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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21

If lovely silence is golden,
AS we are often told,
Oh, how can lovely woman
Be worth her weight in gold7
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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21

odd you ever come out ahead in a horse
trader asked Wimples Of Pinns. EYES,"
said Pinns; "but, heavens how the other
fellow was cheated l'-Harper's Bazaar
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
"The Wooden Hem

Fdo n,hu is1 shown herewith is small
h tS,a U WM, really large when we consider
l ha, Nv OGDEN Hem is no larger than a
chs Hen, yet has double the capacity. 1t
FI sr oaaly 10 pounds, has capacity of %
ha aId while not a toy, is just as anus
Va Issues sN being instructive as well.
suggest that every reader of this write
opv vU a. q. Stahl, Quincy, Ills, and ask for
cr III ~ ms handsome little booklet eK,n
BloSmns me wooden Hen - also his large
sent sent tu ol the Model Excelsior Incubator.
'H' Tree. Mention this paper.
M u Iai was turned, yet fame had laid
4 e u; laurels at his feet,
n Iysn ply saw pretty girl
A1o passing on the street.
IN, Y, Herald.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
THE TAPER.
Keeps Up an Industrious Racket During
 Absence of WOrkmen.

Keeps Up an Industrious Racket During
 Absence of Workmen.
 A man fell from the housetop in the city of Aberdeen, and was brought into hospital with broken bones. He was asked what was his trade, and replied that he was tapper. No one had ever heard of such a thing before, says the Amateur Emigrant; the officials were filled with curiosity; they besought an explanation. It appeared that when a party of skaters were engaged upon a roof they would now and then be taken with fancy for'the public house. Now, seamstress, for example, might slip away from her work and no one be the wiser, but if these fellows adjourned the tapping of the mallets would cease, and thus the neighborhood would be advised of their dereliction. Hence the career of the tapper. He has to do the tapping and keep up an industrious i hustle on the hassetop during the ab- sence of the skaters.
 When he taps for only one or two the thing is child's play, but when he has to represent a whole troop it is then that he earns his money in the sweat ot his brow. Then must he bound from spot to spot, reduplicate, triplicate sextuplicate his single personality, and swell and hasten his blows, until he produces a perfect illusion for the ear and you would swear that a crowd o1 emulous masons were continuing mer. rily to roof the house. It must be 8 strange sight from an upper window.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
DIAMONDS TO ADVANCE.
Bernato and the Trust Have Absolute
 Say So.

NEW YORK. July 25 The diamond trust has made another advance in plices.
 Cecil Rhodes. Barney Barnato, Abra. ham Abrahams, J. P. Robinson, Der ney, We'll & Co.,. and Joseph Bros., who control the diamond trust, have de. clared that prices must advance. The New York jobbers received notice 8 few days ago.
 These Englishmen and South Afri- cans have absolute control of the dla- mond output of the world. It is the most complete monopoly and perfect trust in existence. The Australian and Brazilian mines are exhausted. The supply comes from the South African fields. The syndicate which owns them can do as it pleases with the diamond market. Cost of production has no in. 1uer ce. It costs the trust only $1.25 8 carat to place diamonds on the market, and they sell them for $40 carat oI whereabouts.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
A CHICKEN FOR ONE.
A Pigmy for Epicures Now Served by
 Paris Restaurateurs.

A Pigmy for Epicures Now Served by
 Paris Restaurateurs.
 It is generally conceded that a small bird makes a very dainty meal for one person, and it must have been source of regret to many that it was seldom possible to obtain chicken just large enough for one man with a moderate appetite. The difficulty has now been removed, in Paris at least, says the New York Journal.
 Many Paris hotels and restaurants are now introducing as novelty into their menus what might be described as lone man, one chicken" Everyone who understands anything of the appe- tite of man understands that he likes best to tackle a bird single-handed With the ordinary fowl this was, of course, impossible, so the ingenious chef proceeded to develop, or rather curtail, the spring chicken, and now three-months-old bird is served tc each guest, just as though it were a quail or blower. That there is any stability in the body of so young and tender chicken can hardly be admit ted; but the novelty has been greatly appreciated, especially by Americans in Paris, and there is already a demand and a great one, for fedgling barn 1 doors.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
AMERICA AND JAPAN.
Statement of Trade Between the Two
 Countries in 1895.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-Consul- General McIver at MsnaRwa has for warded to the state department tables showing the following trade of Japan for 1895. In these tables the Japanese silver yen hes been taken as equivalent to 5l cents, this being the mean value during the year. The total value of ex. ports was $6S, ,O93. .662 and of imports $65, ,922, ,s95. Of this amount the United States is credited with $27, ,554, ,764 for exports and $4, 730, ,943 for imports. The customs duties collected were tor ex- ports $1,15s,2S imports 2,161 1909, miscellaneous $88, 8,045, making a total of $3, ,409, ,135. During the year 1863 steam CTS and 1000 sailing vessels entered the ports of Japan from foreign countries. Of these 92 were American, 987 British and 371 German.
 Forty-nine American steamers and sailing vessels were engaged in the coastwise trade of Japan against 761 British and lO4 French and 181 German.
 Japan exported $1,423.S95 gold and $12, ,970 silver bullion. She inn pol ted bullion to the valne $525.255 in gold, $2.470 ,568 in silver.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
MICROBES ON STAMPS.
The Philatelist's Collection as Source
 of Danger.

Of Danger.
 Having successfully disclosed the hy- gienic dangers adherent to the kiss, the telephone receiver and the towel, medical science has now turned it's at tention to the perils that beset the philatelist's art. According to Dr. Unna, says the Science News, patient was recently attacked by a peculiar parasitic growth in the beard. On mak ing minute examination of some of the hairs, the doctor recognized the dis ease as 'picdra,'' which is chiefly met with in British Columbia. The doc tors friend had never been in Columbia, but he freuuently received letters from correspondents there, and, being a col lector of postage stamps, he was in the habit of removing them from the let ters. In Dr. Unna's opinion the gum on the postage stamp is an excellent material for retaining any disease germs that it may receive from the ap- pllcation of the tongue, and in remov- ing stamps-even when moistening is done with the sponge-there is always danger that the collectors fingers may receive and communicate the con- tamination.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
HERMANS VERSUS HOLMES A Strange Tale Much to
 Be Doubted. Said to Have Poisoned an En-
 tire Congregation. The Salt Lake Murderer Wanted In SWeden-Poisoned Forty
 Fourteen Died.

BUTTE, Mont, July 25.-A new story has come to light concerning Rev. Fred Hermans, the Salt Lake murderer, who preached sermon in Butte and also disposed of the cloth ing of one of his victims at the same time, and who is we'll known in Mime sota and northwest Wisconsin, where he had wives.
 If the story is true Hermans is wanted in Sweden for the poisoning of his whole congregation. Out of about forty persons who were poisoned about fourteen died from the effects of it. There now seems but little doubt that Hermans is one of the monsters of the country, and he is still at large
 A Swedish lady in Chicago who saw Hermans' picture after the exposure in Salt Lake, thought she recognized something familiar about the face and finally on looking over some old pie lures, she came across the same face in group of Swedish clergymen. The most startling part of the discovery was that the preacher was wanted for numbering fourteen persons in Sweden. He had been pastor of a church where the lady lived and had given poison to the church communicants Forty be- came very sick and fourteen died. The preacher disappeared and his identity was lost until the lady claims she has discovered him in Hermans, who af- fected Butte people so favorably by the fervor of his preaching.
 After he disappeared from his Swedish congregation it was found that he had an object in his fiendish work. It was found that he had been playing fast and loose with the female members of his flock and he feared exposure, so concluded to kill his con- gregatfon off and make new start.
 If the story is true it at once places him in the front rank of criminals without a parallel, and alongside ot whom Holmes sinks into insignif. canoe
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
GOING TO WAIST" AGAIN.

Of all the new womanish garments
 for ladies' wear that have sprung into prominence and popularity within the last year or two the shirt waist is in finitely the most unobjectionable. It is probably the only ladies garment that is at the same time both useful and becoming and in this connection it is worth while to note that it's pop ularity is something wonderful, for it is seldom indeed that fashion stoops to combine the attributes that make the ladies' shirt waist paragon of everything that woman should and will wear. In this whole Nation there is no garment more generally worn and wholesalers say that the shirt waist has come to stay. Alkire's have sold an enormous number of them this season and have lots now on hand. Beginning "Wednesday, July 22, they will start shirt waist sale with the view of closing out this seasons line
 The prices have been put away down
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
YET ANOTHER.
The Minneapolis Minister Wants tC
 Debate With Bryan.

MINNEAPOLIS, July 25.-The Rev. John Wesley Hill, pastor of the Fowler Methodist Episcopal church, of Min neapolis, who was formerly famous as ''the boy orator." and is now regarded as one of the most eloquent men in the pulpit, will challenge Candidate Bryan to a series of joint debates, writes Wm. E. Curtis in the Chicago Record. MT. Hill is about MT. Bryan S age and resembles him in (his style of oratory. During the campaigns of 1888 and 1892 he spent several weeks upon the stump and did effective ser vice for the Republican ticket. MT. Hill spent yesterday in Canton with Major Mckinley, discussing the line of argument to be followed if MT. Bryan accepts his challenge.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
A MORAL AND NICE BOOK.
What a Young Lady Thought of the New
 Testament.

It was once the good fortune of a Harper's Bazar writer to read, in the island of Fayal, letter just written by a young lady of Portuguese-English birth who had been reading the New Testament for the first time. It was worth while to see such letter, for many persons must have felt, first or last, with Thoreau, that it would be a delightful thing for anyone to encoun- ter those wonderful narratives as a fresh discovery, in maturer years, apart from all the too familiar associa- tions of Sunday school and sermon
 Such, as any rate, was this young ladys experience, and her statement of the result was at least a little astonish- ing She wrote, i'll her haif-foreign English, to an American friend in these words. Did you ever happen to read book called the New Testament? Ii not, I advise you to do so. l have just been reading it one of these days, and I find it very moral and nice book"
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
Kleptomanla.

To believe French writer, there are
 no fewer than four thousand women caught every year in stealing during their shopping expeditions, habit eu- phoniously styled kleptomania. The number of titled ladies seized with this strange malady while examining the fashions of Paris, he tells us, is incred- ible. Among the most recent culprits were a Russian duchess, French countess, an English duchess and the daughter of a reigning sovereign. As a rule, these distinguished offenders are let off on the payment of round sum for the relief of the poor; when the shoplifter is known to be rich, the sum extracted rises to as much as ten thousand francs. The police authori- ties consent to this sort of conformation.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
 UNPROTECTED GAME.
Suggestions for Sportsmen Who Want to
 Shoot Near Cities.

Shoot Near Cities.
 A good many shooters are puzzled to know how they can get practice for bird-shooting near the cities during close seasons without paying for prac- tiee at the traps.
 There are several kinds of birds which fly in such manner as to require skill in the killing, and are not protected by law at any time. Of course, a small- gauge gun is best for such practice, as it takes more skill to kill with it than with a big gun, and the more skill re- quired the better the practice.
 The kingfisher is rapidly-darting flyer, rather shy and hard to kill. With 2S-gauge gun a. shooters abilities would be we'll tested.
 The English sparrow, if put up badly scared, will give considerable sport, and the man who can get three with two shots out of small flying flock may regard himself as a good shot. Of course, a man wouldn't aim at the center of the flock, and pull. He aims at par ticular birds, and, if he misses the ones aimed at, he calls the shot d miss. Red winged and crow blackbirds fly rap idly, when their nests are rot near by. They are not protected, and may be found in partly wooded pastures.
 Some sportsmen may object to this as being useless slaughter, and it would be if the birds were thrown away. He would dress them all, except the king fishers, which taste fishy, and the pot pie they make would be followed by another before long. The English spar rows make fine stew, as the flesh is al ways hard and sweet.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
INGALLS, AND BRYAN.
What the Ex-Senator Thinks of the
 Chicago Nominee.

CLEVELAND. July 25.-Ex Senator John J. Ingalls,, when here, was driven to M. A. Hanna's house. He was told there that MT. Hanna had left only 8 few moments previous for Chicago. Mir. Ingalls, gave out the following inter- view:
 1T am personally acquainted with MT. Bryan, the Democratic nominee, and 1 have been impressed with the fact that he is somewhat stronger man than some of our friends have sup. posed. He is earnest, emerge etic, 6 splendid orator, and has a record of a clean domestic life. The fact that he is the youngest man ever nominated and that he is a poor man, together with his sudden rise to prominence, all com bine to arouse sentiment in bis favor.
 ''I very much fear that some of the Republicans are making a grave mis- take in advocating greater use of pamphlets and 8 corresponding eurtail- ling of stump speeches. The farmers of our great west have been reading pamphlets for 20 years, and they have been getting poorer every year. These men. as we'll as the wage earners, are far from satisfed-in fact, I do not know of any other time when there has been such general dissatisfaction. For years these men have been voting with their party, be it Democrat or Repu bli. can, and all the time have seen the1r farms steadily decrease in value and have heard the explanation on one side that it was due to free trade and on the
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26

and ladies will have an opportunity of laying in years supply at a figure
 that will urge them to invest.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26

other that it might be attributed to protection"
 In answer to a query the ex:senator said: II may again be candidate for the position which formerly occupied in the senate, but have as yet made no definite plans.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-26
NOT YET DECIDED.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.-No de- cision has yet been handed, down on the question of the constitutionality of the four year term for officeholders submitted to the supreme court.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-12-05
AN IMPROVED GAS SUPPLY.

The Indications Are That the West vir-
ginia Company VIII Buy Gas Out of Pre-
caution.
There is every indication that the
Natural Gas Company of West Virginia
is going so far in its efforts 10 keep
its promise 10 the citizens of Wheeling.
as TO be prepared TO buy gas from the
Wheeling Gas Company, in the event
that cold weather. accidental breaks,
or other causes makes its own supply
insufficient TO give everyone all the
fuel demanded.
For some time past gang Of men
have been at work on the lines of the
two companies, at Jonathan's ravine,
and they are evidently putting in a
connection between the two mains and
also a monster big gas meter, which
will measure the gas thus taken, and
for which the West Virginia Company
will make payment at market rates,
for the benefit of the domestic con-
sumption of the town. The Manufac-
turers Company has a large amount
of surplus gas. while the West Virginia
Company has not yet been able to COM
plete its connections with its new wells.
and il is very evident that the North
Wheeling connection now being made
is TO be used as an emergency resort
until such time as the West Virginia
Company can make its new wells avail
able
The domestic gas supply the last few
days has been very satisfactory.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-12-05
POLITICAL NOTES.

Or. s. L. s. Spragg. of the First ward,
has consented to become a candidate
Tor the First Branch OF Council from
that part of the city, and will make the
strongest possible candidate. For Sec
ond Branch. in that ward the names Of
W j. Johnston, DR.. Ridgeway and Prof
NcClelland are suggested. They would
make q strong ticket.
J. A. Clyker, the popular and we'll
known roller of the Belmont mill, is a
candidate for the First Branch of Coun-
ell from the Sixth ward His friends
predict that he viii be nominated and
elected without doubt
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-12-05
Duffy's Pure
Malt WhiSkey

The greatest and best of medicinal
stimulants The vitalizing principle
contained in the pure malt feeds and
nourishes every part Of the body tones
up the stomach and sharpens the appe-
tite. 1t soothes excited nerves, arouses
the circulation and restores lost en-
ergy. As a stimulant and tonic it has
never been eQualed.
No wide awake druggist or grocer
thinks OF being out Of Duffy's pure
malt.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-12-05
For Thin People,

Who lack strength and vigor there is
nothing better than pure malt stimu-
liant TO build up the system and clothe
the body with sound, healthy flesh.
Nothing so quickly gives new life TO
the debiIitated
This fact has been proved by thous-
ands Of men and women who have
gained health and strength by using
DUFFY'S PURE MALT WHISKEY
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-12-05
SMALL TALK.


George Robinson. of Aetnaville,
had a finger cut of yesterday on an
anvil.
There was q dance last night at
Myers Hall, on the South Side.
The Carroll Club Will give a ball
next Monday night at Beethoven Hall.
-Ventmesome youths are still skat-
ing on the creek. Notwithstanding the
drowning of a few days ago.
j. r. Jones. Fred Russell and Char
les Dannan some of the members Of
the late Chippewa Medicine Company,
which struck the breakers at Wheeling
and went 10 pieces at Finleyville. Pa,
are in Wheeling and stopping at Nor
CANS saloon, on Sixteenth street Rus
sell was the man who played the part
of comedian and who brought suit
against Crawford and Knull, the man
ayers of the company, before Squire
Rogers when they played in Wheeling.
Jones was the person who got the
worth of his salary by taking forciDle
vengeance out of Crawford at Finley
Vile. Knull. the other manager of the
company. is home i'm Wheeling. and
claims 10 have been sWindled by CraW-
ford also
The Panhandle Club will give a
ball at Turner Hall on New Years Eve.
Willie Zimmerman, the fourteen
year-old son of Officer Charles Tim
norman. of the Fifth ward, had his left
foot badly mashed at the Riverside
tue works yesterday by a piece OF
heavy metal falling on it.
Don't forget the supper at Third
Presbyterian Church this evening,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-12-05

This story abounds in striking incl
dent and the plot is sensationally de-
yeloped. THE Clock Struck One is
a story of murder and mystery with
a strong love interest.
Fergus Hume considers that this
New Novel is his best since THE Mys-
terry Of a Hanson Cab 1t has been
specially written for serial publication,
and each instalment Will De found to
be Of absorbing interest
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-12-05
SISTERSVILLE.

e-er.--e,-rrrr ~ Va December 4-
Mr.. b, T-r.r5[ and da1-5tars returned
.ri. r,or,ine. rom Rayenswood. where
I S,'' -.' g r.' ,.. -.'..,,7 -'-' w
H. $. Henry went to Cottageville. Jack
SON county This morning to personally
Ioal. o,..r rr,. .a-ae oiI interests the Henry
C1 Corparv have i'm that neiehborhood.
John Eclsbert local manager of the Car
fer oil Comranv. went down the road this
morning on company business.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-12-05
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Daily Chronicle of the Movements Of In
dividuals.

Daily Chronicle of the Movements of In
dividuals.
Special to the Register.
New York, December Al. Glass
and wife and Mrs. ~ E. Whitaker are
at the Imperial.
Miss Katherine McDonough. Of Bell
aire. is the guest of her grand parents
on Main street.
G. N. Connors. of South Jacob street,
is confined TO the house by an attack
of grippe
Thos. Davis and wife Of South Chap
line street. have been attending this
week the funeral of Mrs. Davis sister,
near Terra Alta.
Attorney w. c. Meyer left yesterday
on a trip down the river.
Walter Biedeman. who was formerly
employed i'm his brothers wall paper
store on Main street, is travelling for
a wholesale paper house of Cincinnati
Miss Iona Hunter. of NOundsyilie,
is visiting friends on the South Side.
Miss Annie Day, a prominent vocal
list of Hamilton. o.. Will be in the city
Sunday. and viii entertain u number Of
her friends.
Miss Ada Porter. of South Eoh street,
is visiting friends i'm Chicago.
-O-
Sterling silver and Derby Ware at Hill
man a Co.'sare cheaper than elsewhere.
Get the Best,-A
THE WHEELING DAILY REGISTER.
IOc PER WEEK.
Telephone, 9O1.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-12-05
N SOCIETY.

Miss Mamie Brady, of South Wood
street. gave a party Thursday evening
TO a number of her friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Nolte, of South
Chapline street, entertained delightful
~ q number of friends at their home
Thursday evening The evening was
pleasantly spent In euchre and partak-
ing of excellent refreshments.