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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

A PARAGRAPH in provincial paper reads
"a thunderstorm made Beranger a poet,
q mothers kiss made West a painter and
q salary of 30 shillings week makes US a
Journalist. Tit Bits
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

SHE-"I really don't think L shall take
part again in theatricals; / always feel as
though were making fool of myself" F"
He-"Oh, everybody thinks thatp-Pick
Me I'm
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

THE Queen 8S Crescent is the only line
operating a through sleeper to Florida via
ksheville, N. e. Three car lines daily to
Florida. Unequaled service.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

"LovE makes the world go round" The
world seems to go round, but love makes
your head SWIM that's the explanation
Boston Transcript.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

FITs.-All Fits stopped free by DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first
days use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and 50
trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to DIR.
Kline, 93l Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

SHE-"Why does a woman take mans
name when she gets marriedp He
t'Why does she take everything else he's
gotir--Truth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

FoR BRONCHIAL AND AsTuMATIC CON-
PLANTS, "Brnprn's Bronchial Trocliesn have
remarkable curative properties.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

''IsN'T he rather fast?" asked the anxious
mother. "Yes, mamma, in one sense of
the word. don'G think he can get away"
--Indianapnlis Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

THE CuIoAGo-"And do You find the water
here so very bad?" The Elsewhere-"O,
no. With salad dressing it is not at all
bad "-Detroit Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

AN exchange heads local item: "He
pants for the bloomer girl.' That's what
they are-''he pants"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

GIRLS and billiard-bal kiss each other
with just about the same amount of real
feeling.-Truth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

THE New Orleans Limited, via the Queen
& Crescent Route, makes the trip Cincinnati
to New Orleans in "A hours. 30 miles
shortest line.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

PIso's Cure for Consumption relieves the
most obstinate coughs -REv. d. BUCuMUEL-
hER, Lexington, Mo-, Feb. "a, 81.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

If the devil were to take off his hat every
have died of exnosure,9Texas Siftines,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

GENTLE -Charlie-"Dear auntie, I
congratulate you on your birthday, and
promise you not to lose the dollar. -
Fliegende Blaetter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

as MARRIAGE a failurel" "No; not as a
means of grace" ''Er-what?n alt leads
TO repentance" Truth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

How CALMLY we may submit ourselves to
the hands of him who bears up the world
Richter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

BEEcHAM's PILLS for constipation 10c and
25c. Get the book (free) at your druggists
and go by'it. Annual sales 6.0OO000 boxes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

JAcKsoS-"Any sleeping apartment in
the club you belong toi'' Snarleigh-" Not
one, except the reading room. ."-Household
Words
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

ACToRs, Vocalists, Public Speakers praise
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

THE gay cravat which she selected
Will leave him soon wreck
While he with truth remarks, detected,
"l'll get it in the neck"
Washington Star.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

WE can stand the horseless carriage
Think it's just as fine as silk,
But we Kick hard, harder, hardest,
When they mention cowless milk.
West Union (Ia.) Gazette.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01

HERD So-"Do you believe men are the
architects of their own fortunes2" Saidso
-"Certainly; but too many of them fall in
with Buddensleck contractors. .n-Llfe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-02-01
A Canal Choked Up

Is practically useless. The human organism
is provided with canal which sometimes
becomes choked up, namely, the bowels,
through which much of the effete and waste
matter of the system escapes. When they
are obstructed- constipated, in other words
-Hostetter Stomach Bitters will relieve
them effectually, but without pain, and in
stitute a regular habit of body. This medi,
cine also remedies malarial, bilious, dys'
peptic, rheumatic, nervous and kidney
trouble, and strengthens the entire system.
The herald., 1896-08-23
THE VETERAN N|EMANN
The Great Wagnerian Tenor a
Figure at Bayreuth
HAPPY IN HIS RETIREMENT
Sixty.Three Years Of Age but an Active
Sportsman
Has Not Sung for Years but Remembers His
American Successes-Are Americans
1usicaI Innocsnts?

BAYREUTH, Germany, Aug. 4. Bay
reuth has been termed a monument to
Wagner. And to the music lovers who
stream into this homely locality from
every nook and corner of civilization 1t
is more than that. 1t Is a lasting tribute
to the men who stood by Wagner during
those early struggling years, when the
great masters tone epics were laughed
to scorn, when to be an admirer of Wag-
ner was to be set down fool, and to be
an interpreter Of his music was to brave
annihilation of name and fame.
To those who are assembling here this
year there will be given an opportunity
to at least see the finest and greatest of
Wagner's interpreters, Albert Niemann.
He is 63 years old, as powerful in build
as when he sang in the home of the Van
derbilts years ago, but without the voice
of that time, and with his bushy beard
and head changed to an almost silvery
white.
He is the link that binds the public Of
today closest to the time Of Wagner, for
to him the great composer turned
throughout his struggles as the one great
personality that was fully in touch with
what the massive brain had conceived
and the hand of genius had writ.
Niemann is always at Bayreuth weeks
before the cycle opens, for to him the di-
rectors and the singers look for instruc-
ton, for suggestion and for approval
AS Nine. Nordica put it, when Niemann
says 1T Is well done, we feel sure the pub
lie will say it is magnificently done"
chatted with him today of his career.
of his triumphs in New York, of his
Tannhaeuser fiasco in Paris, of all his
Wagnerian victories, and he smiled as
The herald., 1896-08-23
WILL STUMP FOR BRYAN
Feminine Spellbinders Will Orate
tor Free Silver
INTERESTING CHARACTERS
Their Fame Will Be as Wide as
the Nation
Niles Lane Of Oakland Compared to Tliiman.
Her Burning Hate for Wall Street
and MonopoIies

The shrill shriek of the woman spell
binder will be heard in the campaign as
soon as 1t gets fairly under way and un-
less the managers of the Mckinley
forces get big move on, the bulk of the
feminine speech making will be done in
behalf of Mr.. Bryan.
1t is not new thing, by any means,
for women to do active work in presiden-
tial campaigns, but the women who in
tend to take the stump and preach the
work in q different way from that fol-
porters when that lady ran for presi-
dent.
Heretofore all of the women who did
political woA. labored in the hope of
furthering the cause of womans suf-
frage. But the Bryan speakers will be
for Bryan first and suffrage later. Most
of these women are westerners by birth
and raising. and are yard wide Popu-
lists. There Is no limit to their belief in
the efficacy Of free silver to right the
wrongs of the oppressed and to obliter-
tae the many other evils which beset the
land.
Many of them are comparatively un-
known outside of their home localities,
but before November 1t is pretty safe
to predict that their fame will be as wide
as the nation. OF what material use they
will be in winning way for their
candidate only the future can tell. Some
of them are good, logical takers; others
are the reverse, but all of them are sin
cere.
One Of the most interesting of these
The herald., 1896-08-23

first, and following it come what are
usually titles or descriptive adjectives.
In LIS case, Hung Chang" means
grand secretary" In the days of the
Taeping rebellion he was known famil-
iarly as Ii Futai-Futai meaning gov
ernor" of the province of Kiangsu,
which has been his rank. Sometimes he
is spoken of as Ii Han-lin, in reference
to his membership in the Han-lin col
lege, which composed the cream of Chi
nese literary talent and rank
1t is an interesting feature of Ii Hung
Chang's tour, and one which indicates
the cosmopolitan character of the Chi
nese service, that customs commits
sioner of the nationality of the country
was imparially appointed to act as his
equerry during his stay in each of the
states he is to visit. Mr.. James Hart,
who acts in that capacity in England. is
brother to Sir Robert Hart, the disting-
uished head of the Chinese customs SER
vice. Though holding the rank of COM
missioner OF customs he has been for
some time carrying on negotiations
which resulted in the regent treaty pro-
viding for intercourse between India
and Thibet
The herald., 1896-08-23

two girls did everything from writing
editorials, soliciting advertisements
and gathering the news to setting the
type and running the presses.
Miss Murray has been writing on the
cause of silver for the last two years.
and is now in possession of mass of
information which she is going to spread
broadcast from the stump. She has had
little experience in the oratorical line,
but she says she is not afraid of any
thing or any one, and will say what she
thinks before assemblages of all kinds.
A FEMALH TILLMAN.
Miss Frankie Lane of Oakland, Cal,
expects to burn up the atmosphere with
the fervor of her eloquence in behalf of
Bryan. Miss Lane Is a kind of a female
edition of Senator Ben Tillman, and she
can talk about the evils of the gold bugs
of Wall street or the monopolistic mon
sters who control th6 railroads with
equal felicity.
Professionally Miss Lane Isl lawyer.
having recently graduated from Minne-
sofa law school. She is but II years
old. but talks with the confidence of a
veteran of CO. 1t is the hope of her life
that she will be sent to the east, where
she can tell the Wall street people what
she thinks of them, face to face. 1t is
her professional intention to make A
speciality of fighting corporations of all
kinds. particularly railroads, and farm
ers whose cows have been killed on the
tracks have been notified to hunt her up.
Mrs. Antoinette L. Haskell, mayor of
the little town of Gaylord, Kan, and
the only town in the world governed en-
tirely by women, expects to take the
stump for Bryan. At the last election
Mrs. Haskell received two votes for
every one cast for her masculine oppo-
nent, and moreover the entire feminine
ticket was elected She is a well-to-d do
woman, her husband being banker and
large land owner. She Is 40 years old
and has an abundance of common sense.
Mrs Haskell is a strong Democrat, and
is terse, emphatic speaker. Her ex-
ecutive ability has been proved by the
capable management of her town, which
is entirely free of debt
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease will, of
course, take the stump for Bryan, but
as she is so we'll known little need be
said of her, and the same applies to
Helen Cougar who has been familiar
figure in the feminine world for several
The herald., 1896-08-23
THEY WILL STUMP THE COUNTRY FOR BRYAN AND FREE SILVER

srell-binders is Miss Eugene Cook the
pride and idol of the Maryland Populsts.
6he Is but II years old, and for more than
year has been touring the agricultural
districts of her native state picturing
the beauties of free silver. She is a nat
ural orator, or oratoress. Her voice is
sweet but powerful, and she can reel off
statistics like a veteran. She has a
broader knowledge of the currency
question than the average stump speak
er, and has an extensive vocabulary at
her command. Last winter she issiled n
challenge to Senator Arthur Pue Cor
man TO meet her in joint debate. but the
maryland statesman has conservative
IDEAS regarding the sphere of women. So
he refused the offer. Miss Cook de-
clared that he was afraid of her and her
arguments
Her Iatner always accompanies her
on ner speech-making trips, and he re-
CARDS her as a financial Joan d. Arc Miss
COOK expects to make tour of the whole
country between, now and November ],
ana she mas standing challenge out to
meet any one in joint debate.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
Another unique character who will
take the stump is the Woman in
White" at the Chicago convention. Miss
Florence Murray of Nashua, Iowa. II
was Miss Murray who tried to stampede
the convention for Horace Boies when
the speech nominating him was made
While she didn't succeed she created an
immense amount of enthusiasm for the
distinguished Iowa man.
Miss Murray is the joint owner of a
weekly paper in Nashua. She is 22 year
Did and has been self-supporting since
her 18th year. She began her journal
lstic career in the little town of Green,
Ia, where she worked in the Office of the
local paper as apprentice. But for her
sex she would have been called a print
er's devil" as she performed the mani
fold duties of that functionary, sweep
ing the floors, sorting type, helping on
the forms, oiling the presses and later
on setting type. She then tried her
hand at reporting. When she had saved
= couple of hunGsad dollars she and a
friend purchased the Nashua paper.
which at that time was trembling upon
the verge Of financial dissolution. The
The herald., 1896-08-23

he began in this peculiarly character
istic vein:
Il am practising the art of forgetting.
L am trying to eradicate from memory
all that l once worked so hard to ac-
quire, and am really succeeding. hard
ly know that I was once a singer. You
see, when one has worked throughout
life with ones nerves-has, in fact,
earned living by sacrificing them to
every feeling that imagination could
conJure up-it Is but just to give these
ganglla a rest. They have earned 1t,
have they not? These poor, unstrung
nerves!
you do not know what it is to key
them up to Wagners conceptions. More
so in those early days than now. Now
the public is in touch with you when
the first note strikes the ear In the
struggling days it was different. 1t was
an ordeal to sing before an audience as
cold as the snow without; to sing ones
best in the face of cynical smiles; to
know that one is singing the greatest
music ever conceived by man and to
such an audience. Those were times
, when nerves gave way.
80 I am forgetting much-as muc,
as can-to give these tired nerves a
well-earned rest"
Niemann's physique bellies his remarks.
He still towers siX-foot full, as straight
as an arrow, and with a frame knit like
that of Hercules. 1t is the same strony
arm that in his youth welded the sledre-
hammer in an iron mill, the same tender
touch that later struck the chords of
Tannhaeuser harp, and the same stron,r
right hand that bore the sword Of Lo
hengrin.
] In locket that hangs from his watch
chain are the pictures of his bows, He
shows them. ar the smile on his facs
tells the story of his paternal love. For
q moment the face saddens. 1t must be
| the memory of the mother of those bows.
the famous dearly beloved Rabe, that
ccasions the change. Then he drifts
| from music to the school work the
boys are doing 1t is interesting to hear
this famous man talk so simply of whs
| he hopes to do for his children. He be
! 1ieves that the eldest. now IA years @
| age. will some day add fresh lustre to
the name of Niemann in the musical
The herald., 1896-08-23

world. Then to q delicately put inter-
ruption he again talked of his past:
Il worked harder in those days than
do the singers of today. With me it was
a question of getting at the very soul of
the opera. studied every part l went
through it again and again, and when it
had become part and parcel of brain and
blood l was ableito go on the stage and
live the part'
NO wonder those who heard Niemann
say he has never been approached in
Wagnerian roles. He was one of the
Irst Lohengrins and almost the first
Tannehauser. His conception of these
parts remains the ideal which even the
greatest of today's singers strive to fol-
low None has yet approached him
eitner IN these two parts or as Tristan or
in The Ring of the Nibelungen."
Wagner and Niemann met in Zurich
The herald., 1896-08-23

tour of 1SSs-S9, when with Lilli Lehman
he carried this country by storm, he still
talks of as the most memorable period
of his life.
"In America you do everything on a
grand scale. Your applause, your en-
thusiasm, is almost wild in it's inten-
sty Why, we performed Tristan and
Isolde eight times in one month, and the
enthusiasm finally was as great as at
the first rendition. I will not say that
Americans are cultured music lovers or
connoisseurs. Their appreciation was
enthusiastically naive. But the ele-
mentary might that lies in the music
of Wagner seized upon the public and
brought out their spontaneous enthus-
iasm.
80 today the majority of visitors at
Bayreuth are Americans. They have
The herald., 1896-08-23

in 1858 for the first time, and their inti-
macy continued to the formers death.
1t was at the congress in Baden-Baden
In 1899 that Napoleon III. invited Me
mann to visit Paris and in 1861 he fin
ally accepted the invitation and sang
the part of Tannehauser in that unfortu-
nate performance that ended so disas-
trously for German opera on French
soil. OF this episode in his career Me
mann simply says: 1T was the spirit
of 1870. That is ALL
His triumphs in America are the mem
cries that seem dearest to him. The
The herald., 1896-08-23

tasted the cup of Wagnerian nectar and
they come to the fountain spring for
more.
Il remember meeting William H.
Vanderbilt during the opera season in
New York and expressing my astonish-
ment at the fact that the rich men, of
America contributed so heavily to the
support of grand opera. Free America
he replied, has no court. So we rich
men feel it our duty to give to the Amer
lean public the best grand opera the
world knows"
The herald., 1896-08-23

In Sydney, Australia, at the sale of Sir
ron. containing the signiture of the poets
iianthe. whose real name was Lady Char
lotte bacon. and TO whom Childe Harold
was dedicated, was knocked down for 7
shillings and pence. The same volume, if
soid SO n London, would probably have fetch
The herald., 1896-08-23
THE BABY AND THE BEE

The honey-bce is winging
In morningglory flowers;
Swing-swing.
The baby in the hammock
Sleeps through the morning hours;
Swing-swing!
The honey-bee at evening
Goes to the hive to rest,
TO mothers arms, the baby
He likes that cradle best.
e. Harman in the Independent.
The herald., 1896-08-23
Our Chinese Guest

LII Hung Chang has the rank of am
bassador, but bears letters of introduce
tion only to the several courts he is visit
ing without any special mission. AS to
the Viceroy's name, it may be worth
while to state again that the Chinese
reversing our custom in this, as in so
many other respects-nut the surname
The herald., 1896-08-23

fOuida." after the enforced sale of har
beautiful furniture by the authorities Of
the United Italy, which she so hates and
reViies, mas retired to villa In the envrons
OF lucca, where she is concentrating all
her bitterness against Italians in a three.
volume novel - - ~ -
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-03-04
Boston's Elderblow Club,

There are several woman's clubs in
Boston, and the reports Of the doings of
one or another Of them are found in the
papers every week. There is one that is
unique in character that does not allow
reports of its proceedings to get into the
newspapers and has thus far no public
fame outside its locality.
1t exists in the suburban town of
Brookline and is called the elder
blow club" 1t is composed entirely Of
elderly ladies, who meet at the houses
of its members once fortnight during
the winter season. At each they have q
special entertainment provided. No one
knows what it is to be in advance ex-
cept the committee Of arrangements.
Sometimes it is lecture, sometimes q
concert, sometimes reading or va
riety entertainment Of some character.
1t Is always attractive, and the Elder
blow is altogether the most popular So
cial affair in the place. Admission to
the club is eagerly sought, and class
Of women who are generally left out Of
active social life are better provided for
in this way than any other. Hartford
Courant.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-03-04

that before very long, but what direction
the new departure will take does not seem
to be settled.
The balloon sleeve has gone through a
variety Of changes. First IL was high
then II was wide, then II was lowered to
the level Of the shoulder, then dropped be-
low It, Now it is draped and trimmed in
various ways and is far less rigid than it
was. The tight forearm continues In ia.
vor, although bishop sleeves are occasion
ally seen ON jackets and gowns The close
lower portion of the sleeve Is trimmed with
galloon, buttons or other fiat ornaments
tion or has turn back cuff more OF less
ilnring. The sleeve puff is caught up with
choux or adorned with cascades OF lace
and ribbons or with tabs decorated like
the bodice.
Plain gowns Of large lowered Louis
Seize silks are very picturesque with the
accompaniment of Marie Antoinette
fiohu of white Rauze, full and ruffied
which Is crossed on the bosom and disap-
pears under the belt.
sketch is given Of ball gown for a
young girl 1t Is Of rose and white glaoe
silk with light green stripes. The godet
skirt is plain. The bodice has "a square
dcoollctage which is borlered by band of
guipure. The balloon sleeves have a pulled
epaulet of silk and are finished at the ell
bow by n band and knot of rose satin rib
bon. A largo bow OF ribbon Is placed at
the left side of the decolletage, and from 1t
a band Of ribbon is carried across the front
OF the bodice tn the bow which closes the
belt on the right side.
,JUDiC CUOIIET
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-03-04

With two and sometimes three engines,
our heavy train, now divided into two sec
tions, climbed up the high wall of the Ser-
ra Nevada. We passed through the mag
niacent scenery Of Shady run, Blue can
yon and Giant and Emigrant gaps. In run
ming l07 miles we had climbed nearly 1000
feet, sometimes over very steep grades Be
fore we reached the summit snow sheds
began to appear and soon became practi
cally continuous
1t was the month Of May, and the noun
tains were still covered deep with snow
We rode through 40 miles Of these wooden
tunnels, from whose windows we could
now and then catch glances Of wild waste,
OF snow covered mountains and at othel
times OF forests of pine and fir trees. With
out these sheds it would he impossible Il
operate the road In winter They are built
in the most thorough manner-often upor
solid foundations Of masonry-and are sepa
rated by iron plates into sections to guart
against the spread Of fire,
There are automatic electric fire alarm
In one Of the longest sheds. and an engin
with tank close at hand Is kept ready /,
food any section that should catch fire
The sheds are patrolled and guarded in 1
careful manner. Such attention is due no
only to the passenger and freight traih
which the road conducts, but to the valu
Of the sheds, which average from 5000 t.
$4,000 per mile. Several miles. wher
bridges aud precipices made the construc
tion difficult, cost as much as $4,000 pc
mile-Observer