Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 December 1889 — Page 11

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FACTS FROM A CHEMIST ABOUT CONDENSED MILK.

rrocftii at n»|Mulin It for the M*rket—Hov. and by Whom It WM Flr«t Done-Why It Is in -Certain Form Good ^Tood for Infant*.

'Tell me something about condensed In ilk. its manufacture and its popular Y-jes," requested a Globe reporter of one |fof thfe best known chemists in Boston,

Is the two sat discussing matters in general. •The demand for condensed milk |rjnv, I suppose, out of a desire to. render 'talk capable of being transported Jong jKfttance£ and to keep it sweet for a long yime. It is hardly worth while to go «nto a technical description of the process of condensing as itisfiimply evaporation—by means, however, of a vacuum

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Ir'ln the middle of this century, Pro Ji^ssor E. N. Horsford made numerous ^pcperucents showing that milk could be

Successfully condensed by evaporating at a low temperature with the addition of some sugar. He did not employ [i vacuum pan, but he pointed out the leans by which his assistant, Dalson, mth Blatehford and Harris, succeeded ha placing the first condensed milk upon rhe market. This milk, which was sold |i© cal es packed in tin foil, formed part tlv provisions which Dr. Kane took f*with him on his polar expedition. "In 1838 Blatehford improved the process by introducing the vacuum pan. [n the same year Gail Borden obtained la patent for applying the vacuum pan in a particular way to the preparation (.•of condensed milk without the addition 'of sugar or other foreign substance. (This milk, however, would not keep for fony length of time, and Borden added Isugar and his preserved milk appeared \'m the market in tin boxes, hermetically

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sealed. Horsford and Borden share the honor of having invented condensed |\tnilk. "Condensed milk in prepared by evaporating ordinary milk at a temperature below 100 degs. 0 preserved milk is condensed milk to which sugar has been added during the process of evaporation." "What is the ordinary condensed milk .of commerce?" asked the writer. "Simply condensed milk to which cane sugar has been added. Tlioy found that in the condensing, after the mills reached a boiling point, the fat separated from the rest, and a proper degree of thickness could not be obtained, but that by adding cane sugar tho milk could be reduced to the desired consistency. If tho milk were thin enough to shake around in the can it would be churned, as it were, by handling, and little lumps of butter would gather in it.

Even in common milk that has beon brought to me for analysis, I have found little lumps of butter if it has come a long distance on the cars. "Then there is another kind of condensed milk that milkmen sometimes work oft on their customers when their regular supply has l«?on soured by a thunderstorm" "Is it really a scientific fact that a thunderstorm will sour milk?" broke in the reporter, whose crudo Ideas ou that point had been Ting for enlighter..'ment for years. "Yes, I think so," continued the chemist. "At least the conditions during a thunder storm are such that milk often Jwill sour then. For one tiling, thunder Jatorma usually come on very hot days.

Then, too, tho unusual amount of ozone prevalent during a thunder storm, the Loreseneeof nitrio acid, in fact, caught Pji tho air, washod down by the rain, foay have something to do with the curing."

DIFFKKKNT QUALITIES OF MILK. 'But as I was saying, milkmen often larry around in bulk, in ten quart cans, *v kind of condensed milk made without J.ugar, and that will keep several days, ifhat kind Is the best in tho world for [cables brought up by hand." 'How is that?" asked the reporter, swing suddenly interested, •Well, this fallacy about *one cow's juilk for the baby' is pretty well knocked fvut now. People in the first place are ot sure that they are getting one cow's lilk, and the next place if they are and the cow is diseased the baby's health is rdangered. The milk of a whole herd [1 more uniform and the process of condensing will remove or destroy any injurious ingredients or taints that might lave been in the milk before it was boil1. This kind of condensed milk is the [»est for coffee, also, as it will not dilute

Lnd weaken the coffee as common milk [.-ill. 1 have used it in my family for iears." "It is 81range," added the chemist. hat there is no law regulating the sale impure or condensed milk, or milk pbt up to the standard. The laws affectug common milk are many and stringent, ut they do not apply to condensed milk. |"ow, here is the result of an analysis I ave just made of Wo samples of con*

Wsed milk, the first made from partly -kuiuned milk and the second from .hole milk:

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|Vat«r Kl 6.40 4* not fat ............................... 8149

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(not fat.. ......................... 4130 Toul 10&0)

You not ice that the first is more than half water and contains only 5,40 per it, of fat yet the public couldn't tell Jje difference."

What is milk sugar?" asked the writer. "Milk sugar is made by extraction I rom whev. which contains 88 per cent lit milk sugar. It is not sweet, ts inaolutile in water and will not decotnjx&e. It Is used

a great deal in medicine, mixed

With pe|)«m, for instanoe, and to make [hoee lUUe mils homoeopatlmts use. It bome« to tlus country from Switzerland, •bieflv, crvstall*ed on thin aticka, jtwt rock candy is on string*."—Boston

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Hi* Fried Chicken.

It is a startling statement, and yet itls *aid to be true, that an important crisis in the American Revolution was passed in safety by the help of a dish of fried 3hicken! The tradition is kept, in the. Walker family in Virginia. •*. ,* 1

In 1781 the Virginia legislature adjourned fromi Richmond to Charlottesville. The Biitish Gem Tarleton started to capture it with a large forceof.cavalry and infantry. He stopped for breakfast at the plantation of Dr. Joseph Walker, distant twenty miles from Charlottesville. Rations were distributed among the men, and the cook made haste to prepare a real Virginia breakfast for the general and his staff.

Meantime a messenger from the village rode on in hot haste to warn the legislature and Thomas Jefferson, then governor of Virginia, who was at his home at Monticello, outside of Charlottesville.

Twice the cook prepared a delicious dish of fried chicken and cream gravy, -*nd twice, when her back was turned, some* of the hungry British soldiers tiashed into the kitchen and carried it off. Tarleton was also hungry, and enraged at the delay, which the host explained, and told the general that what there was of the meal could be served at once if he desired it. But if he wished to have chicken he "must seta corporal's guard to protect the cook."

Tarleton was a glutton. He hesitated a raomeut, and said, "I will wait for the chicken. Adjutant, set a guard over those rascally thieves!"

The guard was set, the chickens were cooked and eaten. But the delay enabled the messenger to reach Charlottesville and give the alarm. Mr. Jefferson and the legislature escaped from the towyi before Tarleton with his troops entered it. Their capture would have leen a stunning blow to the fortunes of the young republic. —Youths' Companion.

Mrs. Lamrtry's Silver BatU Tab. A curious story is told as to the origin »f Mrs. Langtry's silver bath. Bathmakers believe that there is only one silver bath in the world. This was made some years ago for an Indian prince by a London bathmaker, and he supposes that, the owner having died, the silver bath came into the market and was bought by Mrs. Langtry. A silver bath is a tremendous affair. Some few wealthy people have copper baths plated with silver, but the cost is but a trifle compared with the genuine article. Some wealthy people who go in for luxurious bathing fill their bathrooms with statuary, have painted tile walls, and the bath is fitted into a case of carved oak. Then there aro marble baths. They are both cold and costly.

The most novel thing in baths, however, is ono fitted with a shower bath overhead, a needle spray bath at the sides and a wave bath that rushes out at the foot. These aro in addition to the ordinary hot and cold taps. So that a possessor of one of these ingenious things can have five styles of bathing. They cost about $125.

There are have a dozen or more different sorts of towels for bathing. After the ordinary Turkish and huckaback towels some doctors are fond of recommending a towel of rushes, made appropriately enough by Russian peasants. It is hard and stiff and feels like a coarse dishcloth. Its use is confined to bathroom fanatics who tiiink they are happy in abraiding their skins. Then thei-e is an elastic towel made of net, and another akin raiser called loofah. This is imported from Egypt. Tho loofah is made of dried grass and it doesn't soften by immersion in water.—-Kansas City Times.

The Smallest Book.

Tho London Pall Mall Gazette thinks that the smallest book in the world is a volume now in the Salford Royal Borough library and museum. It says: "The work in question—which differs from the rest in the essential point that while, like them, de jure a book, it is also de facto a manuscript—consists of one hundred leaves of the finest rice pajjer, octagonal in shape, and measuring from, side to side one-half inch, stitched together and covered in silk. Nothing can exceed tho lightness, delicacy and softness of the material, or the neatness of the penmanship. Tlus dainty little morsel of caligraphy, which at the first glance precisely resembles, in its glass prison, a very tiny butterfly of some uncommon kind, is very probably unique in the western world. How it escaped imminent destruction Is not the least wonderful feature of its history, for it was looted at Ghansi in India, by a private soldier during the mutiny, but it has been safe In the possession of the Salford library for many years. The work has not been translated, but is officially defined, on the authority of an Indian scholar, to be an example of the 'Kathas, or Sacred Recitations of (the) Mahrattas Bralimans,' and it is written, without blot or alteration, in the Mahrattas character, in glossy black ink, with a brilliant margin of vermilion to every page, which is also numbered. Poesibiy the acme of biblical minuteness is reached in this beautiful little work of art, which, for the present, at any rate, may claim to bo 'the smallest book,* as well as 'the least collective manuscript In the world.'"

An EcMBtrlc Kin*.

A correspondent of The London Globe gives a most interesting account of Norodom, king of Cambodia, one of the kingdoms of ,Indo-Cbina. His majesty, it seems, has adopted a style of dress in vogue in Europe seventy years ago. He wears a blue tail coat with gold buttons, satin knee breeches and pumps. No traveler who has had an audience of his majesty in his palace of Pnon-Peuh has been able to suppress a smile at the light of the Asiatic potentate in tht evening attire worn ia the reign of George IV._

ItM Life of a iMMk

She—And now that we are engaged, John, dear, how long shall the engagement be fox?

Be (an absent minded lawyer who haa just drawn up a tailroad lease)—Oh, ninety-nine years, I s'pooe.—Epoch.

EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS

Several Attempt* to Start a Hbzse While the Driver Was Looking for a Brick. A bay horse drawing a heavy express wagon balked on Dearborn street, near Washington, about noon the other day. The horse was a vicious looking animal with a sinister eye, reeking nostrils, and long, reclining ears, and he balked with such determination right across the cable track that the cars were stopped as far down as Monroe and La Salle streets, and the gripmen all swore as gripmen will. A crowd of young clerks, old business men and jolly little typewriter girls gathered on the sidewalk, and all the office boys in the block took front seats, after their habit, and awaited developments. The driver, who was a tall, thin youth with a red neck and freckles, left his seat, and by way of opening business kicked the horse rudely in the abdomen. A member of the Humane society caught the boy by'the collar and shook him, and everybody laughed except the boy and the member of the Humane society, who glared at eack other. "Has anybody got a lump of sugar?' the member of the Humane society asked after a while, the boy having gone to look for a brick. "I have," a typewriter girl replied, diving into her handbag.

The member of the Humane society said, "Thank you, miss," bowed, rolled back his cuffs in the manner of tlie gentleman who is just about to make a nickel disappear in his ear, and then attempted to thrust the sugar into the horse's mouth. The horse's ears flapped back, his eye reddened and he grabbed at the Humane man's arm with his pink jaws. The Humane man yelled."Wlioa!" and jumped away the young men in the crowd laughed hoarsely and the girls shrieked.

Banker George Schneider had been standing in his window watching the performance, and he now came down stairs and walked through the crowd. "In the old country," he said, "we used to make balky horses move in this way," and he got on his tiptoes and threw his arms around the horse's neck. The animal snorted savagely and shot up its angry head till its neck looked like a stand pipe, and of course Mr. Schneider went with it. When he had gone up so high that he could almost see the roof of the Tacoma building he let go, and, falling, struck Tailor Joe Day. Mr. Day changes his trousers every hour, and he now wore a pair of gobelin blue trousers with white flecks. When he jumped out of the way to avoid Mr. Schneider he rubbed some axle grease off a wagon hub with his trousers and swore softly. Mr. Schneider blushed under the taunts of the crowd and withdrew to tlie bank.

A red faced man with a sandy mustache, who wore a checked scarf around his neck, then came forward and remarked: "'Ere's the honly wove to do the bloomink think." He took a hitching strap from a horse attached to a buggy near by and passed it behind the balky horse's right front leg.

Then he began to pull and haul, and Assistant Postmaster John Hubbard, who has a good voice, started to sing "Saw my leg off." Everybody in the crowd knew "Saw my leg off," and the chorus was large and enthusiastic. Officer Lavin paused on his way home to dinner, saw the unhitched horse, and calmly drove off with the buggy, according to the ordinance regularly made and provided. The owner, a little man with a plug hat, came out of the Grannii block at this juncture and assaulted the Englishman, and somebody began welting the balky horse with a barrel stave. This was the signal for a combined attack, and everybody who could get near enough took a hand in hammering the poor brute. While this bombardment was at its height tlie driver came up. He inquired for the member of the Humane society, and finding that he had gone he climbed into the wagon, glared contemptuously at the crowd, kicked the horse in an tangentlemanly like manner, yelled "G—ee—t—ee—app,'\and drove away.—Chicago Tribune.

Stealing a Child.

A remarkably intelligent elephant working on a new bridge in Ceylon, says Murray's Magazine, had a young one to whom she was perfectly devoted. It died, and she became inconsolable. Formerly the gentlest of creatures, she grew irritable and even dangerous. One morning she broke the chain which confined her and escaped into the forest.

One night, about ten days after her escape, tlie officer who had been in charge of her went out to lie in wait for bears at a pond in a jungle at some distance.

As he and his native attendant were returning, early in the morning, the native silently nudged him, and they saw in the dim, gray light an elephant with her calf making ttieir way toward the camp. They both sprang behind trees, and when the elephants had passed the native insisted that the older one was their old friend.

When they reached the camp they found that the truant had indeed returned, and had gone from one person to another, touching each with her trunk, as if she were exhibiting her adopted child, which she had evidently begged, borrowed or stolen during her absence.

Her good temper and usual docility returned at once, and her owner blessed the good fortune which had enabled her to steal a child.

I*roofi of Xjuiaess.

When Cyrus W. Field owned The Mali and Express he occasionally poised around the various editorial rooms to get some idea of how his paper was being conducted. "Who is that man who sits in that room to the right up stairs?* he mce asked of his managing editor.

That's Mr. —our exchange editor," replied the managing editor. "Well," said Mr. Field, frowning, "it's my opinion that he isn't worth his salt As often as I have been in this office I've never seen him do anything except read newspapers, *nd he's always got a big pile of 'on in front of him."—St. Louis Republic.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING

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iOGRAPHY OF TIIE MOON.

{BRIEF WORD PICTURE OF OUR {NEAREST MllBll

PLANET NEIGHBOR."

So nettling About the CHasina and Mountins of Pair and Bather Mysterious joiui—The Sea Basins and Several Other

Important Items. 4

["hough the moon is so near us when co opared with the other heavenly bodies, it 3 still a very long way off when estimated by more ordinary standards. U: ider the most favorable circumstances our neighbor is nearly 250.000 miles av ay, and when viewed from so great a di tance objects have to be of considerab magnitude if they are jto be visible at all. A lunar mountain, even if it re as great as Mont Blanc itself, would on be shown like a tiny hillock by Our nr rfitiest telescopes. No object on the men could be seen unless it were at [e st as large as a town hall or a cathedi il. Were the great pyramid of Egypt ot the moon it would only seem to us as a peck, which an artistwho was makin a sketch the telescope would indies te by a dot with his pencil. s,/' SIZES BY COMPARISONS. ?here are certain spots or marks on th| moon as seen with the unaided eye with which every one is familiar. They cai be best observed when the moon is full, and it is a remarkable fact that the features exhibited by the full moon are always the same. In fact, the moon al•p^ys turns the same face to us we are Hever grauted a glimpse at the other iide, and as to what that other side may bej like neither I nor any one else can pre you the slightest information. The dikmeter of the moon is .about 2,000 miles, from which we infer that the hemisphere which we do see has an area about double as big as the entire surface of] Europe, Some of those large spots which form the features on the full moon are therefore about as large as France or Spain. These regions have a different, color to the rest of the moon's surface, and the telescope shows that their floors are smoother than other tracts of lunar country.

We are certain that the surface of the moon no longer contains any visible water. It seems to have penetrated into the interior of the lunar globe at some period ages before telescopes were ever directed to the heavens.

Though the ancient sea basins are the only conspicuous objects in the naked eye view of the moon, yet when the telescope is used these features are not nearly so interesting as the craters. These are multitudes of small objects quite invisible to the unaided eye, though many of them must be a hundred miles or more in diameter.

To observe these objects with advantage we should select an opportunity when tlie moon is at or near the quarter. In any case we should avoid making our visit to the observatory at the time when the moon is full. You must remember that the moon derives its light from the gun just as the earth does. The sun illuminates that half of the moon which happens to be turned toward it, while the other half is in darkness, and accordingly as we see more or less of the bright half we see the moon more or less full. It is along the diameter of the moon at the quarter, or at any time along the boundary between the bright part and the dark, that the illumination is best suited for rendering faint objects visible.

NOT NIC® FOE WALKING, ft

There is one particular kind of object which specially characterizes the geography of the moon. The type of this object is a ring, and of these lings there are hundreds. They have been most carefully drawn on the charts of the moon, and, indeed, the great majority have had special names assigned to them. Let me try to describe what one of these rings would actually look like if you were able to stand on tho moon. You would find the ring to be a rampart of lofty mountains, surrounding a rough and rugged interior. The diameter of this circle will range from the smallest size that we can just discern, which will be a few hundred yards across, up to vast extents of 100 miles or even more in diameter, indeed, If you were standing in the center of one of the larger of these rings the range of mountains which encircled it would be invisible to you, because they would lie below your horizon.

While these are the general features of She moon's geography, some others may be noted. There are, for example, lofty ranges of mountains which, in their altitude and in their massiveness, may be compared with our Alps or our Apennines, names which, indeed, have been also applied with appropriateness to corresponding lunar objects. I imagine, however, that a walk on the moon would be attended with most frightful difficulties from the nature of its surface alone, quite independently of Other impediments of a still more insuperable description. The entire area of moon land appears to be an utter desert—a desert, too, not of sand, but of rough rocks, carven into the wildest forms, and presenting every difficulty to one who should try to move across such a country. Lilliputians trying to run races over a heap of bricks would, I fancy, have an easy task of it as compared with the conditions under which you or I would try to walk upon the moon.

You know how in climbing over an Alpine glacier the presence of a yawning crevasse is a difficulty which sometimes baffles the mountaineer. The lunar rambler will find his way occasionally barred by a fearful chasm half a mile or more in width, descending to a depth which his eye cannot fathom. Never in the course of his travels will he meet with any features resembling those with which he is happily familiar on the earth. He will never meet with a brook or river he will never see a grassy field or a tree in fact, water being now entirely absent from the moon, It is almost needless to add that vegetation of any Kfft is not to be found there, either. It follows also that there can be no animal life cm the moon, tar every «nimal we know of contains water as a part of its organization.—Sir Robert BalL

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I mind me of two kind old men,... And both to good intsations bent, ..With genial smile and hearty grasp,

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THE TWO FATHERS.

And much to life its joys they lent And oft to see my wife and I They'd come to chat, and joke, and dine, Dear loving fathers pone, alas!

And one washers and one was mine..

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Their minds were just exactly one, These good old fashioned, gentle creatures— They never told the same joke twico.

Nor failed to watch each otherV features To note the proper tame to laugh. And wife and I would watch these fine Old fathers, in their harmless mirth.

For one was hers, and one was mine. They'd talk about the herds and crops, And often tell their old time stories, Of Landlord Jones, the taveraer,

Of trainings, 'lections, Whigs and Tories. And wife and I the evening through Would listen to their talk till nine, And then they'd bid us both adieu,

For one was hers, and one was mine

They could not livf alonp, and so They walked alous life's xray together, And hand in hand they graveward wont

And slipped the coil of earthly tether. They clasped their hands in mute farewell And clasped again where glories shine, While wife and I together wept,

For both wero hers, and both were mine.

There are two graves on yonder hill. And side by side the fathers lie. Their jokes are hushed, the mirth has flown,

And softly each has said Good by To earthly friends, and earthly homes. And wife and I just sit and pine, For these old gents, our fathers once,

And one was hers^and one was mine. —Albeit Lewis in Springfield Homestead.

Scarlet the Sacred Color.

In Italy, Turkey, Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and many of the oriental countries the archaic images of the deities were painted red and it has been said that the traditional practice was intended to please "the color sense," by which is meant that these images were regarded as pretty gewgaws. This is not likely, and the true explanation is that the color of red was sacred. All pristine creeds can, with probability, be traced ultimately to two origins. They are, in different disguises, the worship of the sun and the worsliip of humanity. Red became therefore an exceptionally odious color when the ascetio temper gained possession of religion.

The author of "The Wisdoth of Solomon" betrays a profound antipathy to the color in the following: "Or make it like some wild beast, laying it over with vermilion, and with paint coloring it red, and covering every spot therein." The coloring was very offensive to'him, and he describes in another place the voluptuary as crying: "Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they are withered." Afterward a fresh association was added, and scarlet typified not only the sins of Babylon, but their punishment also.—Exchange.

A Cat That Lives on Canaries. George Fair, of the Haymarket theatre, says: I have a tiger cat, a pug dog, seventeen gold fish, and forty canaries. The dog is the most submissive of the lot. He has been licked so many times that his tail won't curl. Ever see a pug dog with the curl taken out of his tail? I've got one. But the cat is the boss. Mrs. Fair is very much attached to the cat. I wanted her to sell the cat, or let me bring it down here, or kill it—anything to get it out of the house. No, sir, she wouldn't have it. Said the cat could stay in the house as long as she did. One day she went homo and found a lot of feathers on the floor, and the cat asleep on top of the piano. Tho cat had eaten the canary—several canaries. I said to Mrs. Fair, "I guess the cat will go now," but she said no. For two or three days we noticed that the cat didn't eat anything. He refused beefsteak, mutton chops, whipped cream, and all of the dainties. He had tasted the canary, and nothing but canary would satisfy him. So. we are raising canaries now to appease the cat's appeitite. The dog eats the bones and the crumbs which fall from his master's table.—Chicago Tribune.

Limbs of the Mind.

One is curiosity that is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy you make yourselves cold and dull. Another is sympathy the power of sharing in the feelings of living creatures, which if you destroy you make yourselves hard and cruel. Another of your limbs of mind is admiration the power of enjoying beauty or ingenuity, which if you destroy you make yourselves base and irreverent. Another is wit, or the power of playing with the lights on the many sides of truth, which if you destroy you make yourselves gloomy, and less useful and cheering to others than you might be. So that in choosing your way of work it should be your aim, as far as possible, to bring out all these faculties, as far as they exist in you, not one merely, nor another, but all of them. And the way to bring them out is simply to concern yourselves attentively with the subject of each faculty. To Cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them: and to cultivate admiration you must be among beautiful things, and looking at them,—J. Rusk in.

A Lucky Man.

His highness the gaekwar of Baroda, a Bombay paper remarks, is a mail whom fortune has smiled upon from his youth. The romance of his life would read almost like a dream from the "Arabian Nights." Taken from the hills a poor little herd boy, adopted by a princess, he is clad in purple garments, decked with jewels, &nd has a scepter thrust into his hands. With loyal and peaceful subjects. a beautiful stretch of country for his state, magnificent palaces and well filled coffers from which he can afford to indulge his artistic tastes and his love for what is beautiful, be is a prince whom even princes might envy.—Montreal Star.

Clrei»Mtinti»I Kvktenec.

Clara—Yes, I knew you were there last night, though I did not see yon. Hay rlesse—Darling girl! It was a manifestation of that subtle influence which is felt by the souls of those that truly love.

Clara—No 1 aaw the reflection oa the ceiling, caused by the light falling on your head.—Pittsburg Bulletin.

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Successors to P. 1*. Mischler. Having bought out P. P. Mischlertt north Fourth street Meat Market we solicit a continuance of his trade. We will keep all kinds of choice meats, sausage, etc., at most reasonable prices.

The Opera Music Store will to-day and Monday issue invitations to an informal musical reception, which will be given at their emporium, 320 Main street, commencing Thursday, December 15th, and continuing until December 24th, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, from 2 till 4 p. m. and 7 till 9 p. m.

Watches and Diamonds.

A complete stoek of Ladies and Gents' Gold Watches also a nice stock of Diamonds at JOHN BERNHAKDT'S, 517 Wabash Avenue.

Gentlemen,

There is nothing a friend would like better than a box of cigars for Christmas. I will have some nice boxes done up especially for Christmas presents.

GEO. F. WESTFALL,

Postoffice Newatand. JSo. 12 N. 7th St.

FANCY BASKETS,

for packing fruits and candies in neat style, call on Eiser.^

Good men's overcoats for $2.50, better ones for $5 and an elegant Chinchillas for $5, any of these worth douDle the money at Goodman fe Hirschler's.

Old Santa Olaus

Has commenced unloading his pack of gifts for children, at A. G. Austin tfc Co's.

Call and see the display of Tile Hearths at James T. Moore's, No. 657 Main street. The stook includes a great variety of designs. Grate Baskets, Ash Pans, eto.

Save Your Fuel

by using Weather Strips, A. G. Austin «fc Co., sells them the cheapest.

Well dressed men all over town agree that- Owens A Knight are satisfactory merchant tailors. Leave your measuro at 523K Main street.

Pocket Cutlery and Skates. In the way of Holiday gifts R. R. Tool & Bro„ 326 Main street, have a very lino line of Pocket Cutlery and Boys' Spates, at extremely low figures.

Beautiful Lamps, Dinner and Tea Sets, Chamber Sets, Vases, Water Sets and Novelties of various kinds for the Holidays, very cheap, at

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PRICE & BROWN

C. A. PRICE, W. C. Bnowx.

Happy surpriees await a number of persons. Several uprights among the magnificent stock of pianos now displayed at the Palace of Music bear tags as follows: "Sold, to be delivered on Christmas Eve."

V. J. ORAY'S,

28 North Fourth Street.

Fur Robes and Blankets. A seasonable arrival is an elegant line ofi Fur and Plush Robes and Horse Blankets at Peter Miller's, 005 Mala street, which are being sold at very low

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Ladies,

There is nothing a man would like better for a Christmas present than a box of cigars. About a week before Christmas I will have some nice boxes done, up especially for gifts. Call and see them. GEO. F. WESTFALL, Postoffice Newstand. No. 12 N. 7th S.

Dr. B. B. GLOVER,

Specialty: Diseases of the Rectum. REMOVED TO SEVENTH AND POPLAK STS

.L Games. All kinds of Games and pretty Christmas Books for Children at the Post Oiflee News Stand,

No. 12 North 7th Street.

Fresh Oysters at Eiser's. Wahler's Tenderloins and Sweet Breads

Are as nice ss you ever tasted. Leave orders south Fourth street. All kind* of choice meats.

R, DAHLEN,

OrTHJB

Opera House Music Store.

have completed their stock fresh from the market for the holiday trade. You can And hundreds and hundreds of useful articles just suited for presents an£ sold at the lowest prices—Guitars, Mandalens, Banjos, Violins, Harmonicas, Fancy work boxes, Toilet sets In endlee* variety and a special line of seleot toy*, just what is wanted. Everybody is Invited to call and see our goods before buying. Remember the place, 320 Main street.

Ia Amerique, Principes de Gale Cressidas,

at Postoffice News Stand. 12 n. 7th st.

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