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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-21
ROANOKE.
Employees Paid On-Denth from
niuhtheria.

ROANOKE. VA. March 2-tspeciaL)-
The employees OF the Roanoke Machine
works were paid of this afternoon. The
amount disbursed was s6l.5sS50.
Mary v. Stonesifer, daughter OF Z. NJ.
sionesifer, died fhis morning at the home
OF her father OF diphtheria; aged 10 years.
There have been several deaths from TINS
disease In the city recently.
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TAKE NOTICE.

I make a speciality in treating the fol,
lowing diseases: Kidney, Liver, and
Bladder Troubles: Throat and Lung
Troubles; rheumatism. and Lumbago;
and | have cured thousands Of case or
this kind, and can cure thousands more.
Address all letters 10 -
T. c. BLACKSTONE,
Post-Oflice Box ~, MillsbOrO', Del.
All letters answered promptly;
NH Sl-4W
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF RICHMOND. MARCH % 1896.
ARRIVED
Steamship Richmond, Davis, Norfolk.
merchandise and passengers; George w.
Allen & CO., agents.
SAILED.
Steamship Richmond. Davis, Norfolk.
merchandise and passengers; George w.
Allen & Co., agents.
Steamer Pocahontas Graves. Norfolk:
Virginia Navigation Company.
PORT OF NEWPORT NEWS, MAR. 20.
by teiegrapn)
ARRIVED
British steamship Legislator. Galvcstoni
Tenny.
Schooner l.. C. Anderson, Fall Riveri
Captain Potter.
SAILED.
British steamship Legislator. Liverpool
Schooner Governor Ames, Providence.
Schooner w. II. Hood, Providence.
Schooner s. Il. Kaplan, Boston.
Schooner II. Dean, Boston.
Barge Nancy Pendleton, New York.
PORT OF WEST POINT. MARCH -. 1879
(By telegrsph)
ARRIVED.
Steamship Baltimore. Murphy. Balti-
more: passengers and general cargo.
SAILED.
Steamship Baltimore, Murphy, Balti-
more: passengers and general cargo.
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MEETINGS.

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA.
RICHMOND. March 20. 1896.
A CALLED MEETING OF THE
IA BOARD OF VISITORS OF THE MEpl-
CAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA will be
held I'm the college building on TUES
DAY, March 81, 1896. at IL o'clock NJ.
BY order of Judge William w. Crump,
President. DANIEL ID. TALLEY,
NH N-2t Secretary.
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Cash quotations: Flour was quiet and
unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat, 6o%c.
asked; No. red. So S-SGsiAc, No. corn.
Nl7Ik6lx5 20. Short-clear sides. 81. 80.
Dry-salted shoulders, Si.62i11N65 Short
clear sides, $50. Whiskey, III
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SOLITUDE AND SILENCE.
A Peculiar Charm Possessed by South 4
rican Scenery.

A Peculiar Charm Possessed by South Al.
rican Scenery.
A peculiar charm which South Afri-
can scenery possesses is that of primeval
solitude and silence. It is charm
which is differently felt by different
minds There are many who find the
presence Of what Homer calls "the rich
works Of men, essential to the perfec-
ton Of landscape. Cultivated fields,
gardens and orchards, farmhouses dot
ted here and there, indications in one
form or another Of human life and Ia
Dor, do not merely give greater variety
to every prospect, but also impart all
element which evokes the sense Of SYM
pathy with our fellow men and excites
a whole group of emotions which the
contemplation of nature, taken by it.
self, does not arouse
No one is insensible to, these things,
and some find little delight in any scene
from which they are absent Yet there
are other minds to which there is some
thing specially solemn and impressive
in the untouched and primitive sim
plicity of country which stands now
just as it came from the hands of the
Creator. The self suficientness of ma
ture, the insignifcance Of man, the
mystery of a universe which does not
exist, as our ancestors fondly thought,
for the sake of man, but for other pur-
poses hidden from us and forever undis-
coverable-these things are more fully
realized and more deeply felt when one
traverses an immense wilderness which
seems to have known no change since
the remote ages when hill and plain and
valley were nodded into the forms we
see today.
Feelings Of this kind powerfully af-
feet the mind Of the traveller in South
Africa They affect him in the Karroo,
where the slender line of rails, along
which his train creeps all day and all
night across long stretches of brown
desert and under the crests of stern,
dark hills, seems to heighten by con-
trast the sense of solitude-a vast and
barren solitude interposed between the
busy haunts of men which he has left
behind on the shores of the ocean and
those still buster haunts whittier he is
bent, where the pick and hammer sound
upon the Witwatersrand and the p.i}pi-
tating engine drags masses Of ore from
the depths of the crowded NINE They
affect him still more in the breezy high
lands Of Matabeleland, where the eye
ranges over an apparently endless sue
cession Of undulations clothed with tall
grass or waving wood, till they sink in
the blue distance toward the plain
through which the great Zambezi takes
it's seward course Professor James
Bryce, M. P, in Century.
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MASCULINE MEDICINE CHESTS.
Every Man Carries His Favorite Remedy
Always With Him.

Every Man Carries His Favorite Remedy
Always With Him.
It is customary for men to sheer good
naturally at the physical weaknesses of
the opposite sex, but women would
doubtless be surprised could they know
how generally the medicinal remedy
habit permeates the ranks of their mas
culine friends. Think over your list of
male acquaintance and pick out the
few who have no ailments and carry no
bottles, powders or prescriptions. They
will be very few indeed, unless your list
includes but very young men.
It has been said that every woman
knows the best face wash on earth and
is willing to part with her secret only
on compulsion, but will try anything
else suggested by friend But men are
the most obstinate believers in sovereign
remedies. Every man carries at least
one remedy in his inside pocket and is
willing to unload it on anybody who
will listen Or dare to test its infallibil-
ity. 1 have known four OR five healthy
looking men in a group not one of
whom would be suspected of ever being
ill, draw concealed walls of pellets and
little unsupported boxes of pills and as
tonishingly worded prescriptions from
their confidential hiding places and dis,
course most learnedly upon their miracu-
lous powers.
In every case of this kind there has
been at some time, more Or less remote,
an apparent justification of merit claim
ed, from which time and thenceforth
forever that particular individual goes
contentedly and even boastingly bound
to that medicinal chariot wheel.-New
York Herald.
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THE CITY SMiTHY.
No Spreading Chestnut Tree, but Pictur-
esque Surroundings Not Lacking.


esque Surroundings Not Lacking.
''Under spreading chestnut tree the
village smithy stands" but the city
smithy may be found III variety Of
places. It may perhaps be in down
town street devoted TO commerce. with
the bellows resting upon framework
overhead to save space, with the nozzle
running into the forge at the end Of a
pipe and the handle to the bellows
hanging at the end Of rod Or chain. 1t
may be forge up on the structure Of
the elevated road heating rivets in the
air, or it may be on the seventeenth
story Of some lofty steel frame building
under construction, and the coal for
this smithy may be dumped alongside OF
it from q cart that has been hoisted
from the street below at the end Of
chain depending from a steam derrick.
Perhaps it is by the riverside max
ing or mending irons for ships, or
alongside the cable road in busy Broad
way at night lighted by fiaring gaso-
line torch. It may be in movable
shanty set up where they are getting
out rock to make cellar space. Here
they sharpen drill points, fhe hammer
ringing on the anvil while the bouncing
steam drills close at hand are nolslty
pounding down through the rock.
There may be over it no spreading
chestnut tree, but the city snithy does
not lack picturesque surroundings, and
the city blacksmith may easily be a
mighty man.-New York Sun.
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The Vigesimal System.

One of the facts presented by Profess.
or Conant in his interesting volume,
afhe Number Concept, " is the way Gel
TIC races have held on to the vigesimal
system, OF Enumeration having 20 as
basis. 1t is found in old Irish, Welsh,
Gaelic, Manx and Breton. When, how.
ever, 1000 is reached, then comes in the
Latin, as if the effects of Roman con-
quest were visible, for in Irish, Gaelic
and Breton 'smile" CT mil" is 1000.
Another popularity is that in French
the persistence of the yigesimal system
is visible. The French so is quatre-
vingt, four times 20, and their 80 is
quatre-vingt-dix, Or four times 20, with
10 added. In old French soixante for 60
does not appear. 1t was treis VIM, or
three times 20. One hundred and TWEEN
ty was six yinz-that is, sig times 20v-
aud sept VIM, Or seven times 30, was
40. In Africa the vigesinal system is
rare, but in Asia it is not uncommon,
and is i'll use in northern Siberia.
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Mime. Melba's Wigs.

81 wish you would tell me by what
mysterious processes you succeed in find
ing such appropriate and becoming wigs
Everybody speaks Of them and declares
that these Is no one on the stage today
who manages to look so entirely natural
with artificial heads Of hair; How do
you contrive itl''
"Ah," replied Nine. Melba, ''don't
fancy for moment that those wigs are
haphazard affairsl They are like all the
rest Of my artistic equipment, the result
Of much thought, accompanied by a
conscientious ambition to do thorough
ly everything attempt. Almost every
one of those wigs is an exact copy OF
GONE head of hair that have seen and
admired and had reproduced from the
original. That is why they look SO nat
ural. Take this Jn1iette, for instance,
which I myself think is paftieularly
pretty. I got that from the famous
WORMS little daughter. I saw the child
one day while ] was calling about some
gowns and was at once impressed with
the beauty of her hair. ".Juliette, " said
I &c myself, and forthwith borrowed the
child and bore her off to my eoiffeur:
There, said / to him, ] want you TO
COPY that head exactly, hair for hair.
~
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ROSE a LINERS GRAVE.


an English grave meath indian skies,
Married - stone,
And this is where Rose Aylmer lies,
Far, fowerless, and alone.
Rose Aylmer was a poets love,
Sweet, beautiful and young;
Her elegy, in melody,
The poet lover sung.
About her grave no flowers grow,
No pleasant boughs are stirred,
No gentle sun, no quiet snow,
No English bee or bird.
The suns of springtime scorch the stone,
In summer, storm and rave
The winds that herald the cyclone,
The rains that lash the grave.
Rose Aylmer's sister flowers should spring
In whitest bloom above;
The roses Landor could not bring,
Far distant from his love.
And now snake lives near her bed,
The crows perch on the rail,
A kite sweeps past, and overhead
The unclean vultures sail.
"Ah, what avails the sceptered race,
All, what the form divinel
What every virtue, every gracel
Rose Aylmer, all were thine.
Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes
May weep, but never see,
A night Of memories and of signs
consecrate to thee"
All, why regret the gloomy hearse,
The land of banishment9
This is her grave, but Landor's verse
Rose Aylmer's monument.
Rose Aylmer, on thy namestone lies
Loves rose Immortality,
The Rose of memories and of signs,
Once consecrate to thee.
Temple Bar.
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ployed discreetly, other wise the good looks
of the wearer are apt to pale above the
glittering mass of paste.
Streamers are threatening to appear
again. Many Of the newest models of hats
and bonnets have scarf of gauze, chiffon,
lace or tulle falling from the back, Or long
ends of ribbon.
Pompadour ribbons prevail as MILL
psry trimming. They are very pretty and
delicate and are we'll suited to accompany
light straws and mingle with flowers and
lace, but are rather youthful in effect.
The trimming of hats is inclined to be
massive this season. Large flowers, many
roses, immense bows and clouds of tulle
render the fully equipped fashionable wo-
man rather topheavy in appearance.
The sketch shows hat of coarsely
braided fancy straw, trimmed with roses
and foliage and cluster of black plumes.
The cape is of black satin, over which is a
flounce of white guipure and over that
again two very full flounces of black silk
gauze. In front two large reyers of black
satin are ornamented by large paste but
tons and terminate in choux and long ends
of black satin. Between the revers is
roquille arrangement Of white guipure and
3 black gauze collafette surrounds the
aeck. JUDO CHoLLET,
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aside for awhile. Smooth aud silky sur
faced fabrics have now taken it's place.
There is new poplin which is very light,
really kind of poplin muslin, with one
rib thick and rich and the other almost
transparent. This has, despite it's light
ness, an excellent effect. Chine silks are
still worn very much, and where the color
is bright it is cleverly toned by single
yelling of black chiffon. The newest chine
silks have Louis Seize and Louis Quinze
designs and are made up in the very pref
TEST possible modern adaptations of the
styles prevailing in those periods.
An illustration is given of an out of
door gown of hortensia cashmere, with
silk figures. The godet skirt has in front
large plait ON each side of the tablier.
The bodice is trimmed with bands of rose
silk ornamented with black cord Bre-
telles Of black satin, with coques in front,
pass under the bands and terminate in
cluster of loops at the waist behind. The
epaulets are of rose and black silk, and tho
bouffant sleeves have cuffs of the same
material. The capoto of jet, is trimmed
with large loops. JUDO CHOLLET.
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MILLINERY NOTES.

Colored Straw Hats With Every Variety of
Trimming Threatened Again.
Millinery is exceedingly varied in char
acter this year. One of the most noticeable
fashions is that of straw hats in solid col
ors-violet, green, yellow, red and blue OF
very decided shades. Fable ribbons and
those made of changeable taffeta or with
cashmere pattern are much employed as
trimming, as we'll as masses of flowers
plumes and wings made of straw, spangled
and embroidered. Hats of all sizes are
worn, large, medium and small.
Violet and green appear to be the favor
tie tones for millinery, while one of the
most charming and novel trimmings for
hats and bonnets consists of fine black
horsehair lace or insertion, very cleverly
checkered with an applique design Of
cream or white lace, picked out with
spangles and beads or with the tiny di-
amante particles that stud not only milli-
merry, but also evening dresses. This reign
of diamonds upon dresses is very effective,
undoubtedly, but it requires to be en-
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Useful Gum Chewing.

Useful Gum Chewing.
Even SO disagreeable habit as gum
chewing may once in a great while
serve useful purpose, as witness an
incident narrated by the Chicago Jour
nal:
A guest was washing his ring in a
washbowl, when the diamond came out
and started for the sewer. It could be
seen at the turn in the pipe, but was
out of reach.
The clerk Of the Auditorium annex,
in which the accident occurred, ap-
peared on the scene. He was equal to
the emergency. He called bellboy and
sent for package of chewing gum.
When it was brought, the boy chewed
gum as he never had before. Then put
ting the soft, plastic guild on the end
of long lead pencil, he reached for
the diamond. His aim was true. The
diamond stuck in the gum and was
brought out safely.
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ARlzoNA,s MOUNTAIN PUZZLE.
Is 1t q Hole Through an inaccessible Peak
or Only Natural Mirror?


or Only a Natural Mirror?
For the last half century the A1neri-
can residents of Tucson, A. T., have
been trying to solve a mystery in the
shape of what appears to be hole
through mountain peak in plain sight
from the town. In the rarefied air 1t
looks to be only short distance away,
when in reality it is at least 40 miles
The earliest residents noticed the phe-
nomenon, and the only difficulty that lay
in the way of finding out just what it was
was the fact that it was inaccessible,
and when they came anywhere near the
spot the hole disappeared from sight.
In fact, it can only be seen from within
few miles of Tucson, and this has led
many people to believe that it is not
hole at all.
By the aid Of good marine telescope
the mountain can be brought to within
few miles, but not near enough to tell
the exact nature of the rock formation.
An astronomical telescope cannot be TO-
cused on it, as the mountain is too near.
A first peep through the glass would
lead one to believe that there was no
mystery about it. The hole appears as
plain as possible, but several days. study
of the spot will develop the fact that
the hole does not always look the
same. Many days when the sky is dark
behind the mountain the hole will ap-
pear brilliant white, like a snowdrift,
and on days when the sky is blue it will
often look so dark as to be almost in
visible. These facts have led many to
think that it is an immense piece Of
mica lying with its polished surface to-
ward the sky and rejecting the cloud
formations of another part of the hori-
zon instead Of being the light seen
through hole Viewed with the naked
eye the hole simply appears as white
spot, but the telescope reveals pine trees
and other details, although very indis-
tinctly.
The range of mountains in which the
strange peak can be seen is known as
the Catalinas, and numerous parties
have made the attempt to climb it, but
all have failed on account Of the steep
and rugged precipices in the vicinity.
The peak is a high one and can be seen
from any point in the journey toward
it, but when ten miles out of Tucson the
hole can no longer be seen, even with
the aid of glass. This can be explain
ed on the mica theory, as surface of
that material would not reflect ray of
light toward a PERSONS eye after they
got out of it's angle of projection. San
Francisco Call
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crime, on Its first anniversary. But the
powerful chief needed not his words.
"Away with him!'' he said sternly as
he lifted his goblet to his lips; and there
was struggle, a shrek of agony and
then splash upon the river wave, and
all was silent.
A year went by in festival and pride,
and the day on which that monstrous
crime had been committed returned I'M
needed. There was feast in the castle,
and Stibor, who month after month
gave himself up yet more to self indul-
gence, gradually became heavy with
wine, and his attendants carried him to
couch beside the same window whence
the unfortunate slave had been hurled
10 months before.
The guests drank on for time, and
made merry at the insensibility and
helplessness of their powerful host, and
then they departed, each to his business
or pleasure, and left him there alone.
The easement had been flung back to
admit the air freely into the heated
apartment, and the last reveler had
scarcely departed, when a raven-the
somber messenger of Nemesis-few
thrice round the battlements of the cas-
tie, and then alighted ON the balcony.
Several of the guests amused their idle
ness by watching the evolutions of the
ill omened bird, but once having lost
sight of it they turned away and thought
of it no more.
Meanwhile work of agony and death
had been delegated to that dark winged
messenger. 1t rested but an instant from
its flight ere once more it lowered over
the couch of the sleeping Stibor, and
then, darting down, its sharp beak pene-
trated at one thrust from his eve into
his brain!
The agony awoke him, but he awoke
only to madness from it's extent He
reeled to and fro, venting imprecations
to which none was by to listen, and
writhed until his tortured body was one
convulsion. At length, by mighty eff
fort, striving to accomplish he knew not
what, he hurled himself over the bal
cony, at the selfsame spot whence the
slave had been flung by his own COM
mand, and as he fell the clear waters of
the Waag for time resisted the impure
burden and threw him back shrieking
and bowling from their depths.
But he sank at last, and when his
parasites sought him On the morrow
they found only the couch on which he
had lain and few drops of blood to-
hint that he had died death of vio--
lence and vengeance.
They searched for him carefully ON
all sides, and then, when they were
quite assured that he had passed away
never to return, whispers grew Of the
gray headed slave and the mysterious
raven-until by degrees the fate Of the
famous Stibor was fashioned into form,
and grew into a legend throughout the
country, soaring the village maiden in
her twilight walk and the lone shepherd
in his watch upon the hills.-Exchange
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WARM WEATHER GOWNS.

Thin Waists With Silk Linings-Poplin,
Mohair and Other Smooth Fabrics.
Bodices of thin goods like muslin, lawn
and nainsook are made over fitted lining
of faille or silk. The outer material is
not attached to the lining save at the arm
holes, neck and under arm seams. The
bones are put in the lining. The back of
the bodice is plain, without seams, and is
laid In plaits at the waist.
If silk is too expensive lining, it may
be replaced by nainsook or sateen, but
these materials will not give as satisfao-
tory an effect as silk
The trimmings most employed for thin
gowns are lace, fine or heavy, in founces
or application, on a plain ground, or q
tone different from the body of the cos
tune; ribbons for belts, epaulets, bows,
choux and bretelles; white or tinted en-
broideries and fine, openwork galloons.
So far as it is possible at present to
Judge, alpaca is in for another season of
vast popularity. The shades in which it
Is produced are lovely, and the new kinds,
woven moro coarsely with twills and with
chine designs, are as rich looking as silk.
Canvases of mohair will be fashionable,
and SO will poplin canvas. Crepon is laid
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Obliged to Give Up His Elephant Chops.

Obliged to Give Up His Elephant Chops.
"We used to have elephant chops for
breakfast regularly in Africa, ," said a
traveller who has just returned to the
city after long absence, land occa-
slonally we have them here, and I like
'em, but we live in fiat, the kitchen is
small, we can't get but one chop into it
ut time, and the cook has to stand out
on the fire escape and turn it with a
pitchfork, and it's such slow, incon-
venlent way of cooking them that sup
pose we'll have to give 'em up. New
York Sun.
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EIrs. Howe,s Husband,

Apropos Of the 'snew woman" some
body resurrected an old story the other
day about Mrs. Julia Ward Howe that
may or may not be true 81 all events,
it was worth resurrecting. The story
goes that Mrs. Howe was one fine morn
ing walking down Beacon street, Ros-.
ton, when she met friend. who asked
her how Dr. Howe was. ''Dr. Hover"
repeated Mrs Howe vaguely. Then, as
II suddenly rec9llecting herself :Ob:
he's quite well, sure.
seein9..in the + ~
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His Excuse.

Observation-Disclosures charged with
stealing some diamond studs. Have you
anything to say?
Prisoner-Well, yer worship, the card
ON which was the studs was marked
collar studs, SO I took it as an invi-
iatlon, an did collar 'em!ALondon Fun.
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A Good Reason.

Hostess-After I had finished singin,
last evening, Mr.. Gusher told me / ap
preciated music thoroughly
Galleries. He told nue. he though
that was the reason you didn t sing Of
tener.-Truth