Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1896-TWELVE PAGES, TWO MORE ROADS Additional Properties Now Controlied by the Southern Company. EXTENDING ITS CONNECTIONS FURTHER No Agreement Reached as to the Transportation of Immigrants. RAPID STRIDES OF PROGRESS eS The Southern Railwey Company, it 1s believed, through parties in its interest, has acquired possession of another valua- ble property, the Marietta and North Georgia, which has passed into the hands of a corporation known as the Atlant Knoxville and Northern Railway Compan: three of whose directors reside in the city of New York. It weuld perhaps be speaking more nearly correct to say that the property will be valuable, as it has not proven a very re- munerative stock in the past, and has just merged from the hands of receivers, to do which it materially assisted by the w York parties already referred to. The New Acquisition. Mxrietta and North Georgia is 205 th, and extends from Atlanta at both of which cities it con- nects with the main lines of the Southern 4y, and at the latter point will afford outhera a rew route of its own via Ashevill to Atlanta and for the south. © Marietta and North Georgia has been the hands of the court for about five The new purchasers have paid “0 on the property, or rather more than half the purchasing price agreed upon. ‘The directors of the new company con rise Messrs. Henry K. McHarg, General fonrce Perter and Walter Ferguson of ew York, E. C. Spalding of Atlanta, Jo- seph MeWilliams and J. B. Glover The Marietta and B. A. Denmark of Savanna The officers are: Henry K. McHarg, Ne York, pri nt; E. C. Spalding, vice pres- ident, Atlanta; H. W. Oliver, secretary- treasurer and auditor, Marietta, Ga.; Jo- seph McWilliams, general manager, Mari- etta; W. G. Bradley, general nger agent, Knoxville, ander and Victor Smith, general counsel, Atlanta. President McHargz is also vice president of the Manhattan Bank, New York, and of the Texas Central Railway Company. Gen. Horace Porter has just re- signed the vice presidency of the Pullman Palace Car Company. Mr. Ferguson is a New York contractor and capitalist. Mr. Spalding is general manager of the South- ern Iron Car Company. Mr. Glover was for years receiver and manager of the Marietta and North Georgia. Mr. MceWill- jams is a practical railroad man. formerly with the Texas Central. Mr. Denmark is a lowyer of Savannah and president of the Southwestern Railroad Company. The Middle Tennessee and Alabama. Purenase has likewise been made also, it is believed, in the interest of the Southern of the Middle Tenne: and Alabama ratl- road, which extends from Shelbyville, Tern., to Deeatur, Ala. gentleman in whese name the sale was effected was Mr. Joseph Dicksen, who is likewise the re- ceiver 220 ar Louis to § € what is Known as the St. Loms, St. P. extending from ali the first mort- dle Tenne end y of the second bama was seasor to the ew Orleans completed sue and . a dista from ftal stock of $1,170,000, consisted of £250,000 fi nds and second nouUnt of F1Z.000 yo York; Garret Robert D. i : Ernest Caldwell, byville. Te and John T. Cre Decatur, 2 No tas tof igrants. It is that the arrangement which the Southern and va r roads tried with Pacifi harmonious relative to the immigrants and which $ tween the way f out, a for Hcent e¢ nee held York between U: ve otlicers having jurisdi leveloped that the Southern Pacific were entatives of the ot ble that they could The wi Southern Pa sement for a ision he Southern Paciric wil de. n roads commi. ad no it is could better affors ss entirdy than te roads, ‘aciiic all the profits there ment could be made Southern Pacitic, the western ided to no longer foliow the South- ern Pacitic in paying excessive commis- immigrant agents, and place for conifnued demora ion road. rt circulat trunk © with New Was i ta outhern Pacity has, however, been made ship companies’ who bring numbers of ami Ss to this coun- directly with the eastern and > and give them all their busi- S Was not agreed to. om Washington to New Orlenas. ath Ys ago that lines had decided to York immigrant agents ect, and their t them from help- but ¢ n Railway Company has cot pleted arrangements for running solid trains ween Washington and New Or- a Pullman sleeper between on and Galveston, Texas, and the plan will so into effect Ina few days. This deal is a little f any traflic arrange- Ment, so far as passengers are concerned. that has ever heretofore been entered 5 any railroad ates, and «when the tirst time that a s ‘Texas point across the Misst company in ugurated the ence to an eastern city, or vic Apropos of the rapld’ strides t the Southern is making in transporting pas- s spgers and freight between all sections of ountry, it is stated that President rv of that company is the only man in the Un States who can travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf of Mexico to the great lakes of the nerth on car lines in which he ts a director, and without the ty of asking any one for a pass or paying his fare. Mr. Spencer is now, besides being presi- dent of the Southern and also of various Hines affiliated with that system, a dixector in the new Philadelphia and Reading» Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paui, Great North- ern, Northern Pacific, Wisconsin Central, and other roads almost “teo numerous to mention. neces milar Experiences. rom the Youkers Statesman. “I never knew it to be so dull. I haven't done a soul in a week,” said the green goods man. “Neither have I,” who stood by him. replied the cobbler, THE DEEPEST HOLE, Shaft of a Famous Michigan Copper Mine Goes Down Nearly a Mile. From the Minneapolis Journal. A French engineer proposed last year to the directors of the international exposi- tion to be given in the French capital in the year 1900 the digging of a hole to the depth of one mile. The idea was favorably received, but, on investigation, the mag- nitude of the undertaking became so ap- parent that the idea has been dropped. It will, therefore, be necessary for those who desire to descend a mile into the bowels of the earth to come to Calumet, for no- where else on earth are there available openings of such depth. Within less than a mile of each other in this mining town there are three vertical shafts, each nearly one mile in depth. The deepest of this trio is the Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hecla copper mine, which has reached its full depth of 4,900 feet. Five Eiffel towers could be dropped down this hole were it wide enough, and the top of the fifth would reach above the surface only to such a height as would allow it to be easily covered by the steel shaft house now being built over the monstrous hole. ‘This shaft was begun in 1889, and it has taken seven full years to sink it, showing an average progress of 700 feet annually, nearly all of which has been in blue trap rock, one of the most refractory of min- erals. The conglomerate carrying copper was the bed of an ancient sea, and is com- posed of pebbles and gravel worn by the action of the water, such as are seen on sea beaches or lake shores, cemented into a solid mass of cale and silica. By the percolation of the waters and the decom- position of certain constituents of the rock little cavities were formed, in which were deposited small nodules of copper by the wate The Red Jacket shaft is 15% by 25 feet in size inside of the timbers, and contains six compartments, being fully equal in working capacity to half a dozen mining shafts of ordinary size. The shaft is solid- ly timbered. The adamantine firmness of the rock renders it secure for all time to come, the timbers being merely to carry the traffic of men and mineral, of water and electricity, which surges between the sunlight and the bottom. In four com- partments will slip up and down the ponderous cages, carrying ten-ton loads of rock at the speed of express trains. Up and down these cages will also ride the men who mine the rock from the old sea bed. In one compartment will be the great iron pump pipes, and down another de- scends the steady current cf compressed air which runs the drills a mile below the engine house. Bunched tn slender cables are the copper wires which convey elec- tricity to light the recesses of the mine, threads of wire that afford telephonic com- munication from the most remote drift to any other portion of the property. for the Calumet and Hecla has a celephone ex- change of its own, which in size and per- fection of equipment puts to the blush the facilities of many pretentious towns, and which reaches every office on the surface and every portion of the great mine. There are fire-alarm wires, too, for the Calumet and Hecla spare no cost to make its em- ployes as safe as skill and lavish outlay of money can render them. The sinking of this shaft possesses deep interest from a scientific standpoint. Ob- servers ascending to great heights in bal- loons have been able to secure data of sur- passing importance regarding meieorologi- cal conditions, and observations made at the depth of a mile afford positive inferma- tion. The Red Jacket shaft has shattered some of the deeply cherished theories, and there are text books now extant in the higher institutions of learning which must be overhauled, because facis have su ceeded theory. The mines of the Ccm- stock lode in Nevada were the deepest in the world. The mines were very hot, and on the deeper levels some of the more pious miners were quite positive that they smelled sulphur, and refused to go further own for fear of encroaching upon the do- minions of the devil. According to deduc- tions, the bottom of the Red Jacket shaft should be about the proper temperature to boil eggs. Careful tests have determined that the normal temperature of the rock is 7-6 degrees, Fahrenheit, at the bottom The rock temperature at the depth of 103 feet was 59 degrees, Fahrenheit, showing an access of 28.6 degrees in 4.795 feet. ‘There was, however, a gain of 8 degrees in temperature in the last 500 feet sunk, @ much more rapid increase than at lesser depths. Notwithstanding the beneficial effects of ventilation and compressed air, men work- ing at the bottom of the deep Shaft do not ve an especially easy berth, though liberally paid. They are compelied to wear rubber boots and rubber coats, as the water found in the mine at that great depth is most corrosive on the human body. There is machinery enough on the sur- ace to drive all the street cars of a city like St. Louis at this single one of eleven shafts, and it is housed §9 fire-proof build- ings that would be the pride of a city of 100,000 inbabitants. A Meteer Month. From the Philade Lazer, If the skies should rain upon us many m similar in size to the great arctic imen, which as yet remains out of the of our examination, estronomy would much cultivated fad. Happily the star showers,” which fall at certain sea sons in great profusion, are more gentle than the dew. Prof. Newton supposed that 10,000,000 or 15,000,000, large enough to be > to the naked eye, enter the earth's ay. Prof. Young thinks inary “shooting star’? may 1d of dust and intermingled gas, 1 puff of smoke.” Only ence during a s been known to reach be a atmosphere every that the or the 5) . and this was in connection with the shower of Androm in Novam- Mexici a great in and, among some rm. e meteors 2nd shooting stars, probably belong to one family, whi s doubtless, closely related to the omets, move about the sun in orbits lke that of the earth. They are susceptible to the earth’s attraction, falling daily toward our planet, we have seen, but being drawn in greatly increased numbers a those seasons when the earth is near the inain rm,” as in August and Novem- ber. 1 adiant point” gives title to the arm, the meteors which seem to proceed from Perseus, in August, being called “Perseids,” those which have the direction Gt Leo, about Novem those apparently yan ing in Andromeda, en November 27 or 28, “Andromedes.' Thesi sts of minute bodies are almost alwa y consumed miles above the earth's surface by the friction of ovr at- mesphere, toe World in Eighty Minutes in 1900, Seribr Around t From November What new or the year siffel tower insignifleant? monstrosity could be ¢ ed 1% which would make the and the Ferris wheel seem ‘The answer is ready, so the *rench pape: tell us, in the idea of a mechanician, M. Borgel-Court, to build a gigantic sphere which shall as exactly as may be counterfeit the earth. On its sur- face all the countries of the globe, the cit mountains, seas and rivers are to be represented with faithful configuration, while the interior is to be devoted to rep- resentations of the physical characteristics and civilizations mapped on the surface natives, trees, animals, minerals, manu- factured product: ldings, ete. In each country the traveler's eye will meet with only the objects indigenous to that land. ‘The journey about this structure is to be made by means of elevators and electric railways. The round tour of the globe is scheduled to occupy eighty minutes—an fr- resistible figure to a compatriot of Jules Verne. Starting from Paris, the tourists are conveyed by train to Geneva, and thence by tunnels to the different countries of Europe, the east, America, Australia and Africa, completing their globe-trot in petto by a return to Paris, which occuples the highest point of the sphere, and sup- perts a great figure of the French republic. This portertous reminder of our “‘geog- raphy” classes is to be nearly 500 feet in diameter, or, roughly, one eighty-thous- andth as large as the original and more inconvenient earth. The plan {s to set the globe on a frame, which will bring the ex- treme height to nearly 800 feet—an impos- ing architectural monster it should be. ae ae On the Srfe Side. From the Detroit Free Press, “I don’t know,” cried the Excited Femi- nine Voice in the Darkness, “whether you are my husband or a burglar, but I’m go- ing to be on the safe side and shoot.” ad RULESTHAT RESTRICT Why the B, and 0. Will Leave the Joint Traffic Association. AN IMPORTANT ACTION IMPENDING Receiver Murray's Ideas as to the Road’s Earning Power. THE ELECTION A FACTOR peasepert has reached Washington, and it LJble and well informed, that the Balti- hore and Ohio Railway Company has with- Traffic Association, with which it has beer connected ever since that organization wa > It ts stated that the reason for this course on the part of Receivers Cowen and taken as his especial work the develop- ment of the highest possible carning power too many restrictions in the rules of the Joint Traffic Association to enable him to invested in the Baltimore and Ohio road. and that if he is to succeed in his self-im- the matter of making rates, and this he cannot do so long as the road is under A high official of the Baltimore and Ohic is authority for the statement that Mr. procity toward the patrons of the road for mcrths past, and that he has granted con- was in his power to do so. This policy, is said, has worked well. This showing has been regarded as re- markable when the well-known fact was means taken by Mr. Murray, through his assistants, has resulted in adding enor- the Baltimore and Ohio lines, and the con- clusion has, it is said, been’ reached that and Ohio has grown so large as to require the daily turning of almost every wheel erly profitable until certain changes as to the management of charges are made. to put the Baltimore and Ohio in a position where it could successfully antagonize the clation, which is sure to occur if the Bal- Umore and Ohio asserts its independence, event having now taken place a feeling of contidence that business will almost at spread abroad in the land and given those who solicit freight ground upon which to It is alleged that strong efforts are being made by the other members of the Joint and Ohio to reconsider its determination to lease the organization, as they are said its independent policy there is every reason to believe that the compiete collapse of away, and it 1s also stated that the offer has been made to the Baltimore and Ohio tion secret it will not be asked to contrib- ute anything toward the expenses nec derstood to be enormously ‘heavy. Effect of Reducing Rates. and Ohio if the announcement was made openly would probably precipitate the road Ohio, Delaware, Lackawanna and West- ern, Erfe, Grand Trunk, Lehigh Valley, York, Ontario and Western, Pennsylvania, ding, West Shore and es from sources thai are generally re- drawn, or is about to do so, from the Joint formed, several years ago. Murray is that the latter, who has under- of the company, has found that there are do justice to those who have their money posed mission, he must be untrammeled in the jurisdiction of tke association. Murray has been pursuing a policy of reci- cessions in various directions whenever Hy i Great Increase in Trafiie. taken into consideration that the energetic mceusly to the volume of traffic carried over although the business of the Baltimore in the equipment, it cannot be made prop- It is further said that all that was needed other members of the Joint Traffic Asso- was the election of Mr. McKinley, and this once begin to grow better has already base the making of contracts. Traffic Association to induce the Baltimore to realize that if the company persists in the association is but a short distance that if it will keep the fact of its defe sary to run the association, which are un- A reduction of rates by the Baltimore into a corflict with the Chesapeake and New York Central and Hudson Rive ow ads in New England, Philadelphia and Re: of most the railr and would to a large extent demoralize trade in New England and the territor: traver: y the roads named, and cast of ard including Toronto, Suspension Bridge, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda, Black tock, Buffalo, East Buffalo, Buffalo June- tion, Dunkirk, Salamanca, Erte, Pittsburg, Bellaire, Whee leston, W. Va ling, Parkersburg and Char- For various reasons a war of this sort is to be dreaded, but it is sald to be almost certain to come unless the Baltimore and Ohio recedes from Its pre ent position cr the Joint Traffic Assoc tion becomes less arbitrary in its course toward that company. he receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio are, so to speak,” said a Baltimore banker to a Star reporter, “on trial as to their ability to make the property a divi- dend payer and it is the disposition of the security holders to provide them with all the money necessary to put the road into first-class order to enable them to accomplis ; they are also willing to wait patiently for two or three years to see if by doing so they will get a fair re- turn for their money invested, and the re- ceivers are anxious to demonstrate that this can be done. This being the case 1 would not be at all surprised if the Balti- “more and Ohio should at any time admit what has come to be helleved in inside circles that it has determined to strike out for itself and get business wherever it is possible to procure it. ee Running the Engine. From the New York Tim John Jacob Astor's exploit in acting as the engineer of an Illinois Central train a few days ago is but another illustration of the peculiar, fascination that a railway lo- comotive has for rich young men who in- herit or acquire interests in railroads. Astor has for several years been a director of the Mlinois Central road, and on previous official inspections he has “run the engine. He has a natural taste for mechanics, and his love of railroading is much like that of Dr. W. Seward Webb. In the Adirondacks Dr. Webb and his per- sonal traits are known to every native, and is passion for driving a locomotive at a high rate of speed is regarded with com- placent pride all along the line of his road. When a one or two car special dashes through the mountain region from Old Forge to Malone, at a fifty-mile gait, the simple mountaineer will turn placidly to his summer boarder and remark: “Dr. Webb is running -that train.” Occasionally the trackmen, on their morning rounds, will find the wreck of a hand-car lying at the bottom of the railroad embankment, or several yards from the track at the edge of the woods. Their invariable comment will be: “The doctor must have been along here last night.” It is seldom that any- body is hurt on such occasions, for the Adirondack railroad men are experts in jumping from_hand-cars. George J. Gould was able to handle a locomotive long before he became a rail- read president. Like Dr. Webb, he is a genuine sportsman, and enjoys the sensa- tion of going fast. While making his per- icdical inspections of the several lines in the Southwestern system, President Gould frequently relieves the locomotive engineer for hours at a time. Frank Thomson, vice president of the Pennsylvania lines, knows how to “run the engine” almost as well as any veteran. Two of the sons of James J. Hill, the president of the Great No-thern, are said to be as much at home in the cab of a lo- comotive as they are in the dining room of their father’s house. S. H. H. Clark, presi- dent of the Union Pacific, has taken all of the degrees of railroading, and he can “brake” a train as well as handle an en- gine. Chauncey M. Depew, with all of his ver- satility, has never yet undertaken to oper- ate a locomotive. ———_+e+____ He Wanted More. From the Texas Stfter. A Dallas merchant has a clerk who Is a very valuable man, and whom he could not very well replace.- The clerk understands that, and is continually asking for a raise. The last time his employer said: “You say you can’t live on twenty-five dollars a week? All right; I'll raise your salary to thirty. Will that do? “No, it won't do. Now that my salary is raised to thirty dollars, I am going to get married, and I'll need more.”” COAL FROM CHINA. = Fuel to Compete American Mines. From the San Francisco -Ghionicle. China has thrown éwn the gauntlet to the big coal miners/¢¢ the Pacific coast and to those of the Unifted States, for that matter. The Amerigan bark Colorado, which arrived in port;August 27, brought a mixed sample cargo of ¢nthracite and man- ufactured coal, mingd and made in the Tonquin district. It ;was consigned to a coal-dealing firm of thiy city, which prom- ises to push the Chinese fuel on the mar- ket at prices greatly: ‘below those which Pennsylvania and Welsh coals of the same character are now bringing. Examining experts have pronot the Tonquin coal bed almost inexhaustjble. The Chinese ar- ticle is in the market-to stay, it is said, at as long as present tariff conditions Celestial With So far as the trade on this coast is con- cerned, the new coal threatens to deliver the same body blow to Welsh anthracite that the latter did to the New South Wales coal some years ago, or that the New South Wales coal previously delivered to the bituminous coal of this coast. Tonquin, sirce the Tonquin war, has beea under the control of the French, and it is French capital that is now developing its mines, but the land is still populated by the Chinese, as before, and it is the cheap Chinese labor that is employed in the mines; hence the extremely low cost of pro- duction, which enables the French owners of the Tonquin mines to undersell the coal producers of other countries, where labor is better paid. ‘The amount of Chinese coal brought by the park Colorado was not great, but heavy cargo after cargo will be- gin to come as soon as it is coaxed by de- mand. ‘The coal from the orient is sald to be of the finest quality, fully equal to the best Penrsylvar fa or Welsh coal. A clean range grade of the Pennsylvania and Welsh an- thracite for hous use is now selling at about $13 a ton, and the Tonquin coal of the ame grade can be sold at a good profit at $) a ton, while Tonquin anthracite steam ccal will be sold at least $1 a ton under the price which Welsh coal of that grade is Low bringirg. The use of anthracite for steam purposes is increasing at a rapid rate on this coast, many large plants using it exclusively. The manufactured coal, which {s also being imported, is something entirely new to this coast. It is made by the Chinese natives from coal dust. ‘The lumps resemble in shape an egg. The coal dust 1s mixed with a pitchy substance and compressed into that form. The inflam- mable cement adds combustion, and the coal is said to make not only a very hot but a very clean fire. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Yes,” sald Mrs. Gimp, as the door closed behind the new maid, “she’s the most re- Mable girl 1 ever hired. Of course, she isn't a beauty—" “Well, I don't know about that,” inter- rupted Mr. Gimp, with some suddenness. “It depends a good deal upon what you consider beauty. The girl has a lovely eye, hasn't she, Briggs? “A fine eye,” sald Briggs. “And a beautifully rounded arm. you notice her arm, Briggs?” t was a nice arm,” said Briggs. At this moment Mrs. Gimp arose sud- denly and left the apartment. “Say,” sald Briggs, “what der—" “Listen!” said Mr. Gimp. ‘The sound of voices in altercation came from the direction of the kitchen. “Mrs. G. is discharging the new girl,’ said Mr. Gimp. “But I don't see,” said Briggs, “‘what— “The truth is,” interposed Mr. Gimp, “the new girl couldn't broil a steak for sour apples! You see?” A Mint inthe Sea. From the St. Louts Globe-Democrat. It is well known that there is gold in sea water, and every now and again 2 paragraph goes the rounds telling of the fortunes beyond the dreams of avarice that a practicable patent for reaping the golden harvest of the deep would bring. This subject of perennial interest has been again broached by Prof. Liversedge, who holds the chair of chemistry in Sydney University. In a very, remarkable and exhaustive serles of &xperiments which he Did in thun- has made there is considerable eviden in favor of the presence of gold In sea water off the New South Wales coast in the proportion of about half to one grain per ton, or, in round numbers, from 130 to 20 tons of gold per cubic mile. This, of course, would mean an enormous amount for the whole of the ocean, the cubic con- tents of which are put down approximate- ly at 400,000,000 cubic miles. If the goil were uniformly present at the rate of one grain per ton the total amount would he over 100,000,000,000 tons of gold. It 1s sug- gesjed that {f Edison would make a modi- fication of his magnetic separator, which would attract gol¢ and make It part from {ts soluti important stimulus would be given to the dividend-earning ca- pacity of ocean liners. In addition to car- rying passengers and cargo they would plow the deep to insure a rich haul eacn Passage by hanging a dredger astern, Which at the end of the voyage would be relieved of its auriferous and valuable col- lection. Alihough this would place bimet- allism in a serious position, the cheap- ening of gold would have a Valuable bear- ing on medicine, as the value of gold salts in therapeutics has been fully recognized. Apart from these considerations, Prot. Liversedge’s investigation is an important contribution to the chemistry and probably geology of the subject. cee Remedy For Insomnia From Ifealth Culture. Victims of insomnia should avail them- selves of the circumstances that repletion causes somnolence, and postpone the prin- cipal meal—call it dinner or supper—to the end of the day. From eighty to one hun- dred million men in en age far surpassing the present era for health worship and sanitary insight, followed that plan for more than a thousand years. From Sw B.C. to the third century of our chro- nological era the one-meal system pre- vailed all over Europe and the Helenized portions of Western Asia, and the one meal was eaten at the end of the working day, and after the baths and outdoor sports that assembled pleasure seekers in the cool of the evening. Like the dinners of Frederick the Great, these symposia were something more than inass meeting lunches; the guests took their time, spiced their food with anecdotes and masticated at leisure, sometimes—too often in the lux- urious era of the Roman empire—yielded to the temptation of the dietic excesses, but on rising from the banquet went straight to their dormitories, and could sleep as only men sleep who have dis- missed the cares of the day. a Inventor of Matches, From the Chronicle. Acs France is. about to honor with a statue the man who did* not invent lucifer matches. In 1830, it seems, M. Nicolet, pro- fessor of chemistry at Dole, in the Jura, was illustrating before his class the ex- plosive properties of chlorate of potash, when it struck one of his pupils, Charles Sauria by name, that a combination of phosphorus with the detonating chemical might furnish a far. more satisfactory means of kindling a fire than the old flint and steel. te set to work upon the prob- lem, and his experiments and those of his friends were attended with success. A year cr two afterward M: Nicolet visited Aus- tria, and gave the diScbvery away to Ger- man manufacturers., Without wishing to rob M. Sauria of the posthumous glory which appears to be thé only reward of his ingenuity, patriotism compels us to claim the merit of being the real inventor for one of our own nation. Mr. Walker of Stock- ton, by the use of chlorate of potash and sulphide of antimony, was making friction matches as early as 1829. Young Sauria very likely never heard of his process, but the Germans certainly did, and it was from his original idea that their trade sprang up and fructified, until the composi- tion of cheaper wood and labor and of im- proved machinery drove them out of the market. BUFFALO LITHIA WATER Nature's remedy for Gont, Rheumatism ang all disorders of the Kidneys and Bladder, ‘Water for sale by draggists and grocers. Famphlet on application, tor, Buffalo Lithia Springs, Va. IS IT A TRIFLE? That Common Trouble,Acid Dyspepsia or Sour Stomach. NOW RECOGNIZED AS A CAUSE OF SERIOUS =. DISEASE. Acid dyspepsia, commonly called heartburn, or sour stomach, is a form of indigestion resulting from fermentation of the food. The stomach being too weak to promptly digest it, the food remains until fermentation begins, filling the stomach with #, and a bitter, sour, burning taste in tae mouth often present. ‘This condition soon becomes chronfe, and being an every-day occurrence, is given Yut ttle attention. Because dyspepsia is not ii mediately fatal, many people do nothing for the trouble. Within a recent period a remedy has been dis- covered prepared solely to cure dyspepsia and stomach troubles. It is known ax Stuart's Dyspe sia Tablets and is now becoming rapidly used ai prescribed as a radical eure for every form of dys- pepsia. Stuart's Dyspepsia T: fore the public and are sold by dru; Where at 50 cents per package. It Is prepared by the Stuart Chemical Co., Marshall, Mich., and wile it promptly and effectually restores a Vigorous di- gestion, at the same time is perfectly harmless: and will not injure the most delleate stomach, but, on the contrary, by giving perfect digestion, strengthens the stomach, improves the appetite and makes life worth living. : Send for free book on Stomach Diseases. nos&7 blets have bee placed be- iste every: Odd Things in Natural History. Fron the St. Louis Republic. The spider's eyes are not in his head, but in the upper part of his thorax. Of British birds the cuckoo lays the smallest egg In proportion to its size. Leuenhouck says that the common cater- pillar has not less than 200 muscles. A white crow with pink eyes was recent- ly caught at Durham, N. C. A whale eighty to ninety feet long has a throat so small that he could not swallow a biscuit. A negro living at Madison, Wis. live specimen of the common which has three perfect eyes. has a ullfrog, Ornithologists have discovered that crows | have no less than twenty-seven different cries, each distinctly referable to a differ- ent action. A distinctive peculiarity between sharks and whales lies in the fact that the former have eyelids and the latter none. AUCTION SALES OF REAL ESPATE, & Tomorrow. Duncanson Bros., Aucts., 9th and D sts, n. Reul eqtate on east side of 7th st. road. ‘Thutsday, November 5, at 4 o'clock p.m. A. Wilson und John B. Larner, trustees. ©. G, Sloan & Co., Aucts.—Sale of oriental car- pets and rugs on Thursday and Friday, November 5 and 6, at 11 o'clock a.m. and 3 o'clock p.m, Rateliffe, Sutton & Co., Aucts., 920 Pa. ave. now. Sale of bicyeles on Thursday, November 5, at 10 o'clock a.m, Sale Albert AUCTION SALES._ FUTURE DAYS. M. B. LATIMER & CO., AUCTIONEERS, 614 12th st. nw. The Famous D. K> Varzhabedian COLLECTION OF 800 CHOICE AND VALUABLE Oriental Rugs and Car- pets, antique and modern, and a num- ber of rare and costly Persian Silk Rugs are here. This collection is pronounced the finest ever ex- hibited 4n this etty. WILL HIBITION THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY, Novemrber 5, 6 and 7, All day, at our Art Guile This ma G14 Twelfth street gnificent collection will be sold at public auction on MONDA OVEMRER NINTH, 1896, commencing at HAL ‘T TEN A.M. and HALE PAST TWO P.M., and coutinuing at same hours uutil every plece is sold. Mr. Varzhabedian is well known in Washington, and his word can be depended upon in any business trans: ton, N. B.—We have the finest room in the elty, M. B. LATIMER & nett ES, Al » hear 7th at. MARCT 637 Louisi: LARGE STOCK OF GROCERIES &¢.. REMOVED FROM 7 TION, WITHIN OURS. ctloneer, new. HUCES; aroni, Sy sing, Flzs, Olve OF Currants, Hatter Oil id duly of the land records of Un and at the request of the eby, and for default of purchaser at former sale to comply with terms of sal: the undersigned, trustes Will sell, at public tlon, in front of the . on TURSDAY, TENTH DAY OF NOV BER, A.D. 1896, AT HALE? O'CLOCK +» the following described land and premises, situate In the city of Woshington, in the District’ of Columbia, ‘am designated ‘as_and being original lot-9, in square 637, fronting 50 feet on the south side f south © street between Delaware avenue and South Capitol street by a depth of 1 feet 6 inches, Terms of sal.. Ouc-third of the purchase money to be paid in cash, and the balance in two equal installments, payable in one and two year: Interest at six (6) per centum per annim, semi-annually, from day of sale, secured by ¢ of trust upon the property sold, or all s] option of the purchaser. A deposit of be required of the purchaser at the time of ssle. All conveyancing, recording and notarial fees at the cost of the purchaser. Terms of sale to be complied with within ten days from day of sale otherwise the trustees reserve the right to resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser, after at least five days’ notice of such resale, The above deseribcd property having been sold on May 11, 1896, to Edwin L. Springmann at and for the price of 65 cents per square foot by the undersigned trustees, under said decd of trust, and sald purchaser having failed to comply with the terms of the said sele made to him, the sale on the above mentioned date will be made at his risk and cost. WILLIAM E. EDMONSTON, CONSTANTINE H,. ILLIA M; Truste NATH'L WILSON, Att'y for party secured, No, 622-024 Fst. mae en oa kag DUNCANSON BROS., AUCTIONEERS. HUETZEN PARK LAND AND BUILDING As- a SOCIATION CERTIFICATES AT AUCTION. By authority of the board of directors of the Schuetzen Park Land and Building Association, = body corporate under the laws of Virginia, and In pursuance of a resolution of that board adopted on the 6th day of May, A.D. 1896, we shall fell, at ublic auction, to the highest bidder, on MOND ¥, XovEMBER SIXTEENTH, 1896, at ONE O'CLOCK P.M., at our auction rooms, cor. 9th and D ets, n.w., Washington, D. C., certificates of stock Nos. 2, 5, 23, 26, 28 and 32 in sald corporation. Bach of sald certificates represents fifty shares of the par yalue of $100, each share being’ subject to further assessments of $29.50. The total capital stock of said corporation 1s represented by 1,450 shares of the par value of $100 each. Said corporation owns (eubfect to a deed of trust to secure the payment to the Washington Loan and Trust Company of $65,000) the land in the District of Columbia. for- merly known as the “‘Schuetzen Park,” and now known as Stellwagen et al.’s subdivisions of part of Pleasant Plains, said subdivisions being recorded in Libers County 8 and 9, folios 93 and #3 tiyely, of the records in the office of the surr's of the District of Columbia. Each of said cert! cates is to be sold under the provisions of Section 1127 of the Code of the State of Virginia of 1887. Any further information will be furnished by B. J. Stellwagen, No, 1824 F street northwest, or Dy shoo win S. r 18 J. C. Heald, Xo. 902 F street northwest. ocl5-dts DUNCANSON BROS., Aucts. } ti AUCTION SALES. ——— | AUCTION SALES. C. G. SLOAN & CO., Auctioneers, 1407 G St. RPETS. CARPETS’. CARPETS Fine Velvets, Beautiful Tapestries, &c.,&c., all in rolls and to be sold in lengths to suit, within our rooms, 1407 G St. (2d floor), SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1896, AT 1 A. M. Also Beautiful Mattings, Jap. Rugs, Oil Cloths, Stair Carpets, &c., &c. NOW ON EXHIBITION TERMS CASH. (on 2d floor). NO LIMITS. TOMORROW. C. G. SLOAN & CO., Auctioneers, 1407 G St. Mi FUTURE DAYS. S. Samstag, Auctioneer, 731 9TH ST. N.W. Sale of China, Glass, Tinware, Toys, ete., TO- MORROW, AT TEN” O'CLOCK, and continued every day’ until DAG A F ALMOST EV RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO., «Suc Lovel Diamond, * Special Excel Bicycles, With full Factory Guarantee, AUCTIONEERS. consors to Rateliffe, Darr & Cu.) sales rooms, DoW. |ORNING, 102-3t RATLIFF, SUTDON & ©O., Aucts. DUNCANSON "AUCTIONEERS. IMPROVED LUABLE 2 STLERT (OR ud duly recorded In Liber N tL seq., of the land records of f Columbia, “and xt the request of U red thereby, we, the undersigacd, trus- WI sell at public auction, in front of the s, MONDAY NTEENTH DAY NOVEMIBER, AD) AT HALF. Y FOUR a PM.. th dexerited Lund a f Washing strict of Columbia, and designated as the west 10 f tS feet front hi M risow and others’ su third of the purchase money md the balanee In (we equal in one and two yeas, with Per centum per annin, payable from day of sale, secured by deed. property sold, Gr all cash, at the the purehis A deposit of $190' will be mjuired of the pure time of sale. AML recordts ptarkal cost Of the purchaser plied with within ten Wise the trustees reserve Broperty at the risk and cost of the de ra Tres 470 Leuusiana for party se: C. G. SLOAN & CO., AUCTIO EERS, 1407 G ST. By Catalogue. AN ELEGANT COLLECTION OF Oriental Car- pets & Rugs Public Auction WITHIN OUR ROOMS, 1407 GStreet N.W. Opening Wednesday, November 4.) 1896, at 3 p. m. AND CONTINUING Thursday & Friday November 5 and 6, 1896, at 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. On Exhibition Today. | This is a custom house important collect . selected With gr with an © m, Just fr Are as to aud colors, Swit most any order of Mr. York city. ©. G. SLOAN & CO., Auctioncers, 1407 G OF VALUARLE ‘ EVENTH YCLOCK PLY state, situate Int tumiia, to wit OCTOLE following munty of Washingte that certaln piece or parcel of land and prem: of tract of dc part of the farm of the es eon, beginning at a stoue at the south maker: gail farm and the part hereoy dese wn the east side of the Seventh Street 1 sunning thence id road north 4d min 1 ninety fect and eighty-six hundredths of a foot to a Tea i dred and fifte 40-100) of a public road; of Piney along the west S16 ml SIM fe foot Piney Bram west six hundred a f ths (0-100 t to a st s the Pine h road, north oi g minutes, west fifteen b ‘@ and four rand thirty hundredths (30-100) of a foot to the bezinaing, taxeth wd singular the finprovemcnts, rights, 8. priv ieges P appurtenances to wing or tn wise appertaining. ‘erms of sale third of the puret tn cash. the baisnee in one and two per cent per anmum Interest, paz we fliy, notes secured by deed of trust upon th 1 cash, at the option of pur mM) required at the th “and recording at je to be complied Ww herw rty sold, or f trustees reserve the risk and cost fter five days” notice ent in some Hewspaper M4 ALRERT A. WILSON, JOUN B. LARN Trustees, 1355 F st. ocl5-m,w,f&ls c3THn THURSDAY, same bet ABOVE SALE IS POSTPONED UNTIL NOVEMBER FIFTH, aoe Trustees. B. LARN 0627-018 FUTURE DAYS. WILLIAMS & ‘TEES’ SALE OF IMP FRONTING ON AND 41H STREETS NO Ry virtue of a d 7, A.D. 1894, and wal RB. TR is for the District st of t patsite TURDAY, front of the f FOURTEENTH, PM, the follow situate in the city of W Inmbia, and designated as belne t twenty C0) fect front by the full depth thereof of orlxieal lot numbered fourteen (4), ia s« nur seven hundred and elghty-tive (85), with: tin; ment: thereon, consisilig of a two-story dwelling. Terms of sale: One-third cash, balance in equal installments of one, two and thre deferred payments to bear 6 est, payable semi annually, and to be secured by a deel of trast on property sold, or all cash, at the opt chaser. $100 to be paid down when th is struck off. All conveyancing, ete cost. Terms of sale to be days from day of not cers, Darr & Co. TRUSTEE'S: LOT ON AS > 7TH STREETS SOUTHEAST. Ry virtue of 2 deed of trust to me, dated April 17, 1883, and duly recorded in liber 10 885 et seq. of the land records of the District IMPROVED 6TH AND. of Columbia, and ait the request of the party se: cured thereby, I will sell at public auction, in front_ of the’ premise THURSDAY, THE TWELFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1896, AT HALF- PAST POUR O'CLOCK P.M., the east 26 fe on South A street, by the fall lot 9, 9, with the impre in eqn the city of Washington, Distrlet of Co property being a ninety-nine years’ lease privilege of “purchasing, recorded in folio #5, of the aforesaid land records, formation as to which will be given at sale. = Terms of sale: One-third cash, and balance in two equal installuents, with interest from day of sale, secured on the premises, at six and twelve months, or all cash at option of purchaser. A with t liber | T5, fall in- deposit’ of $100 at sale. Terms to be complied with in fifteen days. AM conveyancing at cost of purchaser. JUDSON T. CULL, obi -d&de Trustee. J ent standard weig TRUSTEES’ KEAL ESTAT OL TEAST, SALE OF VAL NU. 600 ABLE 1 MARYLANI ed of trast to 8 recorded i dated we will sell, party tees, mt of the NTH Day HALE VAST ie deserited innd situate in the Wastin District of Colum'ta, desjzns in D. 2. Groff's subdivision in ak per plat reconted in the wilice of the = for the District of Columbta, In © 1%, together with the inp wneiet= ments, ing of a large fo ¥ brick dwelling. Terms of sale: One-fourth of the purciase money pald in cash, and the balance fn tines equal allments, payable tn one, two and. the bo tnterest at six dG) per ecentum per ‘able semi-annually, from the day of ss cured by deed of tras the property all cash, at the option of the purchaser posit of $200 will be required of the pure! the time of sale onvevancing, record 1 1 fees at the cost of the p of sale to be complied with with 1 right to resell the property at the risk of the defaulting purchuser, after five ¢ jee of stich res EUGENE CARUSI, CONSTANTINE HL WILLIAMSON, NATIVL, WIL Att'y for Party Secu s F st. nw AUCTIONER# OF VALVARLE IMr party 4 NOVEMBER, PR OCLOCK PM. he TMs ot Co lots : 11), ane sisting of Ises Of SIX Tours One-third of hase money md the atlance int al nts, payable in one and two y vik Six 1G) per ce per ny nuually, from aay sf sale, wecuse tiust upon the property sold. or eyarchaner. A deposit ot s10d the time of sa mtarial foes WNT, Trustees. » CUNT the same o Rds RALCLIFGE SUTTON & CO., Auet vtcliffe, Darr & « dyed THe FOUR in tof $109 will yor Jou MAS DOWLING & 00. AUCTS., 6 or AMI VALUARLE tus Liv " NTH THE DAY Tso HALY PAST ail that property in the 1» tot Columbia, known as lots ton Ge) and eleven (lis, i Meck chit 0), of a subdivision of pe lend known as Whiter . Cottrell, nae provement vision is recorded in « 93. of t t f Colunibia, m nu others, of With all modern imp sof sale: One-third cash, two vears In purchtser’s notes, secured by deed of trast on prop and Interest of said def-rred payne in of the Vpited Stat a purchaser's option, $250 dep of, Conveyancing and recording “rs If tin 8 of sale a resell the p at defaulting HA urchaser's risk KY W. DOWLING, 612 WM. REDIN Woopw. oC 30-dhds VUNCANSON BROS., AUCTIONEER: vED TON ern TE TWEEN G AND LE STREETS SOUTHWEST virtu certain deed of trust to us, duted ary and duly recorded in’ Liver No. fot Is of the Disttict of Coltttbta. an the party secured. the trus- Will sell, at the i TUESDAY, TUE TWRLPTH DAY A.D. is6, at FOUR FORTY: M.. the following deserited Lund situate tn the city of Washin in the Di . and designated as Dein square 46S (the sade frcnting 30 street southwest by. a depth to a W-foot alley), togetuer with improvements, cousisting of a’ frame church and brick’ nall in rear thereof. ms of fale: Une-fourth of the purchase 1 to be paid in east: aud the bal instalin able ne, with inte six able annually, s deed of trust uj cash, at the « $200 will of sale, erty sold, or. A dey rat th plied wi wise property att faulting purchaser, afte resale, five days’ WILLIAM FE. CONSTANTINE, EPMONSTON, HM. WILLIAM -. WILSON, attorney for party secured, 622-624 F st. nw NATH" oc?s-d&ds