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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
Some Interesting Facts Regarding
the Output of Crescent bicycles.

This article is intended to convey con.
ception of the enormous amount of raw ma
teral consumed during a season in supply
ing the demand for one of the most popular
bicycles made. The Western Wheel Works,
Chicago, makers of the Crescent wheel, have
the largest, and without doubt the most
complete, bicycle factory in the world, and
can turn out, when running to fullest ca
Pacity, I25 finished Crescents in twelve
hours, or complete up to date" bicycle
per minute.
They used during 1896 $50 miles of tub.
ing, or enough to nearly reach from Chi
eago to st. Paul if placed in straight line.
The spokes were made in their own fac
tory, and required $50 miles of wire, or
enough to reach from Chicago to Lincoln,
Neb.; 80 miles of brass rod was required
Tor spoke nipples. If the spokcs, spske nip
pies and tubing were placed in a straight
line they would reach from Chicago to the
Rocky Mountains ut Denver. The cranks,
II placed end to end, would cover distance
OF y miles. They used 35 miles of steel for
crank aNles, wheel axles and pedal axles,
and ~ miles of steel for seat posts. If the
rims that were used in the manufacture Of
Crescents in 06, were placed one upon the
other they would make a pile l9,SOO feet
high, 5000 feet higher than Pixies Peak
and about the height of Mount Elias in
Alaska, whose summit has never yet been
reached by man. 1t required 32,0S4 square
feet OF sheet steel to make the Crescent
noiioW IOoJn SprOcKeIS, ana Zl,oIO square
feet for the steel stampings of the head and
seat post clamps, or in all enough fiat steel
to cover an area of II acres. There were
used 10 miles of cork grips, lOs miles of
finished hubs, and % miles of steel wire to
pin! frames together before brazing. The
finished chains, end to end, would reach
20 miles, and the different pieces of which
they are composed would reach 2371 miles,
or in all 307i miles, the distance from Chi.
oago to Cincinnati. The bearings of 1898
Crescents required l3,997,3OO steel balls,
which, if placed in a straight line, side by
side, would reach distance of 4S9 miles.
To lace the chain and dress guards on the
ladies, Crescents manufactured in 1896 re-
qured 434, $50 yards of cord, or 2465 miles.
enough to allow n small boy to stand on
the, top of the Auditorium tower in Chicago
and fly his kite where the people in Des
Moines, Iowa, could see it. 10 supply
SCrescents sold in 1896 required l,6O6,742
bolts, and l,4SS075 nuts, having an agGre-
gate weight of % tons. The total weight
of the complete bicycles was 2,3s2,S42
pounds, or / l,l9l tons. To crate these bi.
cycles required l,235,740 square feet of lum-
ber made up in pieces; 72,7lS,66S separate
and distinct pieces entered into the con.
struction of '96 Crescents, and if all were
placed in a straight line, end to end, they
would reach from New York to some dis
tance in the Pacific ocean west of San Fran.
cisco.-Crescent Bulletin, July l. 1897.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

some offer to make the ascnnsions with
him. and promptly accepted the offer.
l was greatly interested in my new
work, and gradually begun to add some
attractions such as performing on the
trapeze bar as the ascension was made,
and then parachute leaps from the bal
loon, high in air. But never attempted
any such attraction as was exhibited
when | went up hanging by one foot to
the drag-rope."-Webb Donnell, in
Golden Days.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
WOMEN ON FARMS.
Extent of the Help Which New Eng
land Wives Give.


land Wives Give.
The women are true helpmeets. Not
only do they do their own work, but
they are able and willing to milk the
COWS and assist with the hay-getting
and in other ways lend a hand out of
doors i'll emergencies. Some of them
even eke out the family income by lit
tie ventures of their own, such as rails
ing hens and bees and gathering and
marketing spruce gum, beechnuts and
blueberries. There is no servant girl
problem, because there are no servants.
When sickness or some other real dis
ability necessitates female help in the
household a neighbours daughter is
called in. She is, of course, regarded.
and in every minutest particular treat
ed, as member of the family; it could
not be otherwise. The children are
trained to bear their share of the fam
ily burden, so far asit can be done with
out interfering with their schooling,
and the very school terms are arranged
with view to conflicting as little as
possible with farm work. When the
children grow up many of them go out
into the world to seek their fortunes
(that, within reasonable limits, is a
law of nature), but there is nothing
like an exodus of the rising generation,
no approach to depletion. Plenty of
ambitious, vigorous young men stay
behind to arrange themselves in life as
their fathers did before them, chopping
in the woods winters and tilling the
few acres they have been able to pur-
chase with their winters savings sum
mers. Furthermore, there are plenty of
desirable young women happy and
proud TO cast their lots in with the
young men and do their share of the
drudgery necessary to establishing
home. Thus new farms are cleared out
of the woodland and the old farms are
kept up.--Atlantic.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
SPEAKS ENGLISH WELL.
WO Ting Fang, China's Ambassador
to the United States.

~ the Ahlteu Sthtes.
The appointment of Wo Ting Fang
as ambassador from China to the United
States is departure in the choice of
diplomats sent to this country from
the big Asiatic empire.
Mr.. Wo is the first such ambassador
able to dispense with an interpreter
even for the most delicate international
negotiations. An American who has
been with Mr.. Wo repeatedly on pleas
ure trips in China says he speaks Eng
lish more huently than any of the Off
cial Chinese whom he has ever met.
Mr.. Wo can never belong to the high
est class, because he preferred studying
abroad to remaining at home and TAX
ing the complicated studies necessary
to attain rank. In spite of that he has
made a record unparalleled by any of
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
WHERE ALeER LIVES.
The Charming Washington House of
the Secretary of War.

The residence of the secretary of
war for the next four years will be the
Hazen house, corner of Sixteenth and
X streets, Washington, which has been
occupied for several years by Gen.
Draper, now ambassador to Italy. The
house is very large, and has an English
basement entrance. a few years ago,
while Mrs. Hazen lived there, she had
the high brown-stone porch removed
and the lower entrance built in it's
stead. This arrangement brings into
use the lower basement rooms, and for
the home of public man entirely sep-
arates it's official and domestic sections
very satisfactorily One side of the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
There Is n class of People

Who are injured by the use of coffee; Re.
Gently there has been placed in all the
grocery stores new preparation called
GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes
the place of coffee. The most delicate stom.
ach receives it without distress, and but
few can tell it from coffee. 1t does not cost
over I as much. Children may drink it with
age. Try it. Ask for GRAIN.O.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

His Mother-in-Law-Why, what's the
matter? You look as gloomy as a new
moon in fog,
He-No wonderl Bilkins called me a
colossal ass!
His Mother-in-Law-Well, you are
large.-Larks.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
FARM AND GARDEN.
HAY STACK COVER.
IL Keep the Hay bright Clear Tn to
the Boards,

~ Keep the Hay Bright Clear Up to
the Boards.
Herewith is presented sketch of a
stack cover which we saw neighbor
using and a 'telwards used ourselves
with very satisfactory results, for upon
removing the cover the hay is found
nice and bright clear up to the boards.
There is usually little damaged hay
at lower edges of cover, but the loss
here is slight.
The stack is made in the form of a
rick of any desired length, as several
lengths of boards may be used. 1t
should be well balanced the hay
should, if possible, be pitched on to
stack from both sides. In topping out,
bring up to sharp ridge and tramp we'll
along center. In good weather it is
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
A COnaIderate Doctor.

Mr.. Sickly-Now, doctor, tell me, can
didly, IN what condition do you find
my lungs?
Dr. soonover-They are In pretty bad
shape out there is no danger of their
not lasting as long as you ise.-N. u.
World,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

=, Flora had dreadful time last evening.
She didn't come in town until after dark.
What was the matter?"
She lost her powder-rag somewhere out
on the road, and couldn't fix up fit to be
seen. .'-Detroit Eree Press
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
A Setbnck.

I'VE hunted up that intellectual woman
who invented the self-rocking cradle. We
wanted to give her vote of thanks"
We'll, how did she receive you?"
Inc inventor turned out to be man who
Detroit Free Press
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

A colony of bees during the breeding
season should have reserve store OF
honey.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

'Your husband seems to be victim of the
thoroughly enjoys it."-Chicaso Record. ; H'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

A single bad habit in horse Otter
changes the value of that horse very
materially.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

They who camor for their rights, multi.
ply their wrongs.-Ram's Horn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

1t is said we pay the most for what is
given us.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-25
Landlord and Tenant.

To the Editor of The Post.
Cuero, Texas, November 22.--While l
agree with A. w. Folsom, whose ccr.muni-
cation appeared in Mondays Post, ! would
suggest that some temporary arrangement
should be made by which the INSOFAR
able interests of tenant and landowner
may be adjusted with at least degree Of
justice that will insure continued friendly
relation between them.
Might not q standard Of prices be fixed
upon rent and upon cotton, by which an
adjustment or final settlement may be
made? For instance, let the rental CT land
be fixed ut 81 per acre, and the price OF
cotton ut cents per pound. as a LASTS
for settlement AS the crop is gathered
and sold. let a record be made of the prices
brought. Now, IL the average price Of the
crop shall be cents per pound the tenant
and land owner are even at the final set
demonstrating all along settled on each
bale upon the S-cent-$4 basis. However. II
the average price OF the cotton crop shall
show to be- at the final settlement. 4 cents
per pound, Cur One-half amount fixed as the
basis, then the settlements made som time
to time as the CROP was being mari eted,
must now be readjusted, and the cont lrice
OF the land lowered fo conform to the
lower price OF the cotron--or to c.e half
the price fixed. viz: To SO per acre.
IL occurs to mo that some sliding scale.
upon basis or standard formerly agreed
upon, as outlined. might be arranged and
so promote fairness and secure Justice to
both parties and this l believe Doth sizes
10 Dc equally Interested in, and is certainly
what both sides desire.
Har1
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-25
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sOtMaS POSTSCRIPTNs.

Mrs. Kate Il. johnson OF Norton, Kan.
has been elected county treasurer on the
republican ticket. She owns two good farms
and manages them proftably.
A monument to Shabbona, chief OF the
Pottawattamies and a friend OF the white
pioneers OF the Illinois river valley, Is 10
be erected in Evergreen cemetery, Morris.
III.
The Veteran Volunteer Firemen's assoc
cidton of Louisville has Just received an
old leather bucket which was once used by
George Washington in fighting a fire tn
Alexandria, Ky.
A suggestion has been made In Seattle
Wash, that one Of the Islands near Alaska
be named after William Henry Seward
the great secretary OF state, whose work it
was to annex Alaska.
Frank Mark Of st. Louis is the only PEN
sloner In Missouri who Is awarded 500 4
month, yet he was In the army only six
teen days and did not fight day. He lost
both arms in cannon practice.
Kansas farmer, John Graham of abb
lene, has grown sweet potato which he
says Is the largest IN the world. 1t Is
twenty five inches IN circumference and
mine inches In length. 1t weighs nine and
three quarter pounds.
According to the experience of a Topeka
clergyman, people out there will pay more
10 be married than they will to hear the
Gospel preached. He says he makes more
by performing marriage ceremonies than
he does by preaching.
Professor John Fl. Draper, colored
resident of Baltimore, was fined IS for con
Tempt OF court this week because he ex-
claimed: Thank God!" after a lawyer who
mad been examining him said that he had
no more questions to ask
In an article on Consumption In Cattle
Conveyable to Man" Nineteenth Century,
James Long says that "it is not improbable.
.aat more lives are annually lost through
the consumption of tuberculous milk than
class power.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-25
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Hall caine has been ordered by his ply
sictan to so to Rome and abstain from all
work and worry for at least four mon tbs.
Art Director Griniths OF the Omaha ex-
position will start this month on mn ex-
tended tour through the East for the pur-
pose Of securing art exhibits.
There is relic of Livingstone In tho
cnartorhouse school. London, in the form
o. an old battered coat given by the great
Airican missionary to one OF his native
Madame Emma Games, the great singer
eaid recently that though she loved Amer,
icA no singer could live here long becauss
tpe constant rush and hurry soon told on
the voice. sS'~ W
Nine. Nordtca recently had an expensive
SIX gown ruined by the dirt ON the stare
q me Auditorium In Chicago and declares
wear bicycle suit - "'A
When President Mckinley returr.a ..
eoe Waite House recently he found thas
- - ~ eltsraxtoue waa the attinw cssf
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-25
Jury Reform.

~ ING EullOT oil Inc POSI-.
Brennan. TeNaa November 2s.--Your.
editorial in Sundays Issue OF The Post on
jury reform, and suggesting a majority
verdict to meet contingencies like That in
the New York case is timely. and the leg
islature should take some action in that
direction. II there are no constitutional
objections TO "a majority verdict, the ira
ditional twelve men idea Is so ueeply
grounded in tho sentiment of the people
that it would probably be unsatisfactory.
Now. think all these objections could be
obviated by law empowering the trial
Judge in important civil or criminal cases.
In his discretion to have empauuled mare
than twelve men---Say fourteen. or enough
IN the c,pinlon OF the judge to meet ros. ihle
contingencies, any twelve of whom could
render a verdict.
Then II any number OF the panel over
the twelve should become Ill or In any Wv
incapacitated from sitting, the case couid
stiii so ON TO a termination.
IN the ctlse referred 20 by The Post
believe the trial had been going on for
weeks. and about the close of the evidence
q juror became Ill. which caused n mistri,l
NOW II panel Of mora than twelve men
had been sworn In to try the case the t,,aJ
oouid nave gene on to a conclusJon saw
ing vast amount OF labor time worrv
and expense. Besides, manv ,r,str. ~
would be avoided, for 1t is easier IN Sst
WE'VE men cut OF sixteen to asre., tan
Twelve out OF twelve. T. w, Morr,ss
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-25

1iIsf1oe 4 y ! nnos6sask slasact<r. ~
lnIoaI u caplteI and tewsIopansns md d.
ae1t1 enly y scpsal y ga satisfy ~
pssjudtces d a ignorsnt and iptolennt
oaase X people. = we'll calculated 70 create
ID ne minds Of strsnGers an extremely low
opinion 81 rszas generally. And the
Nswses have psrsiutentIy pursued this pol
10y q oarpfng criticism. amounting often
70 vtIifioatIcn Of Texas. for several years
past. Lat year u went to the extreme
IA il fight against democracy, and was 10
consequence widely quoted In Eastern MO-
KinIey journals The Kansas City Journal
II simply driving The News chickens home
To roost.
However, the News IL entitled to that
Christian charity which " due TO the vii
ct sinners who manifest desire to turn
from their evil ways. What the motive
may be. It rs not The Posts purpose 10
ray sufficient for the present Ia the
gratifying fact that penitcnce on the News
part 10 apparent, and that this penitence
ID followed by a desire to do something
worthy of u new convert without delay.
The Post holds itself somewhat rcspon-
sible for thia growing disposition on the
part Of the News to get back into the good
yraces of Texans. and to The Post. there
ore. this new defense Of Texas by our Gall
,eston contemporary Is doubly gratifying
rhe Post always had an idea. when CALL
ng the News attention to the many bad
freaks by that organ Of the fusionists. Nc
xinleyites and Texas dcfamers. that sooner
n later the News would sec the error Of
Is way. How pleasant, therefore, TO con-
emplate now the return OF the bread
which The Post cast upon the waters.
And we congratulate the Newsl
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-25
A MONTERREY LETTER.
"tchmnn Beset and BADLY Beaten
by Thieves,

by Thieves.
monterey, Mexico, November 2O.-Seyeral
spans of fine American horses will be shin
peu mere soon from the States, as there is
good demand for family coach horses
Inc shares OF the Buena Vista mine were
sold for $3.50 per share today, and by jan
uary they will be worth much more, be-
cause the dividends are paid regularly
every month and this month dividend of
IS will be declared.
Major Jules A. Randle leaves tonight for
the CITY OF Mexico on business combined
with pleasure.
MI. Ayers Robertson will arrive home to-
night from Saint Louis, where he has been
absent for over a month
MIS- mower, wife OF THE proprietor of the
WINDSOR hotel, continues to be sick.
Dr. Cross, the well-known American ply
S'ciah' was reported to be quite i'll today.
MI. j. A. Robertson has already left New
York on his return trip for home and will
arrive here about next Monday.
captain Tompson is taking a course of
paths at Topo Chico Springs for his health
a lew nights ago some thieves, in trying
10 commit robbery at the old furniture
iacIory, were discovered by the watchmar
volver In shooting at them, falling to hit
MS mark. Afterward the thieves bounced
upon him and beat him into insensibility.
"A drunken man by tn name of Julio IA
mones attacked the assistant Judge, Senior
Cruz Gaiyan, yesterday, striking him and
ABUSING him, but afterward he was secures
~ placed behind the prison bars.
Two or three months ago poor old miner
VINO worked in the San Pedro district and
VINO suffered with fits disappeared and n
y, was impossible for his children TO find him.
leday skeleton of body was found out
on tne mountains by some hunters and the
criminal judge immediately made an inyes-
LEGATION, which proved it TO be the poor old !
The agency of the National hank IN this
city has reduced interest and loans On snnd
security OF the first class will be made at
per cent per year; ordinary loans at per
cent per annum ~
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-25

MhS. MARllALA M. KICKER.
Mrs. Kicker to put herself forward in this
way as a woman suffragist, she Is doomed
to disappointment IL she builds her OK.
pectations very high as to the result Of
the 1898 election
Mrs. Kicker is, however, serious in the
matter. She declares she is not doing tits
for a Joke" but for principle and to
educate the people to the idea that women
are as much entitled to public office as
men.
II have always said that l expect some
day to go to congress-" said Mrs. Kicker
today, and feel that the times now favor
my making a direct effort TO that end
Women are fast coming to The front In
West is more progressive in this respect
than the East. In Chicago. for example,
there are women lawyers. doctors. jour-
nalists and druggists. Those of the later
class are as apt in detecting and under
standing the wink as the men who dis
pense.
why should not women go to congress?
There is no valid reason why they should
not. Mark you, the time is lot great
way off when it will not be possible for
men to prevent their going as representa-
tives of the people.
Il was the first wcu,an in America who
ever tried to vote. That was twenty seven
years age last March. Now what do we
see? Complete woman suffrage in four
States out of the forty five, in Wyoming,
Idaho, Utah and Colorado; municipal suf-
trage in Kansas and school suffrage In
nearly every State in the Union''
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-25
DESERTED ny his CnILD-wIFE.
Mrs. Cassfus NJ. Clay Returns to Her
BROTHERS. Humble Cottage.


BROTHERS, Humble Cottage.
Special Dispatch to the Globe Democrat.
Richmond, KY, November 19.--General
cassius Marcellus Clay, the famous aboli-
ZIONIST and exminister to Russia, who
startled the nation little over three
years ago by marrying 14-year-old peas
ant girl to whom he had taken fancy. sits
at his palatial country home, N'hilo Hall,
eight miles north OF here, tonight wrapped
whom he idollzed and on whom since their
marriage he has spent over $4,000 in an
attempt to- educate her, has deserted him,
She has returned to her brothers humble
cottage on Tate's creek, and 80 far all the
persuasions OF her venerable spouse have
tailed to bring her back.
1t was there the Globe Democrat CORE
spondent found her this afternoon, dressed
in a plain calico dress and looking very
little like the wife OF one OF the most IA
nous men in America.
"Is It true that you have deserted Cen
eral Clay?' asked the correspondent.
II have left him." she innoccntly re-
piled. II may return 20 him; he wants
me to. He would not let me go to par
ties and he objected to- me visiting any
of my relatives; that was why left him.
Oh. yes, he gave me everything l wanted
has sent me money twice since left and
when he came home from Cincinnati he
brought me guitar a whole lot OF candy
and bananas and many nice things, but
don't love him any more. JIe Ia getting
old, and thinks people are going to kill
him. He keeps ever Sc many guns and
pistols and knives and has men paid to
fight. He would always let me go to visit
my neighbors. but he sent a man along
with me all the time TO see that none of his
relatives tried to kin me-"
General Clay refused to be interviewed,
and when the correspondent mentioned the
hs ordered him from his
castle at the mhz1le Of rifle. From other
sources. however, 1t was learned that the
general and his child wife have had sew
eral little spats OF late because Of her per-
sistence In wanting to attend parties and
balls and visit her relatives, to all of
which the general objected, 1t was this
restraint that caused her to leave her ele-
giant home with all its luxury aud return
to the humble cottage of her relatives. The
general. however, is using every effort to
get her to come back. He has pleaded in
loving notes for her return. lie has PROM
Used her fine dresses, balls and parties.
He has even invoked the aid of good old
John Biggerstafr, a near neighbor. to en-
treat her.