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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
Harris Theater.

The new military drama, ION the Frontier"
will be this weeks attraction at Harris Thea
ter. 1t will be presented by James W. Hardie
and Sara Won Leer, supported By thoroughly
good company. The play is full of exciting
scenes. clean comedy, sparkling specialties and
songs and dances A genuine Indian brass
band is also used In the production.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
Opium and Chinese Food.

1t is astonishing how quickly the palate
of the American opium-eater becomes ad-
dlcted to the Chinese food. One seems to
create craving for the other. There YOU
will find them, tattered and bleary and
pale; drowsy, heavy-lidded, shoveling
away with the ehop-sticks, which they soon
learn to use with as much expertness as the
Cinnamon themselves
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

LACE curtains and portieres; excellent
bargains now in this department. The por-
there's at So and Sc so. and lace curtains at
50 30, s. 75 and IS per pair are special
values. HUGUS & HACKE.
TTSSu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
Stage Whispers,

JOE EMMET is among the approaching attrac-
tions
NEXT season John L Sullivan is to appear as
the hero of a war drama-'6l to '65
q. s. TAYLOR and Harry Williams are to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
Special Clearance Sale

OF scarlet and white country blankets,
country white and barred fannels, comforts,
table damasks, doylies, napkins and sheet
ings before annual stock-taking, at H. J..
Lynch's, 43s-44o Market street. wFsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

MORE Pilsner beer is sold each year by
the Iron City Brewing Company. Order by
mail or telephone 11S6. MwFsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

BY calling "Hello, 1885," you can order
the finest ales and beers tor your family's
use. IRON CITY BREWING Co.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

READ Groetzinger's advertisement. Sp
cial sale of tapestry brussels carpets.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

RACK ale is preferred by many. Try
Iron City Brewery's make. At best bars.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
Margaret aIather

Bilou Theater. Margaret Nather
Duque Crystal Slipper
Grand Opera House. Hands Across the Sea
Williams Academy ............ Weber & Fields Co
Harry Davis Museum ............ Curiosities. etc
Worlds Museum. CuriOsities, etc
Harris Theater Hardie and Won Leer
The above are the theatrical attractions Tor
this week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-09
SHORT SPECIALS.

THE sanitary board of Vienna (Aus-
tria) has declared against the establish
ment OF asylums for inebriates, and i'll
favor of all drunkards being, as public
dangers, sentenced to periods of hard
la Dor.
The employer who discriminates
against employees who drink is benefit
ing himself, benefting his men and
benefting the world, for he is aiding in
the growth of a public opinion which will
eventually solve one-half the rum prob
m.-Toledo Blade.
IT is estimated that saloon-keeper
can live and even get rich If he has
twenty regular customers" OF course
the list has to be recruited often, as
when the old customer gets to be bum
his patronage is no longer profitable. 1t
is then that the boys of the family are
gathered in.--Inter Ocean.
THE Order of Rechabites, IA large
| Temperance society in England, rejoices
in the returns given at its late annual
conference, showing an increase of 10,-
$40 members during the year 1890. This
is all the more encouraging, as it is a
benefit club as well as a total abstinence
society.
WE figure that if all the dollars spent
for liquor in this country during the
last thirty years were piled on top of
each other there would be solid silver
wall one mile high and over one mile
long or enough to pave standard
gauge single track railroad from Chi.
cage to st. Paul, four hundred and ten
miles. The Lever
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-09

made in Fiemish-land; but, as will pres
emily be seen, the scoffers are wrong
The province of Limburg, however,
now divided between Germany and Bel
GUM which was so long one OF the
principal seats of this manufacture, has
always been q frontier State, and had
always been up to 1914 subject to the
counts and other rulers of Flanders.
The ware is in truth essentially Ger
man in its history, and i'll the character
istics of it's diversified forms and artis-
tic embellishments. The precise date
and place of its origin remain unknown.
A northumberland fragment of the
brown ware bears the date of 1889; but
examples of a rude, unglazed, white
ware. and of coarse, earthen body of
dark gray, smearcd with lead glaze,
have been found in excavations, and
may be supposed to have been the pro-
auctions of very remote period. But
evidently, by the middle of the sixteenth
century the art had attained to some
thing like perfection. For two centur-
les Germany retained the monopoly, and
kept Europe supplied with drinking YES
sells adapted very much to the tastes, to
the measures and to the usagesof differ
ent lands. 1t was toward the end OF the
eighteenth century when a successful
attempt was made by one Dwight, of
Fulham, to produce the like articles in
England. This was, however, period
of remarkable activity among En-
glish potters. The picturesque, though
rude, puzzle-jugs and tygs had been the
| product of much ingenuity: but they
were disappearing before the beautiful
salt-glaze ware, much of which has new
er been excelled in perfection Of form
and sharpness of ornament, and which
had attained to the highest degree of
artistic quality before the advent OF
Josiah Wedgwood.
The stoneware, however, properly SO
called. was probably produced in num-
berless localities all over Germany and
the Cow countries, where suitable clay
and natural aptitude existed. But there
are few districts to which peculiar in
terest attaches; these were seats OF
characteristic and often remarkable
original styles. Among the most notable
places was Siegburg, situated not fal
from Bonn. on tributary of the Rhine
There were produced the tall, cylindri
cal cannettes in what was long known
as Cologne ware, and other articles of ;
like kind in white body, often un
glazed, but richly embossed with elab
crate figures and ornaments in relief
Siegburg suffered severely during thu
seventeenth ccntuSy wars, and the pot
tiers, despairing of carrying on their in
dustry in peaceful security, emigrate'
to other lands, All attempts to induc
them to return were unsuccessful; bu
some fifty years ago an enterprising pot
ter undertook to revive the business
With the aid of old mo(ds, gathere
from different directions, and following
closely the old traditions, he began tn
production of ware OF the old type
These pieces found a ready sale, bein
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-09
FOUGHT IN EARNEST.
A Marshal Who was bound to Take His
Man.

A Marshal Who was bound to Take His
Man.
Thirty years ago he was a deputy
marshal in Nevada, saws the Anaconda
Standard of local celebrity. He started
out one day to arrest gambler who
had killed man over Il game of cards.
The gambler knew that the marshal
was seeking him, but with cool cffront-
cry, walked about the streets all day.
John-that is the deputy marshal
heard that the man he wanted was in a
well-known bar-room. lie set out for
the place, and carelesSly walked boldly
into the room. He had not crossed the
threshold when he found himself look
ing into the barrel of a six-shooter.
Come, Hardy" he said, cody, this
won't do. I've come to got you, and
want you"
"See here, John" said the gambler.
81 don't want to kill you, but l won't
let any man arrest me. Go away and let
me alone"
"No, want you," said the marshal,
quietly. PUT down the six-shooter and
come with me-"
TN see you shot first" said Hardy
81 can't help that" said the other. 81
must have you. Now, you have the
drop on me, but you must come with me
or kill me in cold blood"
81 don't wantto kill you" said Hardy.
Then put down your gun"
John, l won't be arrested. Don't
touch me. l don't want to shoot a man
without cause"
i've got to do it, Hardy"
"See here" said the gambler, turning
white, ''if you move foot I'll kill you.
But | hate to be coward. That was
fair and square last night We both
pulled together"
The marshal shook his head.
'I'll do one thing, John" Hardy went
on. IN back up to that wall. You'll
back up to the other, I'll draw my re-
volver to my hip and you can draw
yours. Then it's the best man"
The marshal moved backward to the
wall, and Hardy did the same. Then
| the marshal drew his revolver and held
it at his side. muzzle down. All this
time Hardy had kept his weapon lev
eled at the marshal. Slowly his srm
sunk until the weapon touched the sean
| of his trousers.
Both men were perfectly calm and i'm
movable, the marshal determined-look
ing, the gambler still pale.
"Now, john said Hardy. Instantly
both weapons went up. 1t was all over
so quickly that both men went to the
floor together, But Hardy had fired to-
soon. His ball went at an upward an
gle, and grazed the marshars temple
But the marshal had sent his bulle
straight into Hardy's heart, and Their
was no need to arrest the gambler. =
Chicago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-09
PROFIT IN DRINKS.
How the Saloon-Keeper Bleeds His Gus
toners.

How the SalOon-keeper Bleeds His Gus
toners.
There is pretty fair margin of profit
to the saloon-keeper in most of the
drinks he dispenses, particularly in the
mixed" drinks and in cordials, though
even ordinary beer, Wine and whisky
yield what ought to be considered a
satisfactory return upon the investment
made in them. 1t is remarkable
thing that glass of brandy and soda
rarely costs less than % cents, and usual
" from 40 to so cents, though only a
thimbleful of brandy is involved, and
the remainder is settler, which costs at
retail cents quart. Brandy costs
from 81 to s. a bottle at retail, but
high priced brandy does not figure eN-
tensively behind bars. The average
retail price of the brandy used is per-
maps about S1.50 Il bottle. 1t costs the
saloon-lleepcr perhaps half or three
quarters of this amount. There are
forty drinks" of this brandy in bot
tie. Four cents, therefore, is IL liberal
estimate of the cost of a brandy" and
one usually gets no better quality OF
liquor at 50 cents than at % cents. The
difference usually involved is in the
character and splendor of the saloon.
For whisky plain" from 10 cents to
81 gents is charged. For l0-cent whisky
and vermouth ore usually must pay %
cents, though the whisky retails at 81 tC
81. so bottle, and vermouth retails al
so cents. Plain vermouth is rated witt
the cordials generally, and costs from
Is cents to % ''thimbleful." As there
are sixty such drinks in a bottle, the
extreme limit of profit vermouth i:
Sl450 ON 50-ccnt investment.
The cordials cost from $3.50 to SIT;
for bottle containing from forty tC
sixty drinks, which are sold generally
at 25 cents each, though in some of the
swell places So cents is charged. The
average cocktail, sold for from Is cent
to % cents costs from to cents. Thu
ordinary hotel claret costs so cents
gallon, or about cents for small bot
tie, for which the hotel charges 70,
from 60 cents to 81. Often the only diff
ference between the first three or fou
varieties" of hotel claret is in the labe
end the price charged. A rsally goo'
California clarct-such as is sold n mos
hotels and clubs as st. Julian" undo
a beautifully gilded and bcflourishe'
label-costs only 81 gallon, and infe
rior varieties can be had at so cents, 6
cents, and so cents gallon. IN. y. Star
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-09
PUTTING ON A FINISHING TOUCH.

away pre-Wedgwood days. There
is the same absence Of architectural de-
sign, the same look of haphazardness,
the familiar maze without the smallest
suggestion of plan. All the world
over, indeed, there is family likeness
between the workshops, wherein the
potter's simple craft was pursued until
the very modern edifices of the great
houses of to-day came to be con-
structed. 1t is not impossible that
under the influences thus fore
Swallowed the handiGraft may disap-
pear, and with it the imagery that is as
true to-day as it was thousands of years
ago, of clay in the potter's hands, and of
the power which he possessed, OF his sim
pie volition, of the same lump, to make
one vessel unto honor and another unto
| dishonor.
1t is, however, noticeable that the
ancient art of the "thrower'- pot
ter of antiquity-is largely practiced
here, though many Of the objects are
! pressed from plaster molds. Women
are employed to attach the handles and
spouts and to finish the ware after it has
left the throwar. Upon the women too
devolves the delicate work of scratching
! in the clay such patterns of flowers and
arabesoues as form a rough decoration
on the surface. Models or patterns are
rarely used. The women trace their
design with great freedom of hand.
These devices in scratching" are sub
seouently relieved by broad touches OF
color, the cobalt used being mixed with
water and clay, with a, further admix.
ture of salt to make the pigment run
fuidly under the brush.
Theapprentices serve term of from
three to four years, and the work people
are paid upon a system OF piece work
called "Tagenwerken," under which a
given number of differing articles are
adopted as the unit for calculating the
work per day. For example, man i!
understood to make in one day two hun
dred and forty mineral water bottles O
one hundred and sixty mugs of one litel
size
The process of firing differs material
" from that commonly pursued in thu
ordinary manufacture of pottery. Their
the oven is vertical, inclosed within ;
bottle-shaped "hovel," which protects
it and the fires from the external wealth
er. At Ilohr-Grenzhausen the oven i
of long horizontal form, with apert
ures at intervals along each side of tn
arched roof, covered with earthenwar
slabs which are removable at particula
, stages Of the firing. This is for tn
, purpose of throwing in the salt, tn
fusing of which at the proper heat give
to the ware it's glazed surface.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-09

pressed household distillation, ar3 gave
such local option to town and county
municipalities as enabled the Gothen-
burgh town council to take over the
drink shops, suppress one-half OF
them, enact Sunday closing and early
weekday closing or s p. IN, accord
ing to season-and to carry on the trade
through ''Bolag," which has to apply
all surplus profits for the common
benefit, as for education, etc. In
Christiania, as in other parts, the
municipality prohibit the sale of
spirits, save to hotel guests, on Satur-
day, at p. m, till Monday, at a. m,
and are now being moved to similarly
limit the sale of beer and wine. In
Denmark they have, until the last
dozen wears. almost allowed free trade
in spirits; this resulting in an enormous
consumption and corresponding evils,
which they have of late sought to check
| by enacting that the drink sale must
cease at midnight, that no females
should be employed as barmaids. and
| that publicans must furnish carriages
to convey intoxicated customers home
or to the police station. Each of these
! Scandinavian countries has long had
total abstinence leagues, and has at
least an aggregate of $4,000 Good
Templars in 1000 branches besides
''Bla Bandet" blue Ribbon) Societies,
and, latterly, Women's Temperance
Unions also. Denmark's possession,
Iceland. is also prolific of Temperance
effort its Good Templar Grand Lodge
having been instituted in its Parliament
House. 49, National Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-09
In the earlier days of which We have

In the earlier days of which we have
spoken the stonewear os the Kannen-
bacherland had no special character OF
it's own sufficient to make it easily dis
tingulshable from the productions of
the Llmbourg center from which it had
been imported. AS a general rule, it
may be said that one seldom finds
original figure subjects, or delicate
freezes OF ornamentation, such as those
which are the glories of the treasured
examples of old Siegburg and Raeren.
When subjects of this kind are found
they are generally borrowed from tho
older types. The relief ornamentation
was generally impressed by small metal
seals, and these roSctteS were then con-
nected by steams and branches incised
in the-clay. Often enough medallion
portrait or heraldic panel occupies the
center of the piece, but such always has
the appearance of being a mere access
sorry rather than an essential detail in
the general and harm onious design.
The effect thus obtained was heightened
by the employment Of bright colored
enameis, in Difference to the rather
gaudy taste of the age; harmonious
blendlngs of puppies and blues are the
principal characteristics Of the ware.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of to-day com.
prises nine busy villages, Of which the
two most populous, Hohr and Grenz-
hansen, give a common title to the
WI ole district. Hohr has between two
4 Inf
signs of the craft obtrude on every hand.
TIE process of manufacture is often car
RED on under the public gaze. There
are about ifty ovens in which ware is
fixed, and these belong to fully as many
master employers. AtGrenzhausen chem
ical utensils and drain pipes are among
the special goods manufactured. Grenz-
ausen's greatest fame, however, rests
on the making of certain jug and Il ! g
that are the JOY of every beer-drinller i'll
Germany. In general appearance tho
town is much like Hohr. as are also
Brounbach, Rousbach, Hilgert, Mayon-
dorf, Wirges, Hillscheid and Arzbach,
Inc last place chiefly produces mineral
water bottles, of which millions are dis
posed of annually. AT the StatfordShire
potteries, where the Wedgwood ware is
produced, the whole or nearly all the
material is brought from distance, the
clay and marls found at hand century
and over ago having been exhausted
In the Hohr-Grenzhausen country, tc
the contrary, raw materials contiguous
and abundant. In general appearance
the factories or Hohr-Grenzhansen sug
gest comparison with the small pot
teries that might have beer
built in Staffordshire in the far
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-09
disposed of by INSCRIPTIONS dealers as
rvanuipa Siapbu-y yuara

disposed of by INSCRIPTIONS dealers as
genuine Siegburg ware.
In the year 1914, it appears that the
Earl of Isenbourg, with commendable
sagacity, made grants Of land and gave
exemptions from taxation, with other
tempting privileges, to one Bartrain
Knodtgen, q potter of Siegburg, by way
of inducing him and his fellow-workers
to transfer tkoir art from its old home
and to settle in :&is locality. The men
of Sicgburg and of Raeren thus encour-
aged focked into the new country, and
found there the peace and the protec-
ton for which in their old homes they
had sighed in vain. Their art thus
transplanted has survived many vicis-
STUDIES, at times has been well-nigh
extinguished, but has happily revived,
and it fourishes to-day in greater
volume than ever, the name OF
Knodtgen being still borne by many OF
those who are associated with its. fort
unes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-09
PURE WATER BETTER.



Come in Bottles.
''Bottled goods are dependent for
their existence upon the general ig-
norance of the human race as to
the reason and value of water. Not
all men, women and boys would ask
much happiness or profit from bottled
goods did they know the goodness and
absolute JOY of water. Even ginger ale
and apollinaris are poor. false. painted
creatures compared with good pure
water When the English, German
and American physical machinery has
become clogged with the sediment Of all
kinds of alcoholic and diabOlic drinks it
is taken TO some natural springs to be
washed out. Gallons of water will
sometimes wash clean all the human
filters and send back the machine TO
new life and new happiness. When the
old lady in the dimness of her eyesight
oiled the kitchen clock by means of Il
feather dipped in the gum-arabic jug
the pendulum felt fresh for time. but
the false oil soon closed in on the wheels
and the time-picce ceased to mark the
hours.
"a when the old lady's son, home from
college, learned all the facts of the case
| he took down the machinery and soaked
! il for two hours in tub of warm water
Thus men, half-dead by means of bottled
goods, can often have life extended by
means of most copious draughts of goot
water The water washes the soilec
| fabric of the flesh" His conclusion o.
the whole matter is that water is tho
best thing. Chicago Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-09
REGARDING ROPE.
How 1t Is Manufactured and How 1t Wear
Ont.

How 1t IL Manufactured and How 1t Wears
Out.
1t is stated that the reason why it is
necessary to take out the turns" in
new rope, and that it is UNFINISHED when
first put to work, is that in making
ropes. the fbers are first spun into yarn,
this yarn being twisted in a direction
called right hand. From twenty to one
hundred of these yarns are then put to-
gether and twisted in an opposite direc-
ton, or left handed. This forms a sim
gle strand of rope; from three to four of
these strands are again twisted to-
gether, and it will be noticed that as this
twisting is again in the right hand di-
rection, it untwists the strands and
again twists up the yarn. When
weight is placed upon one end Of the
rope, its tendency is to untwist and be-
come longer, and the untwisting will
continue until the strain of the un-
twisted strand Just equals the strain OF
the yarn eing twisted together.
If it were possible. in making a rope,
to put in just enougS twist so that these
strains should balance each other, then
there would be no necessity for taking
out the turns when new rope is put to
work. The greater the twist, the harder
the rope, and to the contrary, rope
with little twist is much softer and
stronger. The reason for this is easily
seen, as in tightly twisted rope the
strain does not come as near in the
direction of the length OF the rope: that
| is, the fibers lie at a greater angle to
the axis of the rope, and weight upon
the rope forms breaking instead of a
stretching strain.
Ropes sometimes woar OUT internally
while apparently sound outside. This
is caused by bending the rope over a
sheave. In doing this the flbers slide a
small distance upon each other and
eventually wear out. In the best ropes
this wearing out is prevented by lubri'
eating the strand with piumbago, mixed
with a small quantity of tallow, just
sufficient to hold it in place.
In designing pulleys, they should not
be made less than forty diameters of the
rope; this is the limit of economical
wear and they may be made az much
larger as practicable. The speed OF
ropes may vary from $500 to 5000 feet
per minute If Ave feet be taken as 8
minimum diameter of a pulley for &
rope one and half inches in diameter
and running $500 feet per minute, the
pulley should increase one foot in di
ameter for each 1000 added revolution:
per minute.-Journal of Commerce.