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which he was SO fond. Here John Tyler
stored away his Jamaica rum aud the Ma
deira which he imported himself, trading
ship loads of corn from his Virginia planta-
tion for it, and it was here that Thomas
Jefferson had bottled up the s11, 900 worth
of champagne and other liquors which he
served up while he was in the White House.
jefferson spent more on liquors than any
other President on record, but Arthur was
noted for his fine wines, and Andrew Jack.
son spent pretty penny on punch during
his administration.
In the Presidents business Office you will
find half dozen clerks, and you can reach
out your finger and touch any part of the
world There is a telegraph operator whose
key is connected with the cable and tele-
graph wires of the United States, and there
is clerk who does but little else than at
tend to the newspapers, and the President
gets his newspapers from everywhere, and
all the leading journals are to found here.
In one large room there are number of
clerks and among these is Colonel Crook,
the cashier of the White House, and there
are numerous typewriters and other em-
ployes. There is an elevator in the White
House, and, all in all, the old mansion is
packed full of interesting things
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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now, but she has not yet persuaded the
President to give it up at the close of his
term, and as for Cullom, Mckinley, Tom
Reed and John Sherman, they are boiling
their brains day and night to see if they
cannot get the lease of the mansion for the
next four years. 1t is the same with the
leading Democratic candidates in all parts
of the country. Boies, of Iowa, is ready to
throw up his farm; Palmer, of Illinois,
would resign from the Senate, and Gray, of
Indiana, thinks the White House would
Just fit him. 1t is the same with Grover
Cleveland. and he knows all about it, for he
spent his honeymoon there, and his wife
knows the establishment from the kitchen
TO the attic
What the Presidency Amounts To.
The Presidency of the United States is
worth more than most people suppose They
look upon the fat salary of S50,000 year
which our Chief Executive gets as his sole
revenue apd every now and then some
newspaper states that it costs all of this and
more to keep up the establishment I don't
believe a word about II. Nearly every
President saves money while he is in the
White House and the extras which the
President gets are nearly equal to his salary
every year. He pays no rent in the first
place and he has furnished house free. He
has nothing to lay out on light or heat, for
Uncle Sam pays his gas bills and he can
have a wood fire in every room in the house
from morning till midnight and it will not
cost him q cent He has a grand conserva-
tory for nothing and the choicest of flowers
are cut ard placed in his room and his
tables decorated with roses in the middle of
winter. The country keeps up his library
and he has as many servants as he can use.
He never neel Is TO write a letter himself and
his high-priced private secretary keeps the
crowd away from him and he has stem
ographers and clerks at his beck and call.
He never needs to open his own door and if
he wishes to shave it will be strange if one
of the colored boys about the Executive
Mansion cannot skifullv handle the razor.
The stables which Uncle Sam has built tor
him are as fine as many house and his
kitchens are supplied with copper cooking
utensils and his laundry has stationary tubs
and patent washing machines.
Running Expenses 100000 a Year.
The cost of keeping up the White House,
including the Presidents salary, is more
than 500. 600 year, and notwiths anding
the official troubles of his position its occu-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-05
A Steam Tree Fellor.

According to London technical Journal,
q tree feller and oross-cut saw of exceptional
merit is now on the market The new tool
can be fixed to any tree and ready for action
in less than two minutes As the smaller
size, which will fell trees up to four feet in
diameter at the butt, weighs less than four
hundred weight, 1t can readily be carried
about by four men. It works with incredi-
BILE rapidity. saving down an oak or elm
tree three feet in diameter in less than five
minutes, and with q gang of four men one
machine will easily fell eight trees, aver.
aging 80 inches in diameter, in an hour, in
cluding the time occupied in moving and
fixing. As the machine will work in any
position it can be used to fell trees growing
on slopes, and by simply shifting the work.
ing parts into another frame it becomes an
excellent cross-cut saw for cutting logs to
any length as they lie on the ground. All
the working parts are simple, and any intel
ligent man can apply the instructions sup
piled.
The machine consists of steam cylinder
of small diameter, having a long stroke at
tached to light wrought iron frame upon
which it is arranged to pivot on its center,
the pivoting motion being worked by q
hand wheel turning on a worm, which gears
into quadrant cast on the back of the CYL
inder. The saw is fixed direct to the end of
the piston rod, which is made to travel in q
true line by guides, and the teeth of the
saw are of such form as to cut only during
the inward stroke. By this simple device
saws as long as nine feet or ten ieet can be
worked without any straining apparatus or
guide, as its own cut is sufficient to guide
the saw in a straight line through the tree,
and as the teeth offer no resistance to the
outward stroke all possibility of the saw
buckling is avoided. The machine is sup
piled with steam at high pressure from a
small portable boiler, through strong f1ex-
ible steam pipe; and as this may be of con-
siderable length, the boiler may remain in
one place until the machine has cut down
all the trees with radius that is deter
mined by the length Of the pipe. The
ground cleared by the tree feller can be left
absolutely level, for by simply removing
sod ~ inches thick the saw works on the
ground line, and consequently the stumps
do not obstruct the passage of carts, etc
The smaller siz,d machines will cut down
almost any ordinary tree, but larger size
is made equal to the Telling of trees of six
feet to eight feet diameter at the butt.
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OA RlNG, CRACKING AND BUZZING.
Catarrh of the Middle Ear.

Catarrh of the middle ear, even after
serious deafness has been produced, is cura-
BILE by faithful use of Pe-ru-na.
Mr.. Frederick Bierman, of McComb City,
Miss, had chronic catarrh very badly for
many years. The disease finally passed up
the eustachian tube into the middle ear, and
had almost destroyed his hearing. He has
been taking Pe-ru-na but a short time, and
his catarrh is very much better, and he
hears again as well a. anyone.
Mr.. w. D. Stokes, Baton Rouge, La,
writes: Il had chronic catsrrh very badly,
noise in the enrs and nearly deaf used
your Pe-ru-na according to directions and
am now we'll; can hear the tick of watch
ten feet. Your Pe-ru-na is wonderful
medicine"
Mr.. j. W. McRobert, of Mason, Mich,
box 156, writes February 25, 1891: "My
wife had been afflicted with catarrh of the
head tor fifteen years, and was cured by
taking three bottlee of Pe-ru-na."
The eustachian tubes are small tubes,
about two inches long, leading from
the upper and back part OF the throat to the
middle ear II anything happened to OBJ
struct the eustachian tubes hearing is very
much impaired, if not entirely destroyed.
Catarrh of the throat most commonly fol-
lows Up these little ducts to the middle ear,
thickening their mucous Innings so as to
completely or partially close them up, pro-
ducing partial deafness. The roaring and
cracking sounds which catarrh subjects so
frequently complain of is due to the spread
of catarrh of these tubes.
Pe-ru-na is the best, If not the only,
remedy that will cure these cases. Taken
regularly according to the directions on the
bottle the symptoms gradually disappear
until complete cure is the result, In some
cases IL takes monthS 10 effect a cure lille
in others only weeks are required.
Colds, coughs, bronchitis, sore throat and
pleurisy, are all catarrhal affections, and
consequently are quickly curable by
Pe-ru-na- Each bottle of Pe-ru-na is ac-
companied by tull directions for use, and is
kept by most druggists, Get your druggist
to order it tor you if he does not already
keep it. A pamphlet on the cause and cure
OF all catarrhal diseases and consumption
sent free to any address by the Pe-ru-na
Drug Manufacturing Co., Columbus, o.
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THE CZAR's QUEER SUIT,

1t Il Nothing More h IN . Homespun, and
the CoIors Lichen and Indigo.
Buffalo Enquirer.l
The Gear of all the Russias has had made
for him a rather queer suit, nothing less
than suit of homespun tweed. The cloth
is of the usual Highland kinda homely
looking tartan, in which the prevailing
colors are llchen and indigo The Gar gave
the order for the suit because his father, the
late Gar, had for nurse Ross or Null girl
named Catherin McKinnon, who by some
stroke of luck found her way into the i'm
perial family of Russia, and so commended
herself to her royal employers that recollec-
tions of her services remain in the family to
this day. So it happened that the Gar
ordered the Mull-spun tweed suit woven
within few miles of the cot where Gather.
inc McKinnon spent her childhood. Had
Catherine lived in an earlier age she might
have been Czarina and the mother, not tho
nurse of emperors, for the great Catherine
was of as lowly an origin as this cotter girl
from Null
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pant ought to be happy. 1 have seen many
of the fine houses OF the United States, but
the White House has some advantages over
all, and it ought to make very comfortable
home. Its rooms are all large and the CELL
ings of the first floor must be nearly 20 feet
high. The windows are big and the
house is perfectly ventilated, and though
there are said to be rats in the basement
there Is no damp or musty smell about it.
The grounds surrounding it are filled with
old forest trees in which the birds are now
singing their spring songs, and the back
yard, which contains many acres, is rolling
and it has all the natural beauties of hill
and hollow. and in the center OF a wide
stretch of yelvety lawn there is beautiful
fountain which casts up spray of silver
and diamonds into the face of the Washing
ton sun, and the view from the rear of the
mansion is one of the finest of the United
States. Looking over beautiful park you
see the silyery Potomac winding in and out
of its islands of green, and beyond it rise
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n TIE Must Be Use 'ssl.

plain enough. A mans garments are
limited to few pieces, whose general form
and colors are practically fixed, SO that
there is nothing for the artistic tailor to do
but to labor at improving these forms and
in making certain low-toned colors har-
monize more and more agreeably. The
mans costumer does not have his energies
dissipated in devising novelty for each
new pattern, but his force is directed season
after season to perfecting, by his best lights,
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Burning Glasses in Store Windows

A chemical journal warns pharmacists
and all others who have occasion to display
anything in the nature of lens in their
windows that, as the season changes, the
suns rays may fall directly into windows
which they did not reach during the winter,
and therefore it would be we'll to bear in
mind the possibility Of fire being kindled
through this agency, and take precautions
accordingly. That the show globes In q
druggists window are capable Of acting ~
burning glasses" is proved by one case in
which the woodwork of window was
efectually ,harred by the sunlight eoncen-
trated on it through globular show bottle.
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with either narrow single stitching or fine
silk cord. The preferred vest is single
breasted with notch collar.
For evening dress at watering places will
be seen often, in place OF the swallow tail,
the Cowes or Tuxedo coai, known to the
trade as the sacquee coat with shawl roll.
We give a picture of this coat. Ths collar
is faced with heavy corded silk This is the
coat for wearing which, on full dress oc-
casion. Berry Wall was some time ago
elected from a hotel drawing room. The
coat has made headway since, but is consid-
cred only an elegant demi-dress.
Outing suits are of light weight cheviots
with line stripe of color, or of plaid home
spun. The sack coat is somewhat loose fit
ting and without lining. The shirt is of
fancy -colored cheviot or Oxford cloth.
Such shirts have the collar and cuffs laun-
dered stiff, and the bosom soft. Sashes will
hardly be worn this season. They became
too popular last y ar to suit fastidious men.
Belts will take their place.
A blouse outing suit, as illustrated, is .
regular plated white sash with belt passing
under the plaits. The breeches reach just
over the knees Flannel shirt, ribbed wool
stockings, canvas shoes and soft felt hat
complete this dress.
The Whole Suit like Now.
1t has long been the fashion to make the
trousers contrast in color and material with
the coat and vest, but far more elegance is
attained when the whole suit is alike; for,
however utility may be served by the
division, the refined eye is displeased by
seeing the body cut in two pieces.
The full-crowned derby with fiat brim
and narrow end is the newest morning hat,
though few New York bankers and brokers
wear the silk hat to business. Gloves are
plain-backed this season, which is an inn
provement, and canes must be of natural
wood, though they may at option have
called the prince OF Wales Crook"
About neckwear volumes might be writ
ten. It is detail, but yet it is the objective
point Of the dress. A great deal OF it that
is popular is ugly, and for reasons which
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-05

A novel way Of promoting the fertiliza-
tion Of land by the utilization Of Its weed
growth is adopted in q new land cleaning
machine. The principle of the machine is
to root mp all the weeds, scrub, etc, and
pass them a: once through double blast
fire by means of 3 travelling engine. The
frame is mounted on four travelling wheels
and carries small steam engine, on the
right of which is blower. On its left is .
brick hearth, fitted in an iron frame, which
forms q FIRE retainer. The weeds are con-
Quoted to the fire by gradual incline, and
after they have passed through fire re-
tainer, which is kept at an intense heat by
the blast of the blower, they are deposited
claimed, from four to eight acres day can
be cleaned, can be had from six to eight
horsepower, and, with the machine, re-
quires two men when in operation.
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THEY ALL WANT IN It,
Those Who Complain About
the White House Are Sing.
ing Low Just Now.
IT'S JUST FINE ENOUGH
To Make the Statesmen Tear Their
hair to Be Its Occupant
THE PRESIDENCY is A SOFT SNAP,
Besides the Salary There Is 100000 for
Running Expenses
IT'S JUST FINE ENOUGH
THE PRESIDENCY Is A SOFT SNAP,
Besides the Salary There Is 100000 fol-
Running Expenses.
CARPENTERS SNAPSHOTS FROM INSIDE
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE prsPArcH.r
WASHINGTON, June 4.
A great Presidential battle is at hand, and
the White House is the medal to be awarded
to the winner. Public men say the house
is entirely too small, but notice those who
get in seldom want to get out, and all who
are out are mighty anxious to get in.
David Hill, bachelor as be is, thinks that
Harrison's bed, which is six feet wide,
would just suit him, and his frugal bach
elor meal could be as we'll cooked on the
great ranges of the White House kitchens
as upon those of the Arlington Hotel,
where he is stopping.
Mrs Harrison says the house ought to
have double the number of rooms it has
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can be easily demonstrated. The best you
can do, gentlemen, with the limited ma
terial you allow yourselves, Is to wear the
straight collar with rolled over, or broken,
points-fashion makes it high this season.
and either the straight tie or the flowing
Ascot scarf
There are other collars and other ties, but
let US have look at them.
Turn-Down Collar on . Woman.
There is the Byron collar, which turns
down all round. The handsomest man alive
cannot afford to wear it. Why7 Because
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istio signs Of mercury poisoning, and who
recovered forthwith. The daily dose sup-
piled by the firm to each man is 25 grammes
of the crystallized salt, dissolved in about
400 cubic centimeters of milk. It has been
suggested that an Improvement in practice
would be to increase the dose in summer,
when cases of salvation ase much more fre-
quentt, and to diminish it during the cooler
appears to meet all requirements, and the
distressing malady is now robbed of it,
terrors
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Substitute for Caoutchouc,

A recent investigation of the solid prod
ucts which result from the oxidation of dry
ing oils shows that the absorption Of oxygen
produced new fatty acids and an insoluable
o1y-compound termed slinoxin." This ma
terial swells up on boiling with acetone or
acetic ether, forming an elastic mass, and in
other respects resembles caoutchouc. On
the strength of this discovery it is believed
that from oxidized oil material that would
make a good substitute for caoutchouc
could be obtained.
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certain points tn .
average man is dressed
in better taste than
the average woman.
This inference sounds
surprising in view Of
swallow tails, trousers
and bell hats, but it is
no. meant to apply to
general forms, but to
refnements OF line,
proportion and color
inside the prescribed
shapes
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Paste for Razor Strops,

The manufacturers of razor strops have al
ways taken gre0t care to keep secret the
nature of the composition used in the manu-
facture of their special commodity. This
material is now declared to be composed Of
coke, ground to an impalpable powder,
made into paste with tat and perfumed
with an ethereal oil
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It Is Good.

The more Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
is used the better it is liked. We know Of
no other remedy that always gives satisfac-
tion. 1t is good when you first catch cold.
It is good when your cold is seated and
your lungs are sore. 1t is good in any kind
of . cough. We have sold 25 dozen of it
and every bottle has given satisfaction.
Stedman & Friedman, druggists. Minne-
sota Lake, MINI. wsu
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An English navy surgeon cites an old
method of removing foreign bodies from
the throat, such as pieces of meat or other
solid food, as one of the best-known means
OF effecting the desired result This simple
mode of relief is to blow forcibly into the
ear Powerful reflex action is thus excited,
during which the foreign body is expelled
from the trachea
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Tho Prevention of Smoke.

The latest system Of smoke prevention in
wolves the use Of the combined apparatus OF
two inventors One invention consists of
freclay arches through which the combined
air and gasses are passed, and which, becom-
ing .incandescent, cause the smoke to be
consumed. The other principle is tho in
duction of a low pressure current of air by
means of steam jets, and the two devices
combined give q very good result, more
especially when applied to steam boilers
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the patterns already in hand Thus it is
that the best dress of men reaches an ele-
gance that the dress of few women attain.
If many of the forms of mans costume
are wrong from the aesthetic standard, some
of them are right, and all have had infinite,
though sometimes misdirected, pains be-
slowed on them.
Ths Definition Of Novelty.
It speaks worlds for the situation to note
a novelty. The tailors are at present saying
that the latest English fad for morning
coats is undressed worsted. This is only q
variety in the finish Of cloth. It takes
something as startling as an electric shock
to be accounted a novelty in a woman's
wardrobe. The fashionable materials for
lounge suits are rough faced Scotch and
English tweeds, in pronounced checks and
fine stripes; tropical worsted suitings and
the undressed worsted just mentioned,
cheviots also, that are in a wide vale popu.
lar clays, serges in blue and black, and
homespuns in the lightest tints of all
colors.
Trouserings to 60 with these are in mar
row stripes and fine checks. Extremely
light or extremely dark shades are chosen
in preference to medium ones
For top coats there are two distinct styles.
The covert coat, in Venetians and in covert
coatings, in all the shades of tan, made very
short, with strap seams, and collar of the
same without facing. It Is lined through
out with silk. The alternative coat reaches
below the knee, and is made of fine whip
cord, light weight kersey, cheviot or angola,
in gray, light tan, blue or black. II is
lined with silk faced to the edge; the seams
are plain and the collar is Of the same ma
terial
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the hills of Virginia already covered with
The White House as 1t ID.

But let me give you description of the
White House in plain common sense words
The people r.ally know but little about it.,
and the pictures published of it give only
its outlines 1t stands, you know, in front
of beautiful park, which, when Washing
ton City was a village, was used as race
track but which is now full of fine old for
est trees. There is a big iron fence fully
ten feet high between the front yard and
the street and the driveways which lead up
to the front door are OF the shape Of halt
moon, and pavements of flag as wide as the
the porte cochere This pavement is well
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Mr. MOSES PRICE, of this place, has
been troubled with rheumatism tor long
time. He SAYS Chamberlain's Pain Balm
has cured him and that the Balm has no
equal. Honecker Bros, Lorraine, o. One
application will relieve the pain. 50-csnt
bottles for sale by druggists wsu
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The Styles in Morning Coats,

For morning coats diagonals and cork
screws have been almost cast aside. In
their place are used angolas. fine twills and
cheviots, all in extremely soft finish. They
are made longer than usual in both waist
and skirt, and button medium low. The
seams are plain and the edges are finished
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WHY be pestered with reaches, bedbugs,
ETC., when Buglne will Danish them eter-
nallyf 25 cents ut all dealers.
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Dos'r allow your house to become oyerrun
with reaches, bedbugs etc. Clean them out
with Bugine; it never fails. % cts.
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ONYX AwEIsGs-Entirely new and fast in
4 Sons, $50 Penn avenue. Tel. l97a. wsu
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MEN DRESS IN TASTE.
As a Rule Their Costumes Are Ahead
Of Women's in This Respect
WHAT CONSTITUTES A NOVELTY.
The Utility Of the Necktie Is the Secret of
Its Appearance.
SUITS THAT ARE PROPER JUST NOW

WRITTEN FOR THE pIsPAroH.1
Some special study of mems costumes
forces the unexpected conclusion that in
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WE pack, haul, store, ship, repair, refnish
and reupholster furniture
wsu HAUeH & KEENAN,, 80 Water street.