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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02
EDUCATIONAL.
THE SHORTLIDGE MEDIA SCHOOL

For Young Men and Boys.
SWITHIN G. SHORTLIDGE, A. B. & A. NJ.
Graduate of Exeter and Harvardl. MEDIA,
PA. IA miles from Broad st. Station, Phila.)
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02

Fire Insurance-Wanted.
DENSwANGER 6 ZAHN-Fire insurance, G.
ID Fourth ay
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02

NOTICE-NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ the Coon Oil Co. has been dissolved by mutual
consent of its members, and all outstanding ac-
counts due by it having been assumed by Rudolph
SGhmitt. No. So James ST, Allegheny. and Henry
presentation will be by them paid. THE COON
OIL COMPANY. del9-I6-S
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02

Machinery and Metals For Sale.
DOILERS and engines. secondhand: all Sizes
ID from to 100 h. p: cheapest in the market: 40
BILE, upright boilers, mounted farm engine, etc. ;
steam pumps. governor, puleys and shafting.
Telephone 3t0l, 1875 Park way, j. S. Young.
Allegheny Pa.
LNoR SALE Cheap. good secondhand engines, II
Il N20fnch 12x16 inch. 1lx14 inch, 10x12 inch. and
sizes and STYLES: saw mills and wcod working ma
chinery. Harness Machine Depot, SO First av.,
PittsbuTg
CECOND-HAND engines and boilers: engine 1SN
y 49, boilers "A inchesxo0 feet: two fues fixtures
complete: all in rst-class condition will sell cheap.
E. NJ. Sims, corner Fifth st. and Duquesne way,
city.
MisceIlaneous-For Sale.
u show cases. fire and burglar proof safes, type.
writer store, office and bar fixtures: all second
hand. 80 Diamond st.
CORDAGE-Twine, hemp packing. Flocker &
" Co.. SO Water st.
EoR sALE-Genuine diamond ear drops. white
II and perfect from s12 so up. X Smft, 932 and
sS4 Liberty and 7C3 705 7G Smithfeld.
EOR SALE-Genuine diamond rings from 50 up.
X. Smt. 932 and 934 Liberty St., and 703 705 and
707 Smithfeld.
X. Smit, 932 and 9S4 Liberty and 703, 705 and 707
Smithfeld.
d ED BRICk-In large or small quantities. Witt
gheny Pa.
CEND for a for sale list. A D. Wilson, 55 Fed
y eral ST.. Allegheny.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02
NO CR0WDING THERE.
How the Street Cars Are Operated in
the City of Glasgow.
PITTSBURG COULD FIND POINTS
OF Great Advantage in Benny Scotland,
According to 4. Leggate.
MANNER OF SECURING PURE WATER
PITTSBURG COULD FIND POINT
MANNER OF SECURING PURE WATER

A. Leggate thinks that Pittsburg's model
government could get few valuable points
from the municipality of Glasgow, Scot
land. Mr.. Leggate is Scotchman, and
naturally sees the best in his native land.
The attempt to get better street car service
in Pittsburg brought up the subject of mu-
nicipal government, and the statement
from Mr.. Leggatc that Glasgow has de-
termined to take charge of its street rail-
wavs
They lease franchises there and do not
give them away for nothing, he explained.
The first line was built in 1S69-70. George
Francis Train and other Americans at
tempted to get control of the streets, but
were refused, and finally compromise was
made whereby the city was to build the
lines and then lease them. They were all
horse lines, and on account of the city
being compact, it only required 81 miles to
reach the important points The ccst was
81, 200, coo. all of which was furnished by
the city
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02

Notices,
NOTICE-CARD OF THANKS-THE SOUTH
n SIDE Office for the Improvement of the Poor
wish TO return thanks to the teachers and scholars
of the public schools who, together with manu-
actures and business men. assisted them in reliev-
ing the wants and bringing Christmas cheer to
MANY Door but deserving families. ja2-43
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02

MERCANTILE LIBRARY HALL. COMPANY,
PITTSBURG. Dec. a. 1891. (
ELFCTION-THE ANNUAL MEETING OF
Ia the stockholders of this company for the cleo
tiOn of directors and the consideration of any
other business that may properly come before 1t
will be held on MONDAY, January4. 1892, between
the hours offs P. NJ. and P. NJ, at the Office of
Messrs. Whitney Stephenson. No: 81 Fourth av.
de24-l9 G. W. CRAWFORD, Secretary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02
Suburban Lots For Sale.

Suburban Lots For Sale.
SUBURBAN LOTS at Chartiers-Fine building
- lots $500 to $780, according to size and location
within sight Of the Court House: CHARTERS is the
most accessible Of any suburb of Pittsburg. being
reached by the p. & l.. E. r. in II minutes, by
CHARTERS packets in 25 minutes and by electric
cars, which are to take the place of the present
horse line next spring. in q miputes these lots
front line of electric road For further partcu-
lars, T. II. Dickson, 96 Fourth av., Room SO.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02

FIRST NATIONAL BANK PITTsBURG. PA.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 81 1891.
DIVIDEND THE DIRECTORS OF THIS
~ bank have this day declared a quarterly divi-
dend of TWO PER CENT on the capital stock,
payable on demand free oftax.
ja1-l7 I'D, SCULLY Cashier
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02
How the Lines Are Operated.

The lines were then leased to corpora
tions until 1894. The terms were that a
rental OF $3.50 per mile should be paid; that
yearly sinking fund should be created
that would cover the entire cost OF the
roads (S1, 700, ,OOO) at the end of lease, and
that annual interest should be paid the
city on its investment In no case was
over penny per mile to be charged on the
street cars, and for workingmen, morning
and evening, half penny per mile.
The very important requirement was also
made that enough cars should be provided
to accommodate the public, and so well has
it been complied with that it is very
seldom passenger is required to stand.
The street car straps are as good as new al
though they have been used over 20 years,
and in that time the people have never had
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02

PITTsBURG, Pa, Dec. 81, 1891.
DIVIDEND - THE DIRECTORS OF THIS
u bank have declared a dividend of THREE
PER CENT out Of the earnings of the last six
months, payable forthwith
ja1-25 JOHN r. STEEL, Cashier.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02

Business Changes.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ firm OF Holmes. Rowlen Briggs & Co. has this
day been dissolved. Mr.. p. c. Rowlen having
withdrawn. The business will be continued at the
old stand under the firm name of William Holmes
Co. ja2-32
THE C0PARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE EX-
l. 1STING between solomon oppenheimer and
Joseph 5. Kaufman. doing business Open
hei1ner & Kaufman, las this day been dissolved by
limitation. SOLOMON OPPENHEIMER,
JOSEPH S. KAUFMAN.
PITTsBURG, Pa. January 1, 1892.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02

WTILKINSBURG-Choic lots in one of the best
w locations in Williamsburg. 50x120 to alley,
street severed and stone sidewalks; to anyone who
will improve will sell at n bargain: one square of
electric lines and minutes from p. r. Il. depot.
Hoffman G. Baldridge, Williamsburg, opposite
depot. Telephone T24S.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-08

for the annoyance afforded him by the
captains untimely call
Giving no sign whatever as Brewster
sprang away down the steps the captain
passed on into the plainly furnished sit
ting room. Already Mccain was busy
hauling out tho licutenant's field boots,
brooches and overcoat. whisking off the
dust and indulging in Nlilcsian comment
as he did so. At sight Of Rolfe he
abruptly ceased, hustled forward and
offered the captain chair, and q mo-
ment later bolted across the hall to per-
form similar services in ovcrhauling
and busting Mr.. Randolph's possessions.
Left to himself, Rolfe wcarily turned
to the inantel, and without show of in
tercst glanced over the various photo
graphs there displayed. They were
mainly OF ARMY friends, young fellows
in whom he felt slight interest at any
time ana none at all now. SO We're those
in the Ia ,lct on the round table. Brew
ster was popular, il ono were to judge
by the array of pictures that had been
sent TO him by their prototypes. Then
there was large, handsome album lying
open on the desk near the window.
Turning liNtlcsslv thither Rolfc gave q
shlue OF the shoulders. something 81.
most like shuddcr, at sight Of the pho.
tograph which lay uppelmost, cabinet
portrait. highly FURNISHED and finished,
of an CXubCrant woman in evening dress.
In That ncighbOrhoUd everybody knew
her by sirit He himself had rpraivoi
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-08

who was reputcd to have had so many
offers" 1t was laughingly remarked by
various military bencdicts that since the
momcut when Miss Guthric's scream of
terror had appalled, tho garrison tho
Games and damsels of their several
households had shown an unwonted de-
gree of timidity in visiting about the post
after nightfall, and that much more
than the traditional amount Of hunting
behind curtains and under bcdsteads
was now going ON.
Bcrricn was especially ocular, and
more than ever disposed to tell his
cr;u ,os in her presence that Bcrcngaria
had said this or Bcrcngaria had done
that, the this or that being something
more than usually absurd or improbable
But in the conversations held of late i'll
the sanctity Of Bcrengarias boudoir the
major had been anything but jocuiar.
There was ono incident of that evening
that had caused him deep pcrplexity.
lie had never for Il moment forgotten
his wifc'S illusions to Wiuifrcd-Wini-
fred, the apple of his eye. The posi-
bility of her having lost her young heart
to. on even having come to feel more
than passing interest in, Carroll Brew
stor was something that troubled him
far more than be cared to admit. Like
many another father ne had gone on
fancving his daughter only a child
one y siloln the idea of falling in love
would not present itself for ycare to
come. and then only on parental init
al l.v,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-08

the Elcvcnth--cverybOdy says 30 in town
and she picked ont Brewster because
he was the handsomest of tho new Ion
when our regiment came in. Ask any
ono you choose, and ! think my view
will hold good. Ask Captain Rolfe whas
he thinks, and he ana Mr.. Brewster are
not on friendly terms"
Il have asked Rolfc; asked him onlv
this evening replied Berrion, turning
redder, "and he legged to be excused
from expressing IN opinion"
"Why?'
"Wcll, he wouldn't say, but he had
seen something or other that we hadn't,
and he doesn't like Brewster. ! can't
have a man making love to Winnie ons
minute and that kalsomined creature
the next. wish there wero 10 dance
tonight. want to see Role again. Who
takes herr
''Mr. Brewster, Of course. He ael1eJ
her two days ago. when the affair was
first projected. He is in the parlor now,
but SO arc all the others"
Tho major stepped over to the win
dow and began drumming with his
pudgy fingers upon the pane. M tls
joyiality and gladnoa5 seemed gone from
his face. The lights wore already b..
ginning to twinkle in the quarters
across the parade, and darkness. vast
Ell downward like feather" was shut.
ting out the long line Of shadowy bluf4
beyond the stream. Down stairs 10
could hear the sound Of joyous chat T.,
the deep voices Of the mon minglin.
with the ripping, silvcry laughter he
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-08

come" read Farquhar, but week be-
FORE "but | think you would better be
with your command" Farquhar re-
linquished bis shooting trip and at once
got him home. lie could not bear to
tell his people, in the happiest garrison
| the regiment had ever known, that per-
haps it might be as we'll to drop the
plans for the cavalry ball and the
| Christmas theatricals, the cherished
projects for the coming holidays. He
hated to have any one ask him if he
thought there were not just chance
! Just chance-of their being ordered
up there. But even before he left he
and Berrien had been talking the mat
ter over. The idea was to always have
tho regiment ready for anything, and
did seem as though with all the sur
mer and fall marching and scouting al
maneuvcring in the field they wero,
tho Englishmcn would say, "pretty tit.
Fit certainly, for any amount of scou
ing or fighting on the southern plain
and yet utterly unprcpared for IL
rgors of Dakota winter. Any colon
who, serving i'll Arizona or in the India
Territory, was to apply for canva
overcoats, blanket lined, for fur CAPS
gloves, boots, leggings, etc, intended
only for service in the high ATTITUDES,
would have been laughed at, if not
tnubbed. Furquhar decided it best not
to let any of the women worry over a
possibility. No Use borrowing trouble
he said. Long years had the regiment
served in that wintry land. Fierce and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-08

/
content to archly quote the warming
Change the name and not the letter
Marry for worse and not for better.
There was one man with whom Brow
ster was at odds, sentiment due to an
old difference when both were younger,
and that was Rolfe. There was one
man the gallant major especially liked
and swore by, and that was Rolfe.
These facts, added to tho coincidence
that the captain had never forgotten the
hot words used by his second lieutenant
long years before, made a combination
most unfortunate for a fellow so much
i'll love as was Carroll Brewster.
On this particular morning he had
| striven TO hurry matters through on tic
court--to try three or four cases where
the accused were only too ready to plead
guilty and throw themselves on tie
mercy etc, and then adjourn on tho
! spccious plea of giving the judge adro.
cate time to write up the proceedings
| But the president Of the tribunal had
other views and held him. Brewster
! knew that Randolph and Hunt and
Issjgoway, perhaps others, had taken
advantage of the weather and no Giill
to Slip over t. Berien's for q biitho
morning hour with the girls. lie could
imagine that pretty parlor, with It's pie
lures and piano, its attractive curtains
and p0rtior2s, the group Of bright, sweet
faces, the animated chat, Winifrcd her
self, in her dark, rich beauty, seated at
the piano, with Rid9eWay hanging over
/ her. pafrCr I, turn thp lpoy-aS pltr,. g.,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-09-08
ewathed and slung equaw back, pass

Tor wee O"py, any VIins iio cou'lu sllo"
Us possessing spark u illo.'ih NE was
duly credited TO inc warrior lor.' OF the
loo@e TOT announcer i"'ion, " luli one
Cattle nlGht ana o'o SIlili!h' puC 10 the
lholan lherc Is lNolc i'le"U III leuh co"
imam III the Stali i'I ON 10 me WHITE, LOT
tho reason 1hHt everything goes.
Horns ana hoois are TIC only lhillSS Uho
Indian docsn t cal.
Agents might and did cheat and steal,
but 50 ana tho illdlall' ana many re-
Jolclng old sinner mas peen creulted with
family OF twelve Wheh MS sole await
able domestic assets consisted OF two
squaWs and three chlIdren, the proposes
having been borrowed or personated
by bundled up doggles' inc Grandmother
beng pubic properly passed around Tor
the occasions the others, plckaninnles
painted SO rs to look entirely unlike the
SFlnnln8 urchlh5 co'iAFu III the HOOK Cf
brother Htah-lh-'l'e-p'rK. whose people
had just been enumerated Ihere were
agents VINO lent themselves 10 mat SORT
Of thing because the moro Indians they
could show as their especial wards, the
invoicel 70 th.t ag,rcv and dcfrlv
| "ral;od Of en- route. There was . time
WHOM tbe man who youldu't mako hav
when such a sun. ,hono was looked
u7,.n IA IN unavoidable servant who
cGnlln't contribute 70 caunoign funds
! .Wbot tho devil Go yor suppose we had
Won ,nalo oo.n, ',r.v mn ot GoIlofi,
! fo,s" - i,cl an irat. uGIi.ical ..boss' If =
! donoscl md cro.tr,1ian lato incnnb,rt
| y.ho ca13e home .uucr,cdcl.
( "WIy If wa! Won and or conaross-
| man who ey,io.lj the stoalinos 0f nv
rrcdocr...r ana had him fired Isu,,.
! I,.od Won, ,rc,,I5,.- stand thot eort [f
! ttlir,. r1,,,,..oj --ou wanted mo f. 1,r
rorr.o CIV honest"
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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11
How Rnnldlx We Think.

Helmholtz showed that a wave OF
thought would require about min
ute TO traverse mile of nerve. and
Hirsch found that touch on the face
was recognized by the brain and
responded to by manual signal in
the seventh OF a second. He also
found that the speed of sense differed
for different organs. the sense Of
hearing being responded to In the
sixth OF q second, while that OF sight
required only one-flfth Of a second
to be felt and signaleds Tn all these
cases the distance traversed was
about the same, so the inference is
that images travel more slowly than
sounds or touch. II still remained,
however, to show the portion of this
interval taken up by the action OF
the brain. Professor Donders, by
very delicate apparatus, has dem
onstrated this to lie about seventy
five thousandths of a second. OF the
whole interval forty thousandths are
occupied in the simple act of recogni-
ton, and thirty-flye thousandths for
the act OF willing response. House
and Home.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

ounces, according TO season or the local
ity. Looking carefully at the cost OF
food, oysters are very dear in the sense
that great deal OF money is required for
small quantity Of nutriment, but the
world does not want TO live on pork and
beans exclusively, and advanced ciyiliza-
ton requires variety in It's diet, and pays
for the flavor of a Blue Point, and II has
value not counted for in dollars and
cents.
One of the most interesting tables of
nutrients and potential energy in the
dietaries of different people is to be found
in Prof. Atwater's report, the American
figures being due to the author. Given
so much food, of such a quality, how
much physical force can be .evolvedl
The problem is based upon studies Of
the proteinc in food, just as the steam
developing qualities of various fuels.
A London sewing girl making 03 cents
per week can only produce potential
energy which finds an equivalent in the
number 1920. The Leipsic' factory girl,
who has to live on 81 .21, gets potential
energy Of 1910; the Lombardy workman,
2.102; the "fully-fedr London tailor,
3. O53; the Trappist monk, only 2.SO4.
The English blacksmith works up to
potential energy Of 4.117; the Munich
brewer makes 5000; the German soldier
on war footing fights with a potential
ty of 1859. A United States Navy ration
should produce potentially of 4.99S,
while taking into consideration the vast
quantity of food consumed and the quail
ty of it college football team ought to
get up 5. 742.
1t is the Cambridge CMass.) brick
maker who heads the list, for he eats
food which should produce, theoretical
ly, potential energy of nutrients repre-
sented by the figures S.S4S. OF course, he
wastes his money. How much a normal man
should eat in order to keep his mecban-
ism in good order depends on the work
he has to do. woman, with light ex-
ercise, ought to be all right when eating
food sufficient to produce a potential en-
ergy of 1900 A confirmed tennis play
ing young man might take 500 points
more. A man working moderately will
require potential energy of $3.50, and at
hard work 4.060. To get up to that, he
will have to eat 800 grammes of food,
which will contain 80 proteine, $50 of
fat, and 500 of the carbohydrates, as
sugar, starch, etc.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11

A NEW. life Of Thomas Paine, by
NJ. d. Conway, furnishes some curl
Gus evidence of the comparative sud-
denness with which the idea of sep
aration and independence of the
mother country finally crystallized
among the revolutionary patriots.
For year or so before the Declara-
tion Of Independence they were all
at sea as to what course should be
pursued. There was great commo-
tion among the people, but no unity
of action. In March, 1875, Benjamin
Franklin maintained the assurance
he had given Lord Chatham in the
previous year, that he had never
heard In America an expression in
favor Of independence ~from any per-
son, drunk or SOBER" And this only
sixteen months before the Declara-
ton. Paine says Independence was
doctrine scarce and rare, even toward
the conclusion of 1916" In May,
1875, George Washington, on his
way tor Congress, met the Rev.
Jonathan Boucher in the middle OF
the Potomac River. While their
boats paused the clergyman warned
his friend that the path on which he
was entering might lead to separation
from England IF you ever hear OF
my jQining in. any such measures"
said Washington, "you have my
leave to set me down for everything
wicket. This was after the battle
of Lexington. About a month later
Washington was elected Commander
in-chief OF the Continental army, and
started Immediately for Cambridge,
Mass, where he assumed command
July 3. These incidents show how
rapidly history is made in times OF
excitement, and how irresistibly men
are carried along by the current Of
events
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11
Defence of the Peacock.

"Who says the peacock has ugly feetl''
remarked Taxidermist Wood of the
Smithsonian Institution to a Star re-
porter. II have heard and read that
piece of nonsense ever since l was a
child, and l understand that it is re-
corded as an ornithological truth in class
ical Greek and Latin. You will come
across mention of it even in fables. To
my mind it affords an illustration of the
fact that most people never use their own
physical senses actively, but depend for
their notions of life and things upon the
observation of others.
II have just finished mounting this
pair of peacocks. Isn't the male bird a
beauty You can see for yourself that
his feet are decidedly pretty, well shaped
and rather small in proportion to his SIZE
They are very slightly bigger than those
of turkey and are decidedly handsomer
The same can be said of the hen bird, un-
attractive though the latter is as to other
points. Wherever in the feathered king
dom the cock bird is the handsomer he
does the courting while in the compare
lively unusual case where the female is
more gorgeous she it is that takes the
initiative in the lovemaking.
1T is a curious thing to observe that
the male peacock in counting his chosen
mate approaches her not with the bright
~ colored face of his feathery fan toward
her, but backward. Then, on coming
close, he wheels suddenly about, with
every plume trembling in the sunlight,
and dazzles her all at once with his beau
ty. AS for the popular misconception
respecting his foet, there can be no doubt
as to how it originated When the pea
cock is pointed ut, being naturally wild
bird, he is apt to drop his fan and sent
tic away. Thus the impression was con
veyed to the igorant that he imagined
his feet to be objects of attention, and
accordingly sought to hide them. or
course, nothing could be more Absurd"
Il Washington Star.