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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

Not unless you have selected Xmas
present from our beautiful stock.
SYDNOR * HUNDLEY. Aha,
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Chase Brother. ptono s.,..

Our special sale continues until Janu-
airy lst. We have few big bargains In
Upright Pianos. at sf35 TO $50.
CHASE BROS PIANO co.
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sIightIy-Used Upright Pianos

from sl45 upward-several genuine bar
gains. Walter ID. Moses & Co.. 1905 Main
street
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A Large Issue.

Those 800 Desks are going like hot
cakes. Be sure you get enc. They have
a drawer. Aha,
sYDNOR q HUNDLEY.
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Orgnn,. scO. 90 Orenn..
Grrat PiauO Darrafns.

Immense stock. from $40 upward. Walter
d. Moses & Co.. 1905 Main street.
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Leave your Christmas orders for Huy-
ler's Candy, before the rush. with
r. l.. CHRISTIAN x co.
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Big reductions on all our stock till Jan.
uary lst. BE sure and see us before
buying-S40o Pianos now going at $50 only.
CHASE BROS PIANO co.
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We have three repossessed Pianos,
which we offer at surprisingly low prices.
Walter ID. Moses q, Co, 1905 Main street.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-23

finest in the world. Prices from SIS up
ward. Walter ID Moses & Co.
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Try-Try-Try

tions; made every hour. No. 10 north
Ninth street. His Bonbons are delicious.
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Jamaica am

jamaica and New England Rum:
French and California Brandy-very old
and rich in favor for eggnog-at
r. l.. CHRISTIAN & CO.'S.
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De Bor lie Due Jelly, Red and White.
made OF the whole currant--delicious with
venison and Wild duck-at
r. l.. CHRISTIAN & CO.'S.
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Write TO Us;

or better still. come and select a S Chif-
fonnier. Ahal
SYDNOR & HUNDLEY.
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Don't Fail to See

Kaempf. No 10 north Ninth street, and
buy your Candies. freshly made every
hour.
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steinvay Grand Upright Piano.

very slightly used. will be sold at a
great bargain. Walter d. Moses & Co.,
Main street
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ur... and Iron Fire-sets,

Tenders, Andirons. etc. etc.
A. b. CLARKE 4 SON.
No. 1890 Main street.
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omen Evenings.

Walter ID. Moses & Co.. 1905 Main. will
keep open every evening until Christmas
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Pulled and xtra-Large-Iayer Figs, of
superior quality. at
X. l.. CHRISTIAN & co.'s.
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at No. 10 north Ninth street. is the place
TO buy your Christmas Candies.
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The pispatch's New phone.

The No. OF the Dispatch's new phone
Is 1853 Patrons viii please note this
The old phone No. is 15S.
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Regina Music Boxes

for Xmas. We are sole agents. Walter
ID. Moses & Co, 1905 Main street.
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building up OF the new navy. and con-
trasted IL with the navy at the command
of the Pilgrim Fathers in 1872.
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Headquarters for Weather Strips,

Rubber and Felt.
A. B. CLARKE x SON.
No. 1920 Main street
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Holiday Excursion Rates via r., ".
and II. Railroad.
Only As5 Richmond to Washington
and return
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Old papers for sale at the Dispatch
office.
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The Weather.

X. L. tthicllAN * ". De
The Weather.
- WASHINGTON. December a.
Ir,n Forecast for Vlrginia~-Fair wea-
TAIN ther. preceded by snow In the
j northern portion: westerly 10
northeasterly winds
North Carolina and South Caro-
lina.-Fair weather; westerly 10 north
westerly Winds.
THE WEATHER IN RICHMOND YES
TERDAY was clear and pleasant, sol-
lowed by cloudy skies at night
State OF Thermometer:
A Nj. -
9 A. M...................... ....ss.......-sS
~ M............. ....ss...s....s.ss.......z
3 II. M................... ...............-..A
Il. M.....-............ss. s..s.....s.s..A
IL Night. .s..ss.ss....W
Mean Temperature ...........".,...Si-e i-e
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12
A Peculiar Cough.

At recent meeting of one of the
French societies a paper was read on
what was diagnosed as tonsilar cough.
This cough is described as violent, spas
modio and painful. 1t was frequently
accompanied by refexes in the neighbor-
ing region, and particularly by pro-
fuse watering of the eyes. All remedies
ordinarily applied produced no effect
whatever, and ms there was no expecto-
ration the origin of the cough has SEEM
ed obscure. The trouble, however, is ex-
planned by familiarity with the struc-
ture of the tonsils. Several sets Of nerves
center and blend at and near the outer
surface of the tonsils, where they form
what is described under the name of
tonsilar plexus. The tonsils are connect
ed by muscles with the apparatus of the
larynx, fact which makes treatment
of the tonsils complicated and difficult.
1t is common practice to cut off the
tonsils, but this has been attended with
very grave results. The hearing is some
times affected by this arrangement and
the larynx is necessarily involved. The
best surgeons are at present very careful
how they perform any surgical opera
tion on the throat or tongue, as 1t is u
fact past question that very few such
operations IRE successful in the long run.
There may be temporary relief, but II
is almost invariably shor', lived. New
York Ledger.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12
A Grave Blunter.

A German gentleman one day received
a telegram from the proprietor of hotel
in the south Of France informing him
Of the death of his aunt, and asking for
particulars as to the disposal Of the
body. The gentleman begged that the
body might be sent to Cologne, and, aft
er telegraphing to the. deoeased's rela-
tions to assemble in that city, travelled
thither himself. In due time the coffin
arrived. On being opened it was found
to contain the body, not of an amt, but
Of Russian general in full Uniform.
Further kilograms ELECTED the informa-
tion that the coffin containing the body
Of the deceased lady had been forwarded
in error to the relatives Of the Russia
general at St Petersburg. Urgent tele-
grams were dispatched to st. Petersburg.
and after three days of anxious waiting
this answer was reoeived: Your amt
has been inferred with full military
honors London Tit-Bits.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12
SYmpathY.

The Boston Transcript says that a
Clergyman was recently the guest Of o
friend who was q college president On
Sunday morning he arose very early and
went out to take walk in the delight
full air. Not soul was stirring at first,
but as the clergyman's steps led him to-
ward the business portion of the village
he noticed seedy looking individual
peering into various shady resorts in
turn. He watched him with a mild
curiosity, and apparently the other was
not wholly oblivious of him and
considered that the doctor Of divinity
was up for something. AT last, after
the two had proceeded all up and down
tho main street in semicompany, the
shabby and blear eyed man turned to
the immaculate minister and remarked,
with infinite sadness and pity in his
tone: " 'Tain't no use, pard. All the
places is closed up"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12
Pigeons outwit n Hawk.

The Southern Sportsman told recently
about flock of pigeons that measured
brains with hawk and came out on
top in the contest H. S. Edwards owned
q flock of pigeons which one day were
cut off from their cote by large hawk.
The pigeons knew that if the hawk once
got above them one at least OF their
number would go to make the hawk n
meal, and SO up they flew in circles,
perhaps hoping to go higher than the
hawk. In the rising game they were no
match for the hawk. The latter kept
under the pigeons and leisurely follow
ed their laborious movements.
Then came q curious and unexpected
sight to Mr. Edwards Every pigeon
closed its wings, when they appeared to
be the size Of sparrows and down they
came past the hawk at terrific rate.
That astonished the hawk. 1t actually
lodged the dropping birds and missed
half dozen wing strokes before it got
in full chase Of them. When it got
down to the barnyard, not pigeon was
in sight--some were in the cote, some
in the porch, two in the wellhouse, and
one was in the kitchen. The hawk had
been outwitted completely. II is ques-
tien how the pigeons managed to check
their fall, as they did not Slacken up
till they were about 10 or 90 feet above
the ground, when they scattered in all
directions to escape the hawk.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12
Stag Tiles.

BY means of an ingenious process in
vented by Marco Cheapponi the manu-
facture of Stag tiles from blast furnace
Stag is said to be successfully carried ON
at the smelling works of Concha Toro,
about ten miles from Santiago de Chile.
The result obtained evidently realizes
an important desideratum in this line.
The Stag and matte, according to this
plan, are tapped from the blast furnace
into a Stag pot, and, after settling u few
moments, the Stag is poured from ladies
into molds. These are placed on hearth
which has movable cover, and, the
molds being filed with Stag, q cover is
placed on them as we'll as on the hearth.
A very slight heat is kept up, so that
the Stag is very slowly cooled, and
when it appears black the molds are
lifted from the hearth, and the Stag tiles
are dumped into cold water. Made in
this manner, the Stag tiles are light and
portable, and, when laid, tough and
durable. The Stag carrying considera-
BILE amount of iron is preferred. 1t is well
known that. under ordinary circum-
stances it is impossible to produce tiles
of this class of suitable dimensions
without extraordinary means for tough
ening.-Dew York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12

The car stopped at Hillside avenue to
allow big, pompous looking man to
get on. There was but one seat in the
car that was not occupied by passen-
ger, and that was filed by an enormous
bundle, beside which sat little quiet
looking man reading a copy Of The
Windmill.
81 want that seat, remarked the big
man abruptly.
"All right" responded the little
one. "Why don't you take it?"
"Well, take that bundle out Of it,"
growled the other.
"Guess not" sententiously remarked
the man in the seat.
Whereupon the seeker for seat called
the conductor, who informed the little
man that if he did not at once remove
the bundle he would be thrown out into
the street.
"All right" said he. "Fire awayw
The big man and the conductor seized
him and were about to push him
through the door when man sitting
opposite, just awakening to the situa-
tion, looked up and said:
"Oh, beg pardon, that's my bundle.
Did you want it removed?"
Then the little one wondered how
much he would have recovered in a
damage suit if he had been thrown Off
the car, and the big man sat down
while his collar wilted and turned over
half way around his neck. West Med
ford Windmill.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12
Tho Town. Crooked Dividing Line.

"There is reason for most every
thing" said Cumberland county man
when he was asked how in the world
they came to have such a crooked line
between two towns in his county
"There's a reason for this crooked line
You see, some Of our towns establisheu
in pioneer times, when land was abun-
dant and people were few, had big ter
ritory, which was afterward sliced OF
to make new towns. 1t was so in the
case you mention, and when the cut of
was made people along the line Of di-
vision were of different minds as to
which town they wanted to be in. So
the legislature drew straight line be-
tween the two parts and then provided
that persons dwelling on lands adjoin-
ing either side of this line might be in
one town or the other, as they should
decide within 80 days after passing the
act. Some went one way and some tht
other, and the line was all skewed up
to accommodate them." - Lewiston
journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12
Hefting the Baby.

The fond mother who puts her infant
on the penny slot weighing machine
and exults over its pounds of solid flesh
only repeats the most ancient Of GUS
toms, "heftiug the baby" Thus Pro-
fessor Chamberlain's remarks may fur
nish many valuable anthropometric
data. Haberlandt has written curious
paper ON the weighing of men in India
and how the devotees to some of their
gods propitiated them by gift, the
weight of which exactly corresponds
with the ponderosity Of the supplicant
"Thou art weighed in q balance and
found wanting" (DanieD may have its
origin in this custom. Critical examina-
tions, curiously enough, were made in
the past as to the effectiveness Of prayer
in Brittany when an i'll man came to a
certain shrine seeking cure. He was
weighed, so as to see whether he gained
or lost flesh as the religious regimen
under the priests was being carried out.
Professor Chamberlain gives an Eskimo
custom: When man or a woman is
sick, the nrrse puts II stone under the
patients headrest. Then she weighs
the stone in her hands daily, and if,
supposedly, the stone feels heavier, then
the sick one will be cured. If the stone
seems to be lighter, then there is nc
chance of recovery. 1t is doubtful wheth'
er an Italian woman having a chill
born in America would ever submit il
ITO the trial of the balance. 1t would be
deemed unlucky. York Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12
italian Shepherds.

As to their moral and intellectual
characteristics, these vary not only &C.
cording to their native district, but also
according 10 their social station. Be-
tween the prosperous shepherds from the
mountains of Pistoja, imbued with the
proverbial courtesy Of the Tuscan, speak
ing the purest Italian, acute, intelligent,
q fluent story teller, and often an extern
pore poetizer, down to the wretchedly
poor, brutalized peasant from the Ro-
magma, clad from head TO foot in filthy
sheepskins, and who, with difficulty,
keeps body and soul together with the
proceeds of his small flock of half
starved sheep, whose only pasture is on
the pathways and byways or furtively
cropped from forbidden ground, be-
tween such two extremes the gradations
are numberless, but Notwithstanding
certain traits of character are common
to all. Common to all is the life they
lead, solitary and wandering, now on
the lonely heights of the Apennines,
now ON the still lonelier plains Of the
Mar6mma They are hardly ever seen
even in the larger villages, and it is
only from some lofty hilltop that they
have a distant glimpse of the towns,
those modern Babylons, on which they
gaze with mixed feelings Of curiosity
and aversion.
Always alone, they necessarily be-
come taciturn, and, therefore, medita-
tive. Their life out of doors, without
manual labor or fixed application, leads
them to apply their minds to study the
phenomena of nature, the habits of an
imals, the properties of plants or the
course Of the stars. The necessities of
their nomadic existences teach them to
apply this knowledge, and they become
terrible poachers, clever veterinarians,
tanners, herbalists, basket makers,
stocking knitters, sometimes excellent
joiners and shoemakers. Good Words.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12
cRUDlTY IN EUROPEAN ART.
Americans Have Satisfied the Hunger For
n New Creation.

Is there 10 art in Morse's telegraph,
in Fulton's steamboat ur Colts revolver
or in an American cultivator but only
in n morbid projection upon canvas of
Dante's insane portraitures of II sup
posed but impossible torture of lost
souls in hell or the ever recurring
monks of the wine cellar lewdly gliding
the waiter girls that bring them their
iDebriating cups? Two-thirds Of all the
80 called art of Europe consists of pic
lures that are both deniable and un-
true, designed to commemorate events
that never occurred or to preserve our
reverence for ideas which the human
mind no longer seriously entertained.
American art must be the embodiment
of American ideals and not the reflex of
medieval ideals which no longer COM
mand the sincere respect Of even the
European mind. The art of Europe is as
crude in its way as that of America, be-
cause il does not relate to ideas that are
now or ever again can be potential over
the human mind.
The most powerful and artistic fiction
Of modern times, perhaps of any period,
whether judged by the extent TO which
it has been read, dramatized, acted, inn
itated and translated or by the depth of
its revolutionary effects on society, is
"Uncle Toms Cabin. 1t drew much
of its power from the hunger the world
felt for new art that should be Amer
ican. Irving wrote volumes on England,
Spain, Nohammedan histories, etc, all
of which are passing into waste paper
because they have not the originality of
true art, while his name lives only in
that small portion of his work whose
theme was American-viz, the legend
of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Wrinkle and
Diedrich Knickerbocker. Humboldt
showed that travel and observation were
fine arts, and that the best field for
their practice lay in America. Audubon
lifted the study of birds into fine art
and found no field necessary TO its prac-
tice but America. Lowell, Mark Twain
and Bret Harte have lifted American
humor into an art so fine that the Euro
pean world itself is inquiring whether
all real humor is not exclusively al
American art. t.-Gunton' Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12
NUMBER IA.
49, e.
White brook Trout.

Did you ever see white brook trout
milk white save for the delicate ira
ceries of his Just perceptible spots and
for the crimson tipped fms below? 1t is
not likely you ever did, unless you have
stood where stood some time ago and
looked down into the fish hatchery
ponds and tanks, where I saw moro
than 1000 of these white trout in one
long tank and perhaps 100 larger ones
in grass fringed pond outside of the
hatchery walls. The white brook trout
full fish, and if his race is to be perpetu-
ated, as seems probable, a rare addition
will be made to the brooks.
One day when workman in the
state fish hatchery near this city cbanced
to see two little trout, pure white and
perfectly formed, darting around among
thousands of others at the bottom Of the
gravelly tank, he made up his mind he
would see il they could not be kept
alive separate from the rest and raised
to mature fishhood. He succeeded better
than he had anticipated, and there are
1000 progeny Of this fruitful pair. The
only obstacle which seems to be in the
way of their becoming popular addi-
tion to the trout streams is their alb
normal shyness, shyness which seems
to amount almost to shamefacedness.
OF course, the average brook trout is one
of the cutest Of the whole finny tribe
and not overanxious at any time to
show himself, but these white trout are
strangely averse to publicity, so to
speak. Paul Letter in Chicago
Record
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12

There are some people who will not
believe the following story of horse
which takes the end of a hose pipe in his
mouth and holds it there until his thirst
is quenched, but it is said to be fact.
The horse is owned by f. s. Brown Of
Ansonia, Conn.,, and the horse is sta
bled at Curtis livery barn. 1t was sew
eral days ago that one of the stablemen,.
while fooling with him. offered him the
end of the hose pipe, through which the
water was flowing, and, to his surprise,
the horse took it in his mouth and held
1t there until he had good drink. The
next time the horse was led to the
trough he of his own accord took hold
OF the pipe and succeeded in getting
the end in his mouth and had good
drink and continues to do 80 day after
day. Boston Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12

81 want transfer to the depot" said
the Lady with feather in her bonnet.
Certainly, madam; which depot?''
asked the conductor. II want it to the
depot, repeated the lady of the feather.
"But I don't know which depot you
mean." replied the conductor. "Never
you mind what you know and what you
don't know, snapped the woman; you
do as you are told You give me a
transfer, do you hear?" But 81
won't have your but Just you give me
that transfer or Twill report you" And
the conductor gave it to her, while every
one on the car hoped he had sent her to
the wrong place. Memphis CONNER
cial-Appeal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12
Mail Catchers.

"That man is mail catcher" re-
marked a clerk at the city postoffice.
land one of class who are in such a
hurry for their letters that they cannot
wait for them to be delivered in the
regular way. They stand in line as ev-
cry mail is being opened and want their
letters Immediately. As a rule they are
a second rate kind Of agents who have
no Office, and they are anxious about
their letters for the reason that they ex-
pect fees or remittances in them. They
come ss regularly and as frequently as
do the mails, never say word and de-
part az soon as the mails are opened,
and they find that there lis or is not
something for them, only to come again
at the next mail arrival "-Washington
Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-08-12

The first coins really deserving the
name Of United States coinage were
struck of as pattern pieces" by Ben
jamin Dudley at the instigation Of Rob-
ert Morris and We're laid before congress
in 1888 as specimens of what the coin
age should be. They were mark
and "quint" and thus described: The
"mark'--obverse; an eye, the center
of glory, 18 points cross equidistant
u circle of as many stars. The "quint"
is similar in design. the value ON re-
verse being noted.