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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-10-16
THE MARKETS.
Chicago.


CHICAGO Oct. 10.
Following were the quotations on the GARD
of trade today. Wheat-No. 2 October,
opened 9714c, closed 9794c; December, opened
99I6c, closed 9934c; year, opened 9714c, closed
g734c Corn-No. 2 October, opened 5514c,
closed 5634c; November, opened 49c, closed
Soc; year, opened 441sc, closed 41ac. Oats
No. 2 October, opened 274c, closed 211Sc;
November, opened 27a4c, closed 2Sc; May,
opened Bic, closed 3l9sc. Pork-December,
opened $3.50, closed SS.7211; January, opened
S11.70, closed S11.6216. Lard-November,
opened $6.4711, closed S640.
Live stock-Following were the prices at
the Union Stocks yards today: Hogs-Mar-
ket rather active on packing and shipping ac-
count, but feeling easier, and prices about
&c lower sales ranged at S2.0O041O pigs,
$3.9O0475 light, S43O94.50 rough packing,
S44004.S0 mixed, and $i.5505.l0 heavy pack
ing and shipping lots.
Cattle-Market only moderately active;
buyers slow to purchase, and prices rather
easy; quotations ranged at S8OO96.25
prime to shipping steers 4.40lD5.90 good to
fancy do, S340G4.30 common to fair do, $500
@4.25 butchers steers, S20o@2.75 stockers,
S2.1013l0 Texans, S250lD4.5) rangers. $500
3.25 feeders, 81 .50lD350 cows, Sl.50lD3.OO bulls
and S25OO5.OO veal calves.
Sheep--MarKet rather active, and prices
unchanged; quotations ranged at $3.5004.5O
westerns, S00UW0.U natives, ana So.ou4Do.ou
lambs.
Produces: Butter-Fancy Sc parator, 28629c
per Id; diaries, fancy fresh, 22lp23c; packing
stocks, fresh, l2l6@13c. Eggs-Loss off, 1880
l0c per doz. Live poultry-Old chickens, 9l5c
per lb; spring, lie; roo sters, 50516c; young
turkeys, 120l2l5c; old, 101llc; ducks, $40 &c;
spring, g1al0lOc; geese, So 0OD6 90 per doz.
Potatoes-Home grown, 40150c per sack;
Wisconsin and Michigan, fair to choice, $50
33c per bu: sweet potatoes, Illinois, S1.5O0
L75 per Dbl; Jerseys, Sl.6O9l.S5. Apples
Common, S1.Oc per bbl; good, sl.2j01.75; choice
to fancy, $40 s02.50. Cranberries-Cape God,
fancy, s60o06.5O per bbl; common, $3.50
600.
New York.
NEW York, Oct. 13.
wheat-No. red winter cash, S1.O7; DC.
tober, s1.O61s Fovember, sl.07N: December,
S1.O9ss. Corn-No. mixed cash, 64c; No.
vember, 63lsc: December, 554c January,
5sl6c. Oats-Dull but steady No. mixed
cash, 83J4c October, 3S5Sc; November, 34c.
R,e-Neglected. Barley-Negected. Pork
Dull, new mess, Sll.5O0ll.75. Lard-Quiet;
December, $3.50: January, S6.9l.
Detroit
DETROIT, Oct. II.
Wheat--No. 2 red cash, Sl.UO asked DE.
cember, Sl.02N: May, Sl.Oo nominal; No.
white cash, p694c. Corn-No. cash, b6c.
Oats-No. white cash, 29c nominal.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-10-16
For Sale.

My Farm OF so acres, miles south OF Owosso
Will sell all or half to suit purchaser
HUGH DOUGLASS.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-10-16
GRATEFUL. COMFORTING
EPPS'S COCOA.
BREAKFAST.

by thorough knowledge Of the natural laws
which govern the operation of digestion and nu-
triton, and by careful application of the fine
properties of well selected Cocoa, Mr.. Epps has
provided our breakfast tables with n delicately
Favored beverage which may save us many
heavy doctor bills. II is by the iudicious use of
such articles of diet that constitution may be
gradually built up until strong enough TO resist
every tendency to disease Hundreds OF subtle
maladies are floating around us ready TO attack
wherever there is weak point. Wemay escape
many fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well
fortified with pure blood and % properly nourish-
ed frame" civil Service Gazette. Made simply
with boiling water or milk. Sold only In half
pound tins, by Grocers labelled thus:
JAMES EPPS a. CO. Hooopathic Chemists,
London, England.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-10-16
"a
10AH0 RSE
6LAN kETS

Nearly every pattern of ga Horse
Blanket is initiated in color and
style. In most cases the imitation
looks just as good as the genuine,
but it hasn't the a0ayp threads, and
SO lacks strength, and while it sells
for only little less than the genu-
inc it isn't worth half as much.
The fact that "a Horse Blankets
are copied is strong evidence
that they are THE STANDARD,
and every buyer should see that
the "a trade mark is sewed on
the inside of the Blanket.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-10-16

DETROIT, Oct. l5.
Wheat-No. 2 red cash. $l.O0 asked; De.
cember, Sl.o2l6: May, Sl.O9 nominal; No.
white cash, 9634c. Corn-No. 2 cash, bdc.
Oats-No. white cash, 29c nominal.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-10-16

ca true copy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-03

glYcerine was poured upon i'll felt like
running. True, the workmen hoed 1t very
gently, first into one row, and then into
another, the idea being to have the glycer-
inc Thoroughly rubbed into it, and his hoe
was beautiful nickel plated one, to which
no friction-making substance could adhere,
but still the thought Is startling until you
get used to it.
Lest Photographic plate should fall to
the floor in the nitro-glycerine. house, and
blow the place up by striking hidden
drop of the stuff, had refrained from max
ing any pictures up to this moment. But,
with this man hoeing dynamite, steadied
my nerves long enough to take what is per-
haps the only photograph ever taken here
abouts inside a dynamite factory.
After the dynamite Is thus made it is
shoveled upon the trough-like tables of the
packing men. Here it is put up in the
form OF cartridges, or STICKS" its CONNER
cial form. These cartridges, or shells, are
cylinders of brown MANILA paper, made up
stairs by girls. They are 8 inches long each,
and ~ inches In diameter, and hold half q
pound of dynamite, When they come from
the hands Of the young women they are
dumped into hot parafne wax and rendered
stiff and oily.
Filling the Paper Cartridges.
In the accompanying photograph a
packer is shown, with pile of empty cart
ridges on one side of him and heap of
dynamite on the other. Taking q she'll end
wise he inserts funnel in il, shovels this
full of explosive, and then, seizing wooden
stick, which just fits the paper cylinder, he
hammers the dynamite tight down In the
paper through the funnel. Pounding dyna-
mite with all his might! You needn't
shiver. 1t Is estimated that nothing less
than 60 pounds will explode dynamite.
placed ina wire cage and plunged into the
pot of hot parratine wax again. this time
acting as o sort of sealing wax. Dynamite
in hot liquidl Looks dangerous, but it
requires q high temperature to explode
dynamite. Take O handful Of the loose
sugar-like stuff and throw 1t in an open
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DINING CAR STOCK.
Arduous Duties That Dev0lve Upon
the Blithe Conductors.
WAYS OF SERVING ICE CREAM.
The Best Way to Find Good Hotel Is to
Follow the Drummsrs.
A JOKE ON DRExEL. MoRaAs & co.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DrsPArcH.1
On BOARD THE DINING CAR, !
SWEETRREAD. Nav l. 1891.

I'm writing this in the dining car, after
protracted interview with the steward re-
garding the business. I used to think that
to conduct dining car required nothing
but an unctuous smile and desire to please,
and so had thought seriously Of looking
up job in one of those meandering reject
ories; but It is really pretty busy life
after all. OF course one does not have to at
tend to the running of the car from rail
road standpoint, but he must deal with
cooks, walters and supplies, and besides he
must keep strict account of stock on hand,
rs well as Of cash received and paid out.
have just been assisting the conductor to
make up his cash and declare dividend.
1t is quite job to do while the train goes
40 miles an hour and while the walters are
filling the aisles full of soiled linen and i'll
assorted profanity.
In the first place, Of course, the checks
given to passengers at table are all num-
bered like the hairs of ones head, and in
each daily report the dining conductor must
give the number be closed with the day be-
fore, as well as the one he opens with to-
day. This makes what Diogenes used to
call dead open and shut.
Ways of Serving Toe Cream.
Next the aplomb and style must be duly
considered. There are all sorts Of ways Of
doing thing,. For instance, take the simple
matter Of serving ice cream. went into
Mr.. Delmonico's place last winter and had
something to eat, winding up with Ice
cream. It was as good ice. cream as ever
put into my head. 1t consisted of the bust
of beautiful but rather cool brunette, the
face and figure, wherever the skin was visi-
BILE, being made of chocolate, while pale
yellow vanilla constituted the economical
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hotels are run. It would not emily drive
people to drink, but 1t would drive them
over another railroad. The commercial
man is a throbbing advertisement for good or
i'll. He will damn a hotel or dining car in
ten days so that, unless the proprietor has
married well, he will be canvassing for Q
snide family medical work inside Of .
month. When began to travel went to
such hotels rs my able New z York manager
sent me to. Sometimes he seat me to hotel
that had been burned two months. Some
times he sent me to q hotel that had be-
come morally little rancid under new
proprietor. Once he sent me to an inn,
which had its name in the hotel directory,
and when got there found that it was q
saloon with an annex consisting of room
in which the bartender filed away such
customers as could not be shipped home.
Can Trust the Drummers.
Now, however, simply get my eye on q
good-looking sample case and follow It from
the depot. / find that I do not make any
mistakes. A travelling man generally is .
good conversationalist, and if you listen TO
him you will notice that when not doing mp
q hotel be is doing up railroad OF dining
car, and he is generally on the right side OF
the question too. / believe that the press
and the commercial men together can do
and have done a good deal toward elevating
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But when the men returned they found the
rafters over the kettle had caught fire, and
they were Burning with such swiftness as to
threaten the whole building. To drop water
into the churning kettle of acid was to cause
trouble again.
The men behaved like heroes, and getting
cloths, rags and old bags, they wet them,
and scaling the rofters swathed the timbers
round and round with these. At last, when
the fire was out, there were burned hands,
aud scorched arms, and Eilged mustaches,
but scores of lives in neighboring CON-
munity had been saved. That commut .ty
is known in the neighborhood of Tarentum
as "Pughtown." The Acme Works were
removed from there a year ago. and some
time afterward, when one of the proprietors
took squad of men back to clear up the
floor and debris of the RACED 9lycerine
house, lest cows should tfod upon 1t, and
cause sn accident, il was discovered that the
women of Pughtown had taken the boards
and rubbish. piecemeal. and burned them
for kindling in their bake orens How
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60 revolutions per minute, keeping the mix
ture constantly churned up, drowning the
oil with the acids and keeping the heat
down.
Cold running water fills the coil of lead
pipe which lines the kettle, and outside the
kettle is water jacket, also full of cold
running water. A thermometer, three feet
high, stands in the kettle, and upon this the
miXing-man keeps his eyes fastened. The
mixture will ignite at from 80 to $50, and
it will explode at $500 which could readily
be acquired by the heat of confagration
within the pot
Staying the Hand Of Death.
For 5000 pounds of nitro-glycerine to ex-
plode, would mean death and destruction to
everybody and everything within quarter
of mile Of the spot. So that nervv work.
man keeps his eyes glued to the thermom-
eter. If the temperature !rises, he slackens
the flow of the oil from the bucket. If it
still rises, he turns more steam on, and the
engine increases the speed of the paddles.
If all that should fail, and if a wicked little
tongue of flame should shoot across the
liquid surface-why he vells and runs.
This contingency only happened once in
the Acme factory. That was a couple OF
years ago, when it was located near Tar
entum, in this county. Through some over
sight of the ''mi1er," the liquid took fire,
and it seemed as though no human agency.
could avert an awful calamity. The fellow
yelled to his comrades, they took up the cry
and in two minutes every employe was fy-
ing down the ravine. Around the first bend,
and each man and boy threw himself at full
length upoh the ground, face to the earth
this is the way they expect to escape some Of
the shock Of the conclusion.
1t Was q Close Call.
As the mixer man left his vat full of fuming,
glycerine, he grasped the lever that controls
the. little engine, and turned full head of
steam on. Providence must have lent power
to steam that day. for the paddles revolved
so swiftly that it finally drowned out the
flames by the increased agitation Of the
liquid, and this prevented the explosion.
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are issuing from pipes and chimneys, but
there is no noise of machinery TO disturb the
calm Quiet of the woods in which the houses
have been planted. Nevertheless, there is
machinery in operation there.
"Why can't we hear it?" the theatrical
manager may ask.
"Oh, because this is a dynamite factory,
and there must be no friction whatever about
the place in order to avoid explosions. No
friction, no noise. See?"
Perhaps the manager would come to
dead halt then. "But you don't expect me
to 60 into that place, do youP Dynamite is
too hazardous"
''Oh, it's not the dynamite that want
you to bother with. Over yondcr 10 the
nitro-glvcerine house. That's where want
to give you an idea for q play that viii be
the hit of the season.
"Nitro-glycerinel Why, man, that's more
dangerous than dynamitel wonld be crazy
TO take that stuh on the stage. Excuse mel
Next train back to the city-how soon7"
Two or Three Visitors Year.
As matter of fact, there is no more in
tereSting place to visit than a nitro-glycer-
inc and dynamite factory. The theatrical
managers fears upon approaching it would
be most natural. Most everybody acts the
same way when he sees it. For that reason
a dynamite factory seldom has more than
two or three Ylsltors In year. Inc great
public has no conception of how the deadly
stuff is made. You would be interested to
hear about such an industry. So. leaving
the above "idea" stand, tree of patent right
and open to the acceptance OF any thester
that chooses to try the genuine article for
the sake of realistic effects" I will recall
a few instructive things I learned in the
course of an hour or two's sojourn in the
factory at Blacks Run, owned by the Acme
Powder Company, of Duquesne way. Pitts
burg.
In the FIRST place it is located in the midst
Of this.wild and remote stretch of country
in order to be away from all other houses
and population. There are those who be-
lieye that the legitimate end of every such
manutactUry rs to be blown up. The law
assumes that principle, too, and SO where
you find the sweet trailing arbutus you may
often look for a tro-glycerine house also.
This factory is built in a hollow to enjoy
greater immunity from the lightning. 1t is
built in as crooked q portion of the hollow
usually as can be found, because, as one Of
the employees told me, "If we ever have to
run ior our lives, We can get around bend
quickly and escape the full force of the eI-
plosion."
Tanning the Nitro-GIyeerine.
The base Of dynamite is nitro-glycerine,
% to understand the whole subject you must
6rst 20 TO tie 5ziIding in which this most
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CRATE, and it will burn without exploding.
But confue several of these shells in box
and fire or extreme heat will explode 1t.
Fifty OF these paper cartridges are packed
In wooden box, cushioned with sawdust,
and they are perfectly safe and ready for
shipment. Railroads will take it upon GER
tain DAYS, and revulre that the cars must be
labeled all over with dynamite signs Colli-
sions have occurred ON railroads, and lot
Of the stuff found among the debris. 1t did
not explode in the crash, and at other times
1t did.
They won't Transport Nitro-Glyoerine.
The. railroads will mot carry nitro
glycerine. It is quite an article of com.
merce in and around Pittsburg on account
Of the immense oil and gas interests. It
must therefore be transported. In the coun.
try this is usually done in wagons, but the
day / was Visiting at the Acme works 80
cans of it had been sent down the river on
. skiff in charge of one of the trust
worthy EMPLOYEES OF the factory. The skif
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q
carried red flag. according to law, 30 that
every steamboat knew what it contained,
and could give the little craft a wide berth.
The skif, leaving Blacks Run at o'clock
p NJ, passed into the Ohio at Pittsburg, and
reached the Shouserown oil field at 10.
On a previous occasion skiff. loaded
with 40 cans Of glycerine, was sunk near
Pittsburg by the waves of steamboat
Fortunately the skiff was near shore, and
the water was 30 shallow that il settled
down on the bottom without shock, and an
explosion did not follow. In deepwater
the task OF fishing for lot of sunken nitro
glycerIne would be very unwholesome.
Physical Effects Of tho Stuff
A visitor entering the nitro -glycerine de-
partment of dynamite factory will always
come out of it with violent headache. Any
of the employees returning to the works after
an absence of few days falls victim to
the same headache. A drop of the nitro
glycerine applied to the back of the neck
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they ever managed it without blowing their
heads off is past the Imagination of Mr.. l..
D. Stickney, one of the proprietors who
made the discovery.
A Wooden Spout Full of Danger.
But to return to Blacks Bun. A wooden
spout, we'll covered and cemented, nearly
200 feet long carries the nitro-glycerine
away from the first building where it has
gone from the kettle, down through clarity
ing watts on the lower platforms. This spout
is supported across the intervening space
outside by props, and as you look at it
among the trees aud along the run, the
appalling thought, of what would occur if q
COW should run against it and knock it
down, instantly frames an excuse on youH
lips for the company's maintaining that
ferocious bulldog at the entrance to the
ravine.
In the dynamite house the nitro-glycerine
is stored in a small tank, and from this run
out-into buckets to be mixed with the ma
terials that are to form the dynamite.
Among these are wood -four, nitrate of soda
and lime. The wood-four is obtained by
grinding wood on a stone, until pulp is the
result In another OF the buildings great
chunks of soda from the nitre beds OF Chile
and Peru are thrown into grinding ma
chimes and rendered fine as -four. In some
of the European factories corn meal and
saw dust are used as we'll as those here men-
toned. Nobel's idea OF simply having an
absorbent Of inert substance, has been i'm
proved upon since then by using such of
these materials as are explosives in them
selves, and yet modify the danger Of the
nitro-glycerine.
Hoeing Up Pile of Dynamite.
When l saw q man standing beside
trough full of stuff, closely resembling
brown sugar, and saw him hoeing 1t with
hoe, as he would so much earth-when
was told that this was the absorb
ent substances just alter the nitro
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dangerous Of all explosives is made. 1t was
out OF the calanaitious and inexpiicabie &C
eidents that so often attended the COM
mercial use OF nitro-glycerine that dynamite
was born. 1t was a clear case of necessity
being the mother Of invention. A Swede
named Nobel sought, by soaking various
inert substances with the nltro-glycerine, to
obtain some composition which should have
the valuable powers of the explosive ell
without its deadly risks. His experiments
were successful in 1867.
The interior of the nitro-glycerine house
is arranged in four different elevations, or
platforms, each three and four feet higher
than the other. On the highest landing
stands q small steam engine and the
"nitrator." This is a big iron kettle, or vat,
lined with coil OF lead pipe. Into this
kettle is poured 5000 pounds of nitric and
sulphuric acids together. These acids are
then treated with glycerine oil-the same
simple glycerine that we use on our dress.
ing cases, only not so well clarified. That
forms the terrible compound known as
nitro-glycerine.
1t Creates Heat.
This process so easy to describe and so
readily comprehended, is fraught with inn
mense risk. The simple oil OF -glycerine,
coming in contact with the acids, creates
heat, and heat will explode the whole mix
ture 1t is therefore the principal aim Of
the man who is mixing" to keep the heat
down to the minimum. To 5000 pounds of
the acids must be added 400 pounds OF the
glycerine oil. A rubber bucket of the
glycerine is placed on board across the top
of the kettleful of acids, and stream not
any thicker than quill allowed to drip
dovf into the acids. If this was allowed to
float on top-as it would do because the oil
is lighter than the acids-it would imme-
diately set fire to the mass. Consequently,
the vat has been fitted inside with metal
paddles, which are turned by the little
engine few feet away at the rate of 30 and
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THIS Is THE GOLDEN AGE.
Ocular Proof Of the Fact May Be Seen on
the Streets Daily.

Ocular PROOF cf the Fact May Be Seen on
the Streets Daily.
As far as fashion is concerned, says q
London correspondent, the present may,
without any e1aggeration, be described as
the "Golden Age" Not only does gold ap-
pear in some shape or form In bonnets, hats,
mantles and gowns, but it is now considered
in the best taste for table decorations. At
one of the most perfectly appointed dinner
tables seen last week all the glasses were
edged with gold, and had the hosts crest
engraved in gold. The fnger-glasses were
especially beautiful, being of Venetian de-
sign. and the gliding looking like fine in
laying Oft the real metal. The flower troughs,
lamp, candlesticks and large center piece
for fern were all of hand-cut crystal,
mounted in silver gilt. The flowers used
were yellow and white; no green appeared,
except in the fern.
In charming harmony with all the other
appointments were the new ''tassei" shades,
used for candles and lamps. These were
composed of ivory silk gauze, futed on the
usuaI-shaped foundation, with o drapery of
the material falling in graceful festoons at
the sides, and caught up at the corners by a
gold cord and tassel. The small upper part
of the shades was also encircled by the gold
cord,
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FIGURES ON BEAUTY.

Measurements OF Mrs. Lanrtry and the
Venus dc Medici.
Boston Globe.1
A London artist supplies the comparative
measurements Of Mrs. Langtry and the
Venus de Medici, two types of the ancient
and modern worlds. The height of these
two beautiful women, the one in flesh and
blood, the other in marble, happens to b 9
the same, viz: Five feet seven inches.
Hence the two may be taken as illustrating
the difference Of ideal physical proportions
bet ween the ancient and the modern. Where
and how the measurements of Mrs. Langtry
were obtained NO one seems to know:
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How % Prexent Pneumonia.

Any tendency Of cold7or the grip to re-.
suit in pneumonia may be arrested by TAX
ing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and
using proper care to avoid exposure. So far
resulted In pneumonia where this remedy
has been used, and more than THOUSAND
bottles have been sold each day for seven
months past. For sale by druggists. wFu
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THOU SHALT NOT SWEAR.

That is the card that hung in the Acme
Dynamite Works on the occasion OF pre-
vious visit It was put there by the wish Of
the employees themselves, and they enforce
the rule BY their own volition.
Is it any wonder? L. E. SToFIEL.