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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO.

D. F. Keenan,, the Philadelphia railroad
contractor was at the St. Charles Hotel yes
terday He said the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company was little shy OF building the
branch roads demanded by residents in
various localities until it clearly saw its way
to making an adequate return for the outlay.
Stewart Hamilton, the turnkey at the
Allegheny lookup, will leave tomorrow for
the West, going to CQwley county, Kansas,
where he has some reM estate interests. He
will be accompanied by his wife and two
children, and will be absent several weeks.
Herr Werbke, of Buskar, \. Be,.lin, was
on the limited last night en- route to MIL
waukee to visit brewer Pabst.
Smithin C. Shortlidge, President of the
Media Academy, was ut the Monongaheia
to-day.
Ph. w. Herzoge, wife and sister, of Min
neapolis, are ut the Monongahela House.
A. L. Gardner, of North Adams, Mass,
IL stopping a the seventh Avcnue.
Attorney l.. B. Shreves, of Waynesburg,
is n guest Mt the Schlosser.
y. NJ. Cooke, Of New Haven, Conn, Is q
guest ut tho Duquesne.
John w. O'Neal, Of Elizabeth, Is at the
Monongnhola.
J. @. Townsend, Of washington, d. G., Is
at the Central.
r. J. Ermshsw. Of Washington, Is at the
MononEahela.
Louis white. Of wheeling. Is a. the An
dotson.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
THE SPEED OF INSECTS.
The Fly Makes 600 Strokes a Second When
in a Hurry.
Newcastle Times. ]

Newcastle Times
There are many insects which one would
little suspect to be furnished with apparatus
suited to swift and more or less continuous
flight. House flys frequent the inside of our
windows, buzzing slugglshly in and out of
the room. But what different creatures are
they when they accompany you on a hot
summers day. A swarm OF these little pests
keep pertinaciously on wing about your
ears; quicken your pace, and still they are
with you, let a gust of wind arise and carry
them backward and behind, the breeze hav-
Ing dropped, their speed is redoubled and
they return to their post OF annoyance. But
this example gives only partial proof of
the fiy's power of flight, as the following
will show: The writer was travelling one
day in autumn by rail, at about % miles an
hour, when company of flies put in an ap-
p2arance at the carriage window.
They never settled, but easily kept pace
with the train; so much SO, indeed, that their
flight seemed to be almost mechanical, and
a thought struck the writer that they had
probably been drawn into sort of vortex,
whereby they were carried onward with but
little eXertion on the part of themselves.
But this was soon diSproved. They sailed
forth at right angles from the train, few to
ing pace, and then returned with increased
speed and Duoyancy to the window. To
account for this look at the wings of a fly.
Each is composed of an upper and lower
membrane, between which the bloodvessels
ana respiratory organs ramlfy so as to form
q delicate network for the extended wings.
These are used with great quickness, and
probably 600 strokes are made per second.
This would carry the fly about % feet, but a
sevenfold velocity can easily be attained,
making 125 feet per second, so that under
certain circumstances it can outstrip a race
horse.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
sTERILIZED MILK.
A New Process Used by Diet Dispensary
to Make 1t Pure.

to Make It Pure.
Brooklyn Eagle.1
The Brooklyn diet dispensary has formu-
lated a new process by which the sickness
of children is expected to be diminished
during the summer months. Milk is the
staple article of food during the hot period
and the attention of the management has
been directed to this. By process known
as sterilization every imperfection is re-
moved from the liquid and it is served in its
purest form to the little ones at a nominal
charge only. In order to secure the state of
purity the milk is put through an extensive
operation. The fluid of the best quality
obtainable is received early in the morning,
surrounded by ice, and Immediately trans
ferred from the large cans to small bottles
holding about as much as an ordinary nurs-
ing bottle
These bottles and their shoppers have been
previously baked in q hot air oven Ior half
an hour, thus destroying any organisms or
impurities that might cling to their walls.
The bottles of milk are set in trays of wire
cloth, loosely stoppered with rubber stop
pers, and placed In double walled steam
chests, through which live steam is con-
stantly flowing. Here the milk remains for
As minutes at the constant temperature of
2l2 degrees Farenheit The effect of this
heat is to forever destroy every little organ
ism be ID GERM bacteria or microbe, that
would by its presence on a warm day, set up
those changes kliown as putrefaction, fer
mentation OF Sourfng. This milk cannot
now undergo fermentation, because there is
no fernent. To keep out any little wander
ers that are so numerous in the air about
this time, the bottles are next stoppered air
tight and, as an extra precaut1on, given NJ
teen minutes more steam bath.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
Conversation by whistIing.

To the Editor ofThe Dispatch:
Is there a place where conversation is
carried on by whistling? E. j.
SETICKLEY, Aug. %.
tAll the inhabitants, with the exception of
a few of the best families, OF the Island OF
Gomera, one of the Canary group, are able
to carry on simple conversation by the aid
of whistling, and over distances at which
spoken words could not be heard. The
whistled language does not consist of pre-
concerted signs and sounds, but every sim
gle syllable has its own peculiar note.
The whistling is formed by the lips and
tongue, or, as in the country, with the
help of one or two fingers. A German officer,
Lieutenant Guendenfeldt, who has been long
in the island, attributes this practice to the
peculiar confguration of the island, which
is broken up into deep chasms, so that near
neighbors have to go miles out of their way
to visit each other to have a talk together;
this, he says, drove them to adopt whistIing
as a mode of conveying their thoughts. The
practice is confined to this one island, being
quite unknown in the other islands of the
archipelago
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
NAMES FREQUENTLY SEEN.

BRET HARTE's English publishers last
year paid him $4,000
CHARLES EMORY SMITH will sail on the
City OF New York next week for his embassy
at st. Petersburg.
THE wife of Nebraska minister has been
arrested for purchasing lottery tickets
through the mails.
YOUNG James R. Garfield is likely to be
the Republican nominee for State Senator
from Lake county, o.
JUSTICE FIELDS health is so much i'm
proved that he is confident he can return to
the bench at the conclusion of the long va
cation.
THE old Duke of Nassau, who at IS is
hale and active, has a fortune of $25OOO0OO,
and is consequently set down as the richest
Prince in Europe
MRS. O'SHEA-PARNELL is not unknown
to the Queen, who at any rate up to few
years ago was won't to treat her with much
consideration and affection.
MRS ALICE SHAW, the famous whistler,
has demonstrated the fact that whistling
even is hereditary. She has four daughters,
each one of whom inherits her peculiar
talent.
+ THE Countess of Radnor has established
ladies' string band in London, and as all the
performers are pretty, aristocratic and tai
ented it is no end of success in the refined
regions of Mayfair.
THE summer home of Mrs Cruger Cullen
Gordon) on Long Island is sumptuously fur
nished, and there she leads a life Of idleness
broken by periods of hard work. Mrs Cru
ger is a handsome woman, well-bred, aristo-
cratic and elegant.
THE ashes of Nine. Blavatsky are to be
placed in @ magnificent urn of gold and
guarded by the British section of the Theo-
sophical Society. An effort will be made by
the Washington theosophists to have the
urn stored in the National capital
RENE RAoUL DUvAL, to whom Mrs.
James Brown Potter's sister is engaged to
be married. is a nephew of Leon Say, the
French statesman. The young mans father
is at the head of the gas works of Naples and
Paris. NJ. Duval is said to have an annual
income of 1000 900 francs.
WALTER WINANs, the American mil
Honaire, whose deer forest in Scotland has
so often formed the theme of parliamentary
debates and whose revolver shooting is re-
markable, has made a wonderful record with
his favorite weapon. At a distance of 20
yards, with a disappearing target he scored
40 points out Of a possible 4s.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24

A large portion of the space in to-day's
DISPATCH is given up to the remarkable
array of evidence which James W. Miller
presents to the world as proving his inno-
cence of the crime for which he was con-
yicted and sentenced ten years ago. The
central point of the defence is an alibi
An affidavit, corrcbOrated by others, has
been secured from man accidentally
shot by Miller on March %, 1881, the night
of the notorious bond robbery The sup
porting testimony produced is of very
vOlUminOus and circumstantial character.
Ore Of the most interesting features of
the narrative is the sworn statement of
that well-kncwn PittSburg attorney,
Colonel w. d. Moore, which ne made
upon a sick-bed last Saturday night, and
which forms one of the strongest links in
the chain. One noticeable thing in Mil
lcr's career is the vigOr and energy which
he has displayed since his release from a
prison cell, and the tremendous amount of
work evidently necessary to collect the
mass Of evidence upon which he now asks
the Judgment Of the public.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
THE FIRST IRO N BRIDGE.
1t Was Erected a Hundred Yenrs Ago in
Worcester, England.
Baltimore Sun. J

Baltimore Sun.l
At the present day, when we are accus-
toned to look upon iron as the chief con-
structive material with which civil engi-
neers and architects all over the world deal,
the first iron bridge that was ever built is a
curious sight. This bridge, the arches of
which were made of iron, was called "Iron-
BRIDGE" and it was erected in IT'S. 1t spans
a little river in the county of Salop, on the
railroad line from Shrewsbury to Worcester,
in England. At the present day the struc-
tlire is surrounded by thriving little vii
lage, which took its name from the bridge.
Several iron fouhdries have been estab
lished in the neighborhood. The structure
was O timid attempt at what has since devel-
oped into an extensive industry. There are
three supports; two of them are very small
and cross a narrow country road, while the
third and largest one spans the bed of the
river. 1t is about 96 feet long and weighs 37S
tons
The braces were cast at Coa1brookdale,
every bar being composed of two seSments.
Stephenson. the great civil engineer, wrote
as follows on the construction of this first
iron bridge: "When we bear in mind that
the manipulation OF cast iron was at the
time of its erection in its infancy, we can
not help but feel convinced that unblushing
audacity alone could conceive of such an
enterprise, and the intelligence with which
the details were outlined and executed is
equal to the boldness of the conception"
The bridge is constantly used and is in ex-
cellent condition, fact which disproyes
all the ominous clamorings of cranks that
or later bring danger to the iron bridge of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
The Duke of Cleveland.

Harry George Powlett, X. G., D. G. L.,
the fourth Duke of Cleveland who has just died in
at oxford. He attached to the Embassy at
Paris in 1922, and was Secretary of Legation at
Stockholm in 1881. He Liberal member of
the House of Commons from 1911 to 1854. In the
latter year he succeeded to the dukedom, and he
then assumed the name and arms of Powlett in
lieu of his his patronymic, Vane. He was directly
descended from the famous Sir Harry Vane, who
beheaded for treasonin 1862. He was married
in 1854 to the widow of Lord Da1neny and mother
of the present Lord ROseberry. The Duke of Cleve-
land was patron OF - livings of the Church OF Eng
land. His seats Raby Castle Durham and
Battle Abbey, Sussex. He left heir. and the
ducal line is now extinct. The Barony OF Barnard
survives, however. going to Sir Henry Morgan, u
member of a collateral branch of the Vane family.
The Dukes death leaves vacant q place in the
famous Order of the Garter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
An Unnecessary Quest.
70 the Editor of The Dispatch:

To the Editor of The D1spatch:
In an editorial in Fridays DISPATCH, YOU
refer to polar expeditions as "an unnecessary
quest" You then assume to speak for the
public, and declare that they had just
reached the conclusion chat foolhardy men,
anxious to risk their lives in an undertake
ing, the benefit of which is questionable,
were all creatures of the past" This is very
far from stating the fact. In the ranks of
the great public are many persons who de-
sire a wider knowledge of terrestrial phys
les, and who are more interested in such
knowledge tnan in the disreputable game
known as modern mach inc politics. While
1t is true that Arctic exploration has hitherto
been attended with rather barren results,
the plan of Prof. Fridtjof Nansen, is not
Welt conceived; it still remains that per-
picking scientific problems can be solved if
we can succeed in surveying that my sterious
region known as the North Pole. This ex-
ploration has always been prosecuted in too
diminutive way, and here lies abundant
ground for criticism; but surely no one can
successfully maintain that any contribution
of knowledge that tends to better under
standing of the physics of our globe is ques-
tionable.
This seems pretty much the same kind of
missiels hurled at Columbus and while we
NAV not contend that the revelations of the
Polar explorer may equal those of the daring
Genoese, there is, in the solution of popular
problems O worthy field for the loftiest
ambition. N.
WAMPIJM PA August O.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
The Delivery of Letters.
To the Editor of the Dispatch.

To the Editor of the Dispatch.
Suppose letter arrived at postoff1ce adj
dressed TO a man or his wife, with request
to deliver it to no one else, anG the post
master delivered said letter thoughtlessly
to a member of the family who has been in
the habit of getting her, father and mothers
mail, would the postmaster be liable for
damage? 1t seems to me that the parties
would have to prove that they have bee
damaged before they can recover from til Q
postmaster. X. IL.
PITrsBURG, August %.
IPostmasters may be liable to persons who
suffer injury or lose through the thought :
lessncss or negligence on the part OF the
postmaster IN the discharge OF his official
duties and damages may be collected In u
civnl suit, but the aggrieved must provo that
he was damaged by the neglect. Judicial
notice was given In case whore q clerk 70
ccivcd letter containing money with or.
ders from the mailer to register 10. 10 was
addressed to nm ofiloe at which tho registry
systcm was not In operation, but both tho
sender hnd the clerk supposed 10 could be
registered. Tho clerk on disco, srinR that
~ could no, DO sent % y registered paekago,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24

not admit that hydrophobia is a tangible
terror at all. The cure of it, which Pas
teur has effected in Paris and Gibier in
New York. according to common report,
can be easily explained if DR.. Shrady. is
right in his premises. Nothing is easier
than to cure imaginary complaints. And
truth to tell, very large part of medical
practice even in these days of enlighten-
ment, and not the least important, is the
treatment of diseases that exist only in
the imagination.
the arguments of DR.. Shrady to
this end are conclusive, but they will add
to the suspicion which many physicians no
doubt entertain, that the hydrophobia scare
rests upon very uncertain grounds. The
other day THE DISPATCH contained an ac-
count of how a nervous boy Was nearly
frightened to death by fool-friends and
relations who insisted that he had hydro
phobia. This boys life was saved, but
doubtless many have been driven to a
frightful death by the same means. Yet
with all the beating of tomtoms and wild
alarms the cold statistics confront us with
the fact that in a nation of sixty millions
only fifty persons are alleged t0 have died
from hydrophobia last year.
Taking all these facts into consideration,
we may safely conclude that if rabies does
exist, not every dog that is called mad is so
and the chances are that the dog is mad
in another sense, as a man might be angry
if he We're chased and stoned and shot at
by crazy mob-and that dog bite is not
necessarily passport to excruciating tor
mentS and sure death. Life has real ter
rors enough without drawing upon our i'm
aginationS for more.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
THE LOST CABIN CLAIM DISCOVERED.
The Gold for Which the Miners Lost Their
Lives Was Not There, However.

| Portland Oregonianl
| Everybody on this coast who has had any
thing to do with mines or miners has heard
| of the Lost Cabin mine. Five men worked
there for over year, so the story goes, and
had accumulated large amount of gold. As
they were preparing to leave the cabin with
| their treasure which had been exhurned
from its hiding place they were attacked by
Indians. Three of the party who were TAX
| ing the tools out of the cut they had made
were shot, but the other two who were out
hunting the mules to pack out the treasure
| escaped. One named Hurlburt was never
| heard of and is supposed to have perished in
! the mountains. The other. Tracy by name,
| escaped to Jacksonville, where he told the
! story of the massacre and the abandoned
| treasure, and where he finally died without
having been able to guide party to the
| claim, although he tried several times, but
| on account of weakness was forced to turn
! back. During his sickness he was nursed by
a Mrs. Croxton, to whom he impaired a de-
| tailed description of the appearance of the
| claim and its surroundings. Hundreds of
people have searched for the Lost Ca bin
claim since the massacre of the original
owners on November 5, 1856, but it has never
been found till few days ago
Mr.. W. l.. Long, who resides on Jefferson
street, near Eighteenth, and who left here
| last April to prospect for mines in Southern
Oregon, returned home last Saturday. He
says that in company with Agent Matthews,
! of the Klamath Indian Reservation, W.
| Nickerson his secretary, and W. s. ParrOtt,
artist, he found the Lost Cabin one day last
week. They had obtained a description of
the place from Mrs. Croxton, and man
named Barneberg showed them the cut ex-
| cayated so long ago and now grown up with
| chapparel- He says that they left the
I agency on the 9th instant and attempted to
| cross Klamath Lake to Balls Bay in two
| canoes lashed together, but encountered q
| heavy storm of wind, rain and snow, and
| were driven back, and then started out with
| u team and went round the lake to Balls
| Bay, and about half mile from there, in o
| kind of "draw" in the mountains, they
| found the long-lost Lost Cabin. They found
| the excavation made 35 years ago, and lost
! cabin on each side of it. They also found
| the holes from which the treasure was ex-
| humed ready for removal, and the juniper
| which may be considered remarkable after
| which is not SO remarkable. When the party
| ing out where they had been, said he was
mitted by Rogue river OF Molalla Indians,
and he knew just where these Indians had
buried the white men and seven bags of yell
low stuff, weighing about 100 pounds each,
with them. Agent Matthews was to take the
Inuian, who is a policeman and very truth
full and trustworthy man, and go out and
dig up the gold. while Mr.. Long returned
home, and is now living in momentary eI-
pectatiOn of receiving a dispatch announc-
ing the arrival of the treasure at the
Klamath agency
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
OUR MAIL POUCH.


To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Can you give me the manner in which the
ocean steamers are timed. MAJESTIC.
PITTsBURG, August 23
lThe British Government has man sta
toned at Roche's Point, who is paid to record
in book the exact time these steamers pass
his signal station, both inward and outward
bound. Since the acute rivalry between the
fleet ships of the White Star and Inman lines
has sprung up this man has been even more
than ordinarily careful in carrying out his
instructions. In passing Roche's Point The
vessels go through channel hardly three
miles wide, and as general thing they pass
within an easy mile of the Government sig
nal station. Since the fast ships began to
reckon their speed so carefully this signal
officer has timed them from the moment
they were exactly abeam of his station. The
outward-bound vessels usually go past him
at full speed. What becomes of them after
that is of no concern to the signal man. He
Immediately telegraphs his record to the
steamship agents in Queenstown, whence it
is forwarded to the main office in Liverpool.
Both the Inman and the White Star
lines have man of their own on
Roche's Point to make observations and
figures. Sometimes they differ. But if by
any possible chance the question Of q YES
of law, the Government signal mans figures
would stand. In a similar way the official
time oD the other side is taken the moment
the vessel Is abeam of Sandy Hook. The
line is set by the compass, and the telescope
does the rest. The moment of crossing Is
almost as clearly defined as in the case of
the running horse on the track. PASSENGERS
on the transatlantic steamers date the time
of their passage either from Lands End or
from the time the vessel starts until she
comes to anchor. The steamship companies
do not take this into account at all in their
official records. They know the time, OF
course that vessel leaves Liverpool, and of
her arrival at Queenstown. But this is not
considered in the record of her passage The
subsidized mail boats-the White Star and
Cunard-usually anchor st Queenstown,
mile or two further inside Roche's Point
than do the lnman boats and other Atlantic
liners which are not obliged to await the ar
rival of the Irish mail at Queenstown, ex-
cept for stray passenger OF two. The mail
boats are usually the last to get away from
the harbor. The actual voyage begins, so
far as the official record is concerned, when
the outgoing vessel circumstances to be
adopted in practice.1