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L. 5. SEAMAN,


cTA,TE; q r. Hill '.OIs, la SALE Co--ss
- IN n. circuit Court. JdnndrY term 1879
Mrs Fletcher d. Clapp rs Fletcher ID. Clapp-in Chaa
Gerry. .
Affidavit OF the nonrcsidcnce OF Fletcher D. Capp. the
above defendant having been filed IN the clerks Of
fee the Circuit Court of said county notice therefore
hereby given the said nonresident defendant that the
complainant filed her bill OF complaint in said court ON the
Charcry side thereof the 9Th day of December 1915, and
thercupon issued out OF said court wherein
said suit is pendiHg rcturnabe the third Monday
in the slonth of January next ~ is by law required.
Now unless YOU, the said nonresident defendant above
named shall personally be and appear before said CrcNt
Couron the first day of the next term thereof TO be holden
at Ottawa in and for the said county, the third Monday
In January next and pleAd answer dcmur to thc said
cOmplainant's hi of complaint the aud the matters
and things therein charged and stated will be taken con
fesse decree entered against according 10 she
PRAYER of said bill ROSWELL W HOLMES, Clerk.
Ottawa, Illinois December 3 1873
/. :. SEAMAN, COnIplt's SOl'r. dtCI
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GILMAN & COOK,


INN AL -;t"r'll .E.NI F,Nr NOTICE.-Ee'
1 TATE or EPUEhIM SrEISBRlCk, DKCp.-Noticc Is
hereby given NIL interested IN said estate, that
the undersigned Executor of the last viii and testament OF
said Ephrrm Stenbrck deceased. VIII appear before the
ount Court of the county of la Sale and state of Illinois
NJ the County Court House in Ottawa in said county. on
Monday, the 10Th day of January 1879 for the purpose
of rendering Of his proceedings in the admins
tratiOn Of said estate !or the nna settlement.
Dated n ottawa. this i;ih day of December 1875.
AUGUST STEINRRICk.
ATrrsr. -. ". SToCksLEGER, Executor.
Nlnrk LnIln.l LOMrt. Ia sale Co. III. dGC2L-3M
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n Orlt E;.-EsrArr OF & 70. W. VANCE, lR,, DECD
~ Notice is hereby gwen that the undersigned, Charles
n PoundstOnc Administrator of the estate Of George
Vance, jr late or the county of La Sale and state of Hi
nos deccase will appear before the County Court of said
county the third Monday. (beng the 18th day. OF Feb
1853. ut the County Court House. in Ottawa in said
mans against said estate notified to attend and present
the same III writing FOR adjustment
Dated this 18th day Of December 4. u. 1873
CHARLES y. POUNDST0NE.
dec1l Administrator.
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NICHOLSON & SNOW,


WI Elizabeth Norris his wife. executed and delivered
10 Xavier utshmaun certain mortgage deed bearing
date October % s and on that ay hed for record and re-
corded in Recorders office of In Sale county Illinois.
in Book ~ OF Records page 2 thereby conveying to said
Xavier Ruschmann tine described property stu
Town Of Srctur. (eNcrpng and rrS"rNlnE The coal and
other minerals underlying said lott which mortgage dced
with said mortgage for the sum OF seven hun.
dred dollars given 10y said John " Norris and payable 10
The order of said Aavlcr ut"hnahn IL three years rom
date. with interest a ten per cent per annu. payable an
And whereas said Xavier Ru-chmsnn tn. 2Et day Of
November u. lo6 for valuable consideration, SOLD ana
assigned said note aud mortgage to the undersigned, Ben
an Boe, who II now III" legal owner and holder " the
And whereas II is provided In and By said mortgage anong
other thing that In default in III" payment uf the
said above mentioned or any part thereof according to
Xavier u,schmann. his legal representatives or attorney
after having advertised such sae four weeks In ncwspa
any part thereof and all right and equity Of resumption
nf said mortEg0rS their heirs, executors administrators
therein pubic y"nduc, to the highest bidder
House, titlNt AZ the Time appoint
ed In advertisement adjourn the sale from time
time dscretion and upon making such sale execute
and deliver 10 the Zee Of the
sold and apply The proceds Of a 90 the payment Of q
expenses OF ndVeTug selling and conveying. including
attorneys fees - TIE amount due on sa note 90 rem
ering the Oserpus f any Ia said morgaSors or helr
And whereas default has made in the payment OF
part If m. principal Of SAID note and the same Is ns~ due
and unpaid together With Interest Thereon from October
Now therefore notice hereby given, that by virtue and
in pursuance the power and authority In said mortgage
deed contained, the Undersigned. shall the Glst day Of
December -IS the hour OF two o'clock p EXPOSE tor
ali, NJ m, south door of the County House
eouy ~ redennton Of said therein the
highest bidder therefor. for cash.
Dated Ottawa. III. November H. iss ,,,. ,<,r
NICHOLSON d snow. Attorney. noyl6-5s
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Keep Ammonia in the House.

No housekeeper should be without bot
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poses. 1t is nearly as useful as soap, and
its cheapness brings it within reach of all.
Put a teaspoonfull of ammonia to a quart
of warm soap-suds, dip in flannel cloth,
and wipe off the dust and fly specks, and
see for yourself how much labor it will save.
No scrubbing will be needful. 1t will
cleanse and brighten silver wonderfully; to
pint of suds mix a teaspoonful of the
spirits, dip in your silver spoons, forks, etc.,
rub with brush and polish with chamois
skins.
For washing mirrors and windows it is
very desirable; put few drops Of ammonia
OH piece of paper and it will readily take
off every spot or finger mark on the glass
1t will take out grease spots from every fab
ric; put on the ammonia nearly clear, lay
blotting paper over the place and press a
hot flat iron on it for few moments. A
few drops of water will clean laces and
whiten them as we'll also muslins. Then
it is most refreshing agent at the toilet
table; few drops in a basin of water viii.
make better bath than pure water, and if
the skin is oily, it will remove all gossines>
and disagreeable odors. Added to foot
bath it entirely absorbs all noxious smell SO
often arising from the feet in warm weather,
and nothing is better for cleansing the haii
of dandruf and dust. For cleaning hair
and nail brushes it is equally good.
Put teaspoonful of ammonia into one
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the water. When they look white rinse
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and the aromatic spirits of ammonia is es
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found venturesome enough to enter upon
The occupation of the property. In a few
days he retired from business with a
bullet hole through his head, received
while standing at the door of his mill.
The murderer didn't send his card, and
like the man who dispensed with the late
Earl Leitrim, he still remains incog.
After quite long interval, during which
the place ran to waste, another tenant
was found by the name of Peter Lang
lin. In due time he received the death
notice. An iron hut, which has been in
vented for similar cases, was erected near
the mill and two constables were planted
in it to keep watch over Langlin's life.
In this way Langlin managed to run the
mill for year, but this life of constant
apprehension finally broke him down and
he left the property in the hands of the
owner. Amy one out of employment
wanting safe situation can have it at a
mere nominal rent.
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the land, and farm it after the English
fashion. The expectation was not realized.
The purchasers proved harder landlords
than the previous limited owners, but they
spent no more money on the land-indeed,
any attempt on their part to do SO was
mostly resented by the tenants-and they
failed entirely to introduce the English
system of farming. The result of the pro-
cess was to intensity the desire of the
tenant to possess his holding, but to leave
unchanged the system of small farming,
which may be looked upon as an essential
feature of the national character. 1t is
singular to find face to face with this fact
one equally remarkable as to the owner
ship of the land. Although all farms
(speaking generally are small, nearly all
properties are large. Although England
is nation of large farms and Ireland of
small ones, it is said that comparing SINH
lar districts in the two countries, for every
one owner of land between and SO acres
in Ireland, there are 10 in England. In
deed, SO rare is the possession of freehold
interest among the peasantry that those
who have purchased their holdings under
the provisions of scent acts generally con-
tinue to speak of the payments of interest
and installments of principal which they
have to make as their rent, and of their
title-deeds as their leases. Such a state of
things is not due to natural causes. In
addition to many of the reasons which
have also operated in England to limit the
number of small owners Ireland has been
subject to two agencies of violent and ac-
cidental character tending strongly in the
same direction-the confscaGions of land
at various periods of English conquest,
which substituted the English system Of
absolute ownership over vast districts for
the Irish system, on which the land was
held in common by Chiefs and their de-
pendent occupiers; and the penal laws of
the last century, which prohibited Roman
Catholics from owning land in fee, and
therefore shut out the bulk of the popula.
ton from the possibility of ownership. If
the result is compared with any country
in Europe where peasant farming prevails
the contrast is startling. Whereas in Ire
land less than one two-hundred-and-ff- -ff-
tieth part of the country is in the owner
ship of persons possessing less than 80
thirds of the land is owned by persons
owning less than rs acres; and eTsn in
Prussia and Austria, where there is con-
siderable proportion of large properties,
nearly half of the laboring class own
small holdings-The Spectator.
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M. JAM1N gives an account of his expert
ments with view to taking Photographic
negatives during thunderstorm. In this
operation, he sensitized plate in the usual
way, and placed it at the back of mega
tive. Four flashes of lightning were
counted, and, upon developing, the image
came out as clear and quick as if taken by
ordinary daylight One fash with a weak
negative gave fair transparency. He
next tried with the camera, after getting
everything suitably in focus, through the
studio window, which was done by the aid
of Lightning; he obtained photograph
with twenty flashes, the view being down a
street. This experiment proves that the
chemical process of lightning is equal to
the electric light produced artifcially, and
nearly equal, in its power ant adaptation,
to daylight.
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SCIENTIFIC.

LONDON journals describe an admirable
pair of direct acting centrifugal pumping
engines, lately constructed in that city,
each engine being capable of raising 100
tons of water per minute to an elevation OF
seventeen feet. The engines are fitted with
cylinders twenty y-seven inches in diameter
by twenty Inches stroke, and work at the
rate of 100 revolutions per minute. The
steam in the boileris supplied at seventy
five pounds per square inch, cut off at
about one-eighth of the stroke by adjustable
expansion valves. The cylinders are steam
jacketed all round, the jackets being sup
piled with steam direct from the boiler.
These engines have an ordinary ram con-
denser with valves for large outlet. A large
air pump is provided for changing the cen
trifugal pumps, which have no foot valves,
but, in case of accident to the air pump,
the condenser itself is capable of charging
the pump, by an arrangement between the
centrifugal pump and condenser. The
whole of the machinery is made in only
three pieces, all securely bolted together.
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THE Moniteur des Soies states that it is
intended to. form in Paris, on an adequate
scale, an industrial commercial museum,
where shall be deposited for inspection
samples of raw materials from all parts of
the world, and samples of every useful ar
ticle produced therefrom by industry. All
products thus included are to be classified
systematically, 50 that men of science,
manufacturers, inventors, artisans, and
amateurs can make ready and complete ex-
aminations. The places from whence the
materials comes, where manufactured and
sold, where and for what purposes used
and similar points Of information, are to be
indicated by cards attached to the objects
Lectures are also to be stately given hay
ing reference to the materials and products
contained in the museum. 2.
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THE new metal, lavoisium. has been sub
iected by NJ Pratt of Bordeaux to the spec
troscope, and is found to give the follow
ing results: First, in the indigo blue, two
v.her more simple groups of characteristic
bands; Second, in the pure green, two
other more simple groups of bands, equally
characteristic; third, some blue, violet, and
green bands; in all, twenty three bands.
The characteristic bands correspond with
those of copper, which might indicate, M.
Prat thinks, that copper perhaps contains
this metal The spectrum, the white silvery
aspect, the solubility Of its oxide in am
monia, the color of the ferrocyanide and its
hydrated sulphuret, constitute group Of
properties which distinguish it from all the
known metals. NJ Prat thinks this curious
metal is much more common than might be
supposed as he has met with it in
many minerals, and notably in iron py-
rites.
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SOME interesting data have recently been

SOME interesting data have recently been
given as to the power, performances, and
consumption of Goals of all the locomotives
combined, within the United Kingdom, and
as an illustration of the extraordinary de-
velopment of power in this direction, is the
fast that whereas originally it was only at
tempted to ascend the very slight incline, the
freight engines used on the great Northern
Railway have now sufficient power to just
move up gradient Of one in fourteen, and
these engines, when travelling at thirty
miles an hour, develop 600 horse power.
The number of locomotives in the United
Kingdom is estimated at about $4,000, and
they draw annually some 200, 500, 600 tons
weight of good; 309, 600, 600 tons weight of
cars, and $50, 100000 passengers. The
coal consumed is estimated at the enormous
amount of 1904, 2o6 tons for passenger
traffic, and 1,924,ooO tons for that Of
freight.
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A WRITER in the London Mioroscepical
Journal says that often, when the result OF
chemical examination of water makes it
passable, microscopical examination fur
nishes evidence upon which the water
5hould be condemned. To assist in the
nlicroscopical examination of waters, he
filters them through papers, the centre of
which is rendered impervious by being
coated with mixture of some thirty five
years of vaseline and sixty parts of
ozokerite. The living and dead suspended
matter is thus concentrated with small
volume, and the application of the micro
scope then reveals the number and varie-
ties of organisms in definite quantity of
the water under examination. This test,
applied to water that has been added to
milk, has shown, in single pint, not only
decomposing vegetable and animal mat
ters, but eighty-seven living animal
cules.
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BYRON says: "Man being reasonable,
must get drunk; the best of life is but
intoxication" So evidently thinks Mr..
Ansell Merritt, of Kansas. AT the same
time he thinks it unreasonable in his
friends to hold him to contracts entered
into while drunk. He has recently pub
lished card in the Troy (Kansas) Chief,
in which he says: "Whereas, when / am
intoxicated I am not competent to make
contracts; and whereas, | have been
taken advantage of on several recent
occasions in such contracts. l hereby
notify all persons that hereafter l shall
not fulfill any contracts made by me
when drunk" There is candor in the
preamble to Mr.. Merritts declaration OF
intentions that shows he has realizing
sense of the advantages as we'll as the
disadvantages Of getting fuddled. But
if he claims the legal right to declare
certain contracts "of'' because entered
into while half or whole Teas over, he
ought at least to issue time card SO thai
the public would know when he wa
open for business interview. His pres
ent position, as assumed by himself, is a
one-sided as his favorite jug handle. FL
should don blue ribbon on his busines
davs and wear bells and motley when
ever he proposes to make fool of him
self.
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Mr.. HENRY WELLS, who died last
week at Glasgow, Scotland, was one of
the pioneers in the express business, and
founder of Wells, Fargo & Co.'S Express
Company. His name will be associated
in the history of business enterprises in
this country with that of Mr.. Adams, the
founder of the Adams Express Company,
and in fact their lives were strikingly
similar in many features. Mr.. Wells
was native of Vermont, and his first
experience as a forwarding agent was
with Harnden & Co., in New York.
Later he established the Albany & Buff
falo Express, running as his own messen-
ger and carrying all his valuable packages
in a carpet-bag. His business increased,
md in 1915 he extended his lines to Gin
cinnati and St. Louis, VIM. G. Fargo
uniting with him in the undertak,
ing. The several express compa'
MES doing business previous tc
1850 were about that time consolidated
under the name of the American Ex-
press Company, with Mr.. Wells as Presi
dent, which position he filled for the fol
lowing twenty years. At the expiration
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SMALL LANDOWNERS IN IRE
LAND.

In approaching the question of peasant
proprietorship in Ireland, we are met with
this all-important fact, that it is at present
O country of peasant-farmers. OF 502, $50
farm holdings, 40s, 600 consist of between
, / and so acres. There is, therefore, no
question between la grande and Ia petite
culture. However. superior the former sys-
tenn may be thought, it does not exist in
Ireland, and could not be imported, except
by artificial and violent means, after q
revolution. In 1849, when the Incum-
bered Estates Court was established, it was
expected that purchasers with capital
would come in and buy. would improve