Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 May 1890 — Page 4

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THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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E. P. WESTFALL,

MANAGER.

PUBLICATION OMCS,

No*. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

TBRRE HAUTE, MAY 24, 1890.

EX-SBXATOK JOSKS, of Florida, has been 'declared insane at Detroit. Mich., and sent to an asylum. Poor Jones iove affair has bad a sad ending. Per haps it was the bushels of newspaper witticisms perpetrated upon him that made him crazy.

THKRE is no better or happier evidence of the decline of gambling speculation in this country of late, than the failure of some 600 "bucket shops" within the last two months. Let this reform be followed by the suppression of lotteries and a great deal of practical good will have been accomplished. Then let the war against rum shops go merrily on to a finish in the sweet bye and bye and the worl'l will be better worth living in.

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a few people comparatively can

go and see the great trees of California in their native woods, but there is a proposition on foot to bring one of them to the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, so that the millions who attend that exhibition will have a chance to see It. California proposes to make a grand exhibit, covering at least ten acres of space, and one of these .'100 foot trees would arouse more interest than anything else they could bring. The monster would be brought in sections and set up just as it grew in the forest.

NATURAL gas may "peter out" in time but it does not look as if nature intended we should bo without petroleum for) many along year at least. Enormously as they have been drawn from the Ohio

quantities of petroleum oxlsts In that

IT seems altogether likely that the site of the World's Fair at Chicago will be on the lake front, extending from Randolph street on the north to 12th or 22d street on the south. The noce&Kaxa^niuMi-w--—mWti'wJ. vM v«YfrTnrtEegovern ment breakwater, at a cost variously estimated at from two and a half to five million dollars. It is estimated that the land thus obtained would be worth sixty million dollars after the fair was gone. It would take a year to do the filling and pile driving. The scheme is a great one but not lmpractioabl#in the opinion of civil engineers. One objection is that it would leavo so little time for the erection of tho necossary buildings, but to this it Is answered that tho plans conld all bo worked out during this time, tho materials got tugethor, contracts let, etc so that little if any time would really bo wasted after all. It would be a beautiful place for tho great exhibition and tho chances aro that this plan will be adopted.

and Pennsylvania fields are still rich. Asia, as Is well known, contains luex- chilled as they do, they would flow past haustiblo deposits of oil, and now comes 'k® P°le» and southward as warm word from Wyoming that incalculable 8^ream8«

Territory, which aro just being opened! excessive cold the Arctic regions.

lip. The diflloulty has been the remoteness of the product from transportation facilities, but it is only a question of time when railroads will penetrate to rich oil fields and It is confidently expected that patroleum oil will help to make Wyoming a great and wealthy State.

discussion of tho tariff bills now

before Congress, has demonstrated tho hopelessness of trying to get men to agree on tho question. The more it is discussed tho further apart they seem to get. It is charged against the Republi can measure now before Congress that it raises the duties on many articles used largely by tho Industrial classes to much greater extent than on articles of luxury used mainly by the rich, who go to Europe and come back with great trunks full of costly goods for "personal use," which can be admitted to this country duty free. Thoy are thus able to smuggle Into the country thousands of dollars' worth of goods which have evaded the tariff laws without difficulty The poor man or those in moderate circumstances can of course do nothing of the kind. If the tariff Is a tax upou the article consumed they pay the full amount of H» for they aro powerless to escape it. Such a charge, therefore, is damnatory of any larifl measure against which it can be justly brought.

A RAUTOON in one of the illustrated papere, a few -weeks ago, represented the young German emperor seated upon pile of guns and canuoa balls and nursing a rag baby stuffed with dynamite. Count Bismarck was hurridly making his exit from'tho door of state, not liking the look of things in that vicinity. Ther© was a good deal of imagination in the picture, yet perhaps some founds Uon of fact

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hU chief counselors have been talking imUt right and left but the *pecch of William »t Kmxtgabun? in which be gave wartilug to Russia that she would not bti »«owed to interfere •with !h* province* of eastern 1 nis&i*, has provoked emphatic utterance* of disapproval from the There appear* bcen no pmv^ lion for the threat time and the worth be** growth** hi* contempt for Ik It Wltttam ni*^y means to have p*«*»

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need bridle both his tongue and his impetuous temper, and nurse hi* dynamite rag baby very carefully.

HESRY M. STANLEY the well known African explorer, is soon to be married to an Englishwoman. No better evidence could be needed that he is tired of exploring the heart of the Dark Continent. He will hereafter devote his time to exploring the heart of a woman and may find the task even more difficult than that in which he has been engaged for several years past. But nobody can blame Stanley. He has had a rough and tumble sort of life and now deserves something better. His fame is made and be can now coin money out of it by writing books and magazine articles and putting himself in the hands of lecture bureaus. There are other brave, adventurous souls who would like to have a chance to explore the Congo country—what Stanley has left of itrand this will give them the coveted opportunity. Go East, young man, and explore Africa!

FIGHTING THE NORTH POLE. This is an age of great engineering. Never before in the world's history*were such magnificent bridges ilung across wide rivers and estuaries of the sea, such great tunnels bored through the solid rock, or railways made to cling the mountains to dizzy heights. This is due in part to the progress which the science of civil engineering has made in the last century, in part to the increasing enterprise of the race, and very largety to the enormous advance that has been made in the manufacture and manipulation of Hteel and iron, so that increased strength has been obtained with largely diminished weight, and to the discovery of new and powerful explosives.

We are therefore prepared for the announcement of vast engineering projects and are not surprised at such trifles as climbing Pike's Peak with a railroad, bridging the straits between Alaska and Asia, and such other like schemes, but when a man seriously proposes the blowing up of the North Pole with dynamite, it rather takes one's breath away for a moment. Yet that is the proposition of one Dunsford, an English civil engineer, who reasons that "were the ice cap removed from the North Pole, the two warm streams would flow as they do now, but, instead of becoming

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Whether or no this could be done it seems certain that it is only a question of time when pature herself will thaw out the North Pole. The tendency has been that way for a long time. As matter of history it is known that the countries of the far north have been growing less frigid—very slowly to be sure, but certainly and steadily. And the cause of this change is now scientifically demonstrated. Very slowly the oarth is shifting its position towards the sun. TLe slant of its orbit is so

couple thousand years, Tt is estimated, the now frozen zone of the north will be temperate and the present hot belt will become frigid. All this will come about in the due order of nature, without any help from man. But Mr. Dunsford's big dynamite explosion at tho North Pole might facilitate the change somewhat and it would be Interesting to see it tried at all events. Better to use the dynamite in that way than for purposes of war.

SA UOR FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

New York Herald: Tho man who set out to live by his wits was recently found dead In an abandoned tenement. Verdict of the coroner: A victim of misplaced confidence.

Yonkers Gazette: It is said that a man who won't take a paper because be eau borrow one is trying to inventa mawith which he can cook his own dinner by the smoke of his neighbor's chimney.

Washington Post: Queen Victoria has written two books which have never been published, aud yet certain radicals picture her as a cold selfish unfeeling woman.

Chicago Inter-Ocean: A twenty-five cent piece of Ice melting on the front door step has by accuratc measurement run a stream of water two incehes wide and four feet long before drying up.

Washington Post: If Senator Blair's speech and Senator Quay's silence conld be turned into the foderal mint, the coinage question would be settled for tho next ten years.

Pittsburg Cbonicle-Telegraph: Whatever the punishment for crime, whether for murder or any other, it should be certain. When there are chances for guilty men* to escape, crime always increases.

Atchison Globe: A man never gets married so m$ny times that he will not hold his breath at the part of the ceremony where those who have objections are invited to come forward.

Stein A Heckiesberg are selling very rapidly a line line of gefttlemen-s low cut shoes, which are the most attractive and eom fortabie shoes for summer wear. They also have an uusurpassed line of ladies' fine shoes for street and house wear. A complete stock of RujwseM Ox ford Ties, tan colors, etc., ta attracting wide attention. In short, if you with anything in the boot and shoo line, you ean And ii at SIS Mala street at reason able prices.

Before leaving home for the summer vacation trip makeuure that your trunks and satchels are in good condition, and it you ttmi that they are not, send them at one© to Pickhont'a, where they will be repaired with the greatest of ear©. Wckhont also manufactures all kinds of traveling appurtenant*#, including the lightest trunk* ever made. The rawhide fibre trunk a specialty, li ia everlaatIng.

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wish to say that a special dif mt has been arranged fowl we will give ali the

GRADUATES.

purchase their outfits at our

ve been thinking of you for so time and have made unusual pr taxations to show you the pretti« line of Evening Dress Fabric ever shown in Terre Haute, su as Cream and White India Cijbe Silks, also black and gas lig|t tints, Cream, White and Blfk Eeal Jap Silks, Cream and

Evening shade of India Silks, Faille Francaise Silks, and rs. In wool goods we have an pretty line of All-Wool and

Warp Henriettas, Cream Alss, Gypsy Cloth and Feather C16 hs, Cream Dress Flannels, etc.

Ilegant collection of Silk Drapery Nets and Flouncings. Tinsel and Evening Novelties a specialty.

Tans, Gloves and Mitts, and a most beautiful collection of The Celebrated'' v.

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complete sets and single

pieces that you must see by all means. The P. D. has no equal. Every garment clean and fresh*

Graduates are cordially invited te examine and remember the discount goes oflf your purchases.

Lost.

OST-PQG- Liver and white colored pointer pup, head aud ncck liver color with liver color spot, on back. Return to 1840 Chestnut, and receive reward.

Monev to Loan. Mest

ONEY TO LOAN in any amount at low. rates.

Bargains in Keal Estate In all J. D. Bigelow, Opera House.

paris of city.

HOMES

will buy you a nice 4-room cottage near Locust street. Terms, $230 caah, balance monthly payments. ?800 wiH buy a beautiful new J-roora Lshaped cottage cistern, outbuildings and fence around lot. Terras, $30 cash, balance fl2 per month.

S0O bays one of the netstest 4**room cottage* in the city. 8305 to $306 cash, balance through R. A L. Assoeiatiod on monthly payments.

$950 trill buy a new 4-room cottage near Montrose school hou«e 3330 cash, balance $7 per month. .,

Sl-HO© bayaanieeenew6»itom coUi- .• In vetr convenient te—a «ry

iu aaa Hill bay a m. ttia}:-- on rth Eighth street, U&wtb Xi.ird F»u.*th avenneft. tWm will hny a aloe cot en sooth arteentt* street, corner of well, eistem, bam. shedfe, ete, jfgmrm to Main street. Terms favoraoie.

TEE TEBBE HAUTE

682 Wabash Avenue.

Week, the Last Week* of our Great May Sale.

~We::A_re "W icle Awake mmeiTcixig Monday-

intend to hold for our customtrs a Grand Carnival of Bargains, throughout the week, as this is the last week of Our Great May Sale.

Great May Sale

WASH DRESS GOODS.

Thousands and thousands of yards of New Wash Goods are now open for your inspection at lower prices than ever known before this season. The Eeal, the Genuine, Frerres Koechlin French Sateens are melting away like ice in the sun these hot May days. Our price

16§c Yard,

12 yards for $2. 100 pieces to select from. Formerly sold at 35 and 40d yd. Samples mailed.

Challies.

We are having a Challie trade, the like we've never seen before. Anew lot Wash Challies for Monday.

The choicest collection of AllWool French Challies in Terre

Our line White Ground French Batists are just as light and cool as an India Silk, color perfectly fast, price J9c yard. ,s,

Anderson's Scotch Featherweight Zephyr Ginghams are awful nice and cool. The styles are rich and choice and wash perfect price 25c yard

Grreat May ©ale QontinuecL Hobergv Root

518 and 520 Wabash Avenue.

IN THE HIDST OF THE SEASON

You would think we are in the midst of the season of good things to eat if you were to call on

E.B.VBIGHT&CO.

THEY HAVE

Strawberries, Piiie Apples, Gooseberries,

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Lemons, "Bananas,

JSevv otatoe.s,

l{New Beets, 5»cw Peas, jXew String Beanx, I^YFhite Clover Honey,

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Since the first of May Ve liave done an enormous "business. We have been busy all the time, customers remarked to our clerks, "Don't you feel awful tired at night after such a rush as as?*, Oh, we get used to it We've been this way most all spring.

2,000 yards cream grounds with lovely printings, at 5c yard. For Monday, 1,000 yds more' of those elegant yard wide Challies at 15c yd, amoDg them patterns never shown before.

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See our beautiful Ombre Challies at 8 and 12|c yard, soft and

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and Fat Hens.

647 649 WABASH 1VEXL1

Spring Lamb, South Down Mutton f|JSteer Beef, Choice Veal,, Pig Pork,

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dleaii Meat Market, 4th aDd Ohio. telephone

Low Prices

THE DRAWING CARD.

On Prints and Ginghams Beductions Continued. I One ease Fancy Stripe Prints at 24c*J"ob lot of best Prints, all brands, at 5c

Choice Light Ground Shirting Prints at 4c. Best Arnold Indigo Calicoes at 6c. 5 cases Apron Ginghams at 5c. 1,000 yds odds and ends Plaid Dress Ginghams at 5 and GJo yd.

Choice Plaid Scotch Effect Ginghams at 8 and 10c yard. 50 new pieces have been added to our Cashmere Ombre Sateen table, rich effects, at 12|c yd.

Also a big lot of New Challie DeLaines, a very scarce wash fabric, mills are always sold ahead, line complete at our store now, price 8 |c yd.

May Sale

Hosiery and Underwear

1,000 doz." Ladies' Plain and Fancy Hose at 5, 8, 10, 15, 19, and 25c, cannot bo matched any where for the price.

The best 10,15,19 and 25c Ladies' Jersey Rib Yest in Terre Haute. ,?

Black Silk Mitts at 19, 25, 35 and 50c. Fans in the greatest variety from lc up.

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elsewhere at 50c. Flannel Blouses at 35, 50, 75c up Ladies' White and Colored Shirts and Waists. 200 Silver Handle Princess Umbrellas at 89c. 100 Gloria Silk Umbrellas, choice handles at $1.25. 1,000 Parasols, for ladies and children, from 25c up.

P. J. KAUFMAN

HAS

Nice New Tomatoes,' Nice New Plant, Nice New CaulilJower,

Nice New Cucumbera,

Nice New String: and Wax Beans. Nice New Green. Peas, Nice New Potatoes,

Nice New Beets, Nice New Asparagus.

PLENTY OF NICE

FRESH STRAWBERRIES

ALSO

Fresh California Oierries, Fresh Pineapples. Fancy Bananas and Oranges,

DRESSiSl SPUING CIIICKKNS,

DRE8SKI) HESS.

Oliver has Strawberries,, Gooseberries and all kinds of fresh fruits a a

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