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LADIES’ DEPARTMENT.
F&ahlon Fancies.
Pi ;oe satin seems to be preferred in*
stead ofribbons for bonnet ties.
Poi : >oys’ school suits plain cloths and
fancy cassimeres in checks and small,
broken plaids are used.
Leather petticoats are used for walk
ing by English women. They look like
satin ard wear forever.
Ye.iuwish shades of color will be
populai in laces, millinery goods, dress
fabrics and wraps for spring.
Pearl embroideries and passementer
ies are much employed on toilets of
white satin and delicately tinted gauze.
Heliotrope, a peculiar shade resem
bling lilac, represents anew color in
silk and woolen goods for spring wear.
Black chip for hats and bonnets is
much used in Paris, and chips in all
colors promise to be a favorite mate
rial.
Colors and patterns which have dis
tinguished the silk and woolen fabrics
during the past season are now appear
ing in fine French prints and other cot
ton goods for spring wear.
Plain suits for girls from ten to twelve
years ol age are of wool and silk in
combination. These are frequently
made in princesse style, with a deep
plaited flounce at the bottom of the
skirt and with scarf-like drapery. Shir
ring is also in favor on misses’ suits.
Included among spring and sum
mer goods suitable for children’s use are
mornie cloths figured in Japanese style
on soft, cream-tinted grounds, or dotted
with tiny flowers and leaves on plain
pink, blue or other colors; also a kind of
crepe so rich and soft that it has al
most the appearance of silk. Both of
these materials are entirely cotton.
Dresses for children up to six and
eight years of age are still made in one
piece—a fashion both comfortable for
the child and convenient for the mother.
Wool and silk, and silk and velvet are
employed in these dresses, which may
be very simply or elaborately modeled
to simulate a vest and jacket. Satin
bands and lace serve as a garniture.
Yellow Tuscan braids, it is an
nounced, are the fashionable material
for spring hornets, and rival French
chips and straw laces. The early im
portations show also Leghorns, and
many of the yellow straws have a lus
trous finish. The early bonnets are
medium-sized; turbans and wide
brimmed round hats are included in the
mlincry exhibited.
Am#ng the simple spring walking
suits are fine dark colored flannels in
the latest shades of blue, green and
other colors, with a finish of many
rows of very narrow white or black
braid. The waist is belted, the over
skirt has an apron front and full drapery
at the back and the lower skirt is kilt
plaited. Walking jackets for spring
differ from previous styles principally
in having longer skirts. Anew model
is double-breasted and slightly cut away
at the front below the waist, forming a
long narrow opening. What are called
blanket cloths, in mixed hue? with tine
lines of color running through them, are
made up in this style, and show the
tailor’s finish. Fancy silk and wool
sacques will be trimmed with fur for
early spring, after which fringes and
feather trimming will probably be popu
lar.
W*w and Xoies for Women.
Two of Longfellow’s daughters are
pursuing the Harvard course of study
for women.
Female convicts in the Kentucky peni
tentiary are required to dress in panta
loons.
An American woman writes to the
Engl i'll queen that an American farmer’s
wife works ten or t wenty times as hard
as an English farmer’s wife.
Amelia Bloomer, the inventor of the
Bloomer costume, is the wife of D. C.
Bloomer, ex-State senator of lowa and
ex-mayor of Council Bluffs, in which
city they live.
Miss Butler, of Pittsburg, Pa., hi.d
looked for a man under her bed every
night for many years, and at last she
found not one there, but four. They
wore black masks and left her bound
and gagged when they went off with the
family plate and jtwelry.
Joseph Bailey, of Lancaster, Wis.,
advised his son to break his engagement
with Jennie Farrell and marry her pret
tier sister. Jennie resentfully set fire to
the old man’s barn, and has gone to
State prison, while her sister has be-
come young Bailey’s wife.
Mary Custer lives alone in a shanty at
Sioux Falls, Dakota, surrounded by
books, which a careful education en
ables her to enioy, but she earns her
livimr at a washtub, refusing all offers
of higher employment, and declaring
that she only wants to be let alone.
Mrs. Ellis, a widow in Ellis county,
La., armed herself with an ax, attacked
a huge wildcat and came out victorious.
The Arlington Adixmce says that this
was a very bold act, and even old hunt
ers would not dare to approach one of
these ferocious varmints in that way.
America has given us not only social
accomplishments and intellectual cul
ture ; it has enriched us with an over
flowing measure of feminine beauty.
Cynosures of transatlantic loveliness
delight multitudes in Hyde park, and
glow in the firmament of London draw
ing rooms.— London World.
Queen Victoria is the owner of a
silver-gift casket in which are lockets
containing locks of hair of thirteen offi
cers who fell at Isandula. Each locket
is engraved with an “ In Memoriam ”
and the name of the officer, together
with the date of his death. The sou
venir was ordered by the queen.
As the Rev. Mr. Broadway was clos
ing a West Brantford (Ont.) revival*
s 1 !•> with prayer the other nigh
Miss v’.ineh, a spinster of fifty summers
who labored under the delusion that
Mr. Broadway wanted to marry her,
marched up the aisle and pounded him
until the meeting brake up in a rush for
outdoors.
A ftci five triajs Miss M. Louise Mo-
L'cj&h.’in, of Cincinnati, has at last suc
ceeded in completing the largest vase
\ever moulded in this country. It is
called the Ali Baba vase, and measure
thirty-seven inches in heighth and seven
teen inches in diameter. The vase in
the wet clay measured forty-four inches
in heighth and nineteen in diameter.
Ladies are now wearing scented petti
coats, with the perfume (in solid) quilted
on. The effect is peculiar; one moment
the nose is assailed by a fair charmer
exuding vondelatia, while a moment
later one might think it was auttimn
from the overpowering flavor of new
mown hay. Where the fashion sprung
from is not known, but the practice is
becoming universal.— London Letter.
The Gold Diggings of Ireland.
Although Ireland is not generally re
garded as one of the gold producing
countries of the world, gold has been
found there in paying quantities, espe
cially in the county of Wicklow.
Tradition commonly attributes the
original discovery of the Wicklow gold
mines to a poor schoolmaster, who,
while fishing in one of the small streams
which descend from theCroghan moun
tains, picked up a piece of shining metal,
and having ascertained that it was gold
gradually enriched himself by the suc
cess of his researches in that and the
neighboring streams, cautiously dispos
ing of the produce of his labor to a gold
smith in Dublin. He is said to have
preserved the secret for upward of
twenty years, but marrying a young
wife he .imprudently confided his dis
covery to her, and she, believing her
husband to be mad, immediately re
vealed the circumstance to her rela
tions, through whose means it was
made public. Ttiis was toward the
close of the year 1795, and the effect it
produced was remarkable. Thousands
of people of every age and sex hurried
to the spot, and from the laborer who
could wield a spade or pickaxe to the
child who scraped the rock with a
rusty nail, all eagerly engaged in the
search after gold. The Irish are a peo
ple possessed of a rich and quick fancy,
and the very name of a gold mine
carried with it ideas of inexhaustible
wealth.
During the interval which elapsed be
tween the public announcement of the
gold discovery and the taking possession
of the mine by the government—a period
of about two months— it is supposed that
upward of two thousand five hundred
ounces of gold were collected by the
peasants, principally from the mud and
sand of Ballinvally stream, and disposed
ot for about ten thousand pounds, a
sum far exceeding the produce of the
mine during the government operations,
which amounted to little more than
three thousand five hundred pounds.
The gold was found in pieces of all
forms and sizes, from the smallest per
ceptible particle to the extraordinary
mass of twenty-two ounces, which sold
for eighty guineas. This large piece was
of an irregular form; it measured four
inches in its greatest length, and three
in breadth, and in thickness it varied
from half an inch to an inch; a gilt cast
of it may be seen in the museum of
Trinity college, Dublin. So pure was
the gold generally found, that it was the
custom of the Dublin goldsmiths to put
gold coin in the opposite scale to it, and
give weight for weight.
The government works were carried
on until 1798, when all the machinery
was destroyed in the insurrection. The
mining was renewed in 1801, but not
being found sufficiently productive to
pay the expenses, the search was aban
doned. There prevails yet, however,
a lingering belief among the peasants
that there is still gold in Kinsella, and
only the “ lucky man ” is wanting.—
Harper's Young People.
German Military Officers.
Gei man officers are undoubtedly the
most highly educated in the world.
They can only get promotion by assidu
ous study, and they take a professional
pride in culture which places them im
measurably above their men. In this
respect they truly form an aristocracy
Again, they have a strict code of honor
which is kept in force by dueling, and
which lays upon them the necessity of
being very correct in their behavior,
not only toward each other, but toward
civilians. A German officer can only
fight a duel with a man who is socially
his equal, and he is expected to fight
whenever he is insulted; so that if he
get dragged into a disreputable brawl
with an inferior, he finds himself in a
dilemma from which there is no escape
except by throwing up his commission.
Some years ago a Prussian had his face
slapped in the streets of Coblentz by a
baker; he drew out his sword and cut
down liis aggressor like a dog, there and
then. Public opinion took his side, for
had he let the affront pass he must have
left the army; as it was, he got tried by
court-martial, and was sentenced to a
month’s imprisonment, not for killing a
baker, but for having a street quarrel
with such a person.
Among officers duels are pretfy fre
quent, and yet not quite so frequent as
seems to be imagined. A punctilious re
spect for hierarchy, a close observance
of the forms of social etiquette, tend to
minimize the chances of quarrel; and
then there are courts of honor before
which disputes must be laid before the
permission to fight is given, so that a
mere truculent bravo could not win
himself a reputation at the sword’s
point, nor tease his comrades by im
pertinences. Generally speaking, Ger
man officers are polite to a degree which
far transcends the proverbial courtesy
of Frenchmen; while toward civilians
they practice a refinement of etiquette
which is intended to put a proper dis
tance between themselves and inter
lopers. Jn Germany the uniform of an
officer is more respected than it is in
any other country except England; and
it confers prestige per se. Everybody
knows that in donning his epaulet the
German officer gives bail for his honor,
and may be relied upon to act uprightly
in all possible contingencies. Scandals
about money matters are extremely rare
among the officers; and this is the more
creditable to them, as no attempt is
made to hush up such affairs when they
do arise. The offender, whoever he may
be, is at once brought to book by his
colonel, and if he cannot ciear hi? honor,
he is promptly ordered to resign. —Pall
Mall Gazette.
The Czar's Winter Palace.
The seat of the last attempt directed
against the czar’s life, the private dining
room of the imperial famlljq is situated
in the wing of the Winter palace, facihg
the so-called palace or Admiralty square,
a vast space of open ground* covered in
part by a garden and oordered by large
buildings almost exclusively occupied
by government offices. Directly oppo
site the palace, the foreign office, the
general staff and the finance ministry
are situated. This square surrounds the
Winter palace on its southern and east
ern front. To the west flows the broad
stream of the Neva, and to the north the
palace is separated from the adjoining
building (the barracks of the Preobra
jensky regiment) by a deep canal.
The part of the palace in which t'ie
explosion took place is exclusively de
voted to the private apartments of the
czar, the empress, and of their younger
children. The rooms of the first floor,
adjoining to the watch room, which
has suffered so severely from the shock,
and in which so many lives were lost,
was formerly occupied by the Grand
Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, now
Duchess of Edinburg. At present they
are occupied by the Countess Tolstoy,
the former tutoress of the duchess, and
other ladies of the imperial suite. The
basement, beneath whi< h the mine had
been laid, is inhabited by some of the
most devoted and oldest male and female
servants of the imperial family. The inner
court, to which the wires of the mine
were traced, is situated in the heartof the
palace, and runs lengthwise from north
to south throughout the whole build
ing, emerging into a narrow passage
whicu runs between the Winter palace
and the adjoining and connecting build
ing of the “Eremitage,” where the
celebrated imperial art museum and
picture gallery are situated. In this
court a busy life and turmoil of couriers
coming and going, petty court officials,
servants and dvorniks (porters) attend
ing to their various work, reigns all day
and part of the night. The entrance
into this court is severely prohibited to
all persons who have no special permis
sion or business to transact with some
of the employees of the palace. Here
also a constant guard is kept, not only
by military watchmen and policemen,
but by numberless secret spies and de
tectives, the third section (secret police)
having a special department, compost and
of its shrewdest and most devoted
agents, whose sole business consists in
watching day and night the palace, its
surroundings, and all the movements of
the czar and his family.
The huge structure of the Winter pal
ace is inhabited, besides the imperial
family, by over 500 persons of the most
different stations in life and official posi
t;on, ranging Irom the dvornik (porter)
the istopnik (stove lighter), and the
skorochod (messenger), to the ladies of
the imperial household and the grand
marshal of the court, and all this great
army of attendants is attached by the
most vital ties to the interests A the
court and of the imperial family. It is
next to impossible for a revolutionary
paity to find among this throng a suf
ficient number of devoted and energetic
allies, whereas the lact fa court in
trigue, headed by a member of the im
perial family and abetted by some high
officials of the empire, finding willing
tools among the court servants, would
be neither loyal nor original, and has in
deed become a leading feature of Rus
sian history. Thus Catherine 11. has
marched to the throne over the corpse
of her husband, Peter 111., and Alex
ander 1., the uncle of the present em
peror, has taken advantage of the trag
edy enacted in the palace of Paul I.—
New York Sun.
A Plucky Woman.
A desperate conflict took place at
Dead wood, Dakota, between the wife
of Mr. J. 11. Wilder, foreman of the
Snow Storm mine, Bald mountain, and
a ruffian, who, although repeatedly
fired at by the plucky woman, succeeded
in effecting his escape. Mr. Wilder
had been to the bank and drawn SSOO for
the purpose of paying off his men. He
noticed while in the bank a well-dressed
man intently watching his movements,
but he did not attach any importance to
it, and after pocketing the money,
walked home, ate dinner with his wife,
and then proceeded to the mine.
Scarcely had he left the house when
Mrs. Wilder was called to the door by
a stranger, who inquired if her husband
was at home. She replied in the nega
tive, to which the stranger sneeringly
retorted, “ Oh, yes, he is.” She then
insisted upon the contrary, whereupon
the man stepped into the room- Mrs.
Wilder asked him what he wanted, to
which he answered:
“ A dollar.”
She said:
“We haven’t a penny in the house.”
And had scarcely uttered the words
ere the brute drew a slung-shot from his
pocket and struck at her. She dodged
and avoided the full force of the blow,
although receiving an ugly cut upon the
forehead. With a scream she ran into
the kitchen followed by the stranger,
and picked up a six-shooter, at sight of
which the ruffian turned and fled
through the front door. Mrs. Wilder
passed out by the rear door, and around
the house in time to see her assailant
running down the path, when she
opened fire, and although four shots
were fired, unfortunately none took
effect, and the scoundrel succeeded in
effecting his escape.
Although several persons instituted a
searching inquiry in the neighborhood,
no trace of the would-be robber cou Id
he found.
The Hound.
The hound is a most interesting dog.
How solemn and long-visaged he is—
how peaceful and well-disposed! He is
the Quaker among dogs. All the vic
iousness and currishness seem to have
been weeded out of him; he seldom
quarrels or fights, or plays, like other
dogs. Two strange hounds, meeting
for the first time, behave as civilly
toward each other as two men. I know
a hound that has an ancient, wrinkled,
human, far-away look that reminds one
of the bust of Homer among the Elgin
marbles. He looks like the mountains
toward which his heart yearns so much.
—John Burroughs, in Scribner.
How this Solid Earth Keeps ohan|ihj.
The student of history reads of the
great Sea-fight Which Ring Edward.lll.
Fought ■frith the French off Sluys; hofr
iff those day§ the merchant vessels came
up to the walls of that flourishing sea
port by every tide; and how, a century
later, a Portuguese fleet conveyed Isa
bella from Lisbon, and an English fleet
brought Margaret of York from the
Thames, to marry successive dukes of
Burgundy at the port Of Sluys. In our
time, if a modern traveler drives twelve
miles out of Bruges, across the Dutch
frontier, he will find a small agricul
tural town, surrounded by corn-fields
and meadows and clumps of trees,
whence the sea is not in sight from the
top of the town hall steeple. This is
Sluys.
Once more. We turn to the great
Bale du Mont Saint Michel, between
Normandy and Brittany. In Roman
authors we read of the vast forest, called
“ Setiacum N emus*” in the center of
which an isolated rock arose, sur
mounted by a temple of Jupiter, once a
college of Druidesses. Now the same
rock, with its glorious pile dedicated to
St. Michael, is surrounded by the sea at
high tides. The story of this transfor
mation is even more striking than that
of Sluys, and its adequate narration
justly earned for M. Manet the gold
medal of the French Geographical so-
ciety in 1828.
Once again. Let us turn for a moment
to the Mediterranean shores of Spain,
and the mountains of Murcia. Those
rocky heights, whose peaks stand out
against the deep blue sky, scarcely sup
port a blade of vegetation. The algaro
bas and olives at their bases are arti
fically supplied with soil. It is scarcely
credible that these are the same moun
tains which, according to the forest book
of King Alfonso el Sabio, were once
clothed to their summits with pines and
other forest trees, while soft clouds and
mist hung over a rounded, shaggy out
line cf wood where now the naked rocks
made a hard line against the burnished
sky. But Arab and Spanish chroniclers
alike record the facts, and geographical
science explains the cause. There is
scarcely a district in the whole range of
the civilized world where some equally
interesting geographical story has not
been recorded, and where the same les
sons may not be taught. This is com
parative geography.— Harper's Young
People.
Story of an Adventuress.
The New York correspondent of the
Boston Herald tells this story of the
meteoric flight and sudden collapse of
an adventuress who recently gained en
trance into the fashionable circles of
Gotham: The season of balls, now
closed by Lent, had no more conspicu
ous figure than that of a woman who
said she was a bonanza queen from Cali
fornia, with millions in her money-box,
and a notion in her head that she wanted
to see New York life. Nobody knev
her, but everybody could see that she
was handsome, almost young, elegantly
dressed and disposed to be frisky. She
went to the charity and other fashion
able balls at the academy of music, and
was received as a visitor in several
wealthy families. Exactly how she put
herself on this social footing cannot
easily be learned. Whenever she ap
peared in a public gathering, well-known
men dangled in her train. Her costumes
were fully described in the newspaper
reports, real or paste diamonds were
sprinkled over her person, she boarded
at the Hoffman house, and, altogether,
was this winter’s most conspicuous
woman in New York. Her conduct in
public was decorous, but there ca re an
occasion when indiscretion terminated
this phase of her metropolitan career.
After a ball she went with four gentle
men to an Astor place restaurant for an
elaborate supper. All got drunk.
woman said she had lost a diamond, and
charged one of her companions with
stealing it. The accused was a mem
ber of the high and mighty family of
Livingston. She would not be quieted,
but called in a policeman and had him
arrested. The whole party went to a
police station, where she was so noisy
and immodest that her charge was dis
credited. That finished her as a social
goddess. It is said that she afterward
found the jewel in her pocket. She has
been turned out of the hotel, her ante
cedents have been disclosed, and society
is once more compelled to confess hav
ing been completely taken in.
New Uses for Electricity.
Interesting experiments with eke
tricity as a means of controlling vicious
horses which have been made in Paris
it seems, from all accounts, present at
least the possibilities of anew system
of breaking intractable animals. In the
trials made the electricity was applied
to the horse’s body by means of a small
electrical apparatus manipulated by the
driver. For instance, if it is desired to
act on the mouth of the animal, the reins
are made into a conducting wire which
terminate at one end in a bit and at the
other is connected with the electrical
machine. Upon turning a crank a cur
rent is induced which surprises the
horse and renders him passive. It is
claimed by advocates of the new system,
with what accuracy remains to be
proven, that electricity properly applied
unfailingly corrects the animal’s vicious
habits.
The Messrs. Menier, who have prose
cuted experiments attracting considera
ble attention atNoisel, France, utilizing
the power of electricity for the purpose
of plowing, think well enough of the
results to have purchased the patents on
the process of plowing by electricity.
The Transcript describes the machine
used by them in their trials as present
ing somewhat the appearance of a ve
locipede and a plow. The motive power
is supplied through wires by a Gramme
machine about half a mile distant, and
the plow—one of the Fowler pattern
having six shares—accomplishes about
the same work as if drawn by four oxen.
A man seated upon a saddle guides the
apparatus over the field, controlling the
depth of the furrow by means of a lever.
—New York World.
“Will you name the bones of the
head?” said a teacher to one ol his
class. “ I’ve got ’em all in my head,
teacher,” replied the pupil, “ but I can’t
give ’em.”
Sworn ift As a Thief.
Oscar Taylor, young, man arrested
iota robbery co’S’.mitted at Alden, N. x.,
is now confined in jail at Newburg. He
has, sißce his arrest, given a history of
his career in knavery, which, consider
ing its short duration —six months has
been unsually eventful. About six
months ago he left Alden and came to
New York. On fys artiVAl hete he fell
iti With a gang of thieves in a drink
ing saloon, and was induced without
much persuasion to join them.
He was then conducted by two of their
number, by many windings, to a narrow
street. The leader suddenly darted into
a narrow alley and the others followed;
After passing through a yard they
stopped before a door leading into a
cellar. Three taps by the leader and
the door was cautiously opened. This
place Taylor describes as a thieVeS’ ren
dezvous, containing everything neces
sary to the trade —burglar’s tools,
knives, pistols, jimmies and crucibles
for melting down silverware. Here the
newcomer was compelled to swear that
he would never betray his comrades,
the oath being administered by one of
their number known as “ Slippery
Jim.” The penalty for breaking the
oath, they said iu blood-curdling tones,
wae to be shot at sight. He was also
instructed never to recognize any of the
members of the gang in the street, and
to always follow his conductor in silence
until the cellar was reached. Especial
care was to be taken when they were
under the eyes of the police or had any
reason to suspect they were being
watched. Taylor says he is not able to
say how many men belong to the gang,
as he never saw all of them at the same
time. The only ones he knew by name
were “Burglar Dick,” “Slippery Jim,”
and his companion, George Scott, with
whom most of his own-robberies were
committed. He was never able to go to
the rendezvous without a guide, and
when he was conducted there it was by
a circuitous route. The method of
opeiating practiced by the thieves was
to go in pairs, taking different routes*,
into the interior of the neighboring
States.- -New York Tribune.
A Story of the Late War.
Colonel Boyle, of Kentucky, was one
of the bravest and most promising
young officers in our army. During
his service in Western Kentucky a good
many men deserted from his regiment
and went over to join the Confederates.
This greatly incensed Boyle, and he
swore a solemn oath ene day that if ever
he caught a man who had deserted from
his command wearing the Confederate
uniform he would shoot him on the
spot. Not long afterward a prisoner
was brought in by some of Boyle’s
troops, and the man proved to be a
soldier who had deserted from one of his
companies. Boyle was on the march at
the time, and ordered the man to be
brought to him. He had on a Confed
erate uniform, and Boyle knew him at
sight to be one of his men. Directing
him to be taken into a clump of pines,
Boyle ordered the men to shoot him.
The poor fellow begged so hard for his
life no one had the heart to kill him.
Boyle finally said if no one else would
shoot him he would do so himself. The
deserter said: “Colonel Boyle, you can
kill me if you wish, but if you do, mark
my words, my death xvill soon be
avenged by that of your own.”
Sitting upon his horse, Boj’lc drew a
pistol from his holster and shot the man
in the mouth, leaving his dead body
lying in the pines by the roadside.
A few days later Boyle led his regi
ment to battle at Marion, and almost at
the first fire of the enemy he fell mor
tally wounded. Not another man on
that part of the field was killed by the
fire, and it seemed almost like a retribu
tion for the death of the poor deserter.
The ball which killed Boyle hit him in
the mouth, carrying away the teeth in
the upper jaw and coming out at the
back of the neck. He ble to death in a
few minutes. jNo better or braver soldier
than Colonel Boyle ever lived, and his
death was deplored by the whole army.
No doubt what he did was done from
convictions of duty, and to check, if
possible, desertions from our troops to
the enemy, which were then becoming
by tar too common an occurrence.—
Philadelphia Press.
An Open Eetter.'
West Winfield, Herkimer Cos., N. Y. >
October 23, 1879. y
L. Candee A Cos., New Haven, Ct.
Gentlemen : Out of the case of “95 ’ Rub
ber Boots sent me last April,
I sold one pair April 4, to Alvin Bliss,
“ “ “ 5, to Geo. Reusoh,
“ “ “ 7, to Gill W. Randall,
“ “ “ 8, to Albert Mallory,
“ “ “ 11, to Milo H. Brown.
Thcso boots had constant wear through
April and May, and since that time they have
been worn every morning through the dew to
get the cows and do their milking in, and I
have seen four pair ol them, and they are ap
parently as good as when I sold them. Milk
whey and dew on a rubber boot, or any other
boot, lor six months, are its good tests ns can
be had. The pair ol “95” boots sent me March
17, I put on a iarmer who is one ol my hard
est customers. They have not cracked at
all, but the one maiked S. C. on Iront ol
lee, has worn through the first layer ol the
sole. Yours, in haste,
M. M. JOSLYN.
A Household Need.
A book on the Liver, its diseases and their
treatment sent tree. Including treatises upon
Liver Complaints, Torpid Liver, Jaundice
Biliousness, Headache, Constipation, Dyspep
sia, Malaria, etc. Address Dr. Sanford, 162
Broadway, New York city, N. Y.
Dr. C. E. Snoemaker, oi Heading, Pa., is the
only aural surgeon in the United States who
devotes all his time to the treatment of deat
ness and diseases of the car und catarrh; es
pecially running ear. Nearly twenty years ex
perience. Thousands testily to his skill. Con
sult him by mail or otherwise. Pamphlet free.
Wantea.
Sherman & Cos., Marshall, Mich., want an
agent in this county at once, at a salary ol
#IOO per month and expenses paid. For full
particulars address as above.
Vegetine thoroughly eradicates every kind
of humor, and restores the entire system to a
healthy condition.
25c. buys a pair of Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners
and maae a boot or shoe last twiee as long.
For sore throat, gargle with Piso’s Cure,
mixed with a little water. Relief is instant.
Gilbert’s Laundry, Pat. Gloss and Corn Starch.
lllfles.—Seven-shot Repeating 722 and 32 calibre ac
curate up to 300 yards, bran new, only $4.50. Biggest
bargain ever offered in Firearms. Illustrated catalogue
and testimonials in full. Address CUICESTER RIFLE
COMPANY, 31 Montgomery Street, Jersey Clty.NJ
Daughters, Wives and Mother*
Da. MAitcuisrs Uterine catiiolicon wiiipow.
tiveiy cure > emale VV eakness, such as Fallinc of the
Womb, Whites, Chronic Inflammation orUkeraUonof
the W ouib, Incidental Hemorrhage or Flooding, Painful,
Suppressed and Inegular Menshuation, kc. An old and
reliable remedy. Send postal card for a pamphlet, with
treatment, cures and certificates from physicians and
K I H * BALLARD Unca7li.Tr
sold by all Druggist*—sl.so per bottle.
■the enlarged Astor library building
iji New,York Will be aft imposing struc
Lure. Through the liberality of John
Jacob Astor the building will be made
one-third larger than it is at present,
holding 350,000 volumes instead of 200,.
00#. The whole front will be 200 feet,
while the depth is 120 feet. The Astors
have given ih all over $1,000;000 to this
institution. __
Insane men always behave them
selves when in straight-jackets. They
do so from force of habit. — Boston Post.
THE MARKETS*
tor* tom*
fieef OMtle— tted, iLtiVeSi live fct.. 09 * ® 10*
Calves—StAte Mi1k..... 03*9 06
Sheep. 06 # C6S
Lambs 06*® 07’.
Bogs—-hive...... 09. ® f6*
preseed....... , 05*® 06*
Floor-Ex. State, good*) fine*.... ©7o® 70J
Western, good to fancy 6 SO ® 7 75
Wheat—No. 1 Rod 1 68*® 1 69
No. 1 Amber 1 46 ® 1 46
Rye—State 96 ® 96
Barley—Two-Rowed State 68 ® 72
Oorn-Ungraded Western Mixed.... 67*® 69*
Southern Yellow 67*® 69
Oats—White State 60*® 62
Mixed Weetern„ 46*® 48
Hay—Retail grades,.... 90 ® 95
Straw—Long Rye, per ewt 1 00 ® 1 (6
Hops—State, 1879 .... . . 30 ® 37
Pork—Mess. a U7* ®M 03
Lard-Uity &eam 7.150 ® 7 62*
Petroleum—Crude ........06*®07* Refined 07*
Wool—Btste and Penn. XX 48 ® (0
Batter—State Creamery.... 20 ® 88
Diary 18 ® 27
Western Imitation Creamery 22 ® i9
Factory 16 ® 24
Cheese—State Factory 12 ® 15
Skims 10 ® 11
Western 13*0 13*
Egg*—State and Penn.. 16 ® 15
Potatoes, Early Bose, State, bbl... 160 ® 162
BUifAU)
Flour—City Oround, No. 1 Spring.. 626 ®6 76
Wheat—Red Winter 1 88 ® 1 45
Corn —New Western 48*® 48*
Oats—State.... 48 ® 49
Barley—Two-rowed State 66 ® 70
BOSTON.
Bed Cattle —Uve weight 06*® (6
Sheep 05 ® 06
Hogs (s*® 05*
Fkmr—Wisconsin and Minn. Pat.... 7 00 ® 8 60
Corn—Mixed and Ye110w...... 59 ® 63
Oats—Extra White 60 ® 64
Rye—State.... 96 ® 95
Wool—Washed Combing k Delanle., 61 ® 66
Unwashed. “ “ 42 ® 45
BHIOHTON (MASS ) OATTLN MABKKT
Beef—Cattle, live weight 06*® C 6
Sheep.. 05 ® 06*
Lambs 06 ® 07
Hogs 06*® 06*
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour—Penn, oholce and fancy 676 ®7 00
Wheat—Penn. Red 1 47*® 1 47*
Amber 1 39 ® l 39*
Rye—State 90 ® 90
Corn—State Yellow.. 67 ® 67
Oats—Mixed 46*® 46*
Butter—Creamery extra 82 ® 35
Cheese—New York Factory 14*'® 15
Petroleum—Crude 07 ®o7* Refined 07*
*• Oh, how I do wish my skin was as
clear and soft as yours,” said a lady to
her friend. “ You can easily make it
so,” answered the friend. “llow ?”
inquired the first lady. “By using
Hop Bitters, that makes pure, rich blood
and blooming health. It did for me, as
you observe. Read of it.— Bulletin.
In regard to the method of coloring
butter. The theory is that cows when
well fed and cared for will make yellow
butter; the fact is that not one in ten
will, except in times of flush pasture.
This is just the reason that the very best
dairymen in this country use Wells,
Richardson & Co.’s Perfected Butter
Cojor.— Moore's Rural.
The Talk in all Cities!
NO SPECULATION !
A Puzzle hotter than the (Jem, more Interesting than
checkers, ellonling amusement for all. Sent to any
address, |K,st jiai!. on receipt of 20 cents, or three s< ts for
r*- cents. :n ias’l or stumps. Every sot French polished
un i finished by e.\|K-rieiiced workmen. Satisfaction guar
antee!. AihifeSS
Boston Fancy Wood Carving Cos.,
413 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
fITpHLEPTiO FITS.
& A A CEIiT .Iff REMEDY FOR
Epileptic Fils, Spasms, or Convulsions.
Having the utmost confidence In this preparation, we
guarantee to any who are afflicted with Epilepsy, imme
diate relief, an 1 by sending their address, describing case,
we will send a small bottle gratis, ih order that they may
give it a trial. Address UUI'MAK t SON, Chemists and
Druggists, tit) I Court Street, Brooklyn, X. Y,
PETROLEUM ?? A(1 fit TUTU JELLY
Grand Medal If n \ 8 I ill n Silver Medal
-swr lAofiJullli
This wonderful substance is acknowledged by physi
cians throughout the world to be the best remedy dis
covered tor the cure of Wounds, Burn?, Rheumatism,
Skin Diseases, Piles, Catarrh, Chilblain* Ac. Ih order
that every one may try it. It is put Up in 15 and 35 cent
bottles for household use. Obtain it from your druggist?
and you will And it uj>crlor to anything you have
C.GILBERTS
STAR C H
S4ftnn reward •f B ceding,
H !§ a5 ■ Blind, Itching, or Ulcerated
g I B s 1 Q 3 I‘ilvs that lleßlnc’a Pile
h 1 n 1 8 H ltemetly failstocure. Give*
.5 P:•I} H immediate relief, cue* eases
9 1 1 1 1 H l°f long Standing in 1 Week,
f H H E B §5 Bna ordinary cases in 8 days.
print'd on ft f* Sfrtcfe • Pi U of S on** and
Dr. /P. M tiler'* £>**rtMre, Phila. Hla bottle. Sold
by ail druggist*. Sent by mail by J. P. Mn.LKn, M. D..
Pr/.r.- ‘b V/. cor. Tenth and Arch. Sta., Philada.. Pa.
The Koran.
A curiosity to mrypr.e, and a nrrruii,
B&srSTs* fff’aasajrts&fsij
snd tt cents for postage. Catalogue of manv
standard works, remarkably fow in price, with extra terms
Ajttuacl’n Book T 16111 ’
$ i 0,0067 T^ r -t-->^
_ _ ••0.000 wilt Y, pld to , ny
SAA Tl , '®,'* on wl ‘° c " erplnd, a I simp fitted
**&**■• ■— ■ ■ with onr PATENTED SAFETY AT
I A RJD tachment.
Iwl I B May use any lsmp or burner
_ Prevents dripping and heating.
AUK.VTM I Send tor samples, with size ol colUi
’IVAXTFn I ° your lamp.
-J S. S. Newton’s Safety Lamp Cos.,
factory and Off.ce, v’. YoA
FOTl\T> x , ® > ' Consumption.
r~ V J-/ UroncHltlu, Asthma and ail
Lung diseases positively cured, by Dr. Griffith's new dis
coven, Lvude Petroleum Pill.; Zactual teste
with this Remedy twenty cases out of twenty-five are
Packages of 100 Pills sent post-paid for SI.UO
Send stamp for full particulars. Address F C Gardmcb
Manufacture^Box 44, Oneouta, N. Y U ' U ’
TRUTH ** Bs,!oTXr^l^r
P ! * f-^t’RI PTI.OItN foYthe speedy and permanent
cure otticrofnla or Consumption sent to any
a HUMS for sl. Address R. J. BRITTAIN, M. D„ EsqT,
Lo.\ Att (twenty-nine), New Galilee. Beaver Cos., Pa.
C* Bkl f \ o BOOK of all the latest
nJ MB Lt Songs of the day, lOo.; sheet of
£■
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ation K ii p aduatc guaranteed a paving titu
anon. Address K. \ alentlne. Manager, Janesvflie Wls.
WANTED
Profit r ood. Outfit fre. PEOPLED TEA 00. 80x
U wH - 00 • * Btvttn Eatranm, St. Louis, |fa,
BBS • CUAAoii: ever ofiereu to make onrv
Sample, etc., free. Marshal] k Cos., LockDorLN V
$5 to S2O pejhome. Samples worth $5 ff e i
Address Stjxsqx a Cos., Portland. Main*'
C \*v. P**d for Endowment lutui-aiire
jPoUetc. Address P, Q, Box Q4.lfa£?£du“nn
$72 *| 2 “ da y t home easily made. Costly
™ Udfflt free. Address fnp. k (jo., Augusta, Maine
Fit EE I A Musical Journal. Add’. F. Brehm, ErieT P*
"plrfected' 8 butter co COR
Gives Butter the color the year round. The largest Batter Rnvers recom® CE(J vi'''
Thousands of Dairymen say IT IH PERFErT TThbA iJu F® rs " f^-orded
RHtioifhOllploma at N. Y. Dairy Fair. Ask VT® 4 ™^ 1 . 68 ; V
U ro.-ti. v. h. uses It. wkere to gYt
MR. ALBERT CROOKER, the well v
gist and apothecary, of Springvaie
vegTtlnf? onß troubled wuh
Read His Statemem.
BPutvdVAii:, Mg ro.. *
Mr. H. R. Stevens : ’’ U, m
Dear Sir—Fifteen years ago last f.n
sick with Rheumatism, was unable tow**
the next April. From that time until
ago this fall I suffered everything
tism. Sometimes there would A ‘l'b
that I could not step one step : th * ekl i,
quite often. 1 suffered evemhSj ***
could. Over three years ago 'last? h,t i'
menced taking VeUetinf. and foi'nS?* 1 1
I had taken se*en bottles - ha-e h,,> and : ! ;i
tism since that time. T alwav- .h a 110
hat is troubled with Rheumatism £ .
and not suffer for years as I *■
ttatement is gratuitous as far &. u “ Ci “- 1
concerned. Yours, etc., *’• Stt*
Firm of A. Crookor A
criok. WJJj
VEGETIXE
HAS ENTIRELY CtJBEBj,
Mb. H. R. Stevens : BosroH . Oct^i^
Dear Sir—My daughter, after
;.ttaOk of Whoopihg Cough, wus 1
ftate of health. Beiut advised ® *f*t|
tried the Veoetine, and after usim? . r
was fully restored to health, 5 * i6 *b?n
I have been a great sufferer from Ru
I havo taken several bottles of the v, ,s *k
tuis complaint, and am happy to sa v it s’ 1 *
cured me. I have recommended the
others with the same good results
cleanser and purifier of the blood • it J 1! *9
take and I can cheerfully recommend,,***•
JAMES MORSE, 364 Athene
“Vegetine,” says a Boston physicist,
equal as a blood purifier. Hearing 0 f„ *l
wonderful cures, after all other r™J* *
failed, I visited the laboratory and mm- 4
self of ita genuine merit, it 18 SSSSft
barks, roots and herbs, each of which i
effective, and they are compounded in
manner as to produce astonishing results 1
Yegeiine is Sold by all Drug*!*,
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FW fipfffi 1 political nows free from m 2
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Every iiuni' cr ■ •
HHBMH Mori tt A favorite family M|
'* tlj ° Cheapest Week v
75 cents a year. A do'.ia: ■, pri
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Chicago Wi;kklt Xin
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Directions accompany each Can for maklns BstH
I td Toilet Soap quickly.
IT IS FULL WEIGHT AED STREFS7I
The market Is flooded with (so-calledi
which is adulterated with salt and rosin, and "■
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OS 30 DAIS' IBS I
We will send our Electro-Voltaic &.
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with Nervoua MbQity and diseases </ •* psitT* 4
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