue Nile,
in which the conditions are unfavorable
to the formation of grass barriers, is
t'the dirty"
The grass is swept into the stream at
high water from the swamps and stag
nant ponds along the banks This grass
grows together in great masses which
once foated into the stream, become
welded by nets of innumerable roots
and smaller water plants till a barrier
forms across the channel The force of
the current increases the compactness
of the barrier thus formed and brings it
new material from above. The barriers
differ greatly as to compactness;
through some the Ismalia cut her way
slowly, merely with her Prov. Others
were tramped down, cut and loosened
before her by natives, Others, like
felt" as DR.. Junker says, were firm
against such simple devices. Wire cables
were made fast to each Of these massive
barriers near it's edge, and at the same
time to the Prov Of the Isnalia. The
steamship then backed water with all
her power and thus tore loose and set
adrift down stream great chunks Of the
barrier. To thus clear a river of a large
barrier is huge undertaking. Ernst
Marno, for instance, with four steam
ships and several hundred men, was
busy from Septem Der, 1879, till April,
1880, clearing his way in the Bahrel
Gebel. The piercing of a barrier by a
steamship bound down stream is FREE
quently exceedingly perilous, as the
loosened masses OF matted grass. in
stead Of floating off behind the boat, are
often driven back against her stern till
she becomes as firmly Undecided in the
grass as she would be in an ice field.
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CT al. w aIGu ZOE az
nouncement Of open
ing of the Sisseton
Reservations South
Dakota, by the Gov
erDment. Land
Office located a t
Watertown, S. D:
Ask any Railroad
Agent for informa.
zion and maps, which
will be cheerfully fur
nished, or address
G. M. PRATT, Gen,
Ticket and Pass. Agt.
Minneapolis, MINI.
w. 81. TRU.ESDALE E.
Receiver.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
NATIONAL OFFICERS.

!
MF WILHERE, D, philadelphia, Pa.
NJ SI.ATTERy, N 8, Albany, N Y.
THOs DUNDON, n r, Columbus, Ohio.
National Direetors-P. J.. O'Connor, chairman,
Savannah, Ca; John W. McGreeyy. Thos. j.
O'Brien. Cornelius HoTrigan. John =. Tyrren
Gss STATE OFFICERS-MINNESO
STATE nELnaATE-John Mccarthy. of Still
water.
STATE sEoRETARY-Geo. NJ Giltinan, of st.
Paul.
STATE TREASURER John sheehy, of Mont
STATE BOARD OF D1REcrens- William De
laney, st. Paul: D. +. McDermott. Clontarf
John Flood, Duluth; j. T. Rowan, Winona, w
j. Murphy, st. Cloud.
President of Insurance Fund, y. Mcdonnell
of Graceville.
Yice-President, NJ. w. Mogan, of Minneapolis.
insurance. Secretary. John A. O'Shaughnessy,
of saltwater.
Treasurer of Insurance Fund, John sheehy, OF
Montgomery.
Directors of Insurance Fund. D. F. McDer-
mott, Clontarf; P. J. Ryan. st. Cloud; John T.
Byrnes, Minneapolis; Geo. w. Murphy, Fari-
bault; ). J. Kennedy, st. Paul.
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HINoKLEY. PINE COUNTY,.

County Delegate, William Hurley
President, DR. f Collins; president,
Michael Lynch; cor sec. John Hogan; fin sec,
VIM = Nixon treasurer. Rev. w. D. Lynch;
ms sec, Michael Wall; sergeant arms, Dennis
Brennan; doorkeeper, Patrick Hogan: marshal
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MORTON. RENy1LIE COUNTY

County Delegate-T M Keefe Morton.
Division, No. 1.--President. ] Fl Ryan. Morton;
vice-president, j d Kennedy, Morton; cor ssc'y.
III Keefe, Morton; fin sec. A Fl Keefe, Nor
ton; treasurer, p II Kirwin, Beaver Falls; meet
I'd Sunday OF each month at m. e-~S
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County Delegate, Patrick Murphy. -T.-
President. VIM Barron; ce-president, Jas
Cullen; rec sec. Ed Lynch: fin and ms sec, J
3 hurley; treasurer, Con O Brien; marshal, d
NJ Clark: ser-at -arms, T T Willis; doorkeeper,
Mccarthy; meet list Wednesday eve at 7:sO and
Sd Sunday at p m, of each month. at Miller's
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President, DR. % + Collins; vice president
Michael Lynch; cor sec. John Hogan; fin sec
VIM 3 Nixon; treasurer. Rev. w. D. Lynch:
ms sec, Michael Wall; sergeant at-arms, Dennis
Michael Connors
wAsEOA, wAsECA COUNTY.
County Delegate. John Moonan.
Division No. 1.-President, l. Leonard
Loone; fin sec. Thos N 'aughlin; Measurer
Thos Boucher; ms sec, T. reen. Meets first
Sunday and third Thursday month.
HPEsTONE COUNTY.
County Delegate Karvick.
Division No. President. A Minnehan
yice-pres, jas aennessy; rec sec, Thos Eean
I'm sec. ID II OHalloran; treasurer, Patrlck
Egan; ins-sec. r P Keryiok: ser-at.arms. 2
ings, I'd and 9TH Sundays of month. Address
Pipestone City.
~ IA, MCLEOD COUNTY.
County Delegate. Patrick McEligott. Glencoe.
leck; vice--president. William O Donnell;. rec
sec, Patrick illigott; fin sec. John Waldron;
! tire asurer. James Waldron; meetings End and
4th Sundays OF month.
FILLMORE COUNTY.
County Delegate-M Kirwan
Division No. /, Preston President, James
Maloney; vice president, John Ma gan; rec
sec, James Mulvihill; fin sec, Michael Flynn;
Maloney 3.5
STEELE COUNTY.
County Delegate, John Shea.
Division No. /, Owatonna--President, J
O. Brien: vice president, G A LonerRan; rec
sec, J E Malone; fin see, ] G Burke; treasurer.
T Durham. $s ,lsl
NORWOOD, CARVER COUNTY.
County Delegate-E F. Burns.
Div. No. President, e J Mccormack: vice
president J W Craven; rec sec, j z Powers; fin
sec, = F Nugent; treasurer, ] N Finnegan; ine
sec. J M Nugent. 81
WATONWAN COUNTY.
Counry Delegate Edward Noonan.
Division No. 1, Madelia, Minn.-President
sec, Owen Mccoy; FIN sec, Jn0 Delaney; lne
sec, NJ DALEY; treasurer. Hugh Farmer, ser
at-arms. Jno Bohan: doorkeeper, M Fitzpatrick
marshal, p Mclaughlin. 4$s6 Y
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County Delegate, james Hughes.
President. p Fitzpatrick; vice-president, Johr
Sherman; recording secretary, G A Fitzgerald
f l1s secretary, Rowan, jr; treasurer,
ings, LIST Tuesday evening and Sd Sunday after
noon Of each month
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vice president. D. j. Whalan recording secre-
Henry; treasurer, Thomas Coushlan; insurance trance
secretary, James Dougherty; marshal, T.. II.
Grady; meet LIST Sunday and third Monday of
month.
Div. No. O. Madison Lake-President 7 B
MurtauRh; vice president, Robert Madigan; rec
sec, John Farrell; fin sec, P Madiean; treas
urer, Jas Sullivan; ms sec, T B Murtaugh
John McNamara; marshal, Robert Madigan;
meet End and 18th Sundays of month at 8 m.
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County DB1e2at9-W. i. T8n6y. : ~ =
Div No. 1, Green Isle President. Daniel
Myers; Nce-president, Nj. McMahon; recor,line
secretary. John McGrann; financial secretary
John Fahey. Jr.; treasurer. Thos. Morrin; insur.
ance secretary. Thomas Dolan. Meeting Isl
Sunday In each month.
Div. No.2, Henderson-Pr President. James Nc
Mullen; vice president, Patrick Tiernay; re.
cording secretary. O'Donnell; financial sec
Rotary, M O'Donnell; treasurer, John Lester
insurance secretary. John Lester; meets frs.
SATURDAY. evening Of each month -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-04-18

OMELET.-Divide six eggs. Beat the
yolks and to them add six tablespoonful
of milk, saltspoonfull of salt and dash
of pepper. Beat the whites until stiff,
then stir lightly into the mixture. Put
tablespoonful of butter into pan and
when it begins to bubble throw in the
omelet. Fry golden brown, then fold
over carefully. !:
GERMAN PuFFs.-Beat we'll three eggs,
add one pint of milk, one pint of -four
and saltspoonfull Of SALT Bake in gem
pans in hot oven.' Serve hot with the
following sauce: Beat to a cream one
cuptul of sugar and half cup Of butter.
Add four tablespoonful of sweet cream.
Set on the stove in vessel of boiling
water. Just before bringing to the table
add the favoring. *5S - - :~'~ "
CHICKEN ToAsr.-If you have some
boiled over, pick it off the bones, leaving
out the skin; chop fine and warm in a
little chicken gravy. While it is warm
ing have the pancake griddle hot and
toast dozen slices of bread, if your fam
lily is large enough to eat as much.
Spread with butter and prepare half O!
them with spoonful of chicken on each
slice; serve Immediately, and then, if
you have chicken enough, prepare the
rest. -; .@..,- T.. :: : J.
American cream is delightful pud.
ding for children and invalids, in fact for
any person. One quart of milk, four
eggs, three-fourths of box of gelatine,
six tablespoonful of granulated sugar,
six tablespoonsfnl of powdered sugar
and VANILLA. Dissolve the gelatine in
the milk as it heats, stirring WE'LL When
the milk boils stir in the we'll beaten
yolks in which the granulated sugar has
been mixed. The powdered sugar is to
be beaten in with the whites, which are
now added to the other ingredients.
Pour into cups and put away to harden.
Eat with sweetened cream favored with
vanilla. This quantity makes fourteen
or fifteen cupsful.