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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-03

quoted at 2s,4c. for regulars; sales, i.Dv
casks; receipts for three days. nii CASKS ASKS
Rosin firm at decline IN paIn' ,nd 4,
| 300 barrels. Quotations-A, - ana
siOO: -. si.O5; T., sl.io; r, 10; g. So
| II, sl.l5; !, xi.D3, X, $50; III, ss.g; -.
| $3.50; window glass, $3.50; water "n''e'
nm
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WILMINGTON.

WILMINGTON. n. c.. Jan. 2.-Rosin
firm; strained, 95c.; good strained Fl'oo
bid
Spirits turpentine steady at 2ll2c
Tar firm at 9Jc.
Crude turpentire steady; hard. SllO;
soft, slJ0; virgin, $40.
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cash Quotations-Flour easy. with some
foreign demand but local inquiry quiet;
wheat. J7kn594c.; No. red, G'lsc. NO.
. corn. 44%c.; No. . oats, 30c;; pork,
a.. -: shoulders Sj.0OQ5.l2l2; sides, S3oTa
G6OO: whisky Sl.22
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CHARLESTON

CHARLESTON, S. c., Jan. @.-Turpen-
tine firm at 2iiac
Rosin-Good strained firm at Sl.OO; re-
cejpts 2G barrels.
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toNnoN BAR SILVER MARKET.


LONDON, Jan. Bar silver, - i-lGd'
Paris advices quote per cent. rent@s
lOlf.: I5c. for the account.
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"
pFNENRFR THE WEEKLY TIMES is issued IN two parts;
civ gos each and is therefore, in all but name semi "ees
aner while the price than paid Tor any "eek2 ~ m
established itself the envabe reputation Oh oo"s VIZ f
tave Democratic Paper OF the South
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PORT or WEST POINT. Jan. ., 1895.
ARRIVED.
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more, passengers and general cargo.
SAILED.
steamship Charlotte, Bennett, BATH
more, passengers and general cargo
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SAVANNAH.

SAVANNAH. GA, Jan. 2.--Spirits tur-
peptine market nrm 1t the advance;
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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
Eloquence Interrupted.

During a political campaign a we'll
known lawyer in a western state was
addressing an audience composed prin-
cipally of farmers. Like q wise
speaker-and a shrewd candidate-he
tried to suit his speech to the occa-
sion.
In a tone which he evidently con-
sidered both cordial and honest, and
with a winning smile, he began:
"My friends, my sympathies have
always been with the tillers of the soil.
My father was a practical farmer, and
so was my grandfather before him.
l myself. was born on a farm, and was
so to speak, reared between two stalks
of corn"
Here his e%loquence was rudely inter-
rupted by the trumpet tones of a
farmer in the rear of the hall.
"Jimminy crickets!' he shouted, eff
you aint a pumpkin!"
"The house came down." and the
candidate, for the moment, at least,
was sadly embarrassed.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
OneninE for Indian Corn.

1t is a curious and interesting fact
that Americans are the only branch OF
the great Anglo-SaXon German faml-
ly that has learned to eat Indian corn
and to relish it as an article of diet
II is grown very largely in Australia,
but is fed to horses, cattle and poultry
it's use as human diet beirg as little
familiar rs is that of cats and dogs
here. When English people arrive in
this country and make their first &C,
qCaintance with a field Of corr they do
not know what it is, and when they sit
down to eat a cooked ear their embar.
rassmen is often ludicrous. But they
soon learn to like the vegetable, and
then wonder why it is not in greater
use in England and other parts of Eu-
rope, in other forms than that of mai
zrna flour. At a time when Russia
las had II feed It's famine districts
on wild roots and grasses, and when
Germany has been experimenting ela-
horately with sawdust bread. the op.
pnrtunity for an extension of Amert
can export trade in corn has certainly
arrived.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
Changes in Telephony.

OF late years a good many changes
have been introduced quietly in the
technique and management of tells
phone exchanges, involving the ex-
penditure of some very large sums of
of money, for the betterment of the
service. Among these changes may be
mentioned the removal of large masses
of overhead wires of the bigger cities;
the general adoption of the multiple
switch-boards, raising the speed of
communication the employment OF a
finer type of transmitter, known as
the "lOng distance;" the use of the
"budging bell" system, which cuts
down the resistance in the line, and
gives clearer talking. To these may
now be added the novel feature of dis
pensing with the battery at the sub
scriber's instrument, and c~oncentrat-
ing all the battery at the central of
flee. One of the most familiar person
ages in connection with telephohia
work has been the inspector who came
around to test the battery, and who,
if he happened to run short of sal
ammoniac often had no scruples
against the use of common salt. His
function will now be largely abolish
ed, aud while the company will gain,
in economy the subscriber will, it il
said, gain in the greatest efficiency OF
the system.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
When Buying Furs.

In buying furs especially for trim.
much as the furs that are apparently
sold for cheap prices are usually
found lacking, writes Isabel A. Nal
Ion in an eXquisitely illustrated arti.
Gle on "The Correct Use Of Furs," in
the December Ladies' Home Journal.
Frequently they have not been taken
care of during the summer, and the
moth has made his home among the
hairs, and in a short time you will
find your gown OF skirt continually
covered with them, and wherever you
sit, or whoever may be near, will also
suffer from the rain of loose fur. If Q
good effect is produced by an imitation
fur, buy it, but examine it well. Mink
Is particularly well initiated, and az
the real fur is quite expensive it may
be taken for granted that on nine out
OF ten gowns the fur has never beer
acquainted with that sharp-looking lit
tie animal whose head just now is OF
so much value. The limitations of err
mine are never good, and therefore
not to be thought of. Astrakhan is
sufficiently low in price to permit my
one getting a gown trimming to have
the real article itself. By-the-by, in
speaking of laces and furs, I forgot ia
mention that over the deep fur capes
those reaching far below the waist, il
is considered in perfectly good taste
to wear a shoulder cape of lace. Usu.
ally one of the sharply-pointed designs
is chosen for this
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
Bamboo FfIaments Obsolete.

The great Edison incandescent lamp
works are no longer turning out lamps
with bamboo filamentS. This simple
fact covers a whole period without
parallel for indefatigable research and
ceaseless il vention. When the art of
making ~ircandeScent lamps began.
some fifteen years ago, all kinds of
carbonized substances were diligently
experimental wildwood, paper, silk,
hair putty-and Edison has stated that
he made no fewer than 10000 separate
tests of such materials before he set
tied finally ON bamboo as the best for
reduction to carbon and for SubSe-
quent durability. But there are many
different varities of bamboo, and Ed
son ranSacked the earth in the quest
for the kinds having the toughest,
straightest tibers. His emissaries Wis
tied all the tropical quarters OF the
globe. penetrating to regions up the
Amazon. in India and Japan never be-
fore reached by an American. The re-
suit of their adventurous discoveries
was the selection of a species of Jap
anese bamboo, which has been used
until very recently. But newer pro-
cesses have come to the front, N
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
Compound Engines in Mills.

The tendency in the change from
single to compound engines in manufac-
turing establishments has become very
marked, but it is not yet quite clear
whether two cylinder engines or the
three will preponderate. Many cotton
mills have put in triple expansion en-
gines, but in the majority of new in
stallatiOns the two-cylinder type has
been chosen. Probably the reason is
to some extent that of lower first cost,
but the result recently shown by a
mill at North Grosvenordale, Conn,
indicate that there are other explana-
tons. The new compound engine re-
ferred to has given, on repeated test,
a consumption of 1915 pounds of dry
steam per horsepower per hour at its
best, and 12.7 II at its worst. The engine
takes steam from horizontal tubular
boilers at $50 pounds pressure, and
runs at sixty revolutions per minute.
The main popularity of the design lies
In a large ratio of volume between the
cylinders. The high pressure cylinder
is IS inches in diameter; the low is
Al 5-16, both having a stroke OF t
feet. Usually an 1S-inch cylinder would
have but a 32-inch low, but in this in.
stance the difference gives a ratio OF
volume between them Of GA to l, with
a ratio Of expansion of about %. The
theory of the designers is that IL a com
pound engine be made with q 10y
pressure cylinder Of the same ratio q
volume to high pressure as would b.
used were it the third cylinder of {
triple engine, as good economy could b.
obtained.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
Wood Going Out of Use.

The enormors increase in the ca
pacity Of iron and steel works has its
justification and warrant in the wide
variety Of new employmcnts found for
those metals as substitutes for wood.
The German Iron Trade Association
has lately taken the pains to point out,
at great expense, for the benefit of
all concerned, the mary advantages
to be gained by The resort TO steel,
and it would seem that there Is barely
a single use left for wood in construc-
tive detail and not much in ornamen-
tai finish, except genuine carving.
The modern edifice is nearest perfec-
ton in point Of durability and safety
according to the proportion in which
metal has excluded wood. 1t is now
proposed that wood shall be dispensed
with entirely in the framework of rail-
way rolling stock, and this means
something when we remember that
there are about 2,5O0,0 900 railway We
hicles exclusive of locomotives. In
mines metal is doing away with wood
and the use of iron pit props in France
has shown that they need to be re-
newed only half as often as those of
wood. At the same time, metal has
its W special risks, and it is suggest
ed, for example that unless carefully
insulated, a large building full Of steel
and iron might be as susceptible to
electrolytic action by stray currents
eating it up as though it were rail
forming part Of an electric circuit
or gas or water pipes, adjacent there"
to. If this new danger exists, its
remedy should be readily d~iscoverable
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
Natures Scrap Heap.

The beautiful pine trees of the Cali
fornia sierras have more than a loc2
fame, and a brisk demand exists for
their cones from botauists in all parts
of the world. The cones are furnished
ut the rate of 50 a pound for the seed.
and are gathered from the trees eX.
pressly. The collectors, in climbing the
trees, have great difficulty in keeping
off the squirrels that hasten to pick the
seeds out of a cone as oOn as 1t is
dropped. Another new minor industry
of California is the utilization of a
dock weed called canaigre, which yields
a large amount of fannie acid, the mer-
its of which are highly rated. A third
novel industry is that established by
a Billings (Mont.) man, in the collection
and sale of elk teeth, whose value
ranges now from SOC up to more than
four times as much. The collector is
said to have $4,000 teeth in safe de.
post, and thus controls the market
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
SCIENTIFIC MATTERS.
NEW WRINKLES IN THE USEFUL
ARTS.
The Growth Of Observation-Disclosures
Filaments Obs0Iete-Watcr supply
Filteration-The Value Of Canals
Scrap Heap.

Not a little trouble is experienced to-
day by even the most thorough cleo
tricians in keeping up with the adj
vance of the art, and its theory, and
many Of them complain Of the made
quacy Of their time to master the cur
rem literature Of electricity, that is
of value. Various schemes of indexing
and digesting are proposed but they
all fail dismally when brought to bear
on what was written and done in
the time when electricity was really
in its infancy. In other publications
of value on electricity since the begin
ming of the century, would make some
$4,000 titles, and it is claimed, with
some record is more worthy of index
ing than that which is now being put
together in current electrical books
and journals. One of the most COM
mon and annoying things in electrical
invention is the digging-up of some
one who has done it before. Every
late electrical discovery and apparatus
has been more or less anticipated, it
NOuIu oOIllctliucS SCeul, DuI IL Is uOl
until the inventors and hackers have
spent large sums of money and much
time that they find out how narrow
and limited is the patent they can Sc
cure. Often, too, a line of investiga-
ton is engaged in at great expense,
which some other unfortunate has al
ready traversed, leaving behind him a
copious, though buried, story Of his
failures. Hence it is asserted that if
the electrical literature of the past
fifty or se~venty-five years were digest.
ed, millions of money and much time
would be saved, several regulations
would be lowered and others made,
and that there would be revealed
fields Of work deserving to be followed
up from the point at which the eff
fort was abandoned when conditions
were less favorable.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
Perfect House Unearthed lear POM
Deii.

A valuable discovery has been made
at Pamela Setteimini, near POmpeii,
on the property of a certain Vincent de
Prosco. A house has been unearthed
which was covered at the time the
city was buried, and it is said to be
in a more perfect condition than any
building yet discovered. 1t contains
several large apartments, and three
bathrooms with the basin in sculptur-
ed marble, and with leaden pipes or
namented with bronze faucets. The
three rooms correspond, says a writ
er in describing the discovery, to the
"calidarium, tepidarium and .frigidar-
ium, which were always to be found
in ancient houses Of the first class.
In consequence of the eruption of YES
uvius in A D. 70, the Pompeiian
houses brought to light heretofore have
been roofiess, almose without excep-
ton. Fortunately, however, that on
the property of M de Proco is perfect,
and archaeologists are happy i've that
fact. The roof measures almost forty
four feet in ength."-New York Tri-
bune.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation:
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in Doc and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
and being we'll Informed, you, will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
Unfortunately Placed.

Bishop Wilberforce was much be-
loved in Yorkshire, and in Hull the
house where his boyhood was spent
has always been regarded with rever-
ence. With the Wilberforce monu-
ment. however, which stands near st.
Johns church, an absurd incident is
connected, one which vastly amused
the good bishop.
BY some unlucky chance the statue
of William Wherefore the great man
on the top of the column, vas so plac-
ed as to face some noted wine and
spirit vaults, while it's back was
turned toward st. Johns. Some sail
ors saw the joke first and managed to
scribble on the pedestal:
So, Billy Wilberforce, thou'st left us in
the lurch;
Turn'd thy face to the ginshop, and
thy back to the church!
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
STRIKE IN THE KITCHEN.
The Lady Of the House Takes n Les
son in Labor

The Lady Of the House Takes n Les
son I'm Labor Troubles.
An odd thing happened the other
day II a Brooll:ne family, a something
which the lady of the house isn't par
ticularly anxious to talk about, esp &C.
tally when her husband is around.
Not long ago the help in the factory
went on a strike, and though they did
not remain out long, the affair being
mainly Sympathetic" yet it bothered
him quite a bit, to the dislike Of his
wife. She demonstrated with him fire.
quently over his Stiffness in allowing
such a small thing to bother him, and
guyed him still more when the affair
ended amicably. A few mornings
later the lady went into her morning
room and rang the bell to give the
cook her days orders, when, to her as
constituent, the ring was answered
by all the help in the establishment,
including the scrub girl and the boy
who walked errands. The cook was
spokeswoman.
III you please" she began firmly,
but respectfully, "We've come to say
that we're on a strike. We don't like
what you did in taking away Char
lotte's Saturday night out and giving
her Mary's Friday. BY Mary having
Charlotte's Saturday she gets a chance
to meet Mrs. Smiths Henry, and as
Mary's her rival, we don't think it's
giving either Of 'em a fair chance"
The mistress looked at the company
and saw that Charlotte and Mary were
the only two absent; she reflected that
she had by 10 means been aware Of
what affairs Of state she was upset
ting in changing the evenings out"
without any particular reason, and she
decided that it was better to arbitrate
than delay lunch, and possibly dinner,
so she gracefully acceded to the de-
mands Of the assemblage, and restor-
ed Charlotte her Saturdays.
Still, when any enc says strike to her
now she shiyers. For-"What is home
without a dinner?'-Home Journal.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
A Successful Windmill Plant.

MI. George 4. McQuesten, of Mar
blehead Neck, Mass, has given the
electrical press the encouraging re-
suits obtained with his windmill cleo
trio lighting plant at the family resi-
dence there. In the spring of 1892 he
installed a small steam lighting plant,
supplemented by storage batteries,
and got his lights at about 1c per
lamp per hour, exclusive of attendance
depreciation and interest. This spring
he put in a windmill plant. which on
sists of a 20-foot windmill mounted on
a hard pine tower. 10 feet to center
of the wheel from the ground and 60
feet to platform. Power is transmit
ted by means of bevel gears and shaft
ing to 4 house built at the base of the
tower, which is IS feet 6 inches square
at that point. This power drives a
small dynamo, which In turn charges
a set of forty-SiX storage batteries,
and these supply currents to no fewer
than 1877 lights. All the lights are not
burned at once, but there was always
plenty of current throughout the sum-
mer. At times when there was Il brisk
enough wind to keep the batteries
well charged, current was used also
to drive an electric motor for running
the machinery in a tool shop. The
windmill has thus furnished all the
lights from May l to November 5,
when the house was closed for the
winter. The cost of the entire plant,
which stands ready to start up any mo-
ment, and which in winter would also
furnish current for heating. is put up
at about $1,000. 1t was found that a
teu-mile breeze yielded from til Zee to
five amperes Of current at 10 volts,
while a twenty-mile breeze gave eigh-
teen to twenty-five amperes at 10 to
112 volts. The plant was not able to
store all the current that a twenty
five mile breeze would develop.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
A Page ut Court.

1t was n new life into which this i'm
perial appointment plunged the active
boy of fourteen. 1t was discipline, and
yet it was delightful; it was slavery,
and yet it was splendor; there was
labor to tire both feet and brain; there
We're long hours of monotony, but many
opportunities for pranks and frolics.
1t was run here and run there; it was
do this and do that; it was not a call
for courage, and yet it was duty joined
to temptation and tried by opportunity.
The life of a page of the palace was
not all play, though passed in the midst
of splendor; nor was it all dignity,
though spent in a constant round of
fete and ceremonial.
And into fete and ceremonial young
Philip Desnouttes vas speedily intro
duced. 1t was the year 1910. In that
year Napoleon the emperor married the
archduchess of Austria. The son of a
poor Corsican lawyer welded the
daughter Of the Austrian Caesars. 1t
was a year of brilliancy, of excite
ment, Of restless rounds of display
and constant repetitions of marvellous
entertainments.
Never was a boy of fourteen sur
rounded by more of glitter, or permit
ted to be n part of more royal "goings
IN" All this might ruin a boy of weak
nature; hut Philipwas blessed with a
cool head, a well balanced mind, and
much common sense. He had 'cut
his wisdom teeth as a street boy Of
Paris; he had learned discipline in the
school Of st. Cyr; and so. though often
sorely tried and many a time in scrapes
and in disgrace, he was too manly a
fellow to lose his head" and so he
was really developed as well by the
temptations as by the duties that filled
his daily life in those most brilliant
surroundings-the court of the first en-
pire.
AS a page Of the palace, he was on
duty both at, the splendid Tuileries
and ut beautiful st. Cloud. And
through the month Of March there was
enough going on in both these great
palaces to tire any ordinary boy, and
keep his head dwhirl with bewilder-
ment. For then it was that Paris
and the palaces were making ready
for the reception of the new mistress
of France, the girl empress, Marie
Louise of Austria.
Philip could not understand 1t all.
Austria had been "a red rag" to every
French boy since the days of Marie
AntOinette. And, at st. Cyr, Philip had
been brought up to hate the Austrians,
with whom the emperor was so often
at war. and whom three times he had
faced and conquered.-"A Boy Of the
First Empire" by Elbridge S. Brooks,
in st. Nicholas.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-02-02
How's Thisr

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