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A CURIOUS TRADE.
Hnimllai for Valuables—Some of tlio
Thing* That are Rronttlil to (ho Surface.
A Now York paper prints tnc follow-
inn interview with a man wbo makes a
living by grappling for valuables in the
East river:
“Yes, sir, I’m a grapplor and searcher
for lost valuables, and though perhaps
I shouldn’t say it, no man about the
harbor is as sure of finding a ring,
watch, cane, body, billiard table, piano
or anything else that lies nt the bottom
of the river as I am. For wty ? Simply
because I’m the son of Henry Linesburg,
who was for fifty years acknowledged
to be the best wrecker, grappier and
searcher in America. My father dug
all the East river ferry slips; raised
36,000 bars of railroad iron that was
sunk off Whitmore’s stores; recovered
no end of anchors that were supposed
to be lost; made $50 an hour for twenty
hours at a stretch by fishing up eighty-
four iron plates, weighing 1,400 pounds
each, that were made lor the first iron
monitor by Delamatcr, and died la
mented by many. lie nnd nn ancient
head, he had—an ancient head. I’m
his son."
Mr. Linesburg paused to get a light
from the stove of his small shop in Til
lary street, Brooklyn, where he was
talking with the reporter, and then
leaned back in his chair with the ex
pression of a man who had thoroughly
defined his social status nnd feels that it
is unimpeachable. He is rather small,
but sinewy and lough in appearance,
and speaks deliberately nnd quietly,
and looks directly in the eye of a person
when speaking. Not an old man by any
means, but one whose life has been one
of exposure and hard work from child
hood.
“ I’ve been in the profession of grap
plin’ sinoo I was a wee skid under my
father,” he oontinued. “nn’ have beon
in the business myself for twenty years
You’ve heard of my skill. It ain’t skill
so much as ’tis knowledge. You may
think it strange, but I know every hole,
crevice, rock or notch in the bottom of
the East river from Corlear’s hook to
the Battery, an’ along the Hudson to
Spuyten Duyvil creek. If you drop a
three-cent piece overboard 111 find it for
you: likewise an anchor."
“ You must have brought some queer
things to light in your time."
“Must IP True, I must. I have.
A good many years ago Captain Jacobs,
of the Second precinct, notified me to
come and see him. ‘ Linesburg,’ he sez,
’look lor a stiff.’ ‘A mystery,’ sez I.
‘ Ded mystery,’ says lie. I began next
day at dawn, an’ within three hours I
found a coffee bag at the foot of Little
street, Brooklyn In the coflce bag was
the right leg and thigh of a woman. She
had been quartered, nnd I found one
quarter. That was all. It's a mystery
yet. and I have no moro idea of its so
lution than a babe unborn. Nor do I
know how Captain Jacobs enmo by tho
information that made him set me on
tho search. The other three-quarters
were never found. They must have
been burned or buried, lor they were
nowhere in the harbor."
“Might-”
“No, they mightn’t bo in the harbor,
for I looked. That settles it. My father
(now dead) once found a box of com
plete burglar’s tools jn the New York
Tho Thrift of the French.
The sense of economy and thrift of the
French people, writes a correspondent of
the London 7'ime.i, is especially striking
to those who have lived much in other
countries. Nearly everybody possesses
something in i his country. If anybody
does not, you may lie pretty sure it is
bis own fault. Love of economy often
verges on avarice. Go into any house
in Paris, question the servants, and you
may be certain that almost every one of
them has-some small treasure in the
shape of cash or bonds. It is the saving
of every day. The old servant in the
house will often consult his master how
he is to employ his money.
The iicad servant ot a private house
here, who lias often filled my glass at
the table, lias saved enough to bring
him $3.5CO a year He has been for
twenty-five /ears in the same situation
and does his .’utv as strictly as lie did
the first day of his service. He seldom
goes out, never taken nnytliine betwee n
his meals, and all lie sains is carefully
put aside. I have met with so many
examples that I am bound to believe
this thrift to be the rule. A careful
observer, who had occasion to mix with
the middle classes of France, will be
even more struck by the qualities I have
indicated.
The whole mode of living is made sub
servient to the children; the baby lias
hardly seen daylight before the patents
are already sa mg for him. Every child’s
future is provided for at his cradle by
the earnest efforts of his parents, and it
iu rarely their fault if they do not sue-
cecd. There is a curious exception to
this nlmoso general rule—the workman
the artisan. Here you find many, and
especially the better paid, in towns and
cities, who have not preserved the good
qualities of their fellow-countrymen.
Hero you find drunkenness, improvi
dence, and witli them communism.
8till it may confidently be declared that
these nre a small majority.
The law obliging a Frenchman to
divide most of his possessions (qually
among his children makes it impossible
to keep up large properties, nnd hold
ings of land get steadily smaller. Tho
Btnte, moreover, levies duties on every
change of owneiship, rnn»ing, accord
ing to consanguinity, lrom three to
eleven per cent. This great division of
propert y does not depreciate the value
of land—quite the contrary; and this
may be explained by the craving every
Frenchman line for a bit of land. What
with the law of inheritance nnd the sav
ing qualities of tho people, the money
must find Its way into the mnrket nnd
credit geta democratized. All having
some money, hut often not much of it,
all try to get ns much out of it as pos
sible. To these causes may be attributed
the extreme elasticity of trench credit
nnd the power of French enterprise
Snlclde.
slip of the Fulton ferry, and you may
! beauties.
take my word for it they weie
I never saw a more elegant nnd finished
kit in my life. Tho find created a big
excitement among the police at the
time, as it was hoped that it would lead
to the conviction of a gang of burglars
that bad crossed the ferry the night be
fore. It didn’t. It was only a mystery.
“I've picked up more women along
the river than you can shake a stick at.
Looking for a diamond ring that some
lady had dropped overt oard, and find
some lady that a ring had—or no—that
won’t twfot exactly—but I’ve found an
awful sight of females in this old har
bor. They kinder take to the water,
you know, and when I find one I tow it
gently to a dock and tie it fast, nnd
then notify the police. The police take
her to the morgue, she is ouried in Pot-
Memory.
ing more A gold n riuory is universally nc •
common, not. in England only, but all knowledges to be a most va uable men
over the civilized world. During the tftl possc . 5g j on hut like manv otbo
last two or three years there havo been g ii t8 of t orluae llm qually distribu
spocial causes at work—failures in trade
agricultural depression, and commercial
losses—which have tended to drive men
to suicide in over-increasing numbers.
But the number of suicides is annually
increasing in all civilized countries.
Professor Bertillon, of Paris, in his
“Ann'les <le Dumographie Interna
tionale,” gives some curious details on
this subi ct. and Professor Morselli. the
eminent Italian economist, indorses
them i 8 correct. Men are everywhere bo-
eomingmoro weary oftlio burden of life
That su cides are increasing in muu-
bev, in gri nter proportion than the popu-
ation of the United States, appears to
be provided by the statistical tables re
cently published. The population,
however, is increasing so last in the
States that it is not easy to form accu
rate comparisons. One would think it
ought not to be so—that is, in a coun
try of promise, where food and labor are
abundant,the suicidal trenzy ought to be
diminishing annually instead of in
creaking.
Authorities on sanitation and vital
statistics tell us that, of late years, life,
the average human lite, has been con
siderably prolonged by greater attention
to the means of preserving health; yet,
concurrent with this improvement,
there is a greater imr alienee of life
itself, and a greater desire to escape its
burden. Women are less prone to com
mit suicide in Europe than men. and
ext nsive investigation on the subject
lias convinced Signor Morselli that the
tendency to suicide increases with age
more strongly amongst the unmarried
and widowed than amongst the married
of both sexes.
The Americans themselves attribute
the number of suicides to t heir “high
and fine ncrv«us orgnnizxtion,” so su
perior to anything to be found in
Europe. This, however, ought to tell
as much against, ns in lavor of, suicidal
attempts. The “ high and fine nervous
organizai ion," if easily depressed, will
ensi ly recover and gain its tone. Excce-
slve elation *s ns bad as excessive do
presslrn. There are many instances,
well authenticated, of joy causing in
sanity, and subsequent self-d
—Philadelphia hem.
iestruction.
Tgl
tors Field, ana there’s an end ol it •
Lord I what books and books of mys
teries.”
“ How do you find the smaller
articles P"
“ Several days ago a well-known
merchant in Fulton street, Brooklyn,
named Jewell, fell over the forwurd
chain of a Catharine ferry boat. As he
fell, his watch, which was very valu
able, jumped from his pccket. the tur
quoise shell chain broke and the watch
rolled into the river. I went down to
the slip in a rowboat and dropped a
“ How to Get Married."
In the course of a lecture before the
Young Men's Christian association of
Utica, tho other evening, upon the sub
ject of “ How to Get Married," tho
reverend lecturer said: Every man
wants a wife, and every woman wants a
husband. Such is the unwritten law
ol human nature. In obedience to tuis
law men and women are found marry
ing the world over. People want to
marry, and marry they will, a some
body if they can, a nobody il they must.
This hRS been and must bo to the end
of time, whether tho world grows bet
ter or worse—wiser or more foolish.
Mnrringe was instituted in the Garden
of Eden. God saw that it was not fit
for man to live alone, and ho lie formed
a helpmeet tor him. In regard to the
first marriage tho speaker had no theory
of his own, but gave a number of those
he had read.
The speaker omphasizod the fact that
marriage is God’s great law of happi
ness in this world, and wherever aflcc-
tion, inuustry and virtue guard tho do
mestic hearth, it never fails of producing
the highest felicity men and women
can know in this world. Bishop Taylor
says: “If you arc for pleasure, marry ;
a good wile is heaven’s last best gift to
a man, his angel of mercy, minister of
graces innumerable, his gem ot many
virtues, iiis casket of jewels.” Old
Bistiop Taylor had, a forcible way of
putting tilings, but in tuis case his
language is theexptession of the world's
best experience. Home, family, society,
civilization and happiness radiate from
the sacred ordinance of marriage.
True nmrri ge is of the heart, sanctioned
by civil enactments and rolisious cere
monies. The lecture was well received
throughout.
clapped it into sweet oil, and sent it
back to its owner. The tongs aro just
like oyster grapplers, only liner, and I
knew the tide swept all heavy articles
into that hole when the ebb set in.”
the
that
A Child With a Dog’s Head.
A Pittsburg correspondent of
S ncinnati Commercinl asserts
ere is a singular freak of naturo near
Greensburg, Pa., which Lasnevcr hoen
made public. There is a family residing
near there whioh has a child that was
born in human form, with the excep
tion that the child had a dog’s head on
its body. It is now in its twelfth year,
hale and hearty, but barks like a dog.
The family served, nt the time of its
birth, a death warrant on the doctor at
tending, and a neighbor woman, who
had called in for the occasion, stating
that they would be killed if they ever
revealed the misfortune. There are five
other children in the family, who are
all perfect and intelligent. How this
fact reached the ear of the reporter, is
that a party who was on his
way to Colorado revealed it to him just
before departing. He said he visited
the house one day on business, but
found the parents out and the children
were too small to explain intelligently
their whereabouts. In looking about
the house to see whether they were in
any. oi the rooms, be chanced to open
the door of the room in which the mon
strosity was confined; after taking a
good look at it he was about to close
the d°° r when the parents came in an
other door. The father immediately
drew a revolver upon the man, and
there maue him promise never to reveal
the fact, or then and there meet his
death, He answered in the afiirmative,
and there learned that the mother a few
months before the birth of the chi Id had
visited a neighboring family who had a
ferocious aeg, which attacked her. The
family says that no one living has ever
seen the child but the doctor and female
attendant upon its birth and themselves.
*- rhi3 ma( j e their whole life a
The matter
torture, and while they have prayed
daily for its death it continues to remain
healthy. It barkB occasionally and
raises quite a furore in the room, but
to prevent the public from suspecting
anything they qpnstantlv keep several
dogs about the) place. The family are
well-to-do, and own quite a valuable
farm.
In a paper on t he cost of the Franco-
German war M. de Foville estimates
that the German loss was: Killed on ti e
held, 18,6:3; died from wounds 11,516;
died of disease, 12,301; missing, 4,009-
total, 46.499. The wounded amounted
127,867. On the French
side the number of dead from all causes
was 137,871, and the wounded amounted
to 143,066. In addition the cost in
money is estimated at $3,500,000,000.
John Chinaman in the Censns.
Outside of San Francisco John China
man has not honored the country to nny
great expense by his presence. Tho last
census enumeration makes the following
exhibit touching John and Mr. IIow
How: New York city had 747 Chinese in
habitants and 44 Indians at tho time of
enumeration; Chicago. 174 Chinese and
one Indian; New Jersey, 176 Chinese
and 14 Indians; New Hampshire 1
Chinaman and 23 Indians; South Caro
lina, 9 Chinese and 110 Indians: Massa
chusetts, 237 Cliin»se and 341 Indians;
Connecticut, 124 Chinese nnd 26 Indians;
Vermont 3 Indians and 5 half-breods;
North Carolina. 16 Indians; Philadel
phia, 80 Chinese and 25 Indians; Balti
more. 4 Chinese nnd 9 Indians; Georgia-
15 Chinese, 44 Indians nnd lmlf-
breeds and 1 Albino; Utah Ter
ritory, 501 Chinese, 804 Indians
and half-breeds and 17 East In
dians and half-breeds; Oregon, 9 506
Chinese, 2 Japanese nnd 1,670 Indluns
and half-brecda; Missouri, 30 Chinese
and 2 half-Chinoso; Minnesota. 10
Chinese; Maine, 8 Chinese nnd 607 In
dtans and half breeds; Montnna, 17J
Chinese and 1,751) Indians and half-
breeds; Pennsylvania, outside of Phi la
dolphin, 20 Chinese; Nebraska. 18
Chinese; Kentucky, 10 Chinese; Flor
ida, 18 Chinese; Louisiana, 473 Chinese
and 8 half Chinese; Alabama,4 Chinese;
Arkansas, 134 Chinese; Georgia, 17
Chinese; Colorado. 010 Chinese; Iowa,
47 Chinese; West Virginia, 14 Chinese;
California. 75,025 Chinese, 294 Japanese
and hnlf-brecds, 2 East Indians nnd 1
Sandwich Islander; Idaho, 3,378
Chinese and only 164 Indians and half-
breeds; Michigan, 27 Chinese; Texas,
4 Chinese; Ohio, 17 Chinese, outside of
tho cities of Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Toledo, scattered about in the rural
counties.—Chicago limes.
lid Clever p< ople may lack the power
of r< memheriiig matters outside their
peculiar studies, while less gifted indi
viduals can rocall trifling events after a
lapse of years. We suppose that most
people recollect best what attracts them
most, after the fashion ot the old High
lander, who, when his minister compli
mented him on his wonderful memory,
replied that he “could only recollect
tbinva that interested him, and if lie lis-
toned to a sermon for an hour he could
newer .recall a woid of it afteward.”
Others, besides tlib old soldier, Lave
found their memory a capricious hand
maid, who prefers to select her ownb ir-
den to carry down the stream of time.
Scott lemirks how tenaciously unim
portant tniles cling to tho recollection,
while things we desire to preserve pass
into oblivion. “A jingling verse of an
old ballad" will Jive in the mind for
years, while stores of painful Jy acquired
information slip away. Trivial inci
dents dwell in our recollections, while
matters of greater moment become ob
scure. Few of us cxn altogether com
mand our memories, and looking back
it is curious to note what trifles are
often enshrined in the remembrance,
white more important things are re
called with an effort. We travel abroad,
and retain an indistinct recollection ol
some interesting inscription we specially
desired to remember, while we reoill,
with provoking accuracy, a name over
a shop door or an advertisement in a
window. Facts and dates we wished
to engrave on our memories slip away,
while useless knowledge makes for it
self a firm foothold. It is difficult to
account for the vagaries of
memory. If we cannot remem
ber at ill, ns little have we the power
of forgetting at pleasure.
Piiinlul recollections nre, as a rule,
more durable than pleasant ones. We
may rconll past happiness in a vague
and visionary manner, but disagreeable
rcmembrnnccs stand out distinctly nfter
a lapso of years. Childish memories
are nearly niways the strongest, doubt
less becait e the mind is more capable
of receiving impressions at an early age.
Aged persons will forget the events of
yesterday, but recall accurately the
events of seventy years ago. Many
persons have a theory that nothing once
onshrined in the memory is ever really
forgotten. It is certainly remarkable
luw long-buried recollections often
start into life ngain without any assign
able cause. Nothing is more difficult
than to trace out the connecting chain
ot associ lion in cases like these.
There is a story of a man who, on en
tering a strange house, suddenly re
called some childish adventure thathnd
taken place forty or fifty years before.
Curious to discover what had recalled a
forgotten episode nt this particular mo
munt, he at last observed that the room
in which lie was, was hung with pnper
of a peculiar pattern similar to one tnnt
had onco adorned his nursery walls.
Trifles like tills often suffice to call up
n whole train of buriod memories.
The Condition of Nevada,
A t,wenty-\ear resident of Nevada
eivfs a surprising and despairine ac
count of tho present statu of tho C »u.-
monwealth. The prod igiou' min mg in
terests, which have for tho Inst twenty
years constituted its attraction and
wealth, have come to a standstill. Teie
Comstock lode, out of which $400,000,-
000 of gold and $200,000,000 ol silver
have been extracted, though not ex
hausted of the rich deposits, is now
worked with such difficulty and expense
that unlesei a free coinage law can be
passed the mines wiil have to be aban
doned. The colossal wealth drawn from
this golden mountain of silver and
gold has been concentrated in _ the
hands of a few men The State itself
has had lit tie benefit. With the col
lapse of the mining business everythin?
else that hitherto prospered the people
of this State seems to have come to a
standstill. Grazing, which for a
time ocoupied a large partof the inhabi
tants, has now como to an end, Colo
rado inviting that particular form of
wealth getting. Under these depressing
conditions the 60,000 people inhabiting
the fourteen oounties into which the
State is divided are discussing the ques
tion ot how to meet the expensive
luxury of a State government. The
taxes on bullion and cattle raising have
hitherto proved suffi dent, but now that
th se resources are at an end the hand
ful of people find tho burden too great
to bear. As it is not in the power of the
Federal government to annul the ex
istence of a State there its strong talk ot
annexing the fourteen counties to Cali
fornia or returning voluntarily to a
Territorial condition. All the wealth
of the State is owned by citizens of
California. Her Senators have always
been residents of Snn Francisco, and
the former alternative seems the most
likely to be adopted.
Rats that Lore Tobacco.
It is well known that rats and mice,
in addition to their proverbial slyness,
fall into astonishing disagreeable habits
when their surroundings are such as to
tempt them to depart from the temper
ate course characteristic of rodent life
At the tobacco house of Leggett &
Meyers, in St. Louis, is a bright, gray
ish-colored rat, fat and plump, that
emerges from his hole during the day
time, jumps upon a pile of leaf tobacco
and eats and relishes the nicotine weed
the same as it would a dainty bit ol
toasted cheese. This animal is perfectly
gentle, and its curious appetite hns
vouchsafed for it the freedom of the en
tire factory. It is looked upon in the
establishment as tho greatest of living
Words of Wisdom.
In matters of conscience first thoughts
nre best.
An effort made for the happiness ot
others lifts us above ourselves.
It is better to do tho idlest thing in the
world than to sit idle for an hour.
Do what thou canst unknown ; and
be not vain of what ought rather be felt
than seen.
Ordinary apprehension, or a correct
view of huma i affairs, is the heirloom
of common sense.
The universe is but one great city,
full of beloved ones, divine and human,
by nature endenred to each other.
Men are oftenm^io guilty of treachery
from weakness of character than from
any settled design to betray.
Never neglect to perform the commis
sion which the friend intrusted to you.
You must not forget.
If mortals could discover the science
of con4$ering themselves we should
have perfection.
Cheerfulness or joyfulhnss is the
heaven under which everything not
poisonous thrives.
A Brier Retrospect.
But let us put on our thinking cap
and wlmt a change comes over the spirit
of our dream! Eighty-four years ago
when John Lyaecker, Charles P Clinch
and Tliurlow Weoil were born, there
was not a railway nor a locomotive en
gine on the face of the earth. Lighting
by gas was taint and feeble; there were
no lucifer matches; soda water and
cigars were recent innovations, and
newspapers—the present necessity of
civilized life—were scarce and dear.
Politically eighty-four years ago seems
as far away as the age of bronze. In
America there was no Cincinnati, no
Chicago and a very little New York. Iu
Eu rope Napoleon was thundering tit the
gates cf kinedoms; Belgium was an ap
pendage ot Holland; the pope held tem
poral power; Greece had no existence;
Athens was governed by pashas, and
Wallachia, Moldavia, Seivia and Rou-
mefiahadtot their apparently eternal
sleep broken by any wild dreams ol in
dependence. Pillory and whipping
post still stood tor women in Eialnnd —
New York Hour.
Subterranean disturbances have re
cently added a new island, 100 feet in
diameter aDd ten feet above the surface
of the water, to the Russian possessions
in the sea of Azof. The birth of the
island was attended by a marine erup
tion and tho appearance of a fissure in
the land on the shore near by.
Of the passengers who travel by rail
road in the United States, including em
ployees on trains, out of every million
and one-halt persons carried ore is kill
ed and four are injured; or, to put it
differently, out of every forty million
of persons carried one mile one is killed
and four injured.
Something About Bricks.
In the antiquity of the brick as a
building material, says the Builder, it is
needless, nor ie it indeed our intention,
to insist. The great national collections
ol Europe, the British museum fore
most in tlio number, show us brick,
sun-dried and baked, from the ruins at
Nineveh, and from the days of thntcity
to the present moment bricks have never
ceased to be an important instrument
in the hands of the builder That
throughout Asia Minor they were large
ly employed we have spen, only very re
cently, proved in these columns, M,
Bayet, in Ills work on Miletus, having
shown that the far-famed palace of Cra>-
sus was built of no more costly materi
als than honest bricks. W hat those
bricks were, and their quality, are even
I by tlr
to this day appreciated by the natives,
who for many centuries havo
plundered the • ruins to build
or to patch up their own even
more ruinous houses. Tue use of bricks
among the Romans, who largely em
ployed them as building materials, as
we see in the familiur instance of the
Temple of Concord, hns been more than
onco the subject of the inquiry of in
dustrious antiquaries, for the Romans
wero not content aitli producing the
flat, tile like brick which is so often to
be met with in tho lower portions of
antique structures scattered over tho
e.upire, and ttiat areknownin England,
but their bricks ware indelibly stamped
with the mark of their maker, the names
of the reigning consuls, and sometimes
the year. From this source, then, more
than one patient archaeologist has gatli
ered a rich store of information. But
few inquirers have ventured far on the
apparently avid and difficult road,
which has hence remained little ex
plored.
Th a Cremation Temple at Milan, Italy.
This temple, built in the Greco-Dorio
style, is sui rounded by columns and
pilasters, and surmounted by a cupola,
forming a chimney through which the
products of combustion escape. The
furnace is in tho basement and nearly in
the middle of the building. The inte
rior of the building is divided into four
Inrgc halls, in the first of which tne
mourners assemble before the body is
brought into the urn or cremation
chamber; adjoining this hall there is a
room in which tho bodies in their
coffins area waiting cremation. Thenext
apartment is t large storage icom for
coni and wood, ana beyond this are the
furnaces. In nn adjoining hall tho
“Cremation Society of Milan" basils
office, and transacts all its business.
Here is a curious collect ion of antique
and modern vases, documents relating
to cremation, models of furnaces, etc
Tho cremating furnace is arranged
transversely in the temple to permit of
curiosities, and possessed, ns it seems
lligence, it is permitted
to be, with into
to frolie about ttio factory unmolested
and nllowed to taste sparingly of the
choicest importations.
The twenty members of r.n Ulino’s
total abstinence society deposit $200
each, to be forfeited to the rest in case
of being caught at breaking the pledge
now to Get Sick.
Expose \ oui t ell duy bbiI Nigut; cut too
much without «x re ?e; worlf loe* tmr.l with.
ouliBSt; drotor all ili« i . e| take all the vile
iiost.unis adverti.o.1, uu.l il oc ybti will w.iul
to know .. ...
IIow to Met W ell,
Which is nnswoie.l in toivo word*— Take) Hop
Bittern I Sco other column.
At a children’s party-Edwin (who,
together with Angelica, is doing the
amiable at the little one’s party): " How
sweetly innocent and that sort of thing
the children—V Small treble voice
from the center: “’Ere, I say, tarn’t I
have somo of that cussed pudding!”
[Hemeant custard.]—Fun.
Drunken Stuff.
IIow many children and women are (lowly
und surely dying, or lather being killed, by
excessive doctoring, or the daily use ol some
drug or dtunken stuff colled medicine, that no
o knows what it is made ot, who oan easily
bo cured and saved by IIop Bilteis, made ol
Hops, Buchu, Mandiaku, D.mdelion, etc.,
which is so pure, simple and harmless that
tho most iiail woman, weakest invalid or
smallest ohild can trust in them. Will you
be saved by them 7 See other u lumn.
As an advertising dodge, a railroad
car has gone from Boston through to
San Francisco without change, the out
side of which was covored with posters,
and inside are 500 dozen bottles of the
article advertised.
The ol eapest method to eboat the under
taker (who Is gepeialiy around when Coughs
and Co'da piovail), is to buy and uso Dr.
Duel s Cough Syrup. It always oures.
It is said that the new trunk line,
known ns the Baltimore, Cincinnati and
Western railway, will touch 968 towns
between Baltimore and Cincinnati, of
which only twenty have now any rail
way connection.
For dtbpbpsia, indigestion, depression ol
spirits and general debility in tho various
lorma, also as a peoventive against fever and
ague and other intermittent levers, the Frrro
PlIOSrilOHATKD Kmxik ok Calisata Bark,
made by Caswell. Hazard A Co., New York
and (Old hy nil druggists, is the best Undo;
nn I loi patients recovering Iroini'evor or other
sickness it bus no equal.
ORBAT HORSB MBIUCIKE.
DR. TOHIAS' VENETIAN HORSE LINIMENT la
pint bodies nt MO rents. veers eit iblllheil. Itlstfls
In-lit In the world To.' till- cl. c of Colic, Old Sores, Spra'iia,
Drills.-!.. Sore Throats, eto. TOBIAS' OONL’niON
POWDERS arc worm.ted to rure Distemper, Fever
Worme.lt ts; Ktvc .. tine coot; lncro.se the ....petite and
ctent.s-i the urinary urgans. Certltlcd to by Col. D.
McDaniel, owner or some of tl.e fastest running horsci
In the world, and I,nun >thei». lilt cents. Sold by drug
gists. Depot—III Mur.ny Street. New York.
A dog, unintentionally locked up in
_ ------- edf<
a Sun Prairie (la ; club-room, lived for
four days on fresh paint, a pot of which
was within his reach.
In the Paris morgue, last year,
oi W6 people who died from
the
bodies oi 806 people who
'•rime, suicide or murder, were exposed
to view.
watching the entire rperation through
' of th
a small window jn the side wall
temple. The body is placed upon
grate, under which a basin is placed to
receive the liquids and ashes that may
T
dropdown. Two furnaces are now be
fore the public, known as the Gorini
and Vtnini furnaces, after the inventors.
In Gorini’s furnace the flames and
products of combustion pass over the
bi '
body, thence down a flue and under the
base upon which the body rests, thenro
up tlio chimney. The body, thus com
pletely enveloped in the llames, is con
verted to ashes in from one and a half
to two hours. Wood or ccalmaybe
used, and the expense is about oue
dollar. Mr. Venini’s apparatus is more
complicated than that of Mr. Gorini,
but it transforms the tissuts of the body
into gases in a more perfect manner
than any other furnace.— Scientific
American.
[Walla Walla Watohman.]
Wise Words of a Willing Witness.
At the close of a mass meeting, ac
cording to the report of the same pub
lished in a La Grange paper, reference
was made to the phenomenal efficacy of
St. Jacobs O.l in the many painlul dis
eases to which mankind is subject. Wo
refer to the above as showing how
strong a hold the Old German Remedy
Rheumatism hns on the experience
for
and good wishes of the great public.
An Italian lias invented a device for
instantaneously detaching a horse from
a wagon. The Boston Iranscript be
lieves this is an infringement on the
rights of tho Western horse thieves.
For Catarrh,
Hay Fever.Cold In the
Head, etc., Insert wltn
little (Inner a particle of
tho Balm Into the nos
trum draw nt rung
breathe through the
rume. It wUI l»e absorb
ed, elennelng ami heal-
In* the diseased mem
brane.
For Dealness,
occasionally npplr a
punlt’ie into nnd back
or *he car, rubbing to
tnurouubly.
ELY’S CREAM BALM.
Msssn*. Kit Bros., Drtlgglfdt, Owego, N. Y.: We And
Cream Balm taking front rank In the list of anccesatnl
proprietary article#. Tin* talcs are ronatahtly inuruiislnu
aiui we frcmiently hear where th<*Cn*um Balm ban eihvt-
yd thorough ernes of very obstinate and long exlitlnu
cases or Catarrh. We congratulate you In having put
upon the market so valuable and much desired an article.
C. B. Smitu k Bell, Wholesale Druggists,
Newark, N. J.
Price—50 cents. On receipt ot 60 conts
will mail n pneku^o I roe. Send lor oiroulHr,
with lull inlonnutlon.
ELY’ S CltEAM HALM CO.. Owovo, N.Y
Sold hy all Druggets.
FREE!
festoiKl us your AddroM*
ON A POSTAL CARD,
[Dniivilloflll.) Nows.]
John Stein, Esq., City Brewer, refer
ring to its valuable qualities, said to a
New s representative: 1 havo used S..
Jacobs Oil in my family and recom
mend it to my acquaintances. It has
always given the best satisfaction, and
is truly a wonderful remedy.
The last New .Jorsey cranberry crop
of 492,630 bushels was the largest ever
known.
A NIiikI*. Mime
lrom a munlng Ixook slow tbo giant G ill oil,
and mill ■ ns of noble men sii.cn tl.at time
nave died Item a sing'n atone in ti e bladder,
which Winner's Bute Kidney and Liver (J.ne
would 1 uve dissolved and (tarried away.
THE MARKETS.
An Evening at Home.
Barker says that he made up his
mind that he would give his wife a
pleasant surprise by spending tlje eve
ning at home, and after supper he set
tled himself down for a cozy time in the
bosom of his family. He had no more
than comfortably fixed himself, when
his wile asked him if his friends didn’t
want him any longer, and that was why
he had concluded to get acquainted with
his family. Then Iiis mother in-law
asked him if he had exhausted his
credit, and was obliged to stay at home.
The hired girl asked him if tie was sick,
and proposed to make some catuup tea
One of th • neighbors came in and
wanted to know if he had been having
any trouble and was afraid ot the sher
iff. And Barker says all that occurred
in less than twenty minutes, and he
knows, for in exactly half an hour he
was downtown again.
Ou tho Isthmus of Panama.
An employee of the Union Telegraph
company, who has recently returned
from Panama, tolls n Cleveland reporter
that it is considered by well informed
railroad men on the Isthmus that it will
bo next to impossible to build a ship
canal on the route proposed. The rail
road across the isthmus is one of the
best paying pieces of railroad in the
world, the regular rates of fare from
Aspinwall to Panama, forty-seven
mile9, being $25 in American gold,
und freight rates being - pro
portionately high. Residents of Aspin
wall or Panama can get excursion tick •
els for $10 a„d round trip tickets lor
$15. The stock of the road yields never
less than twelve percent. and frequent
ly as high as forty-four per cent, divi
dends. Two mixed trains each way are
run a day. Besides these a binanp train
is run the day previous to the deparlnro
of a steamer. The natives pile the ba
nanas that they have gathered at points
along the track, ant? the train, in charge
of a merchant, goes out and picks them
up The buyer is careful to nject those
that are too ripe, and they fall to the lot
ot the train hands The buyer pays
about fifty cents a bunch for bananas,
which sell in New York lor four times
that amount.
Every night the streets of Paris are
swept, but not until they have first
yielded a harvest to the army of collec
tors, whom nothing escapes, be it leaves
from the tree for compost, stray pins to
be stuck on papers and sold to the poor,
cigar stubs to be chopped up for smok
ing tobacco,bread crusts to be dried and
ground for cooking purposes,hair comb
ings to be assorted at the hair-dressers',
while bones, rags, old tin and iron,
paper and cinders, all go into the bag.
The original estimate of the architects
of the suspension bridge between New
York and Brooklyn was $3 000,060. The
amount spent thus far is $12,000,000.
An Essay on Wood.
There are various kinds of woed —
hard wood, soft wood, dry wood, wet
wood, I would, you would, and lots of
others who would, too, if they got a
chance. Beam t ol the eye are made out
of I would. Ships arc built ot hard
wood, which aceouuts in a measure for
the great hardships sailors are called
upon to encounter, I've an ocean. A
ship constructed of soft wood entirely
would be a 9oft thing for somebody, but
it wouldn't be the mariners who at
tempted to navigate it. Wood is notan
ore. though an ore is generally wood,
and can be used o’er and o’er. I once
saw a sailor use one o’er his shipmate’s
head, and it took two policemen to make
him give o’er. Maple wood is a favor
ite variety with juveniles on accaunt of
the sugar it yields. It is a mistake,
however, to suppose that maple sugar
grows on the uee in cakes, already
crimped around the edges. The cakes
havo to be carefully gathered first by
means of a patent picker (never shake
the tree) and crimped afterward. If
any kind of wood would pleaie the
children, maple wood.
A hypocrite is a man who tries to be
bi
pious, but can’t
of cant
-with preponderance
Bern Cattle—Med. Natives, live wt..
Calves— Good to Prime Veals.,.
19,M(4
, 05 ,4
in*
0H %
Lambs
. 07 . .4
Fogs—Live......
. f5 .4
OH
Dressed
O/V'4
"7kf
Flour—Ex. Rtate, good to faucy
4 89 (4 6
50
Western, good to f»ucy 4 7•. uf h d i
. 1 18 (4 1 Ik 4
Whett— No. '2 Iloi
No. 1 White 1 iri,'«j(4 1 in
Bje—State 1 trivia 1
Barley—Two-Bowed State ut) O'.
Oorn—Ungraded Western Mixed.... (4 .4 (isV
Southern Yellow. 6.1X14 ,W>;
0»te—White State 4i> 14 47^
Mixed Western— 4‘2 .4 4;.
H»J —Medium l'ume 1 15 .4 1 8)
Straw—Long Bye. per owt 115 <4 1 j)
Hop*—State, 1880 18 (4 211
Pork—Mess. ..Id, for export 14 no <414 S!)
Lard—Oily Steam 0 85 911 85
Petroleum—Crude ....... 07 @08,q Defined Oil
Butter—State Creamery A.... 19 @ 8.
Dairy 20 @ 20
Weatern Imitation Creamery 20 @ 21
Faotory l'ljtf4
Cheese—State Factory,...
Hklme
Western
Errs—State and Penn
Potatoes—State, bbi Early ltoee.
Borraho.
WU3
00 (4
10 .4
, 88 14
2 00 ffi
1851
08
87
2 12
sioers—Extra |5 60 @$5 /«
Lambs—Woatern 6 25 @ 5 25
Sheep—Weateri UJ .a, 6 40
Hogs, Good to Ohoico Vorkers 5 flO @ 5 7.1
Flour—City Ground, No. 1 Spring ..501 .4 6 75
nn—. . 1 22 @1 22
48 (4 48
Fiuui—uiuuuu. uv, x a
Wheat—No. 1 Hard Duluth.
Corn—No. 2 Western..
Oats—State
Barley—Two-rowed State 85 @ 1 00
BOSTON,
Beef—Western Mess.,,, 80 @95.
Hogs—Live .4 08
Hogs—City Dressed 07 <4 07'/
Pork—Extra Prime per bhl 12 Hi <§,13 00 4
Flour—Muring Wheat Patents 6 60 .4 8 0
Corn—Mfxed and Fellow ,4 on
Oats—Extra White 40 ^ 5:1
Bye—State.,,,.; 1 05 @1 05
Wool—WaBhed Combing A Delaine.. 40 <4 50
Unwashed. •• « 30 <4 3(i
WATERTOWN (MASS ) OATTZ.B MARKET
Bee! Cattle—Uve weight 04 .4 wy,
0:1^4 06><
••••■• 05 .4 08
06%@ 06!.
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour—Penn, good aud fanoy 5 20 A 5 25
{”“*‘7 - ltei > 16 ® l 16
Ooru—State Follow ' 53 J i3
Cutter—Oroaneery Extra 32 ,4 33
Glieeae—Now York Full Cream 14
Petroleum—Crude 0fiVS<»07*f Refined 08&
Blieei
Lambs
Rosa..
EHRICH BROTHERS,
285 to 295 Eighth Avenue,
NEW YORK.
NOTICE!
AS BLUE FLANNEL GARMENTS
Of Inferior Ctimllty of Goods
made by that mill,
uereftfter
STANDARD INDIGO BLUK FLANNELS AND
YACHT CLOTHS, must bear the traile mark ttck« t, fur-
nUhcd by the Selling Agents to all part.es ordering tho
goods.
WENDELL, FAY & CO., Selling Agents.
MIDDLESEX COMPANY,
N6 A SU Worth Street, ."cv York? tIT Franklin Street,
Boston; ‘J14 Client mi t Street, Philadelphia.
RED RIVER VALLEY
2,000,000 Acres
Wheat Lands
best in the world, for sale by the
St. Paul. MinneapoHs & Manitolia R.R. CO.
n. For particulars apply to
D. A. McKINLAY,
Land Commlaaloner, At, l*aul, lllnn.
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CELLULOID
EYE-CLASSES.
JU.prosenting the choicest selected Tortoise-
Snell nnd Amber. The lightest, handsomest,
and strongest, known. So d by Optioians and
jewelers. Made by SPENCER OPTICAL
M F G. CO., 13 Maiden Lane, Now York.
TEXAS!
Yhe
Southwestern
Immigration
Company.
It 1b the purpose of this Company to supply the
need of nntate Bureau of Immigration, ana not to
subserve the purposes of any Individual.railway,
or other corporation. tlf~ Solamh bought or Bold.
w. wwax.ai.,1 j.i'iuiuni, ww7 nuiamitfuovQfUUTffotu.
Information furnished thoso wishing to settle in
n ' 4.-IA , Xddreaa
Texas. Correspondence solicited, miuruiw
W.W.LA NGyPree. (late Master Texas State Granoe)
or B. G. Duv.u„ Hoc. Austin, Texas.
>yeli
ST; It
acts instantito
shades of B uck or
Browns does NoT STAIN
r the SMN, and is easily
RISTADORO’S ,pp W u 8 ' nn,; » ri1
pro ini ation and a favorite
Depot. 1):i Wll lamSt ,N,
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Month and Expenses
tiling to DEA1.KK*
CIGARS
B. FOsTER k C0 U Cincinnati., O
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Information as nThda J^arniOfi c-ali
zYMrt other■Propertleggiven
KicUiuoimI, Vu.
YOUNG MEN if* r S T f! e »('‘P h 5'- Kamw.ifoswo*
nfllces. Address
OPIUM
a Bros.. Janesville, Wfs.
iiABi r ciu-id
I with One Package of the <4rent
— M ('MlllCaO Spill nnctitnl.l
od receipt of SI, by Dlt. U. p. HA LL, Kno tlityfoalr^
OPIUM
l)a IV " >*a.T tlllrnraA.
. J. bug hens, Lebanon Ohio.
PISO’S CURE f, or bontumptlon Is also
the best cough medl-lne.
KbiBeoY
FOB
RHEUMATISM
Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago,
Backache, Sorenete of the ChotL
Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell,
ings and Sprains, Burns and
Scalds, General Bodily
Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Hoadaoho, Frosted
Fool and Ears, and all other
Pains and Aches.
Ho Prims ration on earth equals Sr. Jaoom nn
as a so/e, sure, simple and ehrnp
Remedy A trial entails but tho cumpsr«tlr3,
trifling outlay of 60 Cents, and erery one eolTerln.
with pain can have cheap and positive proof of In
claims.
Directions In Eleven Languages,
BOLD BY ALL DBUGGIST8 AND DEA1EB8
IN MEDICINE.
A. VOGELER Ac CO.,
Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.
N T NU—O
POND’S EXTRACT
Subduet Inflammation,
Acute and Chronic.
(Mnlrcia nU //«morrhapi,
Venous ansi Mucous.
INVALUABLE FOR
Burns and Colds and Coughs,
Inflammations Nasal & Throat
Accumulations Discharges,
Chilblains.
RHEUMATISM ANI) NEURALGIA.
No rethety so readily nnd elfe. t.mlly nrrests Ike Irrlte
lion and discharges from Data, .lml A flections as
POND’S EXTRACT.
COUGHS, COLDS In tl.e ITBAD, NASAL and Til HO A1
DISCHARGES, INFLAMMATIONS slid ACCUMULA
TIONS In the LUNGS, EVKS. KARS and THROAT,
RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, Ao., earned be Hired m
easily by nnv other medicine. For sensitive and sever,
eases or CATARRH use our Ca/aRHII CU11K (Be).
Innll cases uso our NASAI. SYRINGE (25c). Will be
sent In lots of »2 worth, on receipt of price. Not. that
I’OND'S EXTRACT Is put up only In bottles with picture
Trails Mark on outside wrapper and words " ruND'e
EXTRACT “ blown In glass.
IW Our New "amphlet with History of our Prcpsrs
Hons, sent free.
LADIES—Head pages IS, 18,21 and M.
POND'S EXTRACT COMPANY,
14 West 14th Street, New York.
EIGHT REASONS
WHY WK NEVER SELL POND'S EXTRACT IS
HULK, RUT ADHERE TO TUE RI LE OP SELL
ING ONLY IN OUll OWN BOTTLES, IN
CLOSED IN HUFF WRAPPER, ON WHICH
IS PRINTED OUll 1-ANDSOAl’K
TRADE-MAIUC.
1 —It Insure* the puicltater obtaining tbs
oxe ois* article.
!».—It protect* I lie conamncr In buying Pond'.
Extract not weakened with water, which we found wii
done a few years ago, when wo were induced to furulili
dealers with the gonulne article In bulk.
il ••It pn tecta the comnmer Iromun.crujm
h.u- pa-tle- selling crude, cheap decoctions to Ulmn
Pond's Extract, for any person can tell the genuine Iron
the bottle snd w apper.
4—II prntecte the con.uiner, for It
to use any other article according to the dire. Hons given
In our book, which surrounds each bottle of Pocd’i
Extract.
It.—It protect the consumer, for It Is no.
agreeable to be deceived and perhaps Injured h; uslu;
other articles un ter the directions for Pond’s Extract.
O —No other aitlole, manufacture or lurltatlw
Iras the edect claimed for end always produced l)
Pond's Extract.
7 —It la prejudicial to the reputation of Pond'.
Ext act to have people use a counterfeit hi llerlng It la
be tl.e genuine, for tbey will santy ts etmrpoMal. I! nul
Injured hy Its effects.
S.—Justice to one of th. best medlelnss
Iu the world, and the bundrede of thousands wing
It, demands every precaution agatnit having weak aim
tujurious preparations palmed off as the genuine. Tin
uni t way this can be accomplished Ie to seU the gxinnsi
put up hi a uniform manner—In on* owa nomas, cow
plete with l.ufl wrapper*, trade marks, eto
IIEMIUI ill-lit— I h. genuine Pond’s Ex*
tract is cheap, because It la strong, uniform ud
reliable. Our kook of dlrectloBl explains when II on h
diluted with water end when to be used fall strength.
It Id Vli-UtlllKit—That ell other preparations, If
colorless, are mere decoctions, boilings, er pro-load
simply to obtain the odor and without the sclentlfle 4
practical knowledge of the matter which many yetrsof
labor has given us.
Itll.Vir.VIlIKir, Oil KNOW HOW-.Tbstsll
preparations purporting to be superior to Pond’s b-
treot because they Sow color, are colored simply becsiss
they have erode, and to unprofessional people using
them, perhaps dangerous matter la them, snd shad
newer be uml except under the advice sad pnxrlfUmol
a physician.
ItKM KM UK It AND KWOW—That our very
expensive machinery It the result of thirty years <f ex
perience (the most of which wee entirely given to this
work), and constant attention to the production of til
forms of namumells, and that therefore we ehonld
know what we assert, that I’ond’e Extract is the met
purest, end contains more virtues of the ihrub than any
other production yet made.
Our New History and Uses of Pond’i Ext sct asd
other preparations Sent free,
L.A1IIKN—Read pages IS, 18, 21 anil 25 In oar book,
which Is found around each bottle, and will be tent I r( *
on application.
POND’S EXTRACT COMPANY,
14 West 14th Street, NEW YOltK-
of business,weak-1
ened by the strain of
your duties avoid
stimulants and use
Hop Bitters.
a
Mod „
ried or single, old or
poor health or languish
asm, rely on HopJ
Whoever you are.
tinooior juuwo. .
whenever yon feel
tbit your ayrtem f
fit you are •
■ mxn of ltiv* ^
/
■ tore brain nerveana
I waste, use Hop Be
" , VSmlaands die *?*
nually froin sows
Here yon dye-
pepsla, kidney
or urinaru com-
plaint, disease
bowels, blood,
liver or nerves t
You wl 11 be
cured if youuao
Hop Bitters
If you arc aim-
low 8]
it I I
tk and
t may
life. It hac
saved hun
dreds.
HOP
O. I. 0.
u aa absolute
Hid Irrealit*-
ble ourefor
drunkenness,
use ol opium,
tobaooo. O'
narcotics.
NEVER
FAIL
Sold by d rug-
..a,- Hendfor
Circular.
BOP BITf***
■TO COo
R(*kMhT, *• T ’
i Toronto, 0°*--
S350
A MONTH I
JSL mUlUTII * .. .
71% Rest Helling Artie rs In tkev- wlc »
sample free. Jar HnowsoM,_g£HgI—-~
Food—curesNervoniDrt' ■
A LLEN'N Brain l-'ooil—enre.
* weakness of Generative organs, 81 Ave „N.X
Bead for Olr'I'r to Allen's Pharmacy.-Hd (!i*—-—"
$7771
A YEA n and expenses tosgU"’
'a VICKERY, AujmbvM!!' 1,
'AUYIuAND FARM*,
M A Bh<