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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

A New HAVEN man has patented n
device which will show at glance by
the motorman of an electro: car the
speed at which he is running. The OBJ
ject of the inventor is to provide de-
vice by which street railroad companies
may be protected from violations of
ordinances regulating speed. When
the car reaches the maximum for which
the device is set, an alarm bell is rung.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

PROF. RoENTGEN dislikes being lion
lied. He recently intended to spend a
few days in Florence, Italy, but hardly
had his his arrival become known when
zoo students came to salute him. He
told them bluntly they would have
done better to attend to their lectures.
Later on, hearing that other demon
stration were planned, he took the first
train and left the city.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
The FortificatIon BIlI.

Washington, May 19.-The fortifica-
tions bill was reported to the senate
Monday afternoon. The estimates fog
1897 amounted to $s,045,1 The house
bill carried 1887, to which the sen
ate added $4,918,051, making the total
reported to the senate $40, 0,763,ssS. The
appropriation for the current fiscal year
is only 81 ,904,557.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
EOREIGN.

Capt. Gen. Weyler has prolonged in.
definitely the period given to the Cuban
insurgents in which to surrender and
obtain pardon for their offenses.
The annual convention of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers of Amer
lea commenced at Ottawa, Ont, Chief
Arthur presiding.
Gen. Gomez issued an order for a con-
c-ntration of all insurgent forces, with
the intention of marching ON Havana.
The presidents message on the open.
ing of congress at Rio Janeiro supports
the idea of q congress OF American re.
publics.
The large number of desertions from
the Spanish ranks was alarming the
authorities in Havana.
dispatch from Constantinople says
the hindrances to the movement of
American missionaries in the interior
of Turkey have been removed.
An explosion at Bida, West Africa,
razed to the ground the palace of the
Emir Melel<i and killed 200 people.
The large Touring mills and grain
elevators of the Allianza Manufacture
ing company at Torreon, Mexico, were
burned, the loss being Sl5O,OOO.
The czar of Russia reached his 2sth
birthday, and the anniversary was fit
tingly celebrated in all tte cities of the
empire.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

ARMoND and Raymond Forest, the
two foster children of Baron and Bar
oness de Hirsch, are respectively Is
and 16 years old. They are both
Protestants and were not legally
adopted, it is said, owing to some tech
nical difficulty, but the baron and bar
oness regarded them as their own chill
dren. They will, of course, inherit a
large amount of money.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

A CHICAGO colored colonization
scheme of settling in West Virginia
seems more like a dream than a real
ization. Squatters have taken po:Aes-
sion of the territory which the colored
colonist intended to colonize, and an
appeal to the authorities of West Vir-
ginia will be made by the society to Sc
cure its rights.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

A CHICAGO artist in esthetics argues
that people do not laugh becomingly,
being either too constrained and
solemn about it or too demonstratipe.
He has, accordingly, organized class
in laughing exercises with the hope of
teaching people the golden mean, the
art of giggling gracefully.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

A SHINING EXAMPLE of what
may be accomplished by never vary
ing devotion to single purpose is
seen in the history of the Mccormick
Harvesting Machine Co., Chicago.
For o5 years they have simply been
building grain and grass-cutting ma
chinery, and while there are probably
forty manufacturers in this line, it is
safe to say that the Mccormick
Company builds one-third of all
the binders, reapers and mowers used
throughout the entire world.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

BIcYcLERs are much interested in the
proposed wheelmen's track should tho
New York elevated roads be made
"double-deckers;" but Russell Sage
says the company won't invest dollar
In the doubling up scheme unless tho
company is guaranteed exemption
from damage suits.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

Nor IN RANGE.--'ls anything known o.
lhe prisoner or his habits2o Officer
Nothing, your honor He lives oppost,
;he police station. Judy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
B O il s

It is often difficult to convince peo-
pie their blood is impure, until dread
full carbuncles, assesses, boils, scrof-
ula or salt rheum, are painful proof of
the fact. 1t is wisdom now, or when
ever there is any Indication of
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
SINCE the bicycle era euvelops us quite,
All the universe seems to seek "safety" m
flight.
Boston Courier

FITS stopped free by DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. No fits after first day'suse.
Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 trial bot
Tie free. DIR. Kline, 93l Arch ST.. Phila., Pa.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
Due to Unrequited Love.

Brewster, Mass, May 19.--Fred AL
eXander, aged 80, shot and killed Miss
Sadie Hassard and afterward commit,
ted suicide. Unrequited love was The
cause.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

How MY THROAT HuRrsl-Why don't You
lse Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tarf
PIKE Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

ARTrsT-"How do YOU like nv new MIC
turel" Friend-"Be assured / shall al
ways esteem you as a-man. "-Fliegende
Blaetter
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

The republicans of the Fourth dis.
trict of North Carolina nominated N.
c. English for congress.
In convention OF Clarksburg the West
Virginia republicans elected Mckinley
delegates to the national convention
and adopted resolutions favoring pro-
lection, sound money and restriction of
immigration.
Wisconsin prohibitionists met in Eau
Claire and nominated full state ticket
headed by j. II. Berkey, of Monroe, for
governor. The resolutions favor wom-
an suffrage, free silver and prohibition.
The Colorado republicans in conven-
ton Mt Pueblo declared for free silver
and protection. Senator Teller will
head the delegation to St. Louis.
Wisconsin republicans made the fol-
lowing congressional nominations:
First district, G. w. White; Second,
Jesse Myers; Seventh, John Moscley;
Eighth, John Evans; Tenth, =. A. Oscar.
The Louisiana Legislature refused to
GO behind the returns and declared Gov.
Foster reelected governor.
Sister Rosini, the last of the eight
sisters of Notre Dame who came to this
country from Belgium in 1s4O, died
at the convent at Reading, o., aged 81
years.
In convention at Raleigh the North
Carolina republicans nominated ID. L.
Russell for governor and selected Nc
Iinley delegates to the national conven-
ton.
The Wyoming republican state COM
vention at Sheridan declared for Nc
knley and free silver.
Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens, ".
S. N, retired, died at the residence of
his son-in-law, Robert Bradley, in Rock
vile. Nd, aged n years.
All the delegates to the republican
national convention have been chosen
and the result is said to be rs follows:
Instructed for Mckinley, 564; for Reed,
96; for Morton, 62; for Quay, Sc; for
Allison, Al; for Bradley, 16; uncer.
tain, SO. Total, 91s; necessary TO a
choice, AGO.
Gov. Morton, of New York, celebrated
his 10th 'thday.
icans of the Fourth dis
Jr.s. .. ... nominated ID. w. Mills,
,9 ,Lir.H. congress.
Aur..y }. Foster (dem.) was inaugu-
Led governor of Louisiana at Baton
Rouge.
Gen. T. c. Catchings was renominated
for congress by the democrats of the
Third Mississippi district.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
Blood

built me up and restored my health so
that, although the doctor said would not
be able to work hard, have since done the
work for 20 people. Hoods Sarsaparilla
cured my husband of the boils, and we re-
gard it wonderful medicine" Mrs. ANNA
PETERSON Latimer, Kansas.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

PIso's Cure for Consumption relieves the
most obstinate coughs.-REv. ID. BUcH-
MUELLER, Lexington, Mo-, Feb. "a, '94.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

ISLANDER Is the revenge of u coward and
dissimulation his defense. johnson.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
l Filood' $
Sarsa sapariIla

Is the One True Blood Purifier All druggists 81
Hoods Pills cure cure liver Ills easy Z TO ,sI,, take,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

William Morris, whom the world
usually thinks of as an artist and poets,
is a practical printer and the inventor
Of printing press which has turned
out the most beautiful work, technical
ly, of the day.
Lord Dufferin is fond of telling how
he once accosted Disraei in the lobby
OF the house of commons and asked him
to recommend novel. When want
to read a novel;" said Dizzy, Il write
one"
Lord Beaconsfield's brother, Ralph
Disraeli, is living. He bears no resem-
blance to his distinguished brother and
has always lived a quiet, retiring life,
having been for many years clerk in
the house of lords.
M. Got, the great French comedian
and dean of the Theater Francois, is at
present engaged in writing his memoirs
Like Bernhardt and Patti he will leave
nm account of a most interesting life
that will be of great value to all lovers
of art.
Alfred Belt, Cecil Rhodes, Barney
Barnato and three other lucky investors
in "Kaffirs' are reported to have cleaned
up 91SO,OOOsOOO tI1OIiS Jne1lls WHICH,
doesn't seem to leave much for several
thousand other fellows.
"A large lumber of hymns and
other poems in Charles Wesley's hand
writing were recently found in pile
of old documents at the Wesleyan Con-
ference Office in London. Many of the
poems are political and relate to the
American revolution.
Edward Simmons, the artist who
designed the decorations for the new
criminal court building in New York,
rejects the idea of blind Justice, and
has depicted that deity with both eyes
open, holding her scales in one hand
and the American flag in the other.
The rapidity with which Lord Rose
berry has aged during the last year is
illustrated by the fact that the portrait
of him, begun by George Frederick
Watts over year ago, the sittings for
which were interrupted by his lord
ships official duties and i'll health, had
to be entirely repainted after his res
ignation from office.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04
HUMOROUS.

The chickens don't deserve any par
ticular credit for going to bed early,
everything they can gobble goes to bed
before they do.-World.
And Bring Them Down-''And now
the fellows are kicking about thu
steeple-crowned hats the ladies are GO
ing to wear this seasonl" ''Well, if they
only kick high enough it. will be all
right. Detroit Free Press.
Needs Attendin' To-"Josiar," said
Corntassel's wife, 1.-The roofs aleakin'
again" rs it?" replied Mr.. Corn
tassel. "Well, I'll investigate it to-
morrow" "Josiar, don't read news
papers fur nothin' That roof don't need
investigator. 1t needs attendin' to-
San Jose Report.
Many things look queer the first
time we see them. Five-year-old
Freddy was showing the young min
lister about the place. His eyes fire.
quently glanced up at the kind face,
and then rested with look of troubled
inquiry on the pointed toes of the Picca-
dilly boots. Finally he blurted out his
anxiety in the question: Amt you
got but one ?"-Babyhood.
-"Hullo, Fatty" said the Copybook
to the Dictionary. "Hullo, Thinny!"
retorted the Dictionary. You're 4
wordy person, Fatty" said the Copy
book. You're an empty thing, Thin
n.y." said the Dictionary. Bound to
have the last word, eh, Fatty! " sneered
the Copybook. ''Need it in my bust
ness, Thinny," said the Dictionary, and
the Umbrella in the library corner
laughed so hard that it bent one of it's
ribs.--Harper's Round Table.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04
SMOKING HORSES.
How Indians Manage to Secure Mounts
When They Contemplate War

How Indians Manage to Secure Mounts
When They Contemplate War.
A curious method of obtaining horses
is practiced by some of the Indian
tribes 1t is called on the plains ''smok
ing horses" If tribe decides to send
out war party, the first thing to be
thought of is whether there are enough
horses at hand to mount the warriors.
If, as is often the case, the horses of
the tribe have been stolen by other In
Gians, they decide to ''smoke" enough
horses for present needs and to steal
a supply from their enemies at the first
opportunity. When this decision is
reached a runner is dispatched to the
nearest friendly tribe with the mes
sage that on certain day they will be
Visited by a number of young men,
forming war party from his tribe,
who require horses. On the appointed
Gay the warriors appear, stripped to the
waist. They march silently to the vii
lage of their friends, seat themselves in
a circle, light their pipes and begin to
smoke, at the same time making their
wishes known in a sort of droning
chant.
Presently there is seen far out on the
plain band of horsemen riding gayIy
caparisoned steeds fully equipped for
war. These horsemen dash up to the
village and wheel about the band of
beggars sitting on the ground, in cir
cles which constantly grow smaller, I'M
til, at last, they are as close as they can
get to the smokers without riding over
them. Then each rider selects the man
TO whom he intends to present his pony,
and as he rides around, singing and
yelling, he lashes the bare back of the
man he has selected with the heavy
rawhide whip until the blood is seen to
trickle down. If one of the smokers
should finch under the blows, he would
not get his horse, but would be sent
home on foot and in disgrace.
At last when the horsemen think
their friends have been made to pay
enough in suffering for their ponies.
each dismounts, places the bride in the
hand of the smoker he has selected, and
at the same time hands him the whip,
saying:
Here, beggar, is pony for you to
ride, for which have left my mark
After all the ponies have been pre-
sented the 'beggars" are invited to a
grand feast, during which they are
treated with every consideration by
their hosts, who also load them with
food sufficient for their homeward jour
ney. The braves depart with full stom-
achs and snarting backs, but happy in
the possession of their ponies and in an
ticipation of the time when their
friends shall be in distress and shall
come to smoke horses with them
Philadelphia Times
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04

his mind was distracted in trying to
follow his remarks, had seized the OPP
portunity and also the machine and was
at that moment making his way by the
north road towards Interlaken.
Now, capture under these circum-
stances seemed to be deliciously easy.
There were no branching off roads.
The mountains were on one side and the
lake on the other, on neither of which
was bicycling practicable. Therefore
all the two policemen had to do, when
they mounted their machines, was to
ride faster than I did and so overtake
me. AS had no idea that a race was on,
l plugged along in a leisurely manner
and would undoubtedly have been
taken near Interlaken if it had not been
for the fact that some years ago COM
pany built a funicular railway from
the margin of the lake, a mile or so up
to ST. Beatenburg. / had lived in ST..
Beatenburg once, and I remembered
that the road from there to Interlaken
was good one, so / thought that per-
haps it would not be a bad plan to go up
on the railway and coast down to In
terlaken. I knew man who had done
it once. / can well believe now that no
one ever tries it the second time. The
car goes up to ST. Beatenburg three or
four times day only, but when a
couple of miles away from the landing
1 saw steamer coming in and knew
if I reached the landing about the time
she did 1 would get a car.
The policemen, it seems, caught sight
of me as L was making my squirt, and
they at once put on extra steam, but
there is a deep bay just before one
reaches the funicular and they lost
sight of me as turned the point. I
just managed to catch the car and got
on board somewhat short of wind. As
we went up noticed an innocent and
unfortunate Englishman standing on
the road at the foot of the hill with his
bicycle beside him, and he was watch
ing us go up, taking rest at the same
time before mounting the steep hiI
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH..

In Salvador a genuine revival in
matters of public instruction seems to
have taken place. Mixed schools on the
American plan have been established
in many places.
A large number of hymns and other
poems in Charles Wesley's handwriting
we're recently found in pine of old
documents at the Wesleyan Conference
office in London. Many of the poems
are political and relate to the American
revolution.
That the Lords supper ought to be
real meal, and not sham supper of
crumbs of bread and drops of wine, was
the radical proposition put before his
congregation by Rev. /. NJ. Gibson, of
Plattsburg, Mo-. few days ago. And
it is stated that many of the congrega-
ton are heartily IN favor of the innova-
ton.
The largest gift ever made to an ed
ucational institution by man during
his lifetime, with the one exception of
the $40 ,O00,0 600 with which the late Sena-
tor Leland Stanford endowed the Lee
land Stanford, Jr., university, has been
presented by Mr.. John d. Rockefeller
to the University of Chicago. His last
contribution of 81 900, 900 raises the sum
total of his gifts to that university to
$4,000
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04

In several places in the Cape Colony
and Orange Free State of South Africa
caves have been explored which yielded
hundreds of mummifed remains of
queer species of siS-fngeFed monkey
All of the fullgrown specimens OF this
remarkable species OF quadrumana
have the tail situated high up on the
back from three 20 five inches further
up than that on the modern monkey;
and other distinguishing marks, such az
two sets of canine teeth, boards on the
males, etc. Whether these creatures
were mummified by human beings who
formerly held them in reverence. or
were overtaken by some catastrophe,
such as sudden CONFUSION of nature or
catacIysm which entombed them in
their caves and thus preserved them, is
secret that can never be ylxnown.-St
Louis Republic.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04
BONDS OF OFFICIALS.
Absurditfes of the Existing System in the
Department st Washington

Absurditfes of the Existing System in the
Department st Washington.
Some treasury department officials
have been making some interesting dis
| coveries in the method of bonding pub
lie officers. One hundred and six thou
sand officers are under bond to the gov
eminent, the amount involved being
more than S163, 100000. Most of these
officers, 100000 in number, are post
masters. There are 215 under the treas
ury department, being such officials as
collectors of customs and surveyors.
There are 261 officers under the war de-
partment, including paymasters, quar-
termasters and surgeons; 298 in the
navy department; 500 under the inte-
rior department, and 500 under other
departments. One of the curiosities is
that no army engineer officer is under
bond. The eight army surgeons give
bonds amounting to 100000, while the
engineer officers, who handle millions
of dollars for river and harbor work, do
not give the government any security
other than their oath as army officers,
The army officers who are stationed
at military schools and who are respon-
slble for secondhand guns and a small
quantity of ammunition give bonds
amounting to more than 81 100000. The
disbursing clerk in the navy depart
ment, through whose hands pass the
vast sums paid out for armor, warships
and gun forgings, furnishes bond of
but $4,000. The 81 quartermasters
who handle funds give bonds amount
ing to nearly $1,000, 900, while the engi-
neer officers in the same service, who
handle sums greatly in excess of that
disbursed by the quartermasters, are
unhampered by any such requirement.
Fortunately, there have been but few
failures among engineer officers proper
ly to account for public bonds placed in
their custody.
Officers are bonded without regard for
the responsibility or risk incurred.
Thus, the assistant treasurer in New
York is bonded for $5OO,OO while the
treasurer in Washington is bonded for
S150,000. If the amount involved in
their respective offices were considered
the amounts of the bonds should be re-
versed. Neither of these officers could
get away with any money of the govern
ment. They would have as much
trouble in actual defalcation as Secre-
tary Carlisle himself.
1t has been suggested that regular
scale of bonds for subordinate employees
be adopted, so as to relieve leading Off
cials of financial responsibility for the
dishonesty of employees. The postmas-
ter at New York gives bond of $780,
600, while a subordinate employee may
commit an offense beyond the post
masters power to prevent, for which
the latter's bondsmen must be unjustly
held accountable.
The department is in favor of discon-
tinuing personal bonds and substitute
ing therefor the bonds of trust compan-
les organized to do this character of
business. This substitution, it is esti-
mated, would result in an annual saving
to the government of about $7O,0O0.-
Philadelphia Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04
Grass Paving Blocks.

a new industry has recently been
started in Norfolk. 1t is a plant for
the manufacture of paving blocks out
of fibers of grass growing on salt water
marshes. The grass is subjected to a
heavy pressure, and large square blocks
come out of the press, when three
circular saws take hold of the block
and cut it into smaller blocks about
So inches thick provided lengthwise
with strong wire. These blocks are
then subjected to bath in three differ
ent tanks of different kinds of oils,
which makes the fiber supple The
Manufacturers Record is authority for
the statement that these blocks have
been tested for paving purposes in
Philadelphia for over year on one
of the busiest streets near the stock
yards, and have, it is said, stood the
test remarkably well. They make a
smooth, noiseless pavement, on which
it is claimed horses cannot slip. Large
contracts for these paving blocks have
been secured in Pittsburgh and New
York. This plant. as now established,
turns out about 400 or 500 yards per
day of this paving, and the owners ex-
pect soon to enlarge il considerably.
Thus one more industry for the south
cstablished.-St. Louis Republic.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-04

We are In a land where the love Of
wild nature has left raany a strange
mark on the eharacter-a land In which
respect for law still struggles unsuc-
cessfully with the Unborn belief that
man may take Wild ganoe and yet
scorn to be a thief. The poacher loves
these long, even slopes as they vxflI be
later in the year, and the cut thorn
bushes have relation to his visits. The
men walk them at night. two abreast
and far apart, carrying long narrow
net between them, slightly lifted in
front and weighted behind. The birds
lie on the open ground and do not rise.
As soon as the net is over them they
are doomed, and a whole coyey may be
captured at once. The thorn-bushes
are the snares which wreck the nets7
benjamin Kidd. Ia Century.