St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 12, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 October 1891 — Page 4

Jn^cpen&cnt. "waLKERTON. INDIANA, <M : ' ls9L | ""boston Du Ms Stere New Fall Dress Goods AND Wraps and Jackets AT THE To our friends and patrons; We announce With pleasure that opr New Fall Dress Goods are now open and ready for inspection. Never before were such an array of colors or beautilul combinations ever thrown over a counter. The designer as well as the weaver have eclipsed every former effort. We are showing * Plaids, Checks, Cashmeres, Serges, Alinas, Magnolia Suiting, Cecilia Suiting, Cheviots, Flannels, Habit Cloth, Henriettas, Cheron, Camelets, Bedford Cords and Boucle Cloths. Our Black Dress Goods Department is larger than ever, filled with the newest things found in every market; our values cannot be EQUALLED; our prices the LOWEST. Fall and Winter Wraps & Jackets Our Fall and Winter Wraps and Jackets areal of this season's goods. We are fortunate to statel no ol ’ stock, but goods made for the coming season. Cloth Jackets jn endless designs, vest fronts, rolled collars, trimmed in furs and Astrachan. "ttrlHreii and Miss Garments Plush Sacques and - Plush Jackets. When in our city make our store your home—come see our goods,and learn our LOW PRICES. CHILLAS, ADLER & COBLE, 127 South Michigan St. SOUTH BEND, IND. Store open Wednesday and Saturday evenings. Franklin does its business on the square.—Hiawatha World. Every baby does that.—Sol Miller, “the anatomist,” in Kansas Chief. Walking Gold Mines. *- “Four full tons of the purest gold is carried around in the mouths of Philadelphia’s 1,000,000 inhabitants.” It was a well known dentist’s supply man that yesterday revealed this forgotten asset of the Quaker City, and his array of figures was sufficient proof that the estimate is nigh to the fact. “It is not difficult,” he went on, “for ! us to tell how much of the precious metal is yearly rammed into the aching teeth of Philadelphia. It is something short of 3,000 ounces. Now the average length of human life we will say is 35 years. Multiply the two together, and we have an approx'mation to the sum total of gold that an army of dentists have placed in the molars and bicuspids of all those now living ' in this city. It is 8,750 pounds, oT- l about four long tons. “As to the value of this unfortunate- I ly unavailable wealth.it is over $2,500,- ! 000. The gold used in the trade is worth $25 an ounce, so that a year's I consumption costs $75,000. Such fig- ' ures make one feel like unloading Ihs | ivories of all their treasure and substi- ' tuting some less variable metal.” “Your figures are all right,” said a I prominent Walnut street dentist in confirmation of the supply man’s estimate. “And just think,” he went on, •‘what a gold mine some of our cemeteries are. There must be $100,000,000 worth of shining gold in all the acres of burial ground about Philadelphia, j But the veins are full of Haws, and ' gold-mining on the body-snatching I plan would hardly be a success.” — | Philadelphia Record. A swarm of bees settled on the dog of J. T. Warden, of Rayne, Pa., and ; Slung the animal to death. e .. .. j

FRENCH FICTION. I a Book on t rench Novelists of the Present Generation, Mme. Van de Velde points out that, if a grande dame is the heroine of a whispered scandal, thirty stories appear in which the incident is developed. Ht.e the fiction raises the fact into unreal importance, and by the time we have read the novels we are in possession of a highly magnified conception of a kind of turpitude that statisticians declare is not more common in point of fact in France than elsewhere. The practice of the novelists considered in these volumes are in some cases in keeping with their imaginative visions, and in some eases not. Zola, who in the preface to his “Nouveaux Contes a Ninon,” says of himself, “I heave with disgust at the thought of the nauseous work I have done.” expends his emotions in building wings upon his house at Medan and in filling them with newly acquired bric-a-brac; whereas Maupassant, at 42, has ruined a fine constitution and is threatened with a disorder of the spine. Mme. Van de Velde tells us all sorts of interesting things about these people whose stories all the world reads. Zola is a true southerner. He takes his siesta every day, aud he is always ready ti weep at the name of Flaubert, lie once made a sacrifice to Flaubert which will not seem to the reader to have been very tremendous perhaps, though to Flaubert himself it apears to have been of the utmost importance. The two were together one afternoon, when Zola remarked that Im had just discovered the name of “Bouvard” for one of his characters. Flaubert turned pale at the news, and some days later a common friend came to Zola with the information that Flaubert was in despair; that Bouvard was precisely the name which he had fixed upon for one of his own characters; that it had cost him six years of research to find it; that he had discovered it at last in Normandy in a village near Yvetot, and that he could never hope to replace it. “Well,” said Zola gravely and sadly, after a long pause, “let him have it. But I must love him very dearly to give up such a unique, unapproachable name as Bouvard. However, it belongs to an idiot whose sign I can read every day from my windows.”

Mme. Van de Velde relates also an , interesting anecdote concerning Daudet . and Gambetta. The wicked Rrumestan of Daudet’s story was generally held to be a picture of Gambetta find Gambetta himself seemed inclined to suspect as much, though Daudet । denied it. He was not inclined, । ! however, to cherish any reseut- | ment. The two met at dinner and I Gametta broached the subject, when i I Daudet said: “Had I intended to i sketch you I should have made you so ; like that there never could have been the shadow of doubt about the resemblance. True, my Roumestan is potbellied, but you know all our southerners are either very stout or withered like old dates. There is no medium.” Whereupon Gambetta generously hold out his hand, observing; “After all, what does it matter? Remember the answer of the bricklayer, who, falling । frQOAjLItfJUtU floor of a house, who lodgyr present,’ the man answered, 'but time . will show.’ 1 have never contradicted any reports about myself; I advise you to do the same. Time will show,” Telegraphing Without Wires. Telegraphy without wires is said to have been accomplished in England, Mr. Preece, the head electrician of the postal system, succeeded in establishing commucication across the Solent I to the Isle of Wight, and telegraphed ; also across the River Severn, without } wires, merely using earth plates at a ' sufficient distance apart. It is now proposed to make a practual use of this system in communicating with lightships, ISLAND ITEMS. Jack Frost put in an appearance last Tuesday night. Pickle gathering is over, and, oh! I my back. The early sown wheat is up and needs rain very badly. I. Finch and family visited on the Island last Sunday. Charlie Banish, of Kansas, is visiting his son Barney and family of this place. Mrs. Bill Ake is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Gordon, of lowa. D. W. Place, of South Bend, was on the Island this week on business. Harry Mull and Aleck Yetter visited i Chicago a couple of days this week. Nelson Hershberger left last Thursday for a few days visit with relatives ] in Ohio. Patrick Ryan aud Charley Quinn £ took in the LaPorte fair last Thursday. ( Mrs. Patrick Ryan, who will soon be t fifty-five years old, has gathered, this t I season one hundred and forty-five bushels of pickles. Who can beat i that? The Island schools of Lincoln town- i ship began last Monday morning, with < I Mr. Betcher in charge of the Dare and ' Miss Daugherty of the Orange school. Mrs. Charley McCarty has built an ' addition to their barn. J. B. Smith ! did the work. John Schmeltz has put up a Star ' : wind mill. Mull and Gould finished threshing last Saturday, and are well pleased I with their run this fall. They have j threshed 28,880 bushels of wheat, oats, rye end clover, which amounted to I । $993.77. [. Dock, j

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