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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-25
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

w. f. Reed. of Denver, a brother of
Judge Reed and former reporter on The
DISPATCH arrived in the city last evening.
He is on his way home from business trip
to New York. Since leaving P1ttsburg, he
has made q fortune in the electrc1 supply
business in the Colorado capital. In addi-
tion he is now building street railroads, and
is on the highway to greater success. He
advises young men to go West.
Col. T. j. Hemphill, of Arizona, was at
the Union depot yesterday going to Blair
county. He says the Apache Indians are
lot of murderers, and in the last year they
have killed 80 white people. The settlers
are indignant, but complaints to the Indian
Agent have done no good.
W. P Logan, one of the owners of the
big oil well at Mcdonald, went to Philadel-
phia last evening. The well IS now doing
$50 barrels per hour. He was highly elated
over the strike, and said he was going to the
Quaker City to get some one to help him
spend the money. He lives there.
Among those who went to Philadelphia
and the seashore last evening were +. III.
TriStram, of the Wabash: e. a. Egley, of the
Queen and Crescent; Mr.. Mathews, of the
Burlington road: Win Colville, finance clerk
in the postoffice, and DR.. George Shidle.
Warden Charles F. Durston, of the
Auburn Prison, the man who executed
Kemmler by electricity, was a visitor i in
Pittsburg on Thursday. He stopped at the
Anderson.
Wharton Mcknight, the foundryman,
left for Gettysburg last evening to visit his
family, who are spending the summer on the
famous battlefield.
James Cox and family, of London, passed
through the city last evening on the limited
going West. They are English tourists
"doing the States.'
+. X. Sheldon and wife, of Marion, Ind,
are stopping at the MonOngahela House.
Mr.. Sheldon is a glass manufacturer.
NJ. A Noble, of Toledo, and j. e. Wal
colt, of Cleveland, are registered at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel.
George Miller, superintendent of the Wag
ner Sleeping Car Company, was in the city
on business yesterday.
Joseph Seip, the Standard oil man from
Tftusville, and W. P. Tyler, of Washington,
are at the Duquesne.
James F. Crisp, of Trenton, and W. E.
Hall, of Altoona, are among the guests at the
Anderson.
E. A Worth, general manager of the
Jarecki Manufacturing Company, is in Erie.
James Allen, of Larimer avenue, has re-
turned from a six months visit to Europe.
Senator Finn went to Columbus on pri-
yate busin ess last evening.
j. J. Pierce, the Sharpsville furnace
man, is at the Duquesne.
w. Devices Wood and wife lie # for Chi
cago on the limited
Superintendent Pitcairn has gone to Har-
risburg.
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He Owned international Hens.

The advantages which people who live
exactly on the line between two countries
have in escaping the customs and other
regulations of both countries have often
been recounted. Probably the most pic
turesQue and innocent instance of this kind
of evasion comes from the far Western town
ofNogales, which lies exactly on the bound
ary between Mexico and Arizona.
On the United States side of the line in
this town eggs have been rendered dear by
the new tariff upon eggs inasmuch as the
hens in that region are chiefly owned on the
Mexican side of the line and fed by the
peasants on cheap Mexican grain.
Recently, according to the Tombstone
(Arizona) Prospector, a Maine Yankee ar
rived in Nogales, with an eye to business.
He was convinced that his opportunity lay
in the high price of eggs.
Accordingly he put up long henhouse
exactly across the boundary line. At the
American end he provided nests; and at the
other end he regularly fed his hens with
low-priced Mexican grain.
The fowls ate their grain In Mexico and
then walked across the line into the United
States to lay their eggs The transaction
was perfectly honest, for of course the pro-
prietor of the hennery smuggled neither
grain nor eggs. But he availed himself of
high prices on one side and low prices ON
the other.
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Social Chatter.

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY members will leave
for camp Monday morning.
ANOTHER pleasant select dance was given
at Windsor Park, Bellevue, Thursday even
ing.
PICNIC will be given by the II. J. Heinz
Company to their employees to- day at Ross
Grove.
THE U. P. Sunday school of Belvidere pic
mic took place at Rock Point yesterday and
was well attended.
Miss LIZZIE KENNEDY gave q luncheon yes
terday afternoon at Bellevue in honor other
friend, Miss Dora Hooper.
THE Young Mems Christian Association, of
Williamsburg, is making arrangements to
establish gymnasium in connection with
the association.
THE third concert of the Great Western
Band took place last evening on the lawn of
the Twentieth ward school, Ellsworth ave-
nue.. An excellent programme was rendered.
AN elocutionary entertainment was given
at Grace Episcopal Church last evening
After the programme had been rendered ice
cream and other refreshments were served.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-25

The third of the four great 12-inch guns
that the Government is making has been
'jacketed" in the shops at the Washington
Navy Yard. The process is a simple one.
The steel tube of the gun, measuring SO feet
s inches long and weighing 5S, 900 pounds, is
placed in a receptacle with the breech end
up. The jacket, which consists of massive
hoop of steel, weighing as much as the tube
ITSELF but much shorter and thicker, is sub
jected to a heat sufficient to expand it eight
tenths of an inch. 1t is then tested by being
placed on what is called farmer" If
found to be all right, it is again raised and
lowered with the utmost care over tho steel
tube, as the least detection would ruin the
work. Water is then used to cool the tube
compressed by the jacket the Isl, 900 part of
an inch. The object OF the jacket is to
strengthen the tube. Further strength is
impaired by the adjustment of 80 powerful
steel hoops or rings. When the gun is COM
pleted its greatest diameteris feet lOinches,
and its weight 10000 pounds: The weight
of the projectile used in it is ], 600 pounds,
and the quantity of powder required to
charge it is $50 pounds. The range of one of
these guns is estimated at eight miles. The
cost is $4,000
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they do not prove that neither will fight
for England if fighting becomes necessary.
THE retirement of Lieutenant John +.

THE retirement of Lieutenant John f.
Meigs, of the United States Navy, after twen-
ty-nine years of honorable and useful serv-
ice, because of n casual discovery that he is
color-blind, looks like an equally color-blind
devotion to red tape. Lieutenant Meigs'
services in the Ordnance Department did
not Mt all require an ability to distinguish
colors; but the rules of the department are
construed SO rigidly that he has to go on the
retired list. 1t is hardly too much to chnrac-
terize this as mere stupidity. An intelligent
rule would limit the field of duty in which
an officer with that defect in his eyesight
should be capable of service; but to say that
valuable officer cannot superintend the
manufacture and testing of ordnance be-
cause he might make mistake in the color
of signals at sea is red tapeism of the aggra-
waited variety,
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PRODUCTION AND AGREEMENT.

It is interesting and not altogether un-
satisfactory to observe in the New York
Financial Chronicle an article which, to
parody Polonius, is very like wall over
fhe inability of the anthracite coal combi-
nation to restrict the total production of
that commodity within agreed limits. That
journal observes that while the agreements
fixed the total production for June at
3. $50. 900 tons, for May at 100000 tons
and for April at 1000, 600 tons, the actual
production has been from SOC, 900 to 800, 900
tons in excess of the stipulated figures.
And what further strikes the Wall street
mind as peculiar the market is taking all
the coal that is produced.
The last fact makes the excess of the
stipulated production all right according
20 the avowed ethics of this corporate
combination. The magnates of this pool
have frequently declared that their
agreement among gentlemen" was SIM
ply to produce the amount of coal that the
demands of the market would require
The peculiarly of a state where it is nee
Cssary to have an agreement in order to
produce the supply of any staple demanded
need not be enlarged upon at present.
Eut, as the demand in the market has
taken in the past three months some two
million tons in excess of the stipulated
figures, it is plain that this increase of pro-
duction had 10 be made in order to fulfill
The professions of the combination. Ii
the production had been restricted to the
agreed figures it is plain that the produc-
ton would have been 1000, 900 tons less
than the demand, and the ''gentlemens
agreement" would have been in the ungen-
tlemanly position of having been false tc its
professions.
Taking the agreement for what it really
intended, the figures are even more salts
factory. 1t happens TO be the fact that
the purpose of the agreement was to pro-
duce less than the normal demand, and by
producing an artificial scarcity to force
the payment of exorbitant prices. But
the laws of trade have proved more pow
cytul than the edict of the combined cor
porations, and the result has proved that
with production at the rate of 5000, 900
ions annually above the restricted figures
set by the combination the demand even in
the summer season equals the entire pro-
duction, by reason Of the approximation
10 reasonable prices, which accompanies
the failure of the agreement
Possibly this demonstration will teach
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-25
PHUNNY PHELLOWS PHANCH

Count De Queer-How ees zees, m
selle?
Miss Money-What, Count?
Count De Queer-What see ees a spectac
And what see him with ees spectacles.-Js
Weekly.
Judge (severelv)-Don't you know
when you placed n wedding ring on this VIC
finger you assumed the duty of supporting NJ
\. Peck-Your Honor, that ring was m
the United States and is not dutiable ar
Je1celers' Weekly.
Said Pat, ''These are days when It's hi
receive
The faith or the doctrine thai anyone teach
One breaches thing that he doesn believe.
Another one doesn't believe what he preaa
-Ne1 Iork P
Thirsty Acknowledgements! An
glass? You drink Hke-like aleaky ship.
Thirsty Physician-No. sir. 1 drink IKE
Doc.-Chicaoo Tribune.
care you willing to work for you
ing?'' she asked of the two traInps who were
ing on the porch.
s.Ye'm, we are, - replied one of 'em carr
IAN you kin bet we does it digestin' the tniT
wimmin alongthis route gives US ter eat -
ington Star.
"You ought to try and win her, &c
she's beautiful brunette
.'How's her income?''
That's fair
''Well, that's a very good mixture OF cor
ions. guess I'll go in for her. ."-Dstrot
Press.
Politicus-Do you think he Will ge
speakership2 Crisp has done well.
witticus-Crisp is well done. you mean-ne1
TsLeorunl.
"Don't you think the new tin plat
dustry we hear so much about is going TO +
work for large number of the unemployedT
Most assuredly. The tramps, Tor ms
Something right in their line, you see.
How sO?''
''oh! polishing the plates. Washington
Now Phebus nearer to the earth
HIS flaming car doth whirl
That he may get a nearer view
OF our sweet summer girl.
-Nelo Iork H3
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Out in Detroit they tell pleasing story of
Senator Palmer's modesty. The Senator was
coming into town from his neighboring farm
on an electric car and became interested in
a little woman who sat next him with a big
bundle on her lap, says an exchange At
the end of the cars route the Senator raised
his hat to the little woman and said: "AhI
madam, permit me-" She handed over the
bundle and followed out of the car. The
Senator hadn't gone very far before he ex-
claimed: why, madam, this is a baby,
d baby.
"Boy or girl?"
"Girl."
"Well, madam, when this little girl has
grown to an age when she can comprehend
what it all means, you might tell her that
when she was very young she was carried in
the arms OF President Palmer, OF the Worlds
Fairn
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NINE OF THE UPPER TEN.

HON. THOMAS B. REED left London yes
terday en- route home.
JUSTIN HUNTLEY MCCARTHY has already
written IL books and seven plays and he is
scarcely 80 years of age.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and party will ar
rive at Mt. McGregor, N. Y, on August Is,
for weeks stay as guests of w. J. Arkell.
GENERAL FRANK MARSHALL, the first
Governor Kansas ever had, has become
promoter in his old age. He is now 75, and
is well known to New York investors.
THE Duke of Edinburg is the most penuri-
ous member of the royal family, and when he
parts with a sovereign there is reluctance
visible in theeffort which would make bill
shaver weep out of sheer sympathy.
PREMIER MERCER was given grand re-
ception a t Montreal, Thursday evening, upon
his return home. In speech he said the
day was not far distant when Canada and
the United States will be as one nation under
reciprocal trade.
MIR. WANAMAKER'S desk, instead of be-
ing covered with cloth, has thick plate of
glass for its top, and beneath it is a map of
Canada the United States and Mexico show
ing counties, principal towns and railways
The Postmaster General can thus facilitate
talk with his visitors about new post routes.
NJ. G. BULKELEY, whose retention of the
Gubenatorial chair in Connecticut led to the
controversy with Governor Hill, is tall,
handsome, elderly gentleman. He is an
aristocrat from the crown of his head to the
soles Of his patent leather CATERS, but is rich,
liberal, and well liked in Hartford, except
by the militia people, whom he has offended.
COUNT HoLSTEIN- IN-HoLsTEINBoRG, Chief
Court Marshal of the King of Denmark,
whose recent marriage with singer of a
dancing hall created such a sensation in
Copenhagen, has been placed under guard
ianship. The sportive Count, who was sue
cessful in the spirited contest among the jeu-
nesse doree of Denmark for the young wo-
mans hand, enjoys the respectable age of so
Uan
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-25
PEASANT AND SAGE.
A Modern Fable Whose Moral Is Learned
by Trying it Once.

A Modern Fable Whose Moral Is Learned
by Trying it Once.
NJ. Quad in Chicago Tribune.I
Once upon a time peasant went to a sage
who was celebrated for his wisdom and said:
"Oh, Sage, L have an enemy who con-
stantly speaks i'll of me and disturbs my
peace of mind. He has even threatened to
do me personal injury"
"Have you ever injured him?"
Never"
elias your wife ever criticised his wife's
plush sacque?"
"Never.p
"Has your dog run his cat over the fence?'
"My dog is old and blind"
"Doyou play the accordion in the back
yard of an evening.
81 have none"
"But have you never suggested to your
enemy to run for Alderman in your ward on
the Reform ticket? Have you never asked
him to come over and give an opinion on q
sick horse? Have you never had the wit to
see that he was invited to deliver the Fourth
of July Grafton or draw up petition to the
Legislature?''
"Alasi no!'
Then go hence! You have only sand in
your head.'
Moral-Try it once.
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A WONDERFUL CLOCK.
The Mystery Is in the Force That Moves the
Accurate Timer.
jewelers. Weekly.l

jewelers. Weekly.l
NJ. Wollman, the jeweler of Council Bluffs,
Ia., has given the curious ample opportunity
to test their ingenuity in an endeavor to
1athom the mystery of q clock which he has
recently completed and placed in one of his
show windows. So far the most persistent
have failed to discover the influence that
1mpels the unique timepiece so accurately
to record the hour and minutes. A short
time ago Mr.. Wollman made an electric
clock that attracted attention, not only in
Council Bluffs, but in expert circles else
where.
The mysterious clock is far ahead of the
electric apparatus in many respects. In ap-
pearance it resembles the colored alcohol
signs in drugstore window being simply
two glass globes placed one above the other.
They are supported by delicate pedestal,
which is notched to show that it does not
conceal mechanism. The base is piece of
solid cherry wood turned out eight inches
in diameter. From this the slender pedestal
rises and supports the first globe, which is
about seven inches in diameter. On this
globe is a dial marking the minutes. Screwed
to the base is a solid metal hand which
points to the minutes as they go by, the
globe making one complete revolution in
each hour.
Above this is the smaller globe about four
inches in diameter, with q dial around its
equator indicating the hours. A piece of
silver plated steel spring bent in the form of
the figure is screwed to the base, forms the
top support for the two globes and carries
the stationary hand that points out the
hours on the smaller globe, which revolves
once in II hours. The globes are of very
thin and transparent glass and have no ap-
parent connection with each other. at the
top or at the base, except by the delicate
plvots that penetrate only small fraction
of an inch into the glass and form the axes
upon which the globes revOlve. Another
peculiarity that renders the mystery of the
mechanism still more profound is the fact
that either of the globes can be revolved
backward or forward on their delicate pivots
with great rapidity and without injury.
When the motion ceases they resume their
functions, losing only the time occupied in
spinning them.
The whole device Is set ON mirror in the
showcase and can be picked up and ex-
amined at will. The mystery is the force
that moves the globe so accurately and con-
tinuously, one Just II times faster than the
other, and both in perfect time with the
jewelers. regulator, which looks down upon
the strange device as much mystified as the
mechanical expert who critically examines
the novel clock, or the street gamin who
gaZeS upon it through the show window. 1t
has been intimated that sunlight or heat is
the motive power but Mr.. Wollman has dis
proved this by placing the timepiece in the
shadow. With the exception of the glass
globes every part of the mechanism has
been made by Mr.. Wollman at his bench. 1t
is strange and remarkable production,
and bids fair to remain q puzzle until its
maker sees fit to reveal his secret.
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DOWN BY THE SEA.

Down by the sea / sit and dream
OF the days long gone, and the moments seem
Like the opal stones of that mystic hue,
Which fades or shines DER the false or true;
And think. though know tits quite in vain,
1t might be better could live them again.
Down by the sea sit and weep
Ger thoughts that will never, never sleep,
And the sweet, sad music of the sounding sea,
With its minor cadences comforts me,
Though the wrecks of ships and the drift float in
From the far-off shore of the might-have-been.
Down by the sea 1 sit and dream,
As the lights on the land send their twnkling
gieam
Far out on the waves of that boundless sea,
To return no more forever. All me,
'Tis the thought of such thoughts that stabs and
kills.
Down by the sea, pay my bills
And don't like 1t little bit.
Detroit Free Press
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A HOT NORTH WIND.
The Norther in California Is the Chinook in
the Northwest.


the Northwest.
Chicago Tribune.1
The "norther' in California is the same as
the chinook in the Northwest. 1t is hot
wind that brings certain destruction to all
vegetation if it prevails for any length of
time, as it dries mp leaf, branch and root.
Not long ago one prevailed in the valleys of
California and wrought heavy losses to the
owners of orchards, vineyards and growing
crops. Since then there has been a lively
discussion as to the best method of obtain
ing protection against the recurrence of
these losses. OF course, there is no means
of preventing the invasion of "norther,"
but it has been discovered that when the
barometer at Winnemucca indicates 5005 or
more the wind is certain to make visit.
By watching the signal service reports
closely the fruit grower could tell when his
property was threatened. Armed with this
knowledge he could, it is believed, prevent
much damage by spraying his trees and
vines. As another means OF protectlon, 1t
is suggested that companies to insure against
'northers" be organized. The plan is re.
garded as feasible as the organization Of
companies to insure against cyclones.
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DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Rev. Charles Chaucer Goss.

Rev. Charles Chaucer Goss died in New
York on Wednesday. aged 20 years. He was born
on December 81, 1870, at Bridgewater, England
In 1912 he came to this country and in 1852 was
graduated from the Methodist Biblical Institute of
Concord, N. H. For several years he preached in
East Genesee Conference. Soon after his health
failed and he attached himself to the American
Sunday school Union, and, travelling through the
West for five years. he established large number
of Sunday schools. When the war broke out he
culated over a million books and pamphlets among
the Union army, He was the author of History
of Amer lean Methodism, - 1.-THE First Century Of
America, :" ''The Century Group Founders Of
Southern Methodism, ~ Bishops of the Methodist
Hundred Languages" D."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-25
Hamilton and Burr Forgotten.

This is a verbatim report of a CONVERSE
tion ON Hudson river boat between young
man and girl who had just finished her
education" at well-known New York pri-
vate school, says the Commercial Advertiser;
He (as the boat was passing Weehawken)
That is the place where Hamilton was shot
and killed by Burr.
Shells that so? Why didn't read any
He (wonderingly and sadly)-I did not
suspose you had 1t occurred some time
ago.
She-But you will send me the paper with
it all in, won't you, John? 1 do like TRACE
dies
John mumbled something which was taken
for promise.
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EVENTS IN SOCIETY.
Twenty Fifth Anniversary of an Odd Fell
lows Lodge-Some Gossip.

lows LOuSe-SOtne UOSSlp.
The celebration of the twenty fifth ami
yersary of James B. Nicholson Lodge No.
5s5 of Odd Fellows took place at Silver Lake
Grove Yesterday. One of the largest crowds
of the season assembled there to enjoy
the musical programme and the dane
ing beneath the trees. Myriads of
Japanese lanterns were suspended from the
trees and other appropriate decorations
were numerous. Adelaide Nicholson Lodge
No. 1876, ID. of r., took charge of this part OF
the arrangements, and the lady members @
are to be praised for their artistic taste.
last evening addresses were delivered by
Grand Master Ed Marsh, of Cory: Grand
Secretary James b. Nicholson, OF Phlladei-
phia. and others. Among those in attend
ance were: Grand Patriarch Richard ii. Gra-
ham, of Philadelphia; Grand High Priest V;
T. Vanartsdalen, of Philadelphia: Grand
Marshal s. W. Jefferis, Pittsburg; John A.
Myler, President of the Home at Laurel, Pa;
Colonel S. W. Jefferis, of the First Regiment
of Pennsylvania; Captain A. Alderman, OF
Canton Pittsburg, No. IS; Captain Z. f.
Means, of Canton Allegheny, and other Pa
triarch officers.