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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-12
LIGHT FROM FIREFLIES,
A Bare Possibility That 1t Could Be Used
in Every Day Life.

A Bare Possibility That 1t Could Be Used
in Every Day Life.
Goldthwaite's Magazine
Secretary Langley, of the Smithsonian
Institution, has been experimenting fol-
some time past with frefies from Cuba
He says that the light they give is
the cheapes, in the world, produced, that
is to say, with the least heat, and
the smallest expenditure of energy;
and he believes that successful imitation OF
it would prove mosS profitable substitute
for gas and electricity. The insects are
beetles two inches long, and belong to the
family of the Swapping bugs" so called
because when one of them is laid on its
back it snaps itself into the air W ith a click
ing sound.
The secret of the light this FREELY gives is
as yet undiscovered. Apparently, it is con-
nected in some way with the mysterious
;phenomena of life, and chemists and physi-
ci have sought in vain to explain its origin.
On each side of the animals thorax Is a
luminous membranous spot and these flash
at intervals, so that the Cubans put a dozen
of the insects in case together, and SO
obtain q continuous illumination bright
enough to read by. This light is accom-
panied by no preceptible heat, and is SEEM
ingly produced with almost no expenditure
of energy.
How great an Improvement it represents
upon al. known artiiAal lights can be
imagined when it is stated that in candle
light, lamplight or gaslight, the waste is
more than SO Per cent. In other words, if
they could be so obtained as not to throw
anything away, they would give nearly 100
times the illumination which they do afford.
Even the electric light is mostly waste.
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CoLLIDED WITH THE sTATUTES

PETER GARNsT was locked up last night
for fighting on Fifth avenue.
TEN policemen were suspended for ten
days or longer period for various offenses
at yesterdays police hearing.
C. C. THOMPSON, who lives on Given street,
was arrested last night for shooting his re-
volver in q reckless manner on Pride street.
CHARLES ALLEN, an East End boy, supposed
to be one OF a crowd of young mischief
Makers was arrested yesterday for stealing
o tent.
CONSTABLE RODGERS Of the Eighteenth
ward, was assaulted and robbed by three
men Wednesday night on the Butler street
extension. The ruffians escaped and Rodg-
ers was picked up unconscious
CHARLES ROBBINS, a 15year-old boy, was
arrested yesterday for the alleged theft Of
bottles of liquor from Klinordlinger's liquor
store on Penn avenue. This makes the fifth
boy arrested for stealing whisky from this
store.
MORRIS SULLIVAN has been spending the
last few days getting drunk and sleeping or
the effects of his intoxication in a stable on
about to retire he was arrested by Officer
McAleese and locked up as a vagrant.
JAMES RoGERs his wife and an S-year-old
child were found wandering along Skunk
Hollow last night by Officer Logan Rogers
was intoxicated and the mother and child
were only about half clad. They were all
taken to the Seventeenth ward station
house.
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STORY OF A STOLEN HORSE
The Chase Of Latrobe Man After an
Animal the CooIeys Had Caught.

The Chase Of Latrobe Man After an
Animal tho Cooleys Had Caught.
LATRoBE, Aug. ia rig that was
stolen from Osborn's livery stable last Fri
day evening is again in possession of the
owner. When the rig appeared this morn
ing in charge of Charles Braden, who had
driven it through from Uniontown, crowd
collected to see the now famous horse and
learn the particulars of his recovery and
safe return home. To reporter Mr.. Braden
stated that while en- route for pleasant
Unity Tuesday morning, he got slight
clew of the rig and decided to follow it up.
The track led him to Mt Pleasant and from
there to Connellsville. When near the lat
ter place., he met . lady of whom he in
quired concerning the strange rig. The
lady did not seem desirous of impartiDg any
information on the subject until Mr.. Braden
resorted to strategy when he learned that a
rig answering the description had passed
that point on Sunday.
He proceeded to ConneHsville and in
quired of the oll-keeper at the bridge from
whom he learned that the team had crossed
the bridge on Sunday evening. He then
followed the yellow trail out through
Leisenring, where it was lost at the foot of
his Journey to Uniontown. The horse in
the meantime had been captured. A
number of citizens headed by j. c.
Beatty made raid on the gang, who
fled to the mountain fastness, taking
their horses and saddles, but leaving the
yellow horse and blackboard which was
captured and placed in Beatty's barn.
Fearing the outlaws would return with
reinforcements and retake the rig and per-
haps destroy the barn, the horse was placed
in the care of Sheriff Mccormick, from
whom Mr.. Braden obtained it.
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BUSINESS BREVITIES.


CALIFORNIA orchardisrs claim that the
prune crop will not be IS per cent Of last
years.
THE mackerel catch OF the New England
fishing fleet to date is 22,0C0 barrels, against
1000 barrels last year, and 5000 in 1880.
The Edison and Thomson-HoustonC Com
panies have been definitely consolidated.
John ]. Beggs, of New York, was chosen
President.
THE strike of the planning mill men OF st.
Louis has been declared of. The trouble
arose over a demand for shorter hours, with
NO decrease In pay.
FIGURES on South Dakota's prospective
yield are astounding, ranging from So O00, 900
to 100000 bushels of wheat, besides i'm
mense quantities of other grains.
A SUIT in ejectment was eneered at
Lebanon, Pa, Wednesday, by Bertram Cole
man against Robert Coleman, for the share
Of the plaintiffs uncle in the Cornwall ore
banks.
The North American Loan and Trust Com
pany, of Huron, in the Circuit Court at
Miller, s. D., took execution paper on 100 600
United States Mortgage Company, of Hull,
England, and will sell the same to satisfy d
~, 600 Judgment.
THE Philadelphia District Attorney will in
day or two file a replication in the United
States Court In the Sugar Trust suit. 1t will
be formal document denying the position
taken by the respondents IN their answers.
The court VIII then, at its next session, be
asked to appoint an examiner to hear the
evidence, and the case will be pushed to o
speedy termination.
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THE FLOUR MILL OUTLOOK.
No Change in,tbe Output, but the Demand
Is Som what Improved.

NJ SudnSo Output, oub DelndHu
Is Som what Improved.
MINNEAPoLIs, Aug. 1.-THE Northwest
srn Miller says: The flour output last week
was practically the same as the week before,
being 193 100 barrels against 1872, ,615 barrels
the week before, 40, $50 barrels for the cor
responding time in 1891, and 1856, 272 barrels
in 1890. Eighteen mills are running again
this week and the daily grind is about the
same. The call for -four has been consi der
ably improved the past week both in this
country and abroad, and since Thursday
most of the firms have made liberal sales.
As rule prices are now being held 10
cents higher and millers are not dis
posed to sell for later shipment than Sep
tember. Some millers complain that cash
wheat is again unnecessarily high, it having
within the week been advanced out of pro-
portion by what some characterize as osten-
tatious buying on Change here. A few mil
lers, however, are holding back in the sale
of patents, regarding prices offered as too
low. Low grades are in less active demand
than bakers, though several firms are sold
ahead on red dog. The shipments to foreign
countries last week were next to the heavi-
est on record, owing to about 50, 900 barrels
of bakers being shipped from warehouse
here. They amounted to 100, $50 barrels.
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BIRDS WITH EsTHETIC SENSE.
An A Australian Species Builds ltself Place
of Amusement,

An Australian Species Builds Itself q Place
of Amusement.
The most remarkable instance of @stheti-
cism among birds is that exhib tied by the
Australian bower birds, who build long
galleries in which to play, adorning them
with shells, feathers, leaves. bones or any
colored or glittering object which comes in
their way. Lumholtz describes several of
these play houses of the bower birds.
He also in his interesting book, Among
Cannibals," describes playground of what
would appear to be different species Of
this bird, showing even greater aesthetic
taste. "On the top OF the mountains I
heard in the dense scrubs the loud and un-
ce asing voice of bird. l carefully ap-
preached it as it sat upon the ground and
Shot il. 1t was one of the bower birds,
with gray and very modest plumage, and
of the size of thrush. As picked up the
bird, my attention was drawn to fresh
covering of green leaves on the black soil
This was the birds place of amusement,
which beneath the dense scrubs formed
square about yard each way, the ground
having been cleared of leaves and rubbish.
On this neatly-cleared spot the bird had
laid large fresh leaves, one by the side Of
the other, with considerable regularity;
and close by he sat singing, apparently ex-
tremely happy over his work. As soon as
the leaves decay they are replaced by new
ones
''On this excursion I saw three such
places of amusement all near each other,
and all had fresh leaves from the same kind
of trees, while large heap of dry withered
leaves was lying close by. 1t seems that
the bird scrapes away the mould every time
it changes the leaves, so as to have dark
background, against which the green leaves
make q better appearance. Can anyone
doubt that this bird has sense OF beauty"
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SEVEN RAILROAD FATALITIES.

Death of Henry Fisher, Whose Remains
Are Scattered for a Mile or More -
Arthur Hanlon's Mysterious Death
Other Fatal and Serious Casualties.
Seven railroad accidents with fatal re-
suits leads the mortuary record of yester-
day. The most horrible of the sad number
was the fate of Henry Fisher, of Bower
| Hill. Fisher was struck by train on the
CHARTERS Railroad at Leasdale, and his body
was so frightfully mangled that the remains
were scattered along the track from that
village to Woodsdale, mile or two away.
Among the other casualties of the day
were the following:
HANLoN-Arthur Hanlon, 26 years old, died
yesterday while being removed from the
! Union depot to the West Penn Hospital in
an ambulance. There is something OF a
mystery connected with the case, inasmuch
as the hospital authorities could not tell
how or where the man received his injuries.
The hospital report to the Coroner stated
that they found the man at the Union depot
and started to take him 20 the hospital, but
that he died on the way from the effects or
a shock due to unknown injuries. The re-
port also stated that they did not know now
the man was hurt. Corone" Mcdowell Will
investigate the case to-day.
BIGAN-Michael Bigan, 60 years old, who
was injured on the Pan Handle Railroad, at
Mansfield on Monday last, died yesterday at
the West Penn Hospital from the effects of
his injuries. An inquest will be held to-day
DUFFY+Charles e. Duffy, a p. X. X. brake
man, had his right foot crushed while
attempting to board a train yesterday.
Amputation WAS necessary
KoLER-Andrew koler, Hungarian re-
siding at Braddock, was drowned in the
Munongahela while bathing yesterday.
THoMPsoN-H. X. Thompson dropped dead
from apoplexy at Linden and Penn ave-
nues yesterday The Coroner will hold an
inquest to-day.
MESSIAH employe of Carnegies' Lower
Mills named Alays Meiss was severely in
jured by falling casting yesterday.
SIDNEY-Elmer Sidney. teamster en-
ployeG by Booth & Finn, fell from his
wagon on Forbes street yesterday morning,
and had his right shoulder fractured. He
was removed to his home on Ann street,
where DIR. Barckley attended him.
Thomas Wagner, of Soho
street, fell from the rear platform of q Fifth
avenue cable car at Brady street last night.
snkle sprained.
GoNCHoUR-The steward of the Walls sta
ton restaurant. Ephraim Gonchour, was
struck ana instantly killed by extra train
Walls station Wednesday night. Gonchour
attempted to cross the track as the tram
was rapidly approaching, but was not quick
enough to escape
CoRwIN-While returning from an Ali
quippa picnic Wednesday night Louis Cor
win, of Bellevernon, jumped from the train he
was on just in front of a train moving in the
opposite direction. He sustained fatal in
juries and died later on at the Southside
Hospital
UNKNowN-An unknown man was struck
and killed yesterday afternoon by a Penn
sylvania' Railroad express train at Twenty
sixth street. No papers were found in his
clothing to establish his identity.
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FRANKLIN LIKED CHINA.
He Was Fond OF Collecting Rare Old
Porcelain for His Wife.

He Was Fond OF Collecting Rare Old
Porcelain for His Wife.
Chicago Herald.1
China collecting in America throws a
pleasant sidelight on the use of tea in this
country. We are not prone think of Benja-
min Franklin as rowing about among the
shops of London to find things for his side
board at home in Philadelphia. He was, as
Alice Morse Earle says, frugal and plain
living man; but he liked good things and
fashionable things, and as early as 1853. long
before we were ready to go to fighting, he
was picking up things for his Deborah in
foreign parts.
He sent her "melons and leaves for des-
sert of fruit and cream or the like" design
of this nature being among recent revivals.
1t must be admitted that the box contained
also a jug for "beer to stand in the cooler. I"
Deborah wrote back to him that the "blue
room has set of tea china 1 bought since
you went from home, very handsome
mahogany stand for the tea-kettle to stand
on and the ornamental china.
The Franklins had, by the way, beaufet,
the earlier name of buffet" and the true
origin of the often amusingly misunder-
stood word, the "beefeaters" of London.
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THE FIRE RECORD.

Chicago-The plant OF the Griffin Wheel
and Foundry Company. Loss, s45.O00; fully
insured. Three hundred men are thrown
out of emplovment.
Rutland, Vt.-rhe works of the Harris
Manufacturing Company. Loss, $4,000; in
surance SIS, 000 The buildings were along
side the Central Vermont Railroad prop
erty, and storehousc containing bridge
timber and a lumber shed were burned.
Loss about $4,000.
Hamilton, O.-The planning mill of Bender
Bros. 1t was Il large four and u halr story
brick, which with its lumber yard occupied
half square. Unemployed 700 men, and was
provided with the latest improved ma
chinery. 1t also had large amount of man
ufactured stock on hand. Loss. $4,000; in
surance light
Hicksburg, Westmoreland county = The
dwelling of Israel HILL with all its contents.
Loss 81 ,0O0. A defective fiue was the cause.
Clinton, Beaver county-The residence of
Mrs. Hugh Thomson, with its contents.
Mrs. Thomson has been particularly un-
fortunate of late. Less than year ago her
husband died. A short time alter that her
son, a boy aged Is, was badly injured by
falling over an embankment. The house
was insured for a small amount.
Council Bluffs, Iowa-The large two-story
brick laundry of the Deaf and Dumb State
Institute. Loss, about $40 600.
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and had been married lessthan year. She
leaves an infant aged three weeks.
Tri-State Brrvities.

Tri-Sfate Brrvities.
East L1BERry-Rain marred the business
mems picnic yesterday.
GREENv1LLEL'squire Goucher hanged him.
| self in his barn. No cause known.
ROUND Top-Lower Bald Eagle Valley is
complaining of the grasshopper plague.
JEANErrE-Mrs. Ludmilla Wolf, widow,
was fatally burned by lamp explosion.
BLooMvILLE, O-The wife Of Jacob Geiger.
banker and quarry owner, has sued for di-
vorce on the ground of cruelty.
Mt PLEASANT PA.-John j. Roadman was
kicked on the head by a colt Wednesday and
his skull fractured. His recovery is doubt
full.
SPR1NeF1ELD O-Mrs. William Sheals and
niece Mary are critically i'll from the effects
of ice cream poisoning. They had eaten the
refreshment ut picnic.
CANToN-A highwayman robbed Fred
Yautsch while on his way home Wednesday
night He was knocked down several times
and badly beaten before he was overpow-
cred.
IRw1N-Dr. c. NJ. Bell was arrested wedpes-
day evening on serious charge, made be-
fore Justice Frederick by Miss Adamson, q
domestic in the employ Of the doctors fam
lily. He gave bail.
BELLEFoNTE-James W. Swabb, late Mer-
camille Appraiser for Center county. was
placed under bonds yesterday to refund to
the Treasurer of the county moneys for
taxes collected which were illegally ap-
praised.
BEAVER FALLs-Wednesday evening the
police arrested Frank Large for being i'm
plicated in the robbery of the store OF W.
NJ. Holt. They are on the ira ok of his
partner, NJ. McGaw alias NJ. McEait h, who is
supposed to be in Erie.
BRIDGEPoRT, O.-Charles Slader disap-
peared mysteriously Saturday. Yesterday
morning his wife received a letter, in which
he declared that he had left her and never
expected to return. Slader took away
large sum of money belonging to his wife
and leaves her destitute.
JAMESTOWN, PA.-A young daughter Of DR..
and Mrs. Bailey was horribly scalded to
death Wednesday. The childs mother had
been Washing and a boiler full Of scalding
water was taken off the stove and placed on
the floor. Mrs. Bailey was horrifed soon
after to see her little 3year-old daughter
lying in the boiler Of water.
WAYNEsBURa, O.-Joseph Laycock, a
printer, the son of ]. w. Laycock, editor Of
the Waynesburg, o., Enterprise, committed
suicide in jail in Canton yesterday morning.
He took the grip last spring and it made him
crazy. Since then he thought he sinned so
mucn that there would be no pardon for
him in heaven. 1t was decided to take him
to the asylum. The beds In the prison are
of iron Attice work, hinged to the wall, and
two chains are used at the ends when the
bed Is down. Laycock took a chain and
twisted 1t into a loop. put his head in and
threw down the heavy bed. His neck was
broken.
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ears, having been leased by the big trunk

years, having been leased by the big trunk
line.
THE Southern Pacific is determined to make
the proposed 80 per cent reduction in rates
on canned goods. wines and other commodi-
ties from the Pacific coast to New York even
If the Commissioners OF the Western Traffic
Association refuse to establish them.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made by the Baltimore
and Ohio that it will make an excursion rate
of $40 from Chicago to Atlantic City and re-
turn August ]s. The reason given for the re-
duction is the So round trip rates to Niagara
Falls announced by the Erie, the Nickel Plate
and the Wabash.
The securities of the United States Rolling
Stock Company held by the Central Trust
Company as trustee, upon which default has
been made, were sold under foreclosure pro-
ceedings at the New York Real Estate Ex-
change Wednesday for $225 050 to John C.
Bates, representing the Reorganization
Committee of the United States Rolling
Stock Company.
THE New York and Texas Steamship Com
pany has fl ed its answer in the suit brought
by the Inter State Commerce Commis sion,
charging the company with violating the
Interstate commerce law. The defendant
company denies that it has entered into any
agreement with any railway company to
transport passengers or freight by con-
tfnuous carriage or shipment from any place
in the New England or Middle States to
other places in the United States.
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MUsSELS NOT ALWAYS BAD.
Some Recent Means by Which Thef,
Poison Can Be Extricated,

Some Recent Means by Which Their
Poison Can Be Extricated.
Pearson's Weekly.
1t is now established that mussel poison.
ing is not due to the eating of these bivalves
in the spawning season. Mr. Fryer, one OF
the Inspectors of Fisheries, says it is now
shown that the only danger to be appre-
hended is from the consumption of mussels
taken from water more or less stagnant,
such as that OF docks, canals or confined
harbors or pools, where the presence of q
particular micrObe develops in the liver of
the mollusc or organic alkaloid.
An instance of this occurred last summer
when five members of one family were
killed by eating mussels collected in tidal
pond at Seapoint, near Dublin, the water
in which was only occasionally changed at
high tide.
According to experiments made by Prof.
Virchow, such mussels lose their poisonous
properties after q time if kept in pure
water.
Still more important, from a practical
point of view, is the observation of another
German chemist that the poison is neutral
ized by carbonate of soda, such mussels
cooked with it for ten minutes losing their
dangerous properties, and it is probable,
therefore, that the administration of car
Donate of soda in cases of poisoning by this
means would prevent . fatal result
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PEOPLE WITH LONG LIVES.
Newspaper Men Are at the Tail End Of the
Longevity List.

Newspaper Men Are at tho Tail End Of the
Longevity List.
"What occupation tends most to prolong
life?" asked Washington Star reporter of
the chief mathematician for one of the great
life insurance companies.
''That is a difficult question:" he replied
"I can only answer it by referring to the
occupations of persons whose lives are and
have been insured by us. Inasmuch as they
number several hundreds of thousands they
will afford a pretty good basis from which to
draw conclusions on the subject. According
to this evidence it appears that commercial
ravelers and agents live longer than men in
any other kind of business, notwithstanding
the hazards which attend transportation by
rail and water. Next to them come dentists,
teachers and professors, including music
teachers"
Sand who after them?"
'Next to them in point of longevity are
hatters, clergymen and missionaries. Next
come bankers and capitalists, who seem to
live just trifle longer than butchers and
marketmen. Lawyers and jewelers. follow,
and they are succeeded on the list by mer-
chants, peddlers, milkmen and pawn
brokers. Then come gardeners, laborers,
civil engineers and canvassers Perhaps
the treatment which csnvSssers are apt to
receive in the ordinary course of their bust
ness shortens their lives"
"Where do newspaper men come in?"
"Oh, they don't live as long as any of the
people have mentioned. Even bookkeep-
ers and bank cashiers, as we'll as artists and
architects are ahead of them. They come
in next, with the printers, physicians and
gentlemen who are not engaged in any
active employment. Then follow the
apothecaries and photographers, and after
them in order bakers, cigarmakers, real
estate agents, army officers and soldiers
liquor dealers, mariners and naval officers
Shortest lived of all seem to be the auc-
tioneers, boarding house keepers, BARRIERS
and drivers"
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SOLD ITS BIG CARS
Tho Duquesne Road Get Rid Of Its Massive

The Duquesne Road Get Rid OF Its Massive
Coaches
The Duquesne Traction Company has sold
the entire stock of big electric cars which
were adopted when the road was first started,
and which were soon afterward abandoned
because of their being too heavy for the
steep grades The Roland Lake Elevated
Railway Company, one of the lines owned
by the Elkins- -Widner syndicate in Balti-
remodeled at the Craig street car barn. To
adopt them for running in trains, the motor
mems cabs are being taken off and plat
form put on each end, the same as the small
electric cars now running on the line. A
number of the cars have been completed,
and will be shipped this week.