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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-02
TERRoRs OF MOVING ICE.

GLASGOW, March 1.-Traffic in the Clyde is completely suspended owing to the vast quantities of moving ice. Eight river pas seuger steamers were torn from their moor ings last night and one sunk. Many land ing stages are adrift and number of small craft have been crushed and sunk.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-02
ENGINEER LEWIS KILLED.

MOBILE, March 1.-Engineer William Lewis was instantly killed today near Fort Deposit, Ala, by the breaking of the right hand driving rod of locomotive No. z, the same that was in the wreck on the Mont gomery division last Saturday.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-02
CAPTURED THE WHOLE BAND.

z HAVANA, March 1.-Government troops captured the whole insurgent band under command of Antonio Lopez Coloma, who headed the uprising at Ybarra in Matanzas district. The prisoners have been conveyed to 3latanzss.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-02

Only dorision is excited b y the claims of a New York Baking Powder company to Worlds fair award. Moody. got an award "over'' it because it did not com pete. But Dr. Price's received the highest award for purity, strength and whole eOmeuess.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-02

Spur, Stewart, Teller. White and Woi- cott-31.
 An executive session was held lasting from II :45 until D. m.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-02

Economy in the kitchen is in using the purest and best materials. There is noth- ing so expensive as the cheap baking powders. Highest government authori- ties recommend Dr. Price's as the strongest purest and best.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-02

Mark the difference between Dr. Price's and the other baking powders. It does not only immeasurably better work, but does it at half the cost.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-02

Truth must prevail. The truth about baking powders is that pr. Price's is the haat.
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mulpo. which is the main port of the COM
try. to Seoul, and the railroad will be built
over the mountains, connecting the cap
ital with the sea. Sooner or later other
roads will be built from Seoul to the west
coast, and to Fusan on the south coast, as
well as to the north. The northern roads
will be fostered by the Russians, and there
will probably be a connection with the
Trans-Siberian road, so that we will event.
ually be able to go from Paris to within a
few hours sail of Japan by land. Today
no enc knows much about the country of
Corea. There is no land In the world out
side of Thibet which has been less ex-
plored.
Very few travellers have gotten into the
interior, ard the letters describing the
country have been confined to the capital
and the seaports. I am, believe. the only
American newspaper man who has travelled
right through the peninsula from one side
to the other. / doubt whether the trip
could possibly be taken today. i made 1t
last summer just on the eve Of the rebel
lion, and ii was curious In the extreme.
My outfit consisted of six men ard four
horses. and we spent seven days among
the Corean mountains. travelling for hours
In the clouds. and being lifted in chairs
up hills SO steep that the ponies could not
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as Plefone-for both Atlas and Pleione have
been placed by astronomers in the cluster
beside their daughters-as very likely to
be the star in question. This star has a
peculiar spectrum, indicating that it is
largely gaseous, and, 1t may be assumed,
liable to variation in splendor.
A two-inch telescope reveals over sixty
stars in this cluster, and a large telescope
brings Pleiades out by the hundred. Still
more astonishing is the revelation Of pho
Biography. The latest photographs of the
PleiadeS show not only that the number
of the stars in the cluster down to the six
teenth magnitude, inclusive, is between
1900 and 5000, but that it's central portion
Is involved in an extensive nebula. This
nebulouS matter Is beautifully shown in a
photograph of the cluster taken in January
Goodsell Observatory. 1t is especially con-
densed about the four stars Alcyone, Me-
rope, Electra and Maia, and forms filmy
background, somewhat curdled in appear
ance, for the whole of that part Of the
cluster seen with the naked eye.
The Pleiades are all "Sirian," or white
stars, and the fact that no changes in
their relative positions have been detected,
although the cluster, as a whole has a
slow proper motion toward the south
east is additional evidence that these stars
form a real and not merely optical clus-
ter-that they form star system by them
selves.
The movement of the Pleiades is exactly
opposite in direction to that Of the sun.
and upon the assumption that it is only
apparent, not real-that it is simply the re-
flex OF our own movement in space-has
been based a calculation of the cluster S
distance, which results in figures that tend
to heighten very greatly our respect for
this tiny constellation. The distance thus
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GIGANTIC GEYSER OF OIL.
Flowed Fourteen and n Half Million
Gallons In TyTenty-FOur Hours

Flowed Fourteen and n Half Million
Gallons In TvTenty-FOur Hours.
From the Chicago Times
The Kirkbridge No 1 Oil well Is located
In Madison township. Sandusky county,
Ohio The flow of Oil commenced Novem-
her 49, The spectacle is described as one
of the most magnificent ever witnessed in
that part of the country. First appeared
column of water rising eight or ten feet
in the air. This was followed by black
stream of mud and sand, which gradually
changed to yellow. Then, with a deafening
roar, the gas burst forth in an immense
volume, hiding the derrick from view
AS this cleared away a solid golden col
umn foot in diameter shot from the der
rick floor 100 feet in the air, there breaking
into fragments and falling in shower Of
yellow rain for a quarter of mile around.
For a period of five hours this great col
umn of oil shot upward. In a very few
moments the field about the we'll was COW
cred several inches deep with petroleum.
Within three four hours the bitches for
miles around were overflowing with Oil.
Dams were constructed in order that the
product might be estimated but these were
overlooked and swept away rapidly as
built. Some persons living in the vicinity,
alarmed at the spectacle, packed their
household goods and fled. The Buckeye
pumping station, a mile distant, was COM
PEELED to extinguish it's fires on account
Of the gas, and all other fires within the
district were put out.
1t was a literal flood of oil. the estimated
production for the first twenty-four hours
being 1850 600 gallons. About $4,000 bar
rels per day have been saved and market
ed since the oil has been brought under
full control. The owner has refused an Of
fer of 5000 for the WELL being content
with the income of $4,000 per day.
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KEATS "CARD SENSE"
In n big Game of Whist NOn-Prefes-
sional Players Defeat Professionals.

In n Big Game of Whist NOn-Prefes-
sional Players Defeat Professionals.
From the New York World.
Eight men who play cards occasionally
for fun played series Of games Of dupli-
cate whist last night against eight other
men who play cards regularly for business.
The game was played in the Leland Hotel,
Chicago, and was the outcome Of the dis
cussons which have often been held wheth-
er or not so-called science as applied to
whist had really added anything to the
game On the one hand the votaries of
Pole, Cavendsh and Trist insisted the sys-
tenn of conventional leads and play was a
purely scientific development of the game,
while their opponents as strenuously insist
ed that good card sense would prove equal
ly as effective in winning tricks, and that
professionals who knew the game could
play perfectly square game and win
against an equal number OF scientific whist
players.
The game was keenly fought on both
sides, and as keenly enjoyed. Both sides
We're surprised at the skill of their oppo-
nents although the most surprise lay with
the professionals, who, it was said, were
willing before the match to wager 81 900 to
$500 that they would win. The amount of
winning, seven tricks, was not so large as
to make the defeat crushing one, but
sufficient to settle the question of superior
ity of scientific play as against card
sense" At the close the score stood:
Total tricks, non-profeSsionals, 631: pro-
fessionals, GIT. Divide by two to allow for
duplicate play shows win by Z.
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ON KEEPING ACCOUNTS.
The Uninftiated Taught How to Keep
Track OF Their Money.

The Uninitiated Taught How to Keep
Track OF Their Money.
From the New York World.
The woman whose price Is above rub.es,
whose husband rises up and calls her
blessed, is she who knows where her
money goes, too" She keeps an account
book.
Most women, by the way. keep account
books. They have Russia leather volumes
three inches by two and a half, gilt-edged
and bearing in gilt letters the legend "Ac-
counts" They usually receive these little
gifts at Christmas, and for the next three
weeks they make sundry unintelligible
lettings in them. But that Is not the sort
Of account book the prudent business wo-
man or the thrifty housewife keeps.
The regulation account book makes no
boast of beauty. 1t has stiff board covers,
is about ten inches long by eight inches
broad, and is provided with ruled pages.
These pages are not only ruled across, but
at each side they have two vertical lines
ruled, making two ope-inch spaces at each
edge of each page. In these spaces dates
and dollars and cents may be kept neatly.
Tho left-hand page is devoted to income
and the right to expenditures. The date on
which O sum of money is received, the per-
son or source from which it is received and
the amount are entered in a straight line
on the left-hand side. On the opposite side
the date of any expenditure, the thing for
which money has been expended and the
amount spent are entered. At stated times
the income and the outgo are balanced.
Once week or once month Is conve-
nient time.
Here is specimen page from the &C
count book of an ordinary woman-Miss
Mary A. Smith:
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WASHINGTON ROMANCES.
Writer'S Who Misrepresent the Morals
of This City.

Washington Correspondence Brooklyn Eagle.
Just at present there seems to be more
than surfeit of sensational books pub
lished in regard to the so-called fast life
of Washington. The writer's of these Wash
ington romances, which are really ro-
mances in name as they are in fact, though
they strive to create the impression that
they are true stories, are simply doing ell
they can in their small way to make Wash
ington appear in the same light as their
predecessors tried to picture New York
years ago. There is no doubt that Wash
ington Is as moral as any city of the kind
in the United States, ard it will more than
favorably compare with the great capitals
of Europe, where there is of course al
ways certain amount of intrigue. There
are $4,000 women employed in the public
service here in Washington, and writer's
of this kind cast suspicion upon their char
acterS, though the vast majority of them
are undoubtedly striving to live decent and
honest lives and are probably the support
of aged mothers or relatives who are de-
pendent upon them. There is hardly a city
in the country where the excise law is
more strictly enforced than in WashinSt ton
The saloons close at midnight and the
Sunday side door system is practically I'M
known here. Therefore. there is compare
lively little fntemperance, and this alone
guarantees the moral tone of the COM
munity, for it is night drinking that makes
New York, Chicago and most of our large
cities hotbeds of dissipation and vice.
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The Upper Two Stories
OF the
Arcade Building.

Which have been recently used AS PRIVATE Of
F1CE QUARTERS FOR THE VARIOUS OFFICERS
OF THE DISTRICT MILITIA. embracing about SO
large rooms. with wide hallway running through
the center in both stories from east to west, con-
Meeting with the wide iron veranda the
first story and iron passaseway and elabor-
ate bridge to Pennsylvania avenue through the
center of Market Park, also by iron walks to the
main market buildings and elevators. Will also be
for lease and after February LIST.
This very central handsome brick building, hav-
ing frontage towards Pennsylvania avenue and
the park of $50 feet, designed when erected
for Hotel Cafe where could be rented
with a Cafe each floor for serving meals AZ
d, sired and can be very easily fitted up into
100 rooms with two cafes in the center and with
kitchen and store rooms in the center Of third
story, where steam heating pipes for cooking are
located, and long lines of warming pipes running
through overhead, the entire length Of the main,
east and west Railways. Outside iron stairways
connect the east and west ends with 9Th and 9th
streets and Louisiana and Pennsylvania avenues.
At or abo1t the time this building was conn
pleted some exterprising gentlemen were negotiate
ing for this very desirable location and new build
ing to be used as q Grand Bazaar and adjunct
to the great Central Market for the keeping and
sale Of every class and variety Of goods articles
SO that any person entering the market grounds
from Pennsylvania avenue, eth, 9th or L streets
would find mi this Arcade Building, divided into
100 sections, a regular John Wanamaker store and
bazaar, for which the building is admirably
adapted This use, however, was abandoned tenn
porarily for the occupancy Of the District militia,
but could now be carried out by the of the
Arcade Building for a sectional variety store and
twenty sections could be easily fitted up
on the first floor from the avenue, south Side Lext
to the market proper, for flowers. with glass
fronts, in which cold air could be introduced from
the cold storage pipes below and warm air from
the steam pipes above, each to be turned al
ternately when required and thus flowers and
plants could be kept in this floral section OF the
bazaar in as fresh and condition until sold and
delivered IL they had remained in the hot house
where .hev grown.
Parties desiring to rent any portion OF the above
described centrally located business property con-
nected with the Center Ma ket. where thousands
of citizens of Washington their marketing
daily, call upon address,
PRESTON S. SMITH
Clerk Of Center Market
fa192I o &c q, 3O-6t Office, 9TH st. wing.
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Hall i'm 9th Street Wing
Center Market
FOR RENT.
Am Important Change of
Occupancy
At the Center Market.

THE NINTH STREET MARKET HALL. EASILY
ACCESSIBLE FROM THE NEW HANDSOME EN-
TRANCE. NORTHWEST CORNER NINTH STREET
WING, BY AN ELEVATOR, ALSO BY A BROAD
OPEN IRON STAIRWAY IN THE SOUTHWEST
CORNER, which has been used for meetings and
drilling Of the District militia, WILL BE oTEN
FOR RENTAL OR LEASE On AND AFTER FEB
RUARY 1, 1895
This fine hall Is 200 feet in length and about 70
feet in width. with ample light and ventilation,
and continually kept comfortably warm by
head steam pipes, and with very little expense the
erection Of stage the east side; seating ca
pactty can easily be arranged for from two to
three thousand persons, to and from which rapid
irgress and egress is had by two elevators, and
tie southwest loft. wide iron stairway also cut
OF the northeast front corner the wide iron
yeranda, extending along the avenue front above
the wholesale Stores known the Arcade Build
Ing. TO the center of this wide iron veranda, and
thence by the bridge and stairway through the
ceEter OF Market Park to Pennsylvania avenue.
The central location of THIS NINTH STREET
MARKET HALL. where all the lines Of steam, cleo
trio. cable, horse and her1ics center. from
every section Of the city, renders its
valuable tran mcst any of the other large halls
In the city.
Applications will be received for leasing 1t in its
present or in Q condition reftted for tie uses
,uired.
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thousand men at work, and on inquiry 1
found that these men We're composed of
the farmers of the neighborhood, who
combined together for mutual advantage,
and that the water was free for all OF the
association. The Coreans have their trades
unions and the planters probably have a
guild of their own. One of the strongest
labor unions of the country is that of the
porters, who are practically the freight
cars of Corea, and who carry more than
either the bullocks or ponies. I photo
graphed a number of them on my trip
and some of the men whom l took were
terribly frightened. One was loaded down
with shoes, and he thought that we were
going to capture his soul. This seems to
be a general idea among the Chinese and
Corears. They think that If their pictures
are taken the man who OWES the camera
will have control of their souls, and will
work them evil thereafter. They are SUI
persttious in tie extreme, and the stories
about foreigners cutting up Chinese ba-
bies for medicine and tearing out the eyes.
of Coreans to. grind up to make photo
graphic material have been irdustrously
spread by the Chinese. Everywhere we
went we found the people predisposed to
the Chinese. and we heard no good words
for Japan. The people have been greatly
and the men who entertained
us in the villages were the officials who
had been squeezing the life-blood out of the
people. These villages are like
TO others in the world, and the little petty
kings who rule the country under the
name of ma gistrates are so curious that l
will devote my next letter to them
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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Stranger Than Fiction.
.om the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
A certain member of the Michigan legis-
lature has q word that is not nearly as
good as his bond, albeit his word goes to
the miraculous rather than to the malic-
ious, so that he really does more good by
talking than If he didn't talk The other
day fellow-member, who didn't know his
peculiaritie5, heard him tell something,
and shortly after lie met another member
who knew him from long time back.
by the way said the imaginative
members new friend, MIR. Blank told me
a strange thing a while ago.
"Ah," vas the immediate response. what
was 1t, the. truthT'
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stars, Sirius, the most beautiful of the
| naked-eye star clusters, the Pleiades;
the largest of the nebulae drvsibie TO the
| naked eye), that in the sword Of Orion and
at the present time a magnificent evening
star" the planet Jupiter. We can spend
our evenings pro1itaply within the limits of
this region.
Sirius. below and to the left of Orion,
should easily be identified from it's sur
passing brilliancy, equal to that OF five Or
binary stars of the first magnitude. 1t is
nearly in line with the "Three Kings"
which form the belt of Orion. The star
seen still farther to the left, resembling
Sirius in it's bluish-white light, but less
brilliant, is Procyon.
Among the ancients Sirius was generally
regarded as star of bareful influence.
The Persians called it Tishtya, and dread
ed its maiign radiance as a cause of the
summer drouShtS and Of diseases among
men and cattle. Similar notions RESPECTING
1t were prevalent among the Greeks and
Romans. The Egyptians, on the contrary,
regarded 1t as benehcent star 1t was
known to them as Sothis. and it was be-
IeVed to be the residence of the Goddess
ISIS. It's rising, or first appearance above
the eastern horizon at daybreak. which oc-
Cured in July, marked the beginning of
the Egyptian Year. This event brought
with it the annual inundation which fer
tilted the valley of the Nile, and it was,
perhaps. because Of the stars supposed
watchful care over the interests of the
husbandman that 1t was sometimes called
Anubis, the Dog. a name which still cliugs
to 1t.
The brilliant Sirius.
Sirius is among the sixty or seventy
stars of which the distances frem us are
known with a greater or less margin of
uncertainty. 1t ranks, third in the order OF
distance, not first. as might be supposed
from it's superior brilliancy, the nearest
star, so far as is known, being Alpha Cen
tauri-a first magnitude star too low in
the southern hemisphere to be seen by us
and the next in ORDER being siXty-one
Cygni. a star of only the fifth magnitude
in the constellation Of the Swan. The dis
tance OF Sirius is now put at about 100000
unit Of measurement now commonly en-
ployed in stating star distances. it is ten
'nght-yearS." That is, light which reaches
us from the sun is little over eight min
utes, and from the moon in one and one
quarter seconds REQUIRES ten years to
flash across the space which intervenCS
between us ar 4 the Brilliant Dog Star.
The light OF Sirius IS estimated to equal
that of seventy suns, plac ed side by side
its diameter is rather more than eight
times that of tho sum- But there are rea-
sons for thinking that Sirius is hotter and
enthusiastically brighter than our lumin;ry,
so that this is probably an oVerestinlate of
its size. It's dazzlfnSiy white light is sug-
sestive of an intensely high temperature,
and the evidence of the Spectroscope favors
this superstition. The spectrum of Sirius
and those of the white stars. generally
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Ing is done by bulls. which are hitched to
the pillow by a yoke, which rests just
over their shoulders. Our oxen have
y y1 bv around their neeks and they
plow somewhat evenly distributed about
their necks and shoulders. These Corean
bullocks push everything along by the tops
of their shoulders, holding their heads
down as they toll. They seem to plow very
well, and though their carts are the rudest
they carry great quantities of all sorts OF
farm products and merchandise. They are
used largely as pack animals. and they
have pack saddles of wood, which extend
six inches above their backs, and which are
heavily loaded. These saddles often gall
the backs, and saw many cattle that had
patches of raw flesh as big your hand,
where the saddle had rubbed off the skin.
The bullocks are of beautiful fawn
color. and they travel almost as fast as a
horse The second day of our journey one
of our pack ponies dropped WORKOUT, by
the wayside, and Gen. PAX hired one of
these bullocks to take it's place. He car
ried my bag and the cameras and about
would keep back the party, but he led the
procession, going sort of COW trot all
the way and climbing up the hills and gal
Looping down the valleys to the imminent
danger of the baggage. His only harness
outside CT his pack was a ring of wood,
about as thick as your finger and as big
around as dinner bucket, which had been
run through his nose, and to which a rope
was fastened. The meat of these animals
is very good, and you can get as good beef
steak in Corsa as You can in New York. L
found none for sale, however, on my trip
across the country, and I was surprised to
find that the people do not use milk nor
butter.
Hundreds of Streams.
Corea is a well-watered country. We
| found beautiful streams everywhere.
| There were no roads, and our journey was
| largely on bride paths. We crossed the
creeks and rivers bridges, which were
| made of pine branches with a thin coat
| ing of earth. In some places these were
very unsafe, ard the horses ard the bull
went in up to their knees we preferred
| to ford when we could. There is good
| system of irrigation throughout the val
| leys, and in some places 1 saw the people
building canals in order to keep the wa
| ter at high level and cover a greater eX
| tent Of territory. There were fully one