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], R. SCHORB'S PHOTO-GALLERY,
Isr TnrcT rasT IN TUE IATT

4 SUPERIOR Skylight, gallery with every
n convenience, and determination to do my
best, enables me to promise satisfaction to all in
want of correct and tlattering likenesses. Cloudy
weather is as good or better than sunshine for all
subjects, except small children.
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COOKING STOVES

A LOT of beautiful Pictures, handsomely
N framed in Walnut and Gilt, unusually cheap
at G. H, O'LEARY'S.
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The far41 aud fireside.
COAL OIL AND VERMIN.

In reply to several inquiries, we would say
that there is no need for anything else than
common coal oil and soap and water, to re-
move vermin of every description from all
sorts of animals. If freely applied and al
lowed to remain, it will cause the hair to fall
of, but when very much diluted, it is instant
" fatal to all forms of insect vermin, and
also of their eggs.
Pour few spoonfuls of the oil into con-
venient vessel, and with sponge or rag rut
the oil against the direction of the hair into
every part of the skin. 1t is instaneously ia
tai to lice and fleas and their eggs, and may
be removed by washing with strong SOAP
suds, when the trouble will be at al end
The coal oil may be diluted with castor oil OF
lard and left on without removing the hair
but it is better to apply it pure and wash it
of: We have go treated puppies three weeks
old. The same treatment sufices for the hu
man scalp. In fact, the uses of this common
household article are very numerous. II
mingled with plaster it may be sprinkled over
plants of any kind subject to attacks of in
sects, and will prove efectual in driving them
away but if the plaster be strongly impreg'
mated with it, the plants themselves will be
destroyed. There is no more effectual way to
deal with the bunch caterpillar than to pour
little coal oil on the web-every one Of
them will be instantly destroyed. The bough
of the tree will also be killed by the applica'
tion. A few drops of it put upon the bud OF
any noxious weed, even though deeply root
ed, will eGectually destroy the weed.
For the ordinary rubbings to which people
resort for rheumatic neural gia and often for
imaginary pains, nothing is superior to the
coal oil. 1t has also this virtue, that it is
harmless. 1t may be taken internally with
safety, and we suspect with fatal effects to
nearly every species of internal worms. We
have known several persons to take up the
habit of drinking it largely as stimuant,
without any apparent injury. We have seen
a teaspoonful Of it administered to common
fowls when sick, with apparent good effect.
We have applied it to great number of in,
sects, and always with fatal effect-P2antsr
and Farmer.
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EXECUTORS NOTICE.

CHATTEL MORTGAGES,
MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to
Nl Real Estate. For sale at the
.' l, ENQUIRER OFFICE.
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CLEANSING AND REPAIRING
BARBER SHOP.

VyHOSE in want of an EASY SHAVE, a fash
Il ionable and stylish cut of hair, or a pleasant
and luxurious Shampoo, are reminded that
THOS. BALLARD, Professor of the Art Tonso-
rial is still in business in his old Shop next door
to the ENQUIRER building, where it will afford
him great pleasure to wait upon all who may de-
sire his services. Razors honed and sharpened'
and any other work of that kind promptly done.
THOMAS BALLARD.
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FISH! FTSH!! FTSH!!!

NHEAPER than ever known. A large lot just
Y arrived, consisting of No. l, No. and No. 3,
put up in Kits, Quarter Barrels and Half Barrels.
These Mackerel were bought direct from the
examination of our stock and prices.
CLARK BROTHERS.
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GUANO NOTE COLLECTIONS.

VOUR note for Fertilizers has been placed in
my hands for collection, by .Messrs. Geo. w.
Williams d Co., of Charleston, s. G. Don't for
get the time they fall due-on or before November
the first. AS delay might be dangerous, 1 ask
that you make payment as soon as convenient
before that time. R. F. CLARK, Agent.
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THE BEST LEAF LARD. S..
MOOD is not name for it,. Come and see and
U Judge for yourself. Just like home made
Lard. Asuppy always on hand. Having good
trade for this article, we are always able to offer
fresh Goods CLARK BROTHERS.
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ITEMS WORTH KNowING.-Rub the door
hinges with soap to prevent creaking.
When clothes have an unpleasant odol
from being kept from the air, charcoal laid
in the folds will speedily remove it.
A spoonful of horse radish in pan Of
milk, will keep it sweet for several days, eth
er in the open air or the cellar.
If fiat irons are rough or smoky, lay little
fine salt on fiat surface and rub them we'll
It will smooth them and prevent sticking
A shovelful of hot Goals held over varnish'
ed furniture will take out spots and stains
Rub the place while warm with flannel.
Cooked corn meal and potatoes, served at
regular times, for three or four weeks before
slaughtering time, is the best food for fatten'
ing fowls.
If you are taking cold, grease your nose,
throat and breast, take glass of lemonade
and cover up in bed. Morning will see you
better.
IF you are scalded from steam or water,
moisten the spot with water or milk, and ap'
ply fine salt, as much as will adhere This
usually prevents blister.
Persons troubled with neuralgia will be glad
10 l66Tu d CuTc. VIZ uiopo VI iouuoho'hA !"
one half teaspoonful of warm water, and drop.
ped into the ears, will give immediate relief.
The root of horse radish will certainly give
instant relief to hoarseness.
If stung or bitten by insect, snake or ami.
NAL, apply spirits of hartshorn very freely
with soft rag, because it is one of the strong
est alkalies, and is familiar to most persons
Alum water will harden the gums and
prevent iooseuiug or the teeth.
Gas pipe may be bent by filling the pipe
with melted resin. When the resin is har.
dened the pipe can be bent without losing
its round form. Remove the resin by heat.
ing.
One cupful sugar, one cupful molasses, one
cupful water, one and half tablespoonfuls
-four, two lemons and one egg. This makes
one molasses lemon pie.
Hot alum water is recent suggestion az
an insectitude 1t will destroy red and
black ants, cockroaches, chinchbugs, and all
1
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O.. I'll. O'LEARY.
SAFES.
CHI A IRIS,

NOMMON Kitchen and Cupboard Safes, cheap,
Vat G.. H. O'LEARY'S.
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BAGGING AND TIES.

EVERYBODY, comes to our house for Bag
IL ging and Ties; rs we are known to buy the
most, sell the most, and sell chem the cheapest of
any house in town. CLARK BROTHERS.
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ARAB MAxIMs FOR KEEPING-HoRsEs.- -
l. Let your colt be dornesticated and live
with you from his tenderest age. When a
horse be will be simple, docile, faithful and
Injured to hardship and fatigue.
g. Do not beat your horse or speak in a
loud tone of voice; do not get angry with
him, but kindly reprove his faults he will
do better thereafter; for he understands the
language of the man, and its meaning.
g. If you have long days journey spare
your horse at the start; let him frequently
walk to recover bis wind. Continue this un-
til he has sweated and dried three times, and
you may ask of him whatever you please he
will not leave you in difficulty.
A. Observe your horse when he is drinking
at brook. If, in bringing down his head,
he remains square without bending his limbs,
he possesses sterling qualities, and all parts
of his body are built symmetrically.
5. Four things he must have broad-front,
chest, loin and limbs; four things long
neck, chest, forearm and Group; four things
hort-posterns, back, ears and TAIL
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IRACTlCAL hELlGlON.- COlOT6u OtoISid
minister breaches the following practical
theology: "Breddren, my 'sperience is dat it
amt de profession of 'ligion, but de casional
practice of it dat makes man 'ceptable up
yonder. When yer gifts to the golden gate
an Peter looks yer right in de eye and yer
shows him yer long creed and says, pom
pous like, dat yer longed ter de big 'Piscolop-
ian church, de 'postle'll shake his head an
say, Dat amt nuff ter set yer through But
if yer takes all yer bills under yer arm, yer
grocer bills an yer rent bills, an he looks 'em
over an finds 'em all recei pied, he'll say,
Yer titles clear an unlock de gate an let
yer pitch yer voice for de angels song. But
faint no use ter trabble along dat narrer path
less yer can carry, folded up in yer creed, a
good recommendation from yer creditors.
Heben amt no place fur man who has to
dodge roun' corner fur fear OBJ meetin' some
one one who'll ask fur dat little bill dat nebber
was paid
HIS CHIEF ANx1Ery.-Wednesday even
ing, boy about eight years old, who had be-
come bewildered down town, and whose ear
had been n ipped by the frost, had been ta-
ken to the Central station to get thawed out
and cheered up. The men in charge talked
to him in a fatherly way, put linament on his
ear, and the boy seemed full of grit: After a
time, the big tears we're observed rolling down
his cheeks and the captain said:
"Why, bub, wouldn't feel bad. 1t isn't
much of frost-bite."
"But it shows, don't it ?" tremblingly asked
the lad.
"Why, yes, little bit but l wouldn't cry
for that"
"May be you w-wouldn't!" gasped.,th boy,
"but you h-haint engaged to-be married as
lam and that makes b-big difference"
They couldn't argue against that, and the
boy wept bitterly.-Eachange.
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A New Trick Of the Telephone,

Messrs. Thomas and John Lovejoy, Of
this city, says the Titusviile (Pa.) Her.
aid, have made a most remarkable dis
covery while speaking over their private
telephone line. By simply pressing the
mouth of the telephone against any part
of the body and then speaking, the
sound was conveyed through the wire to
the other end Of the circuit without
placing it to the mouth. The expert
ment was repeated on a three and a half
mile telephone line between this city
and Boughton switch, with the same re-
suits. The city clerk, Mr.. Roof, also
tried it on the city line to Friendship
Island, and found that he could hear
distinctly, although he could not make
the men at the works understand him
owing to the rattle of machinery in the
room. Mr.. John Ponton, agent of the
Bell Telephone Company, gave the mat
ter q thorough test. The sound con-
veyed is very much weaker than when
speaking in the ordinary manner with
the mouth close to the instrument, but
it is none the less distinct. It sounds
like some tests which have been made
with the telephone through the great
lengths of wire, and unless for very
short lines it is too weak to be solely re-
lied upon for the transmission of intel
ligible language. 1t shows, however,
that with the use of three instruments,
one at each cor and one at the mouth,
the sound may he increased very con-
siderably, as in that case, there would
be two feeble magnetic currents uniting
with one of greater strength, the action
would be harmonious and precisely SINH
lar to that of speaking through two O,
more telephones at the same time.
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The Manufacture OF Paper.

A lecture was delivered recently by
Mr.. William Arnot, F. @. s., Of Edin-
burgh, on the manufacture Of paper, at
the rooms of the Society of Arts, Lon
don. It was generally admitted. he said,
that the process of paper.making was
introduced into England about the be-
ginning of the fifteenth century, and into
Scotland at the end of the seventeenth
century. The process of converting rags
into pulp was until the last century very
laborious, but at that time the Hollander
or beating machine was invented, which
completely revolutionized the mode of
making paper. The lecturer gave some
interesting statistics relative to the
trade. The number of mills in Britain
was 1856, of which sixty-fve were in Scot
lond. There were in these mills 526
machines at work, producing annually
$50, 900 tons of paper, to which must be
added 10, 900 tons made by hand. The
total production was thus $50, 900 tons,
valued at s1Oe, 900, 900. The exports of
England amounted to 16, 900 tons, while
she imported "a, 900 tons. With respect
to the consumption of paper in different
countries, Mr.. Arnot stated that in
Russia the annual consumption was one
pound per head of the population ; in
Spain. one and one-half /; Mexico and
Central America, two Italy and Austria,
five ; France, seven ; Germany, eight
United States, ten and Il quarter, and
Britain, eleven and a half.
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NaYies Of the World.

The navies of the European world are
pretty full. England has 152 active
vessels and $50 in reserve; 60, 900 sailors
with 5000 officers, and $4,000 marines
with 826 officers, and ten monster IRON
| clads. France has lis active vessels
with seventy-eight in reserve; 48, 900
sailors with 1900 officers, and $1,000
marines with $50 officers; three monster
ironclads and nine smaller coast-boats.
Germany has sixty-one active vessels and
forty-eight in reserve; 5000 sailors and
marines with 500 officers, and three iron
clads. Russia has 158 active vessels,
mostly small; go, 900 sailors with 1000
officers, only one-shird serving on board
ship; one monster ironclad. Austria has
sixty-eight active vessels; 1000 sailors
with 500 officers. Italy has sixty-fve
active vessels; $4,000 sailors with 425
officers, and 5000 marines with lis Of
fcers; two monster ironclads, the largest
in existence, carrying eight lOO-ton guns.
Turkey has ffty-seven active vessels and
t~wenty-eight in reserve; 8 $4,000 sailors
and marines with 1000 officers; seven
ironclads. Spain has 1913 active vessels;
81, 900 sailors and marines, with officers;
three small ironclads. Greece has
twenty.one active vessels; 1000 sailors
and marines. Denmark, thirty.three
active vessels; TO- 900 sailors and marines.
Holland, eighty-seven active vessels; 49,
900 sailors and marines. These sea-going
engines of war are the sources of i'm
mense expense to the powers using them;
yet they are fnot only considered indis.
pensable as they stand, but continual
additions are being made to their num-
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The Longest Rivers in the World,

The following are the longest rivers
with their extent The Amazon, in
South America, falls from the Andes
through q course of 1900 miles the
Mississippi, from the Stony Mountain
runs $3.50 miles ; La Plata, from the
Andes, 2,215 miles; the Hoangho, in
China, from the Tartarean chain Of
mountains, is $3.50 miles ; the Yangtse-
Kiang runs from the same mountains,
and is ,060 miles long ; the Nile, from
the Jihel Kumri Mountains, courses
$3.50 miles; the Euphrates, from Ara
rat, is 1920 miles long ; the Volga, from
tho Valdais, is 2, 100 miles /; the Danube,
from the Alps, is 1.790 miles in length ;
the Indus, from the Hymalayas, Ito
miles !; the 4anges I'll from the same
source, and is 1850 miles long; the
Orinoco, from the Andes, 1900 miles in
length : the Niger, or Wharra, is 1900
miles long ; the Don, the Dneiper and
the Senegal are each over 1000 miles in
length the Rhine and the Gambia are
1888 miles in extent.
Stanley's latest journey adds the Con-
go river to the list. Its principal source
is in Lake Bangweolo, nearly in the lat
itude of Zanzibar. It flows north and
northwest into central Africa, 500 or 600
miles north of the equator, and then
southwest into the Atlantic ocean, a dis
lance of almost 5000 miles.
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Russian Trophies In Kars.

A war correspondent writes: The
Russian trophies in Kars are beyond
expectation. Three hundred and twelve
cannons, among them forty-two field
pieces, whole depots of rifles and revol-
vers,s large quantities of ammunition,
stores and provisions, and about 16, 900
prisoners fell into the hands of the con-
qterors. The remainder of the garrison
must be considered as killed, or as hay
ing deserted. The Russians shut their
cyesstwith regard to d~eserters, AS they
experience too much trouble and cost by
transporting their countless prisoners in
this season into the interior of their ice.
shackled country. Whosoever manages
to procure for himself a suit of plain
clothes may run away and make himself
comfortable insone Of the villages, or in
his own homestead. Voluntarily these
men will not again join Mukhtar Pasha's
hungry and neglected host. The Rus
s,tnilosses donot exceed 1000 men. and
ne less than had been originally sup
r'sed. Ypt 4. :.
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A GhOstly Headlight.

The Richmond lind. } Palladium says:
Soon after midnight, Wednesday, the
fireman on the switch engine called the
attention of the engineer to a bright
light that was rapidly approaching them.
The switch-engine, pulling a train of
freight cars, had just turned the bend at
the fair grounds, and the light was half
q mile east of them. The engineer said
it was a headlight, and he whistled as a
signal to the approaching train; but the
light advanced neiselessly and rapidly as
before. In a moment or two it was so
neal him that he feared a collision, and
he whistled down brakes. and his train
came to a stop within a trains length Of
the light, when, without any exchange
of signals, it began to recede, and was
soon going East at the rate of a mile a
minute. After it had turned the second
bend, about three miles east of the city,
the reflection on the trees could be c
for several seconds. What it was no one
claims to know. All say that it looked
like a headlight, but no one says that it
was one. That it might have been a re-
Election from the switch engine is posi-
BILE, or that it was an electrical phenom-
enon is not impossible. The fact that a
light was e on the track on which
they were running may have made the
men on the engine overly cautious, and
made it appear much larger than if seen
elsewhere.
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Effect OF Gaslight on the Eyes.

On the influence of gaslight IN the
eye the following is given from a recent
report to the Prussian minister of in.
struction In general, physicians agree
that no evil results will follow the
moderate use of gas, and particularly if
there are arrangements to prevent the
direct action of the yellow fame on the
eye. For this purpose screens or
shades are employed. Very grave OBJ.
lection, however, exists to the use OF
the zinc or lead shades, most evils af-
fecting the eyes being traceable to them.
The use of the latter, it is said, inevita-
bly, tends to blindness or inflammation,
and other harmful effects. The milky
white glass shade is the best, as it dis.
tributes the light, and has a grateful
effect upon the eye. The burner should
not be too close to the head, as conges-
ton of the forehead and headaches re-
suit from the radiated heat. The glass
plate below the gas, employed in some
places, is especially useful for the pur-
pose, as it causes an equal distribution
Of the light, necessary where a humble,
are working at one burner, prevents the
radiation Of the heat, and tends to q
steady illumination by shielding the
fame from the currents Of air. In cases
of highly infamed eyes, dark blue
globes can be very THEORETICALLY employed.
With precautions of this kind no evil
effects from the burning of gas need be
feared. .
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The San ElizariO Siege.

A dispatch from Houston Texas, says;
The official report Of Lieut.. Tags is just
in. He gives a graphic account of the
San Elizario siege.
The rangers occupied a one-story
adobe house, with the windows and doors
barricaded and portfolios cut i'll the
walls. The Mexican besiegers occupied
neighboring houses, fortifying the win
dows, and dug q trench around the
rangers building, which they also mined.
On the first day the Mexicans charged
upon the building, but were repulsed.
On the last day of the fighting Lieut..
Tays put up a flag in order to let the
sheriff of Pecos county 60 out. The
besiegers let him 60 without molestation,
and sent word to Tays that they wanted
to talk with him. He went out, and a
truce was agreed upon till next morning,
the Mexicans promising not to fire dur
ing the night, and they kept their word.
But at night, however, they continued
to fortify and dig rifle pits. Tags met
them in the morning, and the Mexicans
toldhimt that unless he surrenderedJudge
Howard they would blow up the rangers
building, as they already had %gunpowder
under it. They promised that if How
ard would come down to the mob and
relinquish all claims to the salt lakes,
the original cause of the whole difficulty,
they would not hurt him.
lays told this to Howard, who replied
ct will go, as it is the only chance to
a v your lives ; but they will kill me-"
Tays went down with Howard, after tell
ing him publicly he did not want to
do 30, and that if he would remain with
the rangers he would protect him. Judge
Howard answered: "It is useless to
attempt to stand them off any longer
this is our only chance of escape" How
ard then babe the rangers good-by, and
gave his valuables to his friend Mcbride
and walked out with Tags to the mob.
John Atkinson was taken along as inter
prefer. To save his own life, Atkinson
by agreement with the Mexicans, return.
ed to the rangers, and falsely told them
that Tays had ordered them to surren-
der. The rangers did so and we're dis
armed. The mob then held a meeting,
and determined on the death of Howard,
Atkinson and Mcbride. The majority
of the mob were for killing all the rang
ers, but were dissuaded by one of their
leaders, Chico Barrillo. The mob yelled
fercely, aud the three doomed men were
led out 100 yards and shot, standing at
the heads of their own graves. Howard
behaved with great GOODNESS, and after
the first fire was not quite dead. He
stood with his hands in his pockets.
The shooting was done by nine Mexi-
cans from Mexico, and it was with diff
Guilty the Texas Mexicans prevented
those from the other side of the river
from Strengthening the entire American
population of Ell Paso. Two leaders
from Mexico appealed to the mob to
massacre not only the rangers, but all
the Americans in that country,
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Winters Carriers Address,

The Hartford Courant reprints a
Carriers Address," which was written
by John G. Whittier, for the carrier OF
the New England Revieao, January /,
1881. Whittier was then the editor
of the Review, and the carrier who
bore his verses about to the
patrons. as subscribers we're then
called, was Mr. James Lockwood, now
prominent business man of Hartford.
The address was found between the
leaves Of c file of the New England Re
rieW, and it has been framed and hung
mp as a relic. The address began with
the following stanza
Our hatof patrons and q bow
Albeit from neck unused to bending
A smile Upon our wrinkled brow,
Our right hand to your own extending,
God bless you all On New Years Day
Our heart with kindness overaoweth,
Like a glad streamlet on its way
Which blesseth all where'er it goeth,
Ay, bless you patrons May this day
Be unalloyed with anght Of sorrow
And let no dark forebodings stray
Upon the evils of Tomorrow
May all with smiles the year begin.
Unveiled by one domestic quarrel,
May Plenty fill the appse-bin--
The pantry and the cider barrel
The ReUiew was begun in the year
1928 with George D. Prentice-after-
Nrrds the famous Kentucky journalist
ler it's first editor. Whittier succeeded
l'fentice, and the Rev1ew was continued
llutil the year 1888.