, 1879-02-16
LOCAL ITEMS.

wfll discourage ambitious pedestrians. the crate
full country will guarantee him monument
that will make the Now Courthouse look like
chicken-coop.
t'Why do men always drink when they meet4"
asks an exchange If 1t isn't because the meat
is SO tough that they can't get 1t dorm without
drink, we give it up.
The thousands OF patrons of the Chicago
Public Produce Exchange, Nos. 139 to 141 Madi-
son street, will be interested in the addition of
o new department for trading in all the stocks
dealt in by the New York Stock Exchange. The
Public Produce Exchange is the pioneer institu
tion Of the kind in Chicago. It's firm financial
standing and strictly honorable dealings ap-
pcaled to the public confidence from the start,
and although its wonderful success has en-
couraged a number OF imttators, yet the con-
stantly yincrcasing patronage is the best proof Of
the perfectly satisfactory character Of its deal
ings. Ia the new department, which will De
opened Monday, the same facilities fer trading
in stocks will be offered that have made the
trading in produce and provisions so popular
Official quotations Of stocks will be received
and postc0 constantly, aud the same security and
satisfaction will be guaranteed as in the other
departments Of the Exchange.
They say that hard winter brings big crop
of Watermelons. That would be all we'll enough,
only that people frozen to death cannot enjoy
that luxury.
There is an irrepressible conflict roing on in
the l.orse-cars between the hater Of cold
draughts and the contemuer Of camp-mecting
smell.
The subject of adu1teratlon in baking-powder
is attracting large share Of the public atten-
tion Just now, and some twenty OF the leading
brands are condemned By Eastern chemists as
containing alum in injurious quantities. In this
connection it was pleasure to note that Dr.
Prce's celebrated Cream Baking Powder is above
The fottf fh1t Tlr prica is hifnsa1f
practical chemist enables him to guard against
anything that is In the slightest degree injurf-
o11s, aud his Cream Baking-Powder is acknowl-
edged by nil chemists, as well az all housewives,
to be unquestlonably the best IN the market.
Il contains no q I'm.
In this country bog has too much to fight
against. First, it's his mothers shipper; next,
Fourth ofJuly; then green apples; and, finally,
Santa Claus, a rickety pair Of skates, and an
air-hole iii the ice.
ALI who hold firc-insusauce policies should
secure copy Of the Fire-Insurauce Chart for
1879, just issued BY the Unrest gator ut III La-
Sale street. It shows the actual condition Of
all the companies authorized to do business in
Illinois. The price is 25 cents per copy.
It is told as good thing that a North Side
lady being unable to speak aloud for short
time from a bad cold, her 4-ycar-old boy Was
wondcriogty led to ask OF q member Of the
household, ''Where's mothers holler gone tos''
Bo.ricke & :rafc1, Of New York and Phladel-
phia, WHO received the only prize medal a~ard-
ca at tne centennial Exposition lor eAcellencv
tt;s c;4r u a5 so,9th CIar,- 1,e,r 80 stran4 40
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testu1aa! D!, ~ uIrtuE s'd1.on ou tne "ese
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