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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-21
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uNoR CAPE MAY, VIA WEST Ia -
III JERSEY RAILROADS. ~ Nzx
sUMMER ARRkEeEhHSr
COMMENCING "WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18th, 1873
Trains will leave Philadelphia, foot Of Market
street upper ferry)
9tO A NJ, Morning Express. due ct i9la
B.IhP ", AccOmmOd ltt III, We All IL
4OO r ". Fast SXpresa, due at 0 -
1904 N Sunday dan, Que az 10 10
Returning trains will leave CAPE MAY
ss0AM, NJ Vi and Passenger, duo at 1919
TR0 NJ, asst Express, due ct 1908
200 p NJ. ate moo Express, due 81 AN
bOOP Nj, Sunday NJ Ill, due at S2l M
f'umaf Pala g CHrH are attached 20 the 20 N
and AO0 z NJ, traius from Philadelphia, aud the 81
NJ, and 8 90 r NJ trans from Cape May.
Seats may be secured in advance at No. sSs Ohest-
nus Street
Freight trains leave Camden daily at go
Season AMI Weary Tickets at re luced rates for
sac at the office OF the Treasurer, in Camden
TICKET OFFICBS,
No sss Chestnut street. and In Ferry Building Jot
OF Market Street
W. j. SgWEIiL superintendent
Baggage called for and Checked at HOtels or rest
dence by the Union Transfer Company, uttice No.
sss Chestnut street. jel7-tsepl
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-21

LINEN TArE BATH TOWELS,
Horse HAIR Flesh Gloves,
Horse Hair Flesh Brushes, (curvedl
Horse Halt FeBn Brushes, (straight
Horse Hair Friction Pads,
Horse Hair trap Il bhers,
Prince OF Waes GlDvss-dry frlc ism.
Cambr dye Pad OF Horse Hair
Pure Old White CASTLE soap, (nuatinR) very con-
venient for bathsrs. Bath soaps In extensive va
rlety.
Also, a 1ne assortment OF Per ume Atomizers,
for thr0 " ng tine spray OF Cologne Wettr, BaV
Rum or other TO let Waters upOA tue body after
bathiug, prf ducing effect 1T once agreeable cool
anu refreshing.
e BkidGHURST Co., ApSthecafies.
cor. Sixth and Market streets.
Wilmington, Del
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-21

Papoma.
A FARISAoEoUs FOOD FOR INFANTS AND
INVAlIDS.
1t contains all the elements requisite for strength.
made fr ON tho whole wheat Moth
Ing being BoIted out.
Ii IL impossible TO overestimate the Importance OF
proper nutrin for chidrs ior the innrm aAd Tor
The aged. In infancy and childhood, the rmation
and eVeopme mt Of the various Il sues u the b ydy
is the main phenomenon II life. In adults entee-
bed by disease, the Test,raton OF health de- END
greatly on an abundant su ply of suitAOe material
OF the regeneration Uf the wasted "rgHna. In 0 u
peope the powers OF lie need sustaining by similar
means. Aud yet the mere furnishing OF the neces-
hary elements IL not sufficient; Tn SO elements must
be in such form tO Oe readily digested, absorbed
and assimil ted
M th' Sc requirements ace iuly met in the article
VIII ch we now offer,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-21

Fonts Cattle Powder, Ii. Ii. II. Liniment, Roberts
smbIoCaton Chicken or Poultry Powder and all
,romnent Patent Medi ines in the MARKET for sale
At FOSTERS DRUG STORE,
Front and West streets,
Wilmington, Delaware.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-21
sOmerhinE How.

SomerhinR How.
GAPs sICUM PLAsTE
or Rheumatic palms, Neuralgia, stin Neck, Head.
ache, LumbagO, &c
1t will not blister like Mustard, and cAG oe ap-
lied without any trouble. For sale by
B. d c. aHUEAAKEA,
sos Market street. Institute Building.
wilmington, Del
aNuKNiTL RE AT Y0GR OWN PRICES.
4 GOULD q co. sell the Cheapest Furniture
iIOU I'd & co. sell the Bssr Furniture.
tIUU t4D Il CO. sell the strongest Furniture
GOULD co, sell the handsOmest Furniture
GOULD 20 have the largest stock.
GOULD Co have all kinds OF Furniture.
GOT ID CO. have the newest Patterns.
GOT Id CO Oter ,rgalns.
GOULD co. buy anu sell for cash.
GOULD CO. always give Satisfaction,
GOULD Co nave great advantages in Manufac-
turing.
GOULD 4 CO.'S Furniture is the most elegant.
GOULD CO. have Polite At,endants.
GOULD 90 have well-lighted Stores,
,lOUL.D Il CO. have tour stores.
GOULD CO.,
Y. & Cor. NINTH and MARKET, Nos. 81 and 80
N. SECOND ST., l2O8 MARKET ST., and 272
s. Second Street.
PHILADELPHIA,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-21

X EMoVAL'
THE ARTIsAMs' SAVINGS BANK
Has been removed to its new location In the Clay
ton House, where IT, is now open for business.
Six per cent. has been regularly paid on deposits,
since the organization of the Bank in 1885, and It ts
the expectation OF the Directors that tine pr dts on
the accrued capital and on the regular business will
enable the Bank 10 continue this rate OF dividenus
Deposits are solicited from persons In the receipt
of regular incomes. from Farmers. Mechanlcs, and
Dealers, and from WidOws' and Cnidfen's Estates,
and from those whose business enables them te
keep a varying balance OF cash, ( ON which, II
placed with us, they will derise AN income In the
shape Of
SEMI-ANNUAL INTEREST.
A rule of the Bank requires notice to be given
OF the wthd avail Of DepOsits, but In all ordinary
cases depositors will be paid on demand.
MANAGERS:
WILLIAM 8. hnLEs, EDWARD DARLINGTON,
GEORGE W. bUsH, CLEMENT b. sAYTH,
NJ L. LICHTRNsTRR, GkOHaB s. CAPELLk,
JOHN p. MCLBAB. NATHANIEL K BENSON,
CHARLES W. HOwLARD, HENRY r. DURR
jon H. JACKSON. WIN. ii. SWIFT,
ANTHONY HIg9INA
WIN. s. HILLES, President.
GEO W. BUSH, Vice President
aprl4-u IT. TAYLOR. Treasurer
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-21
Organ at Home !!

Every Organ needs it! The
organ at Homei Best collection for Reed
o hgansi 200 not dtmcult pieces.
SO or " au-ised that no dull music Is IA them:
the orgA n. smooth, lcgato style used, but
as orsa " at Home should be cheerful,
light a nd ataocato music is not excluded At
present L he organ in home is often silent, for
home music is not provided for it. Here is
Ome:lke, easy, familiar new music,
at hcuAe in every nation, in fact all kinds by
w.h ON Cveryboiy considers the best COM
posers
The publishers take priue and pleasure ia present.
ing such superior book To the public, and believe
1t worthy to be ct Home in every family.
Price, Boards, $3.50; CLOTH $500; Full GILT, sLOO.
OLIVER DITsON a CO., Boston.
GHAs, II nITsoN CO., III Broadway, N. Y.
j.11-WSd&Rtw
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-21
p A p o M A,

SMITH & PAINTER, Druggists,
7th and Market Sta.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-21
9ratt,a Astral OIL.
seidIirz Powders.


We Call attention to our Seldtz Powders 30 uni
srsally popular everywhere. they are made up
and pure every few days and cain them to be
qual 10 any In the market full up 10 the Standard
20 be good theJ must be fresh and pure. This Is
ur special claim, to prove which tney need Ouly to
70 tried Font Jorge the pla 6 to get then, at
FOSI kn'S DRUG STOnE,
Front and West streets.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-29
BOarding.HOuSe Life.

Thus writes Mr.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes: "To tAink Of it! Not even a
dog to lick his hand, or cat to purr or
rub her fur against him! Oh! these
boarding-houses! What forlorn people
one sees stranded on their desolate
shores! Decayed gentlewomen, with
the poor wrecks of what once made
their households beautiful disposed
around them in narrow chambers as they
best may be, coming down, day after
day, poor souls, to sit at the board with
strangers their hearts full of sad mem
ories which haveno language but a sigh,
no record but the lines of sorrow on
their features ; orphans, creatures with
growing tendrils and nothing to cling
to lonely rich men, casting about them
what to do with the wealth they never
knew how to enjoy, when they shall no
longer worry over keeping and in
creasing it young men and young wo-
men left to their instincts, unguarded,
save by malicious eyes, which are sure
to be found, and to find occupation in
these miscellaneous collections of hui
man beings, and now and then shred
of humanity like this little specialist,
with Just the resources needed to keep
the radical moisture from entirely ex-
haling from his attenuated organism,
and busying himself over a point of
science, or compiling hymn, or edi-
ting a grammar or dictionary-such are
the tenants of boarding-houses, whom
we cannot think of without feeling how
sad it is when the wind is not tempered
to the shorn lamb, when the solitary,
whose hearts are shrivelling, are not set
in families"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-29
Wanted a FOrtnight's Notice.

Some thirty years ago-more or less
there fourished in Dracut, or an ad-
joining town, q quaint old individual
who was called Thurston. One fall he
was lucky enough to have occasion to
employ carpenter; and the job "held
on like the toothache." All winter long
the industrious carpenter sawed and
hammered away-never idle, never
without something to do. In the spring,
however, the good man finished the
last piece of work that seemed required,
and one day he said, approaching his
employer, ''NIr. Thurston, 1 believe !
have got through" "Got through u
exclaimed Thurston; "what do you
mean ?" 81 mean L believe there is
nothing more in my line I can do fol
you; there is no more work here for me. y
" Eli? What's that? No more work
Do you think I'm going to let you of
50, after keeping you all winter? Guess
not I want at least a fortnight's no
tice before you quit !'' But this was
Thurston's joke on the carpenter, with
whom of course he gladly settled, with
out exacting the usual notice that EN-
ployers require before their workmer
leave them. Thurston still lives.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-29
Protection of Iron from Rust.

The experiments of DR.. Grace Calvert
have shown that the oxydation of iron
is due as much to the presence of car
bonic acid as to moisture, this gas act
ing in some unknown mannerto increase
the affinity of the oxygen Of the air for
the metal. To prevent this action is the
object of painting or coloring the sur
face with some impervious substance
For many purposes, as in the iron work
of agricultural implements exposed to
wear, and requiring temporary cover
ing frequently renewed, paraffine, per-
fectly neutral material, is found of
great utility. But for permanence, red
lead paint has been acknowledged the
only durable kind, and the question of
whether any substitute could be found
of equal value has been, by innumer-
able experiments, decided in the mega
tive.
But some tests made in Holland seem
to show that paint of native oxyd OF
iron may be made nearly as durable as
red lead, provided the iron be thor,
oughly cleaned before its application
This latter is accomplished by placing
the metal in diluted hydro-chloric acid
for several hours, the acid being after.
wards neutralized by milk of lime, and
the surfaces subsequently washed witt
hot water, dried and rubbed with oil
The iron oxyd paint gave results quite
as good as red lead on plates prepared
in this manner, whereas on those
cleaned simply with the scratching
brush the same paint proved of little
worth
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-29
The Dancing Fish.

A man-of-war or frigate pelican is a
peculiar fisherman. He descends upon
his prey like bullet from q height of
three hundred feet. He seizes the fish
in his beak, and scars aloft into the sky
His mates gather about him, while the
lucky fisherman tosses his tidbit into
the air SO as to catch it by the head, and
swallow it, as it comes down. His throat
is so small that he can get it in his
stomach in no other way. There is a
wild swoop, and another hawk seizes
the fish, and again it is tossed in the
air, and tossed up indefinitely until one
of the birds is SO fortunate as to catch
it headfrst, when it disappears. have
seen a dozen frigate pelicans keep fish
dancing in the air fifteen minutes be-
fore it was swallowed.
The most wonderful fisherman on the
Indian river is native named Stewart.
He seems to be amphibious. 1t is no
uncommon thing for him to Jump into
the water and run down a fat mullet,
catching it in his hands. The Futch
family have two dogs so starved that ]
have seen them dash into a school OF
mullet and reappear with fish in theil
mouths.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-29
Bad News for BaIdheaded Men.

DR.. j. M. Toner, of Washington, a
physician of large experience and a close
observer of facts, says that according
to his observations nearly all persons
of both sexes who lived to the age of
eighty years and over retained a consid-
erable if not complete suit of hair at
the time of their deaths. He comedies
that there are exceptions to this rule,
but insists that large majority of per-
sons living at the age of eighty or up
ward retain comparatively good suit
of hair, OF are not bald. His hypothesis
is that person who retains his hair
past the age of sixty-fve has a good
prospect of living to be over eighty.
The rule may be tested by any one call
ing to mind the ages and condition OF
the hair of persons of his acquaintance
of the ages indicated, the condition OF
whose hair is known to him. The vast
majority of persons who become bald,
or lose their hair, do so between
thirty-fve and forty-fve, and these
rarely live to be over sixty-five or seven
ty years Of age.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-29
CuriOsities of the Sea.

Among the curious works of the sea,
on the shore, are the excavations made
by stones, washed into depressions on
rocky shore, and there, by the continual
motion impaired by the waves, gradu-
ally wearing holes in the rock. Such
holes are known on the coasts of Europe
as "giants' cauldrons," and they are
often several yards in depth.
When large wave is swallowed up in
one of the fissured caverns on the coast,
it's force is sometimes so great that the
rock resounds as with the discharge of
artillery. The mass of water drives the
air before it, and not finding in the
walls that surround and compress it a
large enough space to develop itself,
springs through the crevices of the
vault. Most of these assures, gradually
sculptured anew by the waters which
escape from them, at length assume the
appearance of real wells, where each
return of the wave is signalized by a
sort of geyser of variable dimensions.
There are some which spring several
yards high, and can be seen at great
distance, like the jet of water by which
| the whale betrays himself afar off
| hence arises the name of blowers, given
in many countries by sailors to these
phenomena on the shore.
One of the most singular, and at frs
sight puzzling, phenomena of a sandy
shore is the rise and fall of the water II
fresh-water wells. This is occasionet
by the salt water percolating the sand
and pushing back or damming thu
streams of fresh water from which thu
wells are supplied. On the shores o
Cape Cod there are numerous well
which are dry at low tide, but fill VI
with fresh water as the tide rises.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-29
The Journalist.
Who and What He Is.

VINO ohu "h"' ''0 A9'
There is q man who sits far into the
nigbt with paste not and scissors before
lin and pencil in hand. while around
H.. iii "a niied newspapers of all grades,
- - octnpa and political proclivities,
a,n' ga fron, almost every conceivable To-
''att; Ii. n ro,,i11v onts pastes and
J, .,,.;t0Js T,Istinct;velv he rejects all that
" miiIo Ini ond lie ova datacts oll that IS
80 - -, H. ,,oolts ond co,ners of the
SoO" soo~os - IS 8. ovoI,onges y which poss
tIUa,,o1, L bis bnnds e q fow hours IF
a ili ro,53nn,l,arod o.tontb of ali he reads
bo ,vo1id i've q nrodiov of varied learn
;nor and bp ord bv 6S yorld nrobablv
6i sn6d hi" his y1oce % in q lnnotic asvlum.
Then % he vo,ics tbe weorisome routine
hv ~ writino not slowly and iaboriously,
hit ronidlv. discnrsiyelv and sometimes
briIliantlv What he does. he does not
inst os he pleases. but as a daily and
nnendinp task. Every night, as he
Greens 6omeward in the small hours,
tbe subject Of tbe next "leader" creeps
tbronpT his tired brain, and in the
morning the necessity for immense ac-
tion stares him in the face. Why these
lote bours and this silent, careful, alb
sorbing work This man is the editor
of n dnilv uaper, and every night he and
his companions are preparing the liter
orv breakfast fora sleeping world. Ii
is a strange life he leads, and a strange
world he works in. He wields power
in tbe land but contrary to general rule
he is almost an unknown man. AS a
general statement neither great pecun.
larry reward or fame await him. He
does work which only the man born to
the task can successfully perform. i III
him are necessary the qualltieS Oh SKILL
tact, judgment, far scholarship, large
fund OF current intelligence, coolhess,
the capacity for rap1d, work wltn 1e"
errors, and lastly, that lndennaole
talent for pleasing the many and oitend
ing the few, and yet accomplishing {
specific and often partisan purpose.
Journalism IS profession, and the
editor is strictly professional man.
To HIM belongs only the kind OF fame
which pertains to professional skill,
even if he be famousat all. After years
of skillful toll he is almost unknown
upon the street. and has the credit he
deserves only among his equally I'M
known brethren of the press. Indeed,
the great majority OF the workers III the
worlds most potent and evanescent ut
erature are not known at all. Scarcely
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-29

LUCKY JoHNNY.-A nice little bit of
luck is reported in the st. Joe Gazette.
A few days since a lad named John
Mosman, whose father was executed for
desertion at Fort Leavenworth when
Johnny was baby, being hired by a
farmer near st. Joe, went out one day
for the COWS. In digging for piece of
sassafras root he hit upon kettle and
found that it contained money. He
lugged his treasure home, and count
being made it was found that the kettle
contained the neat little sum of $4,000,
all in silver and gold. Johnny must be
a sensible lad, for he has taken his
money up to Omaha, proposing to edu-
cate himself with part of it and so into
business with the remainder.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-29
A Song of Spring,

Baby Spring is growing fast
Into maiden beauty.
Summers sweetness will not last
Autumn, ripe and fruity,
Dies in Winters freezing blast
As love chills to duty.
Love the baby, sweet, sweet Spring;
Pet her, kiss her, WOO her;
Summers larger graces bring
Larger homage to her;
And ripe Autumn, proud, doth fling
Bounties richer, never.
What for Winter can we say?
Bitter, clustering Winter
How he fingers, day by day,
Wearing, weary Winter!
o sad comrade go away.
Dreary, ag,<od Winter.
EMILY Z. FoR1
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-29

The old practice of prescribing medi-
Gated bacon for lung diseases is begin
ming to come into favor again, which
will give the graceful pig chance to
root out the prejudice under which he
has so long suffered.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-19

weeksf Gould capitalists lend their money
without fear Of it's forfeiture for usury rise in
the rate in Wall street would bring money
from every source as inevitably as does the ad-
vance of the rate of discount of the Bank of
England check an outflow from the English
metropolis. The experiment of free money
can be tried for year without mourning any
great risk to our general interests. Certainly
business men know what is best for them
selves, and they seem to be unanimous about
the matter. If the rural members of the Leg
islature are unwilling to repeal the law alto
gether let them enact bill excluding New
York county from its Jurisdiction. The State
of New jersey if we are correctly informed,
has already made this sort of compromise IN
the case of Essex and Hudson counties. Such
plan ought to meet the favor of the rural
districts, as it would subject the city alone to
any of the risk arising from repeal of the
law.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-19

pursuit of the flying wretches we seem to
recognize the same fatal ineficiency. Why
was not the cavalry ready not to pursue them
after they had got clear of our lines, but to
ride them down as they appeared
in the open country and slaughter
them in their tracks? What sort Of military
strategy must that have been which allowed
the whole band of savages to steal quietly
away without the knowledge Of their assail-
ants2 For, unless the escape was Sc
cretly managed, not living Indian
should have been suffered to reach the hills.
Let us hope that the cavalry pursuit may be
effective and that the innocent inhabitants may
not fall victims to military incompetency. At
present it would seem that the same
fatality has attended this Modoc business
from the commencement up to the present
moment, and that the plumbers Of the Cabinet
have only been equalled by the bungling man
agement in the field
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-19
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES,

Miss Rosa st. Clair, OF the Fifth Avenue Theatre.
appears ct the olympic next week In the new edt.
ton OF "Humpty Dumpty."
The last concert Of the Rubinsten- Thomas com.
binaton takes place at Steinway Hail tits evening.
lies Cent vierges," which was the opera sung
by the Aimee troupe at the Academy last night, ia
enc OF the most disreputabe Of the Onenbachian
school, and, rendered as 1t was by the weakest COM
pany which ever gave opera oo,te in this or any
other country, 1t demands no further remark
"Alixer has been produced al the Germanta
Theatre under Its original title, Die Graefen Won
Somerive.r
The Bowery Theatre will produce "a Bad Iotv
next week. The play is dramatized from Edmund
Yates latest story
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-19
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

Owing to the unprecedented quantity of
our advertisements advertisers seeking our
columns are requested to send in their adver-
tisements early in the day. This course will
secure their proper classification and allow
Us to make timely arrangements for our news
Advertisements intended for our Sunday issue
may be sent in not later than nine
p. M, either at this office, our only
uptown bureau, 1895 Broadway, or at our
Brooklyn branch Office, corner Of Fulton
and Boerum streets. Let advertisers remem-
Der that the earlier their advertisements are
In the HERALD Office the better for themselves
and for rs