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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
PIGEON POST A CERTAINTY.
All England viii Soon BE Served by
an EnterprisiRE Bird
Fnncier.

The era of pigeon post is here at last.
Edgar :. ShrubSole, the curator of the
Crystal palace, London, has taken the
first step in scheme for establishing
an organized and cohesive pigeon post
service throughout England.
The general idea is to construct
breeding and training lofts at the
Crystal palace, with view to linking
up" with other lofts throughout the
Kingdom so that the whole of the is
lands-in parts quite inaccessible by
telegraph-will be in touch with the
central loft at the Crystal palace.
The special training of birds to and
from the channel and the North sea will
be undertaken in accordance with Lord
Lansdowne's suggestion, and particular
attention will be given to the utiiza-
ton of pigeons in the event of their be-
ing required for military or naval pur-
poses.
Another interesting development of
Mr.. Shrubsoe's scheme will be the
press pigeon, which will be specially
trained for service between the palace,
EPSON and other important sporting
centers and Fleet street. The first loft
is already being constructed at Syden-
ham.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
MAKES BEATEN BISCUITS.
washineton Girl OF Good Family De-
rives a Good Income from Her
Industry.

A young woman belonging to an old
and aristocratic Maryland family now
reduced in circumstances found il nee
essary some time ago to bestir herself
in order TO add to her Limited income,
says the Chicago Chronicle. She had
learned the art of cookery in her early
youth, and some years ago she an
nounced that she was prepared to fur
nish genuine Maryland beaten bis
cult to all who cared to buy. They
are to- be eaten with cheese in place
of the water crackers which are such
terrors to folks with talor-made teeth.
and every body who has tried them
is delighted. The young woman has
already IA thriving trade, and during
the past fortnight has had an order
from caterer in Philade delphia, which
has pleased her immensely. 1t hap
pens that she has cousin in a large
school in that city, and the cousin de-
termined to boom the trade for her.
Accordingly when she went shopping
one day. she went into fashionable
shop and asked for jar of Miss Car
ters Maryland biscuits as unconcern-
edly as if Maryland biscuits were as
common as chocolate creams. She eX-
pressed the greatest surprise when the
shopkeeper said he'd never heard of
them. Everybody in Washington used
them, she told him. Within the week
20 different girls from that school called
at the same shop to ask for Maryland
biscuits. OF course, an article for which
there was so great demand must be
kept, so little Miss Carter-only that
isn't her real name-was gladdened
by generous order from Philadelphia,
and if the tactics of her friends in other
able TO go into the biscuit business in
a wholesale way.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
HE CAN WAKE THE JUDGE.
Philadelphia Lawyer Exercises q
Skillful Trick of the Voice
with Success.

There is said to be lawyer in Phil
adelphia who possesses a trick of the
voice to which certain measure of
his success in United States supreme
court practice is due. The trick con-
sists in waking the judge. Whether it
is common practice for the high dig
nitaries of the federal supreme bench
to indulge in a nap in the course of
a long and tedious argument, such hap
penings are not unknown, and it is
well for an able logician of the bar
to be prepared for it, says New York
paper.
The trick of waking sleepy judge
would seem to be something in the ma
ture of slamming law book under his
nose or connecting his personality
with the current of an electric battery.
But the trick is explained as purely a
matter of sound involved in the skill
full control of the voice. 1t is said that
a barrister practiced in the art and
rhetoric of addressing the bench can
| gather all the waves of sound from his
throat into focus and deposit it in
the orifice of the judges ear with the
general effect of a bomb. The trick,
however it is accomplished, is said to
have been worked repeatedly with sue
cess on the late Judge McKenna, whose
habit of going to sleep on the bench
was once notorious subject of COM
ment in the celebrated litigation over
the Berliner telephone patents.
This queer trick of the voice, while
it is said to be the peculiar property OF
one celebrated lawyer, is probably at
tempted often with varying success
by others.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
WARNS AGAINST TIGHT SHOES
New Professor at the University OF
Chicago Talks on Novel
Subject.

Col. Brinkerhoff the newly-appofnted
commander ofthe University of Chicago
battalion and the head professor Of
military science, delivered his first lee.
ture at the university the other after
noon on Marching in a Campaign. :"
All professors at the university are ex.
pected to be able to make speeches in
public when the occasion requires it.
and if they are not invited abroad to
lecture they must give series of open.
lectures at the university itself.
Col. Brinkerhoff gave his young as
pirants for soldierly honors advice
about taking care of their feet ON a
long march. He told of his experiences
and the experiences of soldiers in the
Philippines, Porto Rico and China.
The professor does not anticipate
that he will take his battalion on anv
forced marches until spring, but he
wants to give the men a little timely ad.
vice about wearing tight shoes.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
LOANED TO THE NOBILITY.
Samuel Lewis, English Money Lonner.
Vho Gave to Poor Hut Squeezed
the Rich.

Samuel Lewis, the notorious He
brew usurer, died the other day at
his fashiona BILE residence, No % Gros-
venor square, London. He was pre-
eminently an accommodates of the
aristocracy, transacting no business
with ordinary persons. He was un-
derstood to be prodigiously wealthy,
it being said that he had so much
money he did not know what to do
with it. He lived in grand style in
London and elsewhere, and enter
tanned lavishly. He visited Monte
Carlo for the purpose of unloading
some of his superfuous money. but
complained that he was so unlucky
that he made more than he lost He
once broke the bank and distributed
half of his winnings among the poor
of Marselles. He was rather proud
of his munificence to the poor. but
gloated when plucking spendthrift
worldlings. He was 63 years old.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
AN UNDERSEA PHONE
Adaptation of the Invention of DR..
Michael l. Pupin.
Line to ne Put In between Fioridn
and Cuba for the United states
Government by Buyers
of Patents.

The first undersea telephone built
according to the invention of DR..
Michael. Pupin is to he put down be-
tween Florida and Cuba for the Unit
ed States government, by the buyer
of the patent, the Bell Telephone
company, says the New York Journal
and Advertiser. t
Last July DR.. Pupin, having secured
his patents here and abroad, offered
his discovery to the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph company. The
company immediately bought an OPP
ton on the invention, extending to
January l, 1901.
Then, under DR.. Pupin's direction,
the company equipped line from
Bedford Station, on the Harlem rail-
road, which ran, partly under water,
to New Bedford. Mass, thence to AL
bany, and on to Pittsburgh. There
the wire ran overland, the coils were
placed at intervals of about two miles,
and were inclosed in glass insulators
on the poles.
The test was so satisfactory that
HDOuU INO NtthS btlpl 'ht 'H''Oh w
pired the company paid the money
and closed the contract with DIR.
Pupin.
The Electrical Review, in a recent
article, says:
Experimenting with artificial con-
ductors, DR.. Pupin discovered that it
was possible to telephone over vastly
greater lengths of cable than had ever
been possible before, and is able to
make any desired length of telephone
circuit easily possible. He has shown
a design for induction coils to be in
troduced at appropriate intervals in
a transatlantic cable which would
allow telephone conversation to be
held across the Atlantic ocean. 1t is
believed by those who have investi-
gated the subject fully that the i'm
provement which his inventions con-
template will enable telephony over
land lines of any length that are in
use to-day, and solves the difficult
and attractive problem of ocean tele-
phony."
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
WHERE HE FOUND SECLUSION.
Senator Davis Was Accustomed to
Seek Rest on Staten
Island,

The late Senator Cushman X. Davis
of Minnesota, was one of the most in
dustrious of men, but frequently found
that he was overtaxing his physical
strength. On such occasions he went
to New York and stayed at small ho-
tel on Staten Island. This was habit
known only to very few of his per-
sonal friends. One of Senator Davis
friends on Staten Island was man
who for many years had been a pilot
and who now lives at this hotel. The
employees at the hotel were instructed
to deny the presence of the senator
should any inquiries be made there for
him. A man who was very anxious
to see Senator Davis in Washington
learned year ago that he had been
seen going to Staten Island, and he
called up every hotel there on the tele-
phone. From none of them could he
get any information, though Senator
Davis was at that time a guest at one
of them. His selection of this hotel
was due to the fact that he had ac-
quaintances there and because it was
about the last place in New York where
anyone would search for him. One of
his friends stumbled on this retreat
by chance last summer. He met the
senator and his friend, the pilot just
returning from trip to Coney Island.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
POST Omces on ocean Liners.

Most of the big liners that carry
the mails now have floating post of
fees on board, where all letters and
postal packets are dealt with while
the vessel is blowing her way through
the waves. The sorters have by no
means an easy time on board, for they
are often at work for IL hours a day
during the entire voyage. One sorter
on the Kaiser Wilhelm stated the
other day that during five months
an average of 5s,36s letters, 220 sacks
of papers and SAT registered articles
were handled by four men, or an in
dividual average of 1882 letters, So
odd sacks OF papers and 212 registered
articles. In the same period the av-
erage post worked on the voyage of
the American liners in II trips were
92,4OO letters, 144 sacks of papers and
1854 registered articles, or 46,2OO let
ters, ~ sacks of papers and 5S2 regis
tered articles per man.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
THINKS he WILL REACH POLE.
Canadian Explorer Soon TO Leave
London with Improved Plans
for Journey.

Capt. j. Elzar Bernier, of Quebec.
who has volunteered to make a vow
age of discovery to the north pole by
new route and by aid of inventions
of his own for ice travelling, has prac-
tcally completed his arrangements in
England. and will sail for Canada in a
few days to submit his ideas to Sir
Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian premier.
"My plan" he said, rs to start via
Behring straits, follow the coast of ST.
IBERIA, and enter the ice between 1865 and
10 degrees east longitude, and then
push north as far as the ice will per-
nit
"lf the ship attains a better position
than the Jeanette | expect to reach
the pole and return within three or
four years. This will not be as difficult
as the Jeanette found it, because the
polar basin has now more. openings
than formerly My plans include not
only reaching the pole but scientific OBJ
servations not heretofore completely
achieved
"rhe ship will be delivered at VAN
couver in ample time. 1t is an improved
Fran, and includes all the best and
latest devices of the antarctic vessels
now building. Twelve or fourteen men
will accompany me. Many have offered
themselves from the United States,
Canada and elsewhere.
81 attach the greatest value to the
Marconi system of communicating with
my base. OF course l shall stick to the
ship as long as possible, but shall be
prepared to leave it and make dash
for the mole -
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
AN ETHICAL CULTURE HALL
Conditional Pledges Made for the Es-
tnbIisbment of an SsOO,OOO
Institution.

At the close of his address at Car
negie hall, New York city, the other
day, Prof. Adler announced that last
week $6s,OO0 subscription had been
doubled and $50, 900 subscription in
creased to $50 200 and another S20,0 900
subscription toward the construction
of the Ethical Culture hall in Central
Park West, between SiXty-third and
Sixty-fourth streets, All these are
conditions on the total sum of $780,
900 being subscribed. Only $4,000
more is needed, and Prof. Adler said
he hoped it would be subscribed by
the society's twenty-fifth anniversary
in May next.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
Want Smaller Feet.

A writer in one of the medical iour.
nais says mans little toe is disappear-
ing. Most women would be more en-
couraged, however, remarks the Chi
cago Times-Herald, if he could assure
them that the big toe and one or two
others also are shrinking away.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14

AIidwinter Excursions to Washing
ton and Baltimore. $1,000 for the
Round Trip, February 7th, valid for re-
turn ten days. including date OF sale.
On through tickets to Baltimore. stop
on will be allowed at Washington in
both directions.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
Save Your Money.

EVERY working man and woman
should take advantage OF the savings
department. of the Marietta Building
and Savings Company. and lay aside
some portion OF their earnings each
week.
No. 3 Tiber Way. Open from 2 to a
p. M each day.
Dec. 5th-tf.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
A. c. GUSSESS & HARVEY

We have a car of bananas
we will sell at very low prices,
S and 10c a doz. Oranges
from Is to 40c a doz-sweet.
Lemons 15c a doz. All kinds
of homemade candies. All at
low prices. Cocoanuts Sc each.
Cor. Greene and Ohio Streets
and No. 8 Tiber Way.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
NOTICE.
In the Court OF Common Pleas Of
Washington County. Ohio. Case No
a671
Mamie 3. Jarvis. Piziniff.
Vg

Washington County. Ohio. Case No.
9671
Mamie 3. Jarvis. PlainciT.
VS.
Pearley C. Jarvis. Defendant.
Pearley c. Jarvis. whose place Of res
idence is unknown Will take notica
that on the 22nd day Of December A. d.
1900, said plaintiff filed her petition IN
the Court of Common Pleas. OF Wash
ington County. Ohio. being Case No
9671, praying divorce. alimony and
custody of children from Pearley C,
Jarvis on the following grounds, to-
wit: Adultery and extreme cruelty, and
that said case will be for hearing on
and after the 5th day of February, 1901.
NANNIB p. JARVIS. Plaintiff.
wv. e. Sykes. Attorney for Plaintiff
Jan. 3-6wksIThurs.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
Rea Gum Wood for Pavinr.

Red gum wood is being used ex-
tensivs!y in London for paving pur-
poses.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-02-14
Examination of Teachers

foT FOR the public schools OF Washington County
VIII De held In the Marietta High School Room
On pa tne second Saturday OF each month except
January, July and August.
]. A. STONE. Marietta, Ohio.
President Board of School Examiners
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-03-15
HE IS HOPEFUL.
Gen. Harrison's Physician Says He
Sees No Cause for Alarm nj Pres
ent in His Condition.

Indianapolis, Ind, March 1a.-Dr.
Henry jameson has been in constant
attendance on Gen. Harrison, and,
with DR.. Evan Hadley, has alternated
in close watch for the slightest sign
of improvement or relapse.
AT midnight DR.. Jameson left the
Harrison home, after spending nearly
three hours with his patient. The 9TH
er two physicians were present, and
effort was directed to relieving the
congestion in the left lung. DR.. jane
son gave out the following statement:
"Gen. Harrison's condition is not
changed from what it was early in the
evening. His strength is keeping up
well and his pulse is strong. The in
fiammation of his lung has not spread
any, and there is no danger to be ap-
pretended unless the Inflammation
does spread
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-03-15

Russia's declaration as to Manchuria
is not satisfactory to Great Britain
and America has been urged to join
in preventing the partition OF China.
The British steamer Avlona was
wrecked at the Bilbao breakwater and
the entire crew, 23 in number, per-
ished.
A dozen small bands of Qaqui In
dians are on the warpath in Sonora,
Mexico, and have committed many
depredations.
The British house of commons has
been asked to provide for an army of
100000 men, including a great force
of cavalry.
The Philippine commission has ap-
propriated S1,0O0,000 to be used in inn
proving Manila harbor.
Gen. De Wet is said to have reached
his own country by forced marches,
and the British admit his capture is
almost impossible. Unconditional sur
render is demanded of Beers and
peace overtures are still unconcluded.
Great Britain is worried by the
American tariff, which is closing the
great European steel furnaces.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-03-15
Ono way OF sctt,,nr FOR supper.

Three commercial travellers meet
ing at a hotel one winter evening had
hearty supper together. supper
over, the three found some difficulty
in alloting their respective shares in
the bill; but one of them at length
cut short the dispute by proposing
that whoever had the "oldest name"
among them should go free, the ex-
penses being halved by the other two.
This amendment being promptly
accepted, No. produced card in
scribed "Richard Eve" which No. 2
trumped with adam Brown" Then
No. 8, portly veteran with humor-
Gus gray eyes, laid down his card
with the quiet confidence of a great
general making decisive movement,
and remarked, with a chuclSle:
81 don't much think you'll beat this
'un, gents"
And he was right, for the name
was "Mr. B. Ginning."-TitcSits.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-03-15
PAINTERS STRIKE.
Workmen Employed on New Korh
Bridge suspend Operations.

New York, March 13.-A strike
among the employees of the new East
river bridge was ordered yesterday.
The strike was begun by the painters
on grounds of a rather peculiar ma
ture, and it is feared will be fol-
lowed by n general sympathy strike
on the part of the iron workers. The
strike of the painters grew out of the
discharge of John Hale, one of the
painters who was on the scaffold, the
rope fastenings of which broke on
Friday, causing the death of Frank
Abortion, who fell a distance of $50
feet and was dashed to death at the
base of the granite anchorage. In
dropping Hale broke his arm and
dropped pot of black paint, which
struck the granite anchorage, caus-
ing a Disagreement of the surface.
For this, it is claimed, he was dis
charged.
In addition to the. demand for
'F"'e's reinstatement, the painters, on
account of the immense height at
which they are compelled to work,
demand an additional IS cents per
day. They have been receiving S2.25
DER day.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-03-15
LATER.

A rear-end collision between q
freight and a stock train on the Chi
cago & Northwestern road at Airing
ton Heights, ILL.,, on the 18th killed
two stockmen, fatally hurt one per-
son and injured seven others.
The post office department has re-
Jected all bids for furnishing street
letter boxes for the postal service
and new advertisements will be is
sued, calling for steel boxes only.
The sample boxes submitted were not
satisfactory.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to
give Ionkers, n. Y, $4,000 for pub
lie library building on condition that
the city raise $4,000 annually for it's
support and furnish site for the
building. The gift has been accepted.
A pawnbrokers' trust is the latest.
Its formation has practically been
completed and within few days
the new octopus will be Incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey. Most
of the pawnbrokers of New York
have gone into the deal. They have
given options on their business at a
large profit and will practically re-
tire from business for cash and stock
IN tne new corporation.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Co., held at Philadelphia ON the 18th
resolution was adopted authorizing
an increase of $100,000,000 in the cap
ital stock of the company, making
the total issue $25t 100000.
During the absence of the parents
the residence of Guy Williams, seven
miles north of Washington, Ind, was
destroyed and their three children,
aged l, and years, were burned
to death. The charred remains were
afterwards found in the ruins.
Secretary Wilson, of the agricul-
tural department, is pushing the
wireless telegraphy experiments
along the Virginia and North Caro-
lima coasts. The work is being done
under the immediate supervision of
Willis l.. Moore, chief of the weather
bureau.
The Archer Starch Co.'S factory,
just north of Kankakee, Ill.,, burned
on the 18th, involving a loss of $685.
00o. Although 200 people are on the
pay roll, only 25 were at work at the
time the fire started. All of them
escaped except Louis Ruel, who We
badly burned. The fire was caused
by an explosion OF the large grinders
from combustion, due to wet starch
and iron nails.
Gaylord, Blessing & Co., one of the
Oldest brokerage firms in st. Louis,
have assigned. Liabilities are ad-
mitted to exceed the assets by $780,
600. The company has been in busi-
ness for 35 years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-03-15
MINOR NEWS ITEMS

A million acres of oil lands have been
found in New Mexico.
Robert F. Kennedy, president of the
jacksonville e. st. Louis railroad,
died at his home in Philadelphia.
The cotton crop for the year
amounted to 4,672, ,605, 500 pounds, of
which Texas produced 1904, ,50s,7s2
The Inter Island Telegraph COM
pany of Hawaii is the first wireless
system to be opened for business.
The executive board of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs decided
to hold the bicentennial convention at
Los Angeles.
Mrs. Jennie McCorkel (colored),
aged GS years, is attending night
school in Omaha, her purpose being to
learn to read.
Scientists figure out from the skele-
tons recently discovered in South Da-
kota that the world is about 25O,OO0,-
900 years old.
The case of Missouri against the Chi
cago drainage trustees will be the first
jury trial in the United States supreme
court IN lOI years.
Prof Shaler, Harvard's geologist,
says that within 30 years new mining
systems will produce an almost intol-
cradle supply of gold.
+. A. Leasure, electrician on the
Oregon at the battle of Santiago, has
been sentenced to Sing Sing for 10
years for manslaughter.
Texas has now become "the empire
state of the SOUTH" having nearly a
millionmore inhabitants than Georgia,
which has heretofore had the proud
title.
Francis l.. Pettus, speaker of the
Alabama house of representatives and
son of United States Senator Z. w.
Pettus, died at Montgomery, Ala, from
rheumatism.
In 110 years the United States gov
ernment has lost through dishonest
agents and officials approximately S16,-
600, 900 in the handling of gross receipts
of $32, ,663, ,313, ,54s.I3.
Elections in London resulted in tre-
mendous majorities in favor of mu-
nicipal ownership of all public utili-
ties, thus breaking CALLING monopolies
existing for centuries.
The government has created some
large forest reserves in northern Ari-
regulation, with view to prevent
their spoliation and to preserve them
from fire.