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SPONGES MADE TO ORDER.
wseTurk Who Does It and How it la
* Done.
From the Sew York Times.
In a dingy back room of a William street
importing house there is a Turk engaged in
aa interesting metamorphosis. He
itanis in a circle of great tubs filled with
jars-looking and foul-smelling stuff. There
are faint odors of chlorine, of oxalio and
muriatic acids, and of the salt sea air. The
little daylight tnat finds its way down past
tb 'e walls of the high surrounding buildings
and mto the rooms of this gloomy old
Mohammedan sees him day after day, year
after year, dippling into his liquids, mur
muring strange iuoantations over his tubs,
B nd turning, with a vigor not to be expected
in such a place, the cogs of a crooning in
strument closely resembling a kitchen
clothes wringer.
Xnere is a mystery and a weirdness about
all this that suggests a glimpse of an au
cieut astrologer, or perhaps of Balzac’s hero
In searohof the Alkahest. Yet Lite old man
is neither astrologer nor alchemist. He Is
edgaged in turning Florida sponges into
Mediterranean sponges, bringing Key West,
gsit were, in connection with the far-off
Syria.
The sponges which he handles are brought
to him from Key West iu 30-pound bales.
They are the direct result of the occupation
of a small army of fishermen who ply in
ind of that port in small vessels, four men
to a crew. When they have a load it is
dumped on the wharf and sold at auotlon to
the bigest bidder. The captain gets half
ztd the crew divide the remainder of the
proceeds among themselves. This Is co
operation in its primitive simplicity.
The sponges delivered at the William
street establishment are none of your light,
yillow and soft affairs. They are dark—
almost black—full of mud, sand and shells,
ami of a distinctly salty order. When they
arrive they are stored In a deep cellar in
order that they may retain tbeir dampness
until the magician is ready to transform
them.
Once in his hands, the change begins.
First the sponges are separated. The
"grass’ goes into one bln. the “sheop’s
wool” into another, and the "velvets” into
a third. “Grass” is the poor quality that
breaks apart easily. After it is cleaned it is
usually out into pieces about 3 inohas
square, which are sold at the rate of a oont
apiece, its largest purchasers being children
with slates to clean aud tidy housewives
with grease spots to erase.
Tbo ‘ sheep’s wool” is a much finer variety,
and it shares a better fate. It is first dip
ped mto one of a line of eight big tubs flllod
with heaven knows what. The Turk was
asked, but would not tell. He looked wiso
and said it was a secret. The bath does no
altar the color of the sponge, but it removes
the mud, sand, shells, and para me growths
in a surprising short time. One’s respeot
forthe6pongo increases tenfold when it
emerges from this bath, but it is still a very
sorry looking specimen, not at all the sort
of thing one would care to squeeze in a
bath.
From this tub it passed through a wringer
and thonce into a tub containing permanga
nate of potasb. This glve3 the sponge a
carious bright, brown color, and causes it
to swell with apparent pridp, altoough jn
reality it is the permanganate rather than
the pride whioh causes the swelling.
This done, there is another ringing and
another tub. the latter containing oxalio
and muriatic acids. Hore a singular chemi
cal change takes place. The sponge sinks a
bright brown. In less time than it takes to
write it it floats a pure white. This color is
cot a desirable one, however, as the real
Mediterranean sponge, which this one is to
be, is yellow. So there are more wringers
and more tubs, the last one containing car
inate of soda, which imparts to the "im
ported articlo” a rloh, golden hue, such as
only the most aristocratic member of the
Mediterranean sponge family could hope to
attain. Then it is trimmed with a big pair
of shears and hung up to dry. Finally it is
boxed, and on the oovers and sides of the
box there appear prominentlv, Otempora.'
O mores! the words "Greece,” or "Syria.”
or "Cyprus.”
AN UNDERTAKER'S GLOOM.
Business in Creede Mtnlng Camp Not
What Ho Expected.
From the Chicago Herald.
The first man to arrive in camp was a
follow of somber mien. Ills eyes wero deep
set and restless, his cheeks hollow and his
voice low and rumbling. But he was a
hustler. Within three days after his advent
he had a substantial one-story building
erected ou one of the finest sites of Jim
town. Across the front he spread the dole
ful legend: "Undertaking aud embalming
on the shortest notice." In the windows
wero neatly printed cards, setting forth
that all jobs would be "undertaken with
neatness and dispatch.” When his store
was opened it was noticed that bis voice had
lost much of its rumbling tone; that his
eyes were more tranquil and hia cheeks
looted as though they might fill out
with slight encouragement. Old-timers
gathered around, rubbing their hands
with satisfaction and warmly commended
bis enterprise. "You’ll get rich in no time,
partner,” they declared; "just wait till the
poppers start to pop.” Cheered by this
friendly comment he did wait. He is wait
ins still. Only one subject has passed
through his gloomy hands, and that was a
victim of disease and not of mining camp
•port. His big linen sign is getting dull;
bis Inviting show cards have lost their
•pruccness; the woodpecker taps not at all
tn his silent workshop, and he himself is
Jetting stooper in the shoulders and wasting
•way in the innocuous desuetude of his
tavorlte pursuit. The boys no longer come
•tnund to ohear him up. On the other hand
their eyes are uplifted to a more hopeful
•ign which adorns the cliff 800 feet above
lugubrious head. This advertisement
•ets forth that he has a rival of greater
versatility—one who undertakes to “furnish
Ev erything from the cradle to the grave"
•'id who is certain of some business between
these extremes of human vicissitudes.
B2ARCHING SUNKEN STEAMERS.
Enterprising Treasure Hunters Trying
to Reach the Baird and Arabia.
Kansas Citv, Mo., March 20.—A force
men from Argentine, in the employ of
tadshaw & Cos., is at work near Waverly,
about eighty-nine miles below here on the
fiver, on the wreck of the steamer Baird.
* he boat was sunk about 1858, and one item
its cargo was 300 barrels of whisky,
here were also many passengers in the
‘at and among them were people who had
cia out in the east and were emigrating
. ***■ About $5,000 in specie is said to be
p j f wo ,ron on the boat. The
aird had left St. Louis and was bound for
Th * l9n the aooident occurred,
r,® “isaouri river does not now run ex
ctiy in the channel that it did when the
alrdwas lost, and the spot where the wreck
es is not in the river itself. A sandbar
ormed around the old wreck. The bar
grew with the passage of years, and there
now a large accretion there. Work at
teavating wag begun Feb. 21, and is
{’ igrewing favorably. A caisson has been
' , ercd t° the old steamor’e upper works,
t” 6 water and sand is now being
r, „ D j out Bn< * t* lo wa Y to the hold is beiog
i ? rei y, ft”’ hoops of barrels were of wood
, **'• not rust out as iron hoops would.
v.j , ar K® lot of whisky is said to lie in tho
‘i or the Arabia, a magnificent steamer
l '“Winded by Capt. Terrill, that sunk be
* ar k villa about 1857.
0^ r, ”‘t deal of gold,said to be about $60,-
j ' " '[hoard a wreck which lies above
laii I’** 1 ’** ao, l below the mouth of the
river. An effort to recover this
t .a 4 '** *“ , but the high water pre
<j, j' ' 1 the consummation of the attempt,
ti * J *'’ u not lu the river, but is iu
n .. ‘‘'o'n land on the south bauk of the
11 is a'very old wreck, antedating
p‘ , '^ r two mentioned. The gold iseeid
'“dunged to a paymaster iu ths
■** hl *tvs army aud was iu iron chests.
SLAVERY IN NEW YORK.
All the Hotel and Restaurant Walters
Said to He Slaves.
From Kate Fir Id's Washington.
It will be a revelation to many to learn
that there are 20,000 waiters in New York
city alone, the majority of whom are French
and German, though many are Swiss and
Irish and some are English. Few were born in
this country, native Americans despising a
service which they coes.der degrading.
Why it should lie contiderel manly to
measure tape and unmanly to servo beef
steak and ooffee iu hotels and restaurants,
myjudgmert fails to discover. Of the
two trades I should prefer the latter as be
ing decidedly more virile, were waiters
treated as they should be bv tbeir employers.
Of this more anon. Because a man behind
a counter is called a clerk and a man in the
swallow tail of the dravriug room is called a
servant, tne former has no real advantage.
Both are servants. We are all servants.
We hear a great deal about the dives of
New York and how they should be sup
pressed. Nobody, unless he subscribes to
the Waiters' Journal, is aware of the un
licensed slave markets known as "Waiters’
Employment Saloons,” which are as much
worse than dives as dives are worse than
hotel barrooinj. No one need visit dives
against his will. It is a purely voluntary
act, while waiter* are forced to frequent
employment saloous in order to get a chance
to earn their bread and butter. Explain!
Certainly, dear reader.
Imagine yourself proprietor of a hotel or
restaurant, or manager of a club, and want
ing a staff of waiters. You first employe
head waiter and leave the rest to him. If
your bead waiter is exceptionally honest he
will engage his men by direct communica
tion. High-minded stewards are as rare os
high-minded men in other trades. The
average bead waiter league with some
keeper of a waiters' saloon, where he seeks
his underlings and finds them. Knowing
this, men who otherwise would uot go near
these dens are conipolled to hannt them,
and, in order ts> curry favor with their
masters, patronize the bar, that wives and
children may not sterve. Thus thousands
of families have been reduced to misery.
Let a waiter tell his own story:
“You know that Mr. Maderer is head
waiter with Bbickfuss at the Arlon, while
during dinner hours he works at Holtz &
Freitstedt’s. Last Sunday (Jan. 31) an af
fair was to come off at the Arion. for which
he needed not less than sixty to sixty-five
waiters, who were to be engaged at Georges’.
It was announced that the list would be
open on Thurrday. Asa matter of course,
it was neosssary to patronize the place a
week ahead. Many, I know, spent their
last pennies to make some impression on
Vampire Georges. Thursday arrived, the
place wa3 packed, and money seemed to
have no value. One had the impression
that he was among a herd of politicians be
fore eleotion. At length, when every one
had expended as much as he had a mind to,
all were told that the list would not be
made until the next day. Tho same story
on Friday. After everybody had spent his
hard-earned nickels, about forty were put
on the list. After all, everything would
have been well and good if only this mons
ter of a man—Georges—had put ail of them
on the list. But no, just those who are the
poorest, some of them not knowing how to
give food to their families when thay come
home in the evening, just those men were
made to come again on Saturday and spend
their last pennies, and then, after they had
paid their tribute to that devil in human
shape, were told that a telegram had come
to tho effect that ten men lees were wanted.
My heart bled when 1 saw these poor
wretches walk to tho door, disappointed in
their hope aud deeply embittered, yet una
ble to tell their minds to the rascal.
“Another of the same stripe is Fritz
Ziegler, Ninth street and Stuyvesant place,
who had an order for the Liederkranz for
Saturday, but wo hope will not get another.
Five of us called ou this fellow last Wednes
day. After each of ns had paid two ‘rounds’
—of course Fritz al ways joins, so that wo
spent (10 cents each—he told us to call again
Thursday. Thursday came around and
brought us the same story, ‘Call again to
morrow.’ Then came Friday. ‘Fritz, will
you have a drink! 1 With an abominable
grin on his faco ho declared his readiness,
‘certainly.’ After we had paid our drinks
we asked about the work, He said: ‘Half
of the order has been taken away from me
and gone to the west side. But you may
call to-morrow, ond in case one or another
man should be wanting, you have the first
show.’ ”
I appeal to Mayor Grant to free an honor
able class of oitizens from an awful bond
age.
A VERY OLD WATCH.
Some Persona Say It la the Oldest
Watch In the World.
From the St. Louis Republic.
Seth LoDgabaugh, a prospector and mine
owner of Butte, has in his possession proba
bly one of the most valuable relics in the
world. It is a timeplsce la the shape of a
watch, and hearing the name and date of
"Joseph Davis, 1221.” The genuineness of
the article Is unquestioned, and its great
value lies in the fact that the earliest record
of a pocket timepiece is of 1404 and of Swiss
make. Tho Davis watch has been an heir
loom of tho Swan family for nearly 200
years. It finally came into tho possession
of Frank Swan, one of the family, who
lives in Nevada. He did not appreciate the
value of the watch an l gave it to his chil
dren to play with, and when Longabaugb
first saw it about fourteen years ago the
bands had been broken off and one of tbo
three cases within whioh the works were
enclosed was lost.
He recognized its value anil secured it
from Swan. The watch was examined by
Mr. Tucker, the San Francisco jeweler,
and, after making researches, he pronounced
it genuine. More recently Hight & Fair
field of Butte made a search into the misty
past, but the earliest date they could find in
the existence of watches was in 1300.
The ivatoh in question doubtless repre
sents the labor ot many years, as it as
made early by hand, and the tool marks
throughout all its parts are plainly visible,
and tne watch was probably tho on'y one
made by Mr. Davis of London. The
machinery consists of a large Steel balauce
wheel, which works with a pendulum like a
lever, and in place of the modern hairspring
is a long steel chain which w inds and un
winds upon a pulley. Another large wheel,
the purpose of which Is uot apparent, looks
like a belt wheel on a threshing machine.
The works are protected and held togethgr
by a fine ornamental net work of brass
carved out by band and held together oy
brass rivets, whioh show plain hammer
marks.
On the back of the works is a polished
steel face similar to the second dial on a
modern watch, but with the figures run
ning from Ito 6. The object of it has
never been figured out by any of the jewel
lers who have examined it. The face of the
watch is of polisbod steel, and the hours are
marked by raised Homan numerals.
Around the edge of the face are figures
from 5 to 60 to represent either seconds or
minutes. In the center of the dial is the
British coat-of-arms in raise 1 brass, con
sisting of the orown, lion and unicorn. The
whole works are enclosed In a silver hemi
sphere, tho silver being hammered and
sbapened by hand, the indentures of the
hammer showing distinctly. On the out
outslde of the silver case is another of ham
mered brass, and tho evidence is plain that
at one time there was still a third case on
tbo outside of these two.
The watch was wound up with some
kind of a key, the keyhole being protected
by a rude trap or sliding door. The watch
has a stem nearly 2 iuohes long, with a ring
on the end large enough to hitch a horse to.
The stem is of solid silver and in the middle
Is nearly half worn away, whioh alone Is a
slight indication of Its extreme ago. The
watch is said to have been in runnlug order
up to about twenty year* ago. It weigh*
about four ouuoes, aud in shape look* like
a baseball cut lu halves. Mr. Lmgabaugh
ha* at different time* been offered several
small fortunes for bis retie, but be says It is
not for sal"- Ha will Lave it on exhibition
at the world’* fair.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, MARCH 24. 1892.
REMARKABLE BEAR BTORY.
A Beast That Started a Locomotive
and Blew the Whistle.
From the Sew York Sun.
When the C. F. and W. W. railroad was
built, years ago, four milee of the track
passed through an unbroken pieoe of foreet
known locally at the Bear Den Woods. The
name was due to the fact that a seamed and
rocky ledge, extending diagonally across
the wild stretob, was a favorite lodging
place for bears, which were numerous in
that region then, and, in fact, still hold
their own there in numbers sufficient to be
a source of much annoyance to the farmers
who strive for a living on tho borders
of the woods. The road con
nected Chilton Forks with the settle
ment’s at Wigton’s Willows, a distance
of twenty-eight milee, and was built to
develop the timber and coal resources of
the region. I was the engineer of the con
struction train during the building of the
road, and it was a common sight to see
bears ooine out of the woods at frequeut
points along the line and inspect with
ludicrous cuiioeity the strange work that
was going on in their domain. We got so
we didn’t mind them anv more than we
might so many pigs grunting along the
tracx. and whenever auy of us thought we
only had to keep our eyes cut for some
bear that suited us as to size aud condition
and put a rifle ball in him.
That was the most peculiar country for
hard and sudden wind and thunder storms
1 ever saw. They would come up suddenly
and sweep over those woods with appalling
and often disastrous fury, as the great
areas of down timber here and there were
unmistakable evidences of. The railroad
was completed toward the end of the sum
mer, and a day was sot for running the
first train over it from Chilton Forks to the
Willows. There was a long trestle a mile
west of Gravely’s station, which carried
the road over a ravine that was mure
than a hundred feet deep. The track
went onto the trestle from a very sharp
curve, and the trestle was not entirely fin
ished, so that no train or engine could yet
be run over it with safety, except with very
slow and careful motion. In my judgment
I thought the officers of the company fool
hardy to run a train across the trestle, no
mat or how slowly or carefully, until the
workmen had completed its bracing and
supports, and I did not covet the engineer
wh<> was to run the train the honor of it.
The day tho train was to be run the sec
tion foreman discovered that a piece of
track near the eastern extremity of the Bear
Den Woods would be bettered considerably
by a little more filling in and ballasting,
and as everybody on the work had to be a
sort of general utility man, he sent my fire
man and me with a car load of gravel to
bolster up the weak spot. Tho job was a
bigger ouo than it was thought, and when
we hail finished tho work it was almost time
for the excursion train to be oomlng along.
Iu fact, we bad heard the locomotive
whistling at Cherry Hun, two miles
east of us. We had also heard the
mutterings cf one of those fierce
storms that were common in the
region. By the time we had got on the en
gine and were preparing to pull out for
Gravely’s the storm came howling down
' worse than any I had seen since 1 had been
on tho road. We oould hear the trees crash
ing down before it, and as I jumped in the
cab a big limb from a hemlock came swoop
ing square on the engine, and pinned me
down between the tender and the cab, and
held me there as if I were in a vise. The
fireman had stepped up on the coal in the
tender, and the samo fearful gust that bore
the limb down on me caught him and
whipped him out of the tender as if be had
been a bundle of straw, aud 1 heard him
drop in the brush off to one side of the
traok. He didn’t come baok, end I
supposed he was killed. There I
lay, perfectly helpless, and know that
the train, with all tho officers,
of the road and tbeir friends aboard, was
booming along, and that in less (than two
minutes it must come dashing at full speed
upon my engine. The inevitable result of
such a catastrophe was terrible to think
about. The storm was now raging fright
fully through the woods. Trees were fall
ing on every side, and 1 could almost feel
my hair turning gray. As I lay there,
struggling to free myself, a bear, terror
stricken by the awful commotion in the
woods, and hurrying to escape from its
fury, come climbing into tho cab, and
stumbling over the butt of tho heavy limb
that pinned me to the floor, tumbled against
the furnace door. The bear scrambled to
bis feet and went pawing wildly about in
the oab. But I gave no thought to
the bear, for, mingling with the
tumult of the storm, I heard the
rumble and tremor of the approaohing train
on the rails. Suddenly I beard a familiar
click, and Instantly the engine started for
ward with a bound. I turned my head and
looked at the lever. The bear, in bis aim
lAss clutcning about in the cab, bad caught
it with his paws and had ‘pulled her wide
open.’ The track was down grade all the
way to Gravely’s, and, great heaven I
how we flow 1 The excursion train was
right behind us, I knew, and in a fow
seconds more would have crashed into my
engine. But that groat horror was
escaped, and, although I was pinned
down by the limb and had a bear for a
pilot, I almost fainted with joy. Down
that grade we flew like the wind that was
howling all around us. The thumping and
rolling of tho locomotive seemed to make
the bear wild with excitement, and he
pranced about in tho cao like a crazy per
son. Then of a sudden the sharp curve and
tho dangerous trestle beyond Gravely’s
flashed across my mind. At‘the rate we
were going, even if we rounded the curve
all right, we would strike that trestle at a
mile a minute, and down we should go to
tho bottom of that ravine, 100 feet below.
With this new horror fresh upon mo, tho
engine flashed out of the woods into the
open country .Just a mile and a half more to
the trestle, and I couldn’t see how anything
on earth could save us. Ab we tore by the
little station at Gravoly’s the bear, in; his
prancing and clutching, caught sight of the
whistle cord. That excited his curiosity,
and he seized it and gave it a lusty pull.
The whistle responded with a shriek that
startled even me. Its effect on the bear was
electric. He tumbled over backward and
fell across the butt of the limb that held me
down.
His weight tipped it up, and lifted the
other end off of me. The bear roiled out
of the cab to the ground, and I was freed
from the limb. 1 crawled to the lever, re
versed it, and fainted. When 1 came to I
was lying on the ground with men around
me. The pilot of the looomotive was half
its width of the trestle.
It has always been a sorrow in my life
that the bear that saved my life and the
lives of many others that day was killed by
his fall from the cab. My fireman was
badly hurt by bis sudden voyage through
the air, but lived to run many a trip with
me on the old C. F. and W. W.
Thebe exists In some pans of South Dakota
Colorado and Texas a singular variety of grass
called the "sleepy grass." When in a fresh,
green Btaie, this plant is strongly charged with
narcotic propensities, so much so that horses
and cattle grazing it are thrown into profound
sleeD.
LOCKS.
Good
Until Used!
That’s the history of the worthless locks
with small keys that some people confuse
with the“YALE.” The genuine “YALE”
lock, like genuine love, laughs at lock
smiths, and stands the world over for
the greatest convenience, the greatest
strength, and the greatest security. He
sure you get the genuine, by being sure
that the word “YALE" is stamped on
every Key, Sold wherever lock* sell.
THE TRAMP PARLIAMENT.
It la Now la Annual sesa on Near At
tleboro, Mass.
Fi om the Setts York Press.
Attleboro, Mass., March 17.-Forty
unwashed tramps with ragged clithes and
unkept hair are assembled in ''invention in
the woods near Hebronville, close to the
Rhodo Island line. It is tne fifteenth con
secutive year thatthis strange gathering has
been held. No one knows why they con
vene or what topics they discuss. They re
main In session there three or four weeks
and then scatter, to reassemble a year later.
While they are in the neighborhood, how
ever, the people for miles ar >und have to
keep close watch on all portable articles.
The leader of tne convention, or “the
hoes,” as he is called by his fellow tramps, is
quite a character, in the first place, he has
a splendid physique, being fully six feet tall
and weighing probably 200 pounds. His
face, though dirty and needing a razor, has
a refined expression that contrasts greatly
with his surroundings. He has handsome
blue eyes, wnose kindly expression gives
evidence of a naturally high character, a
rather high forehead, surrounded by curl
ing brown hair. His hands are incased in
ragged kid gloves, mismated, and yet it is
easy to see their aristocratic shapeliness.
When the fellow spoke his voice was soft
and gentle. He was evidently a man of
education, for, barring a few slang expres
sions, his language was most courteous and
gentlemanly.
He was not dispoesd to give a great deal
ot information in regard to this gathering.
He said it was an annual affair, and the
delegates, who would number forty-five,
were due Maroh 15. but all of them had not
yet arrived.
He said that his position as chief, or "boss”
of the order, entitled him to tho exclusive
use of the small hut which bad been erected
on the ground, while the others camped out
around the fire. A few years ago officers
from this town made a raid on the camp and
arrested a number of the met, at tho same
time securing considerable property which
bad been stolen in the immediate vicinity.
ONE DRINK AND THEN DEATH.
Wanted to Throw Dice Standing on
the Brink of Eternity.
From the Sew York Press.
Akron, 0., March 17,—0n the very brink
of the grave, with tho knowledge that death
was in a few minutes to be his portion,
Clifton Wright proposed to Saloonist
Broughmau to shake dice for his last drink.
This was at a late hour last night. Wright
had walked into the saloon, called for a
glass of seltzer and had poured into his glass
a large quantity of chloral hydrate, enough
to kill four men. He drank the mixture,
and, calmly announcing that he would be
dead in live minutes, proposed tho dioe
game. Three minutes afterward he became
confused, put his hands convulsively to his
head and fell to tho floor.
Two years ago ho married a Miss Berth
of Bowling Green, ICy. A week ago she
left him without a word. Y r esterday ho re
ceived notico that divorce proceeding would
bo begun. His rash act was tho result. He
was a traveling salesman, handsome, gifted
and widely known.
NO GROOM HOVE IN BIGHT.
After Waiting Hours Wedding Guests
Sad'y Return to Their Homes.
Lima, 0., March 20. — Yesterday wedding
guests gathered to witness the marriage of
George Craig and Miss Bertha Evans. The
wedding supper had been prepared, the
bride was attired in her wedding dress, and
the only essential to complete the carrying
out of the arrangements was the presence
of the groom.
Tho hour camo, but the groom did not.
Nothing very strange was thought of his
absence, as it was supposed that he had
been belated for a short time. Minutes
grew into hours and the guests became un
easy. After waiting tor several long hours
they wore compelled to repair to their re
spective homos in disappointment.
Tho failure of the young mau to appear
has almost crazed bis aillanoed. Mr. Craig
is a young man of moral and quiet habits
and his strauge disappearance can not be
comprehended.
In 1430 A. D., after nineteen years of ceaseless
labor and an expenditure of about £BOO,OOO, the
Chinese government finished the* wonderful
porcelain tower at Nankin, which stood for
nearly four and a quarter centuries, until 1856,
the most marvelous building ever erected hy
human hands. It was of octagonal form, 260
feet in hight, with nine stories, each having a
cornice and a gallery without.
' MEDICAL.
; “ WORTH A GUINEA A BOJLT ;;
;; (Tasteless—Effectual.) :
, i FOB ALL ! i
•BILIOUS and NERVOUS::
: disorders,
;! Such as Sick Headache, Ij
jj Weak Stomach, jj‘
Impaired Digestion, j
Constipation, |
]> Liver Complaint,
j | and Female Ailments. |
; I Covered with a Tasteless & Soluble Coating, s
] | Of all druggists. Price 28 cents a box. J
UNew York Depot. *6* Canal St. #
1 ie*
H AKDWARH.
Garden Hose.
GARDEN TOOLS.
GARDEN TILE.
FOR SALE BY
Edward Lovell's Sons,
155 BROUGHTON STREET.
CORSET*.
feR STROUSE ft fe MfftS4l2 BfWAY^
1 ■ ■■
jriNK DINK OB’
GAS FIXTURES AND GLOBES
AT #
L, A. MCCARTHY’S,
4.0 DRAYTON tBC.
______ COLLARS AND CUFFS
-sTHI@:
a ad
'TRADE/ \MARK.
im / \ e
On a Shirt Collar or Cuff means that it
is made of selected Linen from the cel
ebrated factories of County Down, Ire
land, and that it will be sure to give
absolute satisfaction.
FALK CLOTHING CO..
SOLE AGENTS FOE
COUNTY DOWN MANUFACTURING CO.
FURNITURK AND CARPETS.
COLOMBIA PNEUMATIC.
People will ride Pneumatics, and they want a
machine that has all the good points that a machine
ought to have. We guarantee, without any fear of
contradiction, that in the
“CENTURY,”
MADE BY THE
POPE MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
WE OFFER YOD
The Most Comfortable Machine
That is Made,
And for BEAUTY OF DESIGN AND FINISH there
is nothing outside of our store that can touch it. It
has the full guarantee of the manufacturers and our
selves. Don’t forget that we are offering you the
largest and best line of wheels in the city, and are
giving the most liberal terms to parties wanting to
buy on the installment plan. Have a full stock on
hand. Come and see us. Get prices and terms on
wheels as well as on
FURNITURE AND CARPETS.
We have on hand the nicest attachment for windows to keep children
from falling out that you have ever seen.
Wall Papers Slaughtered
* HOTELS.
PULX SK I IT O USEr
SAVANNAH, <GA.,
MW MANAGEMENT j fi gStGf, } PKO,R,E r ° R ’
(FORMERLY OF THE BROWN HOUBE, MACON, GA.)
This Hotel has bean renovated and put in first-class order in every particular. All the latest
conveniences and modern improvements, Special accommodations for tourists.
CTT' V-Ty r-n J ONE OF THE - MOST ELEGANTLY AP
POINTED HOTELS IN THE WORLD. AC
'llto OOMMODATIONB FOR 500 OITEBTB.
\# p* t Hpeoial rate* for families and partiea remaJa
_ „ *y£ r * — ■ /* ing week or longer.
M W ~ l \ Tourints will And Savannah one of the most
a M VAfciValntereetlng aud beautiful oitioa in the entire
South. No place more healthy or desirable as a
A rbW£,R/: Winter resort. Send for
DESCRIPTIVE ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET! 1 .
DRY GOODS.
Have you seen our Black Goods this season?
LOOK AT OUR BLACK CHINA SILK AT 40c A YARD.
New line of Black Drapery Nets aud Silk Grenadines
Children’s White and Colored Silk Moll Hats.
SPECIAL.
Will sell this week the celebrated LYONS 26 inch
Gloria Umbrellas with Fancy Wood Handles at sl. 87,
worth $2 <SO.
JOHN G. BUTLER,
WHITE LEADtS, COLORH. OIUI, OLABB,
VARNISH. ETC. ; HEADY MIXED
FAINTS; KAII.KOAD. KTKAMtiI AND MILL
SL'ITUKH; BABIIEB. DOOHB. BLINDS AND
BUILDS wr Hardware. Role Agent for
Ladd umk, calcined plabtkk, cement,
HAIR AND LAND PLASTER.
140 (Jungrae* street aad !W St. Jukau street
ba.aauab, Uourgla,
fua mu oxbtkkv
ESTABLIBHED 1?M.
M. M. Sullivan & Son,
Wholesale Full and Oyster Dealers,
150 Bryan *t. and 151 Bay laue, Saeauaab, (la
Flali order* for Puuta Uorde reoejved here
Sere prompt etteuUuu.
HOSE AND ROPE.
Portal Forps,
lever Blower*.
Dpiiilt Sell-Feed Drills.
Liiltiiii Screw Plates.
Iron Pipe aid Filtinp.
Palmer Hardware Cos
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE.
GRANITE,
Either dimension work or crushed atone.
SAND OR BRICK
In train or carload lota.
WFBICEa ON APPLICATION.
J.F. BOBBITT, JR..G.F.A, City.
ICE.
'•A thing of PURITY la a joy forever” In tha
matter of ICE. Such la
the mm icr
Buy It, and enjoy the hot weather. Loos at
tbla epace next week for our prloea, haven't got
room to put them In tbla time.
The florrie Ice Mannfaetaring Company.
DRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
STRAW! STRAW!
STRAW I
Four hundred tone doe clean, bright atraw In
small bales.
Texas R. P. Oats, Seed Rye, Hay,
Corn and Oats, Our Own Cow
Peed, Cotton Seed MeaL
T. J. DAVIS,
156 Buy Strewt.
Solo Agent for Orsno Manhattan Food. *
MACHINERY.
McDoßODgli tS BaQaotjac^
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Boiler Makers aid Blacksmith*
namiriCTcnnaa or
STATIONARY AND PORTABLE ENGINES,
VERTICAL AND TOP RUNNING OORN
MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
AGENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, the
simplest and moat effective on the market:
Uullett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the
btet In the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Bend foe
PrlosLlst.
Ah With Evorythlhg Else,
80 ALSO WITH BHOKB.
The quality determines the value. A bad
shoe Is dear at any prloe. Our object Is to give
the beet velue for the least money, and this we
do Weptokupno job lots or auction truck,
and, consequently do not pese off suoh stuff on
our patrons as straight goods. All of our shoea
are made by leading manufacturers. Don't be
misled by catch4rap statement*.
UEIL * QUINT,
M Laniard Street.
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