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Show LIVE and Fifty-four- th congresses. In the last congress he was third in the minority on the dn appropriations, third in committee AS A , FRANCIS smith the minority on coinage, weights and 5Ar',UrPrAL AMERICAN. measures and first of the minority on the joint commission to inquire into TIs of Thee,' ''America, 0f the status of laws organizing the exwriter Passed to His Reward ecutive departments. In the Fifty-fir- st lately Ui9 rame19 congress, of to whichsMr. Reed was speak$erit Kqal Mr. er, served on the commitDingley Brief. in tee on ways and means. I O FAR as concerns LORD MAYORESS. his general fame, Dr. Samuel late the Lady Wilfeen, Wlfe of tb Lord Mayor F. Smith was com' of London Town. parable to the Single-Lady Wilken, tlhe lord mayoress of Hamilspeech London, is the of Henry Ridwhose one ley Dole, and isdaughter ton, a jwoman of varied acgreat deliverance complishments, or a warm and gendwarfed everything erous. nature. Nat jar of a gentle and else he ever1 did. retiring disposition, ally she does not look Dr. English, who forward with unmixed pleasure to her wrote Ben Bolt, forthcoming in the Mansion over the House, which reign hics' from time to time accounts for her him famous as the determination probably made that to postpone the event un- ' a3ce a casual song, but it does ij:ll0r com- Tonnear that Dr. Smith ever 3. of the concentrated reputation to him as the author of st America was his great jca iut it was the success of a loNGSWI Fifty-thir- d Fifty-secon- d, ' 4 1 'il-s- 1 er tarty totli 3 Mr oajy -Iayy Ive to ls ever 3 l.et -- J to -- ut rait r .l- r - ed to Pantry Sctp.a Very Proper itb. my to pa movAj j In our retro-i- d then to S room d make and it -- almas t after I pantry, Theres I had the gift degree, and ! good hymns, e some very m one, The morning light is which every adult American the child of ptyus parents That hymri and heart. Dr. Smith wrote while he ological student in Andover, e he was a copious writer and and it is interesting ti know a remarkable linguist and as at he student at least of hot less aster - After h gradtan fifteen languages. he at Andover the from seminary ed Jame a Baptist minister, had a church Water jille, Me., and was at the same of foreign languages in l3e professor a considerable irrled'" like Jving person, who i3CCfi ie nice jvisa at -- shall Ohrirft- - n , I paper j i. They, it some rered 3d for a Register. Mas-Scliuset- the famous Harvard lass of 1129, reduced now to thre sur-- ! It 'was as a 29 man living members. iat Holmes wrote of him inj lines, iat have appeared in all of bis obitu- own aries: are y. t:), membership of Lis things have ah nr univer-5St- 1.842 4 e, of the lythan lore ac-njo- y it ie ren-ure- by iiy. fi i four-mil- manifold and at times perplexing duties of lord mayoress of the city of London with gra(iousness, as well as with a dignity becoming her husbands great office and her own social and official obligations. The opportunities she will have in her new environment of relieving distress will at least be among her pleasarjt memories when her term of office expires. Lady Wilken is Inclined toward the school of gentlewomen, evincing no predilection toward the ways of the now woman. t What may be called & Kingsley revival appears to be now in progress. There is an increasing demand at the libraries for the jeanons books; his brothers romances are out in a new edition and gaining on this side of the Atlantic some of jthe recognition thfey have always had on the other; his niece is penetrating the wilds of Africa to secure specimens for the British Museum, and incidentally doing very hazardous exploring, while his daughter is soon to lecture to us! It is in the veins of the niece thatj hereditary signs of Charles Kingsley spirit of adventure are to be found, fof this young womans daring desire to explore the Cameroons amazed the authorities. j eata-n- d they care ' of npleted )th seed just out Sent to postage. W. N. brand of e of coal ry. Ski. UEL FRANCIS t bith lent I she wai tried to conceal him ld offer. -- try- - 'of Thee. It nray added e a way to to tabs forthe'brve ; My- - Country, To Investigate Dun ravens Charges. George L. Rivek, who is one of the members of the cjommittee to investigate the charges made by Lord Dunrav-e- n, was born in 1849, and is a grandson 1 1 perhaps be said that his thrust upon him, but it should great-s- b was m him by calling Smith; the shouted a song, and the free st read on his medal, perfectly SMITH. excel olj es a nice youngster the: And 'ate ben ed A Kings ey Revival. of the Co., of s gives of William C. Rives, senator from Vir- - that his merits were equal to i fame, that his renown became him, i.that he never found any trouble In ing modestly up to his reputation. wa3 8 3 :rd a Christian in all j implies. T that the . DINGLEY OF MAINE. Sa id to Be the Right Bower t Is of the Speaker. Nelson Dingleyi Jr., of ne, was born in Durham, Me., Feb. U832, graduated from Dartmouth cols' in 1855 and was admitted! to the of that he became edi-- r From the first mo identity with the newspa-- r pame year the Journal. 3at of his Mr. commanded public the force and virility of his jtoriaj utterances. In 1862 he. was cted k member of the state house of Jicsentatives and was in '3 1864, and 1865, 1868 and 1873, ived is speaker during the sessions 1863 ftnd 1864. In 1864 he whs of Maine and served dur-:- S that term and. the next. At a in 1881 he was elected to, .Dingley at-ati- oa fey idths, jutton, de in t selected ed work- re-elect- " - ed elect-govern- spe-eleeti- or e. Ice Bicycle. With the approach of winter comes a heralding of bicycles that can be used when the ground is covered with snow and the ordinary wheel has to be laid aside. The winter bicycle Is intended for use on the ice,1 and sofiie enthusiasts claim that for zest and excitement It far eclipses the road bicycle. It is said that with it a quarter of a mile has been made in twenty seconds, and that it compares in point of speed with other forms of bicycles as the does to the craft. It is a simple matter to concert the ordinary bicycle into an ice bicycle, A patent attachment las been invented, consisting of a runner to replace the front wrheel and a patent spiked tire which encircles the rear wheel. These attachments are made to fit any style of make of the piodern safety bicycle. The rear wheel attachment fits tightly around the pneumatic tire, forming a guard against punctures, which might occur without the protection from the Jagged edges of ice or frozen snow. The machine is propelled by spikes with flanged heads on the inner side, securely fastened to a strip of canvas, around which is placed a metallic band which holds the spikes in place. (Before adjusting the rear wheel attachment all the air must be taken from the tifbe, and the reinflation is accomplished as soon as the attachment is in position. To adjust the runner or, skate thg front wheel has to be removed. Tfie runner is very sharp and so that accidents are not liable to occur in turning or when riding at full speed. A runner is also made for exclusive use on the snow. This Is secured to the ice runner by a key on the front upper portion of the blade' of the latter. A strap is fastened between the front of the runner and the fork of the frame, (which holds the runner securely when it accidentally strikes a rock or any obstacle likely to front atjar the bicycle. The whole two and a half tachment weighs only so makes the, bicycle no pounds, and would the front wheel. than heavier can ride who said is that It anybody a wheel will have no difficulty in using these attachments. V',7 GEORGE L. RIVES. r( He was ginia and minister to France. educated at Columbia and at Camis a bridge university Jin England. He of firm law York member of the New, sea-goin- g ice-yac- ht hollow-groun- d, Communion Cup. To promote cleanliness In the taking of communion wine, and still preserve to the entire congregation of a church the common communion cup, a patented cup is offered the public by Itev. Paul G. Ivlingier, of the Trinity Lutheran church of Catasauqua, Pa. The inventor explains his patent as follows: It is a cup within a cup, the inner cup revolving upon the stem. There is attached to the outer cup a cleanser, through which the rim of the cup from which the communicants A Congressman J horse-powe- r, d ,v his of La rchased shallow places or to transfer it to any e of Coin; yof surface of those transparent waters, under the motive force of what looked like a propeller fastened on the end of a steering paddle. The entire motor and steering apparatus have no connection with the boat, except where the former rests by its own weight on a pivot at the stem, thus enabling the boatman to lift it out of the water in one-thir- old-fashion- d A novel craft is the boat that wasX seen last summer on Lake George, plowing its way through the placid boat at will. The propeller consists of a steel tube, hinged at the stem and balanced evenly by the weight of the electric motor forward and the wheel and rudder at the stemmost end, so that it is handled with slight exertion. The tube contains a flexible shaft formed of three coils of phosphor bronze, and extends down and out into the water at the proper angle to allow the propeller and wheel to sink just beneath the surface. The tube, with Its inclosed flexible shaft, is partly filled with oil, which constantly lubricates the working parts without attention from the operator. The electric motor at the forward end of the tube Is of driven by batteries stowed away under the seats. The combined propeller, motor and rudder weigh thirty-fivpounds for a ten to eighteen-foo- t boat, and the four batteries weigh from twenty-fiv- e required to eighty pounds each. The batteries run from six to eight hours continuously on one filling, and cost to refill at the rate of 5 to 7 cents per hour. The present cost of the whole outfit Is The speed attained is an aver$150. A age of four miles an hour not as much. It will be observed, as that of a Av 4 naphtha or regularly built electric : launch; but as a naphtha launch of similar size costs about $800, the lazy fisherman will probably be content THE LORE MAYORESS, e rate furnished by til after the Christmas holidays, until with the we are the propeller describing. , which time, she will continue to occupy It is almost noiseless, perfectly safe the charming and perfectly appointed and capable of starting, stopping or mansion in Gloucester Square, Hyde instantly by the turn of a Park. It may be confidently stated, reversing little switch just back of the handle-piec- he came to Newton, as pastor of a church there, i time edited the Christian however, that when she does appear in One of his distinctions was the official residence she will fulfill the In havent ay at a college, now Colby waterville Self-Cleani- ng: Olin, Rive3 & Montgomery. t A Very Old Deed. ' A very old deed was recorded at the Nashua, registrar of deeds office in The deed morning. a 11, 1792. It conveys the town of Weare ih land a piece of John Hodgdon from for the sum of 50, to Cabel Peaslee. Through neglect, or was for some other cause, the deed once never recorded. Both parties were residents of that town. prominent i Are All "Americans. to be much There does not appearoffice in Tawas of a scramble for public five holds Mich., as one man there i City marat the present time. He is village truant offi- CONGRESSMAN J DINGLEY. y'seventh congress to fill the 'Vi, : Lf1 i ,k a h. i On Exception. the resignation of ad-to Are there any excepiions rye who had been Teacher seat in the senate. Mr. to the rule that heat expands and cold re-elect- ed 1 to the Forty- - ice man leaves representative at CTommy Yes' m . The chunk since wa 3 successively elected to a lot bigger twenty pound Journal. Qiath, Fiftieth. Tifty-firs- t, It got colder. Indianapoiis congress a3 a -- in shal, street commissioner, cer,1 night watchman and lamplighter.a him $100 Three of these offices pay two $50 a year year each, and the other why he is pereach, which may explain mitted to be such a pooh-ba- caused by at i)l1 j ng d. - . so-call- for-var- so-call- was'drawn March Oil self-cleansi- SECTIONAL one-fourt- on j IS ; J 7 spoonful) passes from the reservoir NOT means of a valve at the bottom lnf the cup, from which the communSca,' receives it. Thus all the unused wine FINANCIAL QUESTION AFremains in the reservoir and is beyond THE FECTS EAST AND WEST. the reach of protruding moustaches or any particles of saliva that might ding to the rim. Ben 8. Dean of New York Gives HI The appearance of the Views on the Burning: Issue Great cup differs but little from that of Progress for Bimetallism Being Made the ordinary cup; and by it the one In is the Eastern States. cup preserved, while every possible of Is infection removed. danger To the Denver Republican As a Re' Machine for Moldings. publican and an Eastern silver man, I IllusIn With the machine shown the want to talk to the silver men of the tration a bar of lumber may be cut West, and to entreat them not to atinto two strips at oue operation, pre- tempt to make the silver question a venting any waste of material, one of sectional issue. The issue is broad the strips having a cove and the other enough for the nation, since it inThe machine Is volves the financial question, not alone being quarter-rounfor the United States, but for the entire commercial world, and it is a mistake to suppose that all of the people of the state of New York; and many of the Eastern states, are In favor of the English system of finance sought to be forced upon us by Grover Cleveland and the moneyed interests of New York city. It is true, of course, that the masses, who have been taught that the described in tbe Scientific American. money question was out of thqir Upon a fixed spindle having a sphere, and that it could only he maslengthwise recess is a re voluble cylin- tered by the great financiers, have der with saw teeth at its front edge, the cylinder rotating freely on the hardly, dared to assert themselves as spindle and its rear end abutting yet, but there Is a deep undercurrent against a shoulder on the spindle. of silver sentiment even In the state The cylinder is rotated by three roll- of New York. In the first assembly disers, engaging its peripheral . surface, trict of Chautauqua county, from which the rollers being made of India rubber I write, we have just elected by the or similar material and journaled In largest majority ever given to an asall adjustable bearings, and being cona member of nected with each other by a belt, the semblyman in this district, an open and shaft of one of the rollers having fast the state assembly who Is and lopse pulleys and receiving power avowed advocate of the free coinage of silver at the old ratio, and who made from other machinery. On the standards of the frame tfre the fact one of his principal claims to guideways, and when the saw cylin- the consideration of the people in his der Is rotated- and a bar of wood Is canvass, both for the nomination and pushed through the guideways along election. So strong is the sentiment the lengthwise recess of the spindle that his for the nomination, at against the saw teeth, one corner the closeopponent of the canvass, also publicly passes inside the cylinder, the wood his conviction that we proclaimed being thus cut into two strips. should return to the free coinage of silver, but his conversion coming late In A Pocket Cash Register. Tbo accompanying illustration rep- the day, was not sufficient to overcome Mr. Babcock, who had at the resents a very neat and useful little election over 4,000 majority. device, by means of which one may We have in this state a Republican keep an accurate account of small ex- Editorial association, which meets anpense. As may be seen by the Tut, the day before the assembling of the device is just like a watch, and nually the state convention. At the last meetmay be worn as a watch is. a ing resolution was brought in, declaring in favor of the single gold standard. Supposing myself in a hopeless minority, but unwilling to have the policy of my paper dictated by any association, I offered a motion to strike out the resolution in so fax as it proclaimed gold to be an honest money, making a brief speech . in support of my motion. To my surprise, I was sustained by some of the leading journalists of the state, and on the motion being put it was carried, practically without opposition, the gold standard people not daring to call for a decision of the house on the question. I state these facts simply to show that the silver sentiment Is not ladies find to with sure favor local; that we of the East are considerIt is for it use when for registers ing the question, and that, if wisdom shopping, automaticadds and every purchase shapes the policy of our friends in the at know so the that may shopper ally, West, and they refuse to believe and to' any moment just how much he or she assume that they have the burden with has expended. alone, there is reason to look The knob at the top is pressed down themselves a movement all along the when an amount is to be registered, forward to will which line prove irresistible. every pressure of it ringing up 5 In this connection let me say that we cents. Five pressures, therefore; register 25 cents, and so on. The dollars cannot afford to waste much time on the are added up automatically. Admitting that conspiracy of 1873. This convenient little machine is the the legislation of that time was fraudinvention of a firm in New York, by ulently procured, the question of today whom it is sold for 50 cents. is whether we want to return to the The system of that time. financial, To Form a Tandem. are not of them all American people A New York inventor has made an of retaliation as the of the full bo attachment for the blcych by which Irishman whospirit assaulted the Jew, allegtwo wheels may be locked together to a defence as that it was a Jew who form a tandem. This is done simply ing and on being inkilled had Christ, by removing the front wheel of the formed that this occurred 1800 years ago, and that the particular individual had nothing to do with the event, insisted that the act was justified because this was the first he had heard of the outrage. What the people want to know is not whether the act of 1873 was corruptly secured, but whether we can honestly return to the conditions abandoned at that time, and it is our duty to demonstrate to them that we can. Once show to the people that the Two Bicycles Locked Together. and logical result of the attiroar bicycle and placing tbe part in ultimate tude of the great financiers d the hub of the rear wheel of the to of this country out Is silver drive bicycle. A steel rod also concommerce out of the world, of and the nects them at the saddle level. as has already been done to a very i large extent, and that this policy reWire Pings for Screws. sults in compelling us to pay our debts A very useful invention has been Invalue than extroduced to take the place of the in a larger topurchasing once convince them isted 1873; prior wooden plugs generally used when it that the American silver dollar will Is desired to screw into brick or plaspurchase as much tea in China, as much ter walls. Tbe device is simply a wheat in India, as much coffee In Mexi spiral, of Iron wire, doubled back upon co as It ever would, and that an ounce itself, tbe inner turnsr being of such a of silver will purchase as much, with a diameter as to form a kind of female few possible exceptions, in the markets screw thread, while the outer turns world as it would in 1873, showserve to hold the wire plug in the of thethat the depreciation of silver is wall. In order to fix these plugs a ing to due the h appreciation of the purchashole is drilled in the wall of outpower gold, and there will not be the ing inch greater in diameter than monometallists a and dimensions of little the plug side gold enough in the naIs whole to The caucus. It is only a ward its tion carry length. deeper than wetted then thoroughly by Injecting by disguising the real purposes of the water from a small syringe, and after- present financial magnates ward filled with plaster of parts. The under the seductive appellation of biouter windings of the wire socket are metallism, that It ls possible to secure also filled with plaster, and the socket even a respectable following for what or plug with its screw is inserted in dishonestly termed "honest the hole to the required depth. After has beenand as soon as the people can be screw set paoney, has the may the plaster removed and it should be greased be- be convinced that bimetallism on any fore it Is put back. This device wrill be other basis than that in which our conof great use to electrical fitters for fix- tracts are based is in effect a recogniing switchboards, switches, pushes tion of the gold and can have and other electrical fittings, as well as no other effect standard, a than continual conto decorators, plumbers, etc., especitraction of the currency, making us ally when fitting has to be done In more and more the servants of Great houses already occupied, where the be will there such a revival of enving of litter is an object. In new Britain, Americanism In are that there will be no the bouses the wall plugs placed where of there checking the current until justice plaster at different points is a liklihood of supplementary fittings has been done and the money metals being subsequently required. of this nation are placed upon a plane of equality in the commerce of the Chemistry in the Idtchen. world. Young Husband (severely) My love, Do not, therefore, allow this questhese biscuits are sour, horribly sour! tion to degenerate into a mere local Young Wife (who took- - the chemisat the boarding school) I Issue. Do not imagine that because the try prize forgot to add the soda, my dear. But. New York newspapers are clamoring never mind, after tea we can walk out for the single gold standard In reand get some soda water. New York sponse to an environment which seems, Weekly. to be Irresistible that the great mass of intelligent people of the East are drink, passes.- Within the cleanser is a cushion of absorbent material, whrch presses firmly against the rim. This cleansing material or purifleator, into which has been previously dried an Inodorous and harmless germicide, can be removed and renewed as often as desired. After each communicant partakes of the wine, the inner cup is turned round by the hand on the stem, and the part of the rim used passes through the cleanseris before beThe wine contained ing used again. with a glass top, and at In a reservoir of the cup, wine for each, quarter-tur- n oat communicant (about half a ten- - one-four- th 1 ed ed Ignoring the deman cf equity and lice, or that they axe not ready and willing to make the fcrikeea which may be nectary in bringing about a restoration of an Anurican ejetcra or finance. 1 know the people of th of New Y'ork, and I know that where the question is fairly presented to them they are convinced of the honesty and the soundness of the position of tho friends of silver. There are two newspapers in Chautauqua county, committed to the restoration of silver to th coinage at the old ratio the Grap Belt, published In the city of Dunkirk, and the Morning News, a Republican paper, published in Jamestown and no man would think of being elected in this part of the state who was hostile to this proposition. It is more than likely that the delegates from this district will be free silver men. BEN S. DEAN, Editor Morning News, Jamestown, N. Y. Snapshot Judgments. The gold monometallist press has given snapshot judgment on two features of the election result. Silver ls dead, they say; and Grover Cleveland is the only Democrat left. The gold monometalllsts are unanimous in declaring these dicta. Their unanimity now reminds us of their unanimity two years ago, in declaring that all th country needed to make It prosperous again was the repeal of the Sherman silver law which was repealed and prosperity did not return. It may be that they are right now. The record is against them, however. Concord Monitor. The Colorado newspapers have hut little to say any more about silver, for various reasons.' The, subject has been extensively discussed, and Its Iteration. conveys the false impression outside that the state depends on the silver industry for prosperity, which Is by no means the case. But the silver question is still a live one in the states east an4 south. Such plucky and persistent papers as the Topeka State Journal and Kansas City Journal daily contained editorial Items like this: Who is It that opposes free coinage of silver at 16 to 1? Federal s, those who hope to become federal bankers, capitalists and a few peowho never think for themselves. ple Pueblo Chieftain. The sound currency committee of th Reform club has issued another tract. This is Vol. II., No. 23. On the fourth page of the pamphlet is found the following paragraph: The free coiners claim free coinage of bojth gold and silver will cause us to retain both as our primary money. I ask you will th owner of 23 5 grains of gold take It to the United States mint to be coined into a dollar when 23 5 grains of gold will buy about 800 grains of silver in th6 markets of the world? Will he not refuse to take it there, when his, 23 5 grains of gold will buy one grain more than SIl1 grains of silver In th markets of the world? That is all there is to the question. The answer to this is in the asking of another question! Would anybody in the markets of the world possessing 3714 grains of silver take any less than 23 5 grains of gold for it when he could bring it to th United States mints and have it. stamped into a dollar whose purebas-i- n power would be equivalent to th 23 5 grains of gold. If this ls all there ls to the question, and ws to concede that it is, the settlement is not difficult. Topeka Journal. Sidelights on the Conspiracy. Mr. Harvey: In the interrupted sentation of demonetization I had called the attention of the people to th condition, morally, of congress at time of the passage of the act. I had referred to impeachment charges against Vic President Colfax in 1873, for fraud in connection with legislation;, to tt resignation of Secretary of War Belknap for bribery, 1873. I now proceed, after first stating for Mr. Horrs information, that Del Mar, the English historian, says that the tet of 1816, demonetizing silver in England, had a clause in it that it mght be reinstated by th king; that that clause, giving a right to reinstatement, was repealed in 1871, apd that the act in which it was repealed was within two weeks In the hands of; Air. Knox, the comptroller of the United States treasury (applause), and was in part the basis of the act In this country. From the Great Debate. Silver th First Money. Harvey: The Chicago Tribune, which will be regarded as good authority by those believing In its present policy, said, on February 23, 1878: In 1792 congress enacted that 3711 grains of silver should constitute th American dollar; that this dollar should, be the unit of value of American money and be a legal tender in payment of all. debts, public and private. During th- eighty years that followed, though tha-siz- e and quantity of pure metal In the gold coin were changed more than once, the silver dollar, the American unit of value, remained unchanged. I now read from a text book on finance by Roswell G. Ilorr, page 42: The first unit of value in the1 United . States was the silver dollar. The act of 1873 made the gold dollar the unit of value, instead of the silver dollar. From the Great Debate. ; i office-holder- office-holder- s, 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- are-willin- g th' -- The Bunko-Steer- er Again. President Cleveland has again tried the old game of persuading the Ameri- can people to invest In his reburaished of his 22,009 gold brick. About one-ha- lf is word message expended In assuring the dear innocent people that If they accept this glittering gold brick it will cure them of their financial illness. in the crime th His are clapping thelx money lenders over the earnestness hand3 with joy his presentation ofth and skill in case, but we venture to predict that th manufacturers, the producers and working men generally In the United State will refuse to be the foolish victims of: brick bunko steers gam. this co-partD- ers . Ex. gd |