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The morning times., 1895-09-22
NATIONAL MUSEUM.


The National Museum costs about $3.50,
900 year. II is visited annually by over
30O,0 900 persons, exactly 319.93O for
1929 II sends exhibits to important
expositions, such as the Worlds Fair at
Chicago and that just opened in Atlanta,
and publishes numerous interesting vol
umes and pamphlets. One fault is found
with the museum and its publications alike.
They are rather calculated to interest the
curious and entertain the pleasure seekers
than to benefit the studious, and seem to
bemanaged for the former object rather than
the latter.
While there are a few who visit the
museum frequently they are mostly children.
There is almost no one who makes study
of the material gathered in the museum,
except persons directly employed by the
Government in connection with the insti-
tuition. OF the thousands of visitors very
few carry away any knowledge of per
manent vaue to them.
1t is the complaint of the managers that
money for.the purchase of collections is
denied and in consequence the museum is
comparatively unsatisfactory. To study
the past life of the Mississippi Valley, it
to England; for South Alaska to Berlin,
and for the California coast to Paris. as
In addition to the means of diffusing
knowledge mentioned. the museum distrib-
utes an average of 81, 800 specimens
annually to schools and colleges.
BEREAU oFoqETHNoLoGY
The Bureau of EthnoIogy spends $4,000
to 100000 a year, anfits results are given
to the world mainly Through its publica-
tions. These are in la measure antigua
rian in their nature.s uThey convey much
information of what has been, and tend to
broaden and lihcra bze, the mind, but bring
very little practical benefit to the gene
raj public. 10 q
The astro-phys ieai observatory is as
yet in its infancy, and so far has produced
very little OF interest or value. Some
If the results obtained are said to be of
great worth to scientists.
The National Geological Park costs the
people about S55,OOO annually, and had in
it at the late report 5O4 animals. The ex-
penditure for salaries was $1S,1S1, which
appears to be a large sum for keepers
of SO few animals. The park is visited
by as many as 1000 day at times. A
count is made here, as at the museum and
the Smithsonian, by the doorkeeper.
The library under DR.. Cyrus Adler Is
really branch of the International Ex-
changes Bureau. 1t has about 10000 vol
umes, under the librarians charge immss-
diately, with some 800, 900 books, etc. i'm
the Library of Congress. A curious fact re-
ported is that collection of costly Illus
Ntrated works of art, engravings and etch-
ings purchased from the American minister
at Rome were supposed To have been put
in the Library of Congress in 1874, but
upon correspondence with the librarian
In 1898 1t was found "that large por-
tion of the unbound engravings which the
catalogue-an imperfect one-appcars to
call for could not be found.
The library has connected with it
reading room; but, while there is desk
The morning times., 1895-09-22
In 3l5B. A. ID.

Yes; very INTEREST," ng. But. Prof.
Proser. what is that skeleton next to the
Pterodactyl's?'
THAT is-ah-the skeleton of the Hip
pus, beast of burden known to the
Greeks. By the Neo-Aryan races it was
called horse a fierce. wild animal it
must have been. Judging from contemporary
accounts. We read. for instance, OF the
horses a certain brutal games called races
breaking n man all up Yes, ladies and
gentlemen, it is well that the Hippus is
extinct"
"Ho W interesting!"-New York Re-
corder.
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continued during the present year the re-
searches of which portion has been pub
lished in August, 1891, in treatise en-
titled "Experlments in Aerodynmics" In
tcresting results have since been reached here
which appear 10 be of wide utiltarian i'm
portance, but, though, / trust. before the
close of another year to be able to make
some communication of them to the public,
they are not yet complete.
I'm this same connection, in pursuit OF
an investigation begun some years ago and
in continuation of the institution's inter
est in the promotion of meteorological stud
les, have made experiments upon the va
riations continually going on in the at
mosphere, in what is regarded for ordinary
meteorological purposes as steady wind
FEW HAVE READ THEM
An additional publication has been made
of the further results OF these experiments,
but comparatively few persons know of
either of these treatises, a nd still fewer have
ever read them 1t Is the hope. however,
of the Institution and its friends that the
few who do read are the prime teachers of
the people. and indirectly knowledge of the
most important nature Is thus disseminated
through the Contributions" to the whole
country and beyond.
An important addition to the efforts of the
Smithsonian proper has been the publica
iion OF results obtained by the HodSkins
prize fund contest in nearly all the news
papers of the world. In this way the fact
that another element, arson, exists in the
air has been brought To the notice of nearly
all reading people. or what advantage this
can be 10 millions OF them Is question not
easily answered.
IL is a criticism sometimes made upon
the management of the institution that it de
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Lassoed His Rival.

A remarkable revenge was wreaked on
a rival by young man in Waldrun. Mich,
recently. The successful sutor was out
walking in the street with the young woman
whose love was the cause of the hear;
burning when some une in an upper story
of building skillfuly threw a lasso over
his head, drew the moose tight, and hauled
him up several feet from the side walk
The young man would have been hanged
but for the quick help of passers-by.
His assailant got away-temporarily the
other man says,
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A Dangerous Practice.

Ais dyeing the hair as dangerous as the
doctors would make it appear?
B-Certainly; you may take my word for
It. Only last spring All uncle of mine dyed
lis hair and in three weeks he was mar
ried to a widow with four children.-Flie-
gende Batter.
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Very
Rapid
Selling E"

describes the way that
those $16 BEDROOM
SUITES moved yesterday
Indeed, before you read
this advertisement every
one of them may be sold.
The magnificent line of
PARLOR SUITES we are
showing, ranging from
$50 to $3.50, should stim-
ulate your buying appe-
tite-the selection is COM
plete.
Carpets are here i'm
great variety-at prices
you will wonder at.
Wash. B. Williams,
7th and D SITS.
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Mr.. j. Karr, the jeweler at 945 Pa. ave-,
having concluded to retire from active
business, offers at prime cost of manu-
facturers' and import prices his entire col
lection of diamonds, watches, sterling sill
serware, clocks, and bric-a -brac
The morning times., 1895-09-22
GHOSTS OF THE DUMP
Ha'nis Seen by Queer Men and
Women Who Rake the Pile.
ALL HAVE SEEN SPOOKS

Spirits of Master and Slave, of MUIR
dered Men and Men Who Died Hor-
rihle Deaths, and Spirits Which In
habit Van Ness Mansion, All Be
lieved In by the Dump Rakers.
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GIVING THEM NEW life
Stuffing Animals, Birds and
Fishes at the Museum.
a DAY WITH A TAXIDERMIST

Mannikins, or Models, Are Built, Upon
Which the Skins Are Stretched.
Chambers of Horrors In the Big
Government neutrality-suspicious. of
Objects of Interest
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them. He pulled out beautiful skin of
zebra, which was as fresh as the day it was
pulled off the animal There are in these
chests hyena skins, leopard skins, and
tiger skins of rare beauty, and value. There
are several of these chests filled with such
treasures
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STUFFING THE FISHES.

In the fish department there is diff
ference. Three arts aud one science are
required with these interesting exhibits.
Two of the specimens which are natura;
are the great big halibut and sawfish,
which everybody has seen. They are in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-12
DUNRAVBN
WAS KISSED.
May Be Expelled from the
New York Yacht Club.
FOR IMPUTATlON OF FRAUD
Receives An Unneasured SCORING
From St. James Gazette.
ms conduct UnbecOming and His
CRITICISM Unfair-Has Placed Him
self on Record as Lacking i'm
Good Breeding and Good Sense.

NEW YORK, Nov 11.-There 10
much talk among members of the New
York Yacht club of expeIltne- T,o,,;T
Dunraven from the club of which he is
an honorary member. for his course in
imputing knowledge of fraud to
Messrs. Iselin and Smith. in the mat.
ter of the official measurement of +5e,
yacht Defender prior to the racep1
races Tor the Americas cup. Amonu.
those who have expressed themselves
In favor of charges being preferrafU
against Lord Dunraven, if he does nor
Immediately resign are: j. V. Bouviar.
+. II. Halsted, Mr. Doremus. MIR
Clark, of Clark, Dodge & Co. ewbo was
d member of a former yacht syndicate)
and n. L. Nichols Commodors Snitbs
said that he did not know whether Mn.
lselln had demanded that the cum and
regatta committees of the New Yorlr
Yacht club should make an investfpa-
ton of Lord Dunraven's charges. but
he had no doubt he wouId take e,,oh
actlon. Mr.. 1selin was not i'm to1vn.
today WI 0O"1
Members of the New York Yacht
cllNo say 1t is not necessary TO prefer
charges against Lord Dunraven in
order to expel him from his honorary
membership. They say that under
chapter 20 of the bylaws he can he
summarily dropped from the rom
That chapter reads as follows:
In case of an occurrence injurious
10 the welfare of the club. the name N.
names of any members implicated
tnereln may be removed from the LIST
oa members by vote of a majority
of the representatives at any regular
or special meeting"
1t is understood that meeting of
the Americas cup committee Will be
nero ne IN a rev days to consider the case
of Lord Dunraven's charges Srbare.
was Demonstration of feeling ON the
moor OF the stock exchange TO-DAY.
Smith was cheered and
when brokers yelled Whats the mat
ter with Iselin?" there were Io11d
cheers, but Lord Dunraven's name Ivse
Missed. -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-12
PATRIOTIC spANIARDs.

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Senor ]. F.
Suarez, prominent member of the
Spanish colony in New York, showed
a reporter a letter from his brother
in Buenos Ayres giving an account of
the departure of the expeditions of
Spanish volunteers from that city for
Cuba. The letter states that another
expedition of LOO volunteers had
started for Cuba to fight for the moth
er country
This is the second expedition from
the Argentine Republic, one of 800 men
having already landed in Cuba. The
Spanish colony of Brazil has sent from
Rio de Janeiro an expedition of 800
men. Mexico has sent 1000 volunteers.
The Spanish in the City of Mexico have
raised money to supply the Spanish
soldiers with clothing and to reward
those who distinguished themselves by
acts of heroiSm. Several thousand vol
unteers have also gone from Spain, the
government having opened recruiting
stations and large numbers of men
enlist every day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-12

LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE Marquis OF
Salisbury's speech of Saturday last
eeems to have had a good effect here
and elsewhere throughout Europe.
The continental newspapers express
various opinions regarding the premi-
er's utterances, but his remarks are
generally regarded as reassurIng and
as just what was wanted to calm
public opinion. His language attrBbut-
ing to the sultan the whole RESPONSE
bility for the condition of affairs in
Armenia is regarded in some quarters
as calculated to encourage the Armen-
ians to resist, but all interested seem
to find comfort in the stress laid upon
the absolute harmony of the great
powers and i'm regard to its continue
ance. This is looked upon as being
the Sole sure mode Of dealing with the
sultan and of holding down the ambi-
tions of the individual European
states. Still, however, there is visible
Abetween the lines Of the utterance of
The premier an undercurrent of feeling
that war in the east is more likely TO
be postponed than to be averted. In
any case it is understood that there
viii be no change in the governments
programme looking to strengthening
the British fleet very materially in
order to be ready for any combinations
or eventualities which may be likely to
occur
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Reports of More Massacres.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov 1.-THE
most horrible accounts are constantly
arriving in spite of the efforts taken to
suppress them, of massacres and dep
relations in the eastern provinces, in
which the Kurdish tribes are said to
have perpetrated atrocities more ter
tlble than any before credited to them.
1t IS stated upon apparently good au-
thority that whole districts of Erzer-
oum and Sivias, the scenes of so much
oloodshed in the past, have been de-
Vastated by the Kurds, who have
wiped village after village out of eX-
lstence, and that the sword and fire
are sweeping over the country.
The rioting and bloodshed at Erzer-
cum Is said to have been much more
serious than any reports previously
MADE public have pictured it, and it is
asserted that even the presence Of
Shakir Pasha with his troops failed
TO stop the massacre. The unresist-
Ing Armenian men, women and chit
9ren We're bludgeoned to death by hun
dreds on the streets
traveller who arrived here recentlv
from Irebizond says that he met he
tween Erzeroum and Baiburt 300 wo-
men VINO fell on their knees by the
!QaaslQe, lmploring protection. saving
tlelr husbands We're murdered and
5 1nat lhey were starving and homeless
Inc rising Of the Druses is extending
On an sldes and several villages of the
by fire. ~ GU
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-12
EDISON WINS.
His High Resistance Incandescent
Lamps No Infringement on Saw
yer-Mann.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE SUI
preme court today decided the import
ant case of the Consolidated Electric
Light company against McKeesport
Light company in favor Of the defend
ant. The court holds the Sawyer
Mann patent invalid. The decision
was handed down by Justice Brown.
The supreme court today rendered
the first decision on the merits in cases
appealed from the court private land
claims in confirming the New Mexico
land grant in the case of the United
States VS.. Juan Chavel ct AL The case
involves eleven square leagues of land
in Valencia county, N. NJ, comprising
the "Cubero grant The lower court
confil med the grant to Chavez and this
the decision of the supreme court af-
firms
The case of the Consolidated Eits,-
trio Light company against the Nc
keesport Light company involves the
claims of Sawyer e Mann and Thomas
A. Edison to priority in application Of
the principle of incandescence carbon
conductors made of fibrous or textile
substances to electric lighting. In 1887
the plaintiff company filed bill in the
United States circuit court for the
western district Of Pennsylvania for
an injunction to prevent the McKees-
port corporation from using the Edison
lights, on the ground that they were
with the Sawyer-Mann pat
snt. Judge Bradley, in an opinion de-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-12
ALTGELD's PLEA FOR UNITY.
Banks of the Ohio Should Not Sep
arate American Spirit.

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 1.-THE cap
ture of Georgia by an invading army
from Illinois was completed this morn
ing when the gallant First Regiment of
Chicago headed by Governor Altgeld
and staff on horseback. and escorted
by detachment of the Fifth Regiment
of Georgia volunteers, took possession
of the exposition grounds. The unfav-
orable weather did not seriously dam
pen the enthusiasm and there was
large crowd in the auditorium when
the formal exercises of Illinois day be-
gan at noon. The feature was a speech
of Governor Altgeld in response to the
address Of welcome.
Altgeld said: I'VE feel the time has
come when the rivers should no longer
be the dividing lines between civiliza-
tiors. or between different people of
this country; that whether a man stands
upon the north bank or on the south
bank of the Ohio, he should be sur
rounded by the same institutions. the
same civilization, the same spirit; that
not only should the citizens of this en-
tire republic stand under one flag,
but they should be actuated by the
same motives and the same high aim,
and struggle toward the same end
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-12
STRIKE DECLARED "oEE..

st. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. IA Devils
Lake, n. D., special to the Pioneer Press
SAYS: THE strike is off: This afternoon
A r. u lodge No. $50, embracing the
territory west to Leeds, east to Michi-
gan City from this point, met and de-
clared the strike off unconditionally'
RESOLUTIONS were published condemn
ing the road and also stating the new
men would not be molested or disturbed
In any manner by the members of the
A. r. U. The discharged men will go
to other points and seek situations. The
openly why they have so completely sur
rendered One of them, however. told
the whole story. when in repuy to this
inquiry he stated: Some one blundered."
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ivered October 5, 1889. refused to grant

livered October 5, 1889, refused to grant
the restraining order.
Justice Bradley, in his opinion IN toe
lower court, which the decision today
affirms, said that Sawyer & Mann
followed a wrong principle in their
work upon the incandescent lights;
ductor and a strong current The
great discovery, he declared, was the
adoption of high resistance in the con-
ductor with a small Illuminating sur
face and corresponding diminution
Of the strength of the current. The
credit for this discovery he gave to
Edison
Justice Brown read the decision of the
court The court did not enter upon the
merits of the claim that this patent was
itself with dealing with the amendments
to the patent. Justice Brown said in the
course of his opinion that the claims
made by Sawyer and Mann were too
broad, covering as they did, all fbrous
material, unless it could be shown that
the same general quality with respect to
their character as conductors could be
1t had been developed by the expert
ments made by Mr.. Edison on 5000 arti-
cies that there were comparatively few
Of these materials adapted to this pur
pose and it appeared that the Sawyer
Mann had abandoned other materials
and adopted the bamboo FIBRE, which
Edison's experiments have proved to be
Mann had only asked for patent on
the carbonized paper, the case would have
been different but as it was their claim
was not sufficiently specific.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-12
IN MEMoR1AM, EUGENE FIELD.

CHICAGO, Nov. 11-Memorial SER
services for Eugene Field were held
last evening at Central Music hall. An
hour before the meeting began the hall
was so crowded that the doors We're
closed and the hundreds that came
after o'clock were turned away being
unable to gain admission. In the au-
dience all grades of life were repre-
scented, anxious to do homage to the
memory of the gifted man. Rev. DR..
Gunsaulus made a brief plea for aid
to educate the children of the dead
poet and in short space of time $500
in money had been raised, and several
hundred more pledged for that pur-
pose. The services opened with sing
ing by the congregation and the choir,
after which DR.. Gunsaulus offered a
prayer and DR.. N. @. Hills spoke on
the dead poet at great length.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-12
BYRNES A BLACKMAILER.
CELEBRATED EX-POLICE CAPTAIN
AT LAST RUN DOWN.
Gambler Turns States Evidence and
Accuses Byrnes of Fleeing Him
Out of one-Fourth the Profits of
Keno Game.

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-The commits
sioners of accounts who have been in
vestigating transactions of the dock
board for some time turned today into
the field covered by the Lexow commit
tee, has brought forward testimony
which, for the first time, duplicates
Thomas Byrnes. the noted ex-superin-
tendent of police in the Matchmaking
scandals.
The accusing witness was Christian
W. Schaefer, an old man who testified
that he had kept gambling houses in
this city since 1857 and had known
Byrnes for a quarter of a century.
Shortly after the latter was appointed
captain of the Fifteenth precinct.
about 1872 or 1873, Captain Byrnes sent
for him. He begged Byrnes not to
trouble him that night. Byrnes replied
that he was king i'm that precinct. and
that the witness had presumed greatly
in running a, gambling house there.
Byrnes consented to wait until the
next day before taking action. The
witness went to see Sydney Nichols.
the police commissioner, and informed
him of Byrnes' threat Nichols saw
Byrnss and told him that if he closed
the witness place he would have to
close the other gambling places in his
PteChicl- IHe Witness place was not
disturbed. Afterward he saw Byrnes
again and said to him: while we
are making money we are willing that
others should" He made this PROPOSE
ton to Byrnes: That the latter should
receive one-fourth share of the profits
of the business, which was keno. 1t
was accepted. Thereafter the witness
regularly paid Byrnes personally each
month fourth share of the profits.
The partnership continued for ten
months during which he paid not less
than $1,000. Said Schaefer:
II kept a gambling house for twenty
years and had to pay the police nearly
all bhe time. Some of the captains did
not send wardmen around. These were
Washburn, Hadden and Saunders.
Caffery's wardmen came around It
was Sergeant Shoemaker and 1 also
paid Dunlap Williams wardman. 1
paid $50 a month which was the usual
price up to 1876 when the price was
raised to 800 a month";
Schafer told of paying Mclaughlin,
when the latter was acting chief of de-
tectives, 800 out of $3.50 taken from a
"squealer" and of a similar percentage
paid to the wardmen of ex-Inspector
Williams. His partner had paid ex-
Fire Commissioner John Scannell S10O
a month when Scannell was under
stood to be acting as collector for the
police. Schaefer testified that he had
been requested to keep away from the
city during the Lexow Investigation
and had eyaded summons.
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CONVICTED OF MURDER,
Shea's PaE,ents Create an Affecting
Scene as the Prisoner Was Sem
fenced.

TROY, N. Y, Nov 11-"Pat" Shea
who was convicted of the murder of
Robert Ross at the polls on March 6,
1894. was brought from Dannamora
prison today that date might be fixed
by the court for carrying out the SEN
tence of death. So large crowd gath
cred at the PIattsburg depotsto see him
that the troops from the army post had
to be called upon TO keep the people
back. Shea was handcuffed to a keep
er. When asked by Justice Edward:
rs there any legal reason against the
sentence imposed upon you" Shea an
swered in a firm voice: THE only rea-
son I've got is that I'm innocent of
the crime I'm charged with"
Judge Edwards sentenced him to be
executed during the week commencing
Monday, Dec. %.
Shea's aged parents, his two sisters
and his sweetheart, were in the throng.
When Shea was led into the court
room the women crowded around him,
crying bitterly and trying to hold the
prisoner in their arms.