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THE. TITTSBtTRG DISPATCH,' SUNDAY, AWUST 18,
CLAKA BELLE'S CEAT.
The Yanderbilts and Astors Enjoy
ing Themselves at Newport.
H'ALLISTER'S AUSTRIAN BARON.
A Description of the Tery Latest Fad in
Eecberche Dancing.
ONE INDIVIDUAL 110 FOUND A BEAT
(COEEESrOXDEKCE OF TOE XIEFATCn.3
EW YORK, August
17. Where are ire
now? Well, vre are
variously scattered
for August. Those of
us who are "Vander
bilts, for instance,
have bestowed our
selves chiefly at Newport, but not
altogether, lor the Sloanes (one of
the late William IT. Vanderbilt's
daughters, you know, is Mrs.
Sloane) are up in Massachusetts at
truly rural and extremely fashion
able Lenox. There the Sloane chil
dren indulge, with all the vim and more
than the grace of average youngsters, in
that new embellishment of the schottische
called "dancing in the barn."
If you ever witnessed a performance of
"The Old Homestead" you ljeard the vo
calists ot the company sing a song called
"Dancing in the Barn." The air has been
utilized for the singular round dance now
suddenly in vogue. The movement consists
of some ordinary schottische revoIutions,and
then the couple loosen their hands, but re
tain connection by the encirclement of the
girl's waist by the fellow, while her arm
still rests on his. They do not now face
each other, but are side by side. Then they
trot forward one long step and two short
ones, again the same, after which the bit of
regular schottische intervenes. If the trot
ting is rightly done, the dancers bend for
ward and point their air-poised toes in the
middle of each of the long steps.
Grown persons almost always omit this
ballet touch of grace, and are awkwardly
commonplace, but children frequently do it
well, and none better than the Sloane grand
daughters of William H. Vanderbilt.
Baring adults at most of the cummer resorts
are "dancing in the barn" with grotesque
consequences, bat once in awhile some wil
lowy belle does it in a sightly manner. At
long Branch, a particularly sinuous and
symmetrical exponent, who had figured for
a month as a social belle from the West, was
by her professional accomplishment identi
fied as a member of a ballet Her mother
and chaperon proved to be from the rear line
of the same company.
BOOTH OS HIS DIGNITY.
But we are wandering. The present im
portant Vanderbilts, Cornelius and William
K., are at ifewport, and their town houses
look dismal with boarded doors and
windows. Edwin Booth is at Newport, too,
and he was approached lately with the
suggestion that he might get any price he
chose to ask for a recitation at an Astor
reception. The idea was broached to
Booth's business agent by an intermediary,
and it was hinted that, of course, he would
be as much honored as any other guest, and
he could speak his piece with no sign of
prearrangement. juooui sinoKes a black
meerschaum pipe vet, in spite of his last
winter's vertigo, and his favorite beverage
is rank old ale; but he is the soul of pro
fessional dignity, and he has never since
boyhood been an entertainer otherwise than
in a drama, and I don't believe, rich as he
is, that a S100.000 would hire him to give
one drawing room recitation.
Those of us who are Astors are mostly at
at Newport, too, including the newest and
unmarried John Jacob Astor. AVe call him
Jack Astor, and wonder what girl will catch
him for a husband. He is a magnitudinous
matrimonial prize, and 1 could name a dozen
girls of the Four Hundred who are out to
win him. They don't love one another,
either.
"Oh, I must get to the Casino to see Jack
Astor," one of them remarked. "That was
the very last thing he said "
"Being probably the last thing he
wished," was the other maiden's retort.
THE OEEAT AND ONIT.
What is Ward McAllister doing this sum
mer? Did you' imagine that the creator and
savior of the Pour Hundred as downed by
his defeat last winter, in the fight forcontrol
of the Centennial ball? Not so. He has
taken an Austrian baron in hand, and is
sponsoring him at Tuxedo. Newport and
Lenox. There was already a German baron
in the field. His name is actually Ver
geissmichnicht, and I can't help wondering
as 1 write it whether in print it will escape
running from one line over into the next. It
really seems a pity to have to extend it by a
single hyphen.
characteristics of his blonde race, and when
his shadow falls across the path of a Gaul
it is like a reminiscence of the siege of the
loveliest capital under the sun.
Ward McAllister saw this, and deter
mined to have a Baron of his own. He
took an Austrian one in hand Baron
Salynne bv name, but known only now as
McAllister's Baron. This alliance Mc
Alllsterian and, therefore, as royal as our
Republic can furnish was begun at the
Union Club and cemented at Jerome Park,
where the nobleman from Vienna and the
Augustus Lumley, of New York society,
lunched tete-a-tete in a club house, favored
by the Tour Hundred. After a sojourn at
Manhattan Beach, the Austrian visitor was
translated into Newport, and here it was
that he received his lull title McAllister's
Baron. Great is the ever-watchful Wardl
Wtary of launching beauties upon society,
exhausted in his conflict with the obstinate
Stuyvesant, he concluded to extend his
wings over a Baron. The result was never
for a moment in doubt, and, like the beau
ties who have gone before him, the Baron
will have his heart's desire. In the mean
time he is setting up an opposition to the
Baron Vergeissmichnicht.
LIKE EITAI, BEAUTIES,
one is fair, and one Is dark. McAllister's
baron has: a countenance that might be con
sidered Mephisiophelian but for its expres
sion of good nature, a man of 40, thick set,
and less elegant than Austriaus are apt to
be. He waltzes, however, as well as a
Viennese, who has hearkened to Strauss'
music, might well be expected to. His En
glish is just defective enough to give him a
cachet among belles who prefer foreigners to
their owd countrymen. His conversation is
intelligent, and" even witty. Altogether,
McAllister's baron is an agreeable man.
EYERFDAT SCIENCE.
Improvements in Crank and Screw
Shafts of the Mercantile Marine.
RECENT ADVANCE IN DENTISTRY.
Striking Developments in the Process of
Mechanical Refrigeration.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
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A Long Shave.
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On a Long Branch boat I witnessed an
incident which, it a woman should put It
into a novel, would be pronounced an ab
surd bit of impossible invention. On trips
in pleasant weather these vessels are over
crowded by passengers going to and from
the Jersey summer resorts. On this occa
sion there were no chairs for those who
boarded the boat last, and among these was
a Wall street man and his wife. There was
good reason for gallantry on his part, be
cause tie was 50 years old and she was no
more than 25. Of course, he was rich, and
she had married him for his money; but for
all that, J. Hold it to be a condescension in
a girl to marry a man twice her own age, no
matter how immense the pecuniary gain
may be.
Therefore I say that this half centenarian
should never fail in poiite deference to his
quarter centenarian wife. Now, this is what
he did when he fonnd that seats could not
be obtained. He stood his wife against the
deck rail, and recommended her to enjoy
the scenery of the harbor while he went to
the barbershop tc get shaved. For a full
hour, or during almost the whole sail from
Sandy Hook to the Battery, she was left
alone, and she stood dnring the whole time.
Just before the steamboat made fast at her
city wharf he rejoined her, clean shaven and
refreshed, while she looked tired and fret
ful. As to what he had done during his absence
I have the testimony of an unimpeachable
witness. He went to the barbershop, as he
had said be wonld( and at once got a seat in
a chair. If reclining in a barber couch is
as comfortable as it looks and of course I
left out of the estimate all the possibilities
of torture by the razor it is surely a restful
experience, and this man should have
thanked his luck for getting so luxurious a
place for the 10 or ISminutesof a legitimate
shave. But when he got through he looked
at his watch and found that the operation
had occupied precisely 12 minutes, and the
charge would be 25 cents.
Two New Counts.
He is a handsome young giant, who wears
a mustache almost as white as his white
flannel suit of the morning or the expanse
of his shirt front in evening dress. He is
big enough for a whole regiment of the or
dinary dancing men, and when the Baron
Vergeissmichnicht takestthe floor at the
Newport Casino the whole place trembles.
With onp mighty bejewelcd hand he clasps
his fair partner's waist; with the other he
overwhelms her trim, tiny fineers.and then,
with a sweep and velocity that is like the
charge of Prussian cavalry, the waltz
whirls on.
"I thought," said one partner, as the
the waltz ended and Vergeissmichnicht
dropped her into her seat, "that it would be
like the Eiffel tower!"
"And it wasn't?"
"No. The Eiffel tower is only Parisian.
This was like the apotheosis in 'Faust,' a
regular German heaven."
THE BABON CHOP.
Now, the crop of barons is confined to no
one country. There are German, Austrian
and French specimens at every bis watering
place in America, and Newport is always
luny suppnea wnn inem. The representa
tives of the foreign legation help to make
Newport society what it is, as cosmopolitan
in summer as only Washington is in winter,
and the general harmony and good will add
to the attractiveness of this element. To be
sure that young giant of a Vergeissmich
nicht is too essentially Prussian a type not
to have attracted by no means friendly
glances from the soldiers of the French war
ships as they strolled in their curioua con
ception of what citizens' dress ought to be,
up and down Bellevue avenue; and it was
an amusing contrast to see the little French
men in their variegated shits, and brojd
brimmed hats of mixed straw banded with
pink or blue ribbon, looking up at the
enormous German as he passed them in his
cool white flannels. For Vergeissmichnicht
certainly sums up in his own person all the
A GOOD SEAT.
"Is there anybody waiting?" he asked of
the boss barber.
"I guess we could let you stay in that
chair," was the jocular reply. "If that is
what you want."
"That is exactly the idea. I will pay a
dollar and a quarter, or the price of five
12-minute shaves, just to remain in the
chair."
The bargain was struck, the money was
paid, and the old fraud lay there in the
chair until he felt the engine slowing up on
approaching the wharf. Then he hastened
to his wife and told her that he had been
compelled to wait all that while for his turn
in the barber shop. That ought to be gronnd
enough for a divorce.
One after another the occupations deemed
exclusive to men are opened to women, vet
I was surprised to find a woman engaged as
a bouncer. I believe that is what the
enforcer of order in a' barroom or other mas
culine resorts is called. Ex-prize fighters
are commonly hired for this duty, so I have
read, and a gentleman tells me that in some
cases a fraud is practiced. That is to say, a
man of big physique and determined visage.
but really possessed of no muscle or skill to
fit him for actual encounters, poses as an
athlete capable of throwing a whole party
of roysterers into the street, while, for a
fact, he might be knocked out by the small
est one of them. But this letter is devoted
to femininity, and I set out to tell of a
restaurant in Grand street where a
WOMAN IS ON OUAED.
The place is a cheap dining room in the
immediate neighborhood of several large
stores and factories in which girls are em
ployed, and they go to this establishment in
droves for their noonday luncheon. It is a
commodious house, and three of its stories
are fitted up with chairs and tables. As
many as 300 or400 lunchers maybe seated
at once. Now some of the tobacco workers
and other factory girls are very lively in
uisposuion, ami, auer sue restraint 01 sev
eral hours at work, are disposed to make
the noon hour a time for jollity that often
becomes boisterous.
The proprietor of the restaurant was put
to his wit's end how to deal with the disor
der. He hired a man bouncer, but the eirls
were not atraid ot lini, and rightly believed
that he wouldn't hurt them. And when on
several rare occasions he did eject a mis
chiefmaker, she would invariably have him
arrested on the charge of assault. Out of
this dilemma the caterer himself found a
way by placing a woman on patrol duty
through his dining halls. She is a six
footer, well proportioned, too, and with the
general aspect ot an imperious Juno. I
presume she is the first feminiue bouncer in
New York or anywhere else.
She has been on duty about a week, and
thus far the girls are in awe of her. The
same ones who were incorrigible before, and
who presumed boldlr nnnn thn frt that
man hesitates to lay his hand upon a woman
except in the wav of kindness, seem to hare
no shadow of doubt that the new bouncer
would actually bounce them if occasion de
manded it. Thus far she has only had to
walk about, at full height, aud with a se
vere countenance. She is regarded as a
success. Clara Belie.
Beaders'of The Dispatch who desire
information on subjects relating to indus
trial development and progress in mechani
cal, civil and electrical engineering and the
sciences can have their queries answered
through this column. '
In a paper recently read before the Insti
tute of Marine Engineers at Stratford, En
gland, G. W. Manual, Superintendent En
gineer of the Pacific and Oriental Company,
gave some interesting and valuable results
of his experience in the service of that com
pany. He says that among certain duties
of the engine builder, which have hitherto
been treated too lightly is notably that of
securing bearing surface. In present prac
tice the oil intended for lubrication may be
squeezed out, and hot bearings inevitably
caused by the metal surfaces being brought
into too close contact. When bearings had
a pressure of 200 pounds per square inch it
has been fonnd that not more than 120
pounds per square inch should be exerted
to keep them cool (this varies, according to
the material of which the bearing is 'com
posed), without having to use seawater
and prevent them being gronnd down,
and thus getting out of line. It
has happened that a bearing in a new
steamer, in spite of many gallons of oil
wasted on it, has worn down one-eighth of
an inch in a voyage of only 6,000 miles
from insufficiency of bearing surface. The
engine builder, as well as the shipowner,
has been chary, of increasing the surface by
lengthening the bearings; for to do this
means increase of space taken up fore and
aft the vessel, besides additional weight of
engine. This inducement, however, is now
more carefully considered, as it has been
found more economical to give larger bear
ing surfaces than to have steamers lying in
port refitting a crank shaft, along with
the incidental bills for salvage and repairs,
and the risk of losing the steamer alto
gether. Proportioning the bearings to the
weights and strains they have to carry has
also been an improvement.
Another improvement that has materially
added to the duration of life of crank shafts
is the use of white bearinir metal, such ns
Parson's white brass, on which the shafts
run smoothly with less friction and ten
dency to heat. Large and powerful steam
ers can De driven lull speed fromuondon to
Australia and back without having any
water on the bearings, and using oil of
what is considered a moderateprice. The
introduction of the triple-expansion engine,
with the three cranks, gave better balance
to the shaft, and. the forces acting in the
path of the crank pin, being better divided,
cause more regular motion on the shaft, and
so to the piopeller. This is specially notice
able in screw steamers, and is taken advan
tage of by placing the cabins further aft.
nearer the propeller, the stern having but
little vibration; the dull and heavy surging
sound, due to unequal motions of the shaft
in the two-crank engines, is exchanged for a
more regular souna oi less volume, and the
power lormerly wasted in vibrating the
stern is utilized in propelling the vessel.
Photographic Telescopes.
An English astronomical journal directs
attention to the excellent astronomical work
that is being done in this country, particu
larly through the agency of photography,
and calls upon British astronomers to bestir
themselves. The recent gift of Miss C. W.
Bruce, of New York, of 150,000 to be ap
plied "to the construction of a photographic
telescope having an objective of about 24
inches aperture, with a focal length of
about 11 feet, and of the character described
by the director of the astronomical observa
tory of Harvard College (to which the gift
is presented) in his circular of November
last; also to secure its use under favorable
climatic conditions in such a way as in his
judgment will best advance astronomical
science," will materially strengthen the
hands of American astronomers. Stars too
faint to be detected with any other instru
ment may be photographed with the 21 inch
lens, and anv person could thus obtain at a
comparatively small cost a map of a
portion of the sky showing stars too
faint for him to observe in any other way.
Many investigations may be carried on by
means of these plates; for instance, a search
for double stars, for nebulae, for asteroids,
for variable stars by comparison of plates of
the same region taken on different nights,
for stars having large proper motion when
we have the plates repeated after a consid
erable interval of time. In all these cases
the plate f nrnishes an accurate measure of
the object dipcovered. In some cases it is
estimated that 20,000 or 30,000 stars havs
been photographed on a single plate. Cali
fornia now has the largest andVost power
ful astronomical telescope in the world, and
this action gives it also the largest telescope
to be used for solely photographic purposes.
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sidewheets for "new steamers are unques
tionably drawing to a close rapidly. Mr.
Corbett also points out that yards
on a steamship are not only a great nuis
ance, but an actual hindrance and draw
back to the speed of a ship, unless
it is blowing a good stiff breeze right aft or
a little on the quarter. For a twin-screw
ship, yards are altogether superfluous, and
should not be tolerated. The Germans
knew what they were about when they
rigged thnir new twin-screw steamship, Au
gusta Victoria, with three light military
masts, which are little larger than flagstaffs.
The White Star line petitioned the English
Board ot Trade to allow them to build a
mastless twin-screw steamer, but that was
too great an innovation all at once, and the
Majestic will therefore have three "flag
staffs." But before another decade shall
have passed away we shall see a fleet of
American steamships without masts cross
ing the Atlantic. This can be accomplished
by twin-screws and rolling chambers similar
to those now in use on the City of Paris.and
an increased speed of at least one knot an
hour will be the result of the new departure.
UWELCOMEYISITOBS
The Discovery of Trichina in Pork
and the Human .System.
A VERY RAPID MULTIPLICATION.
The Danger of Diseases Greater Than is
Usually. Supposed.
PRETENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE
Search Light Projector.
A very valuable electric appliance, which
has come into extensive use, is the search
light projector. The are light for this pur
pose is of very much greater candle power
than the ordinary arc lights, which are
nominally of 2,000 candle power, and work
with a current of 10 amperes. The search
lights for projectors often ta&e from 70 to 150
amperes of current, giving a light of up to
30,000 candle power. The projector is largely
used on board ship. The electric carbons
are regulated by a hand feed, and the move
ment of the lantern is effected in two ways:
by hand for rough adjustment, in which
case the lower handle which operates the
look-nut is loosened and the whole lantern
then -moves by hand; and for finer adjust
ment the lock-nut is tightened, and the
worm gearing serves to effect any desired
degree of elevation or depression. A feature
of these projectors is'the flashing arrange
ment for sending signals. The upper handle,
which operates two sheets ot blackened
sheet metal, closes them together with the
one motion to allow the full beam to pass.
and opens them with the reverse motion to
cut off the light. By this means long or
short flashes can be used to signal in the
Morse code. These projectors are also much
used for navigating difficult passages at
night, especially in the Suez Canal, where a
special apparatus is arranged at the stem of
the boats with a lookout man to discern the
way.
Celluloid for Mathematical Scales.
Surprise is expressed by a photographie
cotemporary, that celluloid is not em
ployed for the production of mathematical
scales. Beally good engineer's or other
scales in ivory are rather expensive, yet
with celluloid when once an accurate nega
tive was taken, a series of transparencies
could be produced at a very low cost, capa
ble of being attached to ivory, ebony, box
wood, etc., as the case might be, and the
production of an intricate and elaborate
scale would in practice be bo more difficult
than a simple open divided scale with the
usual eighths, quarters, etc For calculat
ing scales, slide-rules, etc., it would be
equally applicable, and, seeing that the
original scale might be made on paper of
large size, there is no limit to the accuracy
and variety of matter that might be included.
As to enactitude the finest details would
rival those done by the most accurate divid
ing machine every contrived.
Adranco In Dentlatry.
It is stated that a process of filling teeth
with porcelain has been invented by Dr.
Land, of Detroit, Mich. His process is
said to consist in making of porcelain a
section corresponding to, and an exact coun
terpart ot, that portion of the tooth which is
to be restored, and attaching to it the de
fective tooth, thus restoring its original ap
pearance in form and color with an in
destructible material. It is also said that
this can be done so accurately that it is
almost impossible to see where nature ends
and art begins in the restoration. If the
invention will do what is claimed for it, it
is certainly a most wonderful advance in
the art.
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Enlarged View of
the Trichina,
Axijthe latest novelties in rings and jew
elry at'prices lower than ever offered at M.
G. Cohen's, 533 Smithfield st.
A Dalntv Bite.
Marvin's royal-fruitbiscuits are real deli
cacies. If you contemplate giving a little
luncheon, pr going to a picnic you cannot
afford to be without them. TWFSu
We are showing five grades of blaok
cashmere, 46 inches wide, at COc, 65c, 75c,
85o and $1 a yard, that are uneaualed In.
value. Hugus & Hacks, -.engines,
mechanical Refrigeration.
There have lately been some striking de
velopments in the processes by which car
cases of fresh meat can be preserved during
long voyages. It is found, however, that
though the carcases are landed in perfect
condition, as soon as they are taken from
the "cold rooms" of the ships, deterioration
commences, in order to avoid this, the
London & Tilbury Co., London, England,
have provided a special fleet of barges. The
barges are entirely independent of the
source of refrigeration, and can be attached
to and separated from the refrigerating ap
paratus with great facility. They are con
structed in a similar manner to the cold
chambers on board meat-carrying steaners,
and are each capable ot conveying 50 tons of
carcases. A separate barge contains the
machinery for producing the cold, which
consists of one of the Pulsome
ter Company's refrigerative freez
ing machines on the ammonia com
pression system (Puplett's patents). The
machinery is capable of cooling six barges,
and the cold brine left in the nines is
sufficient to keep the cargo cool for several
days. Only two men are required, and the
consumption of coal is 84 pounds per Lour.
Last month one oi these barges, the Mat
terhoin, was towed to Havre, and returned
with 2,000 sheep. The cargo was landed in
splendid condition, the temperature having
all along been kept under freezing point.
This is the first time a cargo of frozen meat
has been brought in a barge from a foreign
country, and the satisfactory result of the
experiment will probably lead to a further
development of this trade.
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Twin-Screw Steamers.
C. Corbett, in a recent article draws at
tention to the fact that the Miocess which
the City of Paris has won at sea, and the
Monmonth 'in New York harbor, would in
dicate that twin-screws are the coming
system for both ocean and river navigation.
He pzjdictsthat in less than five years there
will be twin-screw steamers running from
New York to Albany and Troy, and in
Long Island Sound to Fall river, Provi
dence, etc., the routes now traversed by bur
large sidewheel steamers. He also foretells
the supersession of the beam engine for
large sound and-rlver steamboats hr com.
-pound and triple expansion inclined
.- .M I - ". Z 7
-4.no days of beam engines and I
Snng;nr of Chloroform In Gnu IJghr.
A German physician records an ex
perience which shows the dangerof perform
ing operations that require anaesthesia bv
gas light. It appears that the fumes of
chloroform mingling with those of the gas,
form a compound that tends to produce
asphyxia in those under the influence of the
drug. He records one death from that
cause, and in another case the experience
was very peculiar while under the influence
of the antesthetic the patient's aespiratioa
was unaffected, and it was only after be re
gained consciousness that the symptoms of
aspnyxia sei in; inese were promptly re
moved by the free ventilation of the room.
iwuirrar row the DisrjLTcnv
Some 50 years ago Owen, a famous English
anatomist, discovered in human muscles
taken from the dissecting room a fine, hair
like parasite, always
coiled np in a more or
less spiral line, which
he accordingly called
trichina spiralis.
Some years later Prof.
Leidy, of Philadel
phia, another cele
brated anatomist,
found the same para
site in the hog. No
connection between
the presence of the
parasite in the lower
animal and in man
was demonstrated or
thought of, and it was supposed to be harm
less in both. Some 25 years after Owen's
discovery, that is in 1860, Zenker proved
that the trichina;, instead of being harmless,
were the cause of one of the most serious
diseases that humanity is subject to.
A trichina is a minute worm-like animal,
almost invisible to the naked eye. It is
about one-thirtieth of an inch in length, has
a distinct head, mouth, intestinal canal and
other organs. An enormously enlarged
view of the animal is given in one of the
cuts, the other cut representing the trichina
as it exists in its cyst, or nest, in the mus
cular tissue.
It is now generally accepted the world
over that the trichina; always find their way
into the human system by way of infested
pork in the form of ham, -sausage, fresh
pork, bacon, etc. The little parasite is
coiled up in a sort of Bhell in the muscle of
a certain proportion of hogs. In them it
produces no disturbance. The little animal
may lay there quiescent for a long period,
but when the hog is killed and eaten and
the parasites gain entrance into the human
stomach, then they begin to take on
GREAT ACTIVITY
and set about to kill their new host. After
being swallowed, the surrounding shell of
the trichina; is dissolved off by the gastric
juices and the animals set free". For about
two days they grow until they are double
their original size, then they begin to mul
tiply. A single female remains in the hu
man bowel for about a month, and, if things
are tavoraole, may give birth to 2,000
yonng during that time. The parent trich
inae remain in the intestine till their life
time of three weeks is ended, when they die
and pass out of the bowels as any other mat
ter. Not so, however, with their progeny.
The young trichinae start to migrate across
the country instead of following the beaten
highway. They bore their way through the
wall ot the bowel, through the fat, through
anything that comes in their way, till they
reach the muscles. Many, perhaps most, ot
the migrating parasites, by boring through
the wall of one of the larger blood vessels,
reach the blood current and are washed
along until they reach the muscular tissues,
where they stop. The average trichina is
somewhat of an aristocrat, and is particular
about where he takes up his residence. He
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Sausage, trichina found In 5
Fresh pork, trichina) found In 27
Pickled pigs' feet, trichinae found In 18
Total in SCO samples 91
This shows that about 30 per cent of all
forms of pork on the market contains
trichinsnot invariably in necessarily dan
gerous numbers, but still always sufficiently
numerous, where present, to cause serious
trouble.
Now the question will be asked: If tri
china) are present so frequently as this, why
doesn't everyone have trichinosis? Well,
there are two chief reasons. First,
proper cooking always kills the parasite, so
that unless the infested meat is eaten
EAW OB IMPEEFECTLT COOKED,
the disease is not produced. Second, the
disease is much more common than is gen
erally supposed. Many cases are recognized
which the general public never get to hear
oi ; ana many other cases are not recognized,
being mistaken for rheumatism, cholera
morbus, typhoid fever, irritant poisoning
and some other troubles. The intelligent
physician, however, rarely it ever mistakes
ine oisease.
As to the remedy,, that is simple: Cook
thoroughly all ham, bacon, sausage, fresh
pork, etc., that is eaten, for continued high
temperature kills the trichina;. Do not de
pend on salting, smoking or pickling to
effect their death, for though effective, per
haps, to some slight degree, they cannot
with any certainty harm a trichina;, which
is embedded in its protective shell or cyst.
Further, for absolute safety, you will have
to altogether forego the luscious bologna.
Chevameb Q. Jacksojt, M. D.
The Schoolmaster Abrond.
Greensbarg Democr&t.l
A' young "professor" of this locality ob
served the name of Beethoven on the side
of a Pullman car, the other day, and asked
a bystander: "What is that on there for?
Is he the inventor of them cars?" This
same "professor" Jiolds a permanent and
professional certificate and was recently
elected principal in the schools of a neigh
boring town. Say nothing.
KEW AOTERTISEMEKTS.
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TAKE A WOMAN'S ADVICE.
This la onlytha second time fa eight wroki that
I hare had to polish mj boots, and jet Iliad hud
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Wolff'sAO
MEBIacking
In the Mutcular Tissue.
H. G. Cohen, diamond expert and jewel
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delightful ride over the Allegheny Moun
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trip.
Seats in the parlor car on special train
and berths in the sleeping cars, can be se
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Yonr Iit Chance.
This is positively the last excursion to the
sea shore at rate of $10 for the round trip,
which will leave the city at 8:50 A. it. on
Thursday, August 22. A special train of
Pullman parlor cars and handsome day
coaches has been arranged for. These tick
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p. si. trains. Ko more delightful time could
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The view of the Conemaugh Valley and fe unlike disease germs, be directly in propor-
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does not care what may be the color or social
standing of hu host, but he will only tafcc
up his quarters in the muscular tissues. He
does not want any liver or kidney in his; it
is muscle or nothing. The heart muscle is
a choice site with him, as are also the mus
cles of, the eye and those of the chest which
carry on respiration.
After boring round for a considerable time
in the muscular tissue, the little animal
finds a place which suits his fancy and there
he lodges. His presence excites an inflam
mation, wnicn results in tne lormation of a
shell, technically called a cyst, which in
closes him on all sides.
These cysts, by contraction, finally kill
the inclosed parasite, though unfortunately
while doing so the disturbance created gen
erally kills the luckless person whose mus
cles the trichina; have invaded. This en
cysting process commences abont three
weeks after the infested meat has been
swallowed, and it is on the ability of the
afflicted individual to live till the process is
completed that his only chance of recovery
depends.
XS INTEEESTnrO PEOCESS.
It is during the encysting process that all
the symptoms ot trichinosis, as the disease
is called, are at their fullest intensity.
In the course of time, if the host lives,
lime salts are deposited in and around the
trichinae, making a chalky concretion,
which, if the muscle be examined after
death, is often visible to the naked eye as a
minute white speck. The trichina itself,
however, is invisible without the aid of a
microscope.
The parasites do not generate in the mus
cles and only one generation is the result of
one infection. That is, each female swal
lowed gives birth to a certain number of
progeny, and then she, herself, dies and the
nrosrenv do not multiply. Thus it is seen
that the number ot trichina; developed will,
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St Mary's Seminary,
For boys between the ages of 4 and 12 years,
In charee of Sisters ot Charity.
SETON HILL, GREENSBURG, PA
The object of this school is to provide for boys
of tender years a place where they may enjoy
the comforts of borne and care of parents, to
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and careful teaching In the usual English
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Terms: Board, tuition, washing, mending and
bedding per session, ten months, $150. Music,
etc., extra'charges.
N. li. This seminary is situated on same
Eroundswith St. Joseph's Academy for Young
adies. ,'
Session opens flf?t Monday in Septemter,
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and return, $12.
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Lake Chautauqua and return, $5.
Tickets good for 16 days returning.
Passengers for Thousand Islands, Alex
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Tram of Eastla&e coaches.PuIIman nnrTnr
I buffet cars, leaves Union station at 8:45 a.
M., Eastern standard time.
Ik producing and putting upon the mar
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very purest and best. Such a course has
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A trial will convince you. Brewery, Benn
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BASOAIirs'ln summer mlHnm nnA (hihi.
yzwgt at x-ucairn I, w ooa ft, a
tion to the number swallowed. Tims the
number of trichinae which invades the mus
cles in any given case, may vary from a few
hundreds to' many millions. Now it is
just on these numbers that the severity of the
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U13CB39 UfJGUUO. j. j,, MUUUrCUS IU IUB
muscles may give rise to what may be, and
frequently is considered as a muscular rheu
matism. From this all grades of the disease
are encountered up to a degree of severity
when the little animals are present in such
enormous, numbers as to excite such an in
flammation in every muscle iu the patient's
system as to render the entire body as itiff
as a board; not a muscle is capable of volun
tary movement, and finally the heart and
respiratory muscles are so stiffened that
they are 'unable to work, and then death,
of course, is the result
In many cases death results from exhaus
tion, owing to the inability of the patient to
swallow on account of the stiffnessof the in
vaded swallowing muscles. In some cases
the infected meat swallowed sets up a kind
of cholera morbus which, though severe, is
'apt to be fortunate for the patient, as these
cases rarely have severe muscular troubles,
because there is, in them, usually little
migration.
SOME EXPEKJMENTS.
With a view of ascertaining to what ex
tent the various forms of hog meat on the
market are Infected with trichina; the writer
has, during the past three years, examined
300 samples of ham, bacon, sausage, fresh
pork and pigs' feet, all taken from
the market in the cities of New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St Louis,
Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Pittsburg.
Of these cities, one was found to be about
as well off as another in regard to the num
ber of trichina found, as there was singu
larly littleK variation in this, respect. The
average of all samples from all the above
named cities gives the following tablo
showing the average number found in. each
form of pork:
. t - - Samples.
"Ram. trichinae found In si
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