%\\t Jtotamfe feöqet VOLUME VII. NEWARK, taEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE, DECEMBER 29, 1883. NUMBER 2. FIRST-CLASS GOODS A SPECIALTY, AT THE GLASS FRONT. 8ugar, Coffee, Tea, Btarch, Canned Goods, Foreign A Domestic Fruits. Largest 8 took and Finest Assortment of China, Glass and Quccusware IN TOWN. AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER. In bottles, 90 Pure Wines, Brandies, Whiskies, Rio Maracaibo and Java Coffees, Choice Quality, Fresh Roasted Every week. per dosen. THE LOWEST CASH PRICES. W. IF. GRIFFITH., Malu Street, Newark, Del A. J. LIIiJLBY, Manufacturer of all kinds of BAG CARPET Next to Lutton's Shops, NEWARK, DELAWARE, nr ALL WORK GUARANTEED. c L puni] rnuas, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINES, SOAPS, BRUSHES, PERFUMERY, SPONGES, ETC -A-T JAY'S DRUG AND CHEMICAL STORE, MAIN STREET, Newark, Del., Near the P. O. fciT Prescription* Carefully Com pounded at all hours, Day or Night* THE SSi'yanJ Q fia&* en ossible keep it night and keep it as wet as possible. This wet mask keeps the air away from the skin and give it some time to soften. The outer cuticle wears off in time and a fine smooth skin takes its place, but it takes from six to eight weeks to perform this task. The reason the skin on the face Is oftentimes the coarsest of any portion of the body is because it is more exposed to the air, and to more sudden changes of atmosphere. A woman who would have very fine skin must wear a veil moat of the time, especially in this climate. However, the skin may be kept soft, clear and fine without a veil if proper Warm water is the beet to wash the hands in, but never do so just before going out in the cold air, for such a process roughens the skin. Every night the whole body should bo washed in tepid water, aud the face in as hot water as can be used. The hot water opens the pores of the skin and takes away a great deal of the natural oil, besides tightening the skin, and thus keeping it firm. After this washing in warm water, an application of oatmeal and water, all night, softens the skin and tends to* whiten it. A handful of coarse oatmeal should be put on soak in a bowl of water a few hours before useing. A bowl may last three or four evenings. The hands should always be washed in the oatmeal water. Bran is aiTexcellent article for soften ing aud whitening the skin, and a bran batti should be taken at least once a week. Place the bran in little thin muslin bags, and drop in the bath-tub to soak about two hours before using. all is taken. left In making roosts for fowls let them be level and on a line, if they are so arranged as to have some of them high aud others low, tho fowls will mowd to gether on the higher perches, leaving the lower ones unoccupied,which is not only a waste of space but a cause of feet und other ailments, as the heavier fowls oannot easily get on or off the perches when they high. Tue lower they are ihe Getter, provided the coops are ventilated at the top and warm and dry near the very The utility of virtue la^so plain that tho unprincipled feign it from policy. xke Watch Trad« In Eu lai a Fcrty years ago people wno wanted accurate aud reliable watches bought them of English manufacture. They were not an elegant article, but they were substantial and serviceable ; and those who carry them still, or to whom they have come as a legacy, do not find that the lapse of years has impaired their value as timepieces. Within a generation, however, the centre of the trade has shifted, and while millions are now annually turned out in Swit zerland, Fiance and the United States, the yearly product in England is but 180.000, or 10,000 less than it was a cen tury ago. The decline of the trade in England is distinctly due to the fact that while Swiss and American manu facturers have availed themselves of new methods and tools, the English still employ those of a hundred years since. A recent article in the London Times points out the defects of the Eng lish system : "English watches are not made in sufficient quantities to justify the pro duction on a large scale of any ono par ticular type the trade is for the most part in the hands of 'small men,' who make certain sizes in dozens and half dozens. In the Swiss and American factories a particular type, if it be con sidered worth making, is made by thou sands ; everything is organized for pro duction on a large scale. Confining the contrast to English and American methods, the principal point upon which it is necessary to insist is that in America the 12 or 14 trades which con stitute watch-making are aggregated under one roof and form one compact organization. By the older method still pursued in England, and until re cently almost the rule in Switzerland, the different parts are transported from one workshop to another in different »Quarters of the town, and even from one part of the country to another. Under the new method the maximum of efficiency and individual responsi bility is obtained by the minute subdi vision of every process ; the loss of time in the transfer from one depart ment to another is so minimized as to lie practically non-existent. In the United States one company alone ploys a capital of £400,000, and with 2,300 hands produce 200,000 watches annually—an autput equal to the entire English trade. There are no official returns of Swiss manufacture, but the best authorities estimate its growth during the past five years at 1,000,000 watches, the total standing to-dav at 3.500.000. Besancon, the centre of the French trade, shows an equally re markable progress. During the five years 1845-9 the average annual pro duction of watches in France was 47, 800 ; it now exceeds half a million. About 90 per cent, of the watches made in France come from Besancon." Tho extraordinary growth in the manufacture of watches indicates a cor responding increase in the demand. During the past five years, indeed, while the manufacture of English watches has stood still, the importation of foreign watehes into England has fluctuated between £400,000 and £500, 000. as against £180,000 in 18G7. Much of the demand, no doubt, arises from the fact that the new method employed iu the manuf acture of watches enables them to be sold at so much lower price than formerly ; but it must be regarded • in a large degree due also to an in creased pecuniary ability among the masses. Not only has the cost of the manufactured article come down, but the means of the people have gone up. Watches are no longer considered a luxury, and the poorest citizen flatters himself upon the accuracy of his time piece. In E ugland efforts are being made to recover the trade which has been lost, undertaking which is the more diffi cult because of the jealousies and sepa rations which prevail ainopg the vari ous departments of tho business. Nevertheless, a plant of machinery for -the production of stem-winders has been established in London ; an Ameri can plant has been put down in Birm ingham for the manufacture ofJxith key and stem-winders ; a second firm in Birmingham is working an organiza tion for the production or the ordinary English watch in demand in the Colo nies ; aud in Coventry modern treat ment has been grafted on an old-estab lished business and is working side by side with old methods of manufacture. Testing ■'I Stomach. A United States Senator who is fond of a joke had been initiated into the mysteries of an alleged caramel, which one of the boys of his hotel had invent ed for the purpose of making miserable the lives of other children. The Senator owed Garland, of Arkansas, one, and saw his opportunity. He pro cured some of the alleged sweets and placed them carefully on his desk. The game succeeded. Garland spied the deceptive chocolates, and, carelessly sauntering by, picked up one of them and said: "What are these, Senator?" "They are caramels. Take one." ,'Thank you, I will," and he took one, Now, the caramel was filled with soap, and the jokers expected to see Garland spit out the nauseous stuff. That was where the laugh was to come in. But Garland disappointed them. He ate up the whole thing, soap and all, and never made a sign. The perpetrator became frightened and ran out into the cloakroom, exclaimed: "Good Lord! I'm afraid the 's poisoned.'' "Oh, you needn't be alarmed," said Butler, of South Carolina: "Garland's got an Arkansas stomach. To this day no one knows whether Garland tasted the not soap As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does poiiteuess before men,