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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-28
THE HISTORIC ROUTE.

The Nashville, Chattanooga & st.
Llnuts Railway, the model railroad of
the South in equipment, roadway and
~ GsGe, is also the greatest in hstori-
-.rss t",crest, more than fifty famous bat
Y l. y: I'd GYe national cemeteries
ben tt1a.a.ci On the various lices .,
'&,l, system. This is the preferred
ts|>te to Atlanta for the Cotton States
nNs International Exposition, opcc...
! ...,..i}gr Is: to December 81,
3 .iJ, 7vF Ahiul Vary low excursion rates
G~Ve becn u"do Through sleeping
G." -srvia- frum ST. Louis to Atlanta
"" Evausvtli". Nashville aud Chatta-
o. 'An- Ta:s l. u route of the famous
""''1ie Flyer" through sleeping car
t@"' which runs the year round between
d '.-i,yilr and Jacksonville, Fla. For
o. t''er i"forh1atjpn, address Briaid d
Il +tit.. a...S Marquette Building, Chi
tx sH. H., or r.. G.. Cowardin, Western
l'.-r.'nger Agent, Railway Exchange
Erssd'ng, ST.. Louis, Missouri, or d. J.
Edl@n"y, Pass Agt., SO West Fourth
GE-. CINCINNATI, OHIO.
W. L. D-lNLEY, G. P. & T. A.
Nashville, Tenn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-28
Holiday Excursions.

The usual reduced rates. account
christmas and New Years" will apply
between all. L. St l.. & K. G. Il. Il.
Glover Leaf stations and also to points
on connecting lines. Excursion Tickets
will he sold on Dec. gath, 25th. aud 81 st
80, and Jan. lst SO with usual liberal re-
turn limit
If you expect to visit St. Louis. l'olc,
do, Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Pts
burg. Cincinnati, Loui5ville, Evansville
Peoria or any Intermediates Point inH''
lail to cali on nearest Agent Glover
Leaf ROu'e or address G. e.. Jeukin,
Gen'l. Pass Agent Toledo Ohio,
SCI
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-28
Thc New HOutc 10 Welis,ou, Ham.
den and la aClkSOns

Via the c. II. V. g. T. Ry. is now
0peu and two passenger trains are run
ming regularly each way daily, except
Sunday, at convenient hours for the
travelling public, between Columbus
and Wellston, and Pomeroy and Wells.
tou, making direct connections at
Wellston with trains of the Ohio
Southern Ry. for jackson. Tickets
will be sold and baggage checked
Through to Hamden, Wells;on and
Jackson Mt same rates as apply via
huger lines. For time of trains and
folt particulars call on agents G. FL. V.
Ss Z. Ry. or address w. Fl. Fisher,
Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agt. Dec3l
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-28
FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST.

Myou have any intention OF going to
Ne Southeast this fall or winter, you
easnld advise yourself of the best route
euua the North and West. This is the
.Huisville & Nashville Railroad, which
drumming double daily trains from Gin.
eiazati through to Nashville, Chat
sAuooga, Birmingham, Atlanta, Mont
Gamery, Thomasville, Pensacola, Mo-
edis, Jacksonville and all Florida
paints. Pullman Sleeping Car Service
sitrough. Specially low rates made to
ATLANTA during the continuance of the
Cation States Exposition and tourist
sGtss to all points in Florida and Gulf
GoAst resorts during the season. For
particulars as to rates sad through car
eprvfce, write
JACKSON SMITH, Div. Pass Agt.,
Cincinnati, o.
C. p. ATMoRE, Gen1 Pass Agt.,
Louisville. KY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-28

Tickets on sale Dee. 2l, % and 81
Also on Jan. l. Limit for return Jan.
9, 1896. Rate one fare aud third for
round trip between all stations. See
Ohio Central agents for full par
ticulars. Dec. 81.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-28
Winter 'I'OltrN.

TX you contemplate II Journey tn the
South. Southwpst ur West to Winter
resorts in the South, To Mexico or Cali
forpia for the Winter or shorter period
don't fail to enquire If nenres, Ticket
Agent OF Clover Leaf Route for rates
anil other particulars. G. 9. Jenk ins
&eu'i. Pass. Agent. 36f
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-28
GOING NORTH
"Daily. tDaily excep Sunday.

The Fast Line leaves Toledo ~ lO:8U m.
ca -ryng day coaches and parior :nrs cnnnert.
in with through trNinS nor Norfolk, Richmond
an al cities In the Vreinias aud Cnrolinas.
Parlor and palace cars on all express trains.
Any ticket agent will give yon mn iniorma
tion concerning the Buckeye Route. or you can
address H. A. Wilson. DIST. Pass. Agent, Toledo.
o., or w. II. Fisher, General Passenger aud
Ticket Agent, Columbus, Ohio.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-12-28

The usual reduced rates from all Clo-
vet Leaf Stations, call on nearest agent
Glover leaf Route or address G. g. Jen
Hins Gen1. Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
Gold in British Guiana.

New York Evening Post; The gold
product of British Guiana for 1894 is
stated in the recent report of the di-
rector of the United States mint at
138,527 ounces, of the value of s., 493,-
522. 1t is all obtained from alluvial
washings. These are found chiefly at
the hcadwaters of the Demerara and
Essequibo rivers. Steamers ascend
those rivers a certain distance, but
nowhere near the diggings. At the
head of navigation boats holding
twelve or fourteen men and three
months provisions are employed The
rivers are full of rapids, and it takes
three or four weeks of toilsomc row.
ing, polling and hauling to reach the
destination, but the down trip can be
made in five DAYS. The climate is hot
and very exhausting. Negroes are the
only laborers, but white men superin-
tend their work. The rate of wages is
65 cents per day and food. There are
two wet seasons in the year, of two
months each, ank the average rainfall
is about Ito inches. There are no reef
inns worried at present, as tits inn
possible to transport machinery to the
mines, but the quartz is said to- be
very rich. Several diamonds have
been found after banning on the gold
at the end Of a days work, and it is
believed that many more have been
lost by the negro laborers who did
not recognize them or know theil
value. On the whole, the prospect OF
the region as gold-producer is good
but it will be long time before il
can be worked scientifically, on ac
count of the difficulty Of reaching it
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
CRIME AMONG ANIMALS.

Almost every form and variety of
human crime Is to be found among ami
mails. Cases of theft are noticed among
bees Butcher, in his Psychic Life of
Animals" speaks of thievish bees
which, in order to save themselves the
trouble of working attack well-stocked
hives in masses, kill the sentinels and
the inhabitants, rob the hives and car
ry off the provisions. After repeated
enterprises of this description they ac-
quire a taste for robbery and violence;
they recruit whole companies, which
get more and more numerous; and
finally they form regular colonies of
brigand bees. But 1t is a still more
curious fact that these brigand bees
can be produced artificially by giving
working bees mixture of honey and
brandy to drink. The bees soon ac-
quire taste for this beverage which
has the same disastrous effects upon
them as upon men; they become i'll
disposed and irritable, and lose all de-
sire to work, and finally, when they be-
gin to feel hungry, they attack and
plumber the well supplied hives. There
Is one variety of bees-the Sphecodes-
which lives exclusively upon plumber.
According to Marchall, this variety Is
formed of individuals of the Halyetes
species whose organs of notification
were defective, and which have gradu-
ally developed into a separate variety.
living almost exclusively by plumber.
They may thus be said to be an exam
pie of innate and organic crimlnality
among insects and they represent what
Prof Lombroso calls the born criminals
that Is, individuals who are led to
crime by their own organic constitu-
tion.-William Ferrero. In the Decem-
Der Forum
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
HOW LONG CAN SEEDS LIvEp

Not long ago 1t was generally be-
lieved that grains of wheat from Egyp-
tian tombs had been made to germi-
nate, and there seemed, therefore, to be
no limit to the dormant life of a seed.
When these stories were proved to be
without foundation, there was a gene
raj tendency to disbelieve all of a SINH
lar kind. Now, however, 1t seems to be
established that seeds may live, under
proper conditions, a great many years,
perhaps for centuries; and when we
consider that under these circum-
stances the protoplasm within the seed
actually maintains Its vitality, this
fact is very significant. On the ques-
ton of how seeds accomplish this, much
light has been thrown by recent ex-
perime nts OF G. de Candolle, the French
botanist which he describes in the Re-
yue Scientifique September i4th) We
translate below some parts of his arti-
Gle:
'.Seeds that have retained their ger
minating power are said to possess Ia
tent life This expression lacks preci-
sion, for we may ask whether the life
of the seeds Is completely arrested or If
1t is only retarded, and the answer
would not be the same in all cases. as
/ propose to show. I.
1--WE owe to Messrs. Van Tieghem
and Bounier the following experiment.
which proves that seeds can, in fact,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
TURKEY.

NO Intelligent man can study the his
tory of the Turkish Empire without be-
ing struck by the fact that as soon as
the Turks ceased to be conquerors and
to live upon the booty won and upon
the tribute wrung from subjugated
peoples, their power began to decay
and crumble. They proved themselves
utterly unable to keep pace with the
mental progress and the Industrial de-
velopment Of Europe, and wholly de-
void of any administrative capacity.
The population of the Turkish Empire
remains divided substantially into only
three classcs-the officers and employ
ees of the Government, military and
civil the merchants, large and small;
and the agriculturists-w a slight
sprinkling Of handicraftsmen. The civil
officers, excepting the highest, have al
ways been very poorly salaried, having
to exc out their living by corrupt prac-
tees and extortions. The administra-
ton is so rotten that large part of
the heavy taxes levied never reaches
the Government, and that large por-
ton Of the money actually turned in is
never applied to public purposes. The
Mussulmans, the ruling class, have re-
NAMED ruthless fanatics of their reli-
gious faith, never sincerely believing
that the "infidel dogs" were entitled to
any rights at all. and the many mil
lions OF Christians living under the
Turkish sccpter have always been the
victims of more or less cruel and rapa-
cous oppression. So 1t has been since
the beginning of the Turkish Empire,
and so 1t Is now.
The Armenian massacres," which at
present are arousing the indignation of
all Christendom, are therefore only a
returning outbreak Of chronic condi-
ton. differing perhaps from former out
breaks in degree, but not In kind SIM
liar occurrences--the bulgarian afro
cities" are well remembered by the
present generation-have repeatedly
called for interference by European
powers. On such occasions the Sultan
would always promise thorough re-
forms, but the promises have uniformly
remained unfulfilled. The Treaty OF
Berlin. which followed the Turco-R Rus
sian war of 1S77-7S. contained solemn
engagements on the part OF the Sub
lime Porte to protect the Armenians
against the Kurds and the Circassians
and to guarantee to all religions equa
freedom, opening to all Turkish sub
jects, irrespective of belief, access II
public office. What has become OF thes'
engagements the world knows. 1t u
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
Lincoln's Speeches.

Ex-Secretary Chittenden's new col
lection of abraham Lincoln's Speech
es" opens with the first speech made
by the yonng candidate of Sangamon
county for the Illinois Legislature.
That speech, made when Lincoln was
only %, has in itan interesting exam
ple of the youthful statesman's ideas
in regard to making haste slowly. He
was defeated in that first try, and he
assured the voters of the county in
advance that he had "been too famil-
lar with disappointments to be very
much chagrined." He had stood for
II. proving the county's waterway, the
Sangamon river, rather than hasten
the building of railway in that year
of grace 1882. A railroad out OF
Springfield was, he acknowledged, an
Improvement not to be equaled In
utility. "Yet," he declared, however
desirable an object the construction
of railroad through our country
may be, however high our magma
tions may be heated at the thoughts
| of it, there is always heart-appalling
| shock accompanying the account OF
its cost which forces us to shrink
from our pleasing anticipations. The
probable cost Of this contemplated
railroad is ESTIMATED at $29o,oOo; The
bare statement Of which, in my opin
ion, is sufficient to justify the belle
that the improvement of the Sanga
mon river is an object much better
suited to our infant resources" Run
ming in debt for purposes OF utility o.
expediency or even prosperity was no
Lincoln's way from the first. Blu
when "blood and treasure" must b.
poured out for great principles, tina
was another matter.-Boston Tran
script
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
CHARACTER OF THE FIJIANs.

Living in such little world as this,
the Fijians were of necessity much in
advance of the races inhabiting the
neighboring Pacific islands. The strug-
gle for securing and holding this fair
domain must of itself have led to its
possession by a superior race. We find
evidences of this superiority not only
in the splendid physical development
of the Fijians, but also in their rela-
lively advanced religious notions and
in their rather elaborate system of
mythology. One traveller has likened
this people, in some respects, to the
primitive Greeks. If we compare the
petty maritime enterprises celebrated
in Fijian song and story with those re-
corded by the early Greek poets, we
may imagine the difference to be in
some measure due to the difference in
character of the two archipelagoes
which were their respective scenes of
action. Upon taking the trouble to
translate certain books of Homer into
Fijian 1t was found that their recital
was listened to by company of the
untutored savages with the most ap-
preciative attention. This fact certain
ly speaks well for the mental quality
of the race. The one foul blot upon
the character of the Fijians was their
cannibalism, but in view of the readl-
ness with which they have abandoned
this practice, now that animal food
can be easily obtained, we must hold
nature responsible, not only for this
curse, but also for the many other bar
barlties accompanying it.-Among the
| Cannibal Islands. by l.. G. Weld, In
Appleton's Popular Science Monthly
for December.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
Efficiency of Steam and Electricity
Compared.

"Tn popular writings" said Prof. w.
n ITnwin In q recent lecture on THE
Heat Engine" before the Institution of
civil Engineers in London, nothing Is
commoner than to find the efficiency
of electric machinery and steam ma
chifery contrasted to the discredit OF
the latter. The dynamo, 1t Is said, has
an efficiency of 80 to 95 per cent, the
steam engine an efficiency of only 10
per cent. What a barbarous machine,
after all the labor of century, the
steam engine must be! The COMPARE
son is generally made by an electrical
engineer, and the first reflection which
occurs to one Is that of all people the
electrical engineer should be the last
to abuse the steam engine. Without the
steam engine the dynamo would be a
useless mass of metal and wire. But
passing over the moral aspect OF the
questionable ingratitude Of the electri-
cal engineer-the comparison is an un-
fair one, and shows a want OF appre-
hension of the important law of the
motivity of heat, which is one Of the
two fundamental laws Of thermo-dy-
namics. Heat energy is undirected or
mob energy. 1t lies in the nature OF
the terrestrial conditions In which use
has to I've made of it that only frac-
ton Is converted into directed or me-
chanical energy. The task of the steam
engine Is to do it's best with the frac-
ton which Is convertible, and in that
point Of view 1t Is not an inefficient
machine. The dynamo has a much
easier task. Energy is supplied to II
in Its directed or wholly convertible
form. and naturally in Transforming
one kind of directed energy into an
other kind of directed energy, only 8
| small fraction need be wasted"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
AMERICAN BRIsKNEss.

They are telling the story in London
that the Impossible American in Paris
aliphted at a hotel to find it absolutely
full Il have nothing" expostulated
the host, almost tearfully, "nothing.
The first floor is taken by the King of
the Ostenders; the Qeeen of Monte
garia occupies the second; the Duke
Of Cottonopolis is sharing the third
floor with the Caliph of Port Said,
and the Crogn Prince of Nova Esper-
auza is sleeping on the billiard table.
AS for myself shaye to make up a
he'd sin the Office, and there only re-
mains :the chamber of my daughter,
OF course" els that your daugh-
ter?n interrupted the American,
Mounting to the young lady at the desk.
ayes. sir" GAN right; III marry her
after lunch" And, giving his vailse
to the speeches. Boniface, he added,
"Now, you can take my baggage up to
our room.'
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
sTIFFENING FOR PETTICOATs.

The expense and weight of the stiff
fleming fabrics that are usually employ
ed in the fashionably hanging skirt
have brought into use a petticOat that
is in general appearance the ordinary
silk or sateen petticoat, with wide, har-
ing rufile around the bottom, which Is
held out by a continuous feather bone
sewed in it's hem. On the under side,
however, it is fitted with an ingenious
arrangement of ribbon steel, slipped
into braid pockets that, with infinitesi-
NAL lightness but ample strength, hold
the dress skirt, under which it is worn,
in perfect position. 1t was the beauti-
full hang of the wide skirts that at
tracted attention and ELECTED inquiry
as to it's achievement. The whole at
tachment weighs but two ounces and a
half, and as no lining is needed in the
dress-skirt it may be realized how
great a saving of weight is secured.
my customers" explained the dress
maker, take two petticoats, one of
dark silk or sateen for street wear
and one of light silk, with lace-trim-
med f1ounces, for evening wear. Then
any dress in their wardrobe can go
over one of these, and no stiffening Of
any sort is put in the gown skirt. The
petticoats are cut in peculiar shape
| to fit the attachment, and the result is
| the soft, perfest hang which has been
| noticed. A loop on either side of the
dress skirt at the back side seams
| fastens to buttons on the petticoat, Sc
| there is no crushing of the skirt If 1t
| is sat on all day. as the elasticity OF
! the steel, made especially for the pur-
pose, prevents all that. Another thing
| my customers particularly like about
| it is that one hand, grasping the steel
| curve nearest the waistband, holds q
dress up easily and completely"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
CARLYLE'S MISSION.

Carlyle's mission was not merely to
destroy; he shattered error in order
that the clogged fountain of truth
might once more gush forth. Before
eyes long dimmed with gazing on In
sincerity, he would hold up shining
patterns Of sincerity; souls cropping for
guidance, he would stay and comfort
by presidents Of strength; hearts pur-
suing false idols, he would chasten by
examples of truth. Men talked-and
nowhere more dogmatically than In
the churches-as If God, after having
impaired his behests to a few Hebrews
ages ago, had retired into some remote
empyrean, and busted himself no more
with the affairs of men. But to Car
lyle the immanence of God was an
ever-present reality, manifestlng itself
throughout all history and In every in
divldual conscience, but nowise more
clearly than in the careers of great
men.-Mr. William Roscoe Thayer In
the December Forum.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
RECAMIER AND NAPOLEON.

The most famous and clever society
of the Consulate and early Empire was
accustomed to gather in the drawing
rooms of Nine Recamier, wife OIL the
great banker. The wealth OF her nus
band and the distinction of her own
manners made her parsonage OF sreat
inheritance among the returned emf
grants who fattered and caressed her.
Nv her spirit and beauty she welded
enormous influence, but not in Napo-
Icons behalf, for she considered nm a
norvenu. She was in reality one OF the
most insidious, and consequently one
of the most dangerous, of his foes. lie
tried to buy her silence, through Fou-
che's Instrumentation, by the offer not
merely of a place as lady in waiting,
h,,t Of the influence she might hope to
exercise. over himself
Her persistent refusal was really the
cause of her husbands bankruptcy, Tor
thp Rank of France refused him assist
ance in his straits She was not an In
innate friend of Nine. de Stael, al
though the latter, when banished from
paris had visited her at st. Ecouen;
hnt MANY of those who had frequented
her parlor were. Necker's great daugh-
tor that "rascally Nine. de Stael,' as
Nanoleon called her in a letter to Fou-
che. had since her retirement 10 SWlt-
garland played the role of exile so well
that she had rendered herself almost a
divinity to her friends. They MADE an
nual pilgrimages to Coppet, returning
IN Nine. Recamier's parlors with new
arrows of spite and wit to discharge
against the Empire. In the end both
the hostess herself and the frequenters
of her husbands house We're therefore
visited with condign punishment, or
| The charge that they had excited pub
lie alarm and discredited the Bank o.
France. With several OF her frlehds
| tbe GREAT lady was banished from
| par;s and later was sent into exile
'Tife of Napoleon" by Prof. w. M
sloane in the December Century.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
A LADY's ."AT-HoME" DAY.

Mondays in January and February
or Wednesdays in December" OF
Thursdays until Lent" or any week
day for any or all of the months OF the
| season, engraved in the left lower cor
| ner of a visiting-card, with the ad-
dress in the right corner, Is the form
In which a lady of fashion, or any
hostess who Is able to entertain, makes
1t known when she will be at home to
| her friends.
TO all the names on her visiting-list
IN the city or town in which she lives,
ana IN all the neighboring towns and
suburbs. in envelops to fit them ex-
actly, lady sends these cards by mail
ABOUT two weeks before the first day"
one IS addressed, for instance, to Mr.
and Mrs. John Tudor Fairfield" anoth-
er 10 The Misses Fairfield" and an
otner 10 Mr.. John Tudor Fairfield.
IT. az sent In separate envelopes OF
inclosed together In large outside en-
veiope addressed to "Mr. and Mrs Jonh
TUDOR Fairfield" with the direction,
.ne names only being on the INSIDE
envelopes.
In other ways hostess may notify
her friends Of her receiving-day. In the
invitations to large AT Home, OF
her daughters coming-out reception
or, IL a bride, with her wedding invi-
tations. Perhaps she gives the IN
formation very quietly, II she is ~,
mourning or unable to entertain, pu'
wishes surely to see her friends wnen
they call; and so in making VISITS ner'