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CINCINNArI.-Flour- Winter family, Sc 2o@
4o fancy, sc 59@7 90 patent s19s 25 spring 25@
-four, IS 25@5 35. Buckwheat -four is quoted at
Sc 2596 76 per barrel. GRAIE.-W Wheat-Ihe mill
ing and shipping demand is fair for choice lots, and
the market for these is steady under light offerings
Prime to choice white is scarce and held at 81 35@
49, No. red is quotable at 81 s5@1 36 and choice
will bring 81 So, but there is very little offered
prime red and white mixed at 81 351aa. No. amber
is held at 81 34@l s5, and prime sold by sample at
but II there is very little il any demand. Corn.-Ts
easier, with but moderate demand Twenty car
but it is difouit to get 44c sou bushels sold at 4sc
spot. Mixed ear IS held at H@42c:, with but .
light demand at 4lc, and two carloads sold at this
Fair to prime mixed are selling at 40@411ac. and re-
jected are quoted at 3se. Barley No; is quoted at
sz NJ st ss5@0e sns gssss sss
steam, 7.2Oc The Cotto. Exchange quotation, are
or 0oEs Sdns daSs kGSa isiI,s ise GOOD %
ding, l214e,; TmiddIing fair, i224e fair, 1870;
SC as 25 Go Common mn INTO to choics White wheat western
family, s6 25@7 Isl common to choice st. Lousextra
family St 1907 49, Minnesota patent process good to
gms and choice Il o. Nosh
unsraded winter red western, 81 s. 10.
8 winter reu w eSLeTH 4l 40; NO. q VIII
ter red Western, 81 54s491 561s; ungraded amber,
ST. 81; No amber, 81 54@1 5415; No.
amber 81 53@l 55. ungraded white 81 80; No. /
white 81 81 Rye, No. Western and State, 92c. Bar.
ley, common Western, &C. Corn, ungraded Western.
S5c.; No white. Western, ss74e Oats. 1895. G
Lard, prime steam, 1919. soc. Cotton-The market
is quiet; middling uplands, l2s4c middiing. Or
leans, 1314c. futures closed steady, with sales a
follows: Seller December, 2.6sc. January, 12s1c.
FEBRUARY, lS.oSc.: March. 13.36c.; April, 1850.
May, 1371c.; June, 13. sec. July 1860.
Observation-Disclosures -Minnesotaextra FAM
80. Ry: -four, s. 4og5 50 Grain-whesii
81 521aa; Ohio amber, 81 As. Corn, steamer West
ern, elevator, size; Western mixed, elevator,
1910; yellow Western, on track, e0c. Oats.
musty and stained Western, 46c.; whito West
ern, 5od55lc. Lard Western tierce. S4@SZc.
LOUISVlLLE.-F Flour-Extra 81 ex ira family, IS
A No. I. s.; fancy, 81 20; patent $6 5o@7 so,
81 2s. Corn. white and yellow, 47c.; mixed. 4sc.
Oats, white, 41c.; mixed, 40c. Rye, new, Sic.
Hay, common to choice, S15@17 per ton. Pork, ID
quiet at $13 So Lard. choice leaf in tierce S150
&c. choice in kegs, 9Ac. Cotton, 12@92hc.
ter, new. 81 34@1 35. Corn. new Western mixed.
4o14a12c Oats, No. 2 white Western, 3s6e4oc
Bulk Meats-Green shoulders, 4s1@45sc.; clear riI
sides SIC. Lard, prime steam, current make, TIC
Sweet picked hams, &c. per Id.
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STOCK MARKETS.

CTNCINNATI.-Beef Cattle--Common, l.5o@2c.
fair to medium, 225@3c.; good to choice butcher
gradcs 3.25@4c.; fair to good shippers, 4(a4.s5c.
kir togood dairy cows, s@$xc.; fair to good heavy
oxen 25n3s SOC common 70 fair stockers. soc.,
s.65a4e.; fair to good light, 4@425c. fair t.
good packing grades, @4S5c, and selected butch
ers Qualities, 3.65@4c; Sheep-Common to fair
good stockers, 2@sc. per ID. gross. Lambs
Common to fair, 3lae41ac., and good TO choice, 4
g. &c per h. gross.
NEW YoRK.--Beef Csttle--Dressed beef ia
&C. Texas sides, 6lsa71Sc. Sheep and Lambs-Mar.
ket frmer at S1S6s6c per lb. for sheep and Sg
7c laulbs and fair to good lambs at 4So0l6c
per lb. Hogs-Prices nominally quoted at 81 5oa
bZ.
EAST LIBERTY, PA.-Beef Cnttle-Extra cattle
ut - SOFAS 25 per 100 lbs. Sales made of fair to good
cattle at &3 s094 65 common, 50 0O3 so per 100 lbs
uogs-Sales made OF Workers at 81 5oQd4 60 per l0t
lbs Philadelphia hogs, "a 1896. Sheep selling al
So COOS per 100 lbs.
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FISH and other dishes often come
upon the table very greasy. The way
to prevent this is 10 place brown or
white paper over them, letting it touch
the greasy surface. Paper absorbs fats.
You can get bottle or barrel of oil
off any carpet or wooden stuff, says an
exchange, by applying dry buckwheat
plentifully. Never put water to such a
grease spot, or liquid of any kind.
If you wish to clarity sugar and
water that you are about to boil, it is
| we'll to stir in the white of an egg while
cold; if put in after it boils the egg is
apt to get hardened before it can do any
good.
| AMMosIA, saleratus water and other
| alkaline washes are the usual remedies
| for bee sting. A fresh tomato leaf
| crushed and rubbed on the puncture
is commended as an easy and sovereign
cure.
ALWAYS get your material for break
fast ready over night; fix the fire al
ready to light, fill the tea-kettle, grind
coffee and prepare the potatoes, and
thus you can sleep half an hour longer
in the morning.
| FURNITURE coverings are of thick
cretonne; the colors are olive with vel
| low slate color and blue, tan with rose,
and bark blue with white. Only two
colors are shown in the new combina-
tions.
To make fruit custard pie, make a
custard with milk, sugar, eggs and nut
meg, as YOU would bake a custard pie,
only adding berries of any kind you
/ H.
or peaches sliced fine are good.
| LADIES who have difficulty in making
their hair remain crimped may find the
| following of use: Let five cents worth
of gum arabic be dissolved in very
little hot water and left to stand over
night in enough alcohol to make it thin
then bottle. The hair should be wet
with the mixture before being crimpea.
The Family Doctor says: "When
mu oh pressed with work, and feeling an
inability to sleep, eat two or three small
onions, the effect of which is magical in
producing the desired repose. Such a
remedy has a great advantage over the
stupefying drugs commonly resorted
to for this purpose, and is even prefer
abe to the liquor opii seda+, and chlor
odine, of medical practice"
Group, it is said, can be cured in one
minute, and the remedy is simply alum
and sugar. The way to accomplish the
deed is to take knife or crater, ano
shave off in small particles about tea
spoonful of alum; then mix it witt
twice its quantity of sugar, to make il
palatable, and administer it as quickly
as possible. Almost instantaneous relic
will follow.
Too much cannot be said on the sub
ject of supplying the table with greer
food in winter when the acid fruits O.
the warm season cannot be had. Spinach
and lettuce are always in market, ano
celery. that relish and excellent vege
table, should be used without stint. I
contains soporific Ingredients and is /,
capital nervine. Celery should Away
appear with cheese, crackers, and frui
for desert. 1t is the nibbing relish
acting as digester in the human stom
ach as gravel works with fowls.
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nAnx-s FIRST wonD.
ny PAUL n. HAYSE

We watched our baby day by day,
With earnest expectation,
To hear his infant lips unelose
In vague articulation
But weeks, nay, weary months, passed on;
His last wee tooth had broken
From rosy gums,-yet not 4 word,
Not ono, had baby spoken
90 Roli' cried, "it cannot be
A child 10 quick and clever,
Who hears ftis plain he hears our talk,
Should thus stay dumb forever."
Hol answered sharply, vered and red,
What wretched nonsense, JENNY
never could have dreamed, my dear,
You'd prste like such ninny?'
CYes, that's the term, must confess,
By which, with judgment narrow.
He dared for once,-just once, you know
To call his winsome marrow.")
But what cared 4? since, As live,
True NJ my name Is Jenny,
From out the cradle, clear and loud,
Came back the bad word Ninny"
Thence up rose baby. all aglee,
His peaceful slumbers routed,
And thrice that naughty. naughty word
He spoke. nay, almost shouted!
Rol, glancing In my startled eyes,
His mirth could scarcely smother.
But OH 10 think the rrgue's first word
should thus abuse his mother!
- Y0mfh's Com pan ion.
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The Old Mans Stock.

A tall old gentleman of large frame,
crowned with faxen hair, visits the
New York Tribune couDting-room now
and then, with Jersey mud upon his
boots, and asks if there is not enough
money on haud to allow him little as
a stakeholder. "When Horace Greedy
was alive" said he once, 4" used to get
enough from my dividends to support
me. am getting toosold now to woik,
and I reed the money. own one
share of the stock, which my son paid
$40 600 for He gave it to me to live off
of as long as lived" "Who was your
son?' "Theodore Tilton."
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The one vital element in friendshir IS
trust, and it is, in itself, demoralizifg 3
to put faith in what is unworthy.
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would not sit down again. He took my
hand to say goodnight; we were alone
Tor the moment. Annie had left the
room-probably the werds he had said
to her on their homward walk were go
tender and precious that she could not
take leave of him with even a sisters
eye upon the parting, 80 she waits for
him in the hall.
"To-morrow will be Christmas" be
said, still holding my hand. Will
your friends keep sou SO busy then that
/ dare not claim few moments of your
time? / have something to say. Will
you come to me in this room before
your guests have come tomorrow
l siad yes; when he summoned me ]
would come, and 1 controlled my voice
SO that am sure not a tremor betrayed
what it cost me to keep so calm, SO cold,
when | knew, oh, so we'll, what he
wanted. He will ask me for Annie
Does he think | am stone7 Will nc
thought of the past come to him when
he tells me, me, of his love fer another
Was it thoughtlessness or wantor
cruelty that prompted him to select the
time and place that witnessed his irsl
love story, to tell of his second. | am
no coward, but almost doubt if / have
the strength to carry me through such
an interview.
Annie sleeps, happy childl but y,
sleep would come if 1 sought it. Tt
drown the sad thoughts write, write
write, and the night wears on and bring.
the day nearer. / dread its coming
but as far as lieth in my power l will
make il a happy day for eyery one
can. The bitterness of my own hear
no one shall know or guess; but oh
what mockery it will be when the,
wish merry Christmas to me to me
to whom life looks so empty that env,
the quiet dead.
December 25.-For so many years
have written the thoughts of my hear
! in this journal that to neglect it seem
like sighting an old familiar friend
But | have left it undone to-day, not be
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these dreary years2 How could | do
him such injustice as 1 have? but never
again will I doubt him my trust shall
be as perfect as my love.
Our dinner was, merrymaking to
the aunts and uncles and the gay young
cousins, but to me, with my new-found
happiness hidden in my heart, it was
like dream. I heard, and yet did
not hear, the. gay conversation at the
table aud the compliments upon my
housewifely skill that were given so
freely as the viands were discussed
Roger had not been invited, as none
but relatives were coming to the family
dinner. But Annie had secured a
whispered conference with him as she
let him out, while was receiving the
| guests, and between them they con-
cocted a little plan which was a revel-
alton to the good. aunts, who, in their
minds, had long destined me for life
of single bless dness. / sat at ore end
of the table, Annie at the other. Rhoda
had brought in the. great Christmas
pudding and placed it in front of
Uncle John, to supplant the giant tur-
key his skill in carving had con-
guered, and, in the excitement of the
children at the lighting of the brandy,
with which it was saturated, Annie
skipped ubperceived from the table,
returning with Roger, whose unex.
pected knock at the door she was wait.
ing for, and ceremoniously installing
/ him in her seat, she crowded in with
the little cousins. .Hs
n There were no explanations needed
the look that Roger gave me, he all un.
abashed, though Iyzat FIRST, felt some
dismay, at such sudden publicity, told
all, even if Annie's mods and whisper.
had not crn nirmed it casr
: And now, my tried friend, good-by
, l have told you all my cares and
troubles my hopes and fears; but Renee
forth my conhdencts will all be tt
X ger, and Ishslis write no more upof
thesa p ggs But 1 will treasure you
5 sill, and If ever a shadow comes upor
my lie again, will read over the RECORD
of those wretchei days, and learn from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-07-09

EXCITEMENT IN THE WHEAT MARKET.-A te,e-
gram from New York, Julys, says:-The excite
ment in the grain market Increased TODAY. ana
wheat has further advanced I'm price from to 4
cents per bushel It is uncertain whether or
not the rise Is healthy one. 1t is what may be
termed "crop scare" and has risen from the
reports OF bad weather in Europe and In the
west. Should the reports be confirmed within
lew days It Is very probable that the present
and corn will be held flrmer. Some OF the specu.
iators have been bidding to-day cents higher
IMAM closing prices yesterday on the first fall,
Dut they weakened somewhat before the close
OF the call, and have since been selling. or
more definitely, unloading, at rates below the
extreme prices OF the day. This would indicate
that the rise does not appear to them to be a
sound one, and that q probable fall is expected
when more definite news Is received Al pres
ent the quiet and regular traders do not feel
very anxious at the rise, and look upon it as the
annual return OF the scare. O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-07-09

THE ARCTIC EXPLORING YACHT JEANNErrR
sa1led from San Francisco, yesterday AFTER
noon. Long before the hour fixed for her de-
parture the pier heads and ships along the
City front and the hilltOps were crowded with
spectators and the bay was lively with yachts
and steamers. Some delay occurred, and it was
not until 10. that the order to weigh anchor
was given. Conveyed by the steam-tug MIllen.
Gflfhtn and Rabbon, and the city flre-tug Gov
ernor Irwin, and attended by the entire yacht
squadron, all bearing full loads of spectators,
the Jeannette steamed slowly down the harbor
amid the dipping of flags, screaming of Steam
whistles and salutes of ten guns from Fort
Iolnt: The Jeanette is deeply laden with coal
ana stores, ana her progress was so slow that
II was not until half past six that she got out.
side the heads. Here she stopped few min
uteS while the wife OF Lieut. De Long was
transferred to the yacht Frolic. Steamers and
yacnts In abundance then passed under the
Stern OF the Jeannette. the crowds cheering
Lieut.. De Long and the expedition. The Jean.
nette's engines again started, and, In Company
WIN tne schooner Fannie A. hyde, which goes
70 behring's Sea as coal and provision tender
she steamed seaward