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Professional Cards. Advertisements under this bead will b*eiuuw*<l at the following -ate*,: five line* or ieea, per year - M 00 Eaoh additional Una. 1 00 MEDICAL 7. AC. WILKINS, M. D., * Oflloe front room* over Golden Earle Clot hi tv* Store, west aide of square. Keeldanne on East Harrison street opposite D. P Churob WL. KCALUBTEiI, M. D n • Physician and Surgeon. Surgical operation* of the Bye a spectaity. Office at New Sharon. lowa. 18 M JOSEPHINE TKNNKT, M. D., • Physician and Surgeon. Office on weal aide of public square, over Mia* Anderson's millinery *tore. Night oalls promptly attended. WG. MILLAR. . Dentist. Oflloe oa south aide of Square owJ. M-Jejea A Co’*., ahoe store Nitrou* Oxide Ga* used for paiaAil operation*. mT DR. M. L. JACKSON. Surgeon Dentist. Office In Exchange block, on High street, Oakaiooea, lowa, over J. W. Morgan's drug store. 19 Geo. j. turner, m. d.. Physician and Surgeon. Office on Market street, over Boyer A Barnes’ •tor*. Residence two blocks south and two block* west of postofltoe. 19 TAR. V. PARDUN, Magnetic Healer. office at hi* residence, three blocks directly south of postottoe, 1* prepared to treat all dis ease* except deafness with general satisfac tion Terms, $lO for SO treatment*. He will always be found at home | 19?) pd JR. J. C. BARRINGER, Physician and Surgeon, Oskalooaa. lowa. Oflloe northeast corner ot square, middle rooms up stairs in new Masonic building. Residence on Hie** street, 3 blocks east of square. Telephone connexion at office and residence with all parts of the city. 19 DK. W. M. WELLS. Catarrh, Throat & Lung Physician, And Specialist for Ohronio Diseases generally. Consultation personally or by letter. Office and Dispensyar over ways’Dru* Store. West High Street. Office hours from 9t019 a. M., and from 1 to&r. M. Consultation free. nl9 D. A. Hottma*. M. D. R. C. Hoffmaw, M. D. DBS. D. A. A R. C. HOFFMAN, Physicians and Surgeons. Office two doors north of Simpson M. E. ohurch. near B. K corner of square, Oskaloosa, lowa. Residence on Main street, three blocks east of the publio square. 12tf J. L. Cofftb. J- 8* Hodob A HODGE, Physicians ASurgeons. Will attend all calls, day or night. Office in the Frenkel rooms in Union block. Dr. Coffins residence, corner of Ellen and Jefferson; Dr. Hodge’s, residenoe on North Market Street. 19 ATTORNEYS. Dm. perdue, « Attorney-atrLaw, and Notary Publio, Rose Hill. lowa. 19tf W. 8. 1 'WOBTHT. O. N. Downs. 1 ” ENt RTHY A DOWNS. Attorneys-at-Law, Williams Block, Oskaloosa. lowa. SSylpd IfCFALL A JONES, Attorneys-at-Law, Oskaloosa, lowa. Office over Golden Eagle store. n* JC. WILLIAMS, • Attorney-at-Law, and Notary Public. Front room, up stain. In Park hurst's new building, Oskaloosa, la. IStf Gleason a haskell. Attorneys-at-Law. Office in Phoenix block, Oskaloosa, lowa. Business promptly attended to. 12ti JOHN A. HOFFMAN, ** Attorney-at-Law, and Notary Public. Office l block south of S E. corner ol Park. 12 JOHN O. MALCOLM, ** Attorney-at-Law. Collections promptly attended to. Office on north side, over Frankel’s bank. 12 JkOLTON A MCCOY, Attorneys-at-Law, Oskaloosa, lowa. Offi ',e over Knapp A Spald ing’s hardware store. 12 J C. BLANCHARD. Attorney-at-Law, OskaloflS*! lowa. Will practice in all the oouru Office over the Oskaloosa National Bank. 19tf T? M. DAVENPORT. * Attorney-at-Law, Oskaloosa, lowa. Bualneaa attended to in both State and Federal Court*. Office, rooms l and S, over A. M. Abraham's store, north side 80 Oko. w. Lamarr. Gao. C. Mo mo am. LAFPERTY a MORGAN. Attorneys-at-Law, Off O' over Oskaloosa National Bank, Oska looaa, lowa. l* C. P. sbarlk. L. a Scott. S EARLE A SCOTT. Attorneys-at-Law, and Notaries Public. Office first door west of Recorder's office. National Bank building, Oskaloosa, lowa. l*tf Robert kissick, Attorney-at-Law, and Notary Public, Oskaloosa, lowa. Office in Centennial block, over Frankel's clothing store, north side square. Practice in all of the court* of the State. 12 JOHN F. LACEY, ** Attorney-at-I>aw, and government claim agent. Office in Boyer A Barnes’ block, Oskaloosa, lowa. Prompt at tention given to collections. Probate business will receive careful attention. Business at tended to in the C. S. and State courts. 19tf PHILLIPS A GREEK, Attorneys-at-Law, and ( oileotion Agents. Attend to any legal business in the State and Federal Courts en trusted to tbem. Office over N. Oppenhelmer A Co.’s boot and shoe store, south side of ”, Oskaloosa, lowa. 19tf Jambs Carroll- Daribl Datis. F. F. Etabs. C't A RKOLL, DAVIS A EVANS. j Attorneys-at-Law. Oskaloosa, lowa, will practice in ail courts. Collections made a special feature. Office over Frenkel A Co’s., Bank. Branch office at New • Sharon. 12 J. A. L. Cbooeham. J. G. Crook ham. CROOK HAM k CROOKHAM, Attorneys-at-Law, Oakaloosa. lowa. Office over Mahaaka County Bank, southwest corner public square. Col* lection* made and remitted promptly. Convey ancing done. 19 JUO UIUIL, JKO. H. WlB&H, President. Caahler. L. C. Blamghaku, f ice-Presldent, The F&rmere’ & Traders’ NATIONAL BANK, CAPITAL SIOO,OOO. DIKE< T£)RB: Jno. Siebel, L. C. Blanchard, T. J. Blaokstone, G. B. MoTaU. H. W. McNeill, Matthew Ploksn, P. W. Phillips, Peter Stamps, 4. 6. Whitmore. OOKKKBPONDENTB: rirst National Bank, Chicago. Metropolitan National Bank, New York. 19tf Valley National Bank, St. Lonis. BANKING HOUSE -or- BICE i CO. The Oldest dank in Mahaska County. I WLU receive deposits and transact a general banking, exchange, nod collect too business, the eaane as an tneorperoted book. Exchange on all the principal cities of the Halted States and all cities of Europe bought and sold at same to suit tan purchasers. Passage tickets to and from all points la Europe for sale at the lowest rates. Ooileetioas still receive prompt attention We do a SUicUy legitimate banking bo si nets, and give the warns of customers apodal at tention. 19 fur* H. v. w. Dobom, Pm. W, A, Livolt, V.-Pwi. Canbiar —THE— most Malinal Bat, or OBEALOCMA, IOWA. nnciOMi w* H Bm«M. J J. H. Vawam, ©• H. L. Hr**cot. M. L. Lari, Jam** HkxvuMm. COMUSPONDENTB: 1 I Tint Mattoaal Bnnk, Maw Tartu Vv Gilman, Son * Co., Haw Tort- J Vint Mattoani Bank, Chleayo. Hide * Leather Mat*) Bank, Ctaloayo. 1* Davenport NaTl Bank, Daren port i. A. L. ctooun, H. •. Howard, President. V.-Prea. Job* K. BAiraa. Canhiar. I MAHASIA CODNTY BANK, Of OWK ALOQBA, IOWA. OrgmiLwi Padtr ths B&te Laws. PHD UP CAPITAMIOO f OOO. MoeUtaMan «*ab*> Um amount DIftBCTOM.I J.>. L; Orookkam W. A. Mmn. John O Bak»l®. MUtonCniokfaam, !•** Tnraoo, Wa O' lUiMlft, li MKittiL ff ( , C. .SHglSlfctf* J#ni & * *SCa«i-fy iraSSBV... , /• BANKING. IA, IOWA. VOL. 37, NUMBER 2. MONET, LAND, Ao. Israel M. Gibbs, Broker. Loans of all kinds negotiated. Mercantile paper bought and sold. Room 9, over “Farmers Traders' Bank, Oskalooaa, lowa. I9tf JOHN F. LACEY'S LAND AGENCY. I hire on my books a large number of farms and houses In town; also many thousand acres of wild land. If yon have real estate to sell or wish to buy, glvs me a call. 1 pay taxes in any part of the State. Conveyancing done. Oflloe In Boyer A Barnes' block, Oskalooaa, lowa. One hundred nice building lota In Laoey • addi tion to Oakaloosa. 99 Xd&nd Agenoy. Farms and Town Property for Sale, Taxes Paid, and Conveyancing Done. Office over Oskalooaa National Bank. 19tf Lafferty g Morgan. M. E. BENNETT, Rea) Estate k Loan Apt. MONEY TO LOAN in large or small amounts, on ong or short time. XU <IOO.OOO lxx <IOO,OOO Money to I*oan! At Six Per Cent Annual Interest, on 5 years’ time. In loans of SSOO and upwards; with privilege of paying SIOO and aoove la an □ual payments, if desired. I9tf JOHN P. HIATT. Cowan & Hambleton’s Loan & Abstract Office. (200,000 to loan at 6 per oent interest on five years time; borrower having the op tion to pay part or all of prin cipal after first year. We also have a complete set of Abstract Books of all Lends and Town Lots in Mahaska County, lowa. ABSRACTS OF TITLE MADE ON SHORT NOTICE. Office in front room of new Masonic building, north-east corner of Public Square. n!9 OSKALOOSA. IOWA. Residence and Garden Small Farm Plots For Solo. 1 am now prepared to sell in small or large lots to suit purchasers, and at reasonable fig ures, the whole of the farm known as the “STEWARD HEIRS” FARM, lying between the lowa City and Burlington roads. Immediately contiguous to the city, and now occupied as tenants by L. M. and J. C. Jackson. The farm is divided by the C-R I A P., and lays convenient r or division into Plots for RESIDENCE, GARDEN and PASTURE com bined. !t is believed to be Underlaid with Coal ! and has good drainage and water facilities. A complete plan and survey of the property may be seen at the office of Jno. O. Malcolm. Part ef the purchase money may be secured on any plot bought, il desired. 19tf CHARLES HUTCHINSON. MARBLE WORKS. OrtalGosa Marble Worts. F. W. McCall, Dealer In Ha..m,nu Tomb*. He,.) Bt'O,* Beaten an American Granite Mon aments, Ae. 19 OSKALOOSA. IOWA MACHINERY. ~~ VSRITOirS MACHINE WORKS, Oskaloosa, lowa, W. E. VERNON, Prop., MANUFACTURER OF STEAM ENGINES, From One to Twelve Horse Power. Machinists’ Supplies, Including Bhaftings, Puueys, Leather and Rub ber BelUng, Steam Fittings, etc., etc., furnished on short notice and at very reasonable rates. JOB WORK of all kinds neatly and quickly done. Call on me before yon buy anything in my line. Shope One Block North of Ex change Block. W- E. VERNON. PRICE LIST, Seevers & Neagle’s PRICE LIST. 12 lbs Granulated Sugar SI.OO 13 lbs Standard A Sugar 1.00 14 lbs Extra C Sugar. 1.00 8 lbs Good Green Coffee 1.00 8 lbs Good Brown Coffee 1.00 1 lb Can Best Full Weight Baking Powder. 26 • 1 lb Desiccated Cocoanut 30 1 lb Good Young Hyson Tea 30 1 lb Fancy Mixed Tea 60 20 kinds of Canned Goods, per can 10 1 lb Salmon. 15 2 lbs Salmon. 26 Celebrated White Rose Flour, per s&ckh, 1,35 20 Bars White Russian Soap 1.00 All Standard Brands Plug Tobac co, per lb 60 Earthenware, 3 gallons for 26 Southwest Corner Pub lic Square. GROCERIES. H. Snyder & Son, —DBALBKB IN— GROCERIES WUI tail an cheap an any other famine in the city. If you want a naok of tta BEST FLOUR! la the city, call on un. Everything Fresh. i 9 H. Snyder A Son. Yilif Bill! For Sou r gSSS-SSSS -- jjwr fflfSE&n -i-jgL X.-W- hubsey. MISCELLANEOUS. Horse shoeing. Tolbert A Miller, Blacksmiths, at their old stand west of Postofflce, will do Shoeing as low as any other shop in Oakaloo sa. 18 SASKALOOSA ENCAMPMENT,NO. 1L I. O. \J O. F. meets on first and third Monday evenings of each month, at Odd Fellows Hail. VlsiUng Patriarchs oordtally invited to attend. 8. L. Harv*y, C. P B. 8. Harbour, Scribe. *6 AHASKA LODGE NO. 18, I. 0. O. F., 111. meets every Saturday evening at the Odd Fellows’ Hall, one block north of the Postoflice. Visiting brothers cordially Invited to attend. Crab. Wray, w. l. Hows, Secretary. [SIJ N. G. jjHAS. W. TRACY. Civil Engineer. Office and residence on High street. 3 blocks east of Court House, Osksloosa. lowa. 33tf APPLY AT ONCE FOR AS A4IJCMCY FOB “•7 GEN. GRANT Bt Rob. B*n hflj hm. Oficisl Biographer L'. S. <\mfrees A Use. O. H. Tiffaur. D.D. Drui’i own ftuok only coyer* the wwr: UUa computer hia wonderful Hit story . death cmlyv/i rial, reHahls. and richly illustrated work. Don't he dr ester J by imitations Demand la (meaenar -,t»O0 <(. KITS Wanted Add res. HUBBARD HRO*., Chlonfo, Illlneta. WHITAKEB k SHRI7ER, Booksellers, Stationers, AND Wall Paper Dealers, 117 West High St, Oskaloosa, lowa. 19 C O A Is. Try the COA*. from John Burdess* New Shaft. It is of good quality and gives general satisfaction. All orders left at A. W. MARTINSTEIN’S STOKE on the southeast corner of the square, or at W. A. SERVERS’ STORE, on High street, will receive prompt attention. This mine is on the Beacon road one mile from town. 025yl Henry Walling* Dealer in Building Material of all Kinds, and contractor of BRICK AND RUBLE STONE WORK. Cisterns, Flubs and Cellars Built ou short notioe. Also have good Brick for sale at lowest market prloe. nl9tf Osks loose lowa. FAMILY GROCERIES. FOR Fresh Family and Fancy Groceries* Queensware and Glassware, Provisions of All Kinds AND FRESH VEGETABLES, In their season, go to A. W. MARTINSTEIN, I* Southeast Corner of Square. L. Cook & Son, Steam Plow Shops. We make a SPECIALTY of Plow, Reaper, and all kinds of Farm Machinery Repairing. Goods warranted to Rive satisfaction in all cases. Come in and see ns and give us a trial. m , L. Cook & Son. elvs Catarrh CREAM BALMMKI^JI Clenses the MWA MBAUJA Head_Allays Inflammation <S?M Heals the Sores. Bfcl Restores Senses of Taste, Mnell, Heal ing. A A positive Cure. A particle is applied into each nostril and is agreeable to use. Price 50 cents by mail or at Druggists*. Send for circular. ELY BROTH ERS, Druagists, Owego, N. Y nl-ly $5O REWARD $5O THK EQUAL OP “ y^plOWSHAßl^^^ PLUG TOBACCO. "The WiiwOsar" For Sale by Baumgart & White. H. Snyder A Son. M. Bacon A Co. J. W. Oiler. Soever* A Neagle Weeks A Durfee. W. F Hinesley. Shaw A Loring. Howard A Son. W. A. Rinker. J. B. Cruzen. F. P. O’Hara. Steward Bros. M. Martinateln. W. Fagan. Middieooff Bros. H. L. Spencer Company Steward Brothers. &owß r\R. J. W. MORGAN, Eye and Ear Physician. QBKALOOBA. IOWA. 19 VAPOR BATHS. 22 c. ts S Z <0 « L g. w # I .AM] m b-i s 31 i —) iii J * 5 S I(^z M-I,® g J 8 | h i S igi Z ° os«S|ft 55* E 2 ui g sS-sSS " m° i S -s*| i as ©a ®i«22 8 o« £ e I l a .i « wg aS|: = u & o ias S sigl.ir |! * p-r g ©2.2* 3 * O 2-q a ►’g p*3 it* 3««; s® jj 9—3 OR I L J CX2 < 6 3 GRAIN. J. H. Sheak, DULU m r=ty. ATNT, Will pay thn highest market prtee in Cash For ill till! il Bnii. TOO WU4. N«D Ml ELEVATOR w s The Oskaloosa Herald. OSKALOOSA, MAHASKA COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1885. BUSINESS OOLLEOE. )/D OSKALOOSA /w OSKALOOSA, lOWA.\^X ESTABLISHED IN IBM. •>k School TborotgUy Kqaipped for Office Training.-* Book-Keeping by Actual Business Practice. TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT, WITH SEVERAL MILES OF CITY LINE. SHORTHAND u.O TYPE-WRITING by * PRACTICAL REPORTER. NORMAL PENMANSHIP DEPARTMENT. This department of our school is one of the beet in the United States, under the charge of Professor Wesco, one of the finest penmen In the world. Send 0 cents for beau tiful specimens of his work direct from the pen. AU ocr departments are superintended by practical teachers of long experience. Address W. L. HOWE, J- A. WESCO, rrtlUtnL Secretary. LUMBER. » M a® ofa - 5 30 m £ HI S -O 5 ® I k a £* 5 i c* ® § O' M OO** a g. 5 CO SP T 3 ® - So - H .S g ® 2 3 1 * g 2 * « M * O & O? £ ■ n CL «T y o 5 31 : £4 TS .S • ,0 v C S 2 < SL-- XH * ~ •£5 bj ® .5 a3s H ® PQ HUS > g* % j *ss C£> CL « g ; 21 . s « I © £ 8 J K l HiigJimii? yi- * n g j. s iI § £ s yss,g 3ig£ 3‘!<i t 33 ! • » j HO H r 's j sis. OCD * 08 s -2= » o h >3 .5 « gal < —. * 2 S e*= <K .3 P; m S 3 S. *9 -tl 0C 5 3 S •§ S' _ -J I gg m !l § ffs > l| 3 .« s l J i <SE -o 'll* _ eS cl l*b HC=> g SlI cs -r 8 Sfi ■ £2 "if 3 els OS 2 0 c it C.JD oq CQ -5s _ FURNITURE. FURNITURE! J. B. McCurdy & Co., North-East ■ Corner of the M Public Square. Clj The Boss , , W FarßitaruDealers <; And UNDERTAKERS! M _ Invite eveiybody to call and see theli * H New Stock. _j Q.l ™ Nicest Goods |2| And }3 Greatsst Variety H Ever brought to Onkaloo- M for the mosey. >l9 LEGAL. NOTICES. QRIQINAL NOTICE. Wm. Fredrick vs. 8. 8. Smith et al. In the Circuit Coart of the State of lowa. In and for MnhawkaCounty, October Term, A. D., 1885. To 8. 8. Smith. B. L. Smith, Mary V. Scott, J. J. Smith, Ada Surbaugh, Mary J. Woodward Daniel Stanley, Hetty Stanley. Horace Stanley, Charles Stanley. Frank Stanley, Ed. F. French and Gordon French, heirs of Oliver C.Bmith,Sen.. deceased: You are hereby notified that a petition, in equity, of Wm. Fredriok Is now on file In tbe of fice of tbe Clerk of tbe Circuit Court of tbe State of lowa, In and for Mahaska county, Bak ing that the title in fee simple In and to the fol lowing described real estate, situated In Ma baska county, lowa, to-wlt: The east Ik of tbe ae quarter (la) of the ne quarter (k) of sec. to, township 74, north range 15 west of sth P. M., be quieted in him; and that a certain deed, exe cuted by Oliver C. Smith and wife to said Wm. January 7th, 1850, be reformed aud corrected, and that unieoe you appear thereto and defend before noon or the stuped day of the October Term. A. D.. 1885, or said court, which will oommence on the td Monday ot October, 1885, d< fault will be entered against you aad judgment and decree rendered there on ae pray od for in said petition. Sea am A Scott, llwi Attorneys for Plaintiff. m FREE MEDICAL. 75/f /brother- Neuralgia means nerve-pain. There are in the human system nerves of many kindsand of great variety of sizes. Each nerve has its own function, and each its own par ticular work to do. In the leg, running downward from the hip, is the great Sciatic Nerve, which, with its branches, carries telegraphic messages from the brain, through the leg, to the extremities of the toes. When the Sciatic Nerveis affected, you have Sciatica. Sciatica is one of the worst and most gigantic forms of nerve-pain or neuralgia. You may with comparative patience worry through an attack of neuralgia in face or head. That is bad enough, but when Sciatica ieizes you, you are helpless. There are various forms of Sciatica. People speak of Rheumatic Sciatica, Sciatic Rheumatism, Sciatic Neuralgia, and all that sort of thing. Call it what you please, it is the disorder of this great Sciatic Nerve. There is just one thing that will stop it. That one thing is Athlophoros. It neutralizes that vicious condition of the blood which causes the mischief. In a word, it con conquers the whole family of rheumatic and neuralgic ailments. Working quickly, pMfas antly and thoroughly, it leaves no evil effects If you cannot trot Athuophobos of yonr drug put we will send It express paid, on receipt of regular price—one dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy it from your druggist, but if he hasn’t it, do not be persuaded to try somethin* else, but order at once from uu as directed. ATHLOPHOROS CO., 112 WALL ST., NEW YORK. GRANDMOTHER Used herbs in doctoring the family, and her simple remedies DID CURE in most cases. Without the use of herbs, medical science would be powerless; and yet the tendency of the times is to neglect the best of all remedies for those powerful medicines that seriously in jure the system. MISHLER’S BITTERS* is a combination of valuable herbs, care fully compounded from the formula of a regular Physician, who used this pre scription largely in his private practice with great success. It is not a drink,but amedicine used by many physicians. 8®- It is invaluable for DYSPEPSIA, KIDNEY and DIVER COMULAINTB, NERVOUS EXHAUSTION, WEAK NESS, INDIGESTION, &c.; and while cm tg will not hurt the system. Hr. C. J. Rhodes, a well-known Iron man of Safe Harbor, Pa., writes: My son was completely prostrated by fever and ague. Quinine and barks did him no good. I then sent for Mishler’s Herb Bitters and in s short time the boy was quite well." “E. A. Schellentrager, Druggist, 717 St. Clair Street, Cleveland. 0., writes: 'Your Bitters. I ran say, and do say, are pre scribed by some of the oldest and most prominent, physicians In our city." * MIBHLER HERB BITTERS CO., 525 Commerce St., Philadelphia. ..... Cures # Prevents Chills and Fever, Malaria, Intermit tent and Bilious Fever, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite, Nervous ness, Lose of Sleep, all Female Weak nsssesand all Summer Comnlaints, INDORSED BY MANY PROMINENT PHYSICIANS. Sold Free of U.B. Liquor License by all Re liable Druggists and Dealers. XETTE A KANNE, - Sole Proprietors, ST. XjOTTXS. MO. CARTEKS iprmc CUBE Sick Headache and relieve all the troubles Inci dent to a bilious sUte of the system, such as Du llness, Naosea, Drowsiness, Distress after eating, Pain in the Side, Ac. While their most remark able success has been shown In curing SICK Headache, yet Carter’s Little Liver Pills are equally valuable in Constipation, caring and preventing this annoying complaint, while they also correct all disorders of the stomach, stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels. Even If they only cored HEAD Ache they would be almost priceless to those who suffer from this distressing complaint; bat fortu nately their goodness does not end here, and those who once try them will find these little pills rain able in so many waya that they wfd not be willing to do without them. But after all sick head ACHE Is the bane of so many lives that here is where we make our great boast. Our pills core it while others do sot _ . Carter’s Little Liver Pills are very small and very easy to take. One or two pilU make a dose. They are strictly vegetable ana do not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action please all who use them. In vials at 25 cents; five for gl. Sold by druggists everywhere, or sent by maiL GARTER MEDICUHS CO-, Few York. St. Louis & St. Paul Packet Co. FINE BIOEWHEEL PASSENGER STEAMERS BETWEEN M/if THE GREAT WATER ROUTE TO THE SUMMER RBBORTB of the GOLDEN NO RTH-WBBT. -JXVALrDS ~Affb TOURISTS, oismirMfimirsTtttfEJifWttitt •nMTAL EXCI’RMON TICKET* TO Vt. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS* LAKE MINNETONKA, DULUTH, WHITE BEAR LAKE AND ALT. FOOTS ob the GREAT HOST HERN LACES, ran tabus or the lightjonc express an* PASMNOER STEAMER, OEM CITT. * M<>» * •• * « «•» « m C»nU>u Mo. »****• « fi3Q m s» Xw**r»<in*,Mo. " * “ *' 11 JO • s s t & SSmT - MM - iao "m. - JfanmUl, a.., « .ifi “ . AS? ** Air It LoeU, Tuea. Thor* A Sat CAC «u:n. Pet Ermireluii Routt* ana twirl, none room*, r.iMue Hat Vnigbt Bum, and othtr Information, addrtx B. O. VAN NORT. C. A. HUTCHINSON, AOT., qLLWCY, ILL. AST-, KEOKUK. IOWA R. A. SNOWDON, ssn'i. rasa, nor., B*. Louis, Mo. LAZT PINK. JT t* [Ark&usaw Traveler] Ab a wagon drew near, a boy lazily climbed over the fence and opened the gate. “Why don’t you move faster, you lazy rascal?* said the man who drove the team. “.Because I’m tired. ” “ Y r ou are always tired. " “Yes, 1 am; and I wish I could get rested. ” “ You’ll never do it You are too lazy to get anything. Come on here now ana help me take out the horses. ” The man was Clarkson Miller; the boy was bis son, Pinkney, known throughout the neighborhood as Lazv l ink. I nlike other boys he had never been known to engage in any game that required activity, and his mother often declared that he positively refused to walk until he grew to be so old that he was ashamed of him self. Pink was not handsome Bis bead was red and his face was freckled; and, worse than all else, he was bow-legged. He cared nothing for books. At school, if not interrupted, he would sit all day with his eyes half-closed, yet no one could accuse him of being sleepy, for at home he was always the last one to go to bed. When the horses had been fed, and when Mr. Miller and his son returned to the old man asked: “\Vhat have you been doing today?” “Nothin’. ” “What?” “Aint been doin’ nothin’, fur I was tired. ” “ i idti't I tell you to break up that turnip lund?” “ i es, sir, believe you did. ” “Then why didn’t you do it?” “ ’( ause i was tired ” “Boy, you are goin’ to starve to death, just as sure as you live ” “If I live 1 won't starve to death. If I die I might starve to death. ” “Hush up ywur mouth and don’t give me none of your sass. Mother, I wouldn’t give him a bite of supper. ” “I don’t care. ” “I don't believe you do. You are too fetchtaked lazv to eat ” “Oh, yes. (. larkson, let the child have something to eat. I don’t reckon he can help it because he is always tired. You know I had a brother that was always that way. ” “ Yes, and he never amounted to nothin’ either " “I know that, Clarkson, but Pink may do better after awhile. ” “No he won’t He is the trlflin’est boy in the state of Arkansas. Them .lackson boys air out every mornin’ breakin’ colts or doin' something but Pink, plague take him, won’t do nothin’ but mope roun’ un der the trees. He has just atxmt wore me out, let me tell you, and if he don't strike a lick putty soon I’ll get afoul of him and wear him out. I wou’t put up with such noaccountnesa Pink." “Yes, sir ” “They air goin’ to take up another school over at the Forks next week and I reckon you’d better go. You ain’t got sense enough to ever make a farmer and I reckon you'd better be a lawyer or some thing of that sort " “Let him be a preacher, Clarkson," in terposed Mrs. Miller. “Preacher the deuce. W’y he'd ruin a congregation. When he’d begin to preach he’a be too lazy to stop. No, better let him talk to the jury, and if he does wear ’em out, the country would be better off. AYhat do you say. Pink?” “Ain't particular. ” “No, fetch take it, you air never par ticular. If you was you’d get along bet ter. Did you drive the hogs outen the field?” “No, sir. ” “What?” “No, sir, I was too tired. " “Wife, give me that rope hangin’ up there. I’ll wear him to a frazzle ” “Oh, no, don't whip the child. ” “Well, let him behave himself then. I'll bet anything them bogs have ruined that field. I*must punish him. Pink, go to bed. ” The boy arose from a box on which he had been sitting, stretched himself and slowly ascended the stairs. “Ah, Lord, ” said the old man, “I don't know what is to become of that boy. If he wa'n’t quite so lazy 1 would think that the peni tentiary would catch him. ” The school had been in operation nearly three weeks when, one day, the teacher, the Hev. Dr. Brooks, called on old man Miller. “Glad to see you, parson; sit down. Bow's everything?” “Slow, ” Dr. Brooks replied. “How's Pink gettin’along?” “Not at all. ” “You don’t tell me so?” “Yes, lam sorry to say. ” * « “What 'peers to he the matter?" “He won’t study. ” 4 “Can’t you whip him into it?” “I have tried, but it does no good. " “Ah. Lord; I don’t* know whafs to be come of him. Do you think he will ever amount to anything, parson?” “No, 1 do not ” “Would you advise me to take him away from school?” “ Yes. ” “No hope for him?” “None. ” “Do you reckon he's got any sense at all?” “Oh, yes, he appears to be smart enough. ” “What’s the matter, then?" “ He lacks application. ” “Well, I'll give him all the application he wants. lam much obleeged to you for tellin’ me. ” Shortly after Dr. Brooks withdrew, Pink entered the room where his father was sitting. The old man was greatly troubled, but he was determined not to be violent with the boy. “Pink!” “Yes, sir. ” “Dr. Brooks tells me that it’s no use to send you to school. ” “Wall, 1 reckon it ain’t. ” “He says you won’t study. " “Beckon lie's right ” “Now, link, tell me What do yon want to do?” “Nothin’. ” “Oh, you struck it, dad blast you; oh, yes, you struck it Do you know where you will land?” “No. sir.” “I’ll tell you. You’ll land in the peni tentiary. ” “ I don't know, sir. ” “ Well, 1 knew. It is because you are no account ” ’Lige Berry was the good boy of the neighborhood. He stood first in his classes at school and every one predicted that he would enter upon an honored career. “Pink, wouldn’t you like o become a lawyer?” “I ain’t particular. ” “Well, I am. I want to put you at the triflingest business I know of an' I reckon it would suit you to be a lawyer. I’ll go over and see Judge Blake to-morrow. He'll either make you study or chop wood all the time, Wouldn’t you like to get up and make speeches?” “ Ain’t particular." When Pink arrived at Judge Blake’s office, he foumj that the good hoy. ’Lige Berry, had been installed as a student ’Lige did not appear to be pleased when he discovered that Pink was to be his col league, for, between the two boys there had never been anything in common. The good boy merely looked up when Pink entered, then, with a frown, he bent him self to the work of devouring Blackstone. Pink sat down, in obedience to the com mand of the judge. “Young gentlemen, as business is woe fully dull at present you won’t have any thing to do but to read. ’Lige, you are getting along very well, are you not?" “ Yea, sir. “Do you find Blackstone interesting?” “Yes, sir. very. " “Pink, what’s that you are reading?” “ Headin’ 'bout some Inguns. ” “Well, throw it down. You'll never be a good lawyer unless you study. ” With a mighty effort, Pink made a pre tense of studying. He seemed to have settled upon an entire change of course, but occasionally he would fall back into his old ways. Then he would sit with his eyes half closed. One day he said: “ 'Lige, do you ever expect to be a great lawyer?” “Of course I da " “Is that what makes you study so hard?” “Yes; if it were not for that I wouldn’t study at aIL Isn’t that the reason you study. Pink?" “ 1 don’t study much, but that ain’t the reason I wouldn’t study at all if I didn’t have to. When I don t read (rid Blake makes me tote In wood, and I’d rather ■ read than to tote wood. Totin’ wood makes me tired. ” - <- ▲ stranger coming Into the room would have instantly settled upon 'Life as the coming lawyer. No one would have thought that any possible distinction awaited the lagy, bow-legged, red-headed boy. That which pamaa for discernment is often short-sightedness. Some of our greatest men have been but the turning point of a story should never be antici pated. . *** , •ww fttfi «y« baft, m fluuUv» no would go to church. Cink spent his :?un days in quite a different way. He would roam along the river, throwing stones at birds. Remonstrance was of no avail. He hated Sunday-school and abhorred the church. Occasionally he would come home with a bloody nose, for although he, was averse to physical exercise, he hesitated not to eugage in combat Peo ple pointed at him, shook their heads and said; “That boy will never amount to any thing. ” Pink fell in love with a little girl, bright-eyed Mary Pheips, but naturally enough the girl did not love him. She loved 'Lige. This enraged Pink, and had an opportunity presented itself he would have chastised his fellow-student Even in a lawyer’s office time drags along. ’Lige was ready to stand an ex amination. Pink also declared that he was ready. They were examined by the circuit judge. Lige was complimented for his quickness and insight, but Pink failed to answer a sufficient number of questions, consequently he was remanded back to Blake's office. Bealizing that he had wasted time he made an earnest re solve to do better. ’Lige began the practice of his difficult profession. He threw his whole soul iuto the work and old lawyers said that he would succeed. How short-sighted, how erroneous are human calculations. One evening Pink called on bright eyed Mary. He had determined to ask her to be bis wife, for he believed that she nad ceased to love ’Lige. Marv cor dially received him and his heart beat a hopeful tatoo. “Miss Mary, I suppose you have heard how hard 1 am studying. ” “Y’es, and I also heard that you feiled to pass your examination. ” “Oh, that makes no difference ” “It does with me ” “Mary, I want you to be my wife. ” “I can not, I am engaged to Lige Berry. ” There came a day when the wise men thought of the predictions they had made with regard to the two boys. Berry is now a distinguished judge. Pink is in the penitentiary. It will be a shock, no doubt, for some people to learn that a good boy ever amounted to anything and that a bad boy ever failed to succeed in life i robably those facts should not have been penned; but then the lauda ble motive which inspired their publica tion will more than offset the startling revelations which are made in the narra tion. The good, studious boy has had very little chance in this country. All th 6 high places of honor have been filled by men who were once bad boys. Even ministers of the gospei boast of how they were once bad, oh, yes, so very bad; and with keen delight some of them tell of their adventures on the race-course or at the card table. It is time that a reform should take place Give the good boy a chance. Casting the Squid. [New York Times.] Standing upright in his boat, the ex pert bass fisherman grasps his rod firmly below the reel, which must be one that runs with the least possible friction, and holds ffOO or 400 feet of line, and whirls it with the squid and several yards of line free When the whirling squid is brought to a certain velocity, which the feeling and instinct of the angler must judge to a nicety, he thrusts the rod forward quickly with a graceful movement that can only be understood on being seen. The whirling squid instantly responds to the movement. It shoots out with amazing velocity as straight as a bullet’s fiight. The whizzing reel pays out the unresisting line, and if the cast has been made by an expert 150 feet of line will have left the reel before the squid drops into the water just at the spot it was launched to reach. It will not be long before some monster of a bass will show his appreciation of the skill with which the cast was made, by swooping upon the attractive lure, and then will come a struggle that mav last an hour, and per haps two, before one or the other of the combatants conquers—the longer the struggle the more favorable its result to the angler. Our Flint Ship. |“ Gath.”] The Dutch about New York, built the first ship in this country, ami she was called “The Dnrest, ” otherwise the “The Restless ” and was ayachtof sixteen tons, and forty-four and a half feet long. Her builder was Capt. Adriaen Block, for whom Block Island in the Atlantic ocean is named. This vessel, with a Dutch captain on board, discovered the Schuyl kill river in lfilfi, and explored our whole coast from Nova Scotia to Virginia, and returned to Holland with an excellent map of the country. James Bussell Lowell speaks three lan guages with easy effort, and reads and writer Hina The “Rat-Tail” and Other Curioin Spoons. (Iceland's I ondon Letter.] There are many of the rat tailed spoons now so much sought by collectors. Does the reader know what a real “rat tail” is? No! Well, then, turn over your grand mother’s silver or any other which is 100 years old. \ ery probably you will soon come to a spoon the handle of which on the back covers a part of the bowl with a long or narrow triangle. These spoons have some extra value for no other earthly reason except their name. The rat-tail spoon was made from about 1(180 for a century, possibly much later in America. These later American examples would be even more curious than many older Eng lish ones. Another type of spoon is that with a handle running to a point, on which is a fiat circle. This is called the seal spoon. They were made‘during the seventeenth century. The precursor of the olive spoon of the present day is found in the so-called mulberry spoon. It has a straight handle ending >in a sharp point. The bowl is small and elegantly perforated, the object of this being to pick out the mulberries or strawberries one by one witL the point, and then sprinkle pow dered sugar on them by filling the liowl with it and shaking it over them. This is “an idea” which might very well be revived Then there are the spoons with graceful, small scroll ends, mostly of the time of Anne; the spoons and forks with “lobed” tops, something like a clover-leaf (another idea which could be carried out into many leafed shapes), and endless varieties of pudding-forks, soup ladles, and “pistol handled” knives. Tbe Niagara Falla Park. (Scientific American. 1 Among the good works authorized by the legislature of New York is the forma tion of a park at Niagara falls, by which all the grounds and waters necessary for the preservation and public access to.those great wonders of nature are secured to the people in perpetuity. The sum of sl,- 500,000 has been appropriated by the state to secure the purchase of private prop erty. l ands equal to a little more than 100 acres have been bought The grounds and buildings on both sides of Hiver and Canal streets west and south of the hy draulic canal have been taken by the park commissioners. The lines extend to the main channel of the river, and middle of Horse Shoe falls, being the boundary line between Canada and the United States, and the purchase takes in Goat island and all the little islets, with their various mills, streets, and passage ways. By the terms of the act the whole tract is to be restored as far as possible to its original state of nature, and when'thls is accomplished, the trees grown, and all the improvements perfected, the attractions of Niagara will be increased a thousand fold. The original inception of this ad mirable project is due to Lord Dufferin when he was governor general of Canada in 1878. His plan was that the Canadians on their side, and the Americans on ours, should undertake to beautify and preserve the approaches to the falls. His proposal was most cordially appreciated by our governor, Lucius Robinson, and the grand project is now in process of being rMilfnl Jules Ferry and the Oryan. (Paris Cor. New York World.] Jules Ferry came back to Paris a few* days ago. He was to remain away f<fr two years, but Paris seems to bave at tractions for him that he cannot resist. The wags of the cafes say that after his arrival in Paris he went to mass to Notre Dame to hear the grand organ play. It is known that the former prime mimfter has a passion for. listening' to the great organ of Notre Dame, and the story is told that on r*ne occasion, after leaving the church, he whispered in the ear of a friend, in a voice of gloomy foreboding: “That organ will bring me to believe in Qod yet, if I don't quit going to listen to it * Doctor of the 014- School. Sole nor.) In order to pre rent his inhaling ncxious germs the French physician of tbs time of the pestilence of Marseilles (1720-21) used to go bis round of visits incased in •n armor consisting of a short morocco gown, a helmet of the same material, .with a ponderous nose, and the nose stalled with aromatics, which, notwithstanding Its being a doctor's nose, would prove an snllvealng feature at a modern carnival PARISIAN FRAUDS. OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF ADUL TERATION OF FOOD AND DRINK. The Municipal Chemical Laboratory, and the Promptne— of Its Analyse* How an Official Certificate la Obtained—Conviction*. rParls Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. M. I.eon Say once remarked that there was in France a monde dea fraudeurs. by which I think he meant to express the idea that there is over here a lot of peo ple who avowedly live by fraud and are none the less recognized by their fellow citizens on that account, just as there are circles which society recognizes and honors under the names of monde diplo matique, monde artistique, etc. But there is also a monde de fraudeurs which lives and grows fat 4 by the adulteration of things that we eat and drink, and who thus not only rob but poison their fellow citizena Adulterations of this sort were practiced in France from the earliest times, and in one of his books Pliny vehemently condemns the wine merchants of Marseilles for their practice of using aloes to strengthen the weak stuff they shipped to the Roman market Since Pliny's day things kept on grow ing worse and worse until finally they reached such a pass that it became neces sarv to provide means for the protection of the'public who were being poisoned, so to speak, on a wholesale scale by all that they ate and drank. After several unsuc cessful attempts a municipal chemical labratory was established, and operations were begun in 1881. Since then it has done a world of good, for every one has the right to take to it a sample of any alimentary substance that he may pur chase and have it analyzed. There are two kinds of analyses—one a “qualitative," absolutely gratuitous: the other, a “quantitative, ” for which there is a fixed fee of $:?. In the first case the laboratory restricts its report to the quality of the substance; that is, to stat ing whether it is good or bad, and whether it is or is not in jurious to the health. In the second case this report is accompanied with a statement of the various elements out of which the substance analyzed is composed and the proportionate quanti ties of each. The modus operandi for procuring one or the other of these official certificates is the same. All one has to do is to take the sample to be analyzed to the neatest com missionaire of police, who, after taking down the name and address of the person from whom the article was purchased and price paid for it, gives a numbered receipt, and the applicant is told to call in a fort night for the report. If the analysis is to be merely qualitive, the receipt is printed on white paper; if you have paid your 10 francs for a quantitive analysis, you get a pink receipt The next morning the prison van carries all the samples re ceived at each police station, along with the rogues arrested over night, to tne ccn tral station, and the former are turned over to M. Girard and his assistant chem ists, who occupy a large room at the back end of one of the courts of the prefecture. Few people in l aris have any idea of the immense amount of work accomplished in this laboratory, which is mounted in a complete manner. Thirty chemists are kept hard at work all day: twenty charcoal fires are glowing from morning to night under innumerable retorts ana strange- shaped vessels of ail sizes. Every sample received is examined that same day, and besides these the laboratory has to analyze a great many other things sent in by the prefecture of police, the octroi, the prisons, the hospitals, the military au thorities and the suburban municipalities. A s»*nple comes into the hands of the expert unaccompanied by any other indi cation than a white or pink label, on which is the same number borne by the receipt held by the depositor. The chemist not only does not know where it came from, but is ignorant as to its nature His analysis completed, he registers the result iu a book. The head of the laboratory then makes out the re port of the analysis, which is sent to the commissure of police for delivery to the depositor, and at the foot of this report is printed the following note; “Any person using the above for the purpose of injur ing the reputation of any one will be guilty of the misdemeanor of defama tion.^ This is the end of the matter if tbe sample examined is all right, but if any adulteration or fraud of any kind has been discovered in it the head, .of the laboratory sends two inspectors to the man from whom the article was pur chased by the depositor. There are forty five of these inspectors, and they are all graduates of a medical or pharmaceutical college, or are students in their third year, who have passed prior to their ap- E ointment a special* examination in chem try. They are all commissioned as com missaires de police, and have authority to call in the assistance of the police in mak ing such searches as they may deem nec essary. They rarely have occasion to resort to extreme measures, for shopkeepers know better than to make their case worse by a useless resistance, and allow them to take possession of the samples they are in search of, that is, the samples of all the articles which seem to them suspicious looking. Lack sample is divided into two equal parts; these are sealed up and signed by both the commissioners in the presence of the shopkeeper, who then adds his signature. This done they proceed to a summary test of the suspected articles, the result of which is recorded, and every thing that the proprietor of the shop sees fit to say in explanation is also taken down in writing. One of the twojsanyries thus obtained is now carefully analyzed at the laboratory and the other is sent with the report of this analysis to the cor rational police court. Here the duties of the laboratory come to an end; its head has no power to insti tute criminal proceedings against the dis honest shopkeeper; his role cousists of in dicating to the court tU&t a misdemeanor has, in his opinion, been committed and in furnishing the evidence on which the opinion is based. Unless tbe shopkeeper has made an avowal, the court now or ders another analysis by its own experts of the samples seized and the case fol lows the ordinary routine; if finally con victed, tbe accused is punished by an im prisonment of from three months to two years and a fine which cannot exceed 500 francs, and a copy of the sentence is posted up on the door of his shop. Pulitzer end the Pedestal. i‘*Gath.”| In this case a Hungarian, with an Ori ental touch in him, went to work upon this pedestal as if he were building the temple of Jerusalem. There is shown to be latent in the public a deep belief in liberty in its broad and revolutionary nature, such as it was under Lafayette and Jefferson. A Good Llutensr. (Boston Beacon.] “The whole force of conversation," some one says, “dopends on how much you can take for granted. ” The good listener may contribute to that force by intelligent nodding. We once introduced two friends who were going in the same car on au all day journey. One of them was an inveterate talker; the other, also a good talker, could keep still when neces sary. Meeting tbe latter a few months after, we inquired how they enjoyed the day together. ' “The doctor enjoyed it first rate, ” said the quiet man. “He began talking when the train started, and never stopped until it pulled into jersey City, encouraged by only intermittent nods and smiles from me. Parting as we left the train, the doctor remarked effusively. ■We have had a good day; I don’t know when I have enjoyed a conversation so much.’ ” “ Milord Anglais* ” Abroad. (C hicago Journal. I A story Is going the round of the French papers to Illustrate the ways of the English abroad A “couple” staying at Schailhausen ordered, a few nights ago, an illumination of the Rhine for their own special benefit, and the work was put in hand accordingly. T-he vil lagers got wind of the matter, and as sembled to see the sight; whereupon “milord Anglalse, ” remarking that he had paid for himself and not for the pub lic, countermanded the illumination and gave orders that none of the lamps or fireworks should be lighted. Presently, however, one of the heavy thunder-storms which visited Switzerland last week broke off over the falls, and an electric spark set the fireworks off. The English “ milord, M it seems, was as furious as the storm. A great m&ay morals are possible to this story. Magnetism or What t (I’ltuburr Dispatch.} Call it magnetism or what you will, there Is a something about some preachers that makes them more agreeable, more entertaining and more popular than others, even If they do not know half as much. Begonia leaves are the most killing bait for shad, according to a Georgia fitter* —. » 1 ESTABLISHED 1850. THE SICK CHILD. [Robert Louis Stephenson.} When I was sick and lay abed, I bad two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me lay, To keep me happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the hillai And sometime# sent my ships in fleets All up and down among the sheets; Or brought my trees and bouses out, And planted cities all about I was the giant great and still That sits upon the pillow hill. And sees before him, dale and plain, The pleasant land of counterpane. Origin of the Kat. [London News.! The origin of the rat. like the birth of Jeames Yellow plush, is wrapped up in mystery. The ancients, according to a learned writer by M. Eugene Rolland in his "Faune Sauvage," knew not the rat. Their condition was more gracious. But it is hard to be certain about the fauna oi the ancients. When they use a word meaning mouse they may have bad held mouse or common mouse or perhaps even the rat in their minds. Herodotus tells, on Egyptian authority, the same tale of an army defeated by mice who gnawed their bowstrings as the Creek Indians tell of rats in their cosmogonic legend This legend was fairly written in red, on a skin, and was kept during the last century in the Georgia office. Where is it now? The Chinese have precisely the same story, only they, like the Creek Indians, assign the victory to rats, not to the mice of the old Halicarnassian. 1 erhaps Hero dotus meant rats, he knew nothing of cats till he went to I gypt, and about rats he may have been equally in the dark. Hats are not uncommon in Shakespeare, but Buckland says Leaner 1 158?) first men tions the black rat This, though older than the brown rat. is not apparently ab original. The Welsh name for rat menus “French mouse," and perhaps the rat came over with the Conqueror. An ac complished author on micromamologic thinks the rat was brought to Europe (in voluntarily, no doubt) by the crusaders. The brown or so-called rats,” devour the black ones, and are later comers. If a well known character was really “a rat in Pythagoras’ time, ” the argument against rats being known to the ancients falls to the ground, and Shakesjieare cer tainly thought that rats were common in the heroic age of Denmark Bats in the zoological gardens arc a good deal to be pitied. We all know the elephant of the fable. She one day trod unwittingly ou a partridge, and killed it. Soon afterward she found the nestlings of the partridge. “Boor little things!" said the elephaut; “I, too, have a mother;” and, with the kindest intentions, she sat down on the nest. In the same way the rhinoceros, never dreaming of harm, lies down on ruts in his house, and compresses them quite fiat. Such is their doom—an ex ample, as far as it goes, of the ruthless laws of nature, and the survival of the fittest The instinct of rats teaches them to shun a falling house, but not, alas! to avoid a sleepy rhinoceros. Grant Couldn’t l’<« Dummies. [Batavia Co -. Cincinnati Times-Star.] “It has never been told,” said Judge Ashburn, who married Grant’s cousin, “that Grant might have gone through the war in a more humble capacity, When the rebellion opened he was poor and had given up farming to clerk in his father’s store in Galena lie came to Bethel, Ohio, to see one of his cousins to urge him to go in partnership to supply bread for Camp Dennison. The cousin did not care to en ?;age in business with him, and the matter eli through. At this time he hardly knew what to do, and while here he re ceived a dispatch from Governor Yates asking him to take charge, of a state in struction camp. He thought it over, and hesitated. He had been out of the service for a number of years, and was not certain of his abii ity to drill raw recruits. He got a big pine board and a lot of ob.ects for dummy soldiers and commenced apply jog military rules to see if he could form a company. He set up his men over aud over again, but he gave up in despair He could not do it. He had forgotten his former power and could not accept the position offered by Governor Yates. But he went to Illinois, \isited the camp, saw the actual men in motion, and like a flash his old lessons came back to him, and be accepted ” It is for the reader to speculate on Gen. Grant’s career had he become a commissary at Camp Dennison, or had he declined the offer of Governor Dick Yates The Family Detective. [Long Branch Cor. Chicago Tribune.] The fashion of lugging round so many splendid dresses and valuable jewels has S’ven rise to a new species of servant— e family detective There are three de tectives now living in the same hotel, each engaged in the service of a woman of wealth and show. One of them 1 happen to know. He had a good business in New York, but he tells me that the wages offered him by his present employer was sufficient to warraut him abandoning it for the summer and looking after her and her possessions. He receives S2OO a month and besides has his expenses paid. He always stays at the best hotels, for it is necessary that he should be close to his charge, and besides be would not per mit himself to be treated as a menial. He follows her like a discreet shadow granting that a shadow could be discreet —hangs round a neighboring post when she airs herself on the piazza, and ac companies her to entertainments, it was at tbe big ball that 1 stumbled across him, in all tbe possible glory of perfect even ing dress He kept close to his lady, who was blazing with diamonds, but be never presumed to speak to her. A line gem sparkled 011 his own chest. His lady had lent it to him. he explained, to complete his appearance After the ball he accompanied his em ployer to her apartments, and received into his care the $50,000 worth of gems with which she had been dazzling the company. He kept the jewels sate by wearing them in a leather belt round his waist, and they never leave his body ex cept to go upo'n the person of his gracious boss, lie goes heavily armed always, seldom leaves the hotel day or night ex cept upon journeys, and never allows himselt to touch intoxicants. He has so far this summer been in the White moun tains, at Richfield Springs, and Narra gansett icr Early in August he expects to go to "aratoga, and from there to Bar Harbor. Altogether his lot is not an un happy one. Boston ItrrMllng Triumphs Or«r Crime. (Boston Advertiser.] In a small company of ladles and gen tlemen. some of whom never before nad met each other, the host is suddeuly called upon by one of his guests, in a voice dis tinctly audible throughout the room, to give his opinion of “Pen-e-lope” in Howells story, tjuery: Ought the blunder to be politely ignored, politely corrected, or openly enjoyed as though purposely made? The case stated is a real one The host who whs put in this distressing position is a successful author and a polished gentleman When the dreadful question was put to him he was the bravest person in the company, and answered without the quiver of an eyelash, his kindness of heart and the perfection of his breeding so far controlling him that he carefully avoided the use of the mispronounced word lest he might seem willing further to disgrace a guest temporarily under hia protection. Trying as the embarrass ment was, it lasted but for a few moments, for the hearty laugh of the culprit and the wife of the host relieved the strain and made way for the explanation that they two had conspired to play a trick upon the gtfted author. Caltforals't Volculs Eruption. (Chicago Herald.| The moet recent volcanic eruption in the < nited States was that which half filled Feather lake, northern California, In or about the year 1860. This locality has lately been visited by the eminent Elutonist, C. K. Dutton, who says that the ivs sheet poured out was over 100 feet thick, aud covers a space abqut Ixßl milea iu extent, in the center of which a cinder cone 600 feet high covers the rent. The lava sheet is rough and jagged in the ex treme, be says, but shows as yet no trace of weathering. For a space of 400 to 500 yards from the oone the trees were all killed. To Imp Fsstegs tomps [Chicago Times.] To keep postage stamps in the pocket or memorandum-book without sticking, a New Orleans postofflee clerk advises people to rub the mudlagenous side on the hair two or three times. The oil of the hair prevent! the stamps from stick ing thereafter. '• . Bass Ball. Chicago, Aug. 14.—The score* of league toae baU gam*. TWtfty, were es foQo**? AtJßostan— PhUeOsiphia 4, Boston 3; a» rtßWUfao* NslTTork % Providence L MISIOGNOMT. LEADING SIGNS OF CHARACTER At SEEN BY AN OBSERVER. itootal Peculiarities and Whnt They In dicate OUPsrenee Between Orel Organisations and Refined— Physical Developments. [L. N. Fowler in Phrenological Journal.l Physiognomy is of great service In In dicating some points of character. A (gw illustrations will serve to explain. A large, straight noee, with a retreating chin ana forehead, do not go with strength of constitution or originality of mind. A large mouth, with full lips, and wide awake projecting eyes, indicate a talker. A brain set back and large behind the ears, and small in front ana small in the coronal region, with a largo protecting face, indicates a low, animal type of mini A large neck and face, with coarse, heavy features, with a head smaller in propor tion, indicate a mind averse to study, thought, improvement, reform, or benevo lent enterprises, especially where personal sacrifices are required. A person with a predominance of the mental temperament and brain power, with u high, upright, and coronal brain, will be given to study and general im provement A person who is nigh in the crown, with a narrow, retreating fore head, and a heavy base to the brain, and a large, stiff neck, will show the elements of , a tyrant A natural born philan thropist will have the n tai and mental temoeraments, and a narrow, long, high head, and especially fi high forehead. Such persons will 4m be disposed to teach and help others. A person with a low, oroad, short head, is anxious to accumulate property, and will only let go when death loosens his grasp. A full eye and a long eyebrow, and a prominent outer corner t < the eye brow, indicate great powers of observa tion and a strong desire to study nature and science; and if the eyebrow is pro jecting there will be a capacity for math ematics, art, and business. A person with full temples and a high, broad fore head, will be musical, ingenious, and given to scheming and contriving new modes of doing things, and will be dis posed to think, theorize, invent, combine principles, and try to account for every thing. A coarse, gross organization, with a wide bead from ear to ear, will be more carnivorous thau herbivorous. A narrow head, with the ears high, and a re fined temperament, will be more herb ivorous A person with small, dark, deep-sunken eyes, with a vigorous, impulsive tempera ment, will give off condensed thought and feeling in short sentences and vigorous language. Projecting ears, standing out from tae head, with a large orifice, and a fully ceveloped speaking eye, Indicate the power to recite verbatim and repeat cor rectly. A large back portion of the head, with a rather small and narrow front por tion, indicate local a’tachments, and a do mestic, stationary state of mind. A small, short head behind the ears, and high in the crown, broad at the base, aud narrow above, with a large lower part of the forehead, and a desire to travel and go all over the world, and come in contact with everything, go together. An irregularly formed body, imper fectly formed features, and an uneven bead, and a strikingly one-sided, peculiar, eccentric character, go together. Thin skiti, fine, bright hair, small features and bones, bright blue or liazel eyes, betoken a tender, susceptible, active, wide-awake, earnest, and iutense state of mind, and a tender, delicate body. Thick skin, veins out of sight, coarse, black, wiry hair, rough harsh features, large face, bones, and joints, and black eyes, indicate a slow, coarse, blunt, low, rough state of mind—one difficult to cultivate. Such persons usually have a strong, tough, en during constitution, and are not very sus ceptible to great pleasure or pain, and their enjoyments will be physical rather than spiritual. One with a predominance of the diges tive system will be easy, elastic, and graceful in motion, fond of pleasure and luxury; will have a pliable nature, and will show versatility oi talent, character, tastes, expression, likes and dislikes, and will liave longings for w'hat he has not, will lie always wanting more, and be very susceptible to excitement and alimentive pleasure ’ Kmll ig of the Emanclp»t on Proclauiatit n [Ward H. Lam on's Letter J At the time Mr. Lincoln submitted his proclamation of emancipation of the slaves on Jan. 1, 1803. for the considera tion of the cabinet, before that time never having conferred with any one about the phraseology of the instrument, he read thccocumeut through without a single 9 interruption or comment They all con curred in opinion that it was an admir able paper. Air. (base then said. “Air. President, you have invoked the consider ate judgment of mankind, but you have not invoked the blessings of Almighty God on your action in this matter, i be lieve He has something to do with this question. ” Mr. Lincoln then said; “You are right. Mr. Secretary, and I most humbly thank you for that suggestion; it was an over sight of mine. Do me the favor of taking a pen aud paper and adding what you would have in conclusion. ” Mr. Chase wrote seven words, viz.: “And the gra cious favor of Almighty God. ” Air. Lin coln then added them to the end of the last paragraph of the procla mation, which made the whole read as follows, to wit: “And upon this act. sin cerely believed to be an act of justice, warrant' d by the constitution upon mil itary necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. ” Correcting the Queen’* B*d Manner*. (Boston Record.] It is toid that Lord Tennyson and hia family, including his iittie granddaughter, wete dining at 4 hborne by invitation of the queen. During the meal the bread plate ran low, and the queen took the last piece. • Thereupon the little Tennyson girl, who had been taught that it wa« bad maaners to take the last piece ou the plate, pointed her finger at the queen and said scornlully: “liggy. piggy, pig!” The guests expected nothing but decap itation was in store for the child; but the queen came nobly to the rescue. “ You are right, my dear. ” said she: “ nobody but the queen should take the last piece on the plate. ” The army department of Japan intends to construct fifty new forts and rebuild all forts now existing, so as to make the oonst defenses of the country more ef ficient, and IKK) heavy guns from seven teen to twenty-four centimeters in caliber are to be mounted ou these forts, more than one-half of which have been ordered from Messrs Krupp, and the remainder will be made at the < saka arsenal. “Fumigating” Modern Antique Furniture “I would like to show you some antique furniture, ” said a chipper clerk to a re porter as he pointed to an old fashioned bedstead with four square posts and four rails with pegs in them around which ’he bed rope was to be passed. Near by was a iiarvud mantel and a chest of drawers. Ail were made of oak. and were dark and time stained enough to be 200 years old. “They are beautiful," said the clerk, “but they are not old, as they seem to be. W e got them from the factory to day. We sell them for what they are. if the buyer tells his friends that his great Sand father brought them over in the avnower, it IS none of our businesa ” “They are stained then?” said there l>orter. “Not exactly. There are a number of good stains and polishes, but the trouble with them all is that they roughen the surface and make it fuzzy. These things are simply fumigated. W • put the furni ture in a small, air-tight room, and put a platter uuder it Then we pour a pint of strong ammonia iuto the platter, ana 30 out ana shut the door. The ammonia must not touch the wood, but the gas from it rises and penetrates the pores. The furniture and the chemical action be tween it and the tannic acid in the wood does the business. Tbe wood is colored so deep that a shaving removed shows the same ancient color below. It is a legitimate way of beautifying furniture as long as the customer is not deceived in regard to it " He is a philanthropist in a small wav, and he imagines he is the only man in the city who has sense enough to kick fruit i-inds oif the sidewalks. However, there tire about 2,500 other men in the city who are on the same “ lay, ” and each thinks ’limaelf the only one engaged in philan thropic work • It reslly is a habit, and it develops into a form of insanity. Why, I have seen old confirmed victims to the habit de murely following men who were throw ing peula on the sidewalk just to enjoy the pleasure of kicking them into the street Women do most of the throwing on and men do all the kicking off. The brigade is not composed of men who have fallen on banana peels themselves. Men who have experienced that acute sensa tion do not kick peels off the sidewalk; they dodge them and -vaul to see some one else kick a hole in the air after tread ing on a rind- A Great Scheme. [Chicago Trtbunel • I’ve hit upon a great scheme. ” said a western editor; “I nearly doubled our circulation yesterday." “Hew dia you work it?" “See that steel stamp? Wall, I just cut out a paragraph In the local column of the whole editionl * “How did that help the circulation?” “Every woman in town bought an ex* i --TfTT Boston Transcript: Whan Sirius rules, •wtudy is not s pelt of fltoMuty of man. Fifty Forts. I Chicago T itnes. ] fSew York Sun.) Tb« Peel-Kicker. [Chicago News.]