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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

In the course of the recent work at
Pompeii. at the corner of the street a
a common inn has been excavated.
There is the bar, with the vessels in
clay let into it, and small back room.
In wall paintings are to be seen men
drinking and gambling, clad in the
peoples costume. Various inscrip-
tions are added to it, to copy which
permission has not been given yet.
A bar-maid is also represented in the
painting, bringing flask and glass
to two guests, one of whom. according
to the inscription, says. That not
NINE the bar-maid replying HE
who likes will take it, \ scuffie and
scrimmage between two men grasping
each others hair is the subject of d
further painting. 4 third man, pull
ling one of the two out by the tunic,
eXclaims: Out with you! Better quar-
rel before the door, In another
house. built and decorated in a
beautiful style, an inscription has
been scraWled on the wall of one Of
the rooms, running thus: ''Thyrsa
take care not to love FORTUNES
Farewell y In short, these fresh eX-
cavations have the effect of placing
the spectator most wildly in the
presence of Roman life--of human
life as it has been in antiquity. as it
has always been, and as it is now.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01
HOW BRITISH COMMERCE HELPS
BRITISH MANUFACTURES.

In an able review of the condition
and prospects of the British Empire
in the nineteenth century, Sir Julius
Vogel incidentally points out one Sc
cret of Englands command of the car
rying trade of the world. and the i'm
portance of that trade to the prosper
ity Of her mechanical industries. The
groove into which the conduct of
England's shipping has fallen supplies
one of the largest systems of trade
protection and bounty that has ever
been in operation. The whole princi-
pie on which the English shipping
trade with other countries is conduct
ed is to make the hOmewari freight
supply the profits. On the outward
route, a bare return to cover eXpenS-
es, and sometimes not even that, is
submitted to. the homeward voyage
to make the whole tripa profitable
one. For instance, ship carrying
out 100000 cargo, makes for her
outward freight $4,000. She will
under ordinary circumstances, make
at least $25, 900 on the way home. OF
S37 500 OH the entire trip.
If this were equally divided there
would be a return OF SIS, $50 each way;
the difference between that amount
and the sum actually received on the
outward route is SO $50, and that is so
much bounty to the cargo carried out,
or IA per cert. And the same
amount may be added as an impost on
the homeward freight. This system
has arisen accidentally; nevertheless
it greatly helped England's exterior
trade, the prosperity of which has
been largely due to her control of the
merchant marine. 1t will be readily
seen how critical would be England S
position in case foreign war should
seriously interfere with her CONNER
cial supremacy. England is now one
vast industrial concern. Deprive her
of the means of making that industry
profitable. and the loss of wealth
would be as rapid as the previous
gam.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01
The -Antl-AIonopollSt.

slip out of the house unseen. He is seen
stealing softly across the lawn to jump
over the fence at the corner, when his
wife comes rushing out and exclaims:
James! James See here!"
He begins to squint lido cherry tree
and talks about moths.
"You walk back he-e and hand over
that cash or I'll send tor my mother to
come and stay all SUMMER"
According to the rules OF the game he
turns and looks at her, and mutters to
himself:
That Wits me-"
s'The idea of your sku!king off like
that!" she continues when he advances,
hands out the *, " and if he can convince
her that he lsa.l as soon give her $50 as
$40, he wins the game.
Another outdoor game is played be-
tween ten o'clock in the evening and
midnight, in order to avoid the heat Of
the sun. 1t is played altogether by
married people. Nine o'clock having ar
rived and the husband not having reach
ed home. the indignant wife nails down
the windows, locks the doors, and goes to
bed feeling as if she could smash her
partner in minute and half. Along
about eleven o'clock Charles Henry be-
gins TO play his part in the game. He is
suddenly seen under one of the kitchen
! windows He seeks to raise it. He tries
/ another and another. but the sash won t
lit. Then he softly tries all the doors,
but they are locked. The rules OF the
game allow him to make some remarks
at this juncture, and it generally begins
to rain about this moment. As he gets
under the shelter of the garden rak" he
muses.:
Nice way to treat me because found
stranger on the walk with broken leg
and took him to the hospital
! As the rain comes harder he boldly
climbs the front steps and rings the bell.
/ After about ten minutes the door is
/ opened, hand reaches out and pulls him
i,to the hall, and the game goes on:
"Oh! you vile wretch
Darling, whaz maZzer -whaz is it,
jarIing.'
"DJnt darling me. Here it is almost
! daylight. and I've shiyered and trembled,
ana brought on 2 nervous fever which
may carry ne TO the grave
JTllng, louud leS5 on tNt SIDEWALK
wiz broken man and
This game is always won by the wife.
Anot her, and the last, outdoor gam
be described here, is called "Wait1nge
for her Darling" A woman waits or
her husband to spade up the fower-bed.
The Eastern question absorbs his whole
time. She goes out to wield the spade
herself. The game is very brief. She
tries to dig in the spade by pressing with
both feet at once, and when she gets up
and dashes it into the house she realizes
that she rolled over three times, and
barked her nose against the iron vase and
that four carriages were RICH: oppos-
lite the house at the time. She may have
a speech to deliver when her husband
comes to dinner, but the husband wins
the game-it is so in the rules.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01
Ora SHOPPER INvAsIoNs.

The possibility of carrying on sue
cessful weather predictions for the
Mediterranean and its shores is discus
sed by Hellnan. who shows that
probably greater efficiency can be
attained than in Western Europe.
He calls attention 10 the possibility
OF predicting the invasion OF grass
hoppers or iocusts. which. leaving the
Sahara in the spring with northwes;
winds are carried over Algeria ana
Egypt, and do more damage than the
severest storms. a similar duty has
been urged by Dr. Packard and others
upon our Signal service; and N this
connection it may be well to call at
tention to a theoretical explanation
of the grasshopper migration which
has lately been propo ssed by Able,
and which is said TO explain most OF
the phenomena that have been OBJ
served. According to this meteorolo-
gist. the grassEopper is an insect at
home and comfortable only in rather
dry atmosphere. and possibly dimin-
ished atmospheric pressure; ar
that is either too dry or too moist -
equally liable to make the insect un-
comfortable and in either cases he
seekss relief in flight. not knowing
whittier he shall 60. Now the dry
winds are the westerly that bear him
rapidly eastward to the Missouri and
Mississippi vzllies. The very moist
wfudo aTe the southeast winds Of TIE
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01
IRON CHIP REMOVED FROM THE EYE
BY A MAGNET.

At recent meeting Of the Clinical
Society Of London. Mr.. McHardy
read notes of case of removal of a
chip of iron from the crystalline lens
ny means of powerful magnet. The
patient. thirty-one years of age. when
at work. was struck in.the eye by a
fragment Of steel from the hammer
he was using. When seen. twenty
four hours after, there was evidence
Of commencing iritis: there was
nothing in the yitreous: the eye WAS
less painful than Oh the night Of the
accident: its tension normal. Afro
pine drops were prescribed. The
next day there was no pain, and less
congestion Of the eye; the pupil was
well dilated. and allowed of detection
Of sharply defined opacity on the
interior surface of the lens in a
downward-inward direction from the
center, the peripheral end being
nearer to the margin Of the dilated
pupil. The cOrnea was almost nor
NAL. The removal of the chip APP
peared to be imperative lest it should
grayitate downward; at the same
time Mr.. McHaTdy was unwilling tn
remove the leans, and he also thought
lift were injured by the forceps it
would not be easy to tell If any sub
sequent opacity OF the lens were due
TO the original injury OF TO the opera
tio0- He therefore ha6 : Dagnetic
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01
Outdoor Sports for the Season.

The season has now arrived when out
door sport are apropos- The caterpillar
hasleft his den. the mesquite has turned
over in his den and uttered warning
shrek, and big green worms are skylark
ing around on shade trees and betting on
their chances of dropping behind a man
coat-collar.
One of the leading lawn sports is
called Push and cut" 1t is played with
a machine called lawn mower These
machines are neatly put up. beautifully
painted. and will make a racket in any
Climate. The payer seizes them BY a
convenient handle and pushes them to-
wards the grass on trot. Tue game is
to find an old hoopskirt, paint-keg, oys
ter-can or catsup bottle in the grass. At
ter two or three lessons the player will
be amazed at his good luck in finding
these things and making tally marks.
Some players take flying leap over the
machine when it hits an old beef bone
in the grass, but the rules of the game
are liberal in this respect. The player
can, If he prefers, rush against the handle
and knock . corner of his chin or bang
his chest-bone back into 8 corner
Another interesting lawn game il play
d Is follows: At the supper table the
wife remarks:
James. ! want $40 to tx up my sum-
mer silk Don't 60 away without leav-
ing it,
James nakes no reply hut masagss 70
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01

spatula constructed by Messrs. Weiss.
intending to use it in connection with
an electromagnetic. On Mr. Carriers
suggestion the procedure was modi-
fed by employing a powerful bar
cells. Gradually approaching it to
the front Of the cornea, when it was
four inches away, the chip sprang
from the lens to the inner surface Of
the cornea. and fell into the anterior
chamber. whence it was removed to-
gether with small portion Of iris.
A patch OF opacity exactly cores
ponding in size to the chip was left
on the lens. Subsequently Il cataract
formed. and the injured lens became
absorbed. The patients vision,
aided by a lens of twelve dioptrics. is
normal for distant objects. Mr..
McHardy acknowledged his indebted
ness to Mr.. Laid and DR.. Tibbits for
assistance and suggestions, and he
referred to a paper by DR.. McKeown,
in the Dublin Journal of Medical
Science for September. 1876. where
three OF four cases are recorded of the
use of magnets in the removal of
fragments of steel in the eye.
Mr.. Brudenell Carter, having seen
the case, stated that the position of
the fragment was such that any other
attempt at its removal would have
jeopardized the eye. If nothing had
been. done, the fragment would
probably have fallen below the iris.
and would have set up destructive
inflama. ion; and any attempt at it's
removal by forceps would certainly
have injured the lens. BY with
drawing it from its bed and bringing
it to the front of the iris, the magnet
had obviated theSe difficulties.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01
POETRY
my LOVED ONE ON THE SEA-"

For The Anti Monopolist.
The following beautiful lines were publish
ed some years since in one OF our papers, but
think it will bear reproduction. The author
ess, tor it is evidently written by woman, J
is no atheistic materialist, but OnewhO be-
Iieves in God who hears and answers pray
ers. 1t will wake responsive echo in the
bosoms Of my Nova Scotia countrymen, tor
they have more men afioat, more loved ones
on the sea" than any nation on earth, III
proportion to population. W. l. l..
The storm is raging loud Tonight
And darker grows the sky,
And like giant in his might
The wild March wind sweeps by.
My heart is with the brave, the true
w no ride the pillows free,
With one whose home is oceans wave.
My loved one on the sea.
o. is it strange that should weep
To hear the tempest rise,
And know tl.atSO DER the stormy deep,
His rayless pathway lies.
How can bear its strength to mark.
Which death to him may be,
wanderer in a fragile bark
MY iOv'd one on the sea.
We were happy household band
In childhood S sunny hours
Our pathway hopes, our rosy hands,
ClFeWeO Will us IdlItSl lONC
But now, a change has DER me past,
The grave hides too from me,
And far away his lot is cast
NV loved one on the sea.
Oh God mine eyes with tears are dim,
To Thee, turn to thee,
Hear Thou my earnest prayer tor him,
My loved one on the see.
From every danger safely guide
Thy watch-care round him thrown
Grant that his bark unscathed may ride
High DER where wrecks are strown.
But Oh ! if there his own must lie,
If there his grace must be,
Grant may meet again on high
MY loved one OH the sea
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01
The MYCENhE ANTIGUA IIES-ARE
THEY PERSiAN2

Professor FOrchhammer maintains
that the antiquities discovered at N.Y.
cen9 do not represent early Greek nor
any pre-hellinic barbarOus act. but
Persian, it may be Assyrian, Babylo-
nian and Bactrian workmanship. In
order to explain the exceptional mode
of burial and the extraordinary
amount of treasure slowed away in
the tombs. he supposes that the skele-
tons found by DR.. Schliemann are
those of generals killed during the
siege Of MycenH and hastily inferred
within the walls. The treasure itself
he traces to the battle of Plaiaa.
Though as early as the Homeric poems
Mycena was called rich town.
yet such treasures as were found in
the tOmbs by DIR. Schliemann were
probably. as DR.. Forchhammer sur
misses, the booty of the Persian war.
That booty was immense. and after it
had first been titled for the Olympian
Zeus. the Delphic Apollon. and 18TH
mian Poseidon. all the rest. women.
gold. silver, precious objects, and ami
mails was divided equally among those
who had taken part in the war. 1t
was only eleven years before the siege
OF Mycena that its share Of the Per-
sian milliards had been deposited
within its walls. Nothing. therefore.
seems more natural than that during
the siege and previous to the sur
render they should have hidden their
treasure in the tombs in which the
bodies of their leaders had been de-
posted. and where. unknown to the
enemy. they might have been recov-
cred. unless all had been buried be-
meath the ruins of the town.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01

Mississippi Valley, that bear him and
his progeny in the next year back to
his original breeding grounds. 1t
will be curious to show whether this
hypothesis holds good for the African
as we'll as it does for the American
insects Editors Scientific Record.
in Harper'S Magazine for July.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01

OF decision which caused them to reply
with & unanimous yes" The wedding
took place on the 10Th OF FEBRUARY, 1910
The Qneen Of England married for love-
Lord MelDounr was right when he told
England that the qneens marriage was
the queens romance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-06
The Horrors at Vicksburp-

The condition of affairs at Vicksburg is truly
appalling. There seems to be no immediate
prospect OF the abatement of a malady which
has developed the most stubborn and maiig-
nant traits, aud which continues to spread
with absolutely frightfui energy. Some idea
OF the truth may De formed when We consider
that an equal mortality here would result In
al least go deaths per day and about Zoo new
caSeS-tully up to the worst achievements of
the epidemic Of 1853. FIcksburg is a city OF
scarcely more than 5000 inhabitants, and vet
the reports from there on Tuesday recorded y
deaths and lis new cases Of yellow fever. New
Orleans with a population of 100000, had only
~ deaths and something over 200 new cases. IT
Is safe to say that very much larger Def
centage OF people have run away from
Nlcksburg than from New Orleans, SO that
any change in these estimates on that ac-
count would only tend to swell the relative
destruction in Vicksburg. IT, in addition. we
TAKE into account the great unacclimated pop.
ulatlOn here, the numbers of destitute people
herded together In ILL built, ILL ventilated tene
ments, the natural prey of disease i'm one shape
or another, and then remember that fOur-fiftns
OF the deaths In New Orleans have been am ing
those people and among little children, We be.
GIN to realize how infinitely greater as a pub
Tic calamity has been the fever In Wick burg,
Inc case Is really one to appeal to the Sympa-
tiny OF the Whole country OF course New Or
leans is doing her utmost. 1t Is from here that
skilled ply SlclanS and experienced nurses go
forth TO all communities AFFLICTED with yellow
lever. All We desire is to call attention TO the
great aflilctlon under which VickSburg in
ing, and TO adjure our fellow citizens in every
part OF the country to bear in mind her ter
ilhie, her heart-rendi' extremity Nttc a.
tCUTtS i.utgs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-06
BOWLING, Auctioneer.

TRUSTEES' SALE OF VALUABLE PROP
ERTY IN THE COUNTY, ABbV GHEURI
TOWN AND NEAR THE GEUR6 EFUWN
AND ROCKVILLE PIKE, Cntaln'ng ovsr 8
Acres OF Ground; and improved by a large and
nearly new Dwelling House. Ice House, Car.
rage House and other Outbuildings; also TWO
fine Wells of Water.
BY virtue Of deed OF trust, bearing date -
the 26th day ct June 1876, and recorded in %.
Liber No. S27, folio l6 one of the laud s:18
signed Trustees viii sell at public auction, on the
premises, on MONDAY. the 10th day of Ssptem
Der, 1873 at O'Clock D. Hl, all that certain p .ce
OF parcel OF land situate and lying in this county
Washington, District of COuIn ola, and being part
Of the tract Of land called ALLIANCE >, conveyed
March 81 1912, and recorded In Liber w. B., No.
So. folio 40 Of said land records, and boun led as
follows: Beginning at the southwest co rner OF a ot
OF LAND belonging to Andrew Heiss AMI running
thence south 86 degrees east SO 4-10 perches,
thence south % perches, thence ives Ian per hes
degrees west Do perches to the beginning, contai1
Ing five acres, one rood and twenty-five perches Of
ground. beng the same parcel OF land conveyed by
Agnes Lewis to Edward Brooke by deed dated Fsb-
ruary 10Th, 1885 and recorded In Liber T.. NJ. II :,
No. Is, folio S45 Of said land ecords.
Terms OF sale: One-third cash; and the residue
In three equal payments at six, twelve and as hteen
months after dsts, fur which The purchaser is to
give his notes bearing interest al par can't,
secured by deed of trust on he prop rty sold: or
will ne required when bid is accepted. II ms of
fale not tompli with in fvedsys tho TRUSTEE Is
RES rye the righ to resell the prOp,rt! a rsk and
cost OF tefau ting purchaser, after such uoice as
the Trustees ma, think propr;
q OR6E APPLEBY,
w. Z. EpMOs STON,
ONO 40 9th st. NV, IF S ees.
Sep6 WASHINGTON, ID g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-06

FLOPTNG FROM WIFE AND CHILDREN The
neighhors had been watching iur some time
the visits If John Kelly, a good looking clerk
In FEEDER clothing store, in Paterson. 20 Miss
Fanny Bezea, pretty milliner in the store
next door. John had a wife and several
children living a. No % High street About
six weeks ago MIR. Kelly permitted his vile to
60 on protracted visit to Canada. In the
mean time John took up his residence at the
Franklin House, but he paid nightly visits to
his home, and the neighbors noticed that he
took from the house bundle. A few days
ago John and Fanny mySteriously diSap-
trouble to inform Mrs. Kelly. She hurried
home, and found that he had taken with him
all his clothing and many articles of house.
hold uSe.-IN. Y. San, sd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-06

AMERICAN CLAINANTs ENTITLED To Thirty
SkNEN MILLION DOLLARS.-A telegram to tho
New York Herald from Philadelphia Septeu
Der 4, says: The heir 10 an estate Of sS1 5ol NN
dled In this city on Sunday last, and was b.
Tied To day. In the year las Sir Andrew
Snadwick, an English baronet, died in Lon
eoh. ieaNlng a very rich estate entailed upon
MS son After this son died the property fell
INTO me hands, Of the heirs at law who en- ioyef
Iob ana was thrown into the chancery courts
MhtIe possession was contested for MANY
years. The true heirs became Scattered anS
lost, and In 1874 the English courts adyprtisea
Tor homas Chadwick. the direct descend ant
VI OH lhohas Ihadwlck. the seventh genera
ilon removed. The man in question was Ny
ing In suburb of Philadelphia lie was them
siNtS>eVep years old, and had been in busi
ness as miller, but had retired on account or
his age and tAeble health. Proceedings weS,,
.akell 10 Recover his share IN the estate and a
New ork lawyer was sent over in the int crest
OF MIR. Chadwick. Samuel Booth OF Proyt
dence, X. L., and the two Sons nf samuel Chad
WICK, Thomas Chadwick'S brother ThaSa
were the only heirs and all We're living in the
county ou Sunday last Thomas Chadwirk
died suddenly of heart disease, aud his tw,
sons, cornelius and Ferdinand now Snccaad
10 his interest in the English estate The nrr
perry Is valued al the enormous sum az
cr"F",HN not including Interest on SONS
items now held in trust by the Bank of Fng
land. The property consists of real ami Ip7
liable being Loco houses in the British mrtrau
olls Both the New York lawyer, VINO Is look
ing after the legal interests IF the heirs ana
the nrm of English solicitors unite In Dro-
nounclng the claims Of the American claim
ants as indi>puiable.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-06

KILLED ON THE BALL ZELDA special
dispatch to the n. Y. World from Utica. ".
y, Sept 3, says: AT Boonville this afternoon
a large crowd had assembled on the fair
grounds to witness match between the nineS
OF rival towns. In the absence of the regular
catcher of one club, James Barry OF Utica,
was substituted. The first man was called to
the bat, and the umpire duly called two balls
and two strikes. The next ball must have
made either three balls or three strikes The
pitcher delivered it with great force, and tho
man at the bat struck a foul tip, the ball pass
ing beneath and Just grazing the club, and
striking Barry In the pit OF the stomach fell
to the ground. Barry picked up the ball.
threw it TO the pitcher and fell to the ground.
The umpire and striker spoke to him, but he
could not artlculate. A physician was among
the spectators, but before he could get TO the
injured man Barry WAS dead. He was y
years old, and pitched for the Utica club last
last. The spectators We're greatly excited
when the announcement was made OF Barry's
death,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-06

MANS FAITHFUL FRIEND."-Mr. Fulton
has discovered in Glasgow a monument erect.
ed to dog, who attended the funeral of his
master and then spent fourteen years in the
graveyard, sleeping every night on the foot OF
his grave. A lot of people yearly manufacture
lies OF this sort and set them atloat. In this
way the dog has come 10 be known as mans
faithful friend" These stimulating yarns
cause every fool in the country 10 rear from
ole TO dozen dogs to bark and yelp and dis
tut b nervous people. Several thousand little
children are thus mangled every year large
numbers OF worthy persons have the calves of
their legs chawed and the seats of their
breaches torn out, and scores OF worthy people
die in the agonies of hydrophobia--.o say no.
thing about tleaS.-I BaltO. Gazette.