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New-York tribune., 1899-03-12
BATTING NAILS AND CACTUS LEAVES

And now the other wonders began r"s' 81
number of carpenters nails. al "ds' ", :. :.
inches long were handed 10 the stewart anu
demure little man stepped forward nv ''s -,
belong to the athletic and savage SVe VI - 80
majority; he was quiet and domestic d va. "a.
whom in Eurone one would have ascrbed 10 ne
class of small shopkeepers but ne han ~. %..
Of calm cOntentment a CONVICTION VI t''s. ~
peace in his soul. which cOntraslru VIZ" VIII a.
purbind excitement Of the others. wi a..
ordeal "A less trying one than that oi gas ~
ing He stood quite still. held ms heau III -
and swallowed three of the large IRON ha's,
heads and all as they wtr" pun mo hs "'''
one after another by the steward. ..,,, 4,
Then he retired. ard two men came ~ W..
burnous full Of prickiy-p"ar leaves i.pa. ine - T.
ly pear as one sees 10 i'm the @puln oi Eu'Sf Tf,A
a sufficiently formidable plant Du' u =" IN,
Africa il grows 10 far larger pfoporuVus "a
leaves. or rather the nat leafk, stems s' go
nearly twice the size that they d9 even ~ -i
and the prickles are proport'natrY -, .ns -.
stubborn Moreover the prick.r is '"sn"; -,
Dnous and leaves fostering "ounu. -,
4uently ID seemed not thc least MIRA u'o' :. N,
If the service when dancer rtflppeo ~. /,
waist. and. taking huge pr Nly pear ns I,
each hand. proceeded TO rub them an o'e. We. ,r,
naked body and shaVen head USING lhe" 80,
might use lOofah There could De- 10 w. ~,
about il that he pressed them astihS, ~ ~slA
with all his might, and in the iuIy WIN ,ok
H. .-,rf
a fresh one from the heap Sometimes ne W.
seize one leaf with both hands ana sCl' "a
backward and forward over his bare say p.sls.
finally eat the leaf with all its deadly ?. "a,
Scored and scratched as his bOdy mus /,
been i'm every direction, there was scarces :
trace Of blood This was so also IN the -,
eaters, who never bed at the mouth VIM. ,.i,t
were chewing the glass. and shows. ! -, -,
that the bodily functions are modlheu ~ I,
the influence OF religious intoXicauon ny .s,ss 4
the same way as they are in extreme s'a.sSS
hypnotic sleep that it is. in fact, very sn eu -,
case of auto suggestion. and that these insD "a
only did not feel pain, but that their ooIles, ~
not injured as they would have been ha'
ATTEMPTED such things i'm cold blood. IA
Next morning | looked out ~ my "lnoOs -,
saw the leader OF the Isawiyah rolling our =, n,
croquet ground as usual. and IN the s.sg ~.
we went down To the village and met us 80.
lower Of nails and the prckly pear nhap .hs.
about their business az though nothing ha'
pened to upset them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

Capt. Dreyfus met his children at Car.
pentras for the first time since his ar.
rest in 1894.
Gen. Otis cabled the war department
that the Senator had sailed from Manila
with the Iowa volunteers.
The district of Aidin, in Asia Minor,
was visited by an earthquake and over
200 persons perished.
American gunboats destroyed the Fill
ipinos' works at Olangapo, in Subig bay,
and the town caught fire and was
burned. The gunboat Urdaneta, en-
gagged in bombarding the town of CRAM,
was captured by the rebels and sunk
and the crew made prisoners.
A Manila dispatch says that the Fill
pinos have not made good their offer to
surrender the American prisoners and
they have not sent an officer to meet
Mai. Gen. Otis as promised.
At the request of the German govern
ment, the government of the United
States has consented to look after the
interests of Germany in Venezuela dur
ing the revolutionary outbreak.
In two engagements between Mexi-
can soldiers and Yaqui Indians in Mex
leo both sides lost heavily.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29
A FINANCIAL EXPERT.
He Got Busy with the Managing Edi-
tor to That GentIemnn'H
Discomhture.

There is gentleman in Chicago-and tho
boom of a cannon fired in front of the
Times-Herald office would easily carry to
him as he sits at his desk-who has made a
study of economies and who writes financial
editorials.
A few weeks ago the managing editor took
= vacation and the financial expert was left
in general charge of the paper. One morn
ing recently he received a letter from the
managing editor, who wrote:
Il am stranded over here in Canada. l
have been buying lot of stuff that may be
useful to me some time, and | need $50. VIII
you please send me a draft for the sum
namedY
OF course he would. 1t would be pleas
ure to accommodate the managing editor.
So the great financial expert hurried over
to the First national bank, in which be kept
his account, and asked for draft for $50 To
send to his friend. The bank officer gave
him a paper to sign, and after giving direc
tions where to send the draft the writer re-
turned to his desk
Two or three uneventful days passed, and
there came another letter from the managing
editor.
Dear sir" he wrote, 81 asked you to
send me some money, and told you was
strapped What do you mean by drawing
on me for $50? l have telegraphed to a
friend, who has sent money to pay my way
home. Chicago Times-Herad.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Joseph Deemer Taylor died at his
home in Cambridge, O., aged 60 years.
He served in the Forty-eighth, Fiftieth,
Fifty-frst and Fifty-second congresses.
Nebraska republicans met in Omaha
and nominated NJ. B. Reese, of Lincoln,
for supreme judge. The platform en-
dorses the gold standard and President
McKinley's Philippine policy.
Massachusetts, democrats in state
convention in Boston nominated Rob-
ert Treat Paine, Jr., of Boston, for gov
ernor. The platform indorses the prin-
ciples of the last national convention.
Nathaniel Trigg (colored), aged 100
years, died in Memphis, Tenn. He Was
probably the oldest registered voter
in the United States.
Rev. Albert B. Coates, of Beverley,
Mass, has accepted the prohibition NOM
ination for governor in place of John
Willis Baer, who declined it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29
LATER.

The big bell in the tower of Inde-
pendence hall at Philadelphia rang out
q salute on the 26th ult. in honor of
Admiral Dewey's arrival home. Seven
teen strokes, the admirals salute, were
tolled.
Fire at Marion, ILL.,, on the goth ult.
destroyed part of one of the best
blocks in the city, which included the
post Office. Loss $4,000.
A boiler explosion in the Band saw
mill at Auburn, Ind, on the 26th uit,
killed Waldo Shut and so seriously in
jured William Richmond that he will
probably die. The building and MAJ
chinery were totally wrecked.
Consul Wiltshire Rutterfield is dead
at his home in South Omaha. Neb,
Butterfield was the author of several
widely read historical works, principal
ly relating to revolutionary times, and
the years Immediately succeeding.
An innovation in American newspa-
per methods has been made by the Ger.
mania, of Milwaukee, which has en-
ployed DIR. Duemling, of the Lutheran
college at LaPorte, Ind. as censor. DR..
Dnemling will supervise all matter
which goes into the paper, whether ot
an editorial or news nature. This
is claimed to be the only paper in this
country which subjects itself TO cen.
sorship
The lower Potts creek property, sit.
mated in Allegheny and Craig counties
Va, has been sold TO the Valley Ore
Co. The price paid was 100000. The
tract contains $4,000 acres of the rich,
est iron ore land in the United States
The anniversary of Frances f.. vii
lard's birth is to be made the occasion
of the Inauguration of an organized
agitation against saloons, which is ex-
pected to attain national proportions
The movement is to be under the aus
pices of young people all over the land
A Chesapeake & Ohio passenger
train ran into an open switch neal
| White Sulphur Springs, Va. on thC
night of the 25th and struck freight
train standing on the siding. damaging
both engines. Robert Garrison, {
tramp riding between the engine ant
the tender, was killed. Col. August
a passenger, was thrown from hi;
berth and sustained n broken leg.
The financial projectors of the Amer
lean Window Glass Co. met at Pitts
burg on the goth ult. and allotted tbs
stock for the new combination. L
was decided that all subscribers fo
stock for $4,000 or less shall receive
the full amount, and all over that sun
are 10 be shaded 10 per cent. Tn,
capitalization of the company is SIT,
600, 900 and the result of the meeting
indicates that the stock has been over
subscribed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

A bust of ex-Speaker Reed is being
executed in bronze for the Maine legis-
lature.
London has 1000 houses that are ten
antless because they are supposed to be
haunted.
Beginning this year no charge for tut
ton is to be made at the Missouri state
university.
Rev. John Naille, of Trappe, Pa, is the
oldest clergyman in the United States.
He is in his ninety-ninth year.
Hiram Cronk, of New York, is the
only surviving pensioned soldier of the
war of 1912. He is 90 years old.
Mrs. BERTHE Smith, postmistress at
Circle City, Alaska, is the only woman
occupying such position in the terri
tory.
Jason Brown, son of John Brown, of
Harper's Ferry, lives hermit's life in
the Santa Cruz mountains in Cali
fornia.
The queen regent of Spain has pre-
sented the Spanish casino at Tampa,
Fla, with 600 books for its library for
public use.
The national council of the Independ-
eHt Order of Red Men meets in Mil
waukee next year, the second Tuesday
in September.
The agricultural department OF
Georgia has decided to begin vigorous
campaign against the sale of oleomarga-
rine in that state.
a fall of rocks from the center of the
Horseshoe falls at Niagara has had the
effect of restoring it to the shape from
which it derived it's name.
Charles Allen, a mail robber who
escaped from Sing Sing prison in 1895
and Sidney Wennie, piclipocket OF
Washington, have been arrested al
Frankfort, Germany.
East Tennessee has furnished more
soldiers per capita to the volunteer
forces than has any other section of the
United States, the record being one
soldier for every $50 inhabitants.
Mark Twain, who has been announced
as coming to Princeton, n. j., has can.
celed his engagement for suite OF
rooms there, saying that he intends re.
naming in England for the winter.
Gen. Fl. e. Merriman, commander oi
the department of the Colorado, says
the state has no right to restrain In.
dians whose treaty prerogative allows
them free access to hunting grounds il
any part of the state.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

The submarine torpedo boat Holland
on a trial trip at Greenport, N. Y, ran
mile under water at n uniform depth
Of seven feet
The United States transport zealan-
dia arrived in San Francisco from Ma
nila with six companies of the First
Montana volunteers.
Judge Alfred S. Hartwell has been
chosen by the Hawaiian government to
represent the territory of Hawaii dur
ing the coming congress.
Another street car of the Big Con-
solidated company was dynamited in
Cleveland, o., but no one was injured.
The mill and warehouse of the Salem
FIGURING Mill company was burned at
Salem, Ore. Loss, S150,OO0.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week end
ing on the cath were: Brooklyn, .695;
Philadelphia, .62s; Boston, .6O7; Bal
timore, .j91; ST. Louis, .55s; Cincn-
natl, .547; Chicago, .515; Louisville,
.4oI; Pittsburgh, .4s6; New York.
All; Washington, 800; Cleveland.
.13S.
In accordance with the rites of the
Russian orthodox church, Miss Julia
Dent Grant, daughter of Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. Frederick Grant and granddaugh-
ter of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and Prince
Cantacuzene, Count Speransky of Rus
sia, were married in Newport, r. l.
Mrs. William Swartwood, of Noun
tain Top, Pa, gave birth to her twenty
fifth child.
Nine convicts were publicly whipped
in the Jail yard at New Castle, Del.
Three men held up the stage coach
running between Westfall and Ontario
in Idaho and carried off the registered
letter pouch.
The plant of the American Tin Plate
company at Atlanta, Ind, was almost
totally destroyed by fire, the loss being
! S15O,OO0.
The Hawaiian treasury holds bal
ance of 81, 100000 and the islands are out
of debt.
Six persons were killed and eight 9TH
ers injured in collision between trains
on the Denver g. Rio Grande railroad at
Reno Col.
The postmaster general has issued
an order reducing the rate OF postage
between the United States and Porto
Rico to two cents.
Twenty people were injured in a col
lission on the Allegheny Valley railroad
at Parker, Pa.
Albert ]. Earling, of Chicago, has
been elected president of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST. Paul Railway COM
pany, to succeed Roswell Miller, re-
signed.
The Thirtieth regiment, United States
volunteers, composed of men from IL
linois, Missouri, Michigan and other
states around the lakes, sailed for Ma
Mia from San Francisco on the Sher-
man.
Vice President Hobart is seriously i'll
with kidney trouble at his home in Pat
erson, n. j.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29
FOREIGN,

Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was released
from the military prison at Rennes and
at once left for Nantes.
President Kruger is reported to have
cabled a long message to Queen Vic
toria, begging her intervention to pre-
vent bloodshed. 1t is also said that Boer
officers are urging the government to
begin hostilities before the British re-
endorsements arrive.
Hundreds of people were killed by an
earthquake in the valley of Member, in
Asia Minor.
The queen regent has signed de-
cree declaring martial law throughout
Spain, which document Premier Sill
vela will promulgate when he sees fit.
Fire in Lima, Peru, destroyed the ia
nous and beautiful Church of San Fran
cisco, founded by Pizarro in 1885.
The Spanish cabinet has decided that
the interest on the Cuban bonds must
be paid by the Cuban government.
During bull fight at Campeche,
Mexico, u mob tore down the ring and
three performers were fatally hurt.
Gen. Otis informed the war depart
ment that eight days mail sent by the
transport Morgan City was lost in the
wreck of the vessel.
A Manila dispatch says that insur-
gents ditched railroad train near An
| geles and two Americans were killed
and five injured.
Admiral Montejo, who commanded
the Spanish naval forces in the battle
of Manila bay, has been condemned to
retirement by the Spanish supreme
court without the right of promotion.
An unknown schooner was wrecked
near Cape Pine, N. F., and II lives were
| lost.
II is announced that the Orange Free
| State has resolved 10 assist the Trans
vaal against British aggression. 1t is
also said that President Kruger says
that while things are serious and will
become graver. "A peaceful settlement
will be attained.
The Mexican congress voted 100000
TO pay the expenses of the trip of Pres
ident Diaz 10 Chicago.
| Manila dispatch says that Gen,
Otis sought to initiate the policy EN-,
| ployed in Cuba of buying Filipino arms
but his efforts were unsuccessful.
Over $4,000 persons assembled in
Trafalgar square. London, and cheeret
for war with the Beers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

THERE are to-day about 800 women
ministers in the United States. In
America the ministry is being more
used by women as profession than
the law. The great value of women
ministers in America is for scattered
parts that can not possibly afford to
support man. They can maintain a
woman minister. The chief opposition
TO women pastors comes from minis
ters OF the poorer and least qualified
class OF course, the older and more
conservative ministers, bishops and the
like do not look with much pleasure on
a woman in the pulpit.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

DIR. DE BECKER of London, has found
salicylic acid valuable agent in pneu-
monia, believing that it acts on the N
fiammatory process in the lung, and
shortens the attack or abates it, 1t is
an antiseptic and dissolves the fbriu-
GUS coaguium. When eXpectoration is
induced he stops or rdiminishes the drug.
He gives child one-tenth grain hour
ly, very small child even smaller
doses. The aged are treated in tho
same manner. Extreme weakness and
cardiac troubles are contradictions for
its use,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29
IN ENGLAND.

II is stated by the superintendent of
the mint that the purchase of dirt ad-
herring TO gold costs no less than e311
per 100000 sovereigns, and e334 per
100000 half-sovereigns.
A funeral procession mile in length,
comprised Of boats and tfRir occupants,
was lately witnessed in Shannon, Ire
land. The deceased had been farmer
In Athlone, and his body was conveyed
by water to the cemetery at Clanmac-
noise, his friends and relatives follow
ing in boats.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29
Miss Proctor's youthful Critics.

Miss Mary Proctor, the astronomer and
lecturer, takes a deep interest in social set.
ly gives her personal services toward enter
tanning poor children and adults. Generally
her lectures are very well received. Many
of her audiences often manifest better at.
tention than those drawn from higher cir.
On one occasion a bright eyed little boy who
sat in the front row with his eyes fixed upon
the speaker was asked how he liked it. Il
guess" he said, ''it was pretty good, but she
ought to talk about lions and tigers. That's
4 youngster criticised her as follows: "Ifs
all very well to talk of weighing and meas
uring stars. There are some people, Of
course, who believe that sort of thing, but if
she thinks she can fool us boys with such
fairy tales she's very much mistaken" >
PhilAdelphia Post
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

DULUTH, MINI. is especially proud of
its great boulevard drive. Duluth is
built on hill which rises to height
OF 900 feet. within mile of the shore
of the lake. On the brow of this hill,
between 500 and 600 feet above the lev
ell of Lake uperior, beautiful drive
way has been built and, as one passes
over it, the lake, the harDpr, the river,
the cities and the entire country for
miles around are presented to view.
The drive is about seven miles in
length. Al eacn end is beautiful nat
ural park, left as far as possible with
the original beauty which nature gave
to it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

THE Vanderbilt line commences with
the old commodore, Dutch American,
whose business sagacity, prudence and
foresight enabled him to lay the
foundation of what is probably the
largest family fortune in the United
States to-day. After the death OF
Commodore Vanderbilt the head of
the family was William H., father of
Cornelius, ami the latter succeeded TO
the leadership after the formers death.
William X. Vanderbilt is the new h. ad
of the family.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

DIR. w. j. LEYDs, secretary of state
for the Transvaal. is described as a
man of peculiarly strong personal
power gifted with a persuasive man
ner and fully alive to the fact that tho
Boer and Englishman can never agree.
The doctor is now in Holland, where
he has aroused pubic sentiment and
secured action n the form of protests
to Queen Victoria against the carving
out of Mr.. Chamberlain's programme
in the Transvaal. He is of Dutch de-
scent, but is not Boer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

ONE of the curiosities of New Zea-
land is vegetable caterpillar. What
happens is that wicked plant darts
its seeds into an unfortunate caterpil-
lar and the seeGs grow to plants some
times foot long. In the meantime
the caterpillar dies lingering death.
This recalls the awful bamboo torture
lof China bamboo shoot is grated on
the human body and grows, nourished
by the juices of the body. 1t is the
most exquisite torture known.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

THE power of the Mannlicher rifle
was recently demonstrated in an acci-
dent near Prague. Two gendarmes
entered room in an inn and closed
the door, putting their rifles in the cor
ner. One rifle fell and discharged it,
self, the bullet going through the door
into the next room, where party was
dancing. 1t passed through the body
of a musician, killing him, and then
Through the bodies of five other men,
all of whom were dangerously wouud-
cd
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

WHAT the Vanderbilt wealth is--the
grand total-no man outside of the
family can definitely say. At the pres
ent time the total family wealth is
thought to be about $500. 900, OOO of
which the late Cornelius Vanderbilt
possessed S115, OOO 600 His income was
about 5000, 900 per year. At the pres
ent valuation of industrial stocks the
Vanderbilt fortune in another year, it
is believed, will closely approach $780,
OOO On0
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

ARMY DoCToR BARTH, of Koeslin,
Germany, has discovered that singing
possesses health-giving properties. 1t
,intensifies, he says, the respiratory
movements, thus rendering the lungs
capable of dealing with more air. This
increases and strengthens the action of
all the organs of the body, appe lite
and thirst increase, and the mere fre-
quent movement of the diaphragm and
the wall of the abdomen materially aid
idiuestion
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

AN interesting relic of Dr. Living
stone will shortly arrive in London, to
be placed in the rooms of the Royal
Geographical society with the collec-
tion of relics of other great travellers
and explorers preserved therein. This
is the section of the tree u der which
the famous missionary's heart was
buried, and containing the celebrated
inscription carved by his followers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29
Non-TcrrItorln1 E1nnnrIon

Means paying rent for a poor farm. Now
is the time to secure a good farm on the
line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway in Mariaette County, Wisconsin,
where the crops are of the best work plen-
~, fine markets, excellent climate, pure
soft water, land sold cheap and on long
time. Why rent farm when you can buy
one for less than you pay for rent Address
G. f. Rollins, Land Agent, l6l La Sale St.,
Chicago, Ill.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

THE grave of Capt. John Paul Jones
has not been located by the govern
ment, through its inquiries of the em-
bassy in the French capital. He died
on July is, 1899, in Paris, and was
buried with highest honors by the
French government, but the place of
his burial can not now be determined.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

THE lighting of the Red seems at
first to be too practical infringement
upon an ancient fairyland. But Sir
Thomas Sutherland and other members
of parliament interested in shipping
are naturally anxious about the pro-
grsss of the lighthouses with which
the porte promised to bejcwel the
southern waters of the Red sea.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

Perhaps Lots wife was trying to trace her
senealogy when she looked backward. Chi
cago Daily News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-29

So much of the happiness of life depends
on whether you will give up your solo for a
part in the chorus.-Ram's Horn