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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1880-03-12

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Sinsusilenbe ben Soc bon feineni
Reinistr befreiteu.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1880-03-12

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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1880-03-12

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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1880-03-12
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len. Nle 2eute hatten ihrer bisberiaen
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befanSen iid auf Der s ,hrt ned 2eab'
uile. Sol, um fd bort elm neues
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uno gutbebrunaen.
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iooialem Some Elm @eiprdh be9ann.
0atlrl,a batten iie ba6elbe &siisSsl;
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auaeiebeufen SauFeute, gan3e sSaa-
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ben in Santos @itp einsefauft. Sn-
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bit ct um 8orausbe,abIuna. DeI
ffeunbIide 9srr bot nur einen @bef
ouf $1,000; aber oiefen fnnn Der D8e'
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mIiIcn tie @nter surldbIeibsu. Oas
mare aber iGrs6li6; sur Bant 1T es 81
melt; ipas ia alio naturliMei, aIs odf
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porbanOsn. bas es i6r selinsen mirb
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unb linen ben 9iaub ober tuenisfteH
einen She'll bapon abSuiaaen.
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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1880-03-12

Sie 3iae SO. 5 un6 6 baIten on
alien Stationen on. SO. l, 2, 8 unb
4 MAIDEN SaIt nur on @bamo!s, Ser.
mann, @afbinston uub Yaciiic.
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6ra4t, iueIhe nod Often beifimmt
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Sradt. tueIhe nod bem g1eifen be.
iiimmt it. mus una Ais 2a9mittaos
am Bahnhofe fein.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1880-03-12

&a6o.m i'd, Sabre lang hereits in
SsutihIano an meinem Sopfweb ber'
umaeoottert batte uno fein arst mir
beIfen tounte, babe id ia Or. Nusuit
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web fublte, nnbm id ,iusi- bic oreimal
cine gsrinse Guantitdt bGuon. uno aner
Samer, peridwanb nod fur;er 3tit,
10 fh.eibt 9err 6. Guselfe aus
Wonroc, SSise.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1880-03-12
11eber Baltimore.

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Verrdnbte unb ;srsunhe ron Gurrpa fommen
difen nil, Iolte bic pra6tpolIrn neuen eiIernen
S&rauben.p pUffoampfi&iHe tes
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1880-03-12
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/ fses uns bereits iinfen Die Sbtilnebmer
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9rab. 60 III wobl betannt senua, ba6
pom Seiten Der @merifaner ber Gee
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nur cine bodit undergraduate SteIluns
oarin einuimmt. Tim nun ben eebi9s
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beieen Gciffn Der TerssiieIbeit 81
entreiben, erbietet iid Der nnterseiG
nste, ale iol9e Wittbeilungen ei8ener
GrlsbniiIe. sHrittifn6e unb Ooeumente
oarauf besusli9 81 fammeIn nno su
orbnen, spie Te ibm anoertraut tuerben
mogen, bamit fie fur cine einsebeube
9si@i9te Der &beilnabme ber Oeutf@en
an tieiem Stieee perwan6t ueroen
t0nnen. Sie mir 10 anuertrauten
Sariftfl6e uno Ootume nte uerben
anf's Sorafnmfte aufbsmabrt, n0tbi,
senfaGs eopirf uuo oaun suri6sefanot
merben; aud foaen bon 3eit 3u 3eit
Nittbeilunsen lber 3as sinaefanbts
Material in DER Yre6e ber0Tentli9t
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ct. 2ouis, i'm 6ebruar 1880.
6rieori4 6 hnate.
NoreiIe Sr. S6nnfe, SO. S34 SOutb
5ib Street, ct. 2ouis, Wo.
dmmtlide osutide 3eitungen bes
9anoss werhen UNI g9eitsrperbreitung
oicies @ufruis eebsten.
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
Women in the Treasury.

The first female clerks in the National Treasury were appointed in 1862 by Secretary Chase, who placed them in the office of the Controller of the Cur rency at $500 a year. They cut and trimmed the United States notes issued in sheets, and dld their work very we'll. As soon as they had been appointed there were many other applicants, and their number steadily increased, many of them securing places through the peculiar energy and perseverance which will refuse to take no for an answer. There are now more than 1900 women in the departments at Washington, the majority employed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and in the Gov ernment Printing Office. They excel as counters, their slender, sensitive fingers turning notes with great rapidi- ty and exactness. They detect counter feits, it is said, quicker than men, though they do not succeed so well with accounts, as the average feminine mind has little natural love of figures. Counters and copyists receive $9OO a year, other women 1,20O to $1, 400, several of them $1 ,6O0, and one in the internal revenue $1,8OO. Most of the clerks are we'll educated and refined, and many have seen more prosperous days. A number are widows and daugh- ters of army and naval officers who lost their lives in the civil war. Very few ot the young women or widows marry or resign, and consequently the hundreds who are constantly seeking places in Washington have very slender pros, poets of success. The most untiring, obstinate place-seekers at the Federal capital are women.
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
Another Mystery.

Colonel Stephenson, of the United States Geological Survey, has turned another page in the long sealed volume of American antiquities. A large village of cliff dwellers have been discovered between the Jemez Mountains and the Rio Granda River, in New Mexico. The cliffs rise to 8 height from fifty to five hundred feet. Some of them contain two, some three, and others as many as five lines of dwellings, rising line above line, and, back toward the mountain, tier above tier. The houses on topSof the cliff in the abandoned city are rectangular in form, but the caves are circular, being ten to fifteen feet in diameter, with arched roofs. Within the excavations are numerous small rooms. Before each line of dwellings there appears to have been pavements some times four or five feet in width, on the broadest of whicI Col. Stephenson found imprints of feet Many pictures and hieroglyphics adorr the face of the rock.
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
The Currency of Peru.

MT. Fralick, who has been spending three months in Lima on business, said :: ''The situation is novelty in many respects. There has been an issue of about $6O, ,O00, ,000 of paper currency greenbacks, for they look exactly like our old war currency-but in issuing it General Pierola, the Dictator, issued also an order that no one should charge more than the old silver price for any articles produced in the country and that all payments should be made in currency. You see the effect of this was peculiar. When I was in Lima before, some years ago; paid $5 day in silver for a suite of rooms. This time I have paid fifty cents day in the same com or $5 in currency. The fare from Callao to Lima was fifty cents in silver now it is fifty cents in currency or five cents in silver Cigars that I formerly paid ten cents for got for one cent. The currency is taken for duties. Beef sold before for forty cents kilogramme, or twenty cents pound; now it sells for two cents @ pound in silver. This pair of shoes cost me $50 in currency, but, you see, I got them for $3 of the money [ took down there. Pierola has issued another class of greenbacks, 8 sort of gold certificate, and he promises to have the coin ready to meet them. They command high price,"
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
A True Story.

A curious instance of good fortune occurred at Boston theatre. Three ladies accompanied by gentleman ar rived rather late. As they reached their seats after protracted struggle, one of the ladies discovered that a valuable diamond breastpin had disappeared. Her sorrow for the loss and her con- plaints to her companions effectively destroyed all the pleasure they had an- ticipated from the performance. They therefore left early and a boy at the door called carriage for them. The marvellous part of this perfectly true story is that the hack carriage brought to the door of the theatre by the boy was the identical one in which they had come, and had been accidentally called from the crowd of vehicles in waiting. On the seat of the carriage was the lost breastpin, and happiness was once more restored to one female bosom.
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
A Market for his Daughters.

The richest "Mexican in all Mexico" for that is the way he is announced to the hungry dowagers of London-has arrived there. His name is Tchibique, and he is native of Baguerres de Bigorre. He began life as cabin boy and made colossal fortune by the dis covery of diamond mine. Having re- alized his property, he goes to Europe to dispose of his daughters and realize their, chances of happiness in married life. There are several of these young ladies, more or less attractive. The London bachelors are to have the first chance, as the worthy paterfamilias means to spend the season there and will not visit Paris, where multitude of fortune-hunters with longing eyes and outstretched arms await him, until the spring. Meanwhile the London matchmaking dowagers are planning all | kinds of entertainments for the capture of the heiresses. After London and Paris, if any of the girls are left, New York will be visited.
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
A Lady Who Threw Up a Live Fish.

The Rochester Herald relates this yarn MT. Swan reports that on Mon day last, by administering emetics, he caused 8 patient, @ lady from West Henrietta, to eject from her stomach live fish three and half inches in length. The doctor exhibits a glass jar, which certainly contains fish of that length, and somewhat resembling small bass. He says the fish lived half an hour after it was put into the water. In explana- tion of the presence of the fish in so strange habitat, the doctor says that the lady, in company with party, in- cluding persons from Rochester, spent 8 day at Portage one year ago last sum- mer. While there they drank water at brook. The doctor supposes she swal- lowed a minute minnow at the time. About six weeks afterwards, the doctor says, her stomach began to annoy her, and the trouble steadily increased. Three weeks ago she consulted Dr. Swan, and, so seems his statement, he finally contrived to relieve her. The doctor says the lady, Mrs. O., of West Henrietta-he will give her full address to any one who desires to write to her objects to the publication of her name but is ready to answer letters relative tt this extraordinary phenomenon. Th' doctor was asked to- explain why thu gastric juice had not acted on the fish but answered that he could not accoun for the wonder.
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
Something for the New Year

, The world renowned success of Hostetter's Bitters, and their continued popularity for & quarter of century as a stomachic, is scarcely more wonderful than the welcome that greetss the annual appearance of Hostetters Almanac. This valuable medical treatise is published by Hostetter $ Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa, under their own immediate supervision, employing eighty hands in that department. Ten cylinder print ing presses eight folding machines, five job presses, etc., are running about eleven months in the year on this work, and the issue of same for 1881 will not be less than eleven millions, printed in the English, German, French, Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish, Holland, Bohemian and Spanish languages Refer to copy of it for valuable and interesting reading concerning health, and numerous testimonials as to the efficacy of Hosietter's Bitters, amusement, va ried information, astronomical calculations and chronological items, etc., which can be depended on for correctness The Almanac for 1881 can be obtained free of cost, from druggists and general dealers in all parts of the country.
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
Sand and Water SpOuts.

Sand and water spouts are formed when the air rises upward and assumes rotative movement. It then draws up- ward the bodies or liquids over which it rises, and moves forward, retaining it's longitudinal axis. In many cases these spouts occur during thunder or showers, then clouds and rain descend to unite with the upward moving spouts. The mariner can in most cases avoid the water spouts, but the sand spout destroys everything in its path, uproot- ing the largest trees, demolishing strong buildings, carrying the debris upward and distributing it over large areas. As these spouts always appear simultane- ously with thunder-storms, they have been attributed to the action of elec- tricity. But as whirlwinds are often produced, for instance above fires or on small scale at almost every corner on windy day, without the cooperation of electricity, it will be safe to say that electricity is generated by the action of the whirlinq and rising air.
 Dr. Theodore Reye has shown, by careful calculations, that an unstable equilibrium necessary to the formation of spouts or whirlwinds exist only when the decrease in temperature is 3. Az deg. c. (6.16 deg. F. for every 325 feet of vertical distance. In this case the as- cending column of air being considers ply lighter than the air into which it passes, the air ascends with great rapid ity.
 If the ascending air passes into layer of air that is so cold as to condense ita moisture, the heat will be liberated, and that will expand the ascending air. The unstable equilibrium also causes the upper layers of air to sink into the lower layers in this case descending spouts are produced.
 Generally the air that enters into the column of rarefed air from the side pro- duces the rotative movement. The con- densation of the vapors produces rain, and sudden contact with cold air may produce snow or hail, all accompanying the spouts.
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
Cruelty.

Mark Twain having been asked to contribute to the newspapers issued at the fair in aid of abused children in Boston, wrote: "Why should I want Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to prosper, when have a baby down stairs that kept me awake several hours last night with no pretext for it but desire to make trouble This occurs every night, and it embit- ters me, because I see now how needless it was to put in the other burglar alarm, costly and complicated contrivance, which cannot be depended upon, be- cause it's always getting out of order and won't sgo;' whereas, althougt the baby is always getting out of order too, it can nevertheless be depended on for the reason that the more it gets ou of order the more it does go. Yes, am bitter against your society, for think the idea of it all wrong; but i you will start Society for the Proven tion of Cruelty to Fathers I will write you whole book"
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.

NEW YORK MARKET.
 The wholesale New York market quotations show:
 $1.S0@$1 .85 per bushel.
 BUTTER.-New York sold at 31c. @32c. for choice in pails. and 25c. (d29c. common to good; Western sold at 26c. @27c., and the common Western at 18c. @2Oc.
 CHEEsE.-Factory fancy, 13c; do. fair to good, ,1O15c. GO11Ic.
 Eaas.-Quotations ranged from 29c. for ordinary to 34c. for New York, New Jersey
 F1oUR.2superflne $9.4O@$4.OO; Western. $4. 50 0$5 co; extra New York, $4.50D$6. 50
 HAY.-Shipping, $1.00; clover, 95@1 % |; salt, 65c.; straw, 75c. (01 10c.
 HoPs.-New Yolk ,18c; @25c:; Eastern, loc @22c.; yearlings, 16c @23c.; olds, 4c. @12c.
 PETROLEUM. = Refined, &c.,; crude, 6s4c @7JSc in bulk; in barrels, 6M@7c.; naphtha, 10slc. in shipping order, and 12@131ac. in cases PoRK.-New mess, $14,25@$1b.0o; dressed hogs, 5s4c. @6c. WHEAT.-spring No. 8, $1.15@$1,16: Mil waukee No. 3, $f.100s1.12; amber, $1.17@ $1 90; white, $1.1s@s1. .1816. RYE.-State, $1.00@$1.02. WooL.-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia xxx, 46c. @48c.; xxx, 44c. @46c.; X, 44c. @45c. No. 1, 47c. 6D49c.; No. 3, 42c. @44c.; common 9Sc. .04Oc,; New York and Western xx and X l 39c, ,042c.; No. 1, 45c. 047c. PHILADELPHIA MARKET. FLoUR-State family, $5.20@$5.50; rye  ! s1.1S; corn, yellow, 63c.; mixed, State, 58c. O-c.
 PETROLEUM Refined. 12c; crude, 6Hc. WooL.-State and Western XIX, 4711c. @50c. x.47c @4Sc.; medium, Soc. .@5lc.; coarse, 45c. 1 @-c.
 BOSTON MARKET. l FLouR.-From $4 O0@$425 for low and mediums, to $5.O0@$6.5O for choice Minne- sota. Corn, 64c. @671Sc. for mixed and yellow. BUTTER.-Con.mon, 18c. @22c.; Vermont dairy 26c @3Oc. choice creamery, soc. @35c. | CHEEsE.-8c 6D1314c l BEANs-$1. .55@$2. %.
 HAY.-Choice, $25@$25. CATTLE MARKETS.
 BUFFALo.-Cattle good quality, $5.25@ $5.75; hogs, fair to- good, $4,459465; best $4.95
 EAST LIBERTY, PENN.-Best cattle, $5.5o medium to good, $4.75@5.00 common tc fair. $35O@375. Hogs. Workers, $4.5O@ $460; Philadelpnias, $4,sO@5'o5. Sheep $95o@$495. z
 WATrRTowN, MAss.--Cattle, choice, E.50@ s8 O0; extra, $6 75@$725 first quality $6 OO0$660; second quality, $5.00@$5.50 third quality, $4 0O@$4.50. Sheep and lamb
 wool sheep, $2. 50@$5.00; extra, $5.50@ | $6.50; spring lambs. 4c.@bSzc. Veal calves 9c. @6c.
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
A Female Pagan.

A little girl twelve years of age was arrested for stealing doormat in Newark, N. J. She told an officer that she and another girl lived with a woman named Rink who had taken them out of an orphan asylum. The Rink woman has taught them to steal. She would take the children out for walk and point at the articles that they must bring to her. If they did not do it she punished them severely. Mrs. Rink was subsequently, taken into custody, and i'll her house was discovered large number of stolen articles, including doormats, towels, tablecloths, ladies' hats, napkins, etc. The girls were held as witnesses against her.
Connecticut western news., 1880-12-22
Aunt SallY,s Talks.

"I'm almost tuckered out! Whats the matter? Matter huff. I've been over to Henry's, taking care of his sick wife. Guess if they hadn't been able to get me, old as I am, they'd had bounc- ing big doctors bill to pay. What ails her? We'll, call it internal nonsense. Maybe you never heard of the disease, and I'll explain. Just wait min it.
 The old lady took liberal pinch o1 snuff, dusted off her nose on her check apron, and said:
 "We tried to bring that boy up sensi. ble, but when he was away to college he got struck on this gal, and we never knowed hewas married until he brought her home. Lands but you could have knocked me down with a>feather When they driv up thought Henry had brung home big WAX doll for Emma's little gal. When he said to me, Mother, this is my wife, Mollie,' I should have swooned away, only I thought my emptinqs might run over before they could bring me to. There she was, a green young thing, hardly taller than a bootjack, face painted, false hair, laced to kill, eyebrows blackened, and proud as Lucifer of her small feet. I was rollin' out pie-crust, and the thing took me so sudden and frustrated me so much that put a pie to bake with nothing but my spectacles between the crusts."
 She held the spectacles up to the light, polished up the brass bows bit on her knee, and went on:
 "We had to put up with it, but I told Henry how it would be, and believe he has repented in sackcloth and ashes morn dozen times. She was fash ionable doll. She couldn't sew, sweep, bake, dust, darn or make her own bed. She'd lace till her ribs were all out of shape. She'd been so fashionable about her stockings and shoes and clothes that she had chronic sore throat, and one lung was half gone with consumption. She'd painted till her face was blotchy. She'd drawled around until she had a gait between limp and a crawl. That the kind of wife he brought home to be his consolation and help-meet. His father could do the work of two men, and
 could get mp dinner for twenty har- vest hands and keep the leach running, and he expected us to be father and mother to that doll p
 She shut her lips, trotted her foot, and it wss long time before she could go on:
 "They live across the road there. She hain't seen 8 dozen well days since he brought her home, nor done an hours 1 work. I've been over soaking her feet, making her herb tea, combin' her hair, fixin' her gruel, and tellin' her slovenly l hired girl what's what, but I'm dis couraged. She may live few months, but she's certain to die within year, and don't know but she'll be better off. l tell ye, Uncle Richard, a wife who is good for nothin' but to fill corset an show off fine duds can't gitto heaven any too soon. That's where she belongs. There are no husbands up there. Babies in heaven never squall. They don't have to be washed and dressed. There is no cookin' or washin' or bakin' or cleanin' house. Angels don't have to plan or patch or darn."