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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-07

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The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
SENATORIAL COURTESY.

How the Italian Ambassador Got Even
 with the French Ambassador.
 Before the introduction of the tele- graph ambassadors at foreign courts used to be far more important person ages than they now are, and great rival grandeur existed among them. On one occasion, says Cassell's Satur- day Journal, new Italian minister had arrived at the Spanish capital, and went en suite to pay his respects to the reigning sovereign. Arriving at one of the reception-rooms to the palace, he found it occupied by an i'm posing-looking man surrounded by glittering throng. These he not un- naturally took to be the king and his courtiers, and with profound obeisance introduced himself
 The supposed king received him with gracious condescension till the doors opened and an even more magnificent train ushered in the real king and showed to the discounted Italian that he had been kneeling before hIs hated rival, the French ambassador, who took no pains to conceal his satisfac- ton at the f1attering mistake. But his triumph was not to last, for in the evening of the same day the king, with the Italian as his partner, was playing cards against the French min- ister and third ambassador, when in the course of the game the Italian threw down card, exclaiming: "That is the king and it wins us the triclz!"
 His partner looked at it and said: ''No! You only played the knave."
 70, beg your majesty's pardon, so have!" and with quick glance at his French opponent he continued: land it is the second time to-day that I have mistaken a knave for king!"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
Tortoises and Rain.

The tortoise is not an animal one would naturally fix upon as likely to be afraid of rain, but it is singularly so. Twenty-four hours or more before rain falls the Galapagos tortoise makes for some convenient shelter. On a bright clear morning when not cloud is to be seen the denizens of tortoise farm on the African coast may be seen sometimes heading for the nearest overhanging rocks; when that happens the proprietor knows that rain will come down during the day, and as a rule it comes down in torrents. The sign never fails. This pre-sensation, to coin word, which exists in many birds and beasts may be explained partly from the increasing weight of the atmosphere when rain is forming, partly by habits of living and partly from the need of moisture which is shared by all. The American cat bird gives warning of an approaching thun- derstorm by sitting on the low branches of the dogwood tree (whether this union of the feline with the canine is invariable the deponent sayeth not) and uttering curious notes. Other birds, including the familiar robin, it is said, give similar evidence of an im- pending change in the weather.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
FAIR WAS A DRAIN.
Other Cities Grudge the Millions Spent
 in Going to Chicago.

Other Cities Grudge the Millions Spent
 in Going to Chicago.
 The close of the worlds fair must have an important effect upon the business condition of the country, says the New York Post. For six months there has been a steady drain of money from all parts of the nation into Chicago-money which but for the exposition would have been ex- pended in thousands of cities and towns. Millions of people went to Chi cago between the 1st of May and the 1st of November, and spent on the average large sum for the round trip. The St. Paul Pioneer Press esti- mates that there must have been at least 100,0 visitors from Minnesota, and that it cost them on an average $2O apiece for the journey and $50 ex- penses in Chicago. This would make $5,000, 900 that was taken out of Mime sota by the exposition. We believe that this not an over-estimate. We observed the other day a statement in an Iowa paper that no fewer than 450 people had gone to Chicago during the season from one county seat in that state, and although a large proportion of them went on cheap excursions, their average expenditures were esti- mated at $35 apiece. While there was a great number of visitors from the city and vicinity who paid but little, the expense was heavy for people from a distance, and there was a constant stream to Chicago from the remoter parts of the country.
 If it be estimated that the 21, ,500,00 admissions represented no more than 100000 separate individuals, and that the average expenditures were as little as $25, this would mean the diversion of $1O0, 1000, ,000 from the ordinary chan nels of trade into the treasury of the fair, the receipts of transportation companies, the pockets of Chicago ho- tel and clearinghouse keepers, and the other classes who levied toll upon the travellers. It must be remembered, too, that the large part of this money came not from the wealthy, but from people who were for ced to save in order to raise the necessary amount, and who consequently refrained from expenditures at home which they would otherwise have made. In this way the fair has aggravated the nor mai effect of the financial depression in almost every community. Its close will arrest the streams of money which from thousands of points for half year have been flowing toward Chica- go, and will thus have a very percepti- ble influence in improving the business situation
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
What Goes to Make Paner.

Paper can be made out of almost anything that can be pounded to pulp. Over fifty kinds of bark are employed, while old sacking or bagging makes a good article. Paper is made out of banana skins, from bean stalks, pea vines, cocoanut fiber, clover and timo- thy hay, straw, fresh-water weeds, sea weeds and more than one hundred diff ferent kinds of grass. Paper has been made from hair, fur and wool, from as- bestos, which furnishes an article in- destructible by fire; from hop plants, from husks of any and every kind of grain. Leaves make a good, strong paper, while the husks and stems of Indian corn have also been tried, and almost every kind of moss can be made into paper. There are patents for making paper from sawdust and shay ings, from thistles and thistle-down, from tobacco stalks and tan bark. It is said that there are over two thou sand patents in this country covering the manufacture of paper. No matter what the substance, the process is sub- stantially the same; the material is ground to pulp, then spread thinly over frame and allowed to dry, the subsequent treatment depending on the kind of paper to be made.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
AN oL0-FAsHloNED SCHOOL.
The Noisy Mansion of Learning fin the
 Days of the Long Ago.

The Noisy Mansion of Learning in the
 Days of the Long Ago.
 The old system of education, as de- scribed in Pleasant Memories of Busy Life," is one, doubtless, that many boys of the present day would like to see again in use. The author thought its chief advantage was in giving the teacher a fair field for in- fluencing his pupils with his own per sonality. He described his old teacher as ''learned but not pedantic, kind but not effusive, active but not flssy. Wherever there was suffering, wher- ever help was required, he was sure to find his way"
 In his school there was novery strict discipline, but on the contrary good deal of noise. It was "a noisy man. sion" But he was so pleasant himself, and made the work so pleasant, that pupils could not help learning. Being near him seemed to make them wiser and better. It was an instance of what Carlyle calls true education, ''soul coming in contact with soul"
 One of the greatest luxuries he en- joyed was to find some of his pupils able and willing to take up the higher branches. His leisure hours were de voted most heartily to them. He stayed after the usual school time to teach them Euclid and trigonometry. He led them out on the Saturdays along the shore, through the quarrics and up the Binn, to teach them geology. He invited them to his house of a winter evening to see the stars through his telescope.
 The only examination was the yearly one by the presbytery, and it was so purely matter of form that it was not an ordeal. The examiners, genial brotherhood, sat beaming approval of everything, and went away with easy conscience and sound appetites to the dinner which pleasantly closed up the proceedings.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
DEATH OF A NOTED GIANT.
The Chinaman Chang, Who Was Not Less
 Than Nine Feet In Height.


 Than Nine Feet in Height.
 The famous Chinese giant, Chang, died at Bournemouth, England, No rember 5. Chang had been seen several times in America, says the New York Herald. Because of prevailing super stition among the Chinese people his height was never measured, as they believed that death would imme- diately follow the measurement. But there are none who have observed him or who have stood up beside him who estimated his stature at less than nine feet. His physical proportions were very symmetrical and his strength was herculean. Having travelled and exhib- tied throughout the civilized globe he acquired and spoke with fiuency five different uages-English; Ger man, French. Italian and Spanish. He was very companionable man and delighted to meet and converse with intelligent men and women.
 Chang was born in 1847 at Waang- Hue, near Pekin, China. His parents, who are still living, are large tea and
 
 There is nothing in their constitution nor that of their progenitors to indi- cate the possibility of transmitting gigantic proportions to their extraor- dinary son. On the contrary, Chang's parents are about the average size of Chinese people, who are well known to be rather under the ordinary size. At his birth there was nothing to in- dicate that he was to grow to his pres ent stature, and up to the age of nearly six years his height did not exceed most children of his age. After short illness he began to assume such g1gan- tic proportions that his parents were much alarmed at the growth of their huge son. At the age of twelve he was equal to the height of his father and the generality of the neighboring people. The phenomenon of his being as tall as man, and yet showing all the habits and actions of a child, caused him to become the wonder and astonishment of the neighborhood. At the same time he suffered great per- sonal discomfort, for the men would not associate with him and the chil- dren would not play with him. At the age of eighteen he commenced to ex- hibit himself in public.
 Chang was here in 1880, in 1883, and in 1886. After his last visit here he re- turned to his native land to marry a Chinese beauty. It was his intention at that time to come back to America and to settle down ia the west. He used to wear watch given him by Queen Victoria which weighed two pounds and a half, and had a chain nine feet long, which barely reached around his neck and down to his vest pocket. He had a large stock of gloves and jewelry presented to him by royal and other distinguished personages.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
MUSIC IN WALES.
Melody Is the Very Soul and Kernel of
 the Welsh Nature.

Every church and chapel in every Welsh village and town, according to the Westminster Review, has its choir, often numbering sixty, seventy or hundred voices, and every choir has its musical prodigies, leaders of parts, mayhap, who have never had lesson in music in their lives, or some uncouth colliers or tip-girls, with voices which, had they been trained and developed, might have made of them Edward Lloyds or Antoinette Sterlings. Dis trict after district has it's ''united choral union," which will take up the study of some work of the great mas ters and deliver it at an annual con- cert or Christmas festival; not in the pale, fickering, dispassionate style which is so characteristic of some Eng fish choirs, but with rugged fire and intensity.
 have had the good fortune to hear the greatest oratorios rendered under the most brilliant conditions that tal- ent and culture could produce in this the most talented and cultured of all metropoles, but have never heard the majestic roll of the Hallelujah chorus or the matchless melodies of the ''Elijah" rendered with such soul and verve and eloquence as by an obscure ''united choir," led by workingman in mining village among the hills of Glamorganshire.
 Rough, if you will; ruggedly vehe- ment and impetuous, but rough with the roughness of unpublished genius, impetuous with the impetuosity of mountain torrents. The force of it, the emotional fervor, the richness of volume, the tone and timbre in it these are things not to be forgotten. The same qualities in 8 lesser degree may be observed in the singing of any small chapel choir inside the boundar- ies of Wales. You shall never hear such singing as you may hear on quiet Sunday evenings from some Welsh hillside sanctuary by a choir of work ing lads and lasses, conducted by some rough-and-ready, unkempt, self taught musician.
 Music, then, we assert, is the very soul and kernel of the Welsh nature. A musical ear is the national birth right Every Welsh preacher who migrates to an English church finds the greatest difficulty in abstaining from that weird, peculiar int onation of his sermon which is known as the hwyl, and which is often strange and objectionable to English ears.
 Another remark able and subtle fact which will be interesting to English readers and at the same time signifi- cant of the sensitiveness of the Welsh musical ear, is that it is positive dis cord to many among the Welsh congre- gations if the minister, in giving out the first verse of the hymn, does not sc pitch the voice that it shall be in har mony with the key in which the tune has preliminarily been played by the inStrumentaliSt.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
AFRICAN COIFFURES.
Styles That Would Hardly Find Favor 1T
 This Country.

Styles That Would Hardly Find Favor in
 This Country.
 A recent visitor to Samoa tells of a famous village beauty in that remote region whose headdress is thus de- scribed: Round her forehead was a band of small pieces of nautilus shell; above lowered a mass of human hair that had been bleached for months in a marsh, with scraps of looking-glass arranged, in front, the whole sur mounted with trail of red humming- birds feathers"
 Dr. Drummond, in his book of Afri- can travel, makes mention of the chief tain's daughter, whose hair, heavily greased with ground-nut oil, was made up into small-Sized balls, like black entrants, and then divided into pat terns-diamonds, circles, and parterres, designed with the skill of a land scape gardener. Both these arrange ments' would, in the eyes of civilized artists and connoisseurs, be probably regarded as savage monstrosities, but it is to be doubted whether they are not utterly surpassed by the goldfinch and canary arrangement, by a king fishers wing crowned with red shiver- ing glass and sham jewels, both Tn tawdry insolence and depravity of taste. What is called 'barbarous" if found among savages may, after all, be the very height of fashion in May. fair, though the cheap finery of the Samoan or African belle is marked neither by cruelty to the victim nor by pain to the artist -
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
A TIPPLING CANINE.
The Lamentable End of Dog That Ac-
 quired a Taste for Liquor.

The LamentabIe End Of a Dog That Ac-
 quired a Taste for Liquor.
 The writer of Natural History Notes" in the Yorkshire Weekly Post, referring to the extract from Mir. Phil Robinson's new book, in which the au- thor described how bear was lured into a drunken bout, mentions some remarkable instances of taste for all cohol among the lower animals. He says: ''I possessed a very fine deer hound. One day, while emptying some Scotch whisky out of jar into a de- cantcr, split quantity on the floor. Juno, who had been snifing about, immediately began tapping it up, and, to my great astonishment, seemed to heartily relish the blend AS far as I knew that was the beginning of a sad and brief career. Juno became a no- torious drunkard. She frequented sev- eral public bars and was the subject of many wagers. She could drink any, thing in the liquor line-anything but water and milk. I have seen her stag gering home very early in the morning after a booze The end came before she was three years old. A friendly V. S. and I held 'crowner quest on the carcass. Verdict-Died of infiamma- tion of the brain, the effect of alcohol"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
Havana Tobacco.

Tn the Abajo valley is small, low piece of country, about five miles from Havana, capableof producing tobacco enough to make thirty thousand cigars annually. Without question, the to- bacco is the finest grown. The result is the kings and noblemen of England, Russia, Germany, France and other Eu- ropean countries gobble them up. Every single cigar made of Vuelta Abajo tobacco is sold to them at prices ranging from twenty to one hundred and fifty dollars a hundred. These cigars are bought and paid for long before the crop is ever harvested. Manufacturers, however. with that re- marlable coolness with which some men are endowed, proceed to call all qualities and kinds of Cuban cigars Havana and Vuelta Abajo, when half of them never saw a cigar of that growth.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
MEXICAN VILLAGE LIFE.
The Government of the Larger Haciendas of the South.


 of the South.
 A great cotton hacienda in Mexico is strongly built, with walls like those of fort; the tops of the walls are often studded thicl1ly with broken glass of jagged and deadly appearance; for further protection, companies of sol diers are kept within the establish ment.
 A hacienda of this type, whether de- voted to the manufacture of sugar or cotton, the raising of cattle, or mining of silver, is complete little state. with every appliance for luxury and security. It contains within it's walls hundreds of peons, soldiers, barracks, chapel, houses for the laborers, apartments for the owner and his fam fly, and every necessary of life for man and beast.
 The administrator, or general man. ager, is the father of the great family; he decides all disputes arising between the various members of 1t, and if he is only ordinarily just, never finds his authority disputed, but is looked up to with much respect and consulted by the peons in all family matters.
 Agentleman who was for some years administrator of an estate in the state of Coahuila told me that while occupy ing this position he conceived a high opinion of the simplicity, honesty and trustworthiness of the Mexican labor CT. In most of the haciendas the ma chinery is of most primitive kind, modern Improvements being used only in the largest esta ablishments.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
Legislative Intelligence.

The intelligence of a member of the Kentucky legislature has at times been called into question, but it is hardly fair to that distinguished body ot statesmen to have any doubt on th1s subject. In testimony whereof is this. Two newspaper men reporting the pro- ceedings at Frankfort were disputing over the spelling of members name.
 By George" contended one, ''I tell you it is spelled with an a..
 'sfll bet you dollar it is an e." in- sisted the other.
 "I know better and we'll leave it to him."
 The other gave long whistle.
 ''Leave it to him, nothing" he ex- claimed; "he doesn't know how to spell his name, and I've seen him run his tongue out four inches trying to write it." -.-------------
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
HERR KRUPP.
A Rare Instance Of Refusing the Con
 ferresl Title of Mobility.

A Eafe InStAnC9 OE InS OOG-
 ferresi Title Of Mobility.
 It is common thing il Europe for kings and queens to reward such o1 their subjects as may become famous in war, in polit;ccc, or in literature, by bestowing titles upon them. Occason- ally, however, says the Golden Days. this honor is refused, but the instances are so rare that when they do occur they are always thought worthy ot mention.
 After the late German emperor, Fred erick H., had begun his brief reign, he determined to raise some leading representatives of industry and com merce to the peerage.
 Herr Krupp, the inventor of the Krupp cannon, at whose manufactory eighteen thousand men are regulary employed, had died a short time be fore, but his son had succeeded to his business, and the young mans name was placed by the emperor upon the role of honor.
 When he heard of this, he at once took train to Berlin and secured an audience of Prince Bismarck, who was then chancellor. He insisted that the prince should ask the emperor to strike his name from the list, but this Bis marck refused to do. Then the iron master made a special plea.
 My father" said he, ''gloried in be- ing the son of a workman, and never would so much as listen to a proposal to accept titular and hereditary dis tinction. I cannot be untrue to his principles, particularly when my year of mourning has not yet expired
 Bismarck thought this plea might be urged upon the emperor, without wounding his feelings, and he prom ised to put it before him that day.
 Frederick was really dying then, and could not speak on account of the disease in his throat. When Bismarck told him what Krupp had said, he looked surprised and vexed. Then he seemed to see the matter in a new light, nodded assent and wrote on his tablets:
 T dare say Krupp is right; he has my best wishes"
 That night Herr Krupp was told that he was at liberty to remain Herr Krupp.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-07-12
ADVERTISING IN MEXICO.
The Natives Of That Country Are Far Be-
 hind Us in Their Ideas.


 hind Us in Their Ideas.
 We have been under the impression that the land of dark-cyed hidalgoes, with their wide sombreros and short jackets and gorgeous silver sashes, the land of beautiful women with graceful lace mantillas, swarthy skins and mid night eyes, was making rapid progress, but this opinion will have to be amended, says Texas Siftings.
 It is true that the wcalthier class have discarded the bright-hued serape and adopted the unpicturesque habili- ments of the gringo. It is also fact that in the City Of Mexico the names of the streets have been changed from the political, or intensely religious, to nomenclature the most prosaic. For example: ''The Street of the Sad In- dian'' and Grown of Thorns street" are now respectively Fourth avenue" and "Diaz street"
 These and other changes led us to infer that Mexico was rapidly becom- ing ''gringoized," but this delusion is knocked endwise by the following item:
 "A remarkable case is being tried in the courts here. A short time ago small weekly newspaper by the name of Fl Periq uito published in its col unns an advertisement of business house. Another firm in the business has sued the paper for damages, alleg- ing that they have suffered loss through the publication of the adver- tisement of their rival. The case is attracting considerable attention, as it is the first of its kind in Mexico"
 In our own country the man who does not advertise is regarded as a fit subject for the undertaken or the luna tic asylum.
 It is strange that the Mexicans should be so slow to recognize the ad vantages of advertising. There is no class of industrious citizens who can- not profit by advertising. For in- stance, burglar overlooked eighty dollars in bureau drawer, and the To- cal papers so announced. He returned the next night and not only secured it but an almost new suit of clothes be- sides.