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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-05

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour-Quiet and easy.
Wheat-Spring No. 2, 71G721ac; No.
8, 67071Rc; No. 2 red. 75@76c.
Corn-No. 2, SAC; No 2 yellow, S415c.
Oats-No. 2, 27A627Ac; No. 2
white, 30631c; No. white, 29A Q30c.
Rye-No 2, sec.
Barley-No. 2, 35040e.
Flaxseed-No. l, sl.10: new. s1.11h.
Timothy Seed-Prime. $3.50.
Pork-Mess, per Dbl, $S.45@S.50.
Lard-Per 100 lbs, s5.07la OSLO.
Short Ribs Sides-Loose, S440G470.
Dry Sailed Shoulders-Boxed, 4A@
4lsc.
Short Clear 3ides-Boxed, s4.75@
ass
Whiskey-Distillers' finished goods,
per gal, $1.26.
Clover-Contract grade, s6.35G645.
On the Produce Exchange to-day the
butter market was steady; creameries,
12Q16e; diaries, 10@14c.
Eggs steady; fresh, 11lzc.
Cheese weak; creams, 1919 Ole.
New York, May 4.-F1our-Receip
1890; exports, s.557: dull and barely
steady without change.
Wheat-Receipts, 26,900; exports,
$4,000: sales. 1,S90.0O0 bu.; futures,
$4,000 spot and outports; spot steady;
No 2 red, S2Ac t o. b. afloaf. and 791kc
elevator: options opened firm, closed
weak It AQkc net decline. Close:
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RAILROADS.
WHEELING g. ELM GROVE
w ELECTRIC RAILWAY.

Cars will rua as follows, city time:
KEELING TO ELM GROVE
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Forge Made Of Cold WateI.

Electricians have discovered that
they can make a forge of a tank OF
cold water and heat in it a white heat
all the tools used about a forge. 1t
is very simple to them. and is not so
difficult to understand by any one.
A vessel made of wood or some
other non-conductor Of electricity is
used. At the bottom of the vessel
is laid a piece of plate metal and to
this is attached a wire entering
through the bottom and conducting
the current to the metal plate. On
the edge of the tank is a metal strip,
to which another wire is attached, or
this wire may be attached to the tongs,
soldering iron or whatever one is u.s.
ing at forge. The tank is then filled
with heavily sailed water and when
the current is turned on everything is
ready for heating the iron. 1t is
thrust in and in an instant the cur
rent passes from the metal plate
through the iron and to the wire at
the top. Some of the water is decom-
posed by the e~lectrolytic action. The
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SCIENTIFIC TOPICS.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOV-
cry AND INVENTION.
1 Forge Made OF Cold Gliding
by Electric Force Monogram on
Apples-An Electric Whipping Post
Possibilities of the Electric Clock.
Electric Whipping Post.

Electric whipping posts may be a
hing of the future. Newton Harri-
son, editor Of the Electrical Age, has
invented a mechanical appliance by
which corporal punishment may be
administered by merely touching a
1uttOn out Of sight OF the culprit,
If hearing of his cries.
The greatest advantage Of the cleo
ric whipping post, however, is the fact
hat it is absolutely just under all con-
iltlons and to all prisoners. 1t can
not be bribed and is not subject to
political influence. 1t is said hat in
Delaware, where the whipping post is
used, it is next to impossible to ad-
minister exact justice in such punish
ment. The new device insures that
each blow will be administered with
exactly the same force. In other
words, it may be depended upon to
administer automatically correct
Justice.
The principle of the machine is sim
Ole. The victim is first dashed secure
" to the post, with his arms above
his head. The whipper is a large
wheel, which turns freely on an up
right. The whip or thong is at
tached to the rim Of the wheel, and
and as the wheel revolves it is swung
violently around. The wheel is low
cred or raised to bring it on a level
with the victims back. The wheel
is revolved by a small motor at the
base OF the upright, connected with the
axle by a rear wheel. The motor is
controlled by an electric button. When
the whipper touches the button the
wheel is released and the whip is
swung at a high speed. In moving
around the circle it travels about
twenty feet, which serves to give it
considerable momentum. The force
of the blow may be increased or re-
duced by regulating the speed at
which the wheel revolves. Each time
the operator touches the button, it
will be understood, a blow or lash is
administered. The time between the
blows can be regulated as desired. The
whipping might by this means be car
rled on without any witnesses. 1t
would only be necessary for the pub
tic eXecutioner in this cast to touch
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volunteers Aug. l, 1864, for gallant
and meritorious services in the battles
Of T%olopotomy and Cold Harbor.
He has had three commissions in the
regular army: Lieutenant colonel,
Thirty-seventh infantry, July 20, 1866;
transferred to Third infantry, March
IS, 1869; colonel Thirteenth infantry,
March 20, 1879; transferred to Third
infantry, June IA, 1879; brigadier gen
eral, April 6, 1888; brevetted colonel,
March 2, 1867, for gallant and merito-
rious services in the battle of Gettys-
burg, and brigadier general, March 2,
1867, for gallant and meritorious ser
vices in the battle of Spottsylvania
courthouse.
General Brooke has had an eXcep-
t~ionally varied experience as COM
mander of posts, which, it is believed,
will add to his natural qualifications
TO fill the position he is just about to
assume.
His services in the regular army
embrace his command of the post Of
Fort Union, n. NJ, to July, 1865; Of
Fort Stanton, from September to No
vember, 1868; of regiment and post at
Fort Dodge, to January, 1871; of Fort
Lyon, Col, to January, 1878; Of Fort
Supply, |. T., to July, 1874; at Holly
Springs, Miss, to August, 1874; at New
Orleans, to March. 1875; at Jackson
Barracks, La, commanding regiment
n post, to June, 1876; at Baton
Rouge, to November, 1876; at New Or
leans, commanding battalion of regi-
ment, to April, 1877; at Jackson Bar
racks, La, to May, 1877; at Huntsville,
Ala, and commanding post, to June,
1877; on duty with General Hancock,
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to August, 1877; at Helena Barracks,
Mont, commanding regiment and post
and the district of Montana, to June,
1878; at camp on Marias river, Mon
tana, and at Fort Shaw, Mont, COM
handing regiment and district of
Montana, to June, 1881; at Springfield
armory, Mass, and in New York city,
president Of magazine gun board, to
October, 1882; at Fort Shaw, Mont,
commanding regiment and post and
district of Montana, to April, 1888;
commanding department Of the Platte,
to March, 1895; department of Dako.
ta, to April, 1897; department Of Mis-
souri,, to April, 1898; commanding pro-
visional army corps at C~hickamauga
park to July. 1898. and United States
troops in Porto Rico, department Of
Porto Rico, to December, 1898; men,
Der Of United States commission for
the evacuation Of Porto Rico by Span.
ish troops.
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such a man upon those to whom he is
described by these comrades in arms.
He looks like a mar built for big I'M
dertakings, and he realizes that the
work ahead of him in Cuba is a big
undertaking. He realizes that even his
feats in arms and his conspicuous
service at Cold Harbor, where he fell
wounded, may be eclipsed by the sue
cessful fashioning OF a new Amer
lean government out of an old II
which had become feverish and tumul-
tuous with revolution from the effects
of the corrupt touch of the %Spaniard.
"He is a fine officer" Adjutant Cen
eral Corbin is reported to have said,
well equipped in every way. even for
the novel and arduous duties ahead of
him; a man of genial heart, knowl-
edge of men and affairs, and should
win the respect and confidence Of all
classes among whom his influence will
be felt"
General Brooke" said General
Miles, belonged to the Second corps,
was a fine soldier, was wounded at
Cold Harbor and served on the from
tier. He will do what is expected of
him"
Colonel Edgar S. Dudley, who, as
quartermaster, vas thrown closely
with General Brooke during his COM
mand in the Platte region, spoke of
General Brooke as a man who dis
tinctly insisted on being acquainted
with all the details of the command.
He was not satisfied with commencing
merely, he covered operations for
which he was responsible from the
bottom up. While not a strict disci-
plinarian, he held his staff officers to
strict accountability. And yet. on ac-
count of a strong personal magnet
ism, he was popular with staff officers
as we'll as with those who came to
know him.
HE is a man who, I believe, will
bring together and adjust and harmo-
nize all the elements of the island Of
Cuba-Spaniards, Cubans and SOL
diers."
And yet General Brooke is not with
out a restrained impulslveness, carried
to an extreme which, while not leaving
the impression of a phlegmatic man,
yet impresses n with a sense Of even
mindedness and COMMON sense.
General Brooke is a soldier by tenn
permanent and choice; he was a leader
among boys, and his way has been
gradually and constantly up among
men. He was appointed from Penn
sylvania and retires July 81, 1902. He
was made captain of the Fourth Penn
sylvania infantry on April 20, 1861, be-
ing honorably mustered out July &c,
1861. He was made colonel of the
Fifty-third Pennsylvania Nov. Z, 1861,
and served through the war. On May
IL, 1864, he was made brigadier gen.
eral tor specific distinguished service.
He was brevetted major general of
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Possibilities OF the Phonogra phic Clock.

Possibilities OF the Photographic Clock.
Of a photographic clock recently
launched in Germany, the New York
Sun observes: One must admit the
alarm clock in the theory of modern
life, but a photographic alarm clock
adds insult to injury. If one must be
Weakened, one must; but how can one
forty winks when the depressing pro-
gram Of a busy day has been shouted
into ones ears? Things that seemed
natural and practicable the night be-
fore present an appalling front in the
early morning; and the breakfast
hour, announced in strident tones, is
much more insistent than when sug-
gested by an impersonal metallic
clang. Some valuable possibilities the
new invention does possess. The
housewife needn't laboriously explain
breakfast details to the servant at
night and find the next morning that
all important points have been consci-
%entiously forgotten. She sets the
Photographic alarm for an early hour,
talks directions into it, and the next
morning the cook is Weakened by a
stern voice telling her exactly what is
expected OF her in regard to breakfast
preparation. Paterfamilias, too, can
work the combination. No more will
he sit up until his pretty daughters
caller goes home and resort to time
honored hints to hasten the departure.
Oh, no.; he will simply set the phono-
graphic alarm for the hour when he
thinks young men should end their
calls. Then he will go serenely to
bed; and when the fatal hour strikes
a specimen of the old gentlemen's fin
est irony will be hurled at the offend
ing guest. Exit young man. The
maiden wrathfully weeps alone.
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nitrogen of the water becomes cleo
trified and adheres to the object to be
heated, forming over it a film of gas.
This film separates the water from the
object, and at the same time the gas
forms such an obstruction to the pass
age of the electric current that the
current is turned into heat.
In a moment the iron begins red
dening with heat and in a little while
it is white and may be seen like a
white object down in the water, a
most interesting thing to see. When
the workman has done with his iron
he turns the electric current off and
plunges his iron into the tank again.
This time it cools with a sputter am
~'Siss."
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

The aim Of the Office Of Road Inquiry
Is to cooperate with people of the sew
eral states in making the best possible
8 of material within their reach in
road making, says the secretary of
agriculture. Large areas in many of
the states have no gravel, rock, or
other hard material with which to
make roads. I have had experiments
made during the present year with
steel as extensively as our means would
permit. An experiment of this kind
is being conducted at Cleveland, Ohio.
"A section Of 500 feet of steel track has
been laid on a street in the suburbs
where the traffic is heavy, and it's value
is already generally acknowledged. A
sample steel road $40 feet long has
been laid upon the grounds of the ex-
position at Omaha. 1t is proposed to
make traction tests upon this track
to show how much less power is re-
iquired to move a load over such a road.
The steel road is not excessively costly
by comparison with other roads and
will last much longer with less repair,
and is probably the most economic
road for localities where material is
not ~obtainable for macadamizing.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

The name "~buccaneer' was chiefly
affected by the English adventures on
orr ,ast, while the French members
of the profession often preferred the
name of ~"hlibustier.' This word,
which has since been corrupted into
our familiar "~flibuster,' is said to
have been originally a corruption, be-
ing nothing more than the French
method Of pronouncing the word
'freebooters," which title had long
been used for independent robbers.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

Major General Brooke is one Of the
most striking figures in the army. He
Is over 6 feet in height, of massive
bulld and commanding carriage. His
mead is erect and face stamped with
the bronze and suggestion Of enduring
force. He looks 60 and will be go on
the list of next July. His hair is
thick and white, with a weather
~foughened mustache and kindly eye Of
blue under broWs that are earnest and
heavy. A voice at the first moment
unlnviting by reason Of its depth and
~brusqueness, his conversation is even
Wlthal, with little waste Of words.
For he is a self-made man, and the
fneries of speech have been torn away
in the midst Of his fight from the bot
tom up.
Coming from the hardy, honest
Pennsylvania people of the mines, the
lad started out with a stout heart and
a body made to stand storms. And he
has stood them, standing gnarled now,
but with clean-cut individuality, ro-
business and balance. Officers in the
army who have known General Brooke
for thirty years speak of him in such
a way as to leave the impression Of
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The new British battleship Implaca-
BILE is to COST over S. 200, 900 and will
be the greatest warship ever built.
Such an item would make Frenchmen
feel uncomfortable were it not that the
new rapid-fire field gun with which
their army is now being supplied dis
charges twenty shells a minute, each
shell containing $50 bullets. It is
claimed that at Chalons it demonstrate
ed that a single gun can destroy a
regiment in one minute,
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The NcSXats.

Better stand a little further back
from that sign, Lobelia. Don't YOU
see it says 'Paint?'" Its quite drv
Billiger. Don't you see it doesn't come
OFF, That's all right. but you'd bet
ter stand a little further away, all the
ANS. People are looking at that sign,
and then looking at you."-Chicago
Tribune.
Blind people are more numerous N
Spain than in any other country
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A French fruit grower turns out
apples with monographs inscribed on
them by nature. Anybody's crest or
monogram can be secured. When the
apples are the size of walnuts they are
covered with paper bags, which keep
them green. When the maximum size
is reached the first bags are replaced
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agony. The zinc with which his over
coat was saturated had done its deadiy
work. With one cry Of AT last my
son will wear the corCnet! Elvlra fell
fainting on her perfumed couch How
many more shirts of Nessus are wait
We be obliged to put our tailors par
GELS into quarantine before we on"
them?
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1t will be unfortunate if the sequel
of u war with Spain ends in our
fighting and defeating those whom
Spanish tyranny drove into insurrec-
ton, and yet present conditions are
such that, if this alternative is pre-
scented, we must courageously face it,
even though we may regret that some
other means OF adjusting difficulties
has not been presented.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

Mr.. Yerkes says no other CITY has
such street car facilities as Chicago.
The people of Chicago feel bad enough
about it without having it continually
thrown in their faces,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

When sheep are pastured in the
parks of Chicago the city at least will
have no difficulty in supplying it's shep-
herds with crooks.
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by others, which have the crest or
monogram stenciled into them. When
a stencil is used the monogram m
out red on a green ground. If yellow
or green on a red ground is desired
the monogram is cut out and pasted
on the apples.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

A Chicago waiter was arrested and
locked up for stealing two apples. We
shudder to think of what his fate
would be had he stolen three apples.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

The police of this CITY," says the
Philadelphia American, "must wake
up" 1t seems cruel, but in a large vii
lage like Philadelphia somebody ought
to be awake.
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Mending ones ways, unfortunately,
Is no safeguard against breaking them
in new places.
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1t seems like carrying a joke a little
100 far when some one sends a "hold-
your-wheat' circular to Col. Joseph
Letter.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

When Admiral Dewey becomes pres
ldent the star-eyed goddess will I'M
doubtedly be made postmistress at
Louisville.
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If Mr.. Choate takes the ambassador
ship therell be no Pike county ballad
ghost to haunt his waking hours
abroad,
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times without any alteration deserves
more credit than he gets.
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If there was any embalmed beef in
the army it should have been sent to
the dead-letter office.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

If we were told We would have a
wish granted if we were to make it,
what would that one favored longing
be?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

A tobacco trust is about to invade
Cuba, buy up all the plantations on
which the best tobacco is grown and
thus control the product. The methods
OF trusts are not 81 rude as those of
the Spanish, but in the end they will
amount practically to the same as
far as the Cuban planter is concerned.
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the button as many times as the law
provided and the electric whipping
post would do the rest.
Scientific Jottings.

by internal doses of calomel, form a
new German specific against seasick-
ness. 1t is deduced from Epstein's in
v%estigations on the influence Of color
on the blood vessels in the brain. Sea
sickness is due to lack of blood in the
brain, while red sends blood to the
brain with a rush. BY looking at one
point for ONE time through the red
glasses the patient is cured radically.
After trying all sorts of wood as
street pavement, London has at last
come to the conclusion that Tasman-
ian 'stringy bark is most enduring
and generally satisfactory, being with
out the slippery surface which soon
manifests itself in some other hard
woods. The stringy bark, which grows
all over Tasmania, has a rougher sur
face than the blue gum, thereby CIV
ing in greasy weather a better foothold
for man and beast. 1t is in the south
of the island Of Tasmania that the
chief supply of timber is obtained, the
forests coming down almost to the
waters edge, thus making the cost and
difficulty of transport small-in fact,
at some of the mills vessels of 5000
tons could partly lie alongside the
pier and complete their loading by
barges while in a perfectly secure an
chorage. The London authorities ex-
perimented with woods from all parts
of the world before settling on the
Tasmaniau article.
Some municipal workmen in Birm-
ingham, England, have made the some
what startling discovery that their
o%vercOats were poisonous. AS thew
shove!cd away the snow it was found
that the overcoats supplied by. the city
gave off a poisonous gas, which rap-
idly took effect upon their arms and
hands and thighs. Apparently this
was owing to the effect of sleet and
rain upon the chloride of zinc used in
the cloth made by a northern mill.
What an opportunity for the penny
dreadful authors! Imagine the result
of the fiction that is sure to come
limping lamely after fact, as thus:
THE naughty earl withdrew from the
apartment, leaving his victim crushed
by despair. One hope alone illumed
her tortured breast. The deadly over
coat! She heard the footman helping
her oppressor into his costly furs; she
watched him standing in the pitiless
rain outside, undecided as to his di-
rection. when suddenly a piercing
scream rang down the lonely avenue
and a CHASTITY sight met her atfrighted
gazn- Her high-born tormentor lay
writing on the ground in mortal
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

Sometimes a woman's idea of friend
ship is getting thick with another
woman to fall out with her.
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The better half of the family knows
quite as much about how the other half
lives as she would like to know.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-02-03

II the Cubans in Havana keep on
creating disturbances it may be neces-
sary for Uncle Sam to start a little re-
concentrate business himself, with a
large Jail to assist in the reconcentra-
doing.
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Richards Magic Catarrh ENpellant
Co.. Omaha, Neb. Write for particulars.
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The standpoints of some airy theor-
lists are so high that they cannot see
the earth.
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A cake walk is like a circus: if you
have seen enc, You have seen all OF
them.