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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-10
HEETHuvEN sINGINn sorIETY

There was d Joyous asSembhge Of
dancers at Beethoven Hall last night,
it being the annual ball masque of the
Beethoven Singing Society. The mem
berS and their friends were out in full
force, and the waXen surface for many
hours was filled with merry gllders.
Many different characters were repre-
scented. and the costumes, as whole.
made up pleasing scene. Good music
was in attendance aud the merriment
continued till nearly three o'clock this
morning.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-10

We keep at all times a complete stock
Of Black and Mourning Goods Of the
highest character as to quality and style
and at prices the lowest.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05

New York city annually consumes
about 10000 bags, or about 500, 900
bushels OF. peanuts. The market is con-
trolled by the Virginia stock. Last July
the report was current that this season
the peanut crop would not be more than
one-half as large as it was in 1899 or
1890, when it was, respectively, 1,800,-
900 bags and 100000 bags. BY August
an average crop was reported. Today
the story is to the general effect that the
crop is not AS large as last year. In
other words, there is some talk of a
shortage in the Virginia crop. The pea
nut crop of North Carolina, on the other
hand, is predicted to be the very largest
in the entire history of that state
Last season peanuts We're worth about
nine cents per pound; this year they are
worth four cents.-New York World.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
An Enormous microscope.

The Poeller Physical Optical insti-
tute, of Munich, has under construc-
ton an enormous microscope for exhi-
bition at Chicago in 1893. 1t will mag
nifty to 16, 900 diameters, or, as ordi-
narily fitted, to 1000 diameters. An
electric light of II, 900 candle power is
to be used for Illuminating the image.
which is to be projected on screen
AS the heat from this powerful light
would .derange the focus by expansion
of the metal, an ingenious device is
used to cool the metal. This is small
copper cylinder filled with liquid car
Donate acid under a pressure of $50
pounds to the square inch.
1t is connected with the microscope
in such manner that an electric regu-
lator automatically opens valve and
allows a drop of the acid to escape in a
spray on the metal to be cooled. The
liquid Immediately evaporates and pro-
duces intense cold. The whole cost of
the instrument is said to be nearly S10,-
000.-New York Recorder
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
had the Gold In Her Shoes

Three women were on Main street
horse car and were about to change at
State street, when one of them sudden
ly stopped down and picked up some
thing. A policeman and one or two
other men were on the platform, but
they paid no particular attention to the
women.
She had spied five dollar gold piece
lying on the platform, and with consd-
erable dexterity had picked up the
coin, lifted her dress and placed the
money in her shoe without detection.
When she seated herself in the other
car she told her companions of her
good luck They would not believe
her, and she started to prove it, but
could not reach the money. Pm not
going to take of my shoe here, said
she, but as quick rs we get on board
the Rosedale | will show you the gold
piece. bridgeport Conn Post
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
CIiri.t,s Coat.

Those who have been trying 70 keep
up with the times by reading the dis
patches concerning the holy coat recent
ly put on exhibition at Tueves. the old
towrf~in Rhenish Prussia, have failed. of
course, in finding the information thai
would naturally be most interesting,
viz, How and where the sacred garment
has been kept during the past nineteen
centuries.
The coat is said to have been spun by
the Virgin Mary herself from the wool
of lamb and woven into u gray coat by
st. Helena on the Mount of Olives. 1t
came into the hands of Jew soon after
the crucifxion, who threw it into the
sea because the blood stains would not
wash out A whale swallowed it. The
whale was caught by a fisherman and the
gray coat found in its belly. 1t was next
sold to Orendd. son of Eygel, Christian
king of Treves, for thirty pieces of silver.
Orendel deposited it in Il stone coffin.
Being discovered, it became a sacred relic
and has since been kept at the cathedral
Of Treves.-St. Louis Republic.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05

A mechanical power has been in
vented by Mr.. William Riley Hunter, OF
Alton, Ia, which is intended to run
any light machinery by foot power,
such as buzz saws, scroll saws, lathes,
ETC., and consists of a main frame car
rying main shaft on which is mounted
a fly wheel, carrying a belt adapted to
convey power to a saw mandrel or
lathe head adjusted at top of frame
Two friction clutches are on said shaft
a rope passing over two idle pulleys at
top of frame, thence over and several
times around the peripheries of said
clutches, the ends of rope being fast
ened to treadles. By sitting upon the
seat and operating the treadles in the
usual way with the feet the machine is
put in motion. New York Telegram.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
O'Grady's Illusion.

Snake story peddlers have suffered a
severe business loss. James H. O'Grady,
aged thirty-six years, has died at SYRIA
cuse. He had acquired wide fame in
medical circles as the man with snake
in his stomach. O'Grady was a canal
boat captain until three years ago, when,
depressed and debilitated by his halluci-
nation, he left that occupation to do
laboring work at such times as he felt
able. He imagined that he could feel
the snake moving around inside of him,
and thought at times that it attempted
to crawl out of his throat. but was pre-
vented from doing so on account of its
size. He and his friends estimated that
it must be at least ten feet long.
He believed that he swallowed the
reptile while drinking water from pool
about ten years ago, and that ever since
then it had slowly grown until it was at
last large enough to manifest its pres
ence and too large to crawl out. A
friend, who had been troubled the same
way, advised O'Grady to first starve the
snake, then he was to put pan of warm
milk IN front of his mouth and catch the
reptile as he came out 10 eat. The suf-
ferer tried this. The post norton dis
closed that the man had intestinal gas
in his stomach.-New York Advertiser.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
Eating Reed Birds.

4 lively scene tOoh place in a well
known restaurant recently when a
prominent citizen, who has a temper
like bowl of Tobasco sauce, ordered
reed birds and found a shot in one of
them. The old fellow didn't mind the
shot much. bat the manner in which he
found it was what caused the trouble.
He was explaining to his wife the prop
er manner 10 eat reed birds. You eat
everything but the beaks," said he.
Crunch the bones up just as if they
were part of the meat Now, watch
me"
Suiting the action to the words, the
old gentleman began to masticate leg
The first time his jaws came together
he found the bird shot by the aid of a
sore tooth, and the yell that followed
drew a shrek of laughter from his wife
that made the old. man dance with
rage. The poor wife had a struggle
throughout the entire meal to suppress
her laughter and it was doubly hard
for other diners were enjoying the old
mans discontinue without taking the
trouble to hide their merriment. -Ex-
change.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
d The Modern Greek.

The average normal Greek is a wide
awake, active, shrewd individual. They
are proud of their ancestry, and this
pride finds expression in the naming of
their children. 1t is a common custom
for them to name them after the gods
and demi-gods of the heroic period
You hear on the streets one ragged,
dirty urchin hailing another of kindred
appearance with, Hi, Themistocles, ="
or "Oh, Phidias." You behold Plato,
Demosthenes and Theseus indulging in
noisy games at the street corners, while
mothers come to their doors shouting
at youthful Socrates to ''stop pulling
.Aphrodite's hair" or for Athene to
"stop making faces at Apollo. Pro
fessor D'Ooge in Pittsburg Dispatch.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
To Make the Winter Seem Short.

81 am fearful that we are going to
have long and very cold winter" sug-
gested middle aged man to the stran-
ger that sat beside him in a railway car
on the Harlem road last Wednesday
evening No response came from the
stranger, who wore tired look on his
face and did not appear to be sociable.
~ say am afraid we will have long
and very cold winter" repeated the so
ciable passenger.
"Well, if that is worrying you," said
the other man, arousing himself out Of
his reverie with a nervous jerk, "just
go and give somebody promissory
note for four months for an amount
larger than you can hope to pay Then
you'll find that this winter will pass
away so quick that you won't have a
chance to get cold. New York Times.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
Tried to Hatch out a watermelop.

The following story comes from Daw-
son, Ga; james Grier, who lives near
here, has turkey gobbler that is curl
osity. Mr.. Grier's turkeys consisted Of
two hens and gobbler. The hens made
nests about seventy-five yards apart in
Mr. Grier's melon patch, laid their nests
full of eggs and went TO setting. The
gobbler got lonesome and concluded that
the proper thing for him to do was to set
also. He got an equal distance between
the two turkey hens, squatted over a
guinea watermelon and set for six weeks
before he was discovered. Mr.. Grier
Thought that his gobbler had been stolen,
and was utterly astonished when he
found him in the patch trying 10 hatch
out young watermelons."
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
68f},E,EGg63LoNS
ACESS aGslGC
60
A NEGRO STAKEHOLDER.

Aunt Eliza. Once n slave, Owned Forty
ave Negroes when the War Began.
When the Ellison club held its first
meeting after the summer vacations,
Miss Ida Symmes read a paper on one,
"Aunt Eliza" a colored woman who
had been a large stakeholder up to the
time Of emancipation.
The subject of Miss Symmes' historic
sketch lived the greater portion Of her
life on the Newburg road, in the yicini-
| ty of the "Wet Woods" where she died
in 1887 She herself was slave until
the year 1893, when she received her
freedom from her master, John Hunley.
Upon Mr.. Hunley's death few years
later she came into considerable por-
5lon of his property, part of which was
an old two story log cabin near the
"Wet Woods" which at that time was
the handsomest dwelling in the neigh
borhood. Her chief ambition from the
moment Of her freedom, it seemed, was
70 become a slaveowner and lady.
She set about getting slaves any way
she could, but her usual method was to
buy children. At the beginning Of the
war she owned forty-fve of her own
race. According to statute, no negro
was allowed to hold slaves, and to avoid
any violation of the letter of the law all
The property of Aunt Eliza, including
the slaves, was held by Mr.. James Guth-
rie, the eminent fnancier, in trust. In
this deed of trust to James Guthrie APP
pears the name of a female slave who
had cost 5000, a man for whom she paid
500, a half grown girl for whom she
paid 1915 and number of small boys
who cost her 500 each.
While never cruel, it seems Aunt Eliza
never allowed her slaves to stop work
except to sleep or eat. Her farm, con-
sisting of forty acres, was kept up by
slave labor. The old woman herself
never did anything, and it was her Gus
tom, when rebuked for idleness, to say
that there was no need for her to labor,
as she owned enough men and women'to
work for her. She owned several car
riages, and always went attended by a
footman.
The old woman was married three |
times, and once TO a slave. AS she did |
not buy him from his owner he took the |
irst opportunity to run off to Canada.
She never owned any of her husbands,
and would never use any of their money.
At the death of her second husband she |
refused to accept the property he had
left, and distributed it among his kin. |
From the account given of her by Miss
Symmes, who knew her intimately, Aunt
Eliza must have been a strange creature.
At her death she willed her house and |
farm to the woman whom she had |
bought for 5000, who was, according to
the deed Of trust, the most valuable
piece of property she had ever owned. -
Louisville Courier-Journal
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
InhaIing Tar Fumes.

A man stood by one of the boiling
caldrons of tar used by the Broadway
PAYERS. He was thin, cadaverous and
of hectic cheek. Every now and then
he ylSibly choked with the rising fumes
of the tar. People looked at him curl
ously. He finally coughed rather more
violently than before, when workman
grufiiy suggested that he might move
away If he did not like it, But he
didn't move for an hour.
THAT fellow comes here every day
to smell that tar, said boss. Hes
got the consumption, and somebody
told him that the fumes OF this tar are
good for it. He has inhaled about
twenty barrels now, and il he sticks ia
it until Broadway is paved he'll be a
well man or dead don't know
which. New York Herald
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
ODDS AND ENDS
e Countess of Dudley was a shop

The Countess Of Dudley was shoT
girl
Wellesley college opened this year
with 700 students
The power plant at the Worlds fair
will be equalto q, 900 horse pow'r
Murray hill girls drink yiclIy or lemon
phosphate Mt the soda fountain
Tie United States imports more gum
for making varnish than any other
county
More tnah 9, O0J. UOO Of English cap
lial las been invested in the Tin mines
Of South Dakota
The price of aluuniniuln has fallen
during the last three years from four
dollars TO less than one dollar per
pound.
The half thoughts OF the foolish, put
into words, are often the levers that
move the wise to think in silence and
then act
Cheapside street, London, is trav-
ersed by $4,000, and Mansion House
street by about %. 0OO.vehicles daily.
Books remained very scarce and ex-
pensive until after the introduction Of
paper made from linen and the inven
ton of printing
Clear summer sunlight is said to pen
citrate the Mediterranean sea to a depth
Of 1,200 feet;- winter sunlight to only
500 feet.
In the United States the losses by /
are increasing by leaps and |
bounds. In 1899 they were S93, 1872, |
]75 and last year S113. 1S2.415.
Berlin's Society for the Homeless last
rear provided shelter foE 100, 900 men
md $4,000 women. In the eleven
7ears Of its existence it has furnished
odgings, food and medical care to
!, 200, 900 persons.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05

The extent to which drugs are used
gratuitously and without pathological
cause by INSCRIPTIONS grooms is a
matter for surmise rather than for di-
rect evidence; but many of our readers
may recall the alteration for good or bad
in the condition of their horses which
has become apparent before long upon
a casual change of grooms-where one
predecessor or successor, as the case
may be, has INDUCED in this prac-
tice Of useless drugging and the other
has abstained from it. Hunters for
which no day. seemed too long a year
AGO now "stop" and give out half way
in an ordinary run, and chance fences
at which they used to rise freely; or
phaeton horses sweat profusely at the
end of a quarter of an hour at eight
miles an hour with the thermometer
only temperate,
When such symptoms disclose them
selves the master may begin to suspect
that something is wrong, and that an
timony is superseding the brush and
currycomb in his stables. If a. direct
accusation does not elicit confession
and a promise of reformation he will
do well to give notice and to look out
lor a rev servant before the health of
bis stable is ruined. The drug thus ad-
miniStered for this special purpose be
gins TO lose its former efficacy after re
peated doses; the groom then probably
increases the dose, and perhaps before
long some valuable animal is hopelessly
ruined in health, if not absolutely
poisoned and taken to the knacker's.-
London Field
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
.. rh.rs ,nar nn DO Meor9

Remarkable discoveries have beer
made at the Lick observatory, Cali
fornia. Professor Holden, the director
has secured through the big telescope
better photographs Of the moon than
have been taken anywhere else, and the
work Of photogranhing goes on every
hour when the satellite is visible. BY
! studyiA these photo graphs with mag
nifyiag glass aui comparing them, any
changes taxing place on the surface OF
the moon may b. discovered
The astronomers on Mount Hamilton
have discovered some things that nobody
else ever saw. but they have not deter
pinned whether these are new features
or things that are too small to have been
seen through a less powerful telescope.
For example, upon the top Of one of the
mountains of the moon the photograph
shows a luminous white spot which
looks like snow. If that is snow, and if
it was not there before, the presence Of
an atmosphere is indicated. IL has.been
believed tt--t the moon has no atmos-
phere. and therefore is uniuhabitable.
but if it should be demonstrated that
snow falls upon the surface of the satel
lite, the accepted theory would be upset
and astronomers wOuld begin 70 study
the moon with new ard greater interest.
Objects upon the moon are detected
by their shadows. and projection or
sminence Fifty feet high casts a shadow
large. enough to be seen through the /
Lick telescope. If Professor Holden, /
studying his series of photographs, |
should discover spsne day a new shadow /
where noue had been cast before, when /
the moon was in the same position and 1
under the same ligut-he would know 1
that something had been erected upon /
the surface, either part II the crust up
heaved by some internal movement or
a building put up by living creatures.
The moon appears TO be a dead. desOlate
waste Of played out volcanoes and cooled
off lava beds, without atmosphere and
rather short Of water and good society.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05

The digging of the trench for the Ho-
Tel Dalton sewerage unearthed railroad
at depth of four feet below the surface
OF the street, which put old Daltonians
10 straining their memories. Chestnut
ties and pine stringers were used when
the road in question was built, and they
were in fair state OF preservation. II
was claimed by some that this wSs the
original right OF way and track OF the
Western and Atlantic railroad. bat this
Is known 10 be a mistake. Others claim
cd that Il had been built before the lays
Of Dalton, and by some IL was suggested
As an underground route to China.
AS matter OF fact. we leArn that the
road was built by some Of Sherman's
quarterInAsters while the old National
hotel was used as a Federal stOrehouss
during the war, 20 facilitate the unload.
ing Of freight without arAyAge. Cor
Atlanta conSatuton.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
sALrn MARKET REpJml
A synopsis Of the Misunderstanding aud
Selling Pr.ces.


REVISED QUO OrATfONs.
RErAu&PRGCEs
Shoulders Sugar ured,per iD.i1
breakfast bacon Is
Hams--sugar CO red, per IN. ls;s'
Beet 50l2Z
Forks q 10
MuttOn-8al2 &c.
Veal--lo q u =.
Timothy see l-Per pound, Sc: selling
Red clover seed Per pound, Itc.
White Glove. Seed-Pef pound, 1jc.
Alsike-iSc per pound.
Red top--iJc per pound.
Lincoln GrlsS-l25zc per pound.
Rye Grass --i0c per pound.
Orchard q -ass--iTc per po nd.
New potato x 10c per ousnsl.
Canned Fruit--Petche~, = o. aofnnt
So 90; blackberries, So corn, bvst z..i =
81 90; tomatoes 81 so string bedIss - y
green peas 81 81 per dol. In Nv" ib atiis
Fresh Observation-Disclosures ~. csrr u
5Cc; parsnips &c; onions &c per ID.
fish Salmon 7ai9c per lb; Sturgeon "a
7c per Ib.small fish nc per Id: salt salmon
7a1Oe per 10; Chinook salmon, l@
BUYISU PRICEs.
Wheat-TnlLc net.
FIour-Per barrel. $500. best 1876 lbs
Oats-Per bushcl. 30n32lSc.
Barley-Per bushel. i0.f i5..
Bran-Per ton. Sll % V mill. s5tcSvi.
ShOrts-Per ton. 50 % " s'cHr1.
Chsp-Per ton, $500 80 ar't"t
WOot-l7c TO c2D.
Eggs--30c per dozen.
POtatoes-Per Dushel, 2jc
Corn meal--3c per pound.
Cheese l2al4c per pound.
Dried plums-Per 10. N87c.
Dried prunes-PeF Id. l0nl l2c.
Butter--256,SJc per pound for gQOi
Lard--l04 l2c per 10
Hams-Psr pound Hole
Bacon 81 les "a 10 per III.
ShDulde -s--Sdec per Ia.
Chickens -7dsc per pO ind. W
Turkeys 10 10 l2c 10,
Geese 7f1b per 10.
Ducks, l215 ser III
Hops, S9l4c.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
How He Won the Captain. Daughter.


A strange romance has come to light
with the arrival Of the ship Elizabeth
Graham from Melbourne.
While the vessel was loading lumber
at Utsalady mill at Port Townsend last
spring, William Kennedy, an employee
Of the mill, then engaged in tallying
lumber that was being put aboard,
caught a glimpse of Captain Hodges
daughter Jennie. She repulsed his suit,
but he was undaunted. When the YES
sci sailed for Melbourne Kennedy quietly
bought passage 10 Australia ON the ship.
During the voyage he pursued his suit
% successfully that ON the arrival at
Melbourne the couple eloped and were
married. Captain Hodge forgave them,
and they returned, arriving with the
Elizabeth Graham Saturday. Kennedy
has secured his old place in the mill
and with his wife has made his home
ON the sound again. Cor Portland Ore
gonian.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05

When a newly welded pair COM
mence life in home of their own, it is
customary to issue "at home" cards, for
few afternoons or evenings at no dis
tant date, unless the marriage occurs
in early summer, when these informal
receptions are deferred until the au-
tumn> Only such persons are invited
as the young people choose to keep as
friends, or perhaps only those whom
they afford to retain.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05

a Truly Rural Scene In Philadeiphia.
A novel sight was witnessed ON Chest
nut street, near Front, the other day, in
a young man leading a pig by rope.
The leading of the pig in itself was not
so much matter of interest as the mode
adopted to induce the pig to follow the
leader. In his hand he carried can
filled with milk, and whenever his pig.
ship showed disposition TO lag behind
or an inclination to bolt up cross street
the young man would stop, put down
his can Of milk and allow piggy" a swig
or two. The effect was electrical. for
the pig would at once fall into line again.
PHILADELPHIA Record.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05

Charles Louvier, a carpenter OF Paris,
found it child's play to roll tin basin
between his fingers into a cylinder. On
one occasion he carried off a soldier on
guard who had gone to sleep in the
sentry box, and deposited both box
and soldier on low churchyard wall
close by.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05
CHANCE AND CHANGE.


Though duh and dark the Skies "ha' OOO'' u'.
III. m The moment. which viii soon be DER
77ha morrow dawn may be as bright and tair
A Though the clouds we're past forever
more
Nor he thou overjoyous IL the day
Is clad and bright, aud Nature hath her i''''
Enwreatbed in smiles; the moro" may O'
And leaden clouds come driving on apace'
Darkness to light. and light to darkness YIELDS
Night unto day. and day again to niEnU
Zen while the cloud shades hover oef ~
fields, .,,,.,.
triumphant through them bursts the sun 5
glad light.
30 tits with life. Be not too much cast uo"n
II darkness rests upon thee, nor elate
II bright be all thy pathway; smile anu iro"h
Fit swiftly DER the countenance OF rate
And that thy mirror is. She frowns on those
Who weakly murmur and who rear the
strife;
But smiles on him who mocks at all her blo"s'
And bravely bears him through this chang
Exchange,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-05

The scents commonly used by men
are Opoponax, Jockey Club and Eau
de Chypre. Men use a great deal of
scent nowadays Roxana was the
favorite scent of Charles II. it is a
very pleasant bouquet. had almost
forgotten TO mention the Smokers
PaStils