Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1882, Page 7

ut Vices, Both Square and Brace. From the Chicago Morning News. The head ot a Chicago firm ts a woman, and | Probably the only one of her sex who makes a | Dastness ot manufacturing and selling gambling tools and appliances. “Compressetivory goods” | “Ang ghyer one minds is the seemingly harmless name of the business ‘8 painted on the windows of the store. Under the pleasing fiction of desire to take the road on a gambling expedition, a reporter visited this repository of things not generally known. A short, stout woman, of not unpleas- ing features, with slightly grizzled hair, stand- Ing out like the locks of a Circassian girl, and < an alert, business-like manner, the lady ac- My Daughter Louise. From Our Continent. In the light of the moon, by the side of the water, My seat on the sand and her seat on my knees, We watch the bright billows, doT and my daughter, My sweet little daughter Louise. We wonder what city the pathway of glory, ‘That broadens away to the limitiess west, Leads up her of some ‘story love best.” that Then I say: “It must ead to the far away city, ‘The beautiful City of Rest.” In the light of the moon, by the sfde of the water, Stand ¢wo tn the shadcw ot whispering 3 And one loves my daughter, my beat daughter, The shi ig lost in the distance, it It waits, but I know that its coming we'll prove Knowledzed her identity and stood ready tor | "Yue wugwias Ong OF roe eM ONcertUL clty, ness. - “You want a faro outfit, do you? Well, you have come to the right place. you can find here anything that you want. Look at these checks,” she said, bringing out a check rack in which were 700 compressed tvory checks of different colors. Taking out a stack of these, she shffed them with an air of custom that gave her the appearance, at least, of a cashier fora game of chance. She called attention duly to the excellent quality of the material, the size, nd the number necessary to fill the rack prop- “Fie subject was changed to the more import- Bat one of a dealing-box “Square or brace?’ T am sure that asked the little woman, a2 coolly as if a question of honesty were not The visitor indicated a wish to look at a “prace” box, and two of themi were placed be- In the light of the moon, by the side of the water, 1 wait for her comipg from over the seas; I walt but to welcome the dust of my daughter, ‘To weep for my daughter Louise. The path, as of old. reaching out In its dor, Gleams bn yo like away that an has trod; I kiss the cold burden its billows surrender, Sweet clay to lie under the pititul sod: But she resis, at the end of the path, in the city, Whose “builder and maker is Gol.” HOMER GREENE. a SITET A GREAT BONANZA IN OIL, The New Well, which Gushes a Theu- sand Barrels a Day. A POOR SPECULATOR’S LUCKY STRIKE—THE RUSH OF PEOPLE TO THE DISTRICT—A TOWN ALREADY UP AND A RAILROAD BUILDING VERY FAST. is a combination box.” said she, point- | Cofesvondenee N. ¥. Sun. ne which, to the eyes of the unskilled, | ae as innocent as any such tools could pos- 1 See you can ‘take’ two cards as often as you press here.” she explained, pressing on one | side, which yielded, perhaps, a sixteenth of an | ineh To those universed im the mysteries of faro, it may be weil to explain that the deal-box isa etal contrivance, just large enough to contain ® pack of cards. ‘It is open at the top so as to | expose the face of the top card. The bottom is | sustained by a spring. A narrow slot, which ought to be just large enough to permit a single card to pass throuzh, is along one edge, and it the dealer draws the top card in urn;” which constitutes an event in Ifa perfectly square box and a per- fectly square pack of cards are used the chances are presumed to be only a shade in favor of the The utility of the combination box con- sists of enabling the dealer to use a pack of cards so prepared that he knows jus a If the “sucker” making bets axainst such a game should place his money on acard that would win if fairly dealt, the dealer presses the spring in the side of the box and two cards are drawn instead of one. With such a box and pack of cards the player could not win a bet unless permitted to do so by the dealer in hopes of rawing him on to “These are the boxes I sell most of for out-of- town business. You are bound to win every cent that is played against it,” said the little Then pointing to a number of ages, already done up and marked for shipments by express, she continued: ‘I am sending out a half dozen outfits of that sort to-day.” “All of them combinations?” the reporter in- red. pack- “Pretty much. In the smaller towns the feaigne” generally go for all the money that Is co The subject was turned to the question of Cards. “I only keep square cards in stock,” she said, “but it only takes afew hoursto fix them for any combination you want. generally to play the ends against the middle, or one side against the other, although some like them odds against evens, or first four against third four,” she explained with bewiid- ering rapidity. ‘That the reader may not be mystified also It will be necessary to interpret these terms. They mean that one-half of the cards of a deck are reduced in size by cutting a shade off of one of In shaffling such a deck the dealer, while gseeminz to cut them, really separates the full- sized cards from the reduced in size. ing them together again, in the process of the shuffle, they are made to lie alternately a full- sized and a smallcard. Anexpert shuffler is thus enabled to know where each card lies. by “taking z two,” where the necessity ari scoops up all the cash that his dupes can be de- luded into risking. a In this way she ran over the entire stock. There were loaded dice and cups so arranged astoenable the handler to control the dice in the game of hazard. There were cards and for the game red-and-black, le it next to imposaible for the player to win. The roulette wheels were all square, ‘@s the natural odds of that game are enough egainst the player to make losing almost a The stock was especially entertaining in tne Matter of helps to cheat at poker. simplest of these was cards with marked backs, eto be furnished the key before he inguish them from perfectly honest eards. These were in great variety. secret helper” is an instrument which the lady described as “the best in the business.” Its purpose is to enable the dishorest player to conceal cards until he has made up a very high hand. Itisa metal box, inside of which isa tongue that is thrust out bya spring. The ring is worked by a cord attached to the foot the player. The box is worn inside the "s vest. When he desires to steai a card stretches out his foot, bringing the spring This forces up the tongue, and the The pressure bein; T arrange them ¢ard is inserted in its clip. removed from the spring the tongue and car retire into the box. Ot course the player steals the high cards, and when a pot of sufficient value is made he adroitly returns the hand dealt to him to the pack, and takes the stolen hand from the “helper.” “It Is not every one that can use the tools and not get caught,” said the lady. “If you had the Bnest set of carpenter's tools in the world, un- Jess you knew how to use them you could not make a dry-goods box.” In the matter of handling cards she showed | herself aimost as expert as Heller used to be. She riftied the cards, cut given numbers, tossed them around her head in @ half circle back and forth, faced cards and played a dozen curious antics with them. The lady says that the occasional moral spasms against gambling are good for the trade. former times a gambling outfit would outlast a life time. Since the police have taken to destroy- ture a cheaper quality and more perishable Wagrex, Pa., May 26.—Althongh the oll | market has somewhat steadied itself from the | effects of the staggering blow it received from | the news that the wildcat venture on lot ee Cherry Grove township, was gushing crude oll atthe rate of athousand barrels per day, the excitement at the scene of the bonanza is at | fever heat. Many of the heaviest producers or their agents were on the ground early, and having quietly satisfied themselves have de- parted, or are making arrangements to try for a strike themselves. The district is overrun with an army of small producers, operators, land brokers, and not a few curiosity hunters. The origin of the now famous well may be briefly told as follows: Some years azo a Mr. Landerath, of Rouse- ville, while owner of a dry hole on lot 660, eighty-two miles southwest of the Gusher, obtained leases of 400 acres of land in Cherry Grove. In 1881, Will Falconer, of Warren, bought a few leases, and, as the time of their expiration was near, he interested Fred. Morck, a Warren jeweler, with him, in order that a well might be drilled, but the failure of a well at Balltown discouraged them, and nothing was done. The Allegheny field was booming and matters looked blue. A short time vefore their leases ran out George Dimick, founder of the famous Sarah Jane well at Petrolia, Butler county, and who has been interested in so many wildcat failures that he had not money enough to drill a well, came to Mr. Morck and for a half interest agreed to put down a test hole. The means he obtained from Capt. Grace, of James- town, N. Y., who took three interests in Dimick’s half ot the origimal 400 acres. The last of February saw the start on the northwest cor- ner of lot 646, but when the drill reached a depth of 300 feet, the leases expired, and Chris. Larsan, a Swede, wno owned the land, stopped the work. For $200 they had the time extended and also secured oil right for 100 acres from Larsen, which land they have vought. Larsen, who made his home in_ this thick hemlock wilderness, has cleared $15,000 or more since the beginning of the present boom. Dimick figured that oil would found in the Claren- don sand at a depth of 1,600 feet. and when near that depth Morek and Falconer were with him at thederrick. The next few feet discouraged Morck and he left, but soon afterward the drill struck hard pan. The tools were lifted, and the sand line showed bits of hard white pebble, the formation peculiar to this section. Dimick knew that he had won. After further drilling for a short time, the tools were pulled, and the hole, which was filling fast, was plugged. This was about the middle of March. All oil men recall the excitement when in April it was reported that the well had broken loose and covered the derrick with oil. The truth of the matter was that the Union Oil Company, having bought an interest, had caused the plug to be drawn, when the well made a flow, follow- ing which it made 115 barrels for several days. It was then plugged, and the Union Oil Com- pany began its pipe line from North Clarendon to the wells. thts was finished on Thursday last. and, anticipating it, the plug was drawn and the tools run on Wednesday, when the well began to flow, increasing until it reached its present rate, which has been maintained with little deviation since. Morck and Faleoner have cleared $33,250 and their royalties. The flows now average six min- utes each through two two-inch pipes, with in- tervals of fourteen to eighteen minutes between flows, and trustworthy estimates agree that to- day the well does eyen a shade better than 1,000 barrels, The immediate territory is fully occu- pied, and rigs are song up with the utmost speed, while the adjacent territory is selling at prices it would be folly to attempt to quote in this dispatch. The township lots contain six- teen acres, and the average price is perhaps Sealy given at $250 per acre and an eighth roy- alty. Surrounding the great gusher work Is active. J. A, Cadwallader & Co. have two wells drilling, one pt, Sees one west, each about 500 feet from the Spouter, and have two rigs completed. The owners of 646 have four rigs done—two east, one south, and another northwest—dis- tance apart, 450 feet. The rig south is ready to drill. Cadwallader’s wells are about 1,200 feet down to-night,and should be ready to pan out b: Tuesday. Visitors to the front, as 646 Is call go over a plank road down nearly to the well, and to becompleted to Garfield,the new oil town of magic growth on the summit of the divide southwest of the well, half a mile distant, and 563 feet above the level of North Clarendon. Here a hemlock city, boasting already of a gro- cery, palace hotel, oil well, supply depot, and other shanties,” is located. Western Union wires are soon to be stretched from Warren to the city, which will also be the temporary ter- minus of the Warren and Farnsworth valley narrow-gauge railroad, now building from North Clarendon, and which will eventually connect with the narrow-guage roads built in Forest county. The distance to Gar- field as surveyed #934 miles, and rails will be down to that point not later than July of goods has grown in de- | 20. Among the stockholders of this enterprise mand. When the authorities give the craft a shaking up, as was the case recently in this cit numbers of the “young men” employed in t gambling establishments buy a cheap outfit and take to the road. One way and another, she says, the demand keeps on steadily all the time and ‘business is good.” ‘Y, | Wetmore, the Hon. T. Struthers, F. H. Roc! In the Journal de Pharmacie M. Carles de- seribes at length the great improvements which have taken place of late years In the preparation of cod liver ofl. The mala points of the article are thus summarized: Through modifications of old methods of ex- traction, the barbarous oils of the past have iven piace to improved ones, of little color, impid. having a smell and taste by no means disagreeable, and suiting stomachs which will- ete. Of these ural white one sardines, anch various oils, the modern must be every way preferred to the empyreu- Even apart from ph a and ing properties, pure goiden-green oils must be considered the it, because they are lighter for the stomach, theiracidity is hardly sensible. and they are without acriaity. All varieties of the oil coatain such infinitest- mal quantities of lodine, doubtful traces of ime, and small quantities of combined phosphorus, that one cannot recognize in any Of these elements the cause of the tonic, recon- stituting action of cod liver oil. principle seems to reside almost wholly in the lar fatty substance itself which is found ‘unaltered in pure oils. Lastly, these pure mod- product essentially assimilable, other medicament matic brown. @rq oils area and their association with an: can only injure their tolerability and therapeutic Lunch Factories, ‘New York Letter. ‘There are at least two “free lunch factories’ 4m town. In them are prepared the baked beans, Boiled corn beef or ham, stewed tripe, chow are Lieut. Gov _C. W. Stone, the Hon. L. D. | well, esq., and prominent bank officials of War- ren; J. A. Cadwallader, J. J. Vandergrift of the United Pipe Lines, and others. The road will prove a bonanza, less of the success or failure of the oildorado, The United Pipe Line company is laying a two-inch pipe to the new tract to carry the crude oil to loading stations at Clarendon. From an impartial standpoint, experts regard the new find and the pros of others as the most gigantic lottery ever known in the oil region. Should the several wells down come in big, operators may look for quotations in the forties. ——___——_-+2-—_____ A Boston Man’s Judgment of Arthur. Private Letter published in Boston Transcript. I recognized the President at once by his pho- tograph. He is a splendid man in size, form, feature and bearing, and he appears in style be- fitting the chief of more than fifty million. None of your Johnson type, haranguing the crowd and rewarded with “Bully for you, Andy;” nor of the Hayes type, walking with his wife to church and elsewhere, in republican simplicity, with a crowd of brethren after him. When Arthur appears in public, the public know it by his elegant carriage and span to match, with black coachman and footman be- side him in livery, their buff-colored studded over with shining emblems ; and other vehicles, big and small in rank, quickly and quietly move aside. And yet there is nothing obtrusive; the President, in a suit of black, sits back in his geen, wal accompanied by his or some mem of his Cabinet. It icity is all bosh, There is as much display, ta tar as means will allow, in New York Mf LIGHTNING CALCULATORS, FELL AT THE FIRST HURDLE. A MEDICINE FOR WOMAR, Hetherington Gets Badly Left fm the Race for his Girl’s Hand. ‘From the Chicago Tribune. “T have been waiting for you Rupert.” Seme|of the Wonderful Mental Arith- meticians whe Delighted to Make themselves Drunk with Figures. From the New York World. The murder of his wife recently by Professor J. D. Andrews, the “Lightning Calculator,” whose mind had finally given way under the strain to which it had been put, may make of in- terest a few notes on these phenomenal calcula- tors, and notably the young Zerah Colburn, who was born at Cabot, Vt., in 1804 and died in 1840, and was among the most remarkable of the Cal. culating Boys. At the age of six he had given such evidence of his extraordinary powers computation that his father sesolyed to show him in public. Among the questions which he solved at this period were such as “‘ How many days and hours in 1,811 years?” (Answer, in twenty seconds, 661,015 days ; 15,864,360 hours,) or “‘ How many seconds in eleven years?” (An- swer, in four seconds, 346,896,000.) Two years later, when they were showing him in Europe, he performed in a few seconds such calculations 999,999 and multiplying the product and once by 25, or finding the factors of 2 to the thirty-second power plus 1—4,294, 967,297. Colburn immediately gave 641 417, and when asked the factors of 24° plied instantaneously, “041 and 263, an are the only factors.” 8 to the sixteenth power, giving the of 106,929 or the cube root of 268, solved in @ moment. At this period Colburn was ignorant of the ordinary rules of arithmetic, and could not tell how or why particular pro- cesses came into his mind, though later he could analyze and describe his methods. bidden to multiply 21,734 by 543, his manner pro- voked a question, and it was found that, for some reason which he could not explain, he was obtaining the result by multiplying The late Mr. George Parker remarkable faculty When in his sixth NEW BOOKs. of the Formation of the Constitution of the U, Peers, Banceoth, 2 vole vo... sth Century, Sandy INVENTED BY A WOMAR, PREPARED BY A WOMAN Lyman H. Wooks, Miustrated, LYDIA EB. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND iment Paper, 50c, Tbe. IsaPournvzcom =@® DOUGLASS, pad a PSKIRTS AND Bi “BRAN MOHUN, KE OF THE my?7 1015 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. NEw BOOKS. 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New Wharton ke Stiles’ Moale Ames, on Corpo- W BOOKSELLER “You know the HOSIERY, to GAUZE UNDERW! ee tian was ‘an S % MORRISON, 1 Cambric, Ni ik ard Swiss. mé axp Starionga, 475 Pouuaylvaila ‘arene pocthwent n Peenca BOOKS, 65,202 by 181. Bidder cultivated his to a highly useful purpose. year he used to amuse himself by count- ing up to 100, then to 1,000, then degrees he accustomed him- seif to contemplate the relations of high numbers, and in childhood he invented pro- cesses of his own by which mentally he could perform calculations more rapidly and accurate- ly than others could with pencil and paper by At the age of ten we read that he answered in two minutes the question: “What is the interest of £4,444 for 4,444 days at 444 per cent. per annum ?” 5igd. A few months later, when he was not yet eleven years old, he was asked: “How long would a cistern one mile cube be filling if re- ceiving from a river 120 gallons per minute with- In two minutes he gave the correct answer—14,300 years, 285 days, 12 hours and 46 minutes. A year later he divided cor- rectly, in less than a minute, 468,592,413,563 by 9.076.’ At twelve years of age he answered in less than a minute the question: If adistance of 934 inches is passed over ina second of time, how many inches will be passed over in 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 55 seconds? Much more surprising, however, was his success, when thir- teen years old, in dealing with the question: What is the cube root of 897,339,273,974, 002,153: He obtained the answer in two and a half minutes, viz., 964,537. undertook to pose the boy with this cheerful question: “Light travels from the sun to the earth in eight minutes, and the sun being 98,000,000 of miles off (the then accepted value), take six years and four months traveling at the same rate from the nearest fixed star, how far is that star from the earth, reckoning 365 days and 6 hours to each year and 28 days to each month?” minute came the answer, On one occasion. when the proposer of @ question was not satisfied with Bidder’s an- swer, the boy said the answer was correct, and requested the proposer to work his sum over During the operation Bidder said he felt certain he was right, for he had worked the question in another way, and before the pro- poser found that he was wrong and Bidder right the boy told the company that he had calculated the question by a third method. Unlike Col- burn, who lost his extraordinary powers when he came to manhood, and after displaying very mediocre talent as an actor, a preacher anda school-master, Bidder retained his gift and be- came most formidable through it in arguments before the railroad committees in parliament, where he would confute an antagonist’s figures before they had been fairly spoken. interesting account of his taculty in a paperread before the English institution of civil engineers, showing that the calculations were regularly worked out seriatim, but with inconceivable Colburn’s mind really operated in the same way, for in raising numbers to their differ- ent powers the time occupied with each step in- creased as the product had, however, an instinct for discovering prime numbers, and he possessed a remarkable faculty for getting hold of the easiest side of a question. Any one who has had to deal with figures knows how immensely it simplifies a mental calculation to bring it up to round numbers for the pur- poses of the process and correct this when the oufeome is reached—for instance, quicker when called on to multiply 68 by 97 to substract three times 68 from 6,800— and achild with a quick eye is apt to shorten the work of addition by grouping the fi; colamn—so mani olburn always di mental process would, to the ordinary arithme- tician, have been tedious and difficult. Thus, being bidden to square 4,395, and being averse to multiplying four figures by four figures, h multiplied 293 by 293 and the product twice by fifteen. Jedediah Buxton was another prodig- fous calculator, more remarkable in some re- spects than either Colburn or Bidder. never learned to write, and in other branches of education was as backward as a boy of ten, while his mental faculties were slow, saving al- ways his faculty of calculation. was he absorbed in his theme that he too! cognizance of external objects save as they Thus if a period of time or the age of aman were spoken of, Buxton at once announced that ‘that made so many seconds,” anda distance to him so many hair breadths. By walking over the fields of Sir John Rhodes’ lordship of Elinton—his step was as infallible as a surveyor’s chain—Buxton gave the proprietor their contents of some thousands then in roods, es, finally in square hair-breadths—forty-eight to each side ofaninch. He had the fac ing a calculation at an; be | next morning, a week later, or after the lapseof months. He could number all the pints of beer he had ever drunk at all the houses he had ever visited in half a century. Among the problems given him tosolve were such a this: “How many cubical eighths of an inch are there in a quad- Tangular mass 23,145,789 yards long, 5, yards wide and 54,965 yards thick?” an a} calculation which he he set himself to dot and on another occasion he made himself, in his own phrase, ‘drunk with reckoning” by calcu- lating how many hairs an inch long and how many grains of elght different sorts of cereals there were in a mass of 200,000,000,000 cubic previously counted the hairs and get his point of de- parture. What was most curious about Buxten, , was his capacity for carr: ‘ions while convel church he only cared to cor sermon; and though he watched Garrick closely in “Richard III.,” it was but to reckon the words freely answors all letters of inquiry, Send for pamphlet. Ad- above. S. V. 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Desdemona kissed him tender- lv. “I knew you would not fail me,my own true love,” she murmured. ‘hem to the house this evening.” 2” asks Rupert. “Let me prove Bonds, Stocksand Investment Securities Bongut wi a Bua Boda ft Corse ‘Ser own Bold on Commission, 4 word kK] lth} ot passed. French, German and Spanish spoken. GENTLEMEN'S GOODS. we a Toth] Sir William Herschel bi) No. 539 1$rm STREET, (CORCORAN BUILDING) ecec wesss oro Be ef! we Seer | pe wane mand Baaaa “You may bring Agency for Prince and Whitely, Stock Brokers, LING EVERYBODY IN ‘SHIRTS, “Ido not un- €4 Broapwar, New Youn. Every class of Securities bought and sol on commis sion in San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Washington. Orders executed on the ‘New York Stock Exchange at one-eighth of one percent commission, Private and direct telegraph wires to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, through which orders are executed on the Stock Exchanges 4n those cities and reported back promptly. Quotations of Stocks and Bonds and information regarding the Markets received through our wires INSTANTLY di- if’ light would derstand you.” “You will catch on before thesummer's over,” came the reply, in clear, incisive tones. mean two tickets to the matinee”’—and the beautiful girl stepped into ‘the house. With a dull pain at his heart Rupert Went away. ‘Iam er young to marry,” he said softly to himself, too luxuriantly fly to begin buying matinee tickets in June. ———__—_+e-—______ The Pretzel Industry—Its Antecedents and Growth. In north Germany the pretzel is much less frequently seen than in the south. known under the special name of krengel or kringel. On Holy Thursday there is a large pretzel made of a finer dough than usual, which is known as the “Gruen-Donnérstag Pretzel,” and with which the people of the north are familiar. Except with this particular variety, very many of the north German emigrants make their first intimate acquaintance with the pretzel after their arrival in America. Indeed, its use is much more general here than in Germany, its birthplace. Tite free fanch pro- pensities of the thirsty American have led him to seize upon the pretzel with avidity, and its presence on the bar, in co1 nickel and other Teutonic delicacies, is looked In Germany, where the free lunch system is unknown, the associations ot the pretzel with the beer saloon are much It is eaten more frequently in the morning with coffee than with lager. the pretzel industry in Baltimore the News of that city says: The first pretzels baked in Baltimore came from the ovens of a German baker named John Horning, who opened an establishment in the city more than fifty years few years in Baltimore Washington, and no more pretzel here for several Mr. Sickel, the oli in Baltimore, opened an establishment at No. 89 Exeter street, where, for a long time, all the pretzels used in this city were baked. When Mr. Sickel began business he only found occa- sion to bake on three days during the week, but the growing demand for the toothsome pretzel soon compelled him to extend his operations, and he finally found it necessary to bake three or four times every day. others entered the business and now there are eight or ten _ establishments, the principal business of which is to supply the demand The manufacture of the attended with a great deal oftrouble. Afterthe dough is made up and beaten, it is shaped into the invariable pretzel form and is boiled in a kettle of lye for five min- utes. Itisthen spagkled with salt or aniseed | or both, and then is placed in an oven to bake. The oven must be very hot and the pretzel is allowed to bake fortwe minutes, when it is re- moved and allowed to c ool off. to be packed in largebaskets, which are placed ns, and distributed to retail fact that the wholesale retzels has never varied since they made in this city, the uniform charge been 160 for one dollar. Sickel says that during Schuetzenfest week, he manufactured and sold over Collars, Linen Cuffs, Silk Neckwear, Cotton Bocks, Undershirts and Drawers. Ne of Percale the le Fine Percale Shirts, only 75 cents. Finest Dress Shirts to order, elegantly made, only $2. Six fine Dress Shirts to order for $9. All goods are guaranteed to give satisfaction in every MEGINNIBS’, 1003 F street northwest. This Whiskey upon sn analytical exsmination has proved to be FREE from Fusil Oil, and indeed of any of the maodern ingredients which are used to give a fic- titious age and flavor to this popular drink, *‘40,633,740,000,000 rect from the New York Stock Exchange. DUBREUIL BROTHERS, OF FINE DRESS SHIRTS iTS’ FURNISHINGS. 1112 F Sraxer Noxtawest, Waserxarox, D.O. ‘Finest Dress Shirts to order. Shirts to MANUFACTURER STEAMERS. &e. BROWNING & MIDDLETON, BARBOUR & HAMILTON, J. B. BRYAN & BRO., and B. W. REED'S 50N8, “MATTANO” LEAVES Tru every SUNDAY, TUESDAY AND ‘for and Wednesdays *‘up,” sn Bi BS ” and M. Warhineton every “Blomdas Wasurxorox, D.¢. afternoons. For information apply to ‘THomrson's DRESS SHIRT MANUFACTORY . T. JONY! © © oa set Pporeuac TRANSPORTATION LINE. after MARCH 19th the STEAMER tain W. C. GEUGHEGAN, wil leave ST) SPURS SON WHARF, foot of 7th street, EVERY clock tim. Ri anD MEN'S FURNISHING EMPORIUM, 816 F Street Northwest, ny with pumper- H. & H. W. CATHERWOOD, upon as indispensable. a, SHIR" tease oe Boy's Wamsutta’ unfinished: @0e. HOUSEFURNISHINGS. NEW GOODS. wig hays, Just received an importation from Wedg- DECORATED DINNER and TOILET SETS, TILES CHOCOLATE JUGS, &o., &0, Bole agents for the splendid SIMPSON REFRIGERATORS, Charcoal packed, slate stone shelves and perfect in con- WILMARTH & EDMONSTON, 709 MARKET SPACE. EP REFRIGERATORS, ‘WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZERS, PORCELAIN LINED OOOLERS, ICE PITCHERS, &c. PHILADELPHIA, STEPHENSON & BRO., AcExrs, m16-6m 7th street Wharf and Cor, SoLe Prorrrerors. FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS. VEMBER 84, 1881, the steamer foot of 7th ie ee ONDAY safer an FSX WOOLENS, ce After passing a lorning removed to FINE WOOLENS, ‘mn Howarties “On SATURDAY: On FINE WOOLENS, No#rore AND NEW YORE STEAMERS. STEAMER LADY OF THE LKAR IMPORTED THROUGH THE HOUSE OF E. H. VAN INGEN & CO., In the course of time OF NEW YORE AND LONDON. 4M. W. BEVERIDGE, Imponter or CHINA AND GLASSWARE, 1009 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. F YOU WANT A COOK STOVE OR RANGE for the article. suggested numbers. The Best GOODS the Foreign Markets san produce, which I am prepared to make up, giving THE BEST CUT, It is then ready YyAMsvre LINE. WEEELY LINE OF STEAMERS LEAVING NEW YORK EVERY THURSDAY in the bakers’ wag and take it up for them havin; FOR ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY. For Passage apply to 17 Tth street northwoet. ‘FRIGERATORS, WITH PORCELAIN WATER CHESTS see] ices. FR! 8. ‘and WTANDE. cllstyien) OURTAIN STRETCHERS, GEO. WATTS, 314 Tth street, 6 doors above Penna. avenue. PIANOS AND ORGANS. EATTY'S ORGANS, 27 STOPS, $90, PIANOS$125 % free. bg a nn (psauncar J. REED’S, PIANO WAREROOMS 433 SEVENTH STREET, Sole Agent of the matchless HEINEKAMP PIANOS C. B. RICHARD & 00., 61 Broadway, New York. eS ee venue. op sip Pemmarivnae N** YORK ROTTERDAM. portion of the city. The nt sizes, but most of those manufactured in Baltimore are of the common one-cent size. Some of them are made larger, however, and retail for two cents. There is also a small imported pretzel which comes trom Ger- many and is sold by fancy grocers. These are principally sold to private families, many per- sons having learned to ale or coffee. Occasionally cake dough in Baltim not as common here as on some occasions the sweet pretzels are dis- tributed with the compliments of speciat seasons the people to their friends, and by lovers to The demand for the ily, and promises in ip the German use that the time will come CLorHes ‘WRING! pretzel is made of di Giitay"s Celsbested, rformed mentally. ling a farthing 1: relish them with beer, ‘ls are made of this practice is Germany, where Gentlemen, Call and Inspect the Finest MERCHANT TAILOKING ati : ‘ave. and 15th st. the words of the ther sweathearts, eto, THAT CAN BE PRODUCED. America to complet of it, and it is possiol when the claw of the American eagle will the singularly-knotted piece of unleavened as a national emblem. the Earth’s Surface. Professor Charles 8. Hastings, in a recent lecture at the Johns Hopkins university, gave an outline of the leading theories in regard to the physical character of the earth. Although there are a great many theories, they may be reduced to two distinctive ones. According the first, the interior of the earth is a fluld covered with a thin crust, about thirty miles orthereaboutsin thickness. The advocates of In 1839 there was shown at Paris the eleven- ear-old son of a Sicilian shepherd, one Vito iamele, who did some remarkable mental Thus he extracted the cube root 796,416 in half a minute, and the tenth root 249 in three minutes and a-half, An- other shepherd boy, Jacques Ynandi, was CELEBRATED SHONINGER OYMBELLA ORGANS, fn the world contai: SE pclooe low tod sold GEO. T. KEEN, MERCHANT TAILOR, 414 NINTH STREET. WA! Ni M ADAME SHINGTON, Old Pianos and Organs taken in exchange, at their brought out by Flammarion at Paris about six years ago, who answered very questions as “How many kilom hasaman eighty years old traveled through ‘'N.B.—Parties leaving the city always find us with ready space with the world movi twenty-one kilometers a seco! son is born every second; how many have been born since the ‘at the rate of No, 1911 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NEW DEPARTURE. garial caleulatt o who “A man dies at the age of months and seventeen DRESSES MADE AND MATERIAL FURNISHED AT LESS THAN NEW YORE PRICES, ELEGANT GOODS NOW IN STOCK, Tadies should call atonce and leave their orders be- fore the assortment of elegant fabrics is broken. s fil Es ‘ fiesei