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The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16
HAVEN JOURNAL COURIER THURSDAY 16

what public opinion regarded as a mira
 cle. If the miracle occurred he was ab-
 solved. There are examples Of ordeals
 in the Mosaic law but they are not of
 extreme stringency. An authority not
 more recondite than Lingard gives the
 early English usage. First came three
 days of preparation by fasting and
 prayer (and conceivably by some very
 different method). On the solemn day,
 a caldron was made to boil in church, and a stone was placed apparently in
 the boiling water. Two juries of twelve men each were present in the interests
 of accuser and accused. Both sides tested the water; If both agreed that 1t did boil the accused plunged his bare arm in and took out the stone. His arm was then wrapped in a cloth and
 sealed up. On the third day the priest inspected the limb; if it was perfectly healed" the accused got off, Clearly in this ordeal the testing representative of the accused may have been tempered with. The other method, with similar preparations, was the carrying of red-hot bar of iron for the distance of three steps; the hand was then sealed up and examined, ass before. Here the original test is more stringent. It has been suggested, naturally that, as many persons escaped scatheless, the clergy had "a. secret for curing rapidly, or for preventing the burn. Lingard argues that such a secret must at least have been known to exist, and a dis Hnguished modern chemist has avowed his own ignorance of any adequate method of preventing "a burn or scald. Tn 1174 one John Senex was condemned, on an unsuccessful appeal, to the boil ing water. Tn all cases. the accused had been brought in guilty by a jury, and even if he succeeded in the ordeal. he was often banished. Success was only an 'fattenuating circumstance" and sham ordeaIs may have been winked at.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16
STRIKING.

When lightning strikes it admits of no arbitration.-Texas Siftings.
 Jones' Brown-Why do you go into so- ciety? Brown-Jones-To find a wife. And you? s-Brown-To get away from one.-Life.
 q have observed" said Miggs, that sound has a great deal to do with the effectiveness of lawn mowers. It al- ways takes the man with the noisiest mower longest to trim the lawn. n.--Cleve- land Plain Dealer.
 She-It must be terrible for a man when he is married to have to ask his wife for money. He-There is some thing far worse. She-What is that? He-Suppose she hasn't any to give him.-Detroit Free Press.
 The little Boston boy was so plainly puffed up with juvenile vanity that the visitor noticed it. Robert seems un- usually proud to-day" she said. Yes" the fond mother answered, The has on his first pair of spectacles."- Indianapolis Journal.
 "This hasn't sign of clam in it." said the guest who had ordered clam chowder, 'It's swindle: that's what it is." Excuse me, sir" responded the waiter, who is too good for that busi- ness, ''but we only undertake to serve a chowder; not an aquarium. Life.
 Aren't you starting rather early" inquired the visitor, "to put that young boy of yours forward as a candidate for United States senator?" "You don't know my ambition" said the fond Dela- ware parent proudly. T mean that he shall be elected before his eightieth birthday. ."-Chicago Journal.
 The Cheerful Idiot.-Do you know, Amaryllis," asked the cheerful idiot, why the letter s is like the presenta- ton of a cigar to a colored gentleman?" The waiter girl gave it up. 1T will tell you, Angeline," continued the Cheerful Idiot. Tt is because 1t makes the moke smoke" Journal
 An Imminent Proposal.--Mrs. Smith
 II think it dreadful that your divorce laws in America should be so much more lenient than they are in Eng land. MT. Van Renssalaer-Well, you see, my dear madam, in England di- vorce is a luxury-while with us it Is --er-a necessity l-Boston Budget.
 The minister forgot to perform his duty at the proper time, but remember cd the omission just before entering the pulpit to preach. The result was that he announced: "I publish the banns of marriage between John M, and Elizabeth NJ, splnster;" md then, without pause or introduce tory of any kind, he read out the text ,f his sermon: And the last state of hat man Is worse than the first"
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try has accommodated itself to the change.
 National highway robbery is the only term to be applied to such monstrous and criminal folly. A party seeking to reduce by one-half all the fixed values of a country should be regarded as a party of cut-throats and traitors. To force their measure will certainly lead to civil war and to a disruption of the country. That each state has a right to do its banking as 1t pleases is one of the constitutional rights which the democratic party incorporated into It's platform, and then betrayed. Had the party been faithful to its trust, the craze would mot have started, or at the most have been limited to local and state issues.
 D. CADY EATON. New Haven, May 15, 1885,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16

Some one with nothing else to do has investigated the way in which 100 men in fiction are represented as pro- posing. Seventy-two hold the lady's hand, seventeen hold it very tightly, fourteen have Jumps in their throat and nine exclalm aloud: '"Thank heavensp' Only seven out of 100 declare them selves to be deliriously happy, and five are too full for utteranoe. Three out of 100 stand on their feet when they make a proposal, and two go down on one knee, while nine make formal prelude-something like the slow music in the play, when the villain appeals to heaven to witness the consuming flame of his affections for the heart he plots to ruin. etc. The behavior of the lady under the circumstances is equally entertaining and instructive. Out of 100 cases eighty-one sink into the arms of the gentleman, sixty-eight rest their heads on the gentleman's breast, and only one sinks into the arms of a chair; eleven clasp their arms around the gentleman's neck. six weep tears of joy silently, and forty four weep tears aloud-whatever that means; seventy-two have eyes full of love and nine out of 100 rush from the room and tell everybody. Only four are greatly surprised, and eighty-seven out of 100 knew that something was coming. Five giggle hysterically. and one even sneezes. Only one of 100 strug- gles not to be kissed, while six kiss gen. tlemen first.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16
THE sILHER CRAZE.
What the Scheme Really Is.


 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER; The prevalence of the silver craze shows how widespread and deep-rooted is 8 very pernicious notion of the char acter of the government of the United States. The idea that the government is objective, away from and apart from the people; something foreign to them out of which money is to be made with impunity; something of the nature of an enemy to be plundered, or to be abused for personal profit; something from which a person may receive without in- curing obligation of return and to which false representations may be made without sense of guilt, is the sad dest and most dangerous notion of the day.
 That the pension laws are partly re- sponsible for the birth and growth of this notion is evident.
 A recipient of pension cannot enter tain towards his government those sen timents which should be paramount in republic. There is no longer between him and it unity of interest. He is set off over against it. He is interested in it's paying, not in it's saving; in it's ex- travagance, not in its economy. The proper position of the pensloner is to be
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- 7777777777777777 "ORDEALS."

Some Interesting Ones and What They
 Amounted to.
 In U French periodical, Revue des Traditions Populaires, M. Rene Basset is publishing a curious set of papers on Ordeals. Now, the ordeal is, as our an- cestors said, an appeal to the judgment of God. They preferred to ascertain this verdict by the duel, but there were other methods. The accused had. in brief, to place himself in jeopardy from which he could only escape by
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16

of the raw products of the world would be assembled during this generation,
 and they therefore proposed to the
 foreign ministers and representatives of the various countries who had ex-
 hibits at Chicago that, if they could se- cure the cooperation of the Quaker City they would endeavor to keep in
 tact a permanent commercial exposi-
 tion. These foreign representatives generally considered the matter favor ably, with the result that magnificent collection of samples of raw products was obtained from this source. A rep has since visited the Ant werp Exposition and the various mu- seums of Europe to complete what is said to be the most comprehensive and extensive permanent commercial expo sition of the raw and semt-raw products in existence.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16
Advertising Katea.

Situations. Wants, Rents and other small ad- vertisements. One Cent a Word each inser- ton. Five cents word for aefullweek (seven times).
 Display Advertiseme ents-Per inch, one 1nS ic eertion. $1 20: each subsequent insertion, 40 cents; one week, $s.2Oi one month, SlO; one year, $40.
 Obituary notices, in prose or verse, l5 cents per line. Notices of Births, Marriages, Deaths and Funerals, 50 cents each. Local notices, lb cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own tionabIel. and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
 Discounts-On two Inches or more, one month and over, 10per cent; on four lncnes or more, one month and over, 15 per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16
sO1rU eREAr DIsCoYEBrES.

If the discoverers of cures for disease are on the right track and if the anil mals hold out we may soon be able to defy death. Horses are already pitted against diphtheria, mules against cry sipelas, and another important discov- cry in the same line has just been an- noqnced to the French Academy of Sci ence. Doctors Reclus and Terrier have found a serum capable of curing can cers and cancerous tumors. Several supposed hopeless cases have been com pletely cured. The patients are treated with serum obtained from the blood of dogs previously inoculated with a can cerous fluid. What will come next re- mains to be seen. Perhaps extract of flea will be given to cure nervousness and extract of bedbug, cure sleepless- ness.
 All the scientists are not, however, en- gagged in curing man through animals. pr. M. Goviansky, Russian physician has been trying to find something that will kill the tiend Chat turks in the ex-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16


 The dress of to-day's sketch is up to the requirements of most women's showiest gowning, although it is not low cut. Dark green silk lined with pale blue silk gives the plain wide skirt, and the waist is of pale blue chiffon draped over a fitted lining and richly trimmed with black jet, or span gles will also do for this ornamentation. Either should be used in wide bands, with fringes over the shoulders and nar- rover bands down the front, the cuffs being entirely of the jet or spangles. The sleeve puffs are very voluminous, and the high but plain stock collar is covered with jet or spangle embroidery. The proper handkerchief Is a small square of very delicate linen, with a deep handstitched hem and a letter or initial either very tiny or very large and elaborate in one corner, Whether large or smaM the lettering must be of the very finest handwork and as smooth one side as the other Such a handker- chief is the only wear for any but the most leaborate evening use.
 FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16

By means of a recent invention the blind are enabled to write with facility, using the ordinary Roman alphabet The invention is described as a hinged metal plate with square perforations arranged in parallel lines, inside of which the stylus is moved in making the letters
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16

United States Senator Lindsay of Kentucky is out strongly against the tree coinage of silver. He said that flor the United States independently to attempt the free coinage of silver would result in the expulsion or retire ment of our gold from circulation, grad ually to be replaced by the coinage of an inferior money that would place us at a, disadvantage in the exchange mar ket, ''Free coinage at any ratio low enough to bring us to the single silver standard" he said, twill create an ad- ditional barrier between the farmers and planters of the United States and those to whom they must sell their surplus wheat, cotton, and tobacco, if they sell it at all. It is the mission of the Democratic party to remove ob- structions to commerce, not to create them. Freer trade has been the Demo- cratic watchword throughout our twenty years of war upon Republican Instructions in the way of protective tariff laws"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16

Some of the foremost business men of Philadelphia have for more than a year been busying themselves in mak- ing arrangements for a permanent commercial exhibition in that city on the general plan of such foreign com mercia1 museums as the imperial h. stitute of London and the Brussels AIu- scum. The conception of this enter prise was the result of a conference between several Philadelphians in Chicago during the last week of the Columbian Exposition. They did not think another such complete collection
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16

What judicious advertising may do for business is illustrated by the sue cess of a business concern of which Major Moses P. Handy tells. It has a nominal capital of $16O,0OO, only $90,- 900 of which is paid in, but has divided dn single year among three partners profits to the amount of $T50,000, ex- elusive of large salaries drawn by mem bers of the firm. One of these partners was g. drug clerk on small salary in a Western town, ten years ago. Now he is New York millionaire. with out newspaper advertising" he says, sT might have made a living, but 1t was advertising that made me rich, and advertising a very simple com 1nodity at that"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16

Major Jed Hotchkiss of Virginia, in talk about the battle of Fredericksburg before the National Geographical so- ciety the other evening, expressed the opinion that the famous stone wall wher the southern riflemen checked the advance of the Irish brigade was prob ably the scene of the greatest slaught- CT during the civil war.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16

The, Chinese emperor rises ab 4 every morning and studies English and Man chu until 5, and then the man chews his breakfast.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16
FASHION NOTES.
A RestriotIon for Rrldes.


 The latest pretty freak of fashion is that a bride shall in evening dress be modestly covered about the shoulders and neck. Not for a year or so after her marriage may she appear in the blaze of low necked attire. Tn deference to this, the evening gowns of choicest trousseaus are being made with ex- treme simplicity. There is a fancy, too, for rich cloth and for delicate shades of ivory, gray smoke-blue and dull green, rosy colors and white being avoided. A very handsome trousseau evening gown has plain skirt that just clears the ground all around of ivory gray broad cloth that has all the lustre and more softness than silk. The great puff sleeves of the bodice are of dull blue satin. their fitness all coming below the shoulder. Smoothness is given to the shoulder by the wide epaulettes of gray satin that extend in narrowing revers to the waist line and are edged with close. set spangles of blue, gray. silver and green. Between the reyers, over the bust and to the waist there are soft folds of mirror chiffon, show
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Notice.

wecannot accept anonymous or return re- iected communications. In all cases the name of the writer will be required not for pubnca- ton. but as guarante good fa1th.
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sandow is pretty strong, but he isn't as strong as New Haven water.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16

Digging up a coffin in order to obtain memoirs of the first Napoleon is the latest. That was done, it is said, for those of PIanat de la Faye, his orderly officer, which were recently published, His widow had only three copies of the memoirs printed, and deposited one in Ter husbands coffin, after having it exhumed with great trouble. When she died she left directions that the book should be printed from the other two copies. but as they could not be found the executors were obliged to take out and open the coffin again, and it is from that copy that the book was printed,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16

A club steward in London was recent ly convicted and fined for putting s.Moet ct Chandon" labels on bottles of inferior champagne. The walters had genuine corks in their pockets to satisfy suspicious club members; while for those who could tell the wine by the haste, the real article was first supplied, and as they drank, the inferior wine was substituted. None of the club members detected the fraud.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-01-23
BrlLDINe ASSOCIATIONS.

The suggestions OF the Governor in
he message regarding the necessity OF
throwing safeguards about Tire manage
mani OF building and loan associations,
are well worth the careful attention Of
the Legislature.
Asthe Governor points out this is an
era Of building and loan associations,
and these Institutions when hou-
es,ly and conserystivsly managed, a,e
~ great and peculiar benefit to the
,aonle. hut when rot so managed cause
Great and lasting harm, since the peo-
ple they deal with do not, as a rule,
understand the details Of business and
are unable TO bear financial losses
Al present any company o; men may
organize q building and loan associa-
,,on in West Virginia without question
a. n whether they possess capital,
honestv or business experience. Con-
s.o,eptly many concerns have been or
.snizsd without any Of these requisites,
bsva advertised largely, sent cut agents,
I'D gathered in thousands OF dollars,
w,,cb the shareholders have never seen
lin Oftenar money is taken in and in
s,a.d Of being properly invested is
so,s,dsred in large salaries and reck-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-01-23
TIE HOTEL REGISTER.
Anecdotes and Personals of Those VIII,
Are Stopping in the City

Anecdotes and Personals of Those Who
Are Stopping in the City
w. w. Dickson, postoEice inspector,
is at the Mcclure.
c. w. Ash, OF Parkersburg, registered
at the Mcclure yesterday.
John Splan, of Cleveland, a we'll
known horseman, is at the Mcclure.
VAN KEUREN.-Charles Jones, of Sar-
dis, o., f. Il. Reynolds, Of Detroit,
Mich.
VIM. Mcpherson and Mrs. McPher.
son, Of ClaysviIle, were at the Stamm
yesterday.
A. G. Smith, OF Nashville, Tenn; G..
A. Shoup, St. Joseph, Mo-, are glass
buyers at the Mcclure.
John }. Carter, OF the Carter Oil Com
pany, Titusvlle, Pa, was Windsor
arrival yesterday.
j. A. Steltenkamp, of Cincinnati,
General Passenger Agent Of the Louis
Vile and Nashville Railway, is a. the
Mcclure.
WIYDsoR.-C. B. Chancellor, OF Par
kersburg; e.. ID. Bland, of Sistersvilie;
o. II. Stapleton and WIN. III. Cox, OF
Parkersburg.
SrAMM.-F. f. Fnrbee, OF Middle
bourne; q. Il. Stathers, OF Alma; J. O.
Brooks, OF Moundsvile; d. w. Hardesty,
OF Rowesburg; John c. Palmer, OF
Wellsburg.
BEHIER. P Bradley, of New Cum
bertrand: G.. B. Turner, OF Little Wild
Cat, w. Va; j. i. Newman aud Lon
Sidell, OF L,ttIeton, w. Va; w. A.
Smith, OF Smithtield, w. Va.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-01-23
Terms Easy. For sale only by
SMALL TALE
Minor Matters or Interest Briefly and
PlthiIy Told

Minor Matters or Interest BrIsny and
PlthiIy Told
JOHN T. KING yesterday qualified as
executor of the will OF Elizabeth Hyd-
niger, deceased. Bond, 5000; no
security required.
ENsHETMER e Co. are remodeling
the interior Of their store on Eleventh
street, which will be much improved
when the changes are made.
A MARRIAGE license was issued yes
tsrdsy to Wm. 4. Hubbell, a native OF
Cincinnati. aged %, and Halle Nice.
Whitteker, a native of Woodland, w.
Va, aged 25.
A lady whose name could not be
learned slipped and fell on the ice in
front of Ewing Bros, on Market street,
yesterday afternoon, and severely in
jured her head
The W. A. Club held meeting at
Miss Alice Martins, on Chapiine street,
last night. They have changed their
name TO the Rosette Club. Morris
band made the N usic.
ALL Democratic voters of the First
ward are called to meet at the club
room at No. 2O4 Main street, at eight
o'clock sharp this evening. Business
of Importance will be transacted.
A DEED was left for record at Clerk
Hooks Office, yesterday, by X. w.
Hamm to A. S. Arbenz, for one half in
terest in the stock Of furniture, etc, at
No. 1866 Main street. Consideration,
S911.46.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-01-23
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
What is Going On Among the Eosts and
BoRtmen.

What is Going On among the Goats and
BoRtmen.
There were Il feet OF water in the
channel last night Rising slowly.
The Hudson and Keystone State we're
both behind time yesterday. Both had
good trips.
The Ark and Onward passed down
Yesterday with lows Of coal.
Specia. 10 ne p giS,sr.
PARKERsBURG, w. VA, January %.
River 10 feet feet and rising. Weather,
clear and cold.
WARREN, PA, January 22.-River, l
foot and rising; weather, cold with light
snow.
OIL CITY, PA, January 22.-River, 3
feet aDd-rising; weather, cold and
showing.
GREENsBoRo. PA, January %
River, 10 feet and rising; weather.
colder and light snow falling.