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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23
Hastings Court.

In the Hastings Court yesterday
Judge Woods announced from the
bench that all the various suits that
have been entered against w. j. and
l.. Blair, Jr,, would have to be consoli.
dated into one suit. The court is
considering the petition for local
option election and will announce the
date Monday or Tuesday. Judge Woods
told the TIMES that the election would
probably be held during the last week
in August or the first week in Septem-
Der, in order to give time for the
hospital bond election in case Council
orders it held.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23
The German at Coyner,s.

One OF the most brilliant and pleas.
ant society events OF this summer was
the german at Coyner's Springs Friday
night at which large number Of the
society people OF Roanoke were present.
The music was excellent and was fur.
nished by Devon's orche stra, of Roa.
noke. Coyner's was at its best and was
handsomely decorated with flowers and
bunting.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23
Siam,s Renlx Recaixed

PARIS, July 22.-Tbe Siamese reply to
Frances ultimatum has been handed
to M. Parvie, the French minister, res
ident in Bangkok. He telegraphed to the
Siamese legation here It's terms have
rendered necessary another exchange
OF kilograms between him and tho
legation at Bangkok. Therefore the
reply will not be given on. for several
hours.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23
want Roanoke Contractors to BId

The contractors OF Roanoke have
been requested to send in their bids for
street and sewer work to be done at
Bedford City. The authorities of Bed
ford contemplate making extensive i'm
provements in streets and sewers this
season.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23
The Best Yet.

New upright piano, IN octaves, full
size, warranted five years, with nice
stool and cover, for S175. This is one Of
the best bargains ever offered. Hard
times make low prices. Payments made
easy. Write for particulars to Hobbie
Music Company, SO Salem avenue.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23
Big Fire In a brewery.

MILWAUKEE, July 22.-Fire at the
Pabst Brewing Company's plant this
evening caused damage of SIS. 900.
besides destroying the homestead OF
Jacob Best, father of Mrs. Pabst, and
founder OF the Pabst Brewery. The
damage is covered by insurance.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23
Senator Stanford's successor

SACRAMENTO, Cal, July as.-Geo. c.
Perkins has been appointed United
STATES Senator by Governor Markham
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23

umpire-Foard.
LEAGUE GAMES YESTERDAY.
At Philadelphia
Philadelphia ................ Ol o o o O , O. 4
Washington ................. 62201 0 20 XII
MISUNDERSTANDING. IL; Washington, Is. Errors
Wehincg, Carscy and Clemens; Esper and Farrell
New York. 202 0OOU- S
Hits-Boston II, New York. II. Errors-Bos.
ton, I; New York, 4. Batteries-Staley, Nichols
and Camel; Baldwin, Rasie and Kelly
AT Louisville
Louisville. Observation-Disclosures. O. ! O5l 1 A c11
Cleveland. OO2l11l 4-iO
Hits-Lousvine, IL; Cleveland, L. Errors
Louisville. 0; Cleveland, . Batteries Rhodes
and Grim; Cuppy and O'Connor.
At ST. Louis (ten innings
ST Louis. 0 o q / 4 u . q
Cincinnati. 0l022ll 900 :
Hits-St Louis, 10; Cincinnati, III. Errors-St
Louis, Z; Cincinnati i. Batteries Bretcnstein
and PETIT; Sullivan, Chamberlain and Murphy.
At brooklyn
BBa a.;ty n..'.....'....'...... 0o0o3 1900 4
Hits Brooklyn, Il; Baltimore, S. Errors
Brooklyn. Z; Baltimore, >. Batteries-Stcin and
ktnslow; Hawke and Clarke.
AT Chicago
Chicago ................... 400 OOO3 u O. o
Pittsbnrg.. 2u105O 10
iiit.r >. is; Pitssbnrg, 10 Errors-ch
cago, ?; fittsburg, o.. Battcries-Mauck, Hutch
inson. McGill and Schrivcr; Killer Ehret and
Snyder
At Brooklyn Second game,-
Brooklyn .............. 0110O0OOO O. }
Baltimore ...... 80. 80. u o % : q q u u
iiits-Brooklyn.o .: Baltimore, o. Errors-Brook
lyn, 8; Baltimore. ]. Batterics-Foulsc, Had
cock md Kinslow; Mullen and Clarke
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23
Alive with His Neck Broken.

FoRT MONROE, Va, July 22.-Harry
Hitchcock, whose neck was broken
while driving from the pier last Wed.
nesday. is still alive, and was taken to
Baltimore tonight for treatment at
Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23

You can buy wall paper at cents per
roll and upwards at the L. II Stewart
Furniture Company.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23

+E. Iioge declared ont Tor interfering with
battcd ball 800
Earned runs-R. a. c., YIN. CA, .. Home
runs-Meade, G. Hodge Three base hits-IIanpt-
man. Two base hits-Sanord. First basc on
called bas-On Boyd, ,; OFF Brooke 2 Struck
ou-By Body, o; by Brooke, 4. Double plavs-
\. NJ: G. A., ,; Roanoke, l. Time OF gamc-2:O5.
Umpire-Foard.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23
TUE WEATHER.

Forecast for Virginia, North Carolina
and South Carolina; Fair; westerly winds
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-23
JAS.S. GROVES &C.,.
Real Estate Rental and Loan Agn'tS.
lO3 CAMPBELL STREET.
ID. Il. BARBOUR. ID. FL. MATsON.
ROANOKE e saS13AEy PLUMBING

Practical plumbers and eas-fltters
Dealers In all kinds of plum bers' and gas-
dtters' Fupplieg. EefimateB made on the
improved and sanitary styles OF plum bling
All work guaranteed. j. MELHORN,
superintendent, No. 10 South Jefferson
trest, Roanoke. Va. 1261y
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22
Death from Fright.

81 have interested myself some.
what in looking up unusual causes Of
DEATH" said DR.. Elder, "and have
met several we'll authenticated in
stances where fright was the cause.
The English Surgeon General Fran
els tells of drummer in India across
whose legs harmless lizard crawled
while he was half asleep. He was
sure that cobra had bitten him, and
it was too much for his nerves and he
died.
Frederick l. of Prussia was killed
by fear. His wife was insane, and
one day she escaped from her keeper,
and, dabbling her clothes in blood,
rushed upon her husband while he
was doing in his chair. King Fred
erick imagined her to be the white
lady whose ghost was believed to in
var!ably appear whenever the death
of a member of the royal family was
to occur, and he was thrown into a
fever and died in six weeks.
But perhaps the most remarkable
death from fear was that of the
Dutch painter, Pentman, who lived
in the seventeenth century. One day
he went into room full Of anatomi-
cal subjects to sketch some deaths
heads and skeletons for a picture he
intended to paint. The weather was
very sultry, and while sketching he
fell asleep He was aroused by bones
dancing around him and skeletons
suspended from the ceiling clashing
together.
ain a fit of terror he threw him
self out the window, and, though he
sustained no serious injury and was
informed that a slight earthquake
had caused the commotion among
his ghostly surroundings, he died in
few days in nervous tremor. l
could cite many other cases were the
shock to the nervous system which
we know as fright has produced
death. W Washington Post.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22

pared with clock time, for sun dial
days are not, like ordinary days, all
OF equal length. The mean time
shown by ordinary clocks is based
upon the division of a mean day,
which corresponds to the mean length
Of the day as measured by the sun
dial shadow at different parts of the
year. The clock time corresponds
to the dial time which would be shown
by Fictitious" or "mean" sun NOV.
ing uniformly in the equator at the
same average rate as that Of the real
sun In the ecliptic.
The difficulty of contriving dial
to show the mean time has been over
come in simple manner by Major
General j. R. Oliver of London, who
has devised a gnomon which prac-
tically makes its own correction for
the equation of time. In this instru-
ment the time is indicated not by
the shadow Of straight edge, as in
the old sun dials, but by the point
where an equatorial circular line is
cut by the edge of the shadow of a
curved surface, the curvature of which
is so arranged with respect to the
suns distance above or below the
equator as to compensate for the
equation of time" The instrument
is universal one, and consists of
meridional semi-circle, the diameter
Of which is an axis carrying the curved
gnomon, and an equatorial circular
arc. The latter has engraved upon
its concave surface graduated line
on which are marked the hours and
their subdivisions. There is a screw
for clamping the meridional arc at
the proper position for any given
latitude, and another clamp for ad-
justing the equatorial arc. The dial
not only indicates local meantime,
but very simple adjustment may be
set so as to show any required standard
time. The figure here given illus
trates the dial devised by Major Gen
eral Oliver.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22

THE Vesuvius, with its pneumatic
gun system from which such great
results were anticipated appears to
be q doomed vessel. The experts Of
the Ordnance Department. have about
concluded to report against the sys-
TEN for the reason that the valve
gears cannot be made to work with any
certainty which would be disastrous in
actual warfare, 1t now rests with
the Secretary of the Navy to decide
whether the system shall be tried
further with the view Of overcoming
this defect If he should decide
against it then the question will arise
what shall be done with the Vesu-
vlus. 1t is no use as a warship and
its lines are not such as to make it Of
much use for the purposes of a gun
boat
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22
Juvenile Modesty,

There is story Of benevolent
gentleman who visited certain re-
formatory institution near Boston,
and while going over the place en-
gagged one and another Of the inmates
in conversation.
The good man was quite unmind-
full of the fact, known to all who have
seen much of that phase of life, that
people in such places do not enjoy be-
ing questioned as to their personal
history. At last he came to very
demure-looking youngster, and his
heart went out toward the untortu-
nate waif.
"Well, my little man." said he,
''and what are you in here for?"
"Please, sir" said the little fellow,
instantly, "Tm here to set the other
boys a good example"
Somewhat of the same sort is a
story lately told by Harper's Young
People.
Aren't you a big boy to have a
nurse?" an elderly gentleman of a
boy whom he had met in the park.
"Oh no, said the boy. "She doesn't
look after me, anyhow. She's here to
take care of the boys | play with,
and see that / don't hurt en-"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22

From Wilson: One of the most dis
astrous storms ever known in this sec
ton Of Kansas was one experienced on
the evening OF Saturday, the Sd inst, in
the eastern part of Russell and north
and northeastern part Of Ellsworth coun-
ties. At Dorrance and vicinity, extend
ms several miles south, the rain and fall
of hail was fearful and unprecedented.
In Dorrance the hail went completely
through new as well as old roofs, leaving
holes that the mouth of a teacup would
not cover, and in one instance making a
hole more than a foot in diameter. The
windows on the east and south sides Of
the houses had nearly all Of the glass
broken. One man, named Brown, had
all Of his buildings swept away. Even
fences with heavy stone posts could not
withstand the pressure. Two yearling
horses, belonging to T. 0. George were
killed by the hail, and rabbits and prai-
RE chickens were killed in great num-
bers, besides small birds. No human lives
we're lost, nor have we heard Of any being
injured. On the fats northeast Of Will
son it was also very severe, but not 80
destructive as at and around Dorrance.
Wilson escaped with heavy windstorm
and rain but no damage of any kind.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22
Take Care o. thu Girls.

There is no subject that so deeply
interests the thinking people Of our
country as that of rational education
for our girls, and there is none that
is productive of so little real advan-
tage to the girls from the many dis
cussions that the subject occasions.
Plans are considered and laid aside,
and theories rise only to fall again,
and meanwhile the girl speeds on to-
ward womanhood, misdirecting her
energies and wasting valuable time
through lack of well-defned plans
for her best advantage on the part Of
her guardians and educators.
We cannot overdo the matter of
discreetly rearing our girls. They
are to be the wives and mothers Of
our next generation, and on them
rests the prosperity of the nation.
The world is to be largely influenced
by their abilities and strength, and it
rests with the educators of to-day to
prepare them for the great work that
is before them. The keynote for
harmony in mental and physical edu-
cation has not yet been touched, and
will not be until their physical we'll
being is made supreme, and the men
tai is based on this power. The time
has never been in our country when
this has been practically considered.
Regardless of physical resources men
tai expansion has ever been and still
is the aim, and has grown to such a
craze in America that brain power is
often forced to the exhaustion Of all
other capabilities.
When our girls thus forced gradu-
ate they are, even If they escape in
validism, utterly without stamina,
and are poorly prepared for entering
cheerfully upon the arduOus duties
that await them in everyday life,
and also are unfortified for rising
above the disappointments and anx-
ieties that enter to greater or less
extent into every home.
Their career closes at their gradual
ton instead of being at its dawn, and
many a bright intellect that gave
promiseof strength everywhere burns
but dimly in an obscure circle from
being Gagged in an enfeebled and ex-
hausted body. --Godey'S.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22

GENERAL DoDDs, who bravely
fought the ama.ons of Dahomey, and
more bravely the fevers of Africa,
has been greatly honored in Paris
This has caused the expression Of a
fear in certain quarters that Dodds
will be made q popular idol as was
Boulanger. The here suggestion, lln-
founded as it must be, is humorous.
The French are hero-worshiping
people, but they do not need a mill
tary hero just now, and If they did
there is nothing In the achievements
of General Dodds, brave soldier
though he certainly is, to entitle him
to the distinction Of a public idol.
He has no dangerous wounds won in
desperate conflicts to excite sym
pathy. He cannot ride a horse
with the superb aplomb of a
Boulanger, and it is not probable
that anybody will weave his fame
into a catchy tune like the "Boulanger
March" Besides, Dodds is not ro-
mantle and mouth-tllling name. One
can hardly imagine a Dodds as a pop
ular idol.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22
KANSAS CHURCHES.

Topeka Capital; The Presbyterian
people in Oakland are making vigoS-
GUS effort to build a church building.
Mr.. Brigham has given the lots, and the
presbytery of the district has offered to
give 81, 900 on condition that the church
can get $4,000 more. Rev. H. s. Childs,
pastor of the congregation, is soliciting
subscriptions.
Arkansas City Traveller: The solicit
ing for funds to build M. e. church,
south, goes on in this city, The solicitors
are quite successful and hope soon to
have SO, 900 raised. This with the 81, 900
given them by their society makes "a, 1000
to be invested in church property here,
They hope to have the church finished
by September.
Salina special: The thirteenth annual
convention of the Kansas Christian Sum-
day school association opened here with
a large attendance of delegates. Thia
meeting will be full of interest, several
eminent speakers from other states being
upon the programme. The address OF
welcome was delivered by Rev. II. Mil.
ner Black, followed by response by the
vice-president of the association, j. E.
Pickett, of Manhattan. The president,
Fl. @. Rash, of Salina, then delivered hiA
annual address, giving a careful review
of the work of the past year, and making
some thoughtful suggestions for tho
future.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22

The doctors who cut the assassin's
bullet out Of Millionaire Mackey's
back put in a bill of Sl2, 500 for the
job. Mr.. Mackay refused to pay.
He evidently thinks it worth no
more to cut a bullet from his back
than from that Of a poor man. OF
course Mackay is as able to pay Sl2,-
500 as an ordinary man would be to
pay S12, but this fact would not be
taken into consideration in any ordi-
nary business transaction. Evidently
the rule for doctors charges in San
Francisco IL very simple one. They
size up a mans financial standing
and charge all they think they can
get.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22

THE sea serpent which fishermen
at Beach Point on the Massachu-
sets coast, captured proves to have
been the genuine old monster Of the
summer resort. 1t was the veritable
marine terror that the skipper Of the
sailing vessel has been spinning yarns
about for hundreds of years past.
The true sea serpent will never allow
himself to be captured, dead or alive.
The escape of this Massachusetts
specimen did credit to his race and
proved his genuineness beyond a
doubt. Having been shot in the
neck with bomb lance, and after
lying all night upon the beach, ap-
pqrently dead, he suddenly leaps into
life and plunges into the sea, Two
dories that were fastened to him he
drags beneath the waves, to reappear
in a moment as kindling wood. He
then entangles his tail in the cable
of one sloop that was to have taken
him to Boston and strikes out for
deep sea- The vessel rocks from side
to side and is dragged along like a
yachts dingey. Finally the cable is
cut and the horrible monster foams
onward, casually knocking the bow.
spirit and jibboom Off another ship
that fails to get out of the way. FL
nally it is Joined by another sea SER
pent, darker and larger, and the two
are seen no more. There can be
little doubt Of the truthfulness Of
this tale. These are probably the
same two marine monsters that
Virgil describes in his spirited pas
sage on the death Of LAGOON, begin
ming:
And now arise more dreadful wonders still
Every schoolboy knows the descrip-
tion of the twin serpents that de-
stroyed the impious priest and his
tender sons, 1t Is fortunate that
second serpent joined its mate off
the Massachusetts, coast. Thus is
Virgil's narrative verified, and the
authenticity Of these modern SER
penis proved at one and The same
time.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22
SOME Russians are praying for more

SOME Russians are praying for more
rain and less famine, Others, of a
practical turn Of mind, are packing
their microbes and starting for Amer
lea. The wish thatall of them would
be content to join in the petition
Of faith and stay at home may Be IN
hospitable, but extending courtesy to
a pauper charged with cholera and
crusted with realty is a severe test
even Of ibis country's powers of as
similation.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22

IT is great disappointment to
learn that feminine cashier and
bookkeeper has been making of with
her Arms money The fact that this
happened so far west as Omaha Is
nothing in mitigation, and to make
matters worse, another conscience
less yQung. Woman actually shared the
plumber. II has been said SO often
that women are more honest than
men that this Omaha break is a
great shock to us. There are skep-
tics who think that women may not
only become skilled in the tricks OF
trade, but they may actually become
defaulters.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22
NEWSPAPERS IN GERMANY.
Little Enterprise Displayed, About the Big
gest Circulation Being 100, 900 Daily.

Little Enterprise Displayed, About the Big
gest Circulation Being 100, 900 Daily.
The newspapers in Germany are
largely sold by women, and the small
newsboy Of America is unknown in
Berlin Now and then, says writer
In the Washington Star, you see a
man selling papers, but the greater
part Of the circulation of the Jour
nails is by subscription, and women
always deliver the papers. There are
many queer things about the news
papers, and few OF the Berlin journals
have large stats Of reporters. The
local news Is about the same In all
papers, and no one thinks of trying to
make a scoop, as 1T is called, or to
have the news in advance of his fell
lows. The editors of the morning
papers leave their offices at 0 o'clock
and the papers are on the press at H..
BY IL o'clock even the printers have
gone home, and when General Won
Moltke died at II O'Clock at night
there was only one Berlin newspaper
that had line about it in its issue
next morning. The announcement
of the death was published in New
York and elsewhere in full, but the
German newspapers knew nothing
ABOUT ~ ~4G
The newspapers publish items from
their contemporary journals which
they should have had themselves,
saying that the other papers say so
and so, and there is no life in Berlin
journalism. The papers have not
very large circulation, and they do
not make great deal of money.
The biggest Of them sells something
like 100000 copies and this paper
makes $l37, 900 year and thinks it
does wonders. Men who write for
the papers are moderately well paid,
and editors in-chief get from "a, 900
to SIS, 900 a year. The Germans are
good advertisers and there seems to
be no reason why the papers should
not do better. Everything under the
sun is put into the papers in the shape
Of an advertisement. And there is
great deal of social news that we
publish for nothing which is put in at
so much per line. Engagements are
generally announced in the newspa-
pers by the parents Of the bride and
also by the groom, and there are a
large number of matrimonial adver-
tisemehts in which men and women
state their good qualities and ask for
husbands and wives. Sometimes men
advertise, stating they have daugh-
ter whom they wish to get rid of, and
in one year there were 400 advertise
ments in one paper Of persons seeking
better halves. Marriages are also
published in the same way, and there
is fixed rate for births and deaths.
The Germans are very proud Of
having children, and it is generally
expected that son or daughter will
make his or her appearance in the
newspaper columns Immediately upon
its appearance in the world, There
are always numbers Of death notices,
and the official advertisements of the
city amount to something. Adver-
tisements of patent medicines have
as much prominence in the Berlin
newspapers as in our own, and alto
gether the German is a very good ad-
vertiser.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22

In the little town Of Yarmouth,
Nova Scotia, the electric service is
very convenient for passengers. In
the rear of the seats buttons are placed
at intervals, which by pressing noti-
fies the conductor and makes il easy,
especially for ladies, to leave the car.
This plan might be advantageously
adopted in this country, as passengers
are often jostled in trying to notify
conductors when they desire to leave
at certain points.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22

KENTUCKY chivalry recently rose
in its might, and when it had sub
sided to natural calm Jim Collins,
horsethief, might have been observed
swaying neckwise from a tree. AS to
whether or not horse-stealing de-
serves such rebuke there will be a
variety of opinions, but it is certain
that Mr., Collins has been definitely
and finally cured Of the habit.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-06-22

and go into mutual and proper mel
ancholia, have again appeared, this
time in Ohio. They are four months
ahead Of time, All students Of Cur
rent fiction know that the brother
and sister yarn is only due twice a
year, and 1t was on duty less than
two months ago. Such violation of
precedent Is very near vandalism.