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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-11-10

STONE MILK PANS, from the factory in Penn-
- sylvanis, Just received a car load, which We
offer at xceedingly low prices. Send n your Or
ders. rompt shipment guaranteed.
aug1 { J. MILLER & SON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-11-10

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Oct. 15, 1891.
TIME UNDERSIGNED, commissioners under
L IAN act to incorporate the Alexandris and
Fairfax Passenger Esllway Company" give notice
that the subscriptions books Will be opened to re-
ceive subscriptions to the stock of the said COM
psny On the 18th day Of November, 1854, at the
Office OF the Alexandria Real Estate and Invest
ment, Trust and Title Company, 102 south Fair
fax street, in this city, and that said books will re-
main open for ten days.
HENRY STEAUSS,
ISAAC EICHBERa, commissioners.
GEO. ". FISHER,
oct15 3Ot
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-11-10

A CAR LOAD OF STONE JARs s. JUGS juat
II received and for sale at lowest prices by
aug1 &J. MlLLER SON..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-11-10
sTABLER & CO.,

MA 2EIELD & HALL,
DRUGGISTS,
.orper Prince and Fairfax street,
Erse -riptions q specially. English, French
German and Domestic Toilet Soaps Genuins
Farina Cologne; Magnolia, Hedyosmis, Geraniun
snd Florida Water Genuine Lubin's Extracts;
Sponges, Hair Brushes and Combs best Englisk
Tooth Brushes q full assortment OF Patent Mediu
zines, Coxe'a Gelatine, Corn Starch; Sea Moss Fas
rine; Spices of all kinds, and a select stock Of all
articles sold by druggists at prices as low as the
same quality can be obtained elsewhere. dec
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-11-10

EIRUIT JARs.-We are now on our eleventh
l. (11) car load Of Fruit Jars o rthis soason. and
yet the orders still come in. Dealers should get
our prices before ordering elsewhere. The
woodbury." FRUIT JAZZ is no higher now
than the other inferior kinds, and house-kecpers
in this vicinity should call and examine this jar
before purchasing. There is nothing ike it Buy
them of US now. for they are running short, and
you will need them for your peaches in August.
Remember, they sre the same price as Mason's,
the .'Gem' and the other kinds that you have
used. For sale only, by
aug1 E. J. MILLER & SON.
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08
What |. . Horse Power,

When men first begin to become fa- miliar with the methods of measuring mechanical power they often speculate on where the breed of horses is to be found that can keep at work raising S3, QUO pounds one foot per minute, or the equivalent, which is more familiar to some mechanics, of raising $50 pounds 100 feet per minute. Since33. = 900 pounds raised one foot per minute is called one horse power, it IS natural that people should think the engineers who established that unit of measure nent based 1t on what horses could really do. But the horse that can do this work does not exist The horse- power unit was established by James Watt about . century ago, and tho figures were fixed in . curious way. Watt found that tho average horse Of his district could raise 22,0O0 pounds one foot per minute. This, then, was m actual horsepower. At that time Watt was employed in the manuf facturs of engines, and customers wore 90 hard to hnd that all kinds of artificial in- ducements were necessary to induce power users to buy steam engines. As . method of encouraging them. Watt offered to sell engines reckoning 33.OO0 foot pounds to horsepower. And thus he was the means of giving a false unit to one of the most important measurements in the world.
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08
nauRr-HEAp OF THE BRITISH LION.

FrGURE-HEAD OF THE BRITISH LION. year longer, when the frigate was brought 10 New York. Here. on Sat- urdav afternoon. March IA, the head carved by Messrs. Dodge & Sons was replaced on the trunk representing President Jackson on the bow of the frigate Constitution. The whole affair had been managed with great care and secrecy. The man who cut off the Presidents head was exposed three years later in a most unexpected manner. In one of the New York City courts there was an action Of assault and battery in which Samuel w. Dewey was plaintiff and Joseph Fay and Ed. ward H. Dixon defendants. In the course of the evidence, one of the witt nesses stated that Dewey. who. it seems. was captain, informed him on the evening of the assault that he Oewey) cut off the figure head of the frigate Constitution. Captain Dewey, who was native Of Cape Cod, after ward presented the head 10 the Secre- tary of the Navy, for whics he was given written obligation that he would never be prosecuted for the of feuse he had committed.
 A splendid bust of Minerva, SIX feet high, forms another interesting figure of collection of flgure-heads at he Naval Aeademy. and commemorates as well an epoch in naval history made glorious hy the triumphs of the frgate United States under the gallant Deca- tur. This figure head adorned the prow Of tho old Macedonian when she was captured from the French by the En- glish. The bust was very much worn and defaced when taken from the Mace donian Ut the time of her capture by the United States in lSl2, and for this reason it is presumed that the relic is more than n hundred years old. When the ili-fated Macedonian was taken To England by her first captors. the figure Of the British lion was carved by a sailor to take the honored place at the bow then occupied by the classic Minerva. The lion was completed, but before 1t could be put into place hostsi- l. ities between England and Amsrioa called the ship into action. When the Macedonian struck her colors to the guns of the United States, Decatur and his men found the carved lion in the, captain's cabin, and | .is now m inter. esting feature of the Naval academy collection.
 Another Naval Academy relic Of . noble oldb attls- ship is the naure- head Of the Franklin. eighty-six guns. ship whose cruise m the Meaitsrreanean in 1917. as the flagship of Commodore Charles Stewart, made her famous iu the eyes of the European ship builders. They pronounced her tho 6neat model in the world. and her lines were em-. bodied in all the European tyres of mar ne architecture for the next quar- ter of . century. Tho figure head which now survives this gallant man |. of-war is large bust Of Franklin barw headed, with long. flowing hair.
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08

Levi P. Morton. by F. Edwin Elwell of New York city, has arrived in Wash ington and will shortly be placed in one of the inches of the Senate chamber. Mir. Clark, the architect of the capitol, intends to remove one of the busts op. posite the presiding officsr's desk, and in its place will be put the bust of Mir. Morton.
 It is to be regretted that so life-like a representation of the Vice-President should be doomed to the obscure light of the Senate chamber. It has heen suggested that the bust Of the Vice. Presidents be placed at the foot of the gallery. where they would have a splen- did top light and show to good advant- age the character of the men who have occupied the prominent place of Vice. President of the United States. and this change of position may possibly be made later on.
 1t is said that Mr. Elwel modelled the bust in two sittings of three hours each
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08

Prsss0enVs agure from tho bows Of tho ship made gI0rious by the captures of the 0usrrisre, the fAva, the Pictou, the Cyans, and the Levant
 No attention was paid to these de- mands, and one fine morning, two mouths later, the officers in command were hosrified to find the Presidents figure decaptated. Whsreupou the Boston Courier Of July 1. 1884, said:
 Tt appears that during the night of Wednesday. the head of this wooden image was sawed off by some person or persons unknown. Itis rather mys- terious affair The Constitution liesat the navy yard, between two seventy fours, and it is understood that a guard, or watch, is continually kept on board. It seems impossible that the deed could have been executed without discovery. notwithstanding that the night was dark and rainy. The head which had been sawed from it's trunk, it is said, was at least twenty feet above the surface of the water. It is the opinion of several intelligent men, who exam. ined the premises yesterday, that the perpetrators must have gone to their work through the navy yard.
 ''It was reported last evening that Commodore Elliott had offered one thousand dollars for tho person or per- sons who committed the deed."
 The Presidents hemdless trunk adorned the Constitutions bows for .
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08
HAPPY BABES IN JAPAN.
THE QUEER INFANTILE oAMEe
 THEY PLAY.
The Moss Deaueful Things in she Flowery Kingdom Arc tho Childs en --Always Ideally Drcssed-''A Nation at Play"

The most delightful things in Japan Taken as whole, l don't think ono finds such delightful children any W here else in the world. For to the beauty and the grace of childhood they add the roguishuess. the playfulness and the gentleness of puppies or kittens. They are just as self-possessed.
 They are always ideally dressed and have considerable amount of actual beauty, as well as quaiutness, in their little faces. as round and soft as a ripe plum. To begin with. they have mar- vicious complications, clear brown skina, as velvety as peaches, with Q rich, damask red on the cheeks. And they have the loveliest little rosebuds of mouths and the whitest teeth. generally very regular, though small. They have also beautiful little hands and feet with clear brown skin, slender, well-formed, nervous" fingers and toes and remarkably good nails.
 Outside these points they are beauti- fully ugly, or qaint Their queer lit- tie hickory nuts of heads are shaved, All except one little tuft of jet black hair at the top of the head or over each ear.
 And their eyes are like black beads, with hard china whites twnkling be- hind narrow slits. They have the funniest little snubs of noses andplu mp and puppyish figures.
 The Japanese love to dress their children in strictly Japanese style. in the most becoming clothes. just as they exhaust their ingenuity in invent ing games and toys for them.
 It is fortunate that nearly all the steeds in Japan are human. Other wise we never would have got to our destination in safety. that New Years day, when we took the long drive from our temporary abode in the castle of Tokio to the fair which was taking place in the grounds of the great temple of kwannon at Asakusa. for the streets were at the mercy of throngs of little girls in their gaycst dresses and sashes. with powdered faces and carmined lips (coloring said
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08
l.e. such vsry young childrvn psrfor~

iag, such very young childrsn perform the coutortions In Yokoha ma, es- pecially, there arc troops of child acro- bats. adorned with cocks feathers and scarlet flannel, who go about the streets throwing somersaults for visitors.
 Good.by. little Japs, who are said never 10 break anything (perhaps be- cause there is nothing in your bones to break, who never hear crossword from your parents and enjoy your mothers milk until you are nearly old enough to carry the next baby, who look the cleanest and sweetest little things ina ginable on the occasions when your heads are not running with eczema or your noses with colds, (your parents never attempting to stopeither). Day fireworks are mere smoke to the gleams of color which dart about tho streets in your clothes. and butterflies are less glowing and less substantial.
 Never grow up! And may Japan never grow up out of its old delightful status of a nation at play"
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08
AN ANCIENT CUsToM
UoURE-HEADs OF FAMoUo OLD
 MEN-oF-WAR.
xAs Cnssem Rapidly Dying Ous In shs vesse1s of shs Last Years of she Nineteenth Censurv-0ur Navy Flfsy Tears Ago.

The placing of figure heads under the bowsprits of ships appears to be GUS tom alike ancient aud honora ble. Ovid tells us that the vessel ip which he was carried to his place of exile bore bust of Minerva under the bow. The ship that rescued St. Paul from the inland of Melita bore double image of Cas- tor aud Pollux. The Carthagsnian merchant ships had their crocodile, the Puuic cruisers their figure of Baal, the Norsemeu and Danes their dragons and ssrpents. The famous English ship Terrible carried a ghastly skeleton at It's prov, and the French privateer Sur. oouf. the terror of the Indian seas in the Napoleonic war, adorned the bows of his famous crusier, the Revenant, with tho figure of corpse in the act of casting off it's shroud. When the sloop-of-war Pearl, commanded by Lieutenant Maynard. Of the navy of George H., sailed into Port Royal after It's victory over the redoubtable pirate Blackboard, it carried under its bow spirit realistic figure-head represent ing the head of the famous buccaneer himself as it was struck off his body by Naynard's sword.
 The custom of decorating the bows with something emblematic of the ships name or purpose is one that is rapidly dying out in the vessels of the last yearSjof the nineteenth century. Particularly is this true in the ships of the United States navy, where the ram bow prevents the use of anything more than simple scroll, or, as in the case of the Yorktown. q plain, unadorned shield. Our navy fifty years ago, however. then famous among tho navies of the world, pos sessed an array of figure heads the like of which had never been seen in war ships before or since. A very interest ing collection of these figure-h heads is now to be seen at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.
 At the close of each month, when the cadets march from their quarters to ths dreaded examination rooms. there tt undergo tests for better or worse. theil
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08
Cgar-snsoksnx Girls.

The Burmese girls are very bright. and good beggars, too, and when one steps up to you with six-inch cigar in her mouth and her comedy person swathed in garments the colors of which would rival Joseph's coat and offers you her wares, the only thing for Q man to do IS to buy, and buy at once. The Burmese girls are noted, too, for their independence, an they walk about the streets and through the ba- zars and around the pagodas with big cigar in their mouths, with as much freedom as do the men in most coun- tries. Their dress is more picturesque, too, than the Arabs. They use the very brightest red, yellow aud pink silks 10 their adornmsnt. and the prevailing fashion ruus to scarfs moro than to dresses, and bands Of ribbons moro than to jackota
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08

THE TuRREr MOUNTED IN EARTHwoRxs. with magazine guns and smokeless powders, the probable re-armament of our army and a change Of tactics.
 Accuracy of aim and range of weGp- ons of precision have marvelously in- creased since the last great war be- tween civilized nations Only the other day few Austrian marksmen were able in an incredibly short space of time to annihilate the whole personnel of a battery Represented by dummies at n distance of 1, 400 to i 500 yards.
 Shells filled with explosives wreck buildings and walls with Q rapidity which in the near future seems destined to in- crease as the problem ofpropelliug high explosives as a bursting charge for pro- jectiles draws nearer to a satisfactory solution. The newest magazine rifle works with a quickpess that gives a number or shots ina given time fully equal to the fire of the entire front rank or one of our infantry companies when armed with single-loaders, whits the penitrating force Of the bullet is sufficient to take it through the trunks of great trees, as we'll as through earth works almost two feet in thickness.
 To protect the crew of rapid firing artillery portable Qualifications or armored turrents have been construct cd in the Gruson works at Magdeburg, Germany. Heavy armored turrets were constructed years ago at the same works, and were adopted for the forti- fcations of almost all European coun- tries. They were very expensive and their weight and the consequent dif- hculty and delay in their transporta- tion were tremendous dra wbacks. Their adoption. however, in spite Of these objections, were due to the opin- ions of high military authorities, who declared against the strategic value of great permanent fortitjcations and in favor of tho construction and impro- vised defense. The types of turrets were made and armed with guns of 1.25- inch and 2-inch caliiber. These turrets are proof only against bullets and shell splinters, and cannot resist the fnll inn pact of heavier projectiles. But as the small turrets cannot become direct targets for artillery without excessive waste of ammunition they may be regarded practically she'll proof.
 The turrets. each of which contains Q rapid-tiring gun, are placed in position in the infantry trenches. They are transported on specially constructed
 carriages, which require nt the least three horses to draw them where the country is at all rough, as the total weight of turret, carriage and ammu- milton sufficient to sustain the fir ng for few minutes is about two tons One man sufiices for the service of the gun and the management of the turret. which rests on revolving pivot and consists of cylinder thirty eight inches in diameter, protected by steel armor in the shape of cupola or cass one inch in thickness.
 The gunner sits upon 8 saddle like the eeat of . bicvcls. while there is room in
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08
use csLluLoIp COLLAR.
He Laborsd with lt Long, but YtMnz|
 Gee Mad.

He Iaborsd wisA IL Long. but ysaazo
 Gss Mad.
 He was one of those men with c long neck and a prominent Ada1'D apple, and his face and neck wero iuso the color of corned beef. He w0ro . celluloid collar and no necitie. ana through the great button-holes in tho front of the collar his neck gleamed . rosy red.
 He was very much interested in aM that he saw from the car windows and his head was constantly turning first tO one side and then to the other, until by some sudden motion the combination which held the celluloid buttonholo and the bone collar-button together was broken, and one end of the stir collar sprang away from its fastening as though it had been a steel spring. and it nestled lovingly against his nesk and under his ear in little yellowfsA white coil that looked like the paper case of a charlotte rlsse.
 Tho man was painfully conse4suD that something had gone wrong. Ie carefully felt to see If the green Rlase stud in the bosom of his shirt wAD gone; then his fingers wandered up L. his collar, and finally he traced tAs fiendish combination of camphor end gun-c0tton around and succeeded iu l0- eating it under his ear.
 He made several attempts to find tho end, but it evaded him each time upxil he began at the buttonhole in the back and ran his finger carefully around the top edge of the collar, straighteniEg it out ns he did so, and holding it with . vise-like pinch when he came to the end.
 Then came the search for the button hole, and at last the thumb and fore finger met through the large round hole. The man looked relieved, but he found that fate had another trial in store for him. In his large, awkward fingers the sense of touch was undevel- Opcd. and the button was so small that. he could not tell whether he felt 1t or not; and besides this, he was hampered by having to hang on to the button hole. for he knew that that once lost. bis trouble would begin anew.
 And another thirA made his position a trying one--the two small boys sit- sing opposite him had begun to snicker- nnd had drawn the attention of every- boay in the car to his performance
 Up and down and around he felt, over the button his fingers slipped rTain and again. The thing was growing wildly exciting to the pas sengers, when. either from . jolt of the car or from pure nervousness, the man lost his grip on the buttonhols, aud the thing curled up like watch spring and settled down under his car Once more.
 It is easy to do thing after one knows how, and the man had no trou- ble in getting the end again. He went at it with both hands this time. and with the index finger of his free hand he was carefully trying to locate tho exasperating button, when one of tho l small boys called out: Il say, mister, try and button it on yer Adam's apple its bigger"
 There was an audible litter and the man grasped his gripsack and rushed l out of the car and the last the pes- scnCers saw of him he was standing on the corner, his bag between his fest carefully swathing his neck h large l red bandanna handkerchief.
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08

tho English royal family seems to oe had in gc ting themselves up in cos tunes foreign to their everyday exist ence. A very popular photograph of the Prime ess of Wales is one in which she appears in the cap and gown of Il university man. Prince Henry of Bat tenberg, whether it is fun for him or not. appears upon occasions in Highland garb. and the Queen herself is said to have had a uniform made last spring in the style of an officer of the German army out of deference to her royal grandson who offered her the distinc- tion of soldiers title. It was reported that she was to wear the coat on parade. but the fat lady is hardly likely to have had any intention of the sort.
 The Duchess of Connaught, however. the Queens third daughter-in-la law, has worn the "regimentals." and very well she looks as the chief of the Eighth Brandenburg Regiment of Infantry in the illustration. She was the Princess Margaret Louise of Prussia, and was married in 1879. She has passed several years with her husband in India. leav. ing her children in England during her stay abroad.
The Forrest City times., 1891-05-08
About Doing Jury Duty.

Hello" cried the white haired pas- rmger, as his red whiskered friend en- tered the car at Cumberland street. Glad to see you. But what's tho matter with youp Going to lose your fortune or your sleepp"
 Been on a jury" briefly answered the red whiskered man.
 That's tough" remarked the white haired passenger, with 8 glance of deep sympathy. Couldn't agree. h. that itp"
 "Yes," mournfully replied the othe1s
 "H'm. We'll, old fellow, I can sym pathize with you. I've been tAere. Hardest job ever tackled in my lifa- How long were you outp" ''About sixteen hours."
 "Why, you had a picnic, cheerfnlly commented the white haired passenger. Il was on a jury in Denver ten years ago. They kept us out three days and three nights. One cuss wouldn't give in. so the judge tried to starve us out"
 Didn't get anything to eatpn inter- rupted the auburn bounded mouth. Mot bite" was the answer. Not even water, though nobody asked for. !; that. There were i've fasks of whisky in the crowd, and they didn't so very far. for we wasted three of'em. 1 trying to convert the fellow who held out. The cross-eyed constable at tho door got tired and passed in somo shooting irons. We tried them, but the cuss wouldn't budge. At last wo, borrowed rope and decided 10 tio, him up and gag him while we went in to court and gave verdict. The con- stable was with us, l tell you. We'll sir, when that fellow saw the rope ho caved. Got an idea we were about to hang him. He expected to be sh0k but believed he wasn't for the reason that the pistols would make so much noise. However. he came over to our aide just as we were about to gag him. ! and said: e ,, !" Gentlemen. I donF mind ;beiag starved to death or shot down lilcs . man, but object to having my eno- I mics going around after the funsran saying that died like . horse thial The prisoner is not guilty. And that" continued the whito haired passenger, ''is what call doin9 jury duty. The effete eastern effor1e can't hold candle to it"-BrooklyD Eagle. W