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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1880-07-04

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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
"NObOdy VIII Ever Sec it."

A short time ago we called upon q
certain party in business in Vallejo, and
asked him why he did not advertise in
the Chronicle.
ooh, because" he answered, "what's
the use? Nobody will ever see it."
you're mistaken" said we; "every
page in our paper is read"
"Nonsensel" he replied; even if they
did read my ad., people would never
think of it again. l don't want to ad-
vertise."
"But-"
"No butts at all. don't want to al
vertise, and don't bother me any more;
I'm busy"
And he walked back into his store and
strangled poor little fly that was help
ing itself from a barrel Of sugar.
Time passed and we never again init
mated advertisement" to him, al
though meeting him daily. Yesterday
the gentleman called at our sanctum,
looking little uncertain as to how he
would be received. We cherished no
hard feelings, and motioned him to a
chair.
81 suppose you heard of that little
affair of mime below"
"Oh, yes," said we, "that little esca
pade on Kearney street night before
last? Yes, we've got all the particu-
lars"
"Hushl Not so loud, please" said he,
'Ot course you are going to say nothing
in the paper about it?"
"And why not7 It's matter of inter
est to your friends and the people gen.
erally."
"Heavensl Why it would ruin mel''
"Oh, no, guess not. Nobody will
ever see it."
eyes they will And it will ruin me
as sure as I'm sitting here. I'll be the
laughing stock of the town. They will
see it'll"
We rose and touched him impressively
on the shoulder.
"Well, we will admit that the people
will see it; but then you know, they
will never think OF it againp'
His words came back to him like q
flash, and he trembled 80 violently that
his eyebalIs fairly iipgled; and he was
such an object of commiseration that we
promised to keep mum. This little moral
is drawn from the above, which is appli.
cable the world over. Ask man to I'D
vertise, and he will Immediately say, in
the majority of cases, that Nobody will
ever see it" but advertise gratis some
little indiscretion he may commit. and
he Immediately grows indignant ever
the certainty that the whole world will
know it.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
Profits OF Cotton Culture.

A South Carolina correspondent Of
the New York Bllletin, a planter him.
self, has been inquiring amongst his
neighbors in regard to their acreage in
cotton for this year as compared with
1879. he says that he finds that they
are planting nearly 80 per cent. more
In 1880 than was grown last year, and
adds that "from the best information
obtained / am disposed TO place the in
crease in South Carolina of not less than
% per mt. over that of 1878, and the
increase is more likely TO exceed this
percentage than fall below it," The
same causes which operate in South
Carolina are at work all over the south
to foster the increase in the surface
planted in cotton, and this increase is in
addition to the taking up of new lands
and the natural extension of cultivation
in the southwest Thus it is fair TO infer
that the cotton crop for 1880 will be very
large. The secret OF this renewed stim.
ulus to the growth of the great staple is
that cotton cultivation is more profitable
than ever, even at present prices. 1t is
the only cash product of the country,
and practically all the crop made is sold.
1t costs to raise, gin, bale and deliver
the crop at the railroad about Sl1 per
acre, and the average yield OF the South
is 19l pounds per acre, that is to say,
the cost OF raising cotton is 81 cents per
pound. The planters have received an
average of about IL cents per pound
for it delivered at the railroads, thus
making profit of about 81 cents per
pound on at least s, 1000, 900 bales of 45O
pounds each-2, $50, CCO,OOO pounds-or
1924, 0O0, 900 clear profit. This is a very
good business, and it suffices to explain
the constant and rapid recuperation of
the South under its influence and opera
ton. Yet the exhibit seems rather
rosy.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03

A curious story is told of a John
street old gold man. A gentlem anly
individual once called on him to sell a
pair of pearl earrings in very heavy
old-fashioned gold setting. "The
pearls are bogus he said. my wife
got them once when she had to raise
money on the real ones" The dealer,
on this, simply stripped the setting of
and paid few dollars for it by weight.
AS the imitation pearls were a very
handsome pair, however, he tossed
them into his odds and ends box, on
the chance of collectors giving dol
lar or two for them. The latter, as
soon as he saw them, asked:
"Why, where did you get these
pearls ?"
"Out Of a setting, OF course. They're
real beauties, amt they"
"They are, just. I'll give you three
hundred for them"
The dealer, who regarded the offer as
a joke of course, replied laughingly that
he would not take twice as much.
The collector then increased his ofel
one hundred dollars, and as the matter
began to look serious, the old gold man
sent across the way for a friend, an ex-
pert in gems. The latter found pur'
chaser for a pair of fine real pearls al
81 900.
And neither the gentleman who had
swindled himself nor the wife whom hC
thought had swindled him ever turned
up to demand restitution. n.-New YOrk
NetUS.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
Assisting the Deaf.
rOsy,

DR.. G. Il. Thomas, of Philad elphia
has been making study of the various
new devices for helping the deaf to hear.
All of them, he says, depend for their
action upon the principle of acoustics
that solids vibrate in unison with the
sound waves produced in the air near
them. In these instruments the vibra.
tions are OF sufficient forc9 to be au.
dible when conveyed to the internal ear
through the medium of the teeth and
cranial bones, Independently of the Or
dinary chan mel of hearing. He says that
a simple and excdllent instrument for
the purpose Consists simply Of rod of
hard wood about two feet long and a
quarter OF an inch thick, one end of
which is placed against the teeth Of the
speaker, the other res ting against or
between the teeth of the person hard OF
hearing If the speaker articulates in q
natural tone of voice, the vocal vibra.
tions will be transmitted in great volume
through the teeth and thence to the ear,
of the deaf person. 1t will also convey
the voice distinctly when placed against
the forehead or other portions of the
skull of the hearer. 1t will also convey
perfectly audible speech from the skull
of one to that of the other, or such
sounds may be conveyed by simply
bringing the heads themselves in con.
tact. Again, instead of the speaker
holding it against his teeth, he may
place it against the upper part of his
chest, when, upon using his voice, the
sound will be conveyed as before, of
course independently of the teeth Of
either person
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
Selling Girl.

Grandfather Ackley, Of the village
OF Watkins, n. T., bad rather a novel
experience recently while "crying off, a
venue in the town OF Hector, near Reyn-
oldsville. After disposipg OF the articles
on the sale list there was q lull in bust
ness, and the crowd was getting impa.
tient for "G-audiather" to "come
down." or rather announce the close OF
the sale, when a pretty, plump, rosy
girl asked him TO offer her to the highest
bidder. "Graldiather," being Of a
modest, retiring disposition, seemed re-
luctant, but the girl insisted, 80 he pro
ceeded to "cry" her of. The first bid
was offered by timid young man, with
apianissimo voice, who weakly offered
S75. A baldheaded man "went him
fifty better, and the bidding went along
lively until S2 ono was offered. At this
juncture the girls father "Went thou.
sand better" and Grandfather" closed
the Lid to that gentleman. Grand
father" looked the crowd Of young men
over, and, raising him Ell M in digni.
fiel way, proce,d ded to address them il
the following manner: C ntiemen, ]
an surprised, lay, more, deeply morti.
fed, to think that you should let such a
prize slip through yonr hands for such
paltry sum. Why, do you know that
this young lady would, if married, get
up in the morning snl make fire with
ont jarring the floor enough TO wake her
lord and master up; and, furthermore, if
l was as young as some of you, 1 would
swim the whole length Of Seneca Lake,
climb aliberty-pole, throw the pole away
and climb up fifty feet farther rather
than lose the opportunity you fellows
have" 1t is needless to say the assem-
blage roared with laughter.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03

In the recent election in England
some ladies took part in the canvass. Al
Hereford, Lady Elizabeth Biddulph ad-
dressed an immense audience as follows:
Gentlemen, these are election times,
aud uncommon times, and we are at
present allowed to do things we don't do
at other times; so l will make that my
excuse for addr essing you, and will make
you lit 10 speech. Mr.. Biddulph can,
not be here to-day, but I am here as his
wife and representative, and / ask you
to put him at the head of the poll, and
make him happy man and me happy
woman. He has your interest at heart,
and nobody loves tho country more than
Mr.. Biddulpb, l declare to you" Her
ladyship sat down amid vociferous cheer
ing.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
CLEVELAND, TENN, JUNE 3, 1880.

care how it is dressed. "There is much
music, excellent voice, in this little or.
gan" says Hamlet; and all the more,
then, it needs to be kept in tune; and
the husband who wants the old beauty
of her girlhood, or the beauty of the
sweet and contented spirit, must take
some heed to retaining the one and ere.
ating the other; and he will see the
result Of such conduct on his part by
observing the face of any thoroughly
happy and not overtasked wife.
To be sure, no woman who has any
respect either for herself or her marriage
VOWS will, by reason Of everlasting or
of neglect. pretermit any duty devolving
on her. The one, she knows, owing to
various household exigenoies, may, after
all, be unavoidable; the other may be
fancied, and the consequence OF preoc.
cupation; but whether they are so or
not, they would not excuse her for fail
ure in fulfilling her part of the obliga-
tion, either to her own conscience or to
the eye of the world. But the woman
who is wise in her day and generation
will, irrespective Of 0ny encouragement,
do the best she can to maintain and pre-
serve the charms that once pleased, and
will not the less smooth the hair and
brighten the teeth, and add grace and
variety to the toilette, because the one
who doubtless loves them yet does not
every day think to praise them, or make
old raptures new again concerning
them.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
Castles I'm lhe Air.

am fair with the flush OF girlhood
My heart ia as light as air,
hy future is brilliant With promise
Oh days which will hold no care.
am clothsl In silks and satins,
The belle OF the ballroom
While enyious eyes are watching
As haughtily pass by.
am travelling in fAr-off countries,
Idling meath ItAly's skies,
Enchanted with scenes that delight me
Where'er may turn my eyes.
have suitors-yes, by the dozen
Kneeling so low at my feet,
While pride in my heart runs riot,
And the sense Of triumph lie sweet.
am queen in lordly castle,
With servants at my command,
And ease and comfort and pleasure
Close within reach OF my hand.
-Lo! the hro is burned to embers,
The room is chilly and dark,
Theresa well known step at the doorway,
For John is coming; and, harkl
The coo OF my own dear baby,
Lying awake in her nest.
And we welcome papa together,
and the child on my breast;
For though my castles have fallen,
And grandeur has vanished away,
No queen could be prouder or richer
Than ! with my dear ones to-day.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
Position Of Women in China.

Moung Edwin, Burmese, who has
been educated in this country with the
view of sending him as a Baptist mis-
sionary to Burmah, lectured lately in
Baltimore, Speaking of the deplorable
condition of woman in the East owing
mainly to peculiar religious teachings,
he says "Girls in China are believed
to have no souls, and to kill them is not
murder, and therefore not to be pun
ished. Where parents are too poor to
support the girl children, they are
disposed of in the following way At
regular intervals an appointed officer
goes through village and collects from
poor parents all the girl children they
cannot care for, when they are about
eight days old. He has two large
baskets attached to the ends of bam-
boo pole and slung over his shoulder.
Six infants are placed in each basket,
and he carries them to some neighbor-
ing village and expsoes them for sAle.-
Mothers who desire to raise wives for
their sons buy such as they may select.
The others are taken to the Government
asylum. of which there are many all
through the country. If there is room
there they are taken in, if not they are
drowned.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
Advice fO Girls,

The lady who fills the chair Of Pro.
fessor OF d omestic Science in the Illinois
Industrial University has been giving
sensible "Advice to Girls" in a lecture
at st, Louis. She called women the
worlds home-mskers, insisted that
reform in women's education was the
urgent need Of the times, and empha-
sized the fact that int lligent cooks,
educated housekeepers and enlightened
mothers were beginning to be appreci-
ated. Women were not instinctively
good housekeepers any more than men
were good mechanics or good farmers.
1t was an error to suppose that in mat
ters pertaining to the home instruction
was not needed. It was said that COM
mon sense alone was necessary, but
common sense and proper sense differed.
Despite their general unpreparedness
SO out of 100 hundred girls would still
persist in getting married. This last
assertion, which would be true il there
we're men enough, possibly supplies the
key to q remedy. Let it be enacted
that no girl shall get married until she
can pass an examination in domestic
science,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
Blnfr Ben Wade was alvavs rarticu.

BluA Ben Wade was always particu-
lar about money matters. he could not
bear 10 owe any man cent, and to fe ell
that he was pecunisrily under the
slightest obligation to sny one annoyed
him excessively. His wife had small
income, but old Ben would never touch
a penny OF it. Once he said to his son,
"What your wife has is her own, and
what you have is your wife's." This was
Wade's chivalrous idea OF the treatment
OF wife, and right royalty did he prac .
nice it in his own household.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03

But three months have scarcely elapsed
and yet a Philadelphia girl is already
disgusted with leap year. The other
evening as she began. "Will you"- her
young man, without waiting TO ascertain
whether or not she was going to propose,
sprang from the sofa, rushed of, and
has carefully avoided the house ever
since. And yet, aware that she pos
sessed very large mouth, she was
merely about to ask, "Will you please
shut your eyes while gapeH"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
Doctor on Girls, Dresses.


The great surgeon Cline, when once
con suited by an anxious mother as to
what she should do to prevent q girl
from becoming deformed, answered :
"Let her have no stays and let her run
about like the boys" He would in
dorse this wise rule and would add, "Let
the mothers Of England clothe the girls
precisely as they would the boys, per-
mitting Kuickerbockers il they like,
and let them add the one distinguishing
mark Of light, loose flowing gown, and
the girls will grow into women as Wig
orous, as healthy and as well.formed in
body as their companions of the sterner
SEX" The necessity of especial care in
adapting clothing to season was illus.
trated from the physiological rule frst
discovered by the late Mr., Miner, that
the body, independently of any will Of
its own, underwent two pounds of waste
and OF increase Of weight, the waste
commencing toward the close of Sep
tember, and the increase in the first
weeks of April. Warm clothing ought
to begin in September or early in Octo-
Der, and ought not to be left off until
the close of April. For underclothing
next the skin he strongly recommended
silk, and with that light, fleecy flannel.
Thick, heavy flannel, and every ma
terial that absorbed and held the watery
excretions from the skin, were at all
times bad. Heavy clothes were bad,
and really no necessary connection with
warmth.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
EngIand's New Premier,

The accession of Gladstone to the
premiership of England is a remarkable
exhibition of the victorious force of
personal character. 1t was the fashion
in society to pooh.pooh Gladstone and
to refer to him as a weight upon the
Liberal party. The elections demon
strated that he was the real leader OF
the Liberal party, and that without him
it had not strength to carry on the gov
ernment of the country, Much against
her will, the Queen was forced to send
for him, and, in the seventy first year
of his age, he assumes the weighty bur
dens of two great off ,eI--Fjrst Lord OF
the Treasury and Chancellor OF the
Ezchequer. Instead of the trAing, in.
sincere and short.sightei policy Of
Beaconsfeld, he will give England an
administration whose moral esrnestness
will make it vast and beneficial force
in European politics.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03

The Danbury News says that village
has several old ladies who are ninety
years Of age and older who do not use
glasses. They will do to Offset the old
gentlemen who use about six glasses per
day.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Regular rates oi fd7oriiang, 81 per fqufre
irst insOrtioa, O O. erati each Iabsoquent
insertion.
Special col.'a-.s Vi 3 ir made Tor az adSN-
tisemtnif fyr f1.i nf,si. ne or over.
Transient adS,TtifomeEts always payable
quarterly IN ldun,e
ManisEes a. Oh uny notioes, over oSo
square, ehV sci FOR at half regulLT rates
All Local news 10 ctnts line Tor S-ch In
'srtion.
No notices inserted ior !e.E than h;iyrelts.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-03

II looks bad to see a scissors grinder
busily engaged in front Of a newspaper
Office two days in a week.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-27
PERSONAL MENTION,

Mrs. VIM. Shepard still lies seriously
i'll.
Miss Sue Crump of GAINESVILLE, has
been visiting in our city.
w. 7 Mills left for New York City,
on Il business trip, on last evening.
p. X. Wiser, who went with the
Knights to Chicago, has gone to.Ohio to
visit friends.
Geo. +. Brett is now in Chicago pur-
chasing splendid line of goods for that
elegant new store.
J. II. Davis and wife are on u trip
overland to james river, Dakota. They
will camp out on the trip.
Ed. Carney has returned from n so.
iourn of two months in Winncpcg. IIc
pronounccs it n great country for wheat
Judge l.. Branson, our former fellow
citizen, is now practicing law in Lead,
vile. His family however arc still in
Nevada.
J. II. Williams has returned from an
extensive trip in Colorado and New
Mexico. He was greatly impressed with
the great mining interests of that region
Thos. +. Pugl, from Fargo, is visit
ing his friends in this county. lie is in
good health. lie reports the Red Riv-
or Valley ut 20 bushels of wheat to tho
acre.
WIN. G. Durkcc, Esq, and wife, have
gone to indianapolis, with their only
son, TO consult surgeons there in regar'
to spinal difficulty with which the lat
ter is afflicted.
Prof. Gcdge, formerly principal of GU
high school, but now II teacher in ~
Episcopal institute in Nebraska, undo
the management of Rev. Mr.. Dickey, i
visiting his many friends in Mankato.
o. Brown, Esq, our worthy post mas
ter, took II trip TO Flandreau, on Satur
day last, To visit his son &. G. He Ia,
n delightful visit. 1t is very seldom
that our post master leaves the duties q
his Office for IN excursion of any kind.
| Mrs. Rogers, wife of County Superin
tcndent, is now in Ohio, where she wen
to he present at the funeral of her broth
or who died at Colorado Springs, Cole
RADIO. His remains were taken to hi
fathers home in Ohio. He was ayoun
man, and graduated at Hiram Colleg
the 10th of last June. He immediatel
left for Colorado Springs, where he CT
gagged in business, was taken sick an
| Iinl
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-27
NPW BridDes ana Cuirerfs

The county board advertise for pro,
posals for the following work, to be re
ccivcd until noon on the eth day oi
September:
list. For building two stone piers for
the Jones ford bridge on the Blue Earth
to he finished 10y the 18th of November
?nd. For an archcd culvcrt over
Williams creek, at the northeast corner
of the town of Buttcrnut Valley, to be
finished May 10Th 1881.
3d. For grading roadway on both
sides of said culvcrt, to..bc finished July
list, 1881.
ith. For grading roadway at the
crossing Of the Big Cobb near Eschbachs
in the town of Danvilc, to he complct
ed July lst, 1881.
Bids are invited for each job separate
Iy, naming gross sum for furnishing
material and doing the work.
Payment for each job will he made
when the work is furnished to the salts
faction of the board.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-27
Destructive Fire in st. Panl.
Averiii, Russell T. Carpenters Paper
House Destroyed p. ii. Kelly 4 Co.'s
Grocery House Burned-Loss, $G4O,-
900; Insurance, x4IO,5OO.

Averiii, Russell Il Carpenters Paper
House Destroyed y. II. Kelly 4 Co.'s
Grocery House Burned-Loss, $64O,-
900; Insurance, $4,000.
At two o'clock Monday morning fire
was discovered in the mansard roof
of the paper warehouse of Averill,
Russell & Carpenter, on lower Third
street. The flames gained ground
rapidly and the fire department was
slow and inefficient. The fire soon
spread to the roof of p. ii. Kelly &
Co.'S wholesale grocery store next to
the paper warehouse, and the three
buildings-the paper house occupying
two and the grocery One-was soon
wrapped in flames. The combustible
materials in the grocery burned swift
ly and the paper-stocked buildings
more slowly and surely. Before the
fire was checked Kelly's store was Il
shapeless heap of ruins and only the
walls of Averill, Russell Il Carpen-
ter's warehouse were left standing.
The fire burned with incredible swift
ness and iierceness, and there was
much danger in working near it. The
adjoining stOres-thOse of Beauper,
Allen Il KeOgh and the temporary
building of Auerbach, Finch, Culbert.
son 4 Co., who were burned out last
winter, were saved with great Difficult
ty. Beaupre, Allen & Keogh suffer.
ed q loss of $4,000, covered by in
surance. The buildings occupied by
Aveiill. Russell l. Carpenter were
owned by G. w. Sherwood and A. w,
Hall. They cost SAC. 900 and were in
sured for $4,000. Kelly's building
was owned by the late w. $. Wright
1t cost 800, 900 and was insured fol-
500 900. The loss of =. II. Kelly &
Co. is estimated at $3.50, 900. Insur
ed for about 100000. The loss OF
Averill, Russell & Carpenter is 1925,
600. Insured for $77, 500.