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The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-31
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Fuddy-In tight place, eh? Not positively stranded, I hope. Buddy No, not entirely; we still have float ing debt.--Boston Transcript
 Father-But do tell me, Alfred, how could you fail again? Son-Well, you see, we had another examination. .-- Fliegende Blatter.
 What in the world broke Burke down? He used to be the picture of health?" He recuperated too long at the seashore. ."-Detroit Free Press.
 Say what you please, but I think that Zola has lost his head"
 'Then let me give you piece of advice: Find that head and use it.''- L'Monde Comique.
 Does Student Lusher drink as much as usual?"
 NO, he has reformed to a certain extent. He occasionally endeavors to find the keyhole himself '-Fliegende Blatter.
 Bald-headed Gentleman (having his boots polished)-Confound it, you take an abominable long time about it. Shoeblack-Yes, sir; 1t ain't done SC quick as when you 'as your air cut!-- Tit-Bits. A Spicy Story.-"We have no use for bear stories," said the editor "Our readers demand something spicy Well" said the man with the manu- script, this story is about a cinna- mon bear. ."-Household Words. At the Camping Party.-The Crank This is the last time I'll ever camr out! The Enthusiast-Wel you shouldn't camp out, unless you car enjoy yourself without being comfort able.-Puck.
 When Robbie Hickenlooper returned from the big dinner at the club the other night he was unusually lively What has got into him, Bob?" asked Mir. Hickenlooper, senior. That said Robbie, handing him the menu That, daddy, is my table of contents. ' -Harper's Bazar.
 Buyer (confidentially)-Sa boy, are you sure this horse won't scare at a To- comotive? Stable boy-Scare? Not muchi Why, sir, three different mer have been killed because that there horse baked in the middle of the track to enjoy seein' the bullgine comin'- New York World.
 Hard Hit.-Mildred-Have you heard the news about Charlie Kinks and Ma bel Buxton?
 Adelaide-No, what is it? Mildred-He's in love with her. Adelaide-How do you know? Mildred-He worked two hours at . stretch last night. trying to teach hel
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CARS RUN BY ELECTRIC GAS.

The Product Used for Fuel in the Pow
 CT Houses in California Town.
 Stockton, Aug. 14.-The question of power in Stockton was solved by the Stockton Gas and Electric company to- day, and during the greater portion of the day the entire system of electric cars on the five miles of street railway in Stockton was being operated by electricity generated by an engine us- ing natural gas. Stockton's supply of gas Is large, and limitations of it have not been found yet.
 The gas company owns a daily out put of about 100000 feet, and as all of that is not taken by customers burn ing gas for light and fuel fully half of the supply is turned under the boilers at the electric works for the purpose of making steam. The amount of power so secured from the gas was not up to the expectations or rather up to the de- sires of the company, for they did not know what they ought to expect and for more than month Manager Adams has been at work fitting up an engine to burn gas and so convert 1t into pow
 CT direct.
 The engine used is an Otto engine,
 made in the east, and is the largest one on the Pacific coast, and the only one that was ever used to run an electric
 power plant or an electric lighting plant The engine uses about 1000 feet
 of the natural gas an hour and devel- ops it's full horse power, though 1t was not compelled to use it all yesterday
 as the required power to run the en- tire system is about 122 horse power.
 The engine was started at o'clock this afternoon, and a few minutes thereafter the work of running the car lines was turned on 1t, one circuit at a
 time, until the engine was carrying the whole load, which she had taken up without a jar or hitch. For several hours the cars were operated by the electricity generated. and the mana ger of the gas company received the congratulations of tho large company, including the city councilmen and oth-
 CTS who were watching the experiment. With many hundred thousand feet of the gas going to Wasts, for it cannot be figured at more than one-fourth its val ue when turned under a boiler to make steam, and with so much power gener-
 ated by only small portion of the
 amount, the company figures that it can get power for practically nothing.
 The great well of the company at the corner of Hunter and North streets was 1 finished to-day, and the boring outfit was moved to the corner of Anderson and Pilgrim streets, where the sink ing of another well will be commalced at once. The flow of gas found at the last well is not known, for on that prop osition the managers of the company are silent, but it is reported to be equal 1 to the flow from any of the other wells, and the fact that another well is to be 1 sunk immediately leads the people to guess that the strike was good. The 1 engine will be used for a few days on I the street-car current and will then be 1 put at work on one or more of the elec- l tric light circuits.-Macon County Git ] iZen.
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4 LARGE RE0UEST.

The silver producers believe in asking for what they want and if they don't get it it will not be for lack of "galf' in asking for it. Six States and two territories produce practically the en- tire silver output of the United States. They are as follows: Arizona, Cali fornia, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Me- vada, New Mexico. and Utah. The to- tai silver, product in 1893 was worth about s6O,OOO,o0O The combined popu- lation of these six States and two ter ritories is only about one-thlrd the pop ulation of the State of New York. Ne vada, which is very active in it's pro- pagandism of free silver, has a popu- lation of less than 46,0OO. not one-haif the population of New Haven. The State of Idaho has but about three thousand more voters than the city of New Haven. Colorado contains less than 500O0O people, not 50 many as
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there are in St, Louis or Boston or Bal timore.
 And this is the part of the country which is talking most loudly about its rights and wrongs. They want the Union conducted for the benefit of sil- yer and they assume that their silver Is of more importance than the pros perity of all the rest of the country If their bluff" works they will have reason to wonder, although they are so ready and vociferous in making it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-31
AN OREGON SNAKE DEN.

Various Kinds There, Including the
 Two-Headed Double -Ender.
 Salem, Or, July 9.--The large rattle- snake, captured in Yamhill county yes-
 terday, is none the worse for it's experi- ence. The original home of this snake
 is, no doubt, in the famous Thurber snake den, near which it was captured
 The Thurber den is on a farm owned by A. w. Rees, in rocky knoll covering
 about two acres. The knoll is covered
 by a large growth of oak shrubbery and wild grass. The snake home is really a rock quarry. On the surface are rocks in endless numbers, and the regularity of the shape is remarkable. Nearly all are perfect cubes, varying
 in size from six inches to two feet and
 more. The crevices between these rocks are natural home for the rep tile family, and it is said to be no un- common sight to see scores of snakes summing themselves on the rocks in the
 early spring.
 It is not rattlesnakes alone that haunt this den. There are blowsnakes
 and blue racers. Many of the latter have been killed in the vicinity that
 have attained a length of six feet.
 Then there is the stupefied snake, which is one of the most interesting l species of the family. This snake has a head on each end and runs either way. | One head is about one-fourth as large | as the other. It is of yellowish col | or. It generally lies in a loop, and is frequently observed running in an ap- parently stupefied condition on a rock ! or log. There are other varieties, such as the garter, found around the den,
 but the bite of none except the rattle 1 snake is known to be fatal. Several i sheep and some cattle have died in the | vicinity of the den from snake bites.- | Morning Oreeonian
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 For other wear just now skirt of the sort shown is correct. This cos- tune Is one of those mid-season affairs that only exquisite dressers can afford planned as it Is for only a few weeks wear, but to the woman with a scant purse 1t furnishes the most reliable hints as to what is coming. The points to which she should attend are that it's skirt is prettily trimmed at the hem with rufile that it's sleeves are tight to away above the elbow and are top ped by triple, puff-like ruffies.
 The low neck and summer finish will not, of course, be repeated by the economical dresser. but to show how dainty short lived gown may be, 1t should be told that Inlia silk was the fabric for this dress, black lace over white satin gave the skirt ruffie, white ribbon, black lace and gathered bre- telles ornamented the front, and white satin was used for the belt. The owner of such a dress could use 1t about six weeks, and then the question of what to wear would present itself positive ly. That means all the bother and wor- ries of getting up new costumes but a few weeks after having gone through with the very same job. Verify, even the wealthy woman has her troubles! |?
 FLORETTE.
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and sulphuric acid. A very little ethyl butrate will scent an entire house with the odor of pineapples. To make the syrup yellow, dash of aniline was ad- ded, The quantity was so small that it was called by the chemists "a trace" The dye is one of the products of the gas office, and is made by the distilla- tion of coal oil. The water was oharg- ed, of course, with carbonic-acid gas, the effect of which on the mucous membrane, the chemist says, is delete rious.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-31

After a period of some twelve hum dred years the fourth grand fire temple is being built in Bombay from public subscriptions. The sacred fire to be perpetuallyburned in it must be com posite of sixteen different kinds of fire, which are to be amalgamated after many ceremonies of purification.
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mother to ride the bicyele.-Cleveland

Leader.
 A Trying Position Mrs M, who was seriously i'll, found herself to be in trying position, which she defined to friend in these words: You see, my daughter Harriet is married to one Q these homeypath doctors, and my daughter Kate to an allypath. If I call in the homeypath, my allypath son-in-law and his wife git mad, an if I call in my allypath son-in-law my homeypath son-in-law an his wife git mad, an if I go ahead an git well without either O 'em, then they'll both be mad, so don't see but I'd better die outright, Detroit Free Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-31

An investigation of summer drinks by the city chemist in Washington dis
 closed results that are not encourag- ing. Pineapple ice cream soda water,
 for instance, which is favorite drink at the capital, contained, according to the analysis, 3S.05 per cent. of solids, as follows: Butter fat, ' per cent; min eral matter, 1O3 per cent; protoids, .32 per cent; sugar, 26.70 per cent A sam ple of the pineapple fiavoring boiled down was found to contain water, su- gar and ethyl butrate. It was mostly water and sugar, there being as much of the latter as will stay in solution. Ethyl butrate is a decoction made by distilling rancid butter with alcohol
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REPUBLICAN
NOMIN ATIONS

What gain would we make for the circulating medium, asked James C.. Blaine eighteen years ago, if, on open ing the gate for silver to flow in. we open a still wider gate for gold to flow out?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-31

The property assessments by local assessors in all the counties of Illinois for 1ae6 have just been tabulated for the use of the State board of equaliza- tion. The aggregate assessment is $731, POI, ,463, a decrease of s12638, ,e9O, as compared with the assessment for 1885 The decrease in Cook county. including the city of Chicago. is s4,94O,1 194.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-31

There has been decision by Judge Austin of Milwaukee on the subject of street franchises which is interesting as asserting and defining the funda- mental rights of parties to and upon public thoroughfares There was a street railroad injunction case before the judge in which it was claimed that the franchise of the railroad company was a contract with the State, through the city council, which was, in making such concession, the agent, simply, of the State The judge decided 'that neither the State nor the city owned the streets. The ground they occupied, " he said, twas dedicated to public uses by the property owners adjoining, and any grant that undertook to give any control than that of the public use was absolutely void. A franchise, the court said, was mere license to use the street. There was no consideration that would constitute a contract"
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Advel,tIsine Rates.

Situations, Wants, Rents and other small advertisements, Ono Cent 8 Word each in- sertion. Five cents word for a full week (seven tirnes.)
 Dispay Advertisements-Per inch, one tn- sertion, $i.20 each subsequent insertion, 40 cents; one week, $3.20; one month, Sl0;one year, $40.
 Obituary notices, in prose or verse, l5 cents and Funerals, a cents each. Local notices, lb cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own smmedlte business Gall matter to be unob- teottonnblel, and thelr contracts do not in- clude Wants, To Let Cor Sale. etc.
 Disoounts--On two inches or more one month and over, 10 per cent; on four inches or more, one month and over B per cent
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DELIvERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CTTY. l5 CENTS WEEK, toCENrs A MONTH, S3 FOR slxMoNTHs, S5 A YEAR. IHE SAME TERMS 9YMAIL,
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where from 60 to 100 years old.--Macol County Citizen.
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Alaska is turning out to be richly worth what we paid for it. The dis covery of rich petroleum deposits there adds another important element to the marvellous wealth of the territory With enormous resources in gold, coal iron, timber fisheries and petroleum Alaska seems assured of early and rapid development and place among the richest of American common wealths.
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F all Dress Fabrics

are moving into our stores in triumph, Hav- ing won the title of the Supply Centre of the Dress Goods trade be- tween New York and Bos- ton, we make a great stride forward in this line of store service.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-31

Mrs. Sarah Malloy, who is one of the three Republican Presidential electors of the State of Wyoming, is the wife of Lawrence Malloy, superintendent of the Wyoming division of the Union Pa cific railroad, with headquarters at Cheyenne. She is a native of Ohio, has lived in Wyoming since 1870, is very do- mestic in her tastes, is 8 model house. wife, and dislikes notoriety. Her fus- band is a strong Democrat, and joking ly says that he has been throwing away his vote ever since his marriage, for Mrs Malloy is a Republican, and, as a citizen of Wyoming, has the right to vote. Her husband is known by every section man, brakeman, conductor and engineer on the line as Larry" and f,iswifewill, it is said, get many com plimentary vote from good Democratic railroad men.
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 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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This year, so far as it has gone, has been exceptionally prosperous for the English brewers The number of bar rels on which duty was paid was 14,- 456.901, an increase of over 100000 as compared with the same period last year. The. United States has not been taking as much as formerly, but Egypt is rapidly developing a taste for Eng fish beers.
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-29

lie is a descendant Of Chief-Justice Mar
shall, and native OF Virginia
Mr.. Hugh McCleur, of near Summers,
this county has two ewes with remark
able records as mothers. One recently
gave birth to four lambs. and all OF
them are now living and doing well,
two of them being nursed by the mother
The other eve bas In the past thirteen
months given birth " six lambs-twins
three times.
Mr.. j. Scott Moore has been informed
by Mr.. Wells A. Sherman, State Stalls
teal Agent, of the Department OF Agri-
culture, Washington, that he has been
appointed County Statistical Agent to
make monthly reports on crops and con-
ditions for the county of Rockbridge The
position is an honorary one, no pay being
attached TO II.
Hon. A. f. Withrow and J. G. New
man, OF the Withrow Lumber Company
are now In town, engaged upon com
pleting the plans for the interior work
on the jackson Memorial Hall, at the
Virginia Military Institute. The con-
tract for this work will be let In a
short time and work begun.
The Executive Committee on Foreign
Missions of The Southern Presbyterian
Church has appointed Miss Mary Nc
0orkle Wilson, OF Collierstown, and
daughter OF the late Samuel Wilson, OF
this county, a missionary to Brazil.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. r. Harvey McElwee, OF Chicago
is visiting his parents. DR.. and Mrs. w.
NJ. McElwee, OF pockbridge Baths. Mr.
McElwee, who Is a successful business
man Of Chicago. is native OF Lex
ington.
DR.. j. 8. Gardiner and Professor S. T.
Moreland are attending the meeting OF
the Baltimore Conference. Methods;
Episcopal Church, South. at Roanoke
Professor Moreland is one OF the four
lay delegates to the conference from Roa-
noke District
Frank Bayllss, OF Lexington. has been
appointed Adams Express-messenger en-
the North-River Branch OF the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad, to succeed
Mr.. II. Shannon, who has been pro-
NOTED to the main line.
Rev. DR. r. J. McBryde. rector OF
Grace Memorial Episcopal church. who
has been Ill for some time. has recovered
enough 10 occupy his pulpit.
Mrs John NJ. Quisenberry and her
daughter, Miss Bessie Quisenberry ond
Miss Maude Wright. are visiting friends
In Salem.
Mrs. s. +. Carson. OF Spottswood. Va.
IL the guest OF Mrs. y. II. Barcliy.
Commonwealth's-Atto Robert Cat
lett spent the past week In Charlotte
county. on legal business.
Joseph A. Glasgow, Esq. Of the
Staunton Bar, is in town.
ANNUAL REPORTS
Already the farmers have commenced
TO make their annual reports OF the bad
wheat crop. They say that the recent
cold weather has very much damaged
the wheat in this section. and tina: IN
most localities only half crop was
planted. Coupling the two facts to-
gether, there will be no wheat crop 10
speak OF in this county this year: but.
in the end, we may look for a reasonable
crop. Just as In any other year.
The law students OF the Washington
and Lee University have been hard at
work for the past week. preparing them
selves for wrestle with one Of Dean
/ r. fuckers examinations. and jus,
how many will survive the test It would
be hard TO say.