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NEWARK, NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE, JANUARY 12 , 1884 .
VOLUME VII.
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Half and Half Sale.
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Great "Glarin' up Time" at Oak Hall.
Dollars' Worth of Choice and Fresh Clothing for Men
T he prices are so reduced that you pay
-half, and we give you the other half. We lose, and the public gain,
Never before have we
One Hundred Thousand
and Boys now in our Bargain Rooms.
Bargain
us one
between $25,000 and $50,000 by this mark-down sale,
offered Clothing so cheaply, and we hope we never
interest to buy now for next year,
are down, and clothing should he also; and we pledge you that the lowest clothing
prices ot any market shall be found in our Bargain Rooms,
below merely as specimens :
shall again.
It is to your
Oak Hall leads in telling you that woolens
.
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Rooms
A f,'w items are stated
Boys' Overcoats
and Suits.
Men's Suits.
Men's Overcoats.
Will be
Upwards of 2,000 in the Bargain
Lines.
Over 1,000 Suits in the Bargain
Lines.
$3.50
Over 1,000 each, Suits and Over
coats. The Bargain Lines
begin with solid grey Mel
tons, as follows :
Excellent Solid
Melton and Black
Witneys.
There are about too Custom
made Suits yet remaining at
forty cents on the dollar—
half cost.
Run all
$5.00
Several hundred,
down from ÿio.co,
mostly Kersey and
Fancy Back Cassimere.
$4.00
Th roughj
^"iSlli II« I—III Ml« »III I 111 MUM
Large Boys' Suit,
OO A large lot Cam
'JpQ.VjkJ bria all wool Cas
Large Boys' Overcoat; 3 "5
Small Boys' Overcoat,
Small Boys' Suit,
$7.50
$12.50
sintere, just down
A big variety down
from various prices
from $ 14 00.
3.0°
3.00
to half value.
$ 10.00
All sorts from
various prices ;
everysuitworth
double. They cover some of
the best goods in Oak Hall. I
A splendid lot
of Finest Fancy
Back Cassi
mere, down from $25.00.
anuary
And equally good trades for you
in all the liner lines.
Wanamaker & Brown,
Oak Hall, S. E. Cor. 6th & Market Sts,, Philadelphia.
ADAMS & BBÛ
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MARKET STREET, WILMINGTON, DEL
504
DRY ROODS, NOTIONS, AND HOSIERY,
Ladies', Gents' and Children's Underwear , Boots and
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Table and Pocket Cutlery, Plated Ware, Dolls, Toys,
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If
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MAIN ST., NEWARK, DEL.
9£ST QUALITY TIN ROOFING
the
Women do not pay enough attention
to file warmth of their underwear, or
the protection afforded by good winter
stockings and shoes, The most import
ant item in the winter wardrobe is soft
knitted underwear and hoisery, and for
women who are exposed to changes of
temperature, the latter should always
be of wool, not coarse and harsh, but
soft and light; aud the former nearly
all wool aud made in one whole gar
ment, "combination," so-called, of vest
and drawers. Women are usually poor,
and find it difficult to make ends meet
and secure nice winter outside clothing
of even the most modest pretentions ;
and woolen, that is, merino underwear
of good quality seems quite beyond
them ; yet it is vastly more important
than diese, cloak, or hat ; at least it is
more important that it be genuine than
that these should be fine or costly; the
result in health and comfort being worth
more than
particularly advisable that young teach
ers should observe this rule in regard
to winter clothing, and lay in their
stock of merino hoisery and underwear
before beginning upon more tempting
outside garments. Once fortified against
sudden chills, dampness or penetrating
snow, there is little danger to be feared
from oolds, and the thickness of dress
material is of little moment, although
it must always be remembered that
wool is more healthful and more com
forting than silk or cotton in oold
weather, aud the service to be obtained
from a good quality outweighs the
cost Next to the "combination" wear
a waist, or oorset of good natural shape,
to which the stocking suspended can
be attached ; over this second combi
nation of cotton, a flannel skirt, red or
white, and over this a light quilted
skirt of t-ilk, or a second one of wool
attached to a deep yoke of thiok, single
twilled cotton. The drees skirt may be
kilted in fine plaits from top to bottom,
and should be attached to a lining
waist, with a short apnng
hipe. Above this may be worn a tuck
ed basque, a ooatbasquo or a polonaise
d rapped at the baok and drawn off into
very brief paniere in front. The habit
of attaching tbe skirts of woolen dresses
to lining wuisis is a very good and useful
one, the lining not only sustaining and
equalizing the weight of the skirt, but
seiving us a foundation for a vest,
which may be trimmed on, and afford
ing an opportunity for the small pock
ets which are indispensable to men,
but of which women seldom obtain the
benefit
be calculated. It is
—An actual weighing of the letters
received at the post-office in New York
and Philadelphia shows that
cent, of them weigh less than half an
ounce each. The w eighing was done at
the request of the Postmaster General,
who, it ' is believed, may recommend
Congress to increase the weight allow
ance for single rate letters from half an
nee to an ounce.
Tub Dairy epitomizes tho soiling
question liras: Soiling must of neces
sity become tho common practioe
land of high yaluo. Land worth more
than $20 per acre should not ke used
wholly for pasturing. If one cow oan
be pastured on five acres at this value,
it is clear that only one oow thould be
kept on one acre worth $100.
Jokes asked his wife : "Why is a
husband like dough?" He expected she
would give it up, and he
tell her that it was because a woman
needs him ; but she said it was because
he was hard to get off her hands.
per
going to
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as
The sun was setting over the Ganges
one bright summer evening in 1871. to
The day had been a hot one even for
India, and it waa an unspeakable rebel
to every one when the scorching sun
began to dec.ine at last, and the length- 0
ening shadows of the tall palms along
the river bank told that night was at
. r
And now the Hindu inhabitants of
.. , .. . ... _ ... . .
the neighboring village, who had just
been lying motionless all the afternoon
under the shade of their reed-thatched
roofs, or of the vast over-arching ban
yan trees around them, came trooping
down to the water in a body.
Instantly the whole bank of the great
river-so lovely and silent all tbrougli
the long, Burning day—became all
alivo with the noise and bustle Chil
dren paddled in the broad still pools,
or chased each other in and out of the
tall, feathery bamboo clump that grew
along the bank. Warnen filled their
earthern pitchers from the stream, or
washed their thread-bare clothes. Men
began to scour their brass lotahs (drink
ing vessels,) or to kindle fires for the
cooking of their evening meals ; while,
a little farther down the stream a group
of young girls, wading out into the
shallow water, fell to splashing each
other with might and main, amid shouts
of merry laughter.
To any one unaccustomed to the ways
in India, it would have seemed strange
enough to see, upon the wrists and an
kles of nearly all the girls, and many ot
their mother likewise, heavy bangles of
solid silver, which any western lady
might have been proud to wear. But
the Hindu peasants, to whom savings
banks are utterly unknown, have no
way of keeping their money sale except
by carrying it about with them in this
fashion—a somewhat hazardous plan,
it must be owned, in a country swarm
ing with the most expert and daring
thieves in the world.
. Suddenly, one of the girls, who had
ventured a little farther out in the
stream than the rest, disappeared un
der the water with a piercing shriek, as
if dragged down by some overpowering
force. A fèw bubbles that rose sullenly
to the surface were the only token of
her fate, while her terrified companions
turned and rushed back to the shore as
fast as possible, screaming :
"A crocodile I a crocodile I"
Several days passed before any of the
village women dared to approach the
scene of this terrible mischance. At
length one bolder than the rest, ventur
ed in again, and the others, seeing that
no harm came of her daring, began to
follow her example. More than a week
passed without any accident, and every
thing began to go on as usual, when,
one evening, a second girl disappeared
in precisely the same manner as the
first.
The terror was now universal, and
all the best hunters of the village set
them." elves with one accord to get rid
of this destroying crocodile. Balte
were laid, traps set, men posted along
the bank with loaded guns to keep
watch for the monster ; but, look for
him as they might, nothing was to be
seen of him
Several days later the wife of one of
the villagers was washing her white
wrapper on the bank of the river, when
it slipped from her hands and tloated
slowly out into the wide, still pool,
formed by the bend of the stream. The
the woman waded after it, and had just
succeeded in clutching it, when she
was seen by those ou the bank to give
a sudden start, throw her arms convul
sively into the air, and disappear un
der water just as the other two had
lone before.
About three day after this last catas
ophy Mr. Ilenrp Sparks, the British
dommissioner for the district of J ung
eywallah, was at work in his office
amid a perfect mound of paper, halting
every now and then to wipe bis stream
ing face (which, despite the enormous
puukah, or swinging fan, worked by
his native servant outside with a cord
passed through a hole in the wall, look
ed very much like a half-melted snow
ball,) when he was suddenly disturbed
by a knock at the door.
"Come in 1" cried he snappis ly, ex
pecting the entrance of some Hindu
farmer or peasant with a complaint as
long and unintelligible as an Assyrian in
scription. But at the first glimpse of
the person who entered his face cleared
at once.
The visitor was a tall native, with
tbe handsome features and stately bear
ing of a Mahratta. Ilis figure, nearly
six feet in height, was so gaunt and
sinewy that it seemed to be made of
pin wire, and his piercing black eyes
looked out from beneath the tolds of
his white turban with the quick, keen,
watchful glance of a practical hunter.
A DELICIOUS DAYDREAM.
U
the old barn's scaffold high
With dreamy ga
I watch the swallo
fragrant bed
come and go
With twittering notes above my head.
n the half-shut door
The Phoebe sits in silent mood,
Prospecting for a place to build
Her nest and
The hens upon the seedy flo< r,
Are scratching for the scattered grain ;
While chanticleer a challenge hears,
And answers back in deafening strain.
without.
her quiet brood.
Old Charley in the stall below
Keeps grinding at tbe clover hay,
And tries with many
To drive the saucy flies away.
angry stamp
But hark ! a pleasant sound I hear,
Of children coming down the lane—
they strive with flying feet
To see who first the barn will gain.
A gush of laughter greets my ears,
Ah up the ladder, lithe and gay,
They come to seek for hiding eggs,
the tragrant hay.
Ami
And frolic
wild with joy
The little rogues
At finding father's hiding place;
And thus my pleaaant day-dream ends
. With smothering kins and fond
brace.
TUE HAUNTED V»OI.
or
for
of
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is
the
the
can
or
be
the
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to
In truth, Ismail, the Mahratta was
well used to hunt'ing other game besides
deer or tigers. Over and above his oc
cupations as scout, hunter and govern
ment courier, he was
quest as a detective, and, for tracking
down either a wild beast or a criminal,
he had no equal in Bengal.
Gliding into the room as noislessly
as a shadow, he made a low salaam,
and said in his own language :
"May the humblest of his servants
speak to the Sahib ?" (master.)
There was nothing particularly hum
ble, it must be admitted, in the speak
er's bearing ;
himself erect, and looked the commis
sioner full in the face with the air of a
man who knew his own value, and had
something to tell whicli he felt to be
worth hearing ; but Mr. Sparks, with
whom Ismail was an old acquaintance,
appeared to understand these signs per
fectly, and said :
"Wi at has Ismail to tell ? I am lis
tening."
"I have been at the village of Ram
ganj," answered the Mahratta, laying a
slight stress
Ramganj ?" echoed Mr. Sparks. "Ah
to lie sure ; the place where that croco
dile's been eating up so many people,"
., Al . e you qulte sure) Sahib ,» 8sked
the Hiudu keenIy TCatcUing the effect
0 f wordg »that it was a crocodile
^
Tbe Englishraan 8tarted , and looked
fixedlv at Ismail's immovable face.
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"That's how I heard the story told,"
. . . . „„ it ,,
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w a was
" Did the commissioner, Sahib," in
Qhbred Ismail, ''ever hear of a crocodile
30 in his eating as to devour
"°»e but womeE > and onl y suoh women
" had plenty of silver bangles on ?"
Again Mr. Sparks gave a slight start,
and the sparkle of his eye showed that
he was beginning to guess the riddle,
hut he took care to mak ) no interrup
tion, seeing that Ismail wished to have
the pleasure of tellrng the whole story
himself.
"I went to the village," continued
Ismail, "aud talked with the people,
Then I dived into the river (my lord
knows that I can find ray way through
water as well as through thickets,) and
at the bottom I came upon ct noosed
rope."
The commissioner nodded with the
air of a man who understood the whole
affair perfectly, but still he said noth
ing.
as
of
as
to
set
be
of
as
of
of
of
I
constant re
the contrary, he held
the last word.
"The Sahib understands how it was
When
done," proceeded the Hindu,
any woman worth robbing went into the
water, the noose tangled her feet, and
the robber, hidden among the bushes
011 the opposite bank, dragged her
down and drowned her, aud then plun
dered the corpse at his leisure."
said Mr. Sparks. "Well,'
Ismail, you know there is a government
reward of 1,000 rupees ($500) for every
murderer brought to justice ; see what
you can make of the case."
The Mahratta'» black eyes flashed fire,
for $500 is more to a Hindu than $5,000
to a white man. and such a chance did
not come to him every day. lie went
out without a word, but Mr. Sparks
felt satisfied there would be news of the
criminal before long.
Ismail plunged at once into the sur
rounding jungle, and traversed it at a
pace which few men could have kept
up over such ground and in such a cli
mate, till he came in sight of Ramganj,
but instead of entering the village he
struck down a bypath to the river, swam
across, went slowly up the opposite side
till he came to two bamboo clumps close
together aud, groping in the water be
side them, pulled up a rope.
His next move was, to hunt out a big
stone upon the sharp edge of which lie
sawed the cord to and fro till it held
only by one strand. One slash of his
long, sharp knife would have done the
work much quicker, but Ismail doubt
less had his reasons for wlia t lie did
Then placing the stone in the shallow
water with the sharp side uppermost
and the rope lying across it, he vanish
ed into the thicket.
An hour had passed since his disap
pearance, and night had already set m,
when a dark figure came creeping to the
same spot, and pulled at the half served
cord, which instantly parted in lus
hand.
The man started, and held up the
broken ends to the light of the rising
moon, but finding them rough and
frayed as if by constant rubbing, and
feeling the sharp edged stone just un
derneath, he appeared satisfied that it
must have been an accident, and knelt
down to knot the cord together again.
So engrossed was the villain with his
treacherous work that he never lifted
his head to look around him, but even
had he been less preoccupied he would
scarcely have heard the noiseless footfal
of one who had been tracking the tiger
and the antelope th rough their native
jungles ever since he was ten years old.
ue rogue was still quite unsuspicios
of harm, when a tall, shadowy figure
rose behind him as suddenly as if it had
started up through the earth, aud a
tremendous blow from a heavy bamboo
club, falling upon his bowed head like
a thuuderbolt, felled him senseless to
the earth.
That very night the crestfallen robber
was sent off to the nearest British sta
tion, escorted by a strong guard of na
live policemen, to be tried ana execut
ed, as he deserved, while Ismail receiv
ed from the hands of the commissioner
himself, together with a warm commen
dation of his shrewdness, 10,000 rupees
which he had so well earned.
—A Syracuse, N. Y., man, who was
said to have broken his neck some time
ago, and had the fracture set, is now all
right again.
Dlvera
After-Sin
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Feat. Get three
The Almond
almonds or any other eatables, and
having placed them upou the table a
Short distance apart, put a hat over
each. Tell the company that you will
eat the three almonds, and, having done
so, will bring them under whichever
hat they piease. When you have
swallowed each separately, request one
of the spectators to point out the hat
under which they shall all be. When
choice has been made of one of the
hats, put it upon your head, and ask
the company if you have not fulfilled
your promise. »
The Hat and Glass of Wine. Put a
glass of wine or other liquid upon the
table; place a hat over it and say: "I'll
engage to drink the wine under that
hat, and yet I'll not touch the hat."
Go under thé table, giving three kuocks;
make a noise witu yo.ir mouth as it
you were swallowing; then , getting up,
say: "Now, gentlemen, be plea.-ed to
if the
liquor has disappeared, will raise up
I he hat, when you instantly take up
the glass and onnk die couieuts, say
ing: "Gentlimen, I have luliiiied my
You are all witnesses tuât J
liHik." Some
eujer lo
promise,
did not touch Hie hat."
1 he Magician 's joke. T*ke two balls,
one lu each lianu, and stretch them
asunder as far as you can; ask any one
of the company present to lay a wager
that you wid uoi uiake both the bails
come into which hand they choose to
name, without bringing both hands
together. Someone will naturally say
that you caunoi do it, and will take
your offer, when you have merily
to place one bail upou the table, turn
yourbelf round, and take it up again
with the oilier hand.
Advantageous wager. Borrow a
watcti. Examine it, to form an idea of
its value, then offer to lay the owner a
wager considerably leas than the value
of the watcti, that she does not answer
three times cousecutively "My watch,"
Present her tne watch aud say: "What
is this?" Sue will not fail to reply
•*My watch." Afterward present some
other object, asking the same question.
If she names ihe object you have pre
sented she lias lost the wager, but, if,
on the contrary, she is ou lier guard
and says "My watch,' sue evideutiy
must win. You must then say to her
"You are sure to win; hul supposing
I lose what will you give me?" If she
replies "My watch," take it and leave
lier the wager that was staked.
Go, if you can. Tell one of the com
pany that you will so .;lusp his hands
together that he will be unable to leave
the room without unclasping them,
undertaking that you v\ ill not confine
his feet nor bmd his body, nor in any
way im eifere with his motion. This
trick is performed by clasping the per
's hands round one of the legs of a
piano or large table, or other bulky
article of furniture, too large for him
to drag through the doorway.
To name the card upon which one or
more persons fix. There must be as
many different cards shown to each
person as there are cards to choose; so
that if there are three persons, you
must sliow three cards to each person,
telling. the first to retain one in his
memory. You then lay the three
cards down, and show three others to
the second person, and three others to
the third. Next, take up the first per
son's cards, and lay them down sepa
rately, one by one, with their faces up
wards; place the second person's cards
over the first, and the thud over the
second's, so that there will be one card
in each parcel belonging to each person.
Then ask each of them in which parcel
liis ci'rd is; for the first person's will
always be first, the Becoud person's
second, and the third person's the
third in that parcel where each says his
card is. This amusement may be
performed with a single person by let
ting him fix on three, four or more
cards. In this
him as many parcels
cards, and every parcel must copsist of
that number, and of which he is to fix
on one, aud you must then proceed as
before, he telii.ig you the parcel that
contains eacli of his cards.
An apparent impossibility. Inform
the audience tliat you can show any
one of them wiiat iie never saw, what
you never saw, and what nobody else
ever saw, and winch, after you two
tiave seen, nobody eise ever shall see.
To accomplish this produce a nut, and
(laving ciacked it, take out the kernel,
aud ask him if he he has ever seen that
before? He will, of course, answer
"No." You reply, "Neither have I;
and 1 think you will confess that nobody
else has seen it; and now no one shall
ever see it again," saying which, put
the kernel into your mouth and eat it.
To make water freeze. Tins curious
fact can only be pertormed in winter.
Set a quart pot upon a stool before the
the fire, throwing a little water upou
the stool first. Then put a handful of
snow into the pot, having privately
conveyed into it a handful of salt.
Stir it about for eight or ten miuutes
with a short stick, and the congelation
will be effected.
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impregnated gases of tho streets. An
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that, while iu hot. dry weather it mois
tens the surrounding atmosphere, thus
rendering it litter to breatno, this effect,
which i? due to evaporation, ceases in
hot weather.
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The Origin of the Potato.
The potato, originally a South Ameri
can pi tut, was introduced to Virginia
by Sir John llarvey in 1020 though it
was unknown in some counties of Eng
land a hundred aud fifty years later.
In Pennsylvania, potatoes are mention
ed very soon after the advent of the
Quakers ; they were not among New
York products in 1(505, but in 1775 we
are told of eleven thousaud bushels
grown on one sixteen acre patch in this
province. Potatoes wsre served, per
haps as an exotic rarity, at a Harvard
installation dinner in 1707; but the
ant was only brought into culture
New England at the arrival of
e Presbytern
reland in 1718. Five bushels were
accounted a large crop of potatoes
for a Connecticut farmer ; for it was
held that, if a man ate them every day,
he could not live beyond seven years.
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