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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-20
THE FINAL COUNT.
LATEST RETURNS TRom TBH
CLOSEST STATES.
VOTES FOR M'KlNLEY, 272
Votes for Bryan, 175-statcs for tha
RepubIfcan Candidate, 22-Sta1sa
for the Democratic Candidate. "a
Kentucky Divided.

WASHINGTON. November i9.-In(
latest returns from Kentucky, WyomiEgs
the Dakotas, and other close States give
Bryan one vote in Kentucky, the three
votes OF Wyoming. and the four votes OF
South Dakota. In the last-named state
the Bryan electors have only ig votes
more than the Mckinley electors In
Wyoming. the lowest Bryan eIector u
66 ahead Of the highest Mckinley elector.
In this State. as well as In Kentucky,
the official canvass may change the re-
suit. The electoral table now stands:
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-20

The No. OF the Dispatchs new phone
IS 1853. Patrons Will please note this.
The old phone No. is l5S.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-20

Coughing Is at once stopped by Dr.
Bulls Cough svruo. Keep II always In
the house.
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FOR MKINLEY.

California ..s... ....s. .'.-.s- 80 :
Connecticut ........ -....s s''sss s''''s
Delaware 80. 80 '''s'''''
ILLINOIS .......s.s .ssss ss.+sssss's'-s =.
Indiana sss.s-.s s'.''.ss ''''''' ~
Iowa. ...... s..s.s s'ssss's -
Kentucky ...... ........ ..s..ss s'''-''s -
Maine ...... .s.........s ...sss s's'''''
Maryland ....... 1900. .''.s'''.'s'''
Massachusetts .......... ......... ...'.'. -
Michigan -. ..'s's'.ssss''s''' -
New Hampshire .........'. s..'''''
New Jersey ........ .....'.. '.s'.ss'''''.'' ~
New York;. ...... .... .-''''.ss's'. So
North Dakota ..s.. .........'' '.'.'s''''
Ohio 1880. ........ .s'.s..s s'''s's's'sss' -
oregon ............. .......ss' s''''''' $50 =,
Pennsylvania ....... ..s...'s'.'s ''ss'' =
Rhode Island .......... .'.-'.'''''''
Vermont ........... ........ ....s'''' -
West Virginia ......''..''''' =
Wisconsin ........-....... '"-..'''' ''''' - -
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The weather.

- WASHINGTON. November t9.-Fore.
cn ,ast for Virginia: Threatening
oolp weather. with occasional light
showers; decidedly colder; north
erly winds.
For North and South Carolina: Gener.
allv fair weather. followed by increasing
sloudiness. and probably with showers in
the interior; colder in the interior; SOUTH
erly winds. becoming northerly.
The wEArHHE IN RICHMOND yssrrRDAH
was clear aud warm. followed by threaten
inc clouds and falling temperature in the
evening.
State of Thermometers
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-04
BARGAINS IN COFFINS.
The Undertaken Talks shop" at . SOcii
Function

The Undertaken Talks SHOP at = Socia
Function.
To the little squad of personally con
ducted" tourists from the east who
were present at the last meeting OF the
Hawville Debating society h most in
teresting portion of the evenings pro-
gramme was the Interpolation by Prof.
Potter, the enterprtsing undertaken.
The subject for discussion was RE
solved, That rum has wrought more
misery to humanity than war, pes
thence and famine" and the debate had
progressed smoothly for some time
when the professor arose in his place
and begged the indulgence of the meet
ing while he made a few remarks
which, if not absolutely apropos of the
subject under consideration, were in
spired by sundry solemn thoughts
which had risen in his breast while
he had beef listening to the forceful
and eloquent u~tterances of b various
speakers.
The freedom of h occasion having
been granted him by the chairman, the
professor went on to state that the
mention of rum, war, pestilence and
famine had brought with terrible dis
tinctness to his mind, us it had doubt
less done to the minds of all the cul-
tured and refined persons within the
sound of his voice, the fact that gur-r-
rim death stalks constantly among us
seeking whom he may devour, in the
beautiful language of the psalmist.
"He is ever in our midst, as 1t were,"
continued the speaker, in cultural
tones, t.striking down young and old,
rich and poor, with his hand of c
To-day we are yerc, tomorrow we
know not whur we are at! The strong
man rejoiceth in his strength and say
eth: 'Ha! hal quite q good deal, and as
likely as O is snatched hence before
he can calculate Turkey We hain't
none of us safei And, in this connec
ton, ladies and gentlemen, I'll say
that l nave jest received a large con-
signment of collins and caskets of The
latest and most popular eastern styles,
which / am to dispose of at greatly re-
duced rates. wholly regardless of cost.
let the chips fall whur they may!
81 yereby invite you all, old and
young, great and small, to visit my
undertaken p~arlors, next door south of
the Palace Livery stable, and examine
the marvellous bargains 1 am offerin'
in the largest and best selected line OF
fashionable snrcophagi ever shown to
the Hawville piblic. And I feel sure,
ladies and gentlemen, that you will be
as thoroughly convinced as 1 am that
it can't help being big money in your
pockets to take advantage of this un-
precedented drive in collins, while yet
the lamp holds out to burn. so to speak.
No trouble to show goods, whether
you want to buy or not. That is all I
have to say, aides and gentlemen.
Much obliged for your kind attention."
After the professor had subsidized the
debate proceeded to a successful con-
summation with h victory for the
champion of rum.-N, Y. World.
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Strange as it may seem, remarks a
writer on metalloIds, chemically pure
iron is of no use to the manufacturer
it being the impurities in iron which
make it the most valuable and impor-
tant of metals. These impurities are
metallOids, and of particular interest to
b foundryman are such metalloids
as carbon, silicon, manganese, sulphur,
phosphorus. and n good foundry pig
iron should contdin from 1925 t o 3.5 per
cent. of carbon, from 3 to 1925 per cent,
of silicon and from 5 to IS per cent. OF
manganese, though the phosphorus
may run as high as l per cent, but sui
phur not to exceed .O5 per cent. The
blast furnace that supplies the pig iron
to the foundryman is supposed to an
alyze it's iron, and the fo~undryman, if
he carries IN his operations accord
ing to modern practices, orders iron
with reference to carbon, silicon and
manganese suited to the nature of the
metal it is desired to put into the cast
ing.-San Francisco Scientific Press.
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: BEWARE IN TIME.@|Ths first acute tWinge Of
SCIATICA w ii min
use ST. JACOBS OIL. g Ps: ss $ T s - JxT !. sa: "a

party brought back trophies worth 5o.-
900 rupees, having left the wilderness
of India CHASTITY with the slain bodies
of wild beasts. Would to God that in
stead of here and there a straggler 60
ing out to fight these great monsters
of iniquity in our country, the million
membership of our churches would
band together and hew in twain these
great crimes that make the land fright
full with their roar, and are fattened
upon the bodies and souls of immortal
menl Who is ready for such a party Is
that? Who will be a mighty hunter for
the Lord?
remark, again, If you want to be a
success in spiritual archery, you need
not only bring dow h game, but
bring it in. 1 think n of the o
beautiful pictures of Thorwaldsen lie
his Autumn" 1t represents a sports.
man coming home and standing under
a grape vine. He has a staff over his
shoulder, and on the other n of that
staff are hung a rabbit and a brace OF
birds. Every hunter brings home the
game. No one would think of bring
ing down a reindeer or whipping up a
stream for trout, and letting them lie
in the woods. At eventide the camp
adorned with the treasures of the
fo~rest-beak, and fin, and antler. If
you go out to hunt for immortal souls,
not only bring them down under the
arrow of the Gospel, but bring them
into the church of God, the encamp-
ment we have pitched this side of the
skies. Fetch them in; do not let them
lie out in the open field They need
our prayers and sympathies and help.
That is the meaning of the Church Of
~God-help. O., We hunters for the
Lord, not only bring down the game.
but bring it in.
Oil for a closer walk with God.
A calm and heavenly frame,
A light that shines upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb.
1 am sure that there are some he.
who at some time have been hit by the
Gospel arrow. You felt the wound of
that conviction and you plunged into
the world deeper; just as the stag.
when the hounds are after 1t, plunges
into Scroon lake. expecting In that
way to escape. Jesus Christ Is on your
track to-day. impenitent mani not in
wrath, but in mercy. o We chased and
painting soulsl here is the stream OF
Gods mercy and salvation, where you
may cool your thirst Stop that chase
of sin to-day. By the red foun-
tain that leaped from the heart of my
Lord, 1 bid you stop. Is there In all
this house anyone who can refuse the
offer that comes from the heart Of the
dying Son of God? Why, do you know
that there are, in the banished world,
souls that, for that offer you get to.
day, would fling the crown of the
universe at your feet, If they possessed
it? But they went out on the noun.
tains, the storm took them, and they
dad
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Why Spider. Are Not Kept for SILK.

At one time it was seriously proposed
to keep spiders for the silk they would
produce, Reaumer, the scientist, of
thermometrical fame. was appointed to
make an investigation of the spider silk
question. In his report he said that he
found that 1904 silk worms would pro-
duce one pound of silk in a given time;
and he considered the work of IL spiders
only equal to n silkworm. At that
rate. 27,64s spiders would do no more
than 1904 silkworms. Furthermore,
1T was found hat there are 5000 sepa-
rate filameRts in q single spider thread,
and that the males are not workers.
After summing up his Investigations ho
found that 1926 spiders would have
10 be kept in order to get as much silk
as 1904 silkworms would produce. That
report was the deathblow to the pro-
posed spider silk industry.-Chicago
Inter Ocean,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-04
HIS PRIDE WAS WOUNDED.
indian Fighter who Found an Unappre
cfative TonsoriaI Artist.

Indian Fighter Who Found an UnapPre-
ciative TonsoriaI Artist.
The man who was next as / tool
a chair in the barber shop had hair
down on his shoulders, the regulation
cowboy hat, and at the end of his
watch chain dangled the claw of a griz-
Fly bear.
The barber who was shaving me
looked the man over, but didn't say
anything, but after a bit the other OBJ
served:
"Quite a change from Indian terri
tory to New York city"
you have been out west, eh?"
Eyes. sir"
Hunting rabbits?"
"Rabbitsl No, sir; Indians"
"Ohl Find any?"
"You betl L nave seven scalps in my
trunk"
Eyes. What did they cost you
apiece?"
"Cost mel" shouted the wild and
woolly. "Why, hang it, I was wounded
in three ~placesl"
"Gun go off accidentally?
"No, it didn't! What sort of a man
are you, anyhow"
BEG pardon, but can they raise arti-
chokes out there?"
"Arti-Halifax! Why didn't you ask
hOw many Indians I killed at Wounded
Knee?"
Anybody wounded in the knee out
there?" asked the barber. as he reached
for the bay rum. Bad place to be
wounded in. I broke my knee-cap
once. Nexti"
"Not by a joyful" exclaimed the
waiting man, as he reached for his
o~vercoat. 81 was intending to have a
hair cut, shave and get my whiskers
dyed, but you're not the man to do it.
I'll &c to some shop where they know
something and nav gumption enough
to draw n Teller out."-Detroit Free
Press.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-04
QUEER WEDDING.
A Woman Forced to Wed Before She Was
Amo~ad tn Iaave tho 6tato.

a Woman Forced to Wed Before She Was
Allowed to Leave tho State.
A wedding of the most remarkable
nature occurred on board the steamship
Australia in the course of her recent trip
to Australia. The bride was Miss Vina
King, a native of the Hawaiian islands,
and the groom was Tom Cottrell, n
colored carpenter of Honolulu. The
former has been in this country for
some months, travelling about making
her living as a dancer in music halls on
the Pacific coast, while the man WIS
in this country ON pleasure bent He
worked as ships carpenter on board the
Austria in return for his passage. The
pair had not met ach other when the
ship arrived at Honolulu.
When the young woman attempted to
and the surveyor of the port recognized
her and vigorously objected. 1t seems
she had in years gone by served three
months in the Hawaiian prison for ell
Gaging in a row with some friends at a
picnic, and under the laws of the islands
she was regarded as IN objectionable
character" Once having left the islands
she was not to be allowed 10 return.
Vina's friends began to work in her be-
half, and it was discovered that the law
could not separate man and wife, so it
was agreed. If possible, to have her mar
ried at once. A volunteer in the person
of Tom Cottrell, the colored carpenter,
was found. The groom was obliged to
work all day. and when he quit was
not given q chance to prepare for the
wedding. He was hustled down to the
wharf in his shirt sleeves.
The galley was the scene of the cere-
mony, and a native minister made Vina
King Mrs. Tom Cottrell- The crew
looked upon the ceremony as huge
sport, and when 1t was over gave three
cheers that aroused the city. They
simply showered the couple with rice.
The wife dressed in the height of fash
ion, led the way down the plank, fol-
lowed by her ill-attired husband. At
the bottom of the plank Mrs. Cottrell
turned to say something, but as she
opened her mouth a lad on the deck, by
a well-directed throw, filled it with
rice. She had closed the mouths of the
officers who protested against her land
ing, however, and was happy.-Detroit
Free Press.
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FOREIGN GOSSIP.

1t turns hi that the British post Of
fee deducts from the wages of it's en-
ployes the amount of the Christmas
boxes given to them. These amount in
the city of London alone to $4,000 a
year. some of the men obtaining as much
as SIPS each. In tipping them, however,
the rich city firms are really tipping the
government.
The question of experiments with
germ-destroying filters is now under
the consideration of the government of
India. Some large cnntonments, in
which typhoid has been, or is, prevalent,
will probably be selected, and a COM
plete installation of filters will be made
in such places.
"A Bengal artist of Calcutta has pre-
pared a map of the world according to
the ancient Hindus. The artist has en-
HANGED the interest of the map by the
explanatory descriptive account of it,
which will form a valuable help to the
study of ancient geography, according
TO the Hindu rishis.
The penny-in-the-slot gas meters
are such a success in London. that one
company is taking in over a ton of pen
mics n day and is behind in its orders to
h extent of 16, 200 machines. The con-
sumer pays in advance, and is satisfied
that he gets h worth of his money, and
the company does a cnsh business with
very light expenses.
The narrow Baltic seas have a worse
record for wrecks than any other por-
ton of the globe. The annual number
of such casualties exceeds one a day,
ranging from 425 to 154, Inc in one-half
of these cases all the crews were lost.
In the four years from 1877 to 1881, no
less than 700 lives were lost there.
British jewelers. have cIeverly con-
trived not only to overcome in large
part the ancient superstition as to the
bad luck attending the opal, but even
to give it some reputation as a lucky
stone. The result Is that opals are o
popular now than ever before, and their
price has risen, especially in the case of
those that are distinguished for brilliant
flame tiHts.
The greatest corporation on earth
is said to be the London & Northwestern
Railway company of England. 1t has a
capital of $685.. 100000 and a revenue of
$4,000 an hour; has $500 engines and en-
ploys 0O.0oo men. Everything is made
by the company-bridges, engines, rails,
carriages, wagons and an innumerable
lot of other things; ven o scuttles
and wooden limbs for the injured of it's
staff. Repairs to the permanent way
cost $3.50, 900 a month.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-04
HIS CURIOSITY AROUSED.
The Innkeeper Was Also Aroused and Il
Tourists Moved Away.

The Innkecper Was Also Arouse and the
Tourists Moved Away.
Edison George Thompson, proprietor
and publisher of the St. Paul Dispatch,
was at the capital one day recently.
81 was travelling through England
and Ireland on foot with a knapsacl
on my back and in company with a
facetious friend of mine named Nor
%rison,' observed Mr.. Thompson in the
course of a conversation hat touched
on a miscellany of subjects. and in
our ~wanderings we came to an inn.
at was late at night, but by the
bright moonlight we were enabled to
see that the sign had u counterfeit
~presentment of two asses heads, with
this not unfamiliar legend inscribed
owe h picture;
"'When shall we three meet again? ?
I'VE stood for a moment gazing at
it, when Morrison went to the inner
door and began to thump upon 1t with
his cane While the echoes rang through
the house.
II vas just going to e~xpostulate with
him over his unseemly conduct when
an upper window was thrown open
and the innkeeper thrust out his head
and, in an indignant tone, demanded
what in the name of all the demons
under the earth we wanted.
That's all right, old man. Don't
get excited called up my friend.
There are only two asses heads on
the sign, and I just wanted to e the
ether one
"And with that we started up the
road."-Washington Post.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-04
THE CONDUCTOR GOT LEFT.
Extraordinary Predicament which Kept
the Passengers Guessing.

AS@A hAh NhACh nCPA
the Passengers Guessing.
The Shore Line express from Boston
for New York had left Attleboro, Mass,
and was rushing towards Providence.
The train was 25 minutes late. Sud
denly the brakes were applied.
Dodgeville, the next village, was
almost reached when the train
stopped. and most of the men jumped
out to discover the cause. None of
them were successful. The train be
gan to back, and it kept on backing;
the Man Who Knows Everything said:
"Killed somebody. Going back for
the body. Always do that" But the
train still kept on backing.
Must be jelly all over the track at
this rate. Must have struck him way
back"
The train still kept on backing. BY
this time ever the women were aching
to get out and hunt for reasons.
mo, can't be that. / have it," said
the man. There's n freight wreck on
the track, and the engineer got the sig
nal to go back and take another
route"
Finally Attleboro came in sight,
and the train backed up to the station.
Men dropped off the train and hunted
up the nearest railroad man. who's
killed." anybody hurt in the
wreck? % "WiIl it make us very late? ?"
they asked.
Say, what are you giving us?"
asked the railroad man. Their amt
nobody killed"
Chorus-"What's up, then?"
1.-The conductor got left" And
when the conductor appeared on his
next trip through the train he had to
run the gauntlet of n whole trainful of
highly amused passengers. The
brakeman explained that this wasn't
the first conductor who had been left
because the engineer had mistaken the
motion of some platform louDger for
the conductors signal, and pulled ont
his train without its boss.-N.Y World.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-04
PLANT WONDERS.
Myths and Mysteries of the Vegetable
World.

Myths and Mysteries of the Vegetable
World.
Now and again one reads accounts
OF a startling tree which possess Ger.
tain attributes of the cutie fl n. This
tree is, according to report, furnished
with branches 1.-THE as whip lashes and
provided with suckers. If a man or
beast takes shelter under it these little
arms bend down and fatally imprison
him; he is hauled up into the tree and
gradually absorbed. The fiction prob
ably arose from some imaginative pei
son reading Darwin's account of car
nivorous trees.
Then there was n tale of a wonderful
lamb, half animal, half vegetable. This
little lamb IA said to grow ON n stem
about three feet high; it turned about
and bent its head TO the heritage and
fed upon it. The foundation for this
story is the wooden stock of the cibo-
tium, a fern which creeps along the sur
face of the ground.
There is also the fine fiction of the
barnacle tree, which produces fruit in
the form of birds which dropped from
the branches into the water and devel-
oped into geese. No one knows how long
this story lasted, bu- it seems to please
the public.
After the expose of the lamb story
someone invented the deadly pas tree.
A Dutch surgeon introduced it to the
public; he described it as lourishing
in II desert tract in Java. The gas given
off by it's stem and leaves was 50 deadly
that of those venturing to approach it
only ten per cent. escaped alive. II"
w,IIarr - ,-hf.T. - orFsorr x.-n1 GfFaxNrn
with the bones of the slain. On account
of civil discussions some LOCO people
were forced to live within Il miles of
the fatal tree, and 1900 died. The upas
is really a tree in the Java forests, and
when cut down Or wounded the flow
ing sap of the tree will produce an
eruption on the skin. Another tree is
the manchineel, which is more danger
Gus, as the milky sap or the smoke
from the burning wood viii cause blind
ness, usually temporary.
The nettle Is in some ways n remark
able plant. The sting is on the same
principle as the bite of an adder. The
leaf and stem of the nettle are entirely
clothed with erect hollow hairs. GraspeG
roughly these hairs break off in the
thick part and do no harm, but
If touched gently, the tip of the hair
breaks, the sharp point is inserted into
the flesh, and down the hollow flows
"a poison from a poison sac at the Othe.'
end of the hair. The common nettIes
are insignificant when compared with
the giants of the family. There is an
East India nettle whose sting will cause
the arm TO swell. with frightful pain,
and the swelling lasts for weeks. In
iTimor grows a nettIe called devils
leaf. the sting OF which lasts a year and
often causes death. In New South
Wales IS Il nettle which grows like u
tree, with a trunk from % to so feet
high and n circumference of 10 10 20
feet. Young and vigorous leaves meas
lure from ten to 10 inches across, and
their sting is dangerous. - Toledo
BLADE.
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An old lady well known i'm the eastoi
Fife for her learning and for stalking
down" conceited people gave an even
ing party where a young man was pres
ent who was about to cave for an APP
pointment in China, and he formed the
object of attraction during the evening.
AS he was exceedingly eXtravagant IN
his conversation about himself the oil
lady was all but silent during the even
ing until he was leaving, when she
shook him heartily by the hand saying
TAX guide care O yourself when yer
ava; for, mind YOU, they eat puppies
in Cheena."-London Answers.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-04

Contradictions is this, Rastus!
Didn't / give you four dollars for vot-
ing for me at the recent election?
Rastus-Ter be suttingly yo' did,
jedge.
"And yet Jim Matthews tells me that
you gave him your vote for a dollar"
Oats perzackly ercordance ter de
Jacks. jedge."
"You acknowledge it, do you? And
you call hat a square deal?"
"In co'se, jedge; yo' see, 1 fixes mer
price e~rcordance ter de fitness er de
man; I suttinly considers yo'se'f gwine
ter be wuff fo' times as much ter de
publick sarbis us dat yer Urinary JiT
Matyuse, en- e~rcordance ter mer jedg-
mem in de matter l couldn' fin it ir
mer conshinse ter put yo' on de same
flnanshual ~footin', nohOw." - Boston
Courier.