The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, December 6, 1898, Page 4

Grand Record Breaking Sale OF THE SEASON. Through the efforts of our New York buyer, we have just received the largest, newest and most stylish line ported novelty dress skirts, silk, satio, larettes and plush and cloth capes; 9 pattern hats that have ever been brot bought by us ata sacrifice of 50 cen cordingly, The opportunity of a li and hate at half price. $6 Fine Satin Waists, $2.98 150 fine satin waists, solid designs of tucking, beautiful effects, all col- ors, regular price $6, price for this sale $2.98. $7, $8 and $9 fine silk skirts for $9.98 and $4 48° 300 samples of very fine silk and in dress skirts, beautiful textures and Cesigns, 290 two patterns alike, regular price $7, $8 and $9, while they last $3.98 and $4 48. 300 samples of all wool heavy dress skirts, in blacks, blues and gteens, never worth less than $3, our price for this s1'e $1 50; ask to see them. 200 new for collarettes and beau-! ful plush capes at $2, $2.50 up to $5; worth twice our prices All our new $1 50 and $2 50 fan- nelette wrappers reduced for this of fine silk and satin skirts, fine im. flannel aud worsted waists, fur col- 130 the most complete hne of Kaste ght to Paducah. These goods were yts on the dollar, and will be sold fetime to get your Christmas dresee: Mil'inery Department. Our array of exquisite millinery bargains for this week is so varied that they must be seen to be appre- ciated. Pattern hats of every con- ceivable color apd style at just hal | price. All our $10 fine pattern hats re- duced for this sale to $5. All our $8 fine pattern bats re- duced for this sale to $4. All our $7 fine pattern hats re- duced for this sale to $3.50. We baye also 150 very stylish trimmed hats at $1.50 and $2, worth | twice our price. Misses’ and children’s hata at prices that are bound to sell trimmed sale to 98c and $1 26, All our $1 mode flannel under- skirts reduced to 69c. All our $1 dressing jackets re-| duced to 50c. All our $1.25 lapneletts gowns re daced to 75c, 200 splendid all wool ladies’ heavy jackets reduced from to $1 and $1 50. 25 dozen regular 50c corsets, white fad gtay, reduced to 25v. | them, A splendid child’s trimmed hat at 75e, worth $1.50. | $1.50 new French bair switches reduaed for this sale to 75c. $2 French hair switches reduced for this sale to $1, A new lot of colored switches and bangs reduced to 2 THE BAZAAR! 216 BROA DWAY 216 o* weeneeee WWW VEOA in quality, immense variety, reasonable prices. We solici prices, knowing you will fin and cheapest. Yours for a merry, money-saving Xmas, WOLFF, THE Sonal While we cannot de- scribe or enumerate our great variety of elegant attractions, we are glad to show them to all vis itors. We claim for our stock general excellence and, last but not least, most t a comparison of goods and d our holiday line the best JEWELER | : 408 BROADWAY a eee ee ee Dee ee eS THE CHINESE CALENDAR. The Chinese do not compute their time by centuries, but by periods of ¢ ‘years (luck shiapsix wood); each year fin this space of time hus its own partly relating to the five element adopted by the Chinese sages, wood, fire, arth, anineral water, partly coanected with denomi: | uations of live creatures, such as rat, | cattle, tiger, hare, etc. From the cour | Vination of these two factors into a double word resuits, at the sume time, | whether the year is a lucky or an un. | Incky one. Tf, for instance, wood and} cattle meet in the name of a year, this | signifies a good crop; fire and tiger | prophesy a year of war. The year 1397 | hore the name of dingh-dan—fire and | ifowl—and signifies a year of peace.) ‘The Chinese attach great value to these names, and are frequently governed in | their enterprises by the fret whether the name of the bad luck. The divisi a twofold one, it being divided into 13 months and 24 semimonths, The Int: | ter bear the signs of the old Chines: zodiac, and are called rain water, vernal | equinox, pure light, rain for the fruit | porning flush of summer, little rair pet atice, commencement of the heat, ¢: heat, sign of autumn, end of the beat white dew, etc. Like us, the Chinese | ‘have four seasons (mua), The months fhave alternetely 29 (weak months) and ‘80 days* (strong months); frequently leap momths are introduced for the eake , ef equalization, According to the Chi xese calendir there are also two kinds Ht weeks, some of ten days and others uf fifteen days, so that a month is divid ed either into two or three weeks, The first days of the month are designated by numbers, but the first day is also led that of the weasel and the last one that of return, every day of the ~ full moon being s(yled the day of hope The wight is taken at seven hours, the day at five, The counting of the 1% hours, each equal to two of ours, com mences at 11 o'clock at night Frequently, however, the hours are also designated by animal names the midnight hour is called the hour of the rat, while the mid that of the horse. Each hour is divided ‘into double minutes, minutes and sec: | onda—Stantn Zeitung. i | nd | hazel. Patience Judging from the number and nature bundles he had piled all over the seu the Sonth Side “L” train, the mon wa family man. He has children of hi+ if giao, for some of the things un | wh ataviy proved this. He appeares; ‘ie be prosperous, aggressive and re | table, He was absorbed in an! paper when a woman with a| entered and took # seat on side of the car. The man pting the sentences | apparently 1 implies iuck or | n of the year is! | wa Dry seed of the herbs, summer soi: ; at well ne CONG, TUT The seRie ote was py and full of with the paper heard tears. th with a heavy enacted sever ing more Kevere es wails ar al tin ch repetition, Atlast an will kidona quaitin to the Great Scott, these cars enough in themselves having bawling babies and ullabys added to the insist crowded train everybody else. are nuisance without mothers singing general misery “Did you ever hear any baby cries at home, sir?” asked the woman who had overheard him “I have, madam,” he snapped in re ply, “and you bet I keep ‘em there. don't Jet 'em yeil like that or I give'em something to yell for.” “Did your wife ever tell you you were 4 brute?” was the quiet rejoinder. The man with the paper flushed a rony red, sank behind his paper and pow al himeelf in sil e for the reat of the trip.—Chicago Chronicle. ren wid: Last Bath, According to the story of a fisherman of the name of Titus, he saw a wildcat off the of Storm King into the American Rhine dive summit mountai spray was sent many feet in the alr, Wille the wares nearly swamped bis boat. The 1 nbove the level of the river, and Fisher man Titus believes that the cat commit led suicide. “I was fishing for bass," said Mr, Titus, “when I beard a peculfar ery, oc ip ta the air, saw something fa directly over my head. 1 rowed of the dan ger line, and then the object struck the water with agreat splash. My boat tocked on the waves, while the spray ascended many fect in the alr long time the object came to the sur face, and I discovered that it was an old wildeat, The head was crushed in from contact with the water, and I'll bet my last dollar that the animal didn’t have a sound bone left in its body.” The laborers on J. Pierpont Morgan's big estate near by any that wildeats frequently leap from the sum. mit of the mountain into the river, Sometimes they turn a dozen somer. saults in the long descent, ard seldom rise to the surface —N, Y. Press and ng ling quickly out “Wyoh” Hazel, Not Wi The correct name for hamamelis vir giniea te not witeh | but wyeh Our plant has no connection with the magic of th er hunter The blackthorn of England, prrnus spinosa, was the ed in these divinations, or whatever these super- stitious practices n termed. Hazel had a very wide meaning in the ol | times, and the elm, Has the nut | only enown as such, was hazel, One of these elms, now known as ulmus Non tana, was the fay aking w or provision e! and w theretore known as the wych hazel. In the present day it is the wych elm. Our hamamelis received from the early settlers the name of wych hazel from the resemblance of the leaves to thone oh Hamel. nm the animal struck the water the| PADUCAH COAL & MINING CO, ‘Tradewater Coa Juarantecd equal to Pittsburg coal. Pre © delivered, lump, 8; nut Wushel, Cash price at dlevator, lumpy) No shoveling; coal passes ns into wagon. 4 Omtice mut be. over ser *Phone PERSONALS NS E. Reed at El Rector B. went to Cairo yesterday M. B. Shaleross, the Palmer, Mr. Lucien D, Carr is at the Palmer. Mr. J. L. Kilgore from Anderson, Ind. Mr. J. V. Hardy a ing from St. Louis. Mr. Jerre W* Reese was in the city today Mr. W. L. McGehee, of Mayfield. in the city on business. Mr. ©. A. F. Rondeau, of Golconda, is in the city on business, Mr. John T. Blythe, was in the city last night, Mr. John Sinnott, Jr., went up the road this morning on business. Attorney Sam H, Crossland, jayfield, was in the city today Miss Hattie Gholson, of the county is a guest of Miss Lulu Flowers, Mrs. Herman Katterjohn and litt son have returned from Evansville George ©. Parker, of Benton, was in the city today, a guest at the New Richmond Messrs. W. F. Paxton and George C. Thompson returned this afternoon from St. Louis. Mr. Otto Schuh, ef Cairo, firm is doing the decorating Palmer, is in the city today Mr. Will Costello, of the Rehkopf addle factory, left last night fo Louisville to attend the funeral of his sister of Louisville, is at of Princeton, has returned rived this morn- of Mayfield is of Fulton of M whose at the Messrs. J. F. Wolf, D. Presnell, V. McChesney, W. Gholson, mes Smith, and ©. W. Conant, Smithland, were in the city today Mayor W. 8. Pollard, of Fayette- ville, Ark., is in the city on business connected with the Paducah Building Trust company, in which he fs in- terested Mr. S. Desberger, ing house, has gone to St. business. If he can find a suitable location by the first of the year, he will permanently locate in Paducah, and enter into a partnership with a gentleman named “Collin from Ava, IN SOCIETY. The german at the Palmer house last night was one of the most enjoy- able yet given, and was well attended by the society people of Paducah. It may be the last until after the holi- ‘Those present were: Mrs. W. F. Bradshaw, Mr. and Mrs. Langstaff, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Campbell Mrs, Walter Johnson, Mrs, W. E. McGarry, Mrs. H. G. Tandy, Mrs. Cook Husbands. Misses Mary Hallo- ran, Jeanette Campbell, Martha Leech Di Minn. Morris, Jane Rivers, Floss Owen, Emma Reed Elizabeth Sinnott, Anna Boswell, Mikie Hansbro, Miss Crutchfield, Richmond, Va Miss MeCampbell, Paris, Tenn, ; Bradshaw, Ger- ald Sanders, Bell, Louisville. Messrs. M, Jr., Charles Spillman, W. McPherson, Tom Corbett, Harris Rankin, Wade Sowell, Ed Wilson, Louis Reike, Roy Culley, James Campbell, Wynn Tully, Tom Hall, Will Rieke, Jamie Brooks, Gus Thompson, W, B. Webb, Sinnott. A *‘stage euchre party was given at the residence of Dr. C. E. White sides on Jefferson street last night, in honor of Miss Nettie Crump, of Co- lumbus, Ind., who returned home to- day. ‘Those present. were: Messrs. J Read, John Dipple, C. W. Boyd, Will Crump, H. R. Hank, and Dr. Frank Acting ladies: Abe Weil, Fred , Dr. Howell, J. P. Morrett, M and K. D, Griffith. The crowd was delightfully entertained, and a luncheon was served during the evening The H of of the new eloth- Louis on days. Rosa me, Ladies’ Aid of the Lutheran church will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mis, H. Runge on South Third street. A good attend- ance is requested. society Louis, to Mr returned Miss Nellie Gunther, of St who has been here on a visit and Mrs. W. G. McFadden, home this afternoon, Katie Hen- are visiting Misses Lou Pool and shaw, of Union county, Miss Annie Young. TOBACCO INSPECTOR. The Tobacco Men Have Not De- cided on Another Meeting, ‘There is no meeting of wal 3 time set as yet for the houseman and tobac- co brokers, to a tobacco inspec tor, When they do the probability is tliat they will elect’ two instead of one. The brokers want Mr. J. C. Pieper, or want him to be one of the Inspectors, while the warchousemen are not averse to two inspectors if the others insist on it, but do not want Mr. Pieper, whom they claim, it is said, is too rigid in his inspections. | ‘The board may get together and de- cide on one or the other of the two applicants for the pl but the probability is that they will have two Sewerage Work. ‘he force at work on the sewers is rend i with frequent disagreeable barkings| of the wych hazel or elm of the old | making good progress, and now have ‘and hawkings: le was quite noisy i») world, Language reformers imagining | reached the extremities of the sew- ‘Dix demonstrations, and many passe: | that wych should be spelied witch are | erage district, and confine themsely ve new ten glanced Coo teaggh responsible for the confusion, Wyeb | )arvo! hazel Is the correct ‘ert for our plant largely. to the outer portions of the city. sor, Bt oat MELYA KNOWN Bbiicved to Be From Metropolis, U1, and Is Known Here. The san whi edmb, Mo, and, whe George M ably the son of the side He ago. McElya worked on the sewers he a while recently, and ww one time at thie of an insur company on a charge of burning Peters’ grocery at Metrop- olis, of which he acquitted at Metropolis. He at once brought suit against the insurance company for 815,000, and the suit, is now pending. When last heard from by his friends here he was in Mississippi, but word from Metropolis, received this morn- erty died in Mall waive bis name as lya. Padueah of a well known wh re of is probe farmer wunty resides on Uhis f the river opposite Metropolis, Paducah about six weeks for quite arrested here s instance was ROYAL BAKING PowDER Makes the food more delicious and wholesome THE MAL bAN. Character Thal Net 0 a Thoosend to the Savy Yard Byer Sees. He is known by those who know him all as the mat man, and he lives i that he built himself. away behind the rifle range in so out of sight fror nal visitor to th in and ye at a little tucke the the paths th: yard might go U but and never see yard, t the navy yea it.” He was born on ing by boat, would Confirm the suspig cion that he is the same man who died im Missouri. If his father thinks his son is the man, he will at once go there to identify the remains, MARRIAGES TODAY, Two Couples Licensed to Wed By Henry Missouri, and Miss L of the same place, arrived this mor ing from the St. Louis division went to the court procured a license to marry married here, They are came here, like many others evade the Missouri law A license was this morning issued to Mr. Lycurgus Rice, the well known clerk, and Miss Bertie James, daugh- ter of former License Inspector J. A James, who are to be married tonight at the3home of the bride. Rev. H. B. Johnston Broadway M. E, church, offic a farmer of yntine MeCune nl where they and were nd to cousins, do, Key, W. H. Miley, Rey. W. IL. Miley will begin a series of of Marion meetings at the chureh, South tonight at Miley is one of the Preachers in the Synod of Kentucky. He preaches th gospel with power. Everybody cordially invited to hear him Ky., Second Presbyterian Fifth street near 7:30 o'clock. Mr evangelist ic Jackson best very Hand Painfully Hurt. an employe at the on the South Side, finger of his right hand cut off in a machine yesterday, Dr. Thornt dre d the injury Dunaway Better. Sam Dunaway shot off at week and yesterday, Will Hughes, Seamon factory had the middle who had his arm Livingston's Point last was in a serious condition better today. He was is still in the Reddick-Rivers intirmary Call 442 and order horse load hickory livered promptly tf big, two- wood nice stove Cost voc E CULTURE, Dara: ines isles DoseGs ainives| pupils in vocal masic. Ste can be| seen at the Palmer house Tuesdays and Fridays from/12 m. to 2p. m 90 1m Dr. Frank Boyd's telephone num- ber is 88. Office in building, on Broadway, next M. C. A. Office hours 8 to aod 1 to 2:30p. m Y. to Hickory wood is best for heating or cook stoves; in your grates, Try a load and you will burn no other. Costs’ you burns splendidly E. E. Jephone BELL Fifty ladies’ and Children’s cloaks AT $3.00 EACH :: more; all this year’s style now go at $3.00. UMBRELLAS! A 26-inch fast black umbrella only 29¢ TOWELS! An extra large cotton towel, size 22x44, only 10c} L, B, OGILVIE & C0. Go TO JOHN. THE JEWELER FOR OHRISTMAS goons, A Aaweplagee tok | be b J. BLEICH Hs new Murrell | CLOAKS Some were $5.00 and some were| the books, th which ing interpreted he been on them always within the and to be the bool ; so with that, and hi hould be what tented man, 80 re concerned t that that are used say there, means that ory of man, on is to draw far ax (he wor Ne he mak in th monly fr fene ard ship to ing, and t his nay m the fa the ers Ko com: event has the nin the nil details has such a bly unac yard and seen on be ng and rv honor th yard who is ¢ rom and duty, dus he snap is not recorded—pull, | That always ac ts for the countable tn t nvernmental. Anyway, th from public ken, ‘sits the oll mat man, weaving the mata and fenders, made of browntsh vegetable fiber, and he works om his own time and In his own way, The ant why n away cabin faces the bas’, and in plea weather in the warm mo his work out under a canvas awning he has put up in front of his little vine and fig tree. In summer, at night, he slings his hammock and out there, having first smoked a meditative pipe, which is sometimes enlivened by | the presence of an officer from the re- | ceiving ship which lies hard by, and who knows of the existence of the mat man. The cabin fs a small, one-story affair | and the owner built it by piecemeal and according to his needs, It bi ly | two rooms, one of them microscope, and he has his own little cook stove }and keeps house for himself in true sailor fashion. The cabin is painted a dull yellow and roofed with tar paper, which, i is at least water-tight 1 windows light the inter His position is in for any sleeps ri erful way man regularly at the yard ts and, mor or on the receiving ship, and t fa exempt from all and has his own quarters, where he is monarch of all he surveys, No wonder he fs the envy of some of the men who know him!— N. Y, Press. SEA BIRDS AND THEIR EGGS. Of the Sow Calite If the murre is «liste hunter and its single egg take return and replace its stolen ovum until eight have been laid. It is loath to leave its nest even whe the despoiler approaches, and when he comes up she leans away from him and moves over to the far side of the nest. But presently, yielding to the alarm within her breast, she emits a sudden squawk and flies off, flushing the en tire rookery as she moves toward the sea, leaving the pickers to fill thelr pouched shirts with the booty. They must hurry the work, for as soon as the eggs are uncovered the gulls hover and become thick upon the scene. Th the men must fight off, for they brazen y interpose themeelves and battle with the humans for the possession of the CRE. The opportunity being open, the gull rweeps down the murre egg seizes it with its mouth and goes sail ing aloft, cracks it in its bill and gob | bles what of its contents {t can, the due falling on the rocks below then {t takes another swoop away ar itself t successively p The ¢ That these i ry edible The opportunity tated numbers of nds and in the | of egg-gathering. Quarrels ensue he competitors as to spective “rights” in the prem! e result that a company tw opening o| new and? fre to wealth pre 8 former hong & number of the pickers, whieh t ont the claims of the This company managed to he advant years, not, how ever, without exy and nents, un poeta Id on to ricncing contests rone 1 the biekerin ately attention of the United States di at San Francisco. He ent of government rel there and deported every egg picker.—Harper's Weekly GOITRE cdrep BY SNAKES. The Reptiles Are Wound Around the Pationts’ ad Are Killed by thy pean, tent a detael All the rural visitors in Roch Rattlest fer go t Pete's museum on arrival, Pete's specialty esnal He gets postal people every day in the week, there and the are signs of rattlers there, next day any Ve | times by the rep. he s to liquor been drunk Whenever jer he t When the k ame vumber of times is nipped by a ratt therwise e Ise vever¢ Pete made its of snakes th value the ui ph 1 treat a goitre successfully tops drink whose last name is Gruber in studying th t is expected to be profession A discover te sician wil! tell how { Pete's little age of cures is very small ter y with one of these obstinate swellings on her neck, and the hunter of rattle spent considerable money in trying to getiteured, Having found the value of snakes In other ways, he decided to try them on the goltre, He took a edie mon grass snake, about three feet lang, and allowed it to coil itself about the girl's neck, and repeated the process every day for two or three weeks To bis and joy, the gultre ite, ova coe Abe dang wa pon it asa fairy story, but Tete trie¢ on others with success, known physici ny E, Graham, coroner of Monroe cov hecame interested, and an inves was made under the directlen of Dennis, an electrical expert of this Here {s putt of Mr Dennis’ report “Mr, Gruber'’s method ng anake In case of goltre is practi: Several wel ¢ them Dr, M nty the Ir cal strength of the pa m feet san’ es. he with ihe } tlent he s to 6 feet in all cases are principally pro ng the patient pl two or three neck, prine snake {s muzzled with a rw and is usiia and also its tail of a chair, or other fford erit has been pla tile begins a ge and contraction along Its ev This is kept up f ah sa snake fre jength, ‘These si non-venom« ured in Flori eck, Rar y over the swel y allowe around t A few m d inp it leverage quarters of wh 1 grad the patient’s neck b ters about six wee dies at the exp eight week *\ strange feature nen do not besi the operation, after nee pers ing Grat first ay allowing nat reduction i near! to the of the tact N age increases in square of the area snake which Is brought into with the of the patient.” Y pro, e _—_—~~- — PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL, time record inc deer ec fac th y gentlemen in the whole were the o1 orient A. Oakey Hall, York, who died recently have at the end of his tc of authentic po Ne vor of New th ny Sir He kinned 1 ert KI the ve arst s Mark the ma gathi nd is working a ¢ ays when t aim near the in New Mexico Vingree, of Michigan a cotton factory at Saco, Me.; later a shoe cutter in Hopki I two years after that a First Massachusetit Gov was at 14 v hand six year private heavy arti A Frenchman for scorching a stood the and replied: "Je geant at the police peat thie several times tered him in the blotter as * Parr.” An individual lost his umbrella, He advertised that “the party who appro: priated it was known and seen to take 4t, and if that night it was not thrown over his back he would be ar rested and exposed.” The next morn: ing the advertiser found his back yard full of umbrellas arrested in New York w days ago mixunder estion when asked his name ne sais pas.” ‘The ser: station mi and then en Johnny 8t Bad for Wis “No; I never carry my business into my home.” “What ix your busines “I am the proprietor of an nee office."—Ch intelli. ing News, Let Me Call your attention to the fact that I am still at 109 S, Third St. and am selling HATS BELOW COST Come and see me, 0 EB | a | r Think B they are all a Moore 8 Air. L. C. SMITH, ITHACA, We will your orders, SPOT CASH ht. /Perhaps You We have no other stove but = Moore’s AIR-TIGHT. Well, sometimes think that way our. selves (but we have), b wa: eople call for them, ound to make a fellow it “Just give me ght.’’ They could hot be made better at any price. Don’t take the elevator. They are on the first floor; and every one guaranteed by Scott Hardware Co. Keep n stock the following brands of Shotguns: NEW BAKER, WINCHESTER. ALSO LOADED SHELLS M.E. JONES BARRY & HENNEBERGER Crabtree... COAL Deanefield Sereened Lump, &c; Egg, 8c; Nut, 7c; All sizes Anthracite, $7.50 perjton, Clippings, 4c per Bundle. ake care of our customers, so send us Roller Screened Nut 7 cants, TELEPHONE 370 MRS. R. BURGAUE! 427 BROADWAY Gives entire satisfaction, and we are proud{of our screens, Thev are the best in western Kentucky. Prims Lump 8 cents; Prime tgg"8 cunts; Old Lee‘Anthracite $7,50°Ton, © Central Coal and Iron Company JEFF J. READ, Manager n, souicitoy Yard, Tenth and Jefferson MOVES THE COAL market in the interest of consumers WE WILL SERVE YO! is quality. PLSMPTLY 3 THE LOWEST AND A PRICES AS LOW * ENTHRAGITE ST. BERNARD COAL AND COKE, ‘ust PITYSBUGH COAL, FOR SPOT CASH ONLY ST. BERNARD COAL COMPANY (INCORPORATED) TELSPHONB NO.8 A thoroughly equi; You need send not! Patent Flat-Ovening Books Cut Glass, $10.00, Bog HENRY MAMMEN, Jr. BOOKBINDER Book-making plant. out of town. RROADWA ‘That we are now prepared to show yuu the fncst line of holiday goods our store bas ever contained, Ornaments, Graphophones, We have a beautiful line of DIAMONDS, mounted and loose. Stvrling silver comb, brush and mirror in case, Kodaks. From now until Christmas our store will be open tin 9 o’ lock, - WM. NAGEL