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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04
The aIaaonnas Of potticelli.

AS we examine the various madonnas
by Bottieelli in the galleries of London,
Berlin, Paris and Florence we cannot
fail to be struck by the ardor of emotion
that seems to have animated the painter
in his search for the perfect type of
beauty realized in the "Crowning of the
Virgin" The construction of the head
of the Virgin is essentially the same in
all Botticelli's pictures, but the feshly
mask and the expression vary, and the
final charm of each one remains an un-
decipherable puzzle.
We feel that this madonna is an init
mate vision of the ideal woman who
Unparalleled" the painters soul; so
Dante speaks of Beatrice, the object of
surprising desire. We marvel at the
mouth, at the eyes, at the eyelids, at the
sweep of the brows, at the thick golden
threaded hair, at the splendor of the
draped head over which angels hold a
crown, at the beautiful color of the
flesh, which suggests souvenir of the
"Vita Nuova.'
She hath that paleness of the pearl that's fit
In fair woman; SO much and not more;
She is rs high as natures skill can soar;
Beauty is tried by her comparison.
Theodore Child in Harper's.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04
Charged Corsets.

Now that electricity is being more and
more widely used it is no longer safe for
woman to carry her watch in the
place where it has always been most se-
cure--in her corsets. A New York
woman few days ago was going to pay
visit of curiosity to an electric light
plant. She was warned that her watch
might be charged with electricity, and
so she did not take it with her.
The precaution was useless. The next
day the movements Of the watch were
most eccentric. Now it was fast, now
slow, but never right. She asked her
husband, who was an electrician, what
could be the matter with it, and he soon
found that her corset steels had been
charged with electricity during her visit
to the plant, and that next day, when
she placed her watch in its usual resting
place, the charge had been communi
Gated to its works.
OF course women have often worn cor
sets that have been "charged"-at the
shop. But here is u new idea.--Nev
York World
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04

In the neighborhood of Turin there is
to be seen, at the entrance to field, the
following notice in large letters:
"Horses admitted to Craze at the fol-
lowing rates:
"First-Horses with long tails, three
francs.
sSecond-Horses with clipped tails,
one franc
If you go to countrynan and ask
him, tho reaeon for that differences III the
charge, he will reply:
The reason is very simple. The
horses with long tails can easily drive
away the flies, while those with clipped
tails cannot do SO, and they are SO tor
mented by these insects that they cal
absolutely nothing. - Monde Umoris
| ticO
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04

"There's many slip 'twixt the cup
and the lip is very old saying, and
was first uttered to the king of Samos,
an island in the Grecian archipelago.
This king, Anceus by name, planted a
vineyard and treated the slaves who cul-
tivated it so badly that one of them told
him he would never live to taste the
wine made fromit. When the wine was
ready and cup of it poured out for the
king he sent for the slave who had
prophesied his death, and asked him
what he thought of his prophecy now.
The slave replied, "There's many a
slip 'twixt the cup and the lip" and just
as he had spoken the words Anc@us re-
ceived warning that a wild boar had
broken into his vineyard and was ruin
ing it. Putting down the wine untasted
he rushed out to attack the boar ano
was killed .-Harper's Young People.
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A Pair OF Misers,

Mr.. and Miss Dancer are reputed the
most notorious misers of the Eighteenth
century. The manner in which this
couple were found after death to have
disposed of their wealth was even more
strange than could have been their
method of acquiring it. The total value
was a20, 900, which was thus disposed of
--e2, 800 were found under dunghilli
$500 in an old coat, nailed to the manger
in the stable; e600 in notes were hidden
away in an old teapot; the chimney
yielded $4,000, slowed in nineteen sep
arate crevices. Several jugs filed with
coin were secreted In the stable loft.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04
A Fortune in "Attendances."

A certain hotel keeper in London de-
cided not to charge his customers for
attendance, but he found that many of
them objected to the omission, and ac-
cordingly there appeared the charge of
eighteen pence day in each bill. That
eighteen pence produced $4,000 year.
He began business with only 1880,
and he recently retired into private life
worth e150,000. He was at one time ip
domestic service, and he has recently
bought an Essex estate, with its old
mansion and deer park.-London Tit
Bits
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Raphael's Theological Virtue.

It is vain to accuse Raphael, as did
certain Of his contemporaries, of not
having sufficient theological virtue, in
asmuch as he painted virgins that were
too humanity adorable. Raphael con-
formed his painting to his ideas and his
sentiments. He expressed his soul, just
as Lippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna,
Bellini and Perugino expressed their
souls, each one differently, and In man
ner characteristic Of his more or less
complex personality; and, as regards
each one of them, the degree of our ad-
miration and sympathy depends upon
the temperament and culture of our
own souls. Theodore Child in Harper's
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04
AM Eveninc wlth Authors.

A row version Of evenings with au-
thors was tried at recent gathering.
Some of the company impersonated well
known characters in fiction, each giving
q short selection, taken so as to avoid
the use of telltale names, and the rest
provided with pencil and paper, under.
took to furnish description and desig
nation of the character depicted. The
time limit was ten minutes, and prize
was given for the best and most compre
hensive essay. BOBBY prizes were alst
awarded, and plenty of merriment wa
evolved. York Times.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04
Athletics and COrsets.

Miss Holnans, the head of the Normal
School of Gymnastics in Boston, gives
in q recent interview these statistics con-
cerning the influence of athletics upon
dress. "Two years ago." she says, tout
of class of thirty seven there were but
two of the young women at the end OF
the school year who continued to wear
corsets, and no one continued to wear
French heels. Last year out of a class
of seventy-one seven-eighths gave mp
wearing corsets"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04
A Fathers Suggestion.

Jack-I hope you'll consent to mar
riage between myself and your daughter
Alice.
Quiverfull- Can't do it, young man
weddings are too confoundedly expen-
sive. No, sir, refuse my consent, but
Of course-er-if you and Alice should
take it into your heads to elope-.
Kate Fields Washington.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04

One hardly expects to find humor in
the reports Of town officers, but occa-
sionally some Of the unintentional kind
crops out, as in this item of disburse-
ment in Hartford county town, "Mrs.
M. Leak, for maintaining watering
trough, three dollars, or this from town
in Massachusetts, "a new building has
been erected the past year for the pur-
pose Of storing hay, wagons, farming
tools, tramps," etc.-Hartford Post.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04
In Fashion Again.

Who does not remember when their
grandmothers wore what were known as
"congress gaitersp" Well, the fin de
siece girl is wearing them now, or what
is practically the same thing, and they
are to be found in all the smart shoe
makers windows, with the rubber sci
in the sides of the cloth uppers, and 9
mighty comfortable and neat bit of foot
covering they are.-Philadelphia Times
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04

Men seem to be very much alike the
world over. Whenever the czar has a
spasm of economy he always begins to
cut down expenses first in his wife's al
lowance. The last time his majesty had
an attack of thriftiness he reduced the
amount Of his wife's spending money.
This time it is journey she proposed to
take in the Caucasus that has been aban-
doned ON account Of the expense attend
ant upon her travelling with her suite.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04
A Woman ON Hand in Time of Need.

a WOmhh On Hahu m 1Ime of Neeu'
The friends of woman's progress are
congratulating themselves that, though
il was intimated at the Emergency hos
pital on the fair grounds that no wom'
an medicos were needed, the first case to
be taken there was attended by WON
an physician, DR.. Gertrude Wellington.
A lady was injured by the wheel of car
passing over her foot, and DR.. Yelling
ton, with no better instruments than a
policeman's club and her own handker-
chief, stopped the flow Of blood until the
ambulance arrived.-Chicago Letter.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04
Gaining Time,

Teacher What is the height Of Pixies
peak?
Boy-Do you mean how high it is
above the surrounding country?
"How high is it above the sea2
"Um! At high tide or low tideP"
"Eithel"
81 forget, Good News.
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Jean Inselow for Poet Laureate.

A queen should have woman for
laureate. Victoria is to look among the
women of England to know who has
written or who can write such poems as
shall honor a reign, now more than half
a century long, which has literature
of its own, as in all other regards it has
its own distinctive history. This WON
an is Jean Ingelow.-Edward E. Hale in
Boston Commonwealth.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04

How an English Girl win See America.
A young English girl is travelling
through America in a novel way. She
was anxious to see the country, but had
only enough money to pay her expenses
from place to place. At Washington,
which she first visited, she applied for a
position as chambermaid in one of the
best hotels. Her neatness and pleasant
manner at once secured her the coveted
place She performed her duties quietly
and faithfully, had every other after
noon out, saw all the sights of the capi-
tai, and in month was ready to leave
for the next point Of interest.--Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
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Rather Unreasonable.
Little Grill don't see why teache

Little Girl--I don't see why teacHeIs
has to be so mean.
Aunty-What has yours done7
Little Girl--In the ''stronomy lessons
last term she asked me how many moons
Jupiter had, and said five, and she
marked me miss cause the book said
four. Now she says Jupiter really has
fivo moons, and wanted her to mark
that miss of, and she wouldn't. Good
News.
The Countess of Aberdeen keeps eighty
servants in her home in Scotland, and II
considered to be the one woman in Grea'
Britain who has come closest to solu
.tion Of the servant girl problem:
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04

While hats are of the largest, bonnets
are of the smallest; bow with an ali
gret or flower, or tiny capote of tht
shape Of Henri Deux cap, with strings
to give o dignifed touch to their jaunti-
ness, are the favorite shape so far.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04
Long Wasted Women.

Women who wish to give a long
wasted appearance to their bodices are
wearing pointed cut jet girdles, with
very long jet fringe on the lower edge.
These girdles are very expensive, but if
one has the time girdle can be made at
home at a comparatively small cost.
The plain jet girdle may be got, and
strands of beads bought and hung in the
proper fringe fashion from it. In doing
this be careful that each string of beads
is separate and the thread securely fas.
tened, so that if one should break the
others will not of necessity follow its
example.-Exchange.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04
RHEUMATISM,
DEAFNESS.

We handle the only Electric Inven-
tion that is successful In curing Deaf
ness when caused by Catarrh, Fevers,
Paralysis, etc.
Send 10 Cents for our n page Catalogue,
which describes treatment. Please mention
this paper.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-05-04

q. 8. BLISS. Iowa Falls, Iowa,
Evening journal., 1893-09-07
Baseball Notes.

The Brooklyn-St Louis game at East
ern Park on Saturday will be sand
wiched in between bicycle races con-
Quoted by the Cash Prize League
When Latham threw Fuller out at
first in New York yesterday, on asslow
bounder in the third inn ing. he yelled
"Hey, Kelll they tell ne I've got lame
arm How about it2" Welllw
Ward was angry after yesterday 5
game. Said he: 80 much has been said
about my taking fly balls in right
field aud thus interfering with the out
felders, that let two balls drop there
to-day, aud that lost the game. |
could have taken either of them, but ]
thought I'd just let my critics see how
easily the outdelders could catch them
Stafford caught one by the purest luck
but couldn't recover quick enough "a
throw Latham out at the plate They
say am not covering the bag; well,
maybe, I'll ley off by and by, and let
somebody else play it,
Evening journal., 1893-09-07

il conveyed was allowed to 90 to rack
and ruin for number of years Mr.
Armstrong lived in a hut upon the
ground, which was practically wilder
ness adjacent TO the desolate little viii
lage Of Celesta. There he died in abiect
poverty In 1887, his wife, Han
nah, having died in 1869. For
sll these years that the property lay
neglected, no taxes were paid upon Il,
aud these claims of the county and
commonwealth gradually accumulated
until it was found necessary to sell the
land to satisfy them. Then arose the
difficulty of making the sale according
to law The title vested in Almighty
God" and the impossibllity of serving
the tax claims was at once realized, but
this obstacle was overcome by the post
ing of notices in the various parts Of the
property stating that the land thus
owned by Almighty God" would be
sold unless the possess or title satisfied
The claims within certain date.
Then came the sale of property. and
it was bought by Harry Armstrong, the
son Of the couple, who took and still
holds a tax title to t.-Philadelphia
Press
Evening journal., 1893-09-07
Incidents nftIne my.

The new athletic association viii
probably organize as soon as the mem
bers can be reached and interviewed
Household goods of the late Mrs. Platt
were disposed of at public sale this
afternoon at the Platt residence on
Orange street.
From the reports of want and suffer-
ing that are now coming In, the w. @.
7. u, of New Castle, will be over bur.
dened with work this coming winter
taking care of the poor.
Artist John Cornelius, Of New York,
has just completed the painting Of a
drop curtain for the stage of the Non
pariel Athletic Club whose headquarters
are in the Red Mems Hall. The scene
represents John l. Sullivan and jake
kilrain in the ring The work casts
great credit on the young artist
Yesterday morning the butt weld
department Of the Delaware Irol Works
which for some weeks past has been
closed down started up full blast.
This will give employment to quite a
number of men and boys.
Evening journal., 1893-09-07

81 have taken six bottles of Paine's
celery compound, and it has done me
more good than all other medicines that
have ever used, and have spent hun
dreds Of dollars for them. When l com.
menced to use the compound 1 could not
write my name, was in pain all the time,
and wsuld have to get up and walk the
floor in agony now, have scarcely any
pain.
Paines celery compound permanently
cures nervous debility, exhaustion, and
kindred diseases; neuralgia, hysteria,
headache, nervous dyspepsia. rheuma.
tism, and kidney troubles. Try it.
Evening journal., 1893-09-07
THE INVESTMENT FEATURES.

Tho Equitable Pays MIR. Charles A. Dana
S52,s21.5O, Being the Cash Surrender
Value of Two "Ordinary Life'' Tontine
Policies for Se5, 900 Each.
$52 S21 80 NEW York, July 10. 1893.
RECEIVED from the Equitable Life
Assurance Society Of the United States,
FIFTY TWO THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED
AND TWENTY ONE DOLLARS AND FIFTY
CENTS, in full of all claims, including
profits, under Policies Nos. 2l1 ,439 and
212, 944, on the life of Charles A. Dana,
now surrendered, said policies being
in favor Of himself and not assigned.
CHARLES A. DANA
ANsoN A. MAHER, Manager, Equitable
Building, Wilmington, Del.
Evening journal., 1893-09-07
THE WORLD OF BASEBALL.

PIttsburg Keeps Up It's Fine Record and
Boston, as Usual, Outplays Its Opponent
at Every Point.
The New Yorss were weak with the
stick yesterday and succumbed to the
Cincinnati red legs The Brooklyns
scored the winning run in the eleventh
inning of their game with st. Louis and
gained bit on the Manhattan team.
Boston, as usual, outplayed Louisville at
every point, and the piratical Pittsburgs
won ball from Baltimore. The results
Cincinnati. a; New York, 2. Brook
lyn, 8; st. Louis, A. Boston, 10; Louis
vile, g. Pittsburg, -; Baltimore, @.
Evening journal., 1893-09-07
nIorlarIty Bests aerrInr.

@. J. Moriarity the 1876 pound champion
Of the South, Of this city, bested Charles
Gerring Of Baltimore. in three rounds
on Tuesday evening, at a boxing contest
under the auspices of the Baltimore Out
ing Club at Calverton, Md Gerring is
the man who defeated Mullin, of this
city, last winter "Jack" Harrigan, Of
this city. knocked out McMahon Of the
Baltimore Outing Club in the second
round. They are feather weights. The
Wilmingtonians were accompanied by
John NJ. Newell.
Evening journal., 1893-09-07
Sporting Nems Nnie..

Jacob Schaefer and Frank c. Ives have
been matched to play at fourteen inch
balk line for 81, 800 a side. They are to
play four nights, 800 points each night
in the Central Music Hall, Chicago,
early in October
lsinglass carried off the st. Leger
stakes at the. Doncaster September
meeting in London yesterday. He won
two thousand guineas and has now to
his credit the three great events of the
racing season for 3 year-olds.
At the Indianapolis driving track
yesterday Efie Powers lowered the g.
year-old pacing record for fillies. by go.
ing a mile in 2.124
Willie Smith, who claims the bantam
championship of England, cables his
willingness TO fight Billy Plimmer at
1l5 pounds.
Pitcher Gumbert, now of the Pitts.
burg club, is suing the Chicago Club for
81. $50 back pay
Billy Plimmer, the English bantam
weight, will shortly take out naturaliza.
tion papers. as he intends to become an
American citizen.
The American racers Jubilee Vigilant
Pilgrim and Colonia will again race 10,
morrow to decide which of them will
contest with the British yacht Valkvrie.
Nales football team begins practice at
Iraver's Island next week, continuing
till September 25, when they will 90 on
their own field for the rest Of the season.
foxhunting has already begun in
Chester county.
Larey Twitchell has failed TO secure a
hit of but one pitcher this season. and
that is Rusie of the New York.
The steam launch Yankee Doodle.
owned by Mcbride Brothers. has been
challenged for race by w. NJ. Tebo. OF
Brooklyn. The latter offers TO enter
either the Namoose Norwood. Feiseen or
NADIA against the fast PHILADELPHIA
yacht.
Maud c., by California Nutwood. dam
lola, was driven by McHenry and won
three out Of four trotting heats. AL.
though out-trotted by Belle Cassett, who
has poor driver Her time was 2 10
2. 10 and 2 l6, and she won 81, 500.
Evening journal., 1893-09-07
snlndIn Coo In a.11.

ELKToN, Nd, Sept. Yesterday was
the second day Of the Cecil County Fair
and upwards of TO- coo people were in at
tendance. The main attraction of the
day was the effort of Saladin, the we'll
known pacing stallion of J. b. Green,
Wilmington, to beat the track record Of
2. "A for a special purse of 1000 The
day was windy and the track some
what slow, but Saladin went the mile in
2.l7, seven seconds faster than the track
record
Evening journal., 1893-09-07

COOL Mean a heavier
suit or a Fall
EVENINGS Overcoat. Are
you fixed? If not
we want an opportunity to
show you what we can do for
you. IS to $50 for Fall Over
coats; $40 to $25 for new Suits,
and we also have Suits lower
than $40 among the single
sizes and carried overs,
which will more than pay for
the time of hunting if you can
find your size and kind among
them. We are in better shape
than ever for your service; the
cash buying, doing the trade
and careful attention to your
wants enables us to stay on the
ground floor Of low prices for
good qualities. The new goods
in our Tailoring Department
are here and selling nicely.
Trousers So to SIS; Suits from
$40 up; good cloths, good
trimmings, good work and fit
guaranteed.
Evening journal., 1893-09-07
CoIored Population at the seashore.

The Mt. Vernon Band left for VIII
mington last night where il was enter
tanned BY colored Masons and advertised
the big Mason's excursion to Atlantic
City to day. The band accompanied
Hiram Grand Lodge, colored Masons, to
Atlantic City to-day and about 100 New
Castle colored people accompanied the
excursion from Wilmington. The ex-
cursionists are all expected home TO.
night at midnight.
Evening journal., 1893-09-07

DR.. r. II. Porter, the celebrated ven
triloquist and sleight-of-h hand performer,
who has convulsed Kent and Sussex
counties for several years will begin a
series OF select entertainments for
women and children at Shellpot Park
TO morrow afternoon.
Evening journal., 1893-09-07

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste aud ac-
eeptable TO the stomach, prompt in
It's action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
lealthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FfG syrup CO.
ShR FRANCISCO. CA.
LOUISVILLE, hK NEW YORK, M