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- n article in the New York Mail, and
2express giVes an account of the, writer’s
visit to the studio of an, artist who has
i'or several years been at .work on mili
tary subjects. On the day of the visit,
the artist had been at work painting into
this' picture a. handsome ' young • officer
with sword in hand and brilliant in a
uniform that was plentifully provided
with gold lace. The model was there;
• not quite so handsome as the reproduc
tion, indeed, but a stawlwart young, fel
low; whose talent for standing gracefully
in one position during a number of con
secutive hours, was something more than
remarkable. On the wall behind the
model was a row of pegs extending for
fifteen or twenty feet, which were thickly
hung with every descriotion of soldier
■ costume; There the gray and blue were
-affectionately commingled. . There, were
brass buttons, silver buttons, buttons
large and small. At one end was the
Saining red jacket of the zouave cos
tume and a pair of the companion gar
ments in its : immediate neigh
borhood. Further along the line was ah
■ old army overcoat of the very light blue
persuasion, picturesque with dirt and
fantastic' with rags. Soldier caps of all
hinds were to be seen surmounting the
-■other garments, and brogans artistically
• 1 . ..treated with mud and ill all stages, of de-
lapidation, decorated the line where the
floor and the wall met and betrayed a
fondness for lying with the toes fitted
tin to the Corners of the room..
. ’ Above the mantel was a rack of guns.
‘These, too, were of various sizes and de
scriptions. A revolutionary gun was
there, -with a barrel nearly seven feet
long, and weighing, we should say, about
twenty pounds. And this weapon, with
ats old flint-lock, was graded up or down,
as you may choose, to the modern army
Title with all the modern improvements.
On the mantel-piece stood some plaster
casts of horses in spirited and warlike at-,
titndes. And to the right of the.aftist,
as he worked away, I noticed a package
,of fire-crackers. •"
'“Hello!” I exclaimed. . “Did you ex-
"peCt to get from these a realistic original
ifor-the smoke of battle?”
... 'HI-was making some expert nents,” was
(the reply. . “I put one in a cigar box the
other day and touched it off, bat it made
.. a report Tike a cannon,' . knocked
the box into hinders, and before
I- . had recovered from my sur
prise, the smoke had vanished. I
-•guess it was no use anyway. Then the
: fellow next door came in to inquire if
,1 had shot my wife. My wife com-
plained that I liad spoiled her afternoon
nap. and altogether the experiment wasn’t
• • a success;-: I’ll keep the fire crackers
until tho Fourth, of July, and give them
:*to my nephew.”
, ‘‘But how willyou get the- smoke?”
” • * ‘Oh, I’ll draw On my imagination or a
cigar, or give one ' of the critics a cigar
and.-get him to give me a puff.”
“But where do you get all the uni-
1 forms?”
l ••They are the accumulation of years,
if I Want something which I haven't
egpf^tsgnd, one of my., mode’s ddwn on
m : Chatham street wmong[ the . second-hand
■ clothing shops therd-qiid the pawnshops,
and he is able t<? get fSe almost anything
-i? 1 ! J want ” > -I
“Where do you get your‘models?” : •
-- r T .. “They come in here. Take one”- 1 -
'The artist .pointed to the picture of a J
. very respectable old gentleman with a
; full beard, who was one of the figures on
the canvass—|
“That one has been a model for years.
If I want a man of a different make he
will get him for me. He’ll go' out into-
the parks bright and early in the mern-
ing and seduce one of the idlers from his
position on one of the benches.”
“What is the inducement?”
of; - “Two dollars a day, beginning at 10
o’clock in the morning or thereabouts, 1
and continuing until 4 6r 5 O’clock in the
afternoon. Yes, it is pretty tiresome
■work, especially for one ■ out of physical
•condition. I do all that is possible to
anake the work light. They rest fr.e-
•quently outside the long rest in the mid--
•dle of the day. Then the tediousness and
tiresomeness is ameliorated by devices
like that. ” The painter pointed to half a
.dozen ropes which fell from bars that
covered the studio near the ceiling. If a
.model was wanted to hold his arm out
straight, he could keep it straight with
out much difficulty, after catching .hold
of the rope. By, using the rope, a gun
• could be supported in one position for
5 some length of time with comparative
ease, and in a variety of ways the ropes
were, useful.
‘ ‘How about, the horses? Do you paint
-from models there?”
„ “Yes, indeed. I have to take, the can-
’< • vass over to a stable .near hear and hire a
.horse by the hour, and a man to hold him.
It is difficult to get the brute into the
Positions I Want,, but we get some ap
proach to them, and that has to serve. A
man'can hold Up a horse’s leg in - a way
that I want, of bend it at the knee. It
• ’ Ssn’t as satisfactory as having a chance to
watch them out in the fields, but it has
-jj do.”
“This hiring of models must be very
expensive to painters who have many
(figures in their paintings. ”
“It is so. This painting I am working
at now has cost me in models already
about fifty dollars, and I have about two
weeks’ more work on it. A horse and a
man costs four dollars for half the day.
Drawing and painting from the imagina
tion is cheaper- for the time, hut
it is a great deal dearer in the
end. Your figures will get to be
-.very wooden, There is one thing that
Hielps us exceedingly, and that is the in-
* salantaneous photographs which are now
'made of outdoor scenes. - They are very
. 'valuable and .suggestive. Nothing can
take the place of nature, but when you
haven't got nature and can’t ’get i|, they
tire 'certainly the next beit thing. There
ait e several men who make a business,
•end lhave no doubt make money, selling
these instantaneous photographs to the
artists.. Look hero,”
The ‘artist displayed, with a great deal
of enthusiasm, ' an unmounted, photo
graph of. a regiment of cavalry in motion.
The detail of me picture was surprising.
Within a few inches of sp ice. re
produced a hundre 1 or more men on
horseback. ..The r.i ivemcat of the horses
could be' felt and. the whole spirit of tho
scene was eloquent.
“When you can get a picture like
that,” 1 cmarked tbc .arti.st, “I, don’t sea
what people want with ] a riling Lo&k
at tout group of horses tlior j. if I could
reproduce t.iat onao.vnvas, ] would make
a sensation. ”
“Whrt is, the cost of these pictures 1”
“Four dollars a dozen.” , ,
HI ilbUT 11U M i,
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A- >,iiliomi! Change-—Testing Dis
Love What HO Forgot to Say—' >
Not Worth it—Two Appre-
, dative Souls, etc.
Adulteration of Table Spice’.
“Give me a quarter of a pound ot
black pepper,” said a customer to an up
town New York .grocer repcptly. “I
want it pure.”
The grocer took down a little, package
done up in foil and adorned with - a yel--
low label bearing the. legend;:“Pure
black pepper.” ' ’
I ‘This is what sells for black popper,,
bqt seeing I know you pretty well I don’t
mind telling you there's not a grain of
black pepper in it. I worked for five
years in the milling room of a spice-mill,
and I’m on to the business from end to
end. , Now, this particular spice it
made this way: Take eighty-six pounds
of finely-ground bran mixed with pul
verized charcoal—the last to represent
the black hull of the pepper grain; then
add fifteen pounds of ground; cayenne
pepper; and there you are with 100
pounds of pure black pepper.
It’s tho same way with mustard,” the
grocer continued. “Fifteen to twenty
pounds of cayenne pepper, tfie balance
of cheap 1 ’wheat flour .colored yellow,
makes 100 pounds of genuine mustard.
The highest grades, Which aren’t often
retailed, contain as mush as one-half of
real mustard. But cream of tartar is the
biggest swindle, .A fifteen-pound can
of the low grade contains one pound of
tartaric acid,and fourteen of terra- -alba/
The terra alba is a mild alkali and neu
tralizes the effect of the acid. Higher
grades of the mixture contain a trifle
| more tartaric acid.’ 1
“You probably think you’ve eaten
| some cinnamon in your time, ” the grocer
went on. “Well, you haven’t. I don’t
suppose there’s ten. pounds of cinnamon
bark iii the United States. : What passes-
for cinnamon is the bark of the cassia
tree. This is Adulterated with a still
coarser bark, known as cassia versa.
The article is also mixed with peaS.and
roast bran. I need not; tell you about
roast coffee; everybody knows about that.
It’s just the satne way through the whole
list of spices. If You. could smuggle
yourself into the. basement of some spice
mill you would find bins of biran, peas,
terra alba, etcMail and Express.
“Arlcansaw,” exclaimed an atdent
man, “why, it is the •best State in the
Union, a btate above, all others in re
sources and the exactness with which the
criminal laws ate enforced,” “
“I am astonished to heat, you speak
so well of the State,’’..some one replied
“Why so?” l : 1
“Because several years ago, during an
exciting campaign in Indiana, you avow
ed that tiiere was no such thing as justice
in Arkansaw, a State where a man .car
ried his life in band.’’’ -
“That is very true, my dear sir,” but
I was a politician then.” .
-- ‘ ‘And what are you now?”
“A land agent.”—ArTcarimw Traveler.
His Love.
Testin
The other ; evening as a Detroit Fi'tz-
noodlos called on his girl he found her
with tears in her eyes and her face tied
«!>•
“It’s the awful, awful toothache !” she
sobbed, as' he asked for an explana
tion.
“Try camphor.”
“But the dentist says I must have two
of ’em out 1 Will you go .with 'me?” :
“Of course.”
1 “And will you—you also have a tooth
pulled?”
“Certainly.”:
“Two of Yin?” ..
‘ Y es.” --'-v Y '“r-vi'Y “-v'ii ‘, - -
“Before I do?”
“Yes,, darling’.”
Then she flung the handkerchief from,
her face, brushed the tears from her
eyes, and-gave him a long, lingering pro
crastinating kiss.on the left jaw: She had
simply been testing his love and devo
tion. They will- go to Niagara Falls on
tfieir bridal tour.—Detroit Free Pro-n. |
taake me feefteen dollaire and kiJep!’
“I tried to brass it out; but it was no
go, and the, result was, thatUhad to fork -
Over the money. 1 ' He stood there as’the* ,
train moved off, and shaking his fi-fu-'
me he shouted: '
“Ah' I forgot! You doan't pay mo.
no interes' on zhat feefteen dollaire for
seventeen yaaresl, I see you again—meb-
he y se venteen yaarox more I ’ ’’—Detroit
Fra Prest. 1
V
The Clothes of Senators.
The. dress ofVstateSmfen grows more
and more democratic from year to-year,',
In Washington’s day, if his clothes in the
museum are any index of the time, a
gentleman's wardrobe must have cost a
small fortune, and it was as gaudy as
that of a Washington bellp. He must
have silks and satins, gold shoe buckles,
and. ruffled shirts, llis vest was em
broidered, his stockings Were of fine silk,
and, his head had to be covered by A wig.
In Webster’s---time., yery few; of the
Senators appeared on the'floor .itt- any
other stylo, of coat'than a .swallow-tail,
and it is only sinrte the war that great
me:i have Come down to plain qycry-day
(Clothes. I Uhptuin '.Bassettf ' the,....aged
Tienate employee,,. savst :-Dapiel.Webster
evoretilue or brown dlotheS, and his coat
was. always adorned: with bra-s buttons.
1 lenrv Clay cauie to the .Senate in black
Swallo.Wr.tail, hpd,the collar jpf, his shirt
Was so large that it made
his 1 head look like 'that of
John the Baptist on a charger. . John
Randolph imported ali bis clothes from
England, and when he rode out on horse
back to the. Senate, lie wore leather
breeches with white top boots.” - Every
one has heard how oh® of Ihe early Presi- !
dents refused to receive one of his rela
tives at a Slate reception because he had
not a dress suit, and half the troubles of
our foreign ministers have been in regard,
to the dress in which they shall appear
in the courts of Europe. The only man
in the Senate to-day Who wears a swal
low-tail coat at all times is Senator Con
ger, and he is perhaps the most demo
cratic in manners Of that body.
The favorite dress of the Senator of to
day is black broadcloth, double-breasted
frock coat, high standing ; collar open at
the neck, and boots. Still, business suits
are fast creeping in, l and fully one-third
of the Senators wear' Cutaway coats.—
“Carp,” in Cleveland Leaders. .
Like a Vast Prison.
Russia is like a vast prison, writes an
Odessa correspondent of the New York
World:, The prisoner in a dungeon can
walk within certain confirms, as freely as ,
the freest. It is only when he would
go further, that he encounters the walls
and is stopped! So, .in Russia, as long
as you remain within a narrow limit, you
may possibly forget that you are in a
prison. Tt. is -difficult to forget it,
though, when you .would, Stir. The
walls, the officers, meet you at every turn.
On arriving at A hotel the /first thing de
manded is your passport, which you must
carry to the. police and have' registered
and stamped, you,-by the \\fyv having
to foot the bill for the registration and
Stamp. • When you leave, a city the police
must again be notified, and from begin
ning to end it seemed as if every comet
is suspected of being a nihilist or dyna
miter. It is dangerous' to converse on
social or political topics. Each suspects
the other spying. It is so easy to be de
nounced and so easy to he waltzed off to
Siberia, that the truth of the proverb,
“Silence is golden,” is appreciated in no
other part of the earth as it is in Russia,
Cattle with Golden Teeth.
Zeigler, of the meat market on South
C-street, killed a steer the other day
whose teeth Were completely incrusted
with gold and silver bullion.' The ani
mal came from a ranch oil Carson river,
and the precious metAl on the enamel of
the teeth doubtless accumulated from
drinking the water of the river, which is
impregnated with the tailings from the
mills reducing Comstock ores. This
circumstance is not new, however, as
Sam Davis memtioned something similar
before in the Carson Appeal. Most of
the cattle along the river have their teeth
afflicted in the same way,. Their owners
might scrape off quite • a revenue from
them if they had any financial sense.—
Virginia- City (Ife.) Enterprise. : > J
, What He Forgot to Say,
It was at a K street residence;.and the
young man had been going, often.; and
staying late until the: girl felt the monot
ony. ..One , night about 11 o'clock the
conveisation dragged and foi 9. minute
- or two he sat in A; .cogitative mood with
his hand to his forehead, ...
‘ ‘I had something pleasant to tell you,”
he said finally/,
“Yes,” she responded, inquiringly,
“what was it?”
“Um-^um— let me see;” rubbing his
. head, “I can’t just think what it was.”
<‘May be it was. ‘good night,’ ”, she
suggested.
He looked at her for a minute, .but she
never flinched; then he went away.-- and
np to date he has not been back.— Wash
ington Critic.
Not Worth It.
While Judge Walton was af work in
his chamber'at Portland one day ffiany
years ago drawing an opinion ima knotty
case a certain lawyer came in. This
lawyer (he is now deceasec!)' was ffiWhin;
to,Qth-pIckish, dudisjh sort of .man, whom
the judge did not Jlike
t han whom he ha® rather ..keen . Daniel!
Pratt himself WaLkfpg into his chat^ber. 1
/-“Well, Brother Lightweight, what
can I do for you this mornmfj^HSIIfeed
Judge Walton, hloping to •gqt rid of-the
fellow.
“Nothing,” lie replied: “I only 1 came
in to make,you a call.”
After a disagreeable silence; the judge
looked up again and asked:
‘ ‘Brother Lightweight, why don’t- you
get married V , '■ : -.
•‘Because I can’t afford it. How much
do you suppose it costs, me, to live now?” .
The judge said he wouldn’t guess.
“Well,' it costs me $6,000 a year for
just my own living.” -
An expression of surprise came' on the
judge’s face. “Lightweight,” said he, “I
wouldn’t pay it. It isn’t worth it!”-—
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
Two Appreciative Souls.
A distinguished Maine gentleman says
that some years ago he was making a
journey down East when the train became
snowbound. It was then evening, and
there was no hope of progress until day-
Jight, But near at hand was a little vil
lage which boasted a public hall. It was
suggested that the passengers adjourn to
the hall and listen to an address by their
distinguished fellow-traveler. He finally
consented to do his part; the hall was
warmed and lighted, and the lecture took
place. The next day the gentleman was,:
approached by a sturdy young yoeman,
who said:
“You’re the manwho made .the speech
last night, aint you?” The identity having
been duly established, he went on: “I
want to thank you for it ; I don’t know
when I’ve enjoyed myself more than I did
while you were talking,” |
The orator experienced the genial glow
which unconventional and unsought praise
is wont to inspire, and he cordially took
the honest fellow’s hand.
“Yes,” the. young man.continued, “it
was a good thing ; you see, my girl is on
the train, and while you were lecturing
she and I had the car to ourselves,
Boston Record.
Long-Lived.
“One of the curious traits about those,
French-Oanadians,” said' a fly man yes
terday, “is the fact that they never die
of old age. Some seven years ago a
couple of us were working a Great AYost-
ern train. and we beat a Frenchman out
of $15 oh the three-card monte racket.
He was a little, old, wilted-up specimen,
seeming to be all of seventy-five years
old, and he didn’t get the game through
ffis head before we jumped the train at a
small station. The other day I was, com
ing to Detroit from the -East, and‘when
the train stopped at St. Thomas I got out
to stretch my legs, I had scarcely
touched the platform when somebody
grasped me and a voice cried out;
. ‘“He is da maan. He bait me out of
feefteen dollaire ‘ '
“I looked around to find that same old
Frenchman hanging to my arm. I
couldn’t,§seo that he... had changed a par
ticle in looks or grown older by a day.;,
‘I want me feefteen dollaire!” he
shouted as he danced around. ‘Dis man
Business Ruined by a Mule.
Many years ago do wn in Idaho, during
a gold excitement, a good . many men
went into the country to- make money
Outside the gold hunting industry. Their
idea was to make the other fellows delve
for the gold, ‘While they appropriated it
afterward. Rollin Daggett, afterward
Nevada’s Congressman, established a
ferryboat oh a Small creek, and named
the place “Death’s Ford, ” at the same
time inventing a musty legend to the cf-
fect that it was thus named because so
many lives had been lost in an attempt to
cross it. The stream was. not more than
a dozen yards wide,' and the water
nowhere more than two feet deep, but he
rigged up a flat boat and pulled it -bick
an<^ forth by a rope contrivance. When
ever the prospectors, crossed he regaled
them with hoirible tales of the treachery
of the stream, and the remorseless quick
sands which had drawn so many men
and mules,to terrible deaths.
In the night when he ferried people
over he would caution them not to get
too near the edge of the boat, as a fall
overboard was pertain death. By letting.
the dim old lantern go- out, and making
slow time, he frequently impressed the
passengers with, the idea that the stream
Was; half a mile,Wide.. For night;trips
he charged $5, but if the wind was. liigh
and the weather bad he struck sanguine
j prospectors for much larger sums. In the
day time $1 was liis modes-!; charge. He:
went .along, in this,,wav for several
months, the; men who rushed to the hills
looking upon him: as a benefactor to his
race by this conquering of .so'.formidabie
an obstacle to travel as “Death’s Ford.”
One day Charley Stoddard,, the pro
moter. appeared on the bank with a mule;
and boardi d the flatboat M cross., In
the.middle o( the stream,’ just when the'
ferryman wa4tellrng how dangerous the
place was, the mule grew restive, and
fell overboard. One, leg , ■caught on a
rope, and he got his head under water,
and, unable to ■ extricate himself, was
drowned. When' he Was cut loose he
]%y there in the middle of “Death’s
Eord“ half out o f the watery so-'that all
who came along saw what a’ miserable
sham the ferry whs. and that any four-
footed animal could walk across.. Dag
gett tried fo get the mule'away, but he
was too heavy to budge,:', and so HB lay
there in plain sight for works, until Dag-
get’s business'as aferryman was ruinecL—
Carson Appeal..
Dangers of the Hanging Lamp..
The supremacy of the foy pistol and
the rabid dog as agents of destruction is
being seriously threatened,by tt powerful
riyal. The rival is the modern' hanging
lamp. A few months ago the use of
these illuminators bacamd againi So gen
eral as to constitute what might 'bo-
called a hanging .lamp renaissance, and
although/he fashion is not yet worn out
the effect ;of wear .seems to be discernible
upon ' the hang 1 ngs of sonio ■ of. those
which were earliest in use.. At any rate
the lampsfafe beginning to;, fall! ; 'An ac
cident of this kind which occurred in
this vill^-e a few days ago is not the.;
.'pnljio^e'xnat has recently been reported
in the .newspapers, and in some cases
they have caused serious results. Prob- ’
ably no one who Inis had one of these
lamps hung has not looked forward, with :
more or less certainty of belief to a :time’ ; I
when tho iamp would come down by it
self; and the . , instances 'in which such !
accidents have occurred show the appre- I
hension to have been not entirely, a: netv- j
ous one. The succession of improve
ments which have. ; been made ’in. the |
lamps;, have added to theirfappearance,
but have also added to their weight, and ■
they often seem provided with.insufficient
meansjfor safe-suspension. When sueh
an amount of metal, earthenware; and
glass as some of them are composed i of j
comes down with a crash it is-A;good f
deal of a loss and a shock in-itself, even !
if no one or nothing else is injured. 1
But, of course, the principal danger is |
that of fire being, caused, , and if this sort I
of thing continues it may;not be impos- I
sible to find the ever T vigilant insurance |
companies classing houses - where these '
articles are in use m the'“extra hazard
ous risk. ” Those who have advice to !
give upon domestic affairs,‘may turn their
attention-do, this- fresh \subjeet..--r-&»«ca I
Falls (N. Y.) Tribune..
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f he book embraces the General’s entire military,
£ivil service, and private career, and is the most
complete and reliaMC histeiy of him extant, A large
handsome octavo volume of 630 pages, superbtagltlus-
fcrated with S3 full-page engravings, on wood and
'■.eel; also nuir - ......
41 Am?ng^ all "th
foiemosfc.”-—Hartford Post.
“ Without doubt the toest life of Grant published. ”
—Boston CONOEROATiOiSrAiJST.
“ As fine and correct a biography as ever can be
written.”—N. Y. Tribune^ „
“The most correct and complete record of Gen.
Grant published.”—Church Union. \ £
“ It covers the entire career of the great soldier.”
—Herald. .....
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VETERAN SOLDIERS OF THE LATE WAR.
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Captain J; S, Shaw, of St. Charles county,
Missouri, to the adoption of a,naost novel
as well as economical system. ©£' training
race horses. The captain has been una
ble to,obtain aay riding boys,; add as a
substitute has started a stock, in trade con-
sisting of himself, a heavy-weight colored
man, a dog! a bell, a stick and a lane.
The colored man leads them as far as he
thinks fit, strips them, turns them loose,
“ghoos” them off, and rings the hell
furiously behind them. The fleet horses
gallop from the bell up,the lane for dear
life until they meet Captain Shaw and
the dog, .when the animals stop and snort
a bit. While they are thus wasting time
in consideration the Captain takes, the
stick and scrapes it, up and down the
fence posts until the horses , are scared
into starting back at a gallop for tho bell.
Captain Shajr says that the varieties of
noise extracts every bit of the pace the
animals are capable, of—so thoroughly in
the case of .Margot, a’ two-year-old fill}',
that she looked, no bigger than a dog
when getting away from the bell. When
all of the horses have worked sufficiently
they are gathered, clothed, taken to the
stable, given an apple each, cooled off,
and groomed as if they had been galloped
in the old-fashioned way.. The Captain
says they are shaping up nicely , under
his process, but lie is on the look
out for boys to put the' final polish on
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ROCKFORD. ZLIu
Fifteen thousand workmen are engaged
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The wages average, from $1.75 to; $3,5fl
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