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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21
THE CORONA OF THE SUN.
Its Origin May Be Duo to Some Electric
Manifestations.

Its Origin May Be Duo to Some Electric
Manifestations.
Youths Companion.1
One of the greatest mysteries Of science
is shat magnificent display of ooronal
stremers and soft banners of light that is
seen around the totally eclipsed sun. Sew
eral recent Investigations tend to show that
this wonderful phenomenon is of electric or
magnetic origin. Mr. NJ. L Pupin, Of
Columbia College, has just furnished most
suggestive iacts bearing upon this question,
through q series OF experiments on electric
discharges in imperfect yacuA
Photographs OF such discharges, made by
Mr.. Pupin, bear an astonishing resemblance
to the solar corona. Inasmuch as the space
Immediately around the sun must almost
necessarily contain large quantities of
vapors and meteoric dust, it does not seem
difficult to conceive that q condition of
things exists there which is suited to electric
manifestations on an immense scale.
Yet, after all, when we think of the
tremendous energy of the sun, which is
able to make daylight upon the earth, to
warm with its ite-supporting rays planets
that circle around it at dis ance of tens
and hundreds of millions of miles, and to
aw AIKEN the magnetism of our globe until
the air is a1ame with auroral lights, we can
hardly wonder that it should cause the
nearer regions OF space around its own
sphere to glow with strange radiance.
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ON IHE s.. LAWRENCE.
Pittsburg People Having a Delightful Time
on the Islands.

P1ttSDurg People Having Deltghtful Time
on the Islands.
CLAYTON, Aug. I9-(Special1 Never were
summers days more delightfully."- spent by
the Pittsbury colony summering at Alexan.
dria Bay. One of the most pleasing events
in which Pittsbur ers have been prominent
WAS dinner al fresco. which the Misses
Lewis of Resort Island, gave to a number
OF their friends recently. The steam yacht
Edith took the CAV PARTY to La Rue Island
among The Ca madam Islands where, after
catching enough fish for dinner, they did
which only st. Lawrence picnickers can ap-
preciate The personnel of the party in
cluued Miss Anderson, Miss MCGEE and the
Misses Lewis and Mr.. William j. Lewis, of
Pittsbnrg.
Messrs. o. W. and G. T. Rafferty,, Jr. and
Charies Donnelly, Of Pittsburg, who have
eand Island House, left yesterday ior Sara
toga
One OF the best known and most popular
members OF the younger element OF male
society a the Bay is Mr. William j. Lewis,
Jr.. of Pit sburg. who for the last ls years
has made his summer home on Resort
Island.
Colonel Harry Sherrard. OF PIttsbure, is a
1ne-lonking type of the military man, who
l. spending a few weeks in luxurious idle
nes- at the trossmon.
Mr. NJ. H. Stevens and Miss Stevens are
anon! the Pittsburgers registered here.
Mr.. and Mrs. James K Bakewell, OF Pitts
bur., who have been enjovin. the pleasures
OF camp life here, have departed for q trip
down the rap pids to Montreal. MIR. Bakewell
is u prominent member Of the canoe asso-
citation.
Among the people of Western Pennsyl-
vania who were present at tho midsummer
hon at the Hotel Frontenac Wednesday
were Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Fuller William
Ruth, C. A. Kissel. Scranton; A. R. Shields,
W. J. Levi. Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Godfrey,
Miss God rey, and the Misses Lewis Miss
Dora E. Shoemaker has the honor of being
tue most trees swimmer who te npts the
wave. She recently swan over a mile with
very little exertion or fatigue.
Among the many people from Pittsburg
and nei rhboring towns registered here are!
Mr. and Mrs. II. H. Fisher. N. Edith Matthias,
Greensburg; Mrs Fl. Little, DO IN Macdonald,
Mr. and Mrs. E. b. Goifrev, Mr.. Z. Z. Meller,
Mr. Scott A. White Agnew Hice, Miss Mary
f. Scroggs Miss Mary Fl. H ce. Mr.. Charles
E. Orr. Miss N. NJ. Orr, Pittsburg; D. D. NAL
lory Franklin: Mr.. and Mrs. B. S. Veach,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. A. Renshaw, Mr.. and Mrs.
W. j. Spahr, OF Pittsbu =: Mr.. and Mrs. e.
A. Terry and DR.. and Mrs. F. $. Persh1ng, OF
Williamsburg; Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. E. Pollard and
children and Richel Pollard, o. Pittsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21

Joss"
"And then you became a Unitarian, did
you?"
eyes, me catchee Clisten one piecee
God"
"And you are now q Unitarian Chris
tian?"
''No me changee more. Me see one makee
book man edwin Arnold). He allie same
foreign man. He topside man. He self do
China Joss allie same me before do He
chin chin Buddha He lite big block.
He say Buddha all lite-alls same
Chliste-."
''Then with the Methodists preaching
Trinity and Christianity, and the Unita-
rian preaching God without Christ, and
Edwin Arnold preaching Buddha the same
as Christ you are all mixed up, John?"
"Yes tlee fashion joss. How can savey?
Who joss man ploper? Who joss ploper?
Me 60 back Buddha. So many joss men.
So many piecee joss makee Chinaman
tlired. Good beyer
The Feet OF Chinese Beau'y.
To-day there was q great fete In the
Chinese garden outside of Shanghai. 1t
was Dragon festival. In the procession
was gaudy dragon 60 feet long. Here 1
saw women with all kinds of feet, little
feet four inches long, medium feet and big
feet. find there is no cast connected with
little feet. Poor women in obscure and
filthy quarters have them as often as the
wealthy classes. It is simply vanity.
1t is common to see women in rags hob
bling along on stumps of feet as ungsinly
as man walking on wooden legs If it
were not for jinrikshas and wheelbarrows,
many of them would never go square
from home. They are very proud of the
deformity and grin all over when an Ameri-
can lady notices them.
have been told repeatedly in China
that no Chinese lady ever allowed photo
graph taken of her feet To-day aitef buy
ing Hawthorn vase and bolt OF Chinese
Grape of a rich China merchant, revailed
upon him to let Kodak be taken OF his
wife's little feet.
'Such pretty-pretty feet" said admir-
ing the little silk baby shoes
Photographing a Lady's Feet
The merchant assented after much reIuct-
ance and was able to snap my camera at
the lady s extremitiea The initial illustra-
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tion of this article is from the photograph,
and thus the reader is now looking at the
first photograph of the tiny foot of Chi
nese lady weighing $50 pounds. Her feet
are only four inches long.
found the four small toes rolled under
and entirely imbeded in the bottom of the
foot. Only the big toe went to the toe of
the thigh lone Of a chicken-a triangle OF
solid flesh and bone. The lady could walk
very well, but with hobbling gait
The Value of a Dollar There.
In travelling in Japan and China I find
that every S. brought from America in
silver, p per or gold is worth 81 IS in Mexi-
can dollars or Japan yens A yen is a
Japanese dollar the size OF our dollar and
containing 100 cents So thousand Ameri-
can dollars means nearly 81 900 here. If
buy no more here than the Mexican or
Japanese dollar.
To-day asked my Chinese banker about
the decline in silver, for it has come like
the sco.rge to China and India.
eyes," he said, ''Mexican dolla got velly
small. Chinese ttel lonce worth 81 60, now
worth only 81. Japanese dolla alice same
Mexican-no good"
''Singapore rnpee," continued the China
man, "once worth 80 cents, now down to 81
cents Melican dolla he all lightee. He
got gold beliend him. No gold beliend
rupee. Fifteen ounce silver once makee
ounce gold. Now 17-1s ounce silver no
makee ounce gold"
"But the American free coinage bill will
compel our Government to buy more silver
and make them into dollars" I said
''What Mclean man do with so many
dollar-put him in a godown?" he said, re-
ferring to the "godown" in Japan and
China, where the store valuable goods to
protect them against earthquakes an d fires.
Not Favorable to Fre. Coinage.
'eNo, pile them up in the sub-treasuries,"
I said. rs ecretary Charles Foster will
store them awav."
"But bimby Chaa Fosta must sell. He
have too much dolla. Who will buy? No
one. Everybody sell. Down go dolla
Take gold away from beliend dolla; he no
good. Nobody buy him. Everybody sell
him-Melica doua bim by bad all same
Mexican. Chala Fasta he bust up Melican
mans bank if he rake too many dolla.
Evidently John Chinama is not for the
free coinage of silver
When asked Mr.. Jansen, who is one of
the substantial men of Shanghai, if the rail.
road would come again to China, he said:
'Yes, it will come again, and the next
time to stay. The old railroad paid 12 per
cent dividends. The Suez Canal has sent
ocean steamships to Shanghai instead OF the
small sailers, and China must establ ish silk
and cotton factories and railroads or her
peonle will starve. During the last ia mine
1000, 600 people starved because there was
no telegraph to bring the news nor railroads
to carry back rice and wheat"
ELI PERKINA
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THE PEoPLE OF HAVANA
Their Subj rction to spanish Regime Ha
Had q Bad Ensct

Their Subj -ction to spanish Regime Has
Had = Bad Ensct
"Hers at our very door lies the island Of
Cuba, q country as strange and foreign to
our own as is any portion of Southern
Europe or the South Sea Islands. Its chief
city, Havana, is old enough to satisfy the
antiquary, and the life of the common pc o.
pie of the interior is as primitive as in
Egypt unier the Pharaohs," says James
Reeve in the Cha,tauqsar.
''The vast majority of the population Of
Havana, and indeed all Cuba, is wretchedly
poor. The streets are filled with abject-
ooking creatures, not only nl-clad, but
MANNED, deiormed and poorly nourished.
Men who are well dressed, and whose ap-
pearance betokens them prosperous citizens,
are rare. A comparison between them and
the people who throng the streets of Boston
or New York, Cleveland or Cincinnati
forces the conviction that their average is low
in morality, in worldly prosperity, and in
happiness and intelligence.
"Some of these conditions are the natural
result of Cuba's subjection to Spain. This
island has been SPain's cocoanut, from
which Spanish greed and rapacity have been
sucking the milk for hundreds of years"
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THE FARMER IN PoLITiCa
Tho Progress So Far Is Mostly Due to
Efncient Organization.

Tho Progress So Far Is Mostly Due to
Emcient Organization.
':Not few of those who write upon the
subject would have US think, that politics is
not his province; that the farmers place is
on the farm, his work the tilling of the soil,
and that to the intellectual and monied
class belongs the ability aud therefore the
right to construct the laws and take care of
the country" says Newton L. Bunnell in
the North american Revie,a
"Too long have the farmers by their con-
duct, if not in reality, consented to this
state of things; but those good days of pro-
priety are gone. The farmer of to-day in
sists upon meddling with politics, and even
demands that those who legislste shall
recognize his existence and the agricultural
interests of the country. These interests
have to some extent been recognized and
these demands partially considered. That
this is true is either directly or indirectly
due to the farmers agitation. In even so
short time have good results to the farmer
followed the work of the organization"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21
FOB LAND AND WATER.
New Improvement on the Tricycle. That VIII
Enable 1t to Float

New Improvement on the Tricycle. That VIII
Enable 1t to Float
Chicago News Record.l
The people along Ogden boulevard, near
Douglas Park, at $3.50 o'clock yesterday
morning stopped and looked with wonder
at slender man who was riding queer
machine toward the park. The amazement
of those who followed was not diminished
when they saw the man ride into the park,
down the drive to the water and out on the
lake. The man was T. j. Olsen, boot and
shoemaker.
The machine somewhat resembled tri-
cycle, but on the spokes of the drive wheels
there were paddles and the little wheel was
covered with sheetiron and served as q
ruddeE Underneath the main axle and
about four inches from the ground two boats
6 feet in length and 1S inches beam, about
two feet apart, like the hulls OF cata-
maran, adapted the queer craft to the
water. The speed attained was equal to
that of q rowboat, and Mr.. Olsen claimed
it was more easily propelled.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21
FAGG0I VOTING IN ENGLAND
A Man Can Vote in as Many Constituencies
as He Pays Taxes In.

A Man Can Vote in a. Many Constituencies
as He Pays Taxes In.
"Cablegrams from London during the cleo
tions have had several references to 'faggot
voting, to (which is attributed in large
degree the great reduction in Mr. Glad
stones majority in his own constituency, :"
saws a writer in the St Louis Globe Democrat
d ''This faegot voting is a peculiarity OF En-
glish and Scotch elections and is the result
Of the right Of cumulative voting, which still
exists in those countries. A man can vote
in as many constituencies as he pays taxes
in, and the possession of a cemetery lot is
sufficient to give the qualification. Sew
eral men vote as manv as twenty times in
one election, and in Midlothian the Tories
have subdivided hundreds Of acres into
imaginary town sites and given lots to nom
resident voters
AT the 1885 election over 1000 nom
resident or faggot votes were recorded
aga inst Gladstone, and the enormous poll
this year makes it look as though the num-
Der mad been greatly increased"
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eioh Carter's Little Liver Pills.
SiSA @Carter's Little Liver Pills.
oien n@A -Carter's Little Liver Pilla
sAon AA'~ @Carter's Little Liver Pills.
hakAIMNKau
THE MAN WITHOUT A STOMACH

May exist as a museum freak, but most OF
us recognize the stomach as necessary to
lie and com lort Most of US experience .
little trouble from this source occasionally.
wrong action OF the stomach causing dys-
pepsia, ETC., and o ten the trouble extends,
involving the liver and bowels, whence we
nnd b liousness and constipation. We find
also that the bowels and kidneys (nature's
sewage sy ystein) become clogged with ete, o
matter, from which comes impure blood,
boils, blotcnes, pimpies, scrofuia. scrofuous
dwellings and cAncerouS complaints. The
Burdock Blood Bitters taken at the Begin
ming. or at any later sta1r, arrests the
trouble, resto. es the disordered organ 20
activity, thereby removinE every vestige of
al ease. B. B. B. is an abs 1utely pure ex-
tract of roofs and herbs. which can not
injure even the most delicate constitution,
and as q cure for dyspepsia, biliousness.
constipa tion, bad blood, etc, succeeds in 90
cases out of 100 aulrrssu
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E found Shang-
hal divided into
three settle
ments, first the
E n g Ii sh and
American settle
ment built up
like Liverpool
palatial brick
buildings, h e n
the French Sec
tion with smooth
clean macadam-
lied streets and
two storie d
Chinese houses,
mostly occupied
by Ch i n e s 9
merchants an d
artisans, and
lastly the old
walled city which
they call China
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Who was the greatest General of the civil
war; VETERAN.
The most successful, of course, was Grant;
but the ablest strategists and most skillful
handlers of men. according to European
critics-German and French-were Robert
E Lee. George B. Mcclellan and William
T. Sherman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21
MEDIC L,
DOCTOR
WHIT


S14 PENN AvENDE, PIT SBURG, Pa.
As old residents know and back nles of
Pittsburg papers prove, is the oldest ostab-
lished and most prominent physician in the
city. devotin- special attention TO all chronic
ai,sn'ss Frc% ss: NO FEE UNTIL CURED
sporsS1s NERVOUS sas. saa Psp physical G d.
cay. nervous debility, lack OF energy. ambi-
tion and hope, impaired memory, disordered
sight, self distru-t, bashfulness. dizziness,
sleeples- ne-s, pimples, eruptions. i'm over
iShed blood. falling powers, organic weak
ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption,
unfi itting the person for business, srciety and
marriage, permanently, aIely and privately
Snrsd fn BLOOD AND SKIN s'.s.:ss sss s..
erur tions. blotches, falling hair. bones pains.
glandular swellinGs, alterations or the
tongue mouth, throst, ulcers. old sorss, are
cured Tor lie, and blood poisons tloroughly g
srsds1sd srs ir1" URINARY baddsr blaSis ana d.
rangement-, weak back, gravel, catarrhal
di-charges in a: ANIMATION and other na1nful
symptoms receive eearchinS treatment,
promp pit relief and real cures.
DIR. whittier's lifelong extensive expert
encs insures scientific and reliable treat
ment on common sense principles. Cnnsulta-
tion free. Patients ut a distance as carefully
treated as ii here Offics hours, ga. NJ to
rM. Sunday. 10 A. N. to i p. NJ only. DIR.
WHIT lea. 8H Penn avenue, Pittsburg, Pa
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21

When WAS the English sparrow" intro
duced into this country? AVIS.
In 1862 New York City had been suffer-
ing from a plague of caterpillars, which is
described as having been most horrible, the
worms covering the sidewalks and falling
on anyb dy who might walk under the
trees. To rid the city of the caterpillars, a
few sparrows were imported; the next year
the sparrow was in full possession. From
New York City it has spread over most of
the country.
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town.
When you 60 to Chinatown you have to
walk The streets are only about six feet
wide. The only vehicle that can pass these
barrow. On this you will see loads of iron,
stones, and sometimes two little footed
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21
DR.. {. c. VESTS
NERVE & BRAIN

Treatment. Zu,rsrteel specific or ly'ter'A
Dizziness Convulslons Fits, Nervous NeuralytS.
Headache Nervous Prostration caused by the uss
OF alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Mental De-
preston Joftenin. Of the Brain resulting Ia lu-
sanity decay and 1s1th, Prenst IRE Did Zs, t.osg
Of Power in either sex, Involuntary Losses aud
Spermatorrh ca caused bv Oyer-eNertion Of tbs
brain. self-.brse or oyer-indTlgence. Each boz
contains one months treatment tl.0 . ook. Sc
six TOR t5. 90 bv mail.
W. 0U AnASTrr zIV RCxES
To cure any cas-. With each order received ..
six bo1es we will send the purchaser our Srltts1
guarantee to refund he money IL the treatIne1s
does not cure. Guarantees issued only by Z NIL
q. STUCKY. Druggist, Sole GENT Nos. 2iol and
1701 Penn avenue corner Wylie avenue and Fulton
street. Pittshurx. Pa. Use Stu ekJ'. iarrhG D
Cramp Cure. 70 and 81 cts. ja-lSz-eoda
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SUBSCRIBER,
A Jimmy is simply short crow bar;
sectional jimmy is one in sections of say one
foot in length, which are screwed together
to make 1t of the necessary length. One end
of this jimmy is turned up a little more
than the end of the ordinary crow-bar The
jimmy is an example of a simple lever.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21

State Department on business affairs and
me hods in the countries to which they are
sent; and in everv way they are required to
act as business agents for the people of the
United States, and to assist in extending
our foreign trade.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21

Why is there popular objection to get
ting married in May? Us.
The idea that May is an unlucky month
for weddings is as old as the time of the
Romans, for Ovid, who lived about the time
Of Christ, speaks of it. The belief had its
origin. probably, in the fact that during the
month the Romans celebrated the festival Of
Bona Dea, the goddess and patroness OF un-
married women, and the festival in honor of
the dead.
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INTO ANCIENT CHINA.
Eli Perkins Finds the Celestials at
Work in the Old Ways.
NO PROGRESS IN CENTURIES.
The Wheelbarrow the Popular Vehicle in
Shanghai Chinatown.
PHOToGRAPHING A WOMAN's FEET

rcoRREsPoNDENcE OF THE DIsPArcH.,
SHANGHAI, July q.
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Whist Is the meaning of the word "Home-
stesd?" OLD READER.
The word is compounded of the Anglo
Saxon home, the secret or sacred place of a
family, and stead, from the Anglo-Saxon
stede, a place; so the word means the home
place of the family. By our land laws
homestead is q tract of land, 100 acres in
extent, given to a bona-fde settler by the
Government on condition that he shall
reside upon it and cultivate it for five
years The laws recognize the etymology
of the word, seemingly, for they give
homestead only to heads of families or
possible heads.
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What were the French spotlation Claims1

s. NJ. T..
They were and are claims accruing in
1799- 1900 to our citizens against France for
damages done by French cruisers at time
when war betTeen the United States and
France was almost ready to be declared.
When the United States bought Louisiana
from France, it was agreed upon by the two
countries that each should assume certain
claims against it by citizens of the other.
The United States has not paid them,
though the claim, were approved BY the
Court of Claims, and though at least one
bill has passed Congress appropriating
money to pay them.
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What is "iimmy" such as burglars use?
The name sounds mysterious.
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What is the difference between a Minister
and q Consult. j. 8. N. c.
A minister to foreign country represents
his country in that to which he is accre d.
tied; his person and residence are sacred
his residence, wherever he may go in that
country, being considered as part Of the
country from which he comes-he cannot be
sued for any debt, he can bring in goods
Tree OF duty, and is entirely above the laws
OF the country wherein he resides. A con-
sui is an official of lower grade, though in
our service he is apt to be vastly more use
full than the minister. He looks after the
business interests of the citizens of his
country; he is . notary public in his dis
trict tor people of his country; he signs
shipping papers, protects individuals and
calls on the minister to help when neces-
sary. Our consuls make reports to the