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FINANCE & COSOIEP;o£ Hoard of Trade. St. Pact., May 24, 1.083.— board presented no new features j-ep.'terday morn ing. As it has been, for a -week or two, every thing WM dull and quiet, with a declining ten._eney while transactions were very limited. The following are the quota tions: WiUlt— -Xa 1 bru-a, $1.11 bid, $1.13^ asked: Xo. 2 h«?d, $1.07 bid, $1.10 asked; No. 2 $>1.01 bid*, No. 3 91c bid; No. 4 81c bid} rejected 7lc. Conn— No. 2,52 c asked; May 520 asked; Jane .*>;io asked; July 54c bid. Oats— No. 2 mixed 40c bid, 40 asked; May 40a bid, 41c asked; June 3i)>_c bid; No. 3 mixed 38c bid; No. 2 white, 41c bid, 42c asked; No. 3 400 bid; rejected 37c bid. Babley — No. °, 65c bid; No. 3, extra. 55c bid; No. 3 4">c bid. Rye— No. 2, 50c bid. Gbodnd Feed— s2l asked. Bban— Sacked $8.50 asked; loose $8 asked. Baled Hay — $9 bid. Potatoes — 25c bid. Eggs— l4c bid, 14>£c asked; June 16c asked. Sales— l car No. 2 mixed oats 40c; 1 car K. D. feed $22. Receipt* and Shipments The following are the receipts and shipments for the past twenty-four hours: Receipts — Wheat 7 cars; corn 2; oats 3; bailey 3; flour 5; corn meal 5; hay 1; potatoes 2; cattle 5; horses and mules 1; hogs 4; sheep 2; hides 4; lumber 60; coal 40; wood 12; oil 4; merchandise 67; piles 2; brick 6; cement 4; lime 1; stone 4; pig iron 1; agricultural implements 1; frn.it 1; whisky 1; wire 3; sundries 41. Total 293 cars. Shipments V* heat 50 cars; corn 2; oats S; flour 3; feed 1; potatoes 1; cattle 2; horses and mules 4; hides 2; lumber 18; coal 13; oil 1; merchandise 103; piles 5; brick 5; stone 4; pig iron 10; railroad iron and rails 30; agricultural implements 5; whisky 1; sundries 30; emigrants' movables 4; crackers 1; Total 303. Commission Dealers. The following are the quotations of ealee from by commission men yesterday and are subject to daily fluctuations: Butter, dairy, choice 18@22 Butter, store .packed , 4@6 Butter, common to good 7@.10 Butter, roll and print, poor to fair.... 10@15 Cheese, state factory, full cream .... i4(aCls Eggs, par dozen, fresh receipt* 14§)15 Hides, greea 6>£ug7 Hides, green 6alt 7>£®B Hides, green calf 10 Hides, green kip 7<g7>3 Kid dry flint 12>£ Hide«,dry salt . 10 Mutton, per pound 9@lo Pel vB, wool, estimated per pound .... 20 Tallow, No. 1 per pound 6% Tftilow, No. 2, per pound 5 Country lard 10@ll Veal calves, per pound B>£@lo Appleo, per barrel #4 50@5.00 Beans, hand picked navy, p«r bu. . . . 2.75 M " ♦'medium " .... 2.00@2.40 Fi*id peas 5001*1. 75 Potatoes 25@30 Rotail Market. The following shows tho prices for which the .trticles named sold the day before publication: Messina oranges retail at 35c@6Uc per dozen Lemons, 30c per doz. Bananas, scarce, 750 per doe. Now lettuce selling at, 75c p?r doz. Apples t- 5.53@1.50. Early Rose potatoes, 60c per bu; others, 60c. Onions, 65c per bn. Gran ulated sugar in 25 lb. * packages, 10c; powdered, lie; cut loaf, lie; crushe*, ll^c; Ext. C, 9Kc; Yellow C, B>i'c; brown To; Minnesota, 10c. Best O. G. Java coffee, 88;-£c; best Mocha, ?'' 'cj best Rio, 22% c. Bant baas, Eng. breakfast, pi per lb; best Young Hyson, ?1 per lb; best Gun Powder, f 1.20 per bu.; best Japan, 80c; best Basket tired Japan, Jlsc. Orange Biossjra (lour, #fj.75 per cwt; Pillsburv'e $3.75 per cwt.; Straight, $8.'25. EK2S, 18.^ D*?do3.; fresh, 20c. itfeuts SirLuin and porter house steak, 18c; rib roasts, 15c; cack roasts, 12% c; mutton chops, 18c; fore quarter, 15c; round steak, 15c; shoulder, 12% c; Teal, 15@18c; pork chops, 15c; pork roasts, 15c; ham, 15; bacon »nd dry bacon, 15c; shoulders, 12% c; J<»ra beef, 9id;loc; sausage pork, 153; Boioke<i nausage, 15c; lard in jars, 15c: per •single lb., 15c; in kegs 12'^e; dried bed", 15c. JOHN W. RUMSET & CO., Coiaiaission Grain and Provisions 126 Washington St.. Booms 18 and 19, CHICAGO - - - ILL Financial and Stock Markets. KOBNINQ BEFOBX. New York. May 23.— 11 a. m. — Stocks opened generally strong and >6@Js P er cent, higher, the latter for Delaware & Hudson. Im mediately after the opening there was a further slight improvement in the general^ist, after which the market became weak and declined % @J4 P or cent., led by Chicago & Northwestern and Denver & Bio Grande. At 11 o'clock prices rallied % per cent., the latter for Central Pa cific. AFTERNOON nEPOItT. Prime mercantile paper 5@6 per oent. Bar silver, 1.09%. Sterling exchange steady at $4.84% long, *4.53 sight. Governments J$ per cent, lower for threes and four and a half.-; registered; unchanged fur other issues . State Securities— and featureless. Bonds ßailroad bonds strong. Stocks — After 11 o'clock, though dull, were strong, and shortly before noon sold up %@1 per cent . , Central Pacific, Delaware, Lackbiwan na & Western and Michigan Central leading in the upward mjvement. At noon there was a sharp reaction of % per cent. Morning Board Quotations. OOVEKNMESTa. Fivo3 extended! . 102% Trurees 103)^ 4>^ do 113% lWificos of '95.1127 Fours coupons . . . 119.^ BTOOX3 Adams Express. .126 Mo. Pacific 1923£ Allogneny Cent.. 15)* Mobile & 0hi0. . . 14 Alton &T. . . . 69,-* Morns & Essex . . 125 do preferred. . 92 £ N., C. & St. L. . . 53 American 92 N. J. Central ... 78 8., P. &W North'n Pacific. 49 ' 8., 0. 11. & N... 80 do preferred... 86 Canada Southern. 64; Northwestern 129% C.,C. &I.C do preferred... 148 -'4 Central Pacific... 73 J* X. Y. Central. . .121% Chesapeake 0. . 19 N. V., C. &St. L., 10^ do Ist pref'd. . . 29 do preferred. . 2334 do pref'd ... 21}* Ohio Central 10% Chicago & Alt ... 131;* Ohio & Miss 823* do preferredf. .140 do preferred*. .100 C., B. & Q 122 '4' Ontario & West . . 25% C., S. L., & N. Of 80 Pacific Mail 42 C, B. (tCleve .... 37 Panama 93 Cleveland &Col. 67 H Peor.a, D. & E.. 173* Delaware & H ... 1 10}* Pitteburg 180 Del.&Lack 1233* Reading 53 Denver &K. G . . . 46% Hock Island 121% Erie 85>^ St. L. &8. F 31% do preferred . . . 79% do preferred . . . 523* Fort Wayne 132& do Ist pref'd... 963* Han. & St. Joe*.. 42 Mil. & St. Paul ... 102 do preferred ... 9 4 do preferred ... 119 Harieni 195 St. Paul & Man. 124 Houston & Tex . . 68 St. Paul & O'ha. . 45% Illinois Centralf- 1 2% do preferred. . .1033* Ind., B. & West.. 27 Texas Pacific .... 853* Kansas & Texas.. 28 J* Cmon Pacific .... 92 4 Lake Erie 2t> ! 4 Uni tod States.... 56 Lake Shore 108H' Wab.,St. L. & P. . 26-* L' viUe & Nash ... 48% do preferred ... 42% L., N. A.&C*. .. 54 Wells & Fargo... 123 M. &C. Ist pfd. . 10 West. Union X. . . 81% do 2d pref'df. . 5 Qtiioksilvor 73>s Memphis &C. . 13 uc preferred ... 33 Mich. Central 92% Pullman Pal. Car. 1:K:)* Minn's & St. Lf . . 25^ C, St. L. & Pitts. 2-» do preferred... 51% do preferred ... 55).{ *Asked. tßid. tOSered. |;Ex. int. p&per 5@G per cent. Sterling exchange, bank^ra' bills steady at $4.84%; do. ex. de mar.d, $4.88 }*. Governments-! I. ivy a^d generally % per cent, lower. Bonds — Railroad bonds strong on a moderate volume of business. State Securities Dull and featureless . Stocks The market was stronger throughout the day and the result of the day's business was an advance of 3^@2}^ per cent, on the whole list, the market closing at about the highest prices of the day for everything. The extreme advance in Central Pacific was 2% per cent, to 75, from which it reacted to 74%; in Union Pa cific 1 per cent, to 93%, in Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 1% per cent, to 123; in Delaware, Lackawanna & Western \% per cent, to 124>£; in Oregon Transcontinental 1% per cent, to 82J£; ' in Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha I}£ percent, to 46%, closing at 46; in New Jersey Central 1% per cent, to 79%, closing" at 78%; in Philadelphia & Reading 1% par cent, to 58^, closing at 53>£; in Delaware & Hudson \% per cent, to 110%; in Chicago, Milwaukee) & St. Paul l} 4 per cent, to 102%, from which it reacted to 102%; in Michigan Central 1 per cent, to 93}£, reacting to 93. MINING STOCKS. Mining stocks fairly active; Navajo sold at 175@185, Sierra Nevada 638@675, Union Con solidated Coo@7oo, buyer thirty days; Yellow Jacket at 41, Consolidated Virginia 65®02 cents, Chrysolite 115@11'J, Iron Silver 305^300, and Sonora Consolidated 62@65 cents. Sales for the day 58,620 shares. Pipe Li^e certificates dull until the last call, when they became fairly ac tive but weak; opening at 10334, they declined to 1013-j, closing on call at 101%. The transactions aggregated 382,000 shares: Central Pacific 21,000; Delaware, Liickawanna & Western 88,000; Denver & Rio Grande 24,000; Erie 17,000; Lake Shore 15,000; Louisville & NashviLle 10,00 ; Chicago & Northwestern 18,000; New Jersey Central 13,000; New York Central 8,000; Northern Pac fie 14,000; Phila delphia & Reading 5,000; Chicago, Milwaukee _ St. Paul 27,000; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapo lis & Omaha 6.000; Tex^s Pacific 8,000; Union Pacific 48,00 li; Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific 10,000; Western Unirn Telegraph 5,0-0; East Tennessee, Virginia _ Georgia 8,000; Oregon Transcontinental 13,000. Alteration Hoard Quotations, OOTERNMENTB . Three per cents . . 103}£ Fours do H9}fj Fives extended... 102 Pucifici)3 of »95..1'i!7>3 4J4 coupons 113>i STATE bONDS. La. consols 64% Tenn . 6a, new . . . . 3.<3^ Missouri 6s 112><j Virginia 6s 35 St. Joe 110 Consols^ 87 Term. 6s, old .... 89}£ Deferred 109 KAILBOAD BONDS. C. P. Bonds, let..H4}£ U. P. land grant. lo7% Erie seconds 98% Sinking fund.... 116 Lehigh & West... 104 % Tex. P. grant 8 . . 61>£ St. P. S. o. lst .112 do Rio G. div . . 82 U. P. Bonds, 16t*115)4 STOCKS. Adams Express ... 128 Missouri Pacific . . 102% Allegheny Cent.. 15>£ Mobile & 0hi0... 14>$ Alton _T. H 1 0 Morris & Essex . . 125 doprefeired... 93 N., C. & St. L. . 52 American 02 N. J. Central. ... 79% 8., C. R. & N .... 80 Norfolk & VV. pf .. 40 Cauada South'n . . 64^ Northern Pacific. 43 V^ C. St. L. & Pitts. 20 do preferred. . . fa% do preferred.. 57J^ Northwestern. . 130 C, C. -I. C do pref erred... 148>£ Central Pacific . . . 74^ N. Y. Central 121% Chesapeake- 0.. 193^ Ohio Central lOjf do Ist pref'd. . 2 i% Ohio & Mu>e 82 do 2d pref'd... 21% do pref erred*.. 10 Chicago & Alt... a ' Ontario & West .. 26% do prof erred... 14'J Oregon Trans.... 82% C, B. & 12 Pacific Mail 42% C., St. L. &N. O. 81 Panama 98 C, S. & Clev 37 : eoria, D. & X.. 17% Cleveland & Col . . 69 Pittsburg 130 Delaware & 11...110>_ Pullman Pal.Car.l27>_ DeL & Lack 124% Reading 53>$ Denver&R.G... 4tj^ Rock Island 122% Erie 35% St. L. & St. F. . . 31% do preferred . . . 78% do preferred ... 55 East T., V. & G . . 9>s do Ist pref'd ... 97 do preferred ... 1 8% Mil . & St. Paul . . 102% Fort Wayne 132 do preforred ... 119 Han. & St. Joe*.. 42 St. Paul & Man. .124 do preferred... 94% St. Paul & Om'a. 40 Harlem ." .194 do preferred. . .104j^ Houston & Tex*. 70 Texas Pacific 80>a Illinois Central.. 143 Union Pacific... 93 Ind., B. & West. . 28 United States. ... 60 Kansas & Texas. . 28% \V., St. L. & P. . . 27 Lake Erie & W. . 27 do preferred. . . 42% Lake Shore 108% Wells & Fargo. ..124 Louisville &N... 48% Western U. T. ... 82% L.,N.A. &C*... 55 Homestake 15 M. &C. Ist pfd.. 10 Little Pitts do 2d pref'd ... 5 Ontario 25 Memphis &C . . . . 41 Quicksilver 7% Mich. Central... 98 1^' do erred ... 38 Minn's & St. L... 26>§ South. Pacific do preferred. .. 55% Sutro 21 ♦Asked No sales. JOffered. lix. mat. conp. _Ex. div. ||Ex. int. ill. DOBASPB BKPOSEb The following quotations giving the tau to the markets daring the day were received by SI. Douan, Commission Merchant: Liverpool, May 23. Spot wheat quiet. Corn weaker. Cargoes off coast inactive. Car goes cm passage a penny lower. Floating car goes slow. London dull. English and French country markets slow. WHEAT MILWAUKEE. CHICAGO. June. July. June. July. 9:30 a.m. 10:)>£ 112 .... 112)6 9.45 " 109> 2 ' 112»4 Uo><£ 10:00 " 110^ 112% 10:15 " 11035 112)$ 10:3.1 " 109% 112}£ 110& U2>_ 10:45 " .... .... 11-10 " 109jJ£ \YL\i 110 X 11234 11:15 " 110# \\l\i 11:30 " 109^ \Vl\i .... 112% 11:45 " 109 X l»2k' Ho>s' 112>£ 12:00 " 109% 112 lll)^' 1129* 12:15 " 112i 4 12:30 " IOiJJi 111% 109% Il2ji 12:45 ** 109% 112 1:00 " 109 X 111% 109% 112% 2:00 *• 2:15 " 109>^ 111% .... 2:30 " IGl)>£ 111% 2:45 " 109% 112 .... 112# Year wheat closed in Chicago at 1.09)£. coati. Chicago. Chicago. A. m. June. July, am June. July. 9:30 50% 58!^ 12:00 56% 58^ 10:00 57 58>| 12:15 .... 58 % 10:15 57 58>-a 1:00 56% 575£ 10:30 57 58>£ 2:30 56.V£ 57% 11:30 56% 58}£ 2:45 56% 57% 11:45 56% 58.^ OATS. Chicago. Chicago. St. June. July. is. June. July. 9:SO 42& .... 1:00 41% 41}£ 10:45 42% 41% 2:00 41% 41 ,4 11:00 .... 41% 2:15 .... 41% 11:15 42 41% 2:35 41% ilk 11:45 .... 41^ k\>RK. Chicago Chicago. K. M. June. July. A.a June. July. 9:30 .... 19.50 12:00 19.35 19.50 10:00 19.423^ .... 12:15 19.27^ 19.47^ 10:15 .... 19.60 12:30 19.20 19.87>£ 10:80 19.40 19.573^ 1:00 19.125* 19.27 M 11:00 .... 19.55 2:00 19.07^ •••. 11:30 19.373*19.52^ 2:15 .... 19.25 11.45 19.40 19.573* ASSOCIATED PRESS MARKETS. Hllwaaken Produce Market. Milwauk&z, May 23.— Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat steadier; No. 2 1.08%; May 1.08%; June 1.09%; July 1.12; Sep tember 1.12 Corn easier; No. 2 663^c. Oats dull; nominally lower; No. 2 41}£c; white 45c asked. Rye firmer; higher; No. 1 61}>£c; No. 2 59>£c. Barley dull; extra No. 3 55c bid; 55% c asked. Pro'-wraa lower; mess pork 19.30 cash and .; me; 19.50 July. Lard, prime steam 11.85 o^oh and June; 11.90 July. Lire hogs easier; 6.90@7.30. Freights, wheat to Buffalo 2J£c. Butter dull and weak. Cheese quiet and unchanged. Eggs quiet. Re ceipts, 7,715 barrels of Hour; 10,316 bushels of wh«,»t: 5,536 bushels of barley. Shipments, 14,084 barrels of fi'.>ar;i)so bushels of wheat; 4,674 buehelb of barley. Chicago Livestock. Chicago, May 23.— The Drovers' Journal re ports: Hogs, receipts 17,009; shipments 700; weak and lower; bacon hogs steady; all others '*">■'"-» _,„ ; toASx BOa2 IS: hea^v 7.203) THE ST. PAUL DAILY &LOBB, IHUKSDAY MORNING, MAY 24,1883. weak. Cattle, receipts 6,500; shipments 2,100; market fair; Hupping cattle weak; 10c lowar; exports 6.10iCCG.35; good to choice shipping 5.80@6.10; commou to fair 5.15@5.75. Sheep, receipts I,0o0; shipments none; moderate y active and prices firm; common to fair B.7s{t£ 4.5 C; good" 5. 51'; choice 5.75. Chicago Froduce Market. CaiOAGO, May 23. — Flour quiet and un changed; spring wheat 8.50@5.C0; Minnesota 8.50@4.25; bakers' 4.25@5.75; patents 6.00@ 7.50; winter wheat 4.00@6.00. Regular wheat unsettled and lower; 1.09 May; 1.03% June; 1.12@1.12% July; 1.13 August; 1.13^@1.13% September; 1.09%@1.09& year; No. 2 Chicago spring 1.09; No. 8 Chicago spring 93c; No. 2 red winter 1.12%. Corn unsettled and lower; 55% c cash and May; 56%@56^c June; 57% c July: 58% c August; 58% c September; 52 year. Oats easier; 4l^c cash; 4l%£f4l^c May; 41% c June; *l&o July; 84% ; August; 32% c year. Rye firmer; G2>sc. Barley dull; nominal; 80c. Flax seed quiet; 1.43. Pork in fair demand at lower rates; 19.10319. 15 cash and May; IJ.l2>s@H.ls Jure; 19.80 July; 19.47%@ 19.50 August; 19.C2>5^19.65 September; 17.3J year. Lard in fair demand; lower rates; 11.65 cash and May; U.70@U.72>. June; 11.80® U. 82% July; U.65@U.67% August; 11.60 September; 10. 10.70 year. Bulk meats iv fair demand; shoulders 8.00; short ribs 10.40; do clear 10. Si. Butter quiet and weak; creamery 15@2.!c; dairy 12@18c. Eggs in fair demand; 16>o@l7c. Whisky steady and un changed- Freights, corn to Buffalo 2c. — Wheat irregular; fairly active; declined %c June, and advanced %c July, August and September. Corn fairly active and a shade hiyhor; 66?£c June; advanced %c July, August and September. Oats active and firm; advanced 1 . c May. Pork active but lower; 19.07 June; 1'j.25 July; 19.42.i0(tji9.45 August. Lard in fair demand; fee lower September. Receipts, l?, 000 barrels of flour; 2?,0C0 bushels of wheat; 142,000 bushels i_|of corn; 84,000 bushels of oats; 1 -1,000 bushels of rye; 13.000 bushels of barley. Ship ment?, 160 barrels of flour; 21,000 bushels of wheat 15. ',010 busnels of corn; 133,000 bushels of oats; 4,100 bushels of rye; 4,600 bushels of barley . N«w York Produce Market. JS*jw Yobk, May 23.— Flour doll; | receipts 21,550 barrels; exports C,030; superfine state and western 3.£0iC(4. 25; common to good extra 4. l'J@4.£o; good to choice 4.65 &7.00; extra Ohio 4.75@6.75; St. Louis 4.10 @7.00; Minnesota patent process 5.60@7.40. Wheat opened 'i^^c batter, afterwards lost the advance and fell off K@J4c, closing 6trong; receipts 220,000 buebels; exports 36,54U; ungraded red 1.(6@1.20; steamer No. 3 red 1.15; No. 2 red 1.19){@1.19% elevator; un graded white 1.07<£1.23; No. 2do 1.06 j 4 ; No. 1 i do 1.13^1.13%; No. 2 red May baled 72,000 bushels at 1.19^@1.19%, closing at 1.19>^; June sales 600.000 bushels at 1.19)£@1.20)£, closing at 1.1 9^; July sales 1,896,0U0 bush els at 1.21%@1. 22>£, closing at 1.22; August sales 1,072,000 bushels at i.22>£@1.23, clos ing at 1.22%, 83ptember sales 1,400,000 bushels at 1.i!3K@1.24)£, closing at 1.24. Corn opened 3-i<S»i.'B c better; subsequently ruled weaker anJ. reacted %<&%<:, closing stronger; receipts 78,00'J bushels; exports £4,54i> bushel*; ungraded sUg6sc; No. 3 63@63^c: steamer 64^^65%; No. 2 65%@ 66% c; old No. 2 68c elevator; No. 2 May 64%@65. . 4 'c, closing at 65c; June 64%@65>^, closing at 65c; July 66J^@6C%c, cosing at C6J^c; August 67%@68X0, closing at 68c; Sep tember C9^C9Xc, closing at 69c. Oats %@.}se lower; fairly active; receipts 124.500 bushels; : exports 660; mixed western 49@52c; white western 51)<i@6uc. Cotfea dull and nominal. Sugar quiet; refined steadier; standard A 8?£c; ! granulated 8 13-16@;8%c. Molasses steady; fair | demand; Nev leans 33^58c. Rice firm; : domestic s<6£7c; Rangoon s@s^c; duty paid. i Petroleum dull; united 1.01%; refined 7>£@7%c. Tallow firm; fairly active; 7 15-16@8c. Rosin quiet. Turpentine firm. Eggs, western higher; firm; 18@18>£c. Pork firm; new mass 2l.i2>£ @'i 0.25. Beef dull and nominal. Cut meats dull and nominal; long clear middles 11.25. Jjard steady; primo steam 11.85; June 11.80 (gi11. 86; July i1.85@i1.93; August 11.77@ 11.84; September 11.70@11.74. Butter dull and weak. Cfioeso stronger. ______ | . Cincinnati Whisky Market. j Cincinnati, May 23.— Whisky steady i and unchanged; 1.13. Dry (foods. New Yokk, May — The feature of the ' market to-day has been the auction gale of wool- ' en and the attendance of buyers very large. The Merchant Woolen company's beavers, Mos- ! cows and other ovei coatings sold very low and very unsat sfactory to owners . The plain and lo:ie*ak fancy cassim res did very well, and for forced sale and trade opposed to purchases other thiui actual requirements. Prie s very fair to good. Gen ral market otherwise v. ry dull. Duluth Market, [Special Telegram to the Globe.] Duluth, May 23.— The markets on 'change to-cl.4y were lower but fairly active; No. 1 hard in car lots sold at 1.14%; B,lo} bushels No. 2 hard sold at 1.11; 1.13 bid for No. 1 hard Sep tember and 1.10 bid for year; held at 1. 12)4; receipts 14.G88 bushels; in store 1,382,265; ship ments 20,000 bushels. The Hurt and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family meiiicire, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the press and people of the country hud expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff in stead, expecting to mike money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put ud in similar style to H. 8., with variously clevis d names in which the word "Hop," or "Hops" were used in a way to in duce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or ; cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word "Hop" or "Hops" in tneir name or in any way connected with them, or their name, i^re imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine Hop Bit eers, with a bunch or cluster of green hops on the white label. Trust nothing else. Druggists aid dealers are warned against dealing in imi tations or counterfeits. Suffolk's Hem*. Letter to the London News. Apropos of yoar interesting leader,al low me to state for the benefit of history lovers, that I found no difficulty some four or five years ago in seeing the head of the Duke of Suffolk — alluded to in the ar ticle — at the Church of Holy Trinity, Mi nories. The custodian of the keys was found in a neighboring manufactory, where he is employed but being well known there was no difficulty in bringing him to the spot. The church itself is worth a visit in these ritualistic days of prieu-dieus and hassocks. It has the bare and uncom promising aspect of the Calvanistic Church of my youth, thi hiijh family pews, and the same awe-inspiring odor of sanctity and musty age. Doubtless few of the con gregation peering up from their pews to the preacher aloft are aware that under neath the pnlpit in an ordinary box that a ghastly but interesting relic of political intrigue and swift vengeance, the head of Suffolk. Most of the teeth are well pre served, but a few have fallen out and rat tle weirdly iusi.ie the skull. The forehead is sloping and intellectually weak; the eyes were still in the sockets wnen I saw them, and the skin well preserve 3 and hard from having been kept in tannin. The neck shows the muscles started from the first ineffectual cut of the axe. Immediately below comes the next clean fatal blow. The New York World announaes itsalf as opposed to monopolies, to some monopo lies more than to others. Monopolies like all other evils have their decrees. There are even gooi monopolies, remarks the World. *Women ate rapidly fir.ding places in the leaned professions ai,d thy more lucrative oc cup.iLio:> from which they were formerly ez clu:lwl. Many r.re graduating in medicine. llr.-. Lydia K. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., is a minister of health to thousands who may never touch the horn of har garment or behold the THE HEART OF THE WOULD. A Upot in London Which Is the Center o the Globe's Traffic [Tendon Cor. Xew York Time?.] There are some sights of London, "real live sights 1 * at that, which, though they escape the attention of the gentry, can not fail to impress an ob server of ordinary keenness aud intelli gence. And among the most important of these objects of interest are certainly to be classed the Mansion House, the Eoyal Exchange, the Bank ot England, aud their surroundings. They are all in the heart of what is known as " the City. " London, it must be remembered, is divided, for the purposes of govern ment, into what may be called London proper, with twenty-six wards and a number of "liberties" and the "out parishes," the city of Westminster, and the seven Parliamentary boroughs of Chelsea, the Tower hamlets, Marylebone, Lambeth, Finsbury, Hackney and Southwark. Each of the boroughs is represented by two members in iiie House of Commons. "Westminster is also entitled to two aud the city of London to four. But this is a digression. As has been said, the Mansion House, the Royal Exchange and the Bank of England, three of the most noteworthy buildings in the world, are situated in what is known as " the City," and surrounded by the richest im I most extensive banking-houses, commercial firms and insurance offices in the kingdom. It has been said, perhaps not ma ptly, that the site immediately in front of the Exchauge upon which stands the famous statue of Wellington i 3 the heart of the world. It certainly is so to the extent of being the heart of London. No other square of the size in the world can boast of such traffic. From it radiate no less than eight of the most important thor oughfares in great Londoa. King Will iam street, Lombard street, Thread needle street, Cornhiil, Wallbrook, Can non street, Princes street and Cheap side, all through the day and night, empty living streams into it. Froni daybreak until long after dark great crowds are ever coming and going. En* few women are seen. This is almost ex clusively a man's region — a region to make money in — :i»d to lose it. There goes, puffing, a fat man, fat and short, with a white waistcoat, a sallow, tallowy sort of face, and a long hooked nose, ■which plainly reveals his Jewish origin. That man's name is known to every banker in the world. At the bottom of a check it is good for millions, not of dollars, but of English pounds; yet he hurries along with far more trouble and anxiety stamped upon his faca than is ever likely to be ex perienced by that swaggeriug young officer who strolls carelessly into Lombard street to negotiate a loan of a few hundreds. There rear him, walking as though his life depended upon the pace, comes a familial- figure in this quarter — a stockbroker. He does not dress so well as do his brethren in New York, but he has the same keen, restless eyes. He wears a flower in the buttonhole of his close-fitting cut-away coat. Types, almost identical, of the same figure, and every one decorated with a buttonhole flower, are all about. Bank messengers in uniform and with black bags move here and there in the throng; tall policemen — they arc numer ous here — watch them protecting';-, and they carry their treasure saiely ; occa sionally a dashing fellow, a pick-pocket, or a sullen- looking knave, a sneak-thief, slinks out of sight of these same police men; but not so the venders of obscene literature. They are bold fellowd in "the City," and apparently on t'ne best of terms with the authorities. To be sure, they keep their \ ooks with flaring covers out of fight under their coats most of the time, but when they see a possible customer, a sailor, a "ilush** looking clerk or a countryman, they do not scruple to display tii^-r pictnrea of women altogether too Eve li*e in the mutter of costume, or to loudly proclaim the me lilt, of "the wery latent v ■>■. covet The racy udventures of a clergrman'a daughter in Londing." On the tdde walks or out in tb ? roadway, it is nil one to them. Under the heads of the horses, rivaling the boys, who all day long sweep the street filth into dust-pans, these young rascals ply their trade. How they escape death and mangling from the ever-whizzing wheels of the car riages and cabs and hansoms, whose oc cupants they hope to make buyers of thvir books, is a mystery to a stranger. Aud even greater seems the wonder that tlu-se same vehicles, with drays, and c-irts and omnibuses, and piemen's and hucksters' wagons beside, do not be come hopelessly "blocked," mixed, in terlocked, broken out of all use and shape in that small square to which run so many streets. But they never do Income "blocked," and, though some of the cabs and hansoms dart along at the top speed of good horses, the percent age of accidents is very small. It may ■c thai this immunity from mishaps is to be attributed to the great care of the policemen, and to the fact that in the London streets vehicles of every sort are ■bliged to move briskly in line and to the left, not to the right, as is the case hi most other places. AX INDIAN TRADITION OF THE GREAT FLOOD. One morning water wa^ brought to Mann, and alter he bad washed himself 11 lish remained in his bauds, and it ad ■lressed these words to him : " Protect me and I will save thee." "From what will tou nave me ? " "Adelago will hwo all creatures away • it is from that I will .-save thee." •' How shall I protect thee ? " The fish replied : '• While we . arc* small wo run great me at first in a vase ; when I become too large for it, dig a basin to put me into. When I shall have grown still more, throw me into the ocean ; then I shall be preserved from destruction." Soon it grew into a large fish. It said to Mann : " The year in which I reach my full growth ths deluge will happen. Then build a vessel and worship me. When tho waters rise enter tho vessel and I will save thee." £Aiter keepiag him thus, Manu carried the iish to the sea. In the year indi cated Manu built a vessel and wor shiped the fish. And when the deluge came he entered the vessel. Then the fish came swimming up to him, and Manu fastened the cable of the ship to the horn of the fish, by which means the latter made it pass over the Mountain of the North. The fish said : "I have saved thee ; fasten the vessel to a tree that the water may not sweep it away while tliou art on the mountain; and in proportion as the waters decrease then shall descend." Maau descended with the waters, and i'.iis is wliat is called the descent of Maun on the Mountain of the North. Tbc deluge had carried away all creatures, and Manu remained alone. WHALE BONE. Aside from its oil-yielding properties, the whale also serves man's needs by furnishing him with whalebone. This was once an important article of com merce, but the supply and demand have for many years been diminishing. Tu3 fact is the whale does not Etva "in the North sea as much as he once did, and the decline in the New Bedford oil busi ness is reflected in a measure in th-3 whalebone industry. As the supply fell off substitutes for the article ware dis covered. Steel takes the place of whale bone in umbrella manufactures, and the latter now finds its chief uses ia the mail ing of whips aud corsets. The preliminary preparation of whale bone is about as follows: When the raw bone is received the hair is first cut from the slabs. These are then soaked in water until they become soft, after which all the gum which adheres to them is removed by scraping. They now go to a steam box, where a workman straight ens them with a knife. After polishing they are ready to bo worked up into various forms. There are certain places where it is probable that no known ma terial answers so well as whalebone, and it is said that a fortune awaits the inven tor who devises an ellioient substitute for it. Experiments, looking to this end, have been made with rawhide. Since the decadence of the hoop-skirt fever the price of whalebone Las de clined very materially, but the price was at its zenith in the last century. Tne Dutch formerly obtained $3,500 a ton for whalebone, but since 17G3 it has never commanded such high figures. In 1818 the price was $450 ; in 1831, from $530 to $545 ; and in 1841 it ranged be tween $1,080 for Southern to 52,550 for Northern bone. We learn that in the upper jaw of the whale ara thin, paral lel lamina?, varying in size from three to twelve feet in length, and that these are what are known as " whalebone." The quality which commands the high est price is about six feet in length, Bad is called "size bone." It is said that the Greenland whale furnishes tit" best bone. From the mouth of these huge creatures from 2,000 to 3,000 pouuils ara often taken. — Scientific American. FLORENCE'S FIRST LEI I EIi. Here is the best specimen of precocity we have known. The letter was re ceived by a prminent gentleman of Bos ton, and the handwriting, though in printing, was strongly suggestive of his son-in-law : Dearest Grandpa : I was a week old yester day afternoon, and papa said if i was a good girl last night that I might write a letter to my own grandpapa to-day. I was good last night, and mamma had a good night, too, and she and I are " both doing well." Papa is doing well, too. I like my two grandmammas quito too utterly much. I want to set! my grand, papa, and Bee if he is really and truly an " elderly gentleman," as manini&'d mamma says he is. I like your picture ever to much, dear, grandpapa, and don't think you look "elderly at all. Mamma says you arc coming to see me soon, and lam so glad. I want you to come as soon as you can, and stay a long time, ana you and I can talk over old times together. Won't that be preciously precious ? They haven't told you anything about me in their letters to you, so I'm just going to tell you about myself. I I have blue eyes, and hair of an auburn hue. I am perfect in all respects, ieally and in tellectually (ptpa taught me those two big words this morning). I cat a got d deal, aad the nurse says lam a little pig. I hleep eonae but don't cry at all, except when very hungry. I have one (1) nose, two (2) eye*, two (2) oars one (1) mouth, ten (19) fingers and ten (10) toes. I take an inventory every morning to see that they are all right. Now, I want to send my love to all my nice relation?, and I must stop, because lam tired. I shall be so glad when you come. We are all well and happy. I hope you will love me, dear grandpapa, as much as I love you, and that you will soon an swer tnia first letter from your loving grand daughter, Florence. P. S.— Ain't you glad I'm a girl ? — Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. THE SHARES ALPHABET. M. is a min-ing com-pa-ny — It has cer-tif-i-cates And shares and di-rec-tors. Where is the mine ? I do not know. Has it a treas-u-ry ? Oh, yes ! There is a treas-u-ry ! M. is the mine. M. T. is the mine treasury. — Quiz. The craze for antiquities pervades everything. The millionaires build their lions in the style of one age, decorate them in the style of another aad fur nish them in the style of a third. -The nim tree wil! >•"* 1,.- n- ; cloned, CURIOUS PATES TS. Products of Our Tmnkee Invention. Some investigating person has hv: nish<?d the New York limes with a brief list of patents on small things — such as any man or boy might have thought of, but didn't, and which in many instances have proved mine 3 of wealth to the lucky discoverer. Among these trifles is the favorite toy — the "return ball" — a wooden boll with an elastic string attached, selling for the sum of 10 cents each, but yield ing to its patentee an income equal to fair returns on a capital of $500,000. Tho rubber tip on the end of lead pen cils affords the owner of the royalty; 1 / independent fortune. The inventor .•; the gummed newspaper wrapper is ■ '. a rich man. The gimlet-pointed scr.^w has evolved more wealth than most . il ver mines, and the man who first thought of putting copper tips to children's shoe 3 is as well off as if his father had left him $2, 000,000 in United States bonds. Al though roller-skates ar.; not so much used in countries whore ice is abundant, in South America, especially in Brazil, they are very highly esteemed and have yielded over $1,000,000 to their inventor. But he had to spend $125,000 in En gland alone fighting infringements. Tho " dancing Jim Crow," a toy, provide •■ an annual income of $30,000 to its invent or, and the common needle threader is worth 810,000 a year to the man who thought of it. The " drive voli " was an idea of Col. Green, whose troops, during the war, wore in want of water. He conceived the notion v* unv ing a two-inch tubo into the ground un til water was reached and then a; bach ing a pump. This simple contrivance was patented after the war, and the tens of thousands of farmers who have adopt ed ,it have been obliged to pay him a royalty, a moderate estimate of whi.ii is placed at 52.000.000. The spring window shade yields an income equnl f an investment of §1,000,000 ; the t-;ty!.. -graphic pen, with which this article is written, also 81,000,000; the marking pen for shading in different color-, §100,000 ; rubber stamps, the same. A large fortune has betn reaped by a West ern miner who, ten years since, invented a metal rivet or eyelet at each end of the mouth of breeches and coat pockets to resist the strain caused by the car riage of pieces of ore and heavy tools. Fortunes have been made out of the dead as well as the living. The torpedo grave, which will explode when body snatchers meddle with it, is one bonanz <: another odd, but probably not lucrative one, is an open tube, running from the top of tlio ground to the coffin-lid, just over the face of the corpse. Ii the per son is in a trance and has been buried alive, he draws himself up through the hole and returns to the surface by means of a rope-ladder in the tube. It he pre fers, however, to send for assistance, Le pulls a cord which rings a bell near the top of the tube. After lying there long enough to assure his friends that he has no intention of coming back the tube is pulled up, drawing as it comes a rrlass plate over the face of tho inmate of the coffin. Every time a woman pricks the shell of an egg preparatory to boiling it she violate.'} a patent right, this having been Becured by some genius who discovered that it would prevent their breaking during the boiling. It having been said that chickens hatched by artificial heat do not thrive as v/ell as others because they miss the maternal affect ion ex pressed in the "cluck, cluck" of th<3 natural hen, an inventor has taken out a patent which imitates that sound, soothing and charming the tender-heart ed but bereaved offspring with its artifi cial croon and consoling the young orphan with its mechanical solicitude. This i 3 based evidently upon another patent for babies of a machine operated by clock work and producing a low and melancholy murmur which no child, however wakeful, can successfully resist but to which it succumbs in profound slumber. There is also the false-bot tomed nest which deludes the hen into the belief that bhe has not laid an egg, and, combined with her own conscien tious devotion to duty, persuades her to continuance of her work until she is ex hausted or undeceived. A patent hen roost, by the action of the hens, closes the doors of a bee-hive at night aud opens them in the morning, protecting the hive against the ravages of the bee- E'lCth. A wire frame strung above a horse's! head is al?.o patented. It is trjeaut to persuade the animal that it is the top of a fence too high for him to overleap. This, of course, presume* that the horse is an ass. THE GREAT FYUAMIO. Richard A. Proctor claims that the structure was both a tomb and a i as tronomical observatory. When we re member, he says, that the astronomy of the time of Cheops was essentially as trology, and astrology a most important part of religion, we begin to ste how the erection of the mighty nnwa of masonry for astronomical purposes may be ex plained — or, rather, we see how, being certainly astronomical, it must be ex plained. Inasmuch as it is an astro nomical building, erected in a time when astronomy was astrology, it was erected for astrological purposes. It was in this sense a sort of temple, erected, indeed, for the peculiar benefit of one man or of a single dynasty ; but a3 ho was a King in a time when being a King meant a great deal, what benefited him he doubt less regarded as a benefit also to his people; in whatever sense tne Great Pyramid had a religious significance with regard to him, it had also a national religious significance. There is no other theory of the Great j common-serse interpretation of tne com bined astronomical and sepulcuval char acter of this wonderful structure. If it is certain on the one hand that the building was built astronomically, and was meant for astronomical observation, it is equally certain that it was meant for a tomb, that it was closed in very soon after the King died for whom it wa3 built, that, in fine, its astronomical value related to himself alonv. As an astro logical edifice, a gigantic horoscope for him and him only, we can understand its purport, much though we may marvel at ih^> vest i xpenditure of care, labor aud 'roaauro at which it was erected. 1 1 faith in astrology (and we Luij-.v ;.•••■ w.\i such a faitla), it was ■ : ' -.:l to build such a structure as the Grtat Pyramid, just as, granted iho ideas of tiia Egyptians about burial, we can understand the erection of so mighty a mass, and all save its special astronom ical character. Of no other theory than that which combines these two strange but most marked characteristics of the Egyptian mind can this be said. FORESTS AND RAIN. It would appear that the interest in the preservation of forests in this coun try has not come any too soon, as there are districts already threatened with the deathly aridity which lias caused ancient rivers in the Old World to shrink to languid streams, and converted fertile and productive regions into aliiiott un inhabitable waste?. The supply of water for the New York canals is run ning short. " Twenty- iive years ago," says cx-Gov. Alvord, of tnat State, "there was no such trouble. When I was a young man, Ononuaga creek was a busy, boisterous stream, that sup plied unlimited power for manufactur ing purposes. Now it is a sluggish, dirty, narrow coarse, lit for no other use th: u*tcußi .: « ewer." The reservoirs r." ." ' .' : '- 1 :t once furnished an ample j'.-;i,.y v.i k.« v for tho canals have s~i-iV .■. !, LJi now they furnish only a pr«Hjarioua r.nd insufficient supply, and this threatens to become exhausted — the result, it is believed, of the wanton destruction of the forests that once drew abundant rain from the clouds. Ex- Gov. Alvord believes that, before many years, the Legislature will be forced to direct its attention to the subject and adopt measures to protect the forests that are left and induce the planting of new ones in regions now too bare. — St. Lou is Republican. Josh Billiucs Heard From. 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