Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1885 — Page 3

Venetian Gondoliers.

It is an odd experience *to live in a city where no horse sets its foot, and through whose streets no cab or carriage ever passes. You may walk all over Venice,if you like, but you cannot drive an inch. She affords ample accommodation for the pedestrian, but her streets have no roadways, being all sidewalk. From this novel State of affairs the tourist at least derives one advantage—he is freed from the plague of cabmen. The Venetian gondoliers resemble the ordinary Jehus that they replace about as much as a dragon-fly does a dung-beetle; They are a hardy, active, cheery set of men, civil and obliging f limbed like Greek statues and graceful as greyhounds. John of Bologna might have molded his incomparable Mercury from one of these litlielimbed, sinewy Oarsmen. Their fine development of form is due to their occupation, their habit of rowing standing, developing and exercising every muscle in the frame from throat to heel. As a class they are the cleanliest set of men to be found among the lower orders of Enrope. The watery ways on which their days are spent send up no cloud of dust or dashes of mud to sully their neat and picturesque attire. Their hands and faces, bronzed to as dusky a tint as the sun and the wind can i bssibly impart to the hujuag epidermis, and their crisp, cfirly dark locks are as free from soil and as well" kept as are those of any high-bred gentleman. The costume of a gondolier of the better class would be a handsome one to adopt for a fancy-dress ball, since it is very characteristic, and yot simple and sufficiently in accordance with a gentleman’s every-day suit to be worn without awkwardness. It consists of a loose double-breasted jacket of dark-blue cloth,'with trousers to match. The jacket is closed with two rows of large, highly polished brass buttons, and is bound around the edges and around the cuffs and collar and pockets with cloth of a blue two; shades lighter than the hue of the garment itself. A glazed sailor’s hat, around the crown of which is passed a ribbon of the fighter shade of blue, with long, floating ends,. forms the head-gear. Sometimesa felt hat, with a melon-shaped crown, the brim curving deeply over the brow and .at the back of the head, is adopted, but the ribbon is never absent. A sash of cloth,matching the jacket and trousers, and with long ends finished with white worsted fringe, is tied around the waist, the ends falling at the left side. Sometimes the jacket is piped with red, or with the same dark blue as thecloth whereof it is composed ; but the style I have just described is the most usual, and is also the prettiest. It opens at the throat, showing a collar and white necktie, both scrupulously clean, as are also the white cuffs visible beneath the loose sleeves, the linen being coarse in quality, but of snowy whiteness. I have been told that the same dainty neatness prevails in their homes, and that a gondolier’s ordinary meal of fried fish and polenta is served on as spotless a tablecloth, and with knives and forks and plates and glasses as well washed and shining as are similar articles in a palace.— Lucy Hooper's letter.

Barnum in an Emergency.

“Oh, yes,” said the old ringmaster, scratching a match on the solo of liis shoe, “Barnum .was always prepared for emergencies.” And we thought we heal’d a chuckle, but it might have been the pipestem rattling against his teeth. “I remember one occasion, in particular, when we had pitched our tents at a large town in Connecticut.' Barnum came around the first night as usual before the performance, and found the Sacred Bull stretched on the "ground.” “ ‘Dead, hey’’[remarked Barnum. “ ‘As a eottin nail, sir,’ replied the keeper; ‘cholera, I take it.’ “ ‘Send a man for that bull we saw two miles back here. The Great and Only isn't going to fall short of sacred bulls in a cattle district like this.’ “At that moment a man came up and observed in a business like way, ‘The monkeys have pulled all the fur off the rabbits; snatched’em regular baldheaded.’ “ ‘Put them in a separate cage and label them from the ruins of Pompeii.’ “ ‘All right, sir,’ replied the man, •but what are we to do for dromedaries? The 'Stock’s running low and we’ve advertised that lot, big.’ .. “Barnum tore a leaf from his diary and handed him the following memorandum, with the order, ‘Put a blanket on the horse that went blind yesterday, and tack this on him in a conspicuous place.’ “The following is what the man read: ‘Notice: The hump usually found on this dromedary has been absorbed as nutriment; it is expected out in a few days.’ “Yes, Barnum had large resources,” and the ringmaster solemnly contemplated the wreaths of smoke as they rose into the ambient air, and with feelings of awe we stole silently away, loath to disturb his reveri e.f-Cly dc, in New York Judge.

Association of Odors.

Tbe sense of smell, p by detecting bad odors, may enable uis to guard against danger to our health. It may also excite pleasurable emotions and recall the associations of younger days. “The am 11 of violets, hidden in th> prr en, Pours ba k into mv empty soul and frsme The time when I rem -inhered to have b;eu .loyfnt and fiee from blame." i An instance is on record of a lawyer ■whose delight was to get within range of a farmyard. And why? His childhood had been spent amid the sights, sounds, and scents that surround the farm-house; and so the familiar ammoniaeal exh lations carried him back to the, green fields aud rustic pleasures of pis youthful home. The writer)himself met with an individual whom the ■ noisome smell of sulphuretted hydrogen gratified and pleased. His explanation was that many of his happiest days were spent as a student in a well known chemual laboratory, where certainly that smell prevailed to an unusual extent. A Frenoh author tells us of a young lady who loved beyond all perfumes the smell of old books. Perhaps, with affectionate solicitude,

she had been the constant attendant upon some old bookworm of a father or guardian, and hence the leathery mustiness took her back to days when, quietly happy, she seemed to recognize in the dusty tomes living and trusty friepds. '• 1 Many a person sick in the city has been carried back to the simple days of ?outh by the odor of apple-blossoms. 'he past corned back again in the odprs that live in inemory.

An Old Fur-Deaier’s Work.

Nearly a century ago a queer, stooped, weazened little man, shabbily dressed and carrying a green baize bag, full of papers, in his hand, was one'of the most familiar figures in the streets of Philadelphia. The wealthy merchants began to point him out as a poor young Frenchman, who had scraped a good deal of money together dealing in furs. He married a pretty young woman, bf whom he was very fond, and if; he had had a happy home, full of healthy boys and girls, we probably never would have heard of him, But his young wife soon became yicilontly insane. He placed her in aifakylunv and after that his home waslimited to one hare room, scantily furnished with an iron cot, desk, and chair. Whqa th® yellow fever broke out m the city, he 'S'ent to the hospital where his wife lay ill with it, staye4 with tier until she died, and then, leaving all fiis wide commercial interests, remained in the hospital to nurse the victims of the plague. • This man’s name was Stephen Girard. He was harej, grasping, and cynical, hut his heart held a tender warmth for the children who had never come to him, and he left his great fortune to found a home for orphan boys. He carried out his peculiar ideas in his plans for it. Nothing in the buildings or in the teaching was to be a makeshift or sham. The very roof of the house must be of solid marble. The hoys were to be taught to believe in God, and to lead upright lives. He did not aim to fit them to be educated gentlemen, but educated workingmen. Girard College is a noble building of Greek architecture, which stands, with a village of its surrounding dormitories and halls, in the suburbs of Philadelphia, About five hundred orphan boys are fed, clothed, and trained in it. Within the last year an industrial school lias been opened in it, in which the pupils are taught mechanical arts. In some of the beat private schools of this country, also, an hour each day is .given to the use of tools, the construction of machinery, weaving, printing, and other crafts wliich “teach the boys the use of their hands.” The rules of the trades Unions have limited the number of apprentices received into the trades, and hence these wide, honorable roads to competence and fortune are in this country filled with skilled Avorkmen from Europe. The industrial schpols at Girard College and elsewhere are intended to fit American lads for the same work. There is no prouder feature of American fife than tlie institutions like Girard College, the great polytechnic school at Betlilehem, the Peabody Institute, Cornell, and Johns Hopkins Universities, and other costly schools, founded and endowed by men who have amassed fortunes by their own labors, for the education and service of boys as poor, as they once were, — Youth’s Companion, ,

The Piano.

Any hard Bubstance, no matter how small, dropped inside a piano, will cause a rattling, jarring noise. It is, in every case, desirable that an India rubber or cloth cover should protect the instrument from bruises and scratches. The piano should not be placed in a damp room er left open in a. draught of .cold air. Dampness is its most dangerous' enemy, causing its strings and tuning pipes to rust, the cloth used in construction of the keys and action to swell, whereby the mechanism will move sluggishly or often stick altogether. This occurs chiefly in the summer season, and the best pianos are necessarily affected by dampness, the absorption being rapid. Extreme heat being scarcely less injurious, the piano should not be placed very near an open fire or heated stove,, nor over Or close to the hot-air furnace. Moths are very destructive to the cloth and felt used in the piano, and may kept out of it by placing a lump of camphor, wrapped in soft naper, in the inside of it, care being taken to renew it from time to time. Many persons are aware of the great importance of having their pianos 'kept in, order, and tuned only by a com-petent-tuner. A new piano should be tuned at least once every three or four months during the first year, and at longer intervals afterward.

The Soul’s Anaesthetic.

But men can get hardened to anything. I used to look npon a corpse with awful solemnity, but during the war the sight became so common that I could almost step upon the dead to avoid a ditch or a mud-hole. I have seen soldiers who were kind and humane at home rifle the poekets of the dead upon the battlefields and chuckle over their finding. JusfT so it is with the rich. They get utterly hardened to poverty and passion. They will weep over pathetic acting in the theater, but laugh at scenes as sad npon the streets. They will shed tears of sympathy for little Nell, but carelessly pass by-the beggar children on the highway. Money is an anaesthetic to the soul. It makes a man insensible to the pain or the grief of his fellow men. I would be afraid to have much money, Peter Cooper and Peabody could be trusted, but they are dead. When will the worid wake up to the rights of the poor and unfortunate? Well, after all there is one relief, one-comfort, and I am glad of it. The poor can suffer and then—die. The ricn can feast and frolic and then —die, too! What next?— B\ll Arp.

A Tax Computer.

An instrument is now in use in the California Secretary of State’s ofiice by which the taxes on any amount can be told frqm a small sum to a million of dollars without making a figure, and work can be done, by almost anyone which heretofore has required the services of on expert in figures.

A SINGULAR BOOK.

Scintillating with Sarcasm and Brilliant with Truth. i [New York; Cor. American Rare! Home.] Chap. L “Has Malaria;*’ goes to Florida. Chap. 11. “Overworked;” goes to Europe. Chap. 111. “Has .Rheumatism;” goes to Ems. * Chap. IV. Has a row with his doctor 1

The above chapters, Mr. Editor, I And in a book recently published by an annoymoua author. I have read a deal of sarcasm in my day, but I never read anything equal to the sarcasm herein contained. I suspect the experience portrayed is a personal one: in short, the author intimates as much on page 31. Let me give you a synopsis: “Malaria,” as it states, is the cloak with which superficial physicians cover up a mul* • tiiude of ill feelings which they do not understand, and do not muub care to investigate. It is also a cover for such diseases as they cannot cure. When they advise their patient to travel or that he has overworked, and needs rest, and Is probably suffering from malaria, it Is a confession of ignorance or of inability. The patient goes abroad. Tbe change is a tonic, and for a time ho feels better. Comes home. Fickle appetite, fre-. quent headaches, severe colds, cramps, sleep-J lessness, irritability, tired feelings* and general unfitness for business are succeeded in due time by alarming attacks of rheumatism which flits about his body regardless of all human feelings. ' It is muscular —In his back. Articular —In his Joints. Infiammatory, my! how he fears it wjU fly to his heart! Now off he goes to tEiT springs. The doctor sends him there, of course, ig get well; at the same time he dees not really wtht him tp cjjy qn his hands! That would hurt his business! - Better lor a few days. Returns. After a while neuralgia transfixes him. He bloats; cannot breathe; has pneumonia; cannot walk; cannot sleep on his leftside; is fretful; very nervous and irritable; is pale and flabby; has frequent chills and fevers; everything about him seems to go wrong; becomes suspicious; musters up strength and demands to know what is Wiling him! > “Great heavens!” he cries, “why have you kept me so long in ignorance?” “Because,” raid the doctor, “I read your fate five years ago. I thought best to .keep you comfortable and Ignorant of the facts.” He dismisses bis doctor, but too late I His fortune has all gone to fees. But him, what becomes of him? The other day a well-known AVall Street banker said to me, “It is really astonishing how general Bright’s disease is becoming. Two of my personal friends are now dying of it. But it is not incurable, lam certain, for my nephew was recently cured when his. physicians said recovery was imposssible. The case seems to me to oo a wonderful one.” This gentleman formerly represented his government in a foreign country. He knows, appreciates, and declares the value of that preparation, because his nephew, who is a son of Danish Vice Consul Schmidt, was pronounced incurable when the Remedy, Warner’s safe cure, was begun. 1 “Yes,” said his father, “1 was very skeptical, but since taking that remedy the boy is well.” I regret to note that ex-President Arthur is said to be a victim of this terrible disease. He ought to live, hut the probabilities are that since authorized remedies can not cure him, his physicians will not advise him to save his life, as so many thousands have done, by the use of Warner’s safe cure, which Gen. Christiansen, at Drexel, Morgan & Co.’s, told me he regarded “as a wonderful remedy. ” AVell, I suspect the hero of the book cured himself by the same means. The internal evidence points very strongly to this conclusion. I cannot close my notice of this book bettor than by quoting his advice to his readers: “If, my friend, you have such an experience as I have portrayed, do not put your trust in physicians to the exclusion of other remedial agencies. They have no monopoly over disease, and 1 personally know that many of them are so very ‘conscientious’ that they would far prefer that their patients should go to heaven direct from their power.less hands than that they should be saved to earth by the use of any ‘unauthorized’ means.” And that the author’s condemnation is too true, how many thousands duped, and yet rescued, as he was, can personally testify?

“The Yankceismo.”

It is commonly and rightly believed that citizens of the United States are not popular in Mexico, though nearly all are wrong in regard to the cause of the supposed dislike. It is supposed that the Mexicans dislike us because some years ago we took part of their territory. A Frenchman is, however, in high favor in Mexico, in spite of the fact that France but twenty years ago tried to take the whole of the country. The Frenchman is liked by rich and poor, by educated and ignorant alike, while the average American isr liked by none. The reason is that the Frenchman there is always a gentleman. Like the German, the Italian, and the Engliakinan, all of whom are also liked, he enters the country thoroughly impressed with the idea that the country belongs to the Mexicans; that they have a right to be just as slow, as ignorant, and as peculiar as they please. The Mexican papers often talk of Yankeeismo. It is useless to deny the existence of such a thing in Mexico. The American bristles with it at every turn. It consists in a feeling of infinite superiority which is never at a loss for a way to show itself. Its milder manifestations are a supercilious, arrogant air, impatience with the native’s slowness and lack of familiarity with our business methods, and general contempt for every thing that is not up to our ideas of progress. In its grosser form Yankeeismo is a feeling that the whole country really belongs to the United States, and that it is only a matter of a few years at most until we shall possess it, and that in the meantime it is in the temporary possession of a set of barbarians who are entitled to no consideration from the real own-, ers. —CorrespondenceNew York Evening Post. v VSi In relation to the question of the at-, mospliere as a source of nitrogen to growing plants, Prof. Atwater, Middletown, Conn., offers these general conclusions: “The plants, peas, grown in nutritive solutions exposed to the air, but protected from rain and dew, contained at maturity much more nitrogen than was supplied them in nutritive solution and seed. Such were the results of a first series of trials, confirmed even more strikingly by a second series the succeeding year. For this excess of nitrogen there was but one possible source—namely, the atmosphere.” It is as true to-day as ever that the riling passion is strong in death. Dan Mace, the famous driver, is reported to have given utterance to this metaphor when he found he was nearing the find: “I have turned into the home stretch for the last heat of my race, and I am close to the line.” Similar was the remark of the California stage driver who had embarked for the last journey with death holding the reins: “Bill,” said he, in a hoarse whisper, to a sympathizing comrade, “I’m on the down j grade, and—l can’t rea h the brake.” VIBTtE alone outbids the pjTamids; her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.— E. Young.

Farms on the Baltic.

A more beautiful farming country does not exist than that along the southern shore of the Baltic. No fences mark the boundaries of the fertile farms which stretch away oyer the rolling hills to the distant horizon, all aglow with yellow grain. At intervals a clump of trees, often seen intensely dark against the ripe grain, shows where a farm-house Btands, and giant windmills swing their sails on the highest hill-tops. The highway, a finely built ebanssee, leads straight across the country, only curving to pass through some village. Mountain ash, birch, and cherry trees border the road in an unbroken rank. In the ditches and ( by the roadside grow countless varieties of wild flowers—a’perfect paradise for the botanist. From the highest hill the eye meets to the sontli a succession of grain fields. To the north, beyond she soft undulations df the cultivated hills, the Baltic shimmers in the strong sunlight, a narrow line, sharp at the horizon. The dimensions of the brick barns prove the accustomed magnitude Of the harvest; the luxury es the farmers’ houses tells of inherited success.

Privateering.

Ifi -the Congress of Paris, 1856, all the great Powers of Europe, together with Turkey, and, later, forty other states, agreed to tlip abolition of privateering, and to the rules which protected Beutral commerce and confined wars as far as practicable to belligerents. The United States refused lo accept the rule abolishing privateering, unless there were accompanied with it a stipulation of the inviolability of private property on the sea, excepting only contraband of war. The United States during the war of the rebellion offered to accede to the declaration of Paris, without the condition "it had before demanded. The proposed separate conventions, bowevei’, on this subject fell through. No letters of marque were issued by the American GoA-ernment during the civil war, though authorized by Congress.

Money and Matrimony.

The reluctance of young men to marry is rapidly taking the shape of one of the most perplexing problems of our time. In sections where the women outnumber the men by about 10 per cent, the situation presents many difficulties. But the disinclination* of young men to marry seems to be in the nature of a contagious epidemic. It .is spreading all over the country except in agricultural regions, where pepple hold fast to old-fashioned ways. The trouble is, too many of our young men are determined to marry rich women, or to accumulate wealth themselves before entering the wedded state. This state of affairs is unhappy and demoralizing.—Atlanta Constitutionalist.

The Care of Children.

Boston, Mass. —A leading medical journal thinks it is about time mothers should know how seriously the health of children is imperiled, by the use of preparations containing morphia and opium, and giten for the cure of colds and coughs. The chemist of fhtTßrooklyn Board of Health, Otto Grothe, Ph. D., a graduate of the University of Kiel, Germany, certifies officially that recently a harmless and yet effective article for such complaints has come to his notice. He refers to the newly discovered Bed Star Cough Cure, which he found purely vegetable. There is still living in the North of Scotland an.old lady who can give the curious visitors who sometimes drop in on her an interesting glimpse of Lord Byron. When the century was young she accompanied two or three holidaymakers to Glamis Castle, then thrown open to visitors, and, at the entrance, fear fell upon them. Bv-and-by a handsome cavalier with a club foot, evidently a guest at the castle, sauntereJTup the walk and tookin the situation at a glance. He put his arm around the prettiest girl’s waist, and drove the others giggling up the steps and into the hall, where he even signed their names in the visitors’ book for them. Gray are now the locks through which the poet’s fingers wandered ; but tbe only survivor of the little incident loves to recall how George Lord Byron looked on that sunny May morning.

When on the High Seas, On the rail, on a steamboat, aboard a fishing smack, or yachting on the coast, Hostetler's Stomach Bitters will be found a reliable means of averting and relieving ailments to which travelers, mariners, and emigrants are peculiarly subject. Sea captains, ship doctors, voyagers, or sojourners in the tropics, and all about to encounter unacclimated, and unaccustomed or dangerous climate, should not neglect to avail themselves of this safeguard of well ascertained and long-tried merit. Constipation, biliousness, malarial fevers, indigestion, rheumatism, and affections of the bladder and kidneys are among the ailments which it eradicates, and It may be resorted to not only with confidence io Its remedial efficacy, but also in its perfect freedom from every objectionable ingredient, since it is derived from the purest and most saintary sources. It counteracts the effects, of unwholesome food and water. Eveby sewer should be self-cleans-ing. Velocity of flow should not be checked. Flow should be maintained by sufficient grade. Steep grades are destructive to the sewers themselves. The water should be so concentrated by the shape of the sewer as never to fall below a certain depth. Avoid flat bottoms. The sewer should not be too large. The walls sbonld be smooth. Up to a size of about eighteen inches glazgd earthenware pipe is the best material known. Brick follows earthenware, and stone is the least v.ilnable. A good outfall is absolutely necessary. The contents shonld be "taken away from the Outfalls as rapidly as they collect.

Fine feelings, without vigor of reason, are in the situation of the extreme feathers of a peacock's tail—dragging in the mud. Learn to say no! and it will be of more use .to you than to be able to read Latin. * * * AXiiBKASEOf so deliea e a nature as stricture of the urethra, should only b • intrust .d to tbos_• of larg exper.en.e and still. By, our i.. pro ed methods we have been ena 1.-d to speed iy and permanently c re hundreds of the wo.st cases. Pamphlet, ro - erenres, and terms, three letter stamps. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, t>o3 Main street. Buffalo, N. Y. The jackass would not bide his ears if ho could. He thinks they look Weil enough.— Hew Orleans Picayune.

“Lore Sees No Faults,”

It has been said; but. when a woman Is dragged down, emaciated, wan. knd & shadow of her former self, with never a cheerful word, she can be no longer beautiful or lovable. Nature may luvo been gencro is In her gifts, and endowed her with mil tbe (harms of her s«|X, but disease baa ciept in unawares and stolen the roses from her cheeks, ibe luster from her eye, and tbe sunshine irorn her heart. But to bo well again lies In your own power! Take Dr. Fierce's “Favorite Prescription." It will cuije you; thobsands have been cured by it. Nothing equals it for all the painful maladies and weaknesses peculiar to women. I-rice reduced to one dollar. By druggist- 1 . 1 -; a Don’t undertake to Kiss a runous woman; risk not a smack in a storm. Tax great dlaphoretle and anodyne, for colds, levers, and Infiammatbry attacks, is Dr. Pierce’s Compound Extract of SmartWeed; also, cures colie, cramps, cholera morbus, dlarrhica, and dysentery, or bloody-fiux. Only 50 cents. He that is familiar with curtain lectures may not advocate stage effects, but be is certainly In favor of the drop curtain.— Yonkers Gazette, i .

Important. When yon visit or leave Now York Oty, save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stop at tbe Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, reduced to $1 anrl upwards per day. European plan. Elevator, Restaurant supplied with the best.. Horse, cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for lees money at the Grand Union than at any flrst-clasa hotel in the city. Care may kill a cat, but a boot-jack sent with proper precision is more speedy in its action.

THE MODEL THEATER.

It Is Located In Chicago, and McVicknr’s Is Its Name. [From the Chicago Inter Ocean.] The work of reformation at HcVicker’e Theater has been so quietly conducted that most people will be surprised to find how radical ikt has been. While the two upper stories were building to the pnblic yiew, the interior of the theater was undergoing the reconstructive process which has made it one of the most delightful auditoriums that may be found anywhere. From stage to dome the remodeling and redecorating has been carried so far that, with the single exception of the balcony sweep and the supporting columns, nothing remains to suggest the old auditorium, and these will not be recognized as familiar because of the novel surroundings of which they have been made a part. One of the most important alterations, uiie that will not be perceived by the! majority of the patrons of the house, was the e: ovation of the gallery ceiling by several feet, by means of which that portion of the house has been made as comfortable as any other part. This was done in conformity with Mr. MeVieker’s idea that all patrons of his house should be entertained agreeably qud without suffering unpleasant annoyances, whether they paid $1.50 for admission or only 25 cents. For the same reason he has famished to every portion of the house, gallery included, separate retiring rooms for ladies and gentlemen, and stationed a water fountain for the supply of ice wafer upon every landing. These attentions, together with the seating arrangements and the unique plan of ventilation introduced, will certainly tend to make this theater a model in the care of patrons. The ventilating system referred to is rather complicated, but it ihay be sufficiently explained in a ferv words: By a series of ducts and revolving fans the air, which has first been purified by passing through a filter of charcoal and gravel, is conveyed to the top of the building and forced downward into the auditorium through large induction tubes. The air is not only forced in by pressure, but it is drawn downward by suction of fans located beneath the auditorium and carried off through innumerable exits at regular intervals about the bouse and under the seats. This keeps going a continuous supply of fresh, pure air without ‘creating a draft, and prevents the dust and refuse particles of the floor rising into the atmosphere to be inhaled. In winter, by the same process, heated air will be supplied. It may be well to state that boilers, furnaces, and all fire appliances have been removed from the theater building to one across the alley, and assail the lighting will be done by electric burners, there is no danger by fire to be apprehend§B. Nevertheless, as a further precaution against any possible contingent cy, a heavy twenty-inch fire wall has "bees built underneath, dividing the stage and auditorium spaces, so there is no chance for a fire to spread in that way from stage to auditorium. But if there are timid ones who think even these measures insufficient to reassnre them, they will find consolation in tbe fact that the auditorium has been so arranged that each one of its seven aisles leads directly to an exit, and that each exit opens straight upon the street or alleys. There are twenty-three exits of this description throughout the house. Mr. McVicker feels satisfied that this will be pronounced tho model the»ter of the country, and. in order to have that said by the profession as well as by the public, he has made the improvements behind the’ stage conform with those in front A general invitation is extended to people lmng outside of the city to inspect this model theater when visiting Chicago. Here tho play can be enjoyed with a feeling of safety by qll lovers of first-class drama.

“Fat up” at the Gault House. The business man or tourist will find firstclass accommodations at the low price qf $2 and $2.50 per day at the Gault House, Chicago, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the city, only one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments first-class. Hott & Gates. Pronrietors. r— — As a Care for Sore Throat and Conghs, ‘'Brown's ■Bronchial Trochis" have been thoroughly-tested, and maintain their good reputation. I have been bothered with catarrh for about twenty years. I could not tell how many different remedies I have tried, and none seemed to reach my case like Ely’s Cream Balm; I had lost my smell entirely lor the last fifteen years, and I had almost lost my he iring. My eyes were getting so d m 1 had to get some one to thread mineedle. Now I have my bearing as well as i ever had, and I can see to thread as fine a needle as ever J did, and my smell is party re stored, and it seems to bo im: r iving a'-i the time. I think tbefo is nothing lke Cream Ea m for Catarrh.—Mrs. E. E. Grimes 67 Vailey street, Hendri.l, Perry Co., Ohio. For dyspepsia, ixdioesti on, depression of sp rits, and general debility in their various forms: also, as a previ ntive against fever and ague, and other intermittent fevers, the >■’ Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Ca isaya,” made by Caswell. Hazard A Co., of Sew 1 ork. and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no equal. It fa •iron ts to tamper with India’ing liquids and e cii ing snuffs. Use Ely's Ciedra balm, which L> sate and pleasant an > is easily a- plied with the finger. It cures-tbs wo. st case of la arrh, Odd in the Head and hay Fever, glviDg relief from the first a, pleat on. Ail druggists have it. Price 50 cents. By mailed cents. Ely Bros., Owe„o, N. Y.

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