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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-05-17

REMENYI, the violinist who visited
Marietta last year, is dead. He died al
San Francisco on Saturday last, aged
64 years. The dispatches tell the story
of his demise as follows:
"Edouard Remenyi, the famous vio
linst, who has enthralled audiences all
over the world, fell dead yesterday af-
ternoon at the Orpheum theatre, San
Francisco He had played two or
three classical pieces, and answered to
an encore with "Old Glory" He
played as if inspired. His 5000 audi
tors rose with him, leaving their seats
in their excitement, completely carried
away by his achievement. When the
music ceased, the house was swept
with wild torrent of bravos In re-
sponse to another burst of applause the
great Remenyi began ts play "Delibes
Plzzicati." He had just completed a
few bars when he laaned forward as if
to speak to one of the musicians in the
orchestra, and then slowly fell forward
on his face. One of the musicians
caught him just before he touched the
age and prevented him from rolling
All was over. He was carried
IN the stage and physicians sum-
ed. They worked with him for
time, but their efforts were futile.
vs. dead"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-05-17
e L; and c. E. Entertainment.

The entertainment to be given by the
Epworth League andChristian E Endeavor
Union in the First Congregational
church Thursday evening will begin at
1880. Ice cream and cake will be served
before and after the entertainment
The program is as follows:
Guitar and Mandolin Club.
Solo. ....... Miss Ruth Armstrong
Recitation. Miss Mes sick
Piano Solo. -. -. ,....Miss Creamer
Male Quartette.
Recitation. 800. 500. Mr.. Bosworth
Guitar and Mandolin Club.
Duet -. Mrs. Ebinger, Mrs. Flanders
Violin Solo. ...... Clarence Schneider
Recitation. ................. Mr. Turner
Piano Solo ...... ...,..... Miss Dawes
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-05-17
Left side Oftenest Lame.

Eighty-fve per cent. of the people
who are lame are affected on the left
side.
The age-herald., 1898-09-25
ANOTHER VANDERBILT MANSION
rom the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald
 When a Vanderbilt doesn't know how else to use up a few idle millions, he or she-be- gins to build a palace. While it's construc- tion goes on and the fun of decorating ana finishing it lasts the millionaire has some occupation but even this comfort must pail or come to an end in a relatively short time. The last member of the family to build something is Mrs. Sloane, a daughter of the late William H. Vanderbilt, her ann bition being to have as magnificent house as Brother Cornelius. From the descrip- tion, it will be on the same order, and a huge block of New York style It is sur- prising that multi-mllionaires like to hud- dle themselves up as they do in their city residences. Now, on the land covered by this new house there is space enough to have garden or a court, that would give great distinction to the structure, but that scheme Is never favored by mercural New Workers. They use up every foot of ground in an AstoriaWaldorf son, wi.h no embellishing garden to break the painful monotony of Fifth avenues miles of palatial residences" When Mir Corne- Illus Vanderbilt built his house, he tried to obtain some elbow room from a next door neighbor, but the neighbor wouldn't sel, andNthe result is the architectural effects are dwarfed, and the ornate exterior looks gingtrbready. Such a pile as that needs a garden with beautiful trees and shrubs to frame 1t. But every one to his taste! Evidently the American character, while fond of "home," has no abiding love for the house, and one is good another, provided it is new and elegant, and costs fortune.
The age-herald., 1898-09-25

a physicist who ranks high in the world of science, called attention to the rather close coincidence between one of the lines of krypton (5566) and one of the aurora (5569). He also pointed out that eight of the metar- gon lines corresponded fairly well in posi- tion with set of eight in the carbon spec trum--such a spectrum as Is obtained from 6 blowpipe flame, for instance. One was left to infer that Professor Schuster imagined 1t possible that in some unex- plained way an impurity, containing car ban, had crent into Kanlsay's aTgon, and that this, rather than q new element, had given tho so-called metargon spectrum After fresh expetime nts. however, Profess sor Schustcr reported ttat he had in many other tests completely eliminated this car- bon spectrum by means which he described, and that he had employed the same meth- cd in his experiments with inetarson He felt that he was warranted therefore. in holding, provsionally, that his spectrum was that of new eienient Bat he grants without hesitation that further work must be dcne 10 establish the case fully.
The age-herald., 1898-09-25
....e)UB|LEE YEHR FOR SCIENTISTS.
le Year of 98 Will Be Remarkable for the Discovery
 of Six New Substances.

He reported to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a year ago, this belief and told of hunt he and hts assistant, Mir Travers, had already made for it. Last June he announced that he had at last discovered a new element which did not fit into the designated place in the scale but was related to argon. In fact krypton Gas he called the gas) was obtained directly from argon, after the argon had itself been isolated from liguid air.
 Pursuing the search still further, Profess sor Ramsay and MT. Travers found. two more substances combined with argon. These had different weights and spectra from each other, from argon and from krypton. He named one neon and the other metargon. Reckoning the density Of helium as and of oxygen as s, that of neon was estimated at 10 or Il, krypton at 40. and metargon the same as argon, 20 or 22.
 Immediately after these facts were pub lished, in July, Professor Arthur Schuster,
The age-herald., 1898-09-25

achievements. Coronium takes its name from the fact that the solar corona Is the only thing in all the universe that has hitherto yielded its characteristic spec trum, of which the most conspicuous fea- ture is the '1474 line" This gas Is found away up in the solar atmosphere, 100000 miles from the suns surface. It has on this account been considered much lighter than hydrogen, the lightest known terres- trial element. If the work of Professor Nasini and his collaborators, Signori An derlini and Salvadori, shall be found to be correct, and a suitable quantity of this gas shall be obtained for experiment, 1t will probably be liquified by somebody, and degree Of cold thus secured that will ex- ceed that resulting from the liuuefaction of hydrogen Already temperature of minus 243 centrigrade had been produced. With coronium 1t may be practicable to touch
 "absclute zero." which has been hypotneti- cally placed ait nllnum 273. and which proba- ply represents the temperature or inter- steller space. Inasmuch as other unrecog- nized lines are found in the spectra of the
The age-herald., 1898-09-25

volcanic gases examined by the Italians here referred to. 1t seems likely that entire ly new substances may yet be discovered In association with terrestrial coronium.
 Charles F. Brush has been known to the world as the man who first made the arc light practical success on this side of the Atlantic. But he has also given much at- tention to chemistry and his analyses have been looked upon as wonderfully accurate. NOW, only a few days ago, he announced the American Association for the Advance ment of Science, in Boston, that for a year or two he had been trying to eliminate from the atmosphere a gas which is lighter than Hydrogen, and he believes that he has suc- eeeded in doing so. He calls the substance etherion, and if his supposition proves to be correct this element probably far ex- eeeds coronrm in lack of weight and den- sity MT. Brush declares that the ability of etherion to conduct heat is fully hun- dred times as great as that of hydrogen from which he argues that the velocity with which it's molecules vibrate amounts to hundred miles a second! A gas pos sessing these and other pecularities which seem to belong to etherion cannot, MT. Brush thinks, be confined to the earth but must reach out definitely in space.
 MT. Brush does not report any spectrum analysis of this substance, and only partial ly describes his method of separating etherion from the air. But he suggests the possibility that several new elements may be found besides this, and that all of them may prove to be lighter than hydrogen. Should this surmise be justified by the event an extensive atomic weights will be- come necessary; degrees of cold may be obtained of which the most audacious physicist has not even dreamed coronium may be thrown a good deal in the shade, and much that is new be larned in regard fo the medium which is believed to fill all intersteller space
 ALEXANDER WECHSLER
The age-herald., 1898-09-25

and it had a spectrum that was unlike that of anything else on the chemists catalogue. Only few months later Professor Ram- say alone discovered, in mineral brught from Sweden, the gas helium. which had up to that time been found only in the sun and few stars. Whatever uncertainty ex- isted in the minds of conservative scientists at that time in regard to the genuineness of those discoveries, none is entertained now.
 The Russian chemist Mendelief noted the tendency of the elements to arrange them- selves in classes in which the members would have certain properties in common, and found that regular ratio would then prevail between the atomic weights of the elements of a class so formed. In accord ance with this law Ramsay expected that an element not yet detected existed. and that when found it would possess an atomic weight between those of argon and hclium.
The age-herald., 1898-09-25

Two of the other announcements of the discovery of new elements this year come from Europe and one from America. Bee querel, a French chemist reported two years or so ago that salts uranium threw off an invisible radiance very much like that discovered by Roentgen. Following up that line of inquiry M. and Mime. Cure found that variety of pitchblende pos sesseS that trait to a very much higher degree They were thus led to believe that the mineral contained new element. Up to date they have not entirely isolated it, but they report to the French Academy of Science that they have got it in the form of a suphide, and they call the pure sub stance pelonium. From chemical point of view the new element resembles bismuth, but it's radiating power is placed at four hundred times that of uranium.
 In some respects the alleged discovery of coronium by Italians who were studying the gases emitted from volcanic sources, is more interesting than any of the foregoing
The age-herald., 1898-09-25

It is doubtful whether as many discover les of new elements were ever made in the short period of three or four months as have been reported since July 1 of this year. All of these achievements have not yet been followed by the complete and in- dependent demonstrations without which the scientific world cannot accept case as fully proven, but the various announce ments, taken together, reveal an amount of chemical research that is In the highest degree interesting.
 A profound sensation was created early in 1895 when Lord Rayleigh and Professor William Ramsey, of London. discovered the existence of gas previously unknown in the atmosphere. To this they gave the name of argon. This substance was found to resemble nitrogen in its unwillingness to make combinations with other elements,
The age-herald., 1898-09-25
They "Hollered"

From Field and Stream.
 It was a Sunday dinne1 at hotel in one of the smaller cities. The table girl was fat and frouzy, and she lacked most of the minor conventionalities of modern society. But the climax came when she casually re- marked: "When you all gets ready fer ice cream jest holler.''
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14
APPLYING TO HEADQUARTERS.
How Disagreeable Telegraph Taper
Was Taught Most Salutary Les
son

Everywhere.
A commercial traveller wanted to
know if the train was late, I'D ven-
tured TO ask the operator in g. ticket
office.
"Dawnaw," replied the gentleman of
the keys, meaning, probably, Il don't
know"
But l am told it is an hour and a
half late persisted the grip-distender,
smilingly. You surely could tell me if
that is true?"
Observation-Disclosures" replied the
knight Of the sounding board, turning
the back of his head to the Questioner.
But it highly desirable that | should
know" smiled the gatherer of orders
still more pleasantly. II can make
three business calls in that hour and a
half, ana still have fifteen minutes
margin. Don't you think you had bet
ter find out for me? 1t will take you
only minute or two, you know"
"Finownoth, replied the lightning
manipulation, probably meaning, Find
out nothing" And he began reading
the advertisement columns of a daily
paper, paying no more attention to the
lnterlocutor
This is a commercial as well as a
railroad telegraph ofiice?" inquired our
traveller, in the blandest tones yet used
during the conversation.
Van, replied the operator. meaning
Yes"
"A telegraph blank pledse?"
The unfinished document was half
thrown at him. He leisurely wrote a
message and handed it to the other,
with the money to pay for it,
Inc operator commenced reading it,
hitting the words, one by enc, with his
pencil to count them. Before he was
half through he ceased hitting. and
looked startedly at the writer.
Good sakes, man, | can't send this,"
he exclaimed, giving, this time. each
WORD its full sounds. I'D lose my
positiOni"
And you'll lose it if you don't. I
fear" replied his amiable tormentor.
sympathizingly. you've no right to
hold it back a minute"
The operator nervously read it over
again. 1t ran:
Superintendent Railroad: Will you
kindly tell me how many minutes late
is train No. -? 1t is very important
that | should know, and your operator
here refuses to inform me-"
Look here, now" exclaimed the
operator ignoring his newspaper. and
everything else except the traveller. Il
really wish you wouldn't insist on
sending this. l think I must be some
what in the wrong, and I-I-beg your
pardon. can find out for you in two
minutes
Yes, | thought perhaps you could"
replied the other, returning the money
TO his pocket. and exploiting the sweet
est smile of the day, in which he was
joined by several bystanders. while the
operator fairly exuded information.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14

You weren't long" she said. smil-
Ing What did Tommy want to tell
you? Do tell me about it?
Something in her words grated
against Assheton's feelings. He sat
down, and replied slowly: He asked
me to return the photo to girl and tell
her, that though she played him false,
he loved her to the end"
"Oh!" cried Phyllis. How inter-
esting it sounds. Have you got the
photo there? Do show it to me-
You must not ask me to do that,
said Assheton gravely.
But Phyllis was not accustomed to
have her wishes ungratifed. She
leaned forward, and locked up with
her wonderful dark eyes glowing.
will You refuse the first request I've
ever made your she urged.
''Cf course, if you insist" hesitated
Assheton.
Il do insist. I must see what the
girl is like. Some common, vulgar
creature, | suppose, that he poor fell
low ldealized into piece of perfec-
ton.
Probably" assented Assheton,
dryly, taking the envelope from his
pocket and producing the photo
graph.
With eager curiosity Phyllis bent
over.
for space CT a second she stared,
rigid with astonishment and dismay;
then exclaimed: Give it to me, Oh,
give it to mel" she tried to snatch
the photograph from Assheton.
1t was too late Assheon, with
blank disgust, had already recognized
the beautiful likeness.
Give il to me-" she stammered.
Certainly replied Asheeton. 1T
was what l promised to do
He dropped the photo into her
hands and strobe away.-Temple Bar.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14

may be saken IN pace OF q ngnr
lunch.
In category which does not strict
" include summer drinks are the
Brides Kiss, sort OF Roman punch,
and the champagne Watermelon. The
latter is one of the most delicious
morsels conceivable A fine, ripe
melon is plugged and into its red heart
champagne punch, made of half a
wine glass of curacao, wine glass Of
brandy, enc of rurp and quart ,of
champagne is poured. Put back the
plug, let the melon stay on ice over
night, and the ancient gods would
leave their nectar for taste.
LOW OF THE kline.
The desire for substance in summer
drinks has led to the invention of sew
eral combinations containing milk, and
one is called the Low Of the Kline, be-
cause, as its inventor said. it is buco-
lie dream. Half a pint of Santa Cruz
rum, a glass of brandy, half a glass of
sherry, mixed and poured into a quart
pitcher, which is then filled with ice
cold milk, make the Low of the Kline
1t is only pastoral in name, and while
gratifying, does not arouse any desire
for the quiet pleasures of country life.
The generality of men who drink are
hasty and not particular. All they
want is something cold with whisky in
it. To them the labor of hours Of pro-
found thought, followed by one flash
of genius in which new drink is
evolved, mean nothing. The bartender
pays no attention to them beyond serv
ing them what they ask for. 1t is the
man who walks in mopping his brow,
reaches for fan, and goes back to the
cool, dark corner where the full blast
of the electric fan is felt, who makes
the bartender an inventor supplies
spur for his ambition, and, with his
profound experience and ripe judg
ment, pronounces the door or the sue
cess Of the newly invented summer
drink. For days he may come in and
order his regular tipple, be it high
ball, rickey, or something equally
old; but some day, tired, hot and dis
satisfied with all the past, he seeks his
cool. nook, and then in WEAKNESS CT
spirit says: George, fix me up some
thing that will just hit the spot" The
lOng-awaited moment has come The
drink that has been weeks in forming
in the bartender's brain, that has been
compounded experimentally, tasted and
changed a dozen times, is now to be
launched at a cOnnOisseur George
works his lemon squeezer, shakes his
bottles, packs in the cracked ice, and
carries the child of his brain to mis- cri.
tic The connoisseur sips tastes; drinks
while George looks anxiously on. THAT
is fine. What do you call it," are the
words that George waits for, and when
he hears them he knows that he has
cast a pebble into the water and soon
Others will come and ask for that parti-
cular drink and the popularity of the
bar will increase and maybe he can
strike fer more wages.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14
WHICH WAS RIGHT.
Queer Dispute Between Citizen and
an Ice Company.

One of the big ice companies had a
dispute with patron last week over
the payment Of a bill for its COM
modify. The bill is still unpaid, and as
it is too small to sue for the ice people
expect they will lose the sum. The
customer is the same man who in 60
ing away last summer left the gas
lighted in three rooms and had dis
agreement with a gas company over a
large bill. In the former case he had
to pay rct liking the idea Of having
his gas shut off But the ice business
he regards as different
The iceman had furnished the Gus
toner's wife with q small card which
was TO be hung out on the back porch
whenever she needed ice The scheme
worked all right until the family went
to the country month ago. The ice
man would leave lump on the porch,
which a little later would be put il the
icebox.
The housewife forgot 70 take in the
card when she went with the rest OF
the folk to the country The iceman
tinued to leave his daily block behind
the vacant mouse E4cn lump WOie us
life away unheeded in the hot sunshine
until the spot where it had stood was
but little puddle in the evening. The
next day its successor would share the
same fate AMI the iceman never
learned his mistake until the occu-
pants OF the house returned.
The customer claims the blulder
was the fault of an unobservant ice
man. The ice company claims the
customer should have taken in his
card.-Cnicag Chronicle.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14
WILL PRAY FOR HIM.

The tram was CROWDED andde us
nal signs which decorate southern rail-.
way carriages and separate the black
passengers from the white had been
discarded.
Colonel John Jacob Aston and an
other officer had beguiled the time
r;easantly enough, but as they neared
Chattanooga the multi-millionaire sol
dier was left alone. The day was
warm. and he nodded a little. but he
straightened quickly at feminine
voice saving quite close to bis ear:
"Maanin'. sab ! hopes | sees 70
putv tolable?" And black woman
calmly took the vacant place. He ac-
knowIedeed the greeting renfteously.
ana she smiled IN cheerfui friendii-
ness.
"Yose fur de Moth. reckon. Oh,
| knowed dat 70 airs 30! jus gwine
ter Cuba? Ian, Ian, bow dem but
tons does shinel | allus wanted one
oh dem buttons. Dat ] did Ef 20 all
nd glib me one I'D war hit foh a
hatpin to 'membah yo' by"
Colonel Aston bowed with grave POI
likeness. and the eyes Of the negro
country girl shone as he detached a
button from his blouse and handed It
to her
TANK yo sah!" she said. I'm
monstrous glad foh ter git dis. Use
gwine ter 20 now lihes yere at dis
City. But Use gwine ter pray foh yo.
/ dunno yo name But de Lord, !
'spect. he's keeping track Of 20. III
les say de sojer what glib me de brass
button. an he'll know. Good-bye'
'Mcmbah, Use gwine ter pray sHe
waved him farewell. and he raised
his hat IN acknowledgment. Some OF
TIE officers smiled but there was no
smile on his face as he turned away.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14

mixed himself big OF
down, and turned in.
He found himself I'd
cranky frame of mind
Thursday. His worl
somehow or anotherA
he Went out to tn. balyc.I
Beauty OF the thing Is, saiu Xd.
that don't have to rush home TO din
ner after the sixth inning Can stay
and see the game out. Hot thing, this
going it alone once in awhile"
He looked around the stand TO size
the girls up.
oh. I don't know" he thought.
Pat can give any Of EN- a run on
locks. BY jing. | wonder If she's hav-
ing good --h
He stayed home Thursday night and
sawed on his violin. He played the
things that he usually played with his
wifes piano accompaniment, and they
didn't sound right without the accom-
paniment. After he had finished play
ing he went out and sat On the front
steps in his shirt sleeves. A man
neighbcr from next door came in and
began to talk about the war
why doesn't that jay stay where he
belongs?" thought the grass batch. II
don't want to talk with anybody.
want to be alone, Nice night. this.
Moon, and all that Bet Pats got one
of those gauzy frilly things on, and
let's see. this is the fourth day she's
been away. Twenty-six days yet. Gee
Whit I'll have great time yet.
went II"
Ca Friday night he went to a var
iety show and he thought 1t was
about as dense thing as ever he
looked at. He didn't succeed In feel
ing very bachellory, either.
On Saturday afternoon he stufed
some things into grip and ran down
TO the beach to see Pat.
I've been having a dickens OF
coed time" he told her.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14
THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY.

Up TO the end Of 1897 Russia had expend-
ed within a fraction OF s3o0,oe1.0t0 on her
Siberian railway. Between this and 1850
an outlay of another s1506lo,o1 IS expect
ed. when the road viii be In running or
der. with through trains from st. Psters-
burg 70 the Pacific opering one of the
most important Commercial channels in
the wor and a new and spacious page in
Russian political commercial history.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14
pFvovArING STEEL PENS.

When a Fteca pen has been used Gri-
III il appears to be spolled, place IT
over hame. Cad gaslieht for instanDe)
for quarter u a minute, then dip
into water. and II will be again III
Tor work. A new pen, which Is found
too hard to write with viii become
softer By being thus heated.