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willing to he Cheated.

Not long since met Jack Spoolrr in at
our provision store He wanted piece of
meat sent home for dinner.
say, old chap he cried, when the price
oi the meat had been announced, isn't that
rather stcep?n
The dealer assured him it was as cheap as
be could sell: and get out of il whole.
But said Jack, you know how things
are. by gracious! things must come down
pretty soon, or I'll have to go without beef.
steak"
From the provision store | went to the
bakers and Jack happened to be bound the
same way. He was going to pay his month.
II bill for "brown bread
Look here" he demanded, quite viro-.
ously, as he looked over the account "you
are sull charging fifteen cents a loaf"
Yes" said the attendant. "You have the
bread with the raisins in it,
We'll, what do you charge for it without
raislns"
Ten cents.
Then hereafter you may send Up the bread
without rassins. Now remember. Goodness
mercy, I've got TO cut of these extra bits
somewhere"
Jack SPooler may or may not have thought
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Z Y. 80: }. MIl I! 4 !E|:3s5RESSs

Should not fail to examine the imple-
ments made by the Sheridan Mannlac-
turing Company, at the old EasIe
Works in this city.
Their Cultiyatora, both comjinsd
Farmers Friend and Walking, tleir
Sulky Attachment for Stirring Plow.=,
their Hay Carriers and EcEwc" II"r-
vester, are among the laading attrac-
tons. Prices and terms d favorable
as can be obtained anywhere, and sat.
isfaction guaranteed in all cases.
Don't forget the place Madi,
son Street Swing Bridge.
April ad-tr
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Zegal.

NIOISI'GNG E:E.'Ss sSAI.E.-Whereas Fred
.l y. Dalton ana Victoria Ada Dalton, his vile, OF the
tain mortgage datea March = 1874 and filed for record
in the Recorders office said county the 18th day OF
Book H. page IS of the Records of said office convey
10 the undersigned Michael Snsberger his heirs and as
signs all the following described real estate situate In the
town OF Streator in said county Of La Sale particularly
known and described follows Commencing at stake
Everett street hundred feet north OF stanton street
tence running west hundrsd snd ty feet 70 an alley
hundred and forty feet TO Everett street, thence soutp
fifty said Everett street to the place OF beginning
and being In and part OF Bronsons Addition TO the town
OF Streator
Ard whereas said mortgage given to secure the pay
mcnt oil certain poissory hole for the snm OF seven nun
dred and fifty ola bearing date with said ortg2ge
payable three years date, with interest at ten
per cent per annum, payable annually executed by me
said Fred D. Dalton and payable to the order OF said Mc
And whereas II IL provided IN and by said mortgage tat
OF default In the payment OF the said note above
o. any pstt thereof accSrang 70 ne Tenor sna
legal representatives or attorney after having advertised
such sale four weeks In newspaper published In the city
OF Ottawa Illinois may sell the said premises or any part
thereof and all right equity OF redemption of the said
Fred Dalton and wife, their heirs, executors, adnnis'ra
tors Or assigns therein at public yendue to s highest Gd
time appointed In such advertisements
And whereas defsu has been made by said Fred D. Dali
ton In the payment OF the rst annual OF inter-
due said note, and the stl remains unpaid
Now therefore. L. Michael SulsDerger. mortgage as
Aforesaid do hereby give public notice that under and BY
virtue Of the power and authority conferred upon me by
said mortgage, shall Monday the l2th day Of July A:
1875 the hour Of ten O'Clock I'm the forenoon Of said
lay at the south door OF the County Court House In the
described and a the right and equity OF re-
!empon Of said Fred D. Dalton and Victoria Ada Dalton
ais wife their heirs and assigns therein nj public yendue "
highest bidder for cash. pursuant to the terms OF said
mortgage. -
Dated at otws NY ssih iS uor,r,ree
RICUOI 4 SNOW. ATTORNEYS.
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Fl. p. CLARK,
House, sign and Baauer
- ATNTaER

GrslHing, GLAZING Gdlng. Marbnr Paper Hanging cal.
Madison Street
REFERKycKs-L. IT, EAmes. s. ". Cheeyer. Jackson q
Loo wood Fiske Been. Scott Hous Co.. Lewis How.
ard, e. II. y. Cushman. usyg-c
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MICHAEL SUBSCRIBER Mortgage
NICHOLSON 4 snow, Attorneys. mays :w

Tx ECUTOlt'S SALE OF REA Il
IL EsTATE.-By virtue of order and decree Of the
Comfy Court OF La Sale county nss, made the Pc
uton of the undersigned Michael Brady. Executor OF
the last will and testament OF Patrick Lazy deceased,
sell the real estate Of said deceased at the May
term d. 1875 said court wit, the fourth day Of
June 1879 shall on Monday the NTH day OF Jny next
between hours of o'clock In the forenoon
O'Clock in the afternoon of said day. sell at public SALE at
the south door the La Sale County Court House OF
tawa said county the real estate described follows to
wit: Lots number three and tteen In Block number TIL
one in Ottawa Centre, in La Sale county Illinois, te
following terms. to wit Cash In hand day OF sale.
Dated this NTH day et June 4. d. 1875.
MICHAEL BRADY
Executor of the Last W III and Testament OF
Patrick Lazy, deceased.
BOWEN MoLoNRY. Solicitors. juL5 Nv
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lDUBILIC NOTICE is hereby given. that n
meeting of the stockholders OF the Chicago Rockford
and Norera lailrOed Company will he teld at the public
Office OF SAID oompany-ROom II, l Michigan Avenue,
Chicago linoson the S0th day OF June 1870 at the
hour Gf o'clock NJ. of said day. to vote upon the
question OF borrowing the sum Of two hundred and fifty
Thousand dollars, to b secured by FIRST mortgage, and the
hundred and fifty Thousand dollars To be
cured By seeogd mortgage upon corporate property and
franchises Of said company, and issuing and dispOsng of
bonds for the AMOUNT so borrowed.
Dated at Chicago, Ill., this 26t day Of April A. d. 1875
BENJAMIN T. LEWIS,
Mayl- Secretary Of said Comps
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vi AMEIICA-iH the CbcuW curt Qftke LltWtd States,
JJf the Northern district Of HAnOis.-ha Chdncery
George W. Cot complainant, Lucien r. Sanger Eliza
beth Is. Sanger ana Henry A. Sanger defendants.
In the above the 25th day of February ls Hen
W. Bishop, Master III Canc of said court wall sell at
public auction the highest bidder for cash IN hand at
the soGth door OF the County Court House In Ottawa In
IajSse county anos, Thursday the PA Gay OF July
A., 1885, two O'Clock In the afternoon Of the said last
order mentioned and described Wit: All the following
described lots pieces parcels OF land situaeE the
ty OF La Sale state of Illinois. wit: Outlots
bered one two, Except that part two south Oe cana
thirty thrtyons, thrtywo thirty three thrtyiour thir
tyfve thirtysiE tiryseven, thirty ei thirty nine,
fortyegt, forty nLe and y all iu section numbered
sixteen, in township thrtytee north, OF range number
two est OF the third principal meridian. Ane Sae following
described bloc and lots IN the town Of Science in said
section sixteen, township rythree range two, to Wit
Blocks one two hrce four nye ten eleven Weve thir
tcen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen and nine
teen, each containing ten lots. Lts three four
Ave and six, block twenty Al! of block twenyone.
Lots two three FOUR five a4d six, in block twenty
two Lots Two and three In block twentyfour Lots
one two three, and i've, in block twentysx Lots
one two, three, our and nye In block TWEEN And
agd two in block thrtyOne. And allncrest be-
Ion gng the said defendants LuCn Sanger and Eliza
beth B. Sager. the first day OF August 1871 IN
ton SIXTEEN in township thiry three NORTH a: range two
Of section thirtyOne In township Nhrty TIN &c
north range east of the third principal meridian
All of said premises being in said county OF La Sale To-
eiher with the teRcmens, here6tsnentS privileges and
ap2urteHaDces theFe1nto belonging IL ay wise appe
tsintag sale absolute. HENRY W. BISHOP,
Master in ChanGcry OF the Circuit Court ii the United
States for the Northern District of llruois.
Dated Chicago, May 18th, 1873. !uay229w
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BOWEN Il MoLoNsY. SO
STATE OFILLINOIS.L Ia SALE Co, IS

STAJE OF Ii-LINOIS. LA SALE CO.
- Ia The Circuit CoE,t heIeOf 10 Jgne Term A. b. 1873
IN Ch0Bcery.
Torkel II. Erlckssr Cecilia Haycr. Mariet Thorson
Thor Thorson, Ole Hayer, jr.. Benjamin Hayer, Andrew
Hayer. Christian iiar, Joseph Hayer and Martha layer.
II appearing from affidavit file In the office OF the
clerk OF said that said defendants Mariet ThOson
Thor Thorson Ole Mayer IT, and Benjamin Hayer not
residents OF said state and said complainant having aed his
supplemental bill a. complaint In said court the chan
and summons hsr been issued thereon according u law
Notice therefore hereby given said defendants Maret
1horson Thor TLorson, ole Hayer j ana Benann Hay
that unless and each of you personally be and appear
before said court said thereof 20 be held th Court
House In Ottawa. in said county. the first Monday OF
June next A. lr5, (when and where said summons is
turnabe and plead answer, demur except to said bill
etane will be taken for confessed against yOu and the
matters ard things therein prayed for decreed accordingly
CHARLES H. HOOK, Clerk.
RICR d. WALEEDGE. Solicitors may2g-iW
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"Be YOU on the police? - inquired a dilap.
dated man. as ne entered the Central Station,
recently, and adlrJ Sscd a sergeant
| lie was informed that such was Ike case
when he continued:
Pm clean tuckcrcd out. It's that wife of
mine. I'm fool-a blarsted Old fool, sir
| I'm fifty, and she's twenty. She wants to
! Cad abOut, and want to stay at home; and
| if say word, its the teapot flat iron, or
whatever colucs handy. I've argued and
scOldcd, and tit, and here | am. Look at this
! black eve Loyk at me all over mister pO-
lice force. Once | was happy, now | ar,
busted. She wants 10 90 to every picnic and
excursion and festival and dance, and it's
killing me by inches. Then she wants "A new
drcs, today, bonnet tomorrow, and so on,
and We rot TO get them, or have a fight. I've
stood it all along, but I'm broken now. See
that ere arm; see where she put her teeth in
thar this morning, when | would not let her
have money 70 buy a pair Of high-heelcd
shoes. Just lay yer eyes on that air scar
mister police .CrCg!n
'Irs pretty tough" SAID the sergeant as he
looked
Tough! Great heavens! its awful, per
fectly awful, to bite me in that way con
tlnucd the old man. Bat the end has come .
I've got rc,ashuns over thar who won't see
me abused. and shes welcome TO whats in
the house. IF any one comes around here
sayin' I've committed suicide or disappeared,
just tel 'em how il i, mister police force
tell EN- ! suffered and suffered, until l have
to leave her to die. Tell everybody to be
ware Of her; She looks nice, but she's Vi
raCo, Is Aippe'csi,, regular waller FOX be
hind the currant.bushcs.
The sergeant promised, and The old man
rolled down his sleeves I'd pursued his jour
ney towar. the ferry.
NAsnINe s,pr TAKEN IA good old
minister in one Of OF oar New England Bap-
list churches was agreeably surprised by the
intelligence from one of his flock that five
individuals had expressed n desire on the
next Sunday to have the baptismal rite per
formed upon themselves. After its perfor-
nance, however, hewas somewhat chagrlned
that only one Of the five joined the society of
which he was pastor.
y f.w Sundays after, the same worthy cl-
der waited vi him with the intelligence that
ten more desired immersion.
And how many Of them will Join the So
ciety?" querLed tue minister.
Two, / regret 10 say, are all we can de
pend on" was tic elders reply.
Very well. said the good old man, "you
may as well Inform the other eight that this
church doesn't take in washing. "-BOstoA
Couaslfe rciaf B,,u,tt.
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Foreign Notes.

Ninety Mussulmen, Jewish and
Christian prisoners confined for debt in
the prisons at Constantinople, were re-
Gently released at the request of the
Sultan's mother, Her Highness paving
the fines, amounting in all to about
5000.
The French and English Govern
ments have just concluded a treaty pro-
hibiting the imitation, adaptation, or
free translation of the theatrical plays
from n country to the other. Copy
rights are allowed full and absolute
sway, and FRAMEWORK is considered to
be property equally with hand-work.
The newborn Russian Prince Alex
ander Vladimirovitch, grandson of the
Car, has been appointed commander
of the 18th Regiment of Infantry, and
also attached to the Predbrashenski
Foot Guards, the Hussar Guards of the
Emperor, and the Rifle Guards of the
Imperial family. But he is to be ex-
cused for a time from active military
duty.
There is a correspondent of the
London Tunes living on the island of
Capri, in the Bay of Naples, who is COM
monty known in hat neighborhood as
king of Capri" He has been a resi-
dent there for over 80 years, and has
done more than any native toward es-
tablishing schools and en~lightening the
islanders. In his will he proposes 1eav-
ing f10 to the poor, by whom, he avs
he would rather be followed to his grave
than by all the grandees Of this world.
punched. His local fame is great.
The Italians are disguised with the
inscription on the statue of Arminius
which says he overcame Latin strength
and obstinacy, and want a statue Of
Drusus erected in Rome, thus inscribed
To Drusus Tiberius Nero, surnamed
Germanieus, who triumphed over leu
tonic barbarism, after having defeated
and put to flight Arminius, and having
avenged like a good soldier the legions
of 7. Quintilius Varus, massacred
through treachery."
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How Coffee Came to be Used.

1t is somewhat singular to trace the
manner in which arose the use of the
common beverage of coffee, without
which few persons in any half or wholly
civilized country in the world now make
breakfast. AT the time Columbus dis.
covered America it had never been
known or used. 1t only grew in Arabia
or Upper Utopia.
The discovery of its use as a beverage
is ascribed to the Superior of a monas-
terry i n Arabia, who, DESTROYS of prevent
ing the monks from sleeping at their
nocturnal services, made them drink
the infusion of coffee, on the report OF
shepherds, who observed that their
tlocks were more lively after browsing
on the fruit of that plant. Its reputa-
ton spread through the adjacent coun-
tries, and in about two hundred wears It
had reached Paris.
A single plant, brought there in 1714,
became the parent stock of all the
French coffee plantations in the West
Indies, and the French and Spanish all
owe South America and the West In
dies. The extent of the consumption
now a hardly be realized. The United
States alone annually it at the
cost, on its landing, of from fifteen to
sixteen millions of dollars.
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A Fascinating Conductor.

A writer in Harper'S relates the fol-
lowing; Conductor B is always very
polite to the ladies. All conductors are
polite to ladies, particularly so provided
they are young and handsome. Miss
C was handed on board at the sta
ton as carefully as though she was
"glass-to be handled with care" An
extra seat was turned over on the shady
side of the car, and the conductor took
a seat by her side to do the agreeable,
having met Miss c. on the train'be-
fore. Presently, as matters were going
along nicely, an old man in his shirt
sleeves half threw himself into the seat
in front, which the conductor had I'M
locked and turned over for the benefit
of the parties more Immediately con-
cerned. Mr.. B. spoke up sharply /:
go away from here.n But the old
mar didn't go. Conductor says, still
more sharply, $50 away, OF III make
YOU But still no go, while a vacant,
provoking smile sat upon the face of
the intruder. Whereupon Conductor
B grasped the old farmer by the
nape of the neck. AT the same time the
young lady grasped the arm of the con
ductor, exclaiming, "Please don't,
Mr.. B.. This is my father Ever
since Conductor b always asks
young ladies if they are travelling alone.
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Care of the Feet.

Concerning this subject the Scientific
american very truly says; MANY are
careless in the keeping of the feet. If
they wash them once a week they think
they are doing well. They do not con-
slider that the largest pores are located
in the bottom of the foot. and that the
most offensive matter is discharged
through these pores. They wear stock
ings from the beginning to the end of
the week without change, which be-
come perfectly saturated with offensive
matter. Ill health is generated by such
treatment of the feet. The pores are
not only repellants but absorbents, and
fetid matter, to a greater or less extent,
Is taken back into the system. The feet
should be washed every day with pure
water only, as well as the armpits. frcm
which an offensive odor is also emitted,
unless daily ablution is practiced. Stock
ings should not be worn more than a
day or two at a time. They may be
worn one day, and then aired and IN
ned and worn another day, if necessary.
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How a Californian Got Seat lna roaa.

The stage coach from Milton wa
about 10 leave TutflctUWu after chang
ing horses. Every seat, both inside and
out, was full, except one, which was
occupied hy q tourist wrapped iu Biz So.
pcrcilious dignity aHd q heavy linen
buster. A resident Of TuttlctOwn wish.
ing to ride % Sonora, approached iLe
stage aud inquired for a seat. " All mI
inside, " growled the tourist, spreading
himself to the full extent Of his dignity
and buster. But You are occupying
two seats" argued the man from jack.
ass Hill.
~ amt going to be crowded | pay
for my comfort and intend to keep IT,
"Did you pay for two s%eatS?'
"I'ye only secured one seat, butt there
IS no room for another in this coach,
SIR and the tourist settled himself
back, while the other passengers grunt-
ed their disgust in tones not particular.
" v~Ociferous but exceedingly deep.
"You are not acting as a gentleman
should, sir, nor exactly in accordance
with the etiquette of our rude California
society," calmly replied the man on the
outside, smiling in spite of his annoy.
ance at the dog-in-the-manger style Of
this boor.
81 don't hold myself accountable to
the society of California. | pay my way
and ask odds of nobody, and your infer
ence that | am not Il gentleman might
be termed where | came from an lndl-
cation that you wish to fight
1--WE don't fight in this country
calmly replied the mar from Iutle-
town.
"You don'tP Then | must have been
misinformed. Pray, what do you 40
when a mar insults you?' and a sort OF
triumph cleaned in the eye OF the Stran'
ger.
"Do? why we shoot him on the spot
and that is the end of it. We doGl
time after we start in by t9e
way, | think | can squeeze in alongslde
of you there, cant II"
Don't know but you can" ana q
full half seat appeared beside the dlgnl'
fed fool, as if by magic.
The Tuttietown citizen rode yerycom'
fortably from that hamlet to sonora,
and heard no more about fighting rom
the tourist, although remarks in regard
to "dead shots" and the rapidly WIN
which insults are avenged in the oier-
ras. formed the staple of conversation
among the other passengers untli lnvy
reached the City Hotcl.-Sonora DS"O,
rat.
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Te sou ffaa. H u.s
ll# %
s On F NH4 HG
.H fuf fH ffHaH Us.
zoos t HaH
IrE aF HrHF HH
aas $50. s HInf HHs fta a.iT Is
'HH GEES .lHr hd over Ffa f.Hf iH fha
.'.Ir Iaa being uf H.ffFIH fIfm
IH. Ias sl =HH4fu f#I fHlf con De-
token saFHf. fHf large roots ~ fbe vine
being sfF1na.g bottled fY fIr iIH ~ fl#
IHl .H fHIf BE- stands uH Thr Hiaa offer
'He Ilg a taken apart The enormous
size ui fha bug IS ftIF Indication ~ tIIa
mammoth proportions ~ iha bufiY uf
fhr CREST saints Barbara monster. j.
i1 he set up with limbs attached Zoo ihoif
natural positions Tho limbs are rut Iu
sections ~ eight and % half feet. are
fastened by means 81 bowels sud other
irlns, having been numbered Many Uf
fho limbs we're so i]utefluekcd ON the
vine that 90 wa impossible o. separate
them uud take them down; or, II sopa-
rated, 10 would have been impossible tu
pat them mp again, 80 they were bottled
together wherever they crossed each
other before cutting them down. The
sections thus holtcd together are also
eight and % half feet in width, and will
be attached 10 the limbs in bottled sec
lions. II branches out in twenty large
limbs eight feet from the ground. One
Of these twenty limbs measures twenty
seven inches in circumference. At Il
meeting of the citizens OF Santa Barbara,
held at 1ibbit's Hall, sept. 10, 1879, on
the removal of the big grape vine, there
was adopted the following statement:
"This famous vine is without doubt
the largest in the world. The celebrated
vine at Hampton Court, England,
grown under glass, is nine inches in
diameter three feet from the ground.
This vine is fourteen inches in diameter
three feet from the ground, and nearer
to the ground has Il measurement of
eighteen inches in diameter or f~ifty-six
inches in circumference, while its foliage
has long covered a space equal to 49,
600 square feet. The Hampton Court
vine produces annually from l,jOO to
1000 pounds of grapes. The products
of this vine, as estimated by DIR. Ord,
INV 'ilt VI Nllp oAdl' tpiliillI1Ctbii'lN "
the Centennial, Judge lIuse, and others,
has often annually reached the immense
number of 1900 clusters of an average
weight of one and one-half pounds each,
or nearly $4,000 pounds. 1t is of the
known as the mission grape, and
was planted by Dona Maria Marcelina
de Dominguez, at the birth of a child,
according to the custom of the country.
Its age is between fifty and sixty years.
For several years it has shown evident
signs of ~decaying vigor, and has nov
been dug up, sectioned and boxed (after
weeks Of labor, for removal to the
East.
"A daughter vine growing on the
ground of the old vine is now sixteen
years old, and sixteen inches in diane
three feet from the ground, and
making growth at the rate of an inch in
annually, having the last year
furnished 5000 to 10000 pounds of
grapes, which were plucked and eaten
1y visitors from August 10 to January
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Too Much Music.

1t takes a woman to repulse a travel
ing agent sometimes. In a neighbor.
ing village, the other day, a man called
on Mr.. c. at his place of business and
wanted to sell him a parlor organ. Mr..
c., not wishing to buy, to get rid OF
him, referred him to his wife. On the
mans making his business known to
the lady, she asked him if Mr.. c., sent
him to her." Yes, ma'am," he replied,
We'll, sir," said Mrs. c., "you just go
back and tell him that until he can
furnish me with something besides
mackerel to eat | can make all the mus
ic that is necessary around this house. -
The agent concluded that be couldn't
sell an organ there.