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Daily Republican., 1880-09-07

T A. GUNNER, NEW HARNESS STORE
ys at No. 2o6 East Fourth street. (betweep
French and Walnut, Wilmington, Del, dc
Slres TO call attention to the fact, and to a.
orally, that he will maintain the character for
first.class work, which he tiatters himself he
secured while engaged iu business a few
years since In this city. He will spare no OF.
tort to meet the market In price and quality,
Your patronage is respectfully solicited. He
also sells the best oil blacKing in the marke ct,
which is b. B. oil backing. 1t softens and
blackens, as we'll as preserves harness and
carriage tops. He guarantees 1t to DO entirely
free from coal oil. He also sells the best
Meats loot oil at rs cents per quart or 90 cent
per gallon and BY the barrel. Al 6mW
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wy ANTED.-OARPENTERs AT llTH
w and Walnut sts. TINDALL Il SON.
97t2t
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OCEAN CITY.
At the following low rates oftare:
ocean City, II co :

Returning, leave Ocean City at 500 y.
M, arrive at Wilmington at II.30 p m.
Tickets good to return by regular trains un
til Monday, September l3th, only when pre-.
sented to and stamped by the ticket agent at
Ocean Oity.
First.class cars run directly through to the
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A GENTS WANTED To lNIkOUUD DE
n the Worlds Encyclopedia Of Wonders
and Curiositles Of nature and art, science and
literature, by l. PLATTS, u. D., containing
full and authentic description OF the mosl
remarkable and astonishing Places, Beings
Animals, Customs, Experiments, Phenom
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In all parts Of the globe, comprising correct
accounts Of the most wonderful Freaks Of Ma,
ture and arts OF man.
"The work is IN one large octave volume
clear, the paper and printing tirst~class, and
Is illustrated with l40 engravings.
Not one canVasser In one hundred, who
wants good thing to sell, and knows one
when ne sees 1t, Will hesitate moment abou
taking hold Of this work, for it possesses ever
like success" Try it Try 1t!
ALLEN WlLLMARTH, Publishers.
3--6-wtf Bond Street New York
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MERCHAET TAILORING.
CLOTHES MADE TO ORDER

As Cheap ss any Establishment In WiImIns
ten or Philadelphia k-7-an
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r A. WILSON,
UNDERTAKEN AND EMBALMER,
NO. s18 KIIIf STREET.
Fine funeral turn'ture q speciality. Olen
all night. siT.lm
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IMPORTANT To ALL INTERESTED.
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From is years experience in hospital ant
special practice guarantees cure In all dis
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VOuS AND SEMINAL WEAKNESS
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS, IMPOTENCE
SYPHILIS, recently contracted, positively
cured In from to 10 days. Medicines sent t
any address. Gall or write enclosing stamI
ior reply.
DR.. RS special remedy for Ladie suffering
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RROR KRs.

HtLL0TT. JOHNSON l. 90.
BANKERS AND BRoKERs,
oORrER SIXTH AND MARKET srs
Wilmington Delaware.
DIRECT PRIVATE wIkE
From our otfice to tho New York and Phila
deiDhia Stock Exchanges. Qustations fur
nished simultaneously with saios beine
made at those exchanges.
Philadelphia, Now York and SAnFrancisct
stocks and bonds bought and sold and car
rfed on margin.
All Local Securities Vought and Sold
Dash RaAdy for GOOD First Mortxages
For SALR.-25 shs Del. Fire Ins. Co.
d X, ROBINSON h co.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS
N. L. COR. FOURTH AND MARKET
Wilmington, Del.
Us. FOURS FOR SALE
SILVER BOUGHT AND SOLD.
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Read, Think and Believe !
THE LITTLE GIANT
POCKE T sc A l. ES.
SOYlAethlnE for Everybody.

Something for Everybody.
A new invention Of rare merit, which must
not be classed with the cheap, miserable al
fat's that are now flooding the country. TIL
LITTLE GIANT POCKET SCALE Is a neat
and useful article, which in time will throw
all the cid iogy scales and balances into the
shade. They weigh accurately from one
ounce TO eight pounds. Carefully built an 4
constructed by skilliul w0rkmen, they will
give the best satisfaction wherever intro.
duced. For beauty and workmanship they
take the lead. Heaviny plated with nickel
silver, they cannot tarnfsh or rust. These
scales are SO small and portable that they can
10 easily carried In the vest pocket and occu.
py n mora space than small pocket-knife.
These Sclles are durable, strong and accur.
ate, and with ordinary usage will last lite.
time without getting out OF order. as they are
built upon an entirely new principle, VII 'ch
fecting. They are pronounced by Ned Bunt.
line, (E. Y. q. Juison,) and ether leading
Anne lean sptrtsL Len ie be superior TO any
scale heretofore ported from Europe, and
they should be seen t. be appreciated. Just
the thing for Sportsmen, Trappers, Hunters,
Agents, Travellers, and ia lily use in fact,
something for everybody" No dea ar in the
world can give you scale equal to the ILL +.
TIE GIANT" for tlYe times the price asked.
The pattern is neatly 9 instructed and finely
finished. Every scale we tend out is In per.
'ect order and are warran ed so or money re.
funded every time. 81 tistaction guaranteed
in every case. These Scales are nc 'sCatch.
penny affair but something both good and
useful to every person In the land.
AGENTS WANTED everywhere to sell
these Scales In all sections Of the country, as
you wi | mad them the fastest selling article
On record. "Big DiscountsN are offered To
agents, dealers and he t. uafe Cur motto Is
Live and Let Live" 80 1ick sales and
Sma Profits" circulars, Terms and full par
uculars cent free to any address. One sam
pi Q Scale, put up in neat case sent by mai
to any address on receipt of Toe. (3cent pos
tage stamps taken, or you can send One
Dollar Bill and We will send three scales.
Address all orders to
C. b. THOMPSON, sole Manurr,
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LOTTERIEs.

A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
WIN A FORTUNE. EIGHTH GRAND
DISTRIBUTION. GLASS AT NEW OK.
LEANS, TUESDAY, SEPTkMBER IA, 1850
l2ld MONTHLY DRAWING.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY co
TAKE NOTICE.-This is the only Lottery
ever voted on by the people Of state, and
under q late decision Of the U. y. Supreme
Court at washington, Is the only Legal Lot
terry now In the United States, all other
charters having been repealed or having no
existence.
This institution was regularly incorporated
by the Legislature of the State for Education.
al and Charitable purposes, In 1883, FOh
THE TERM or TWENTY FIVE YEARS,
| 10 which the inyiolable faith OF the state is
pledged, which pledge has been renewed by
an overwhelming popular vote, securing lts
| franchise In the new constitution adopted De-
cember and, A. D., 1879, with capital Of
81, ,OOO, 900, TO which 1t has since added re-
serve fund Of over $3.50, 900.
IT'S GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DlSTR1-
BUTTONS will take place monthly on the
ecend Tuesday. II neuer ScGies or posipo71es.
Look at the following Distribution
CAPITAL PRIZE $4,000.
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Country Social Life.

Country folks are in general SO fully
occupied with affairs that they have no
time to discover how lonesome they
really are. So far as this is concerned
we think it is misfortune. We are too
busy. We work too hard. We take few
or no holidays. We read and think too
in social culture. There is no reason
why those who plow the soil or "whose
talk is of bullock" should not experience
the refnements which are the result of
formal social life. In business, at bar
gains, in pursuit of dollars, no man is
seen at his best. He is thorney, spiney,
with his back up as a porcupine might
be at his business. Let one doff his
working clothes and enter a room full of
neighbors-men, women, young men
and maidens-and he is man of another
kind. He naturally falls into the ways of
an intuitive kindness. which is really
the truest poiteness; the doing to his
companion what he should do to him.
He "lets himself out !" to please, and,
after an evening spent in social con-
verse, he retires with many rough cor
ners and asperities toned down. For a
few days the influence remains. 1t
would be permanent if it could be re-
inforced now and then, and the good re-
suits would be most agreeable and use-
full. There is no difficulty in bringing
these good influences to bear. Two OF
three persons with energy and some
magnetism about them can put them in
motion with ease. Now is the time to
begin the effort.-Rural NetV Yorker.
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ing manner, repeated the call. The
next moment he bounded down into the
channel, and I caught him by the bri-
die. Time was becoming fearfuIly
precious. was already down to my
waist in the water. I seized the lariat,
and, pressing it under the saddle-girths,
secured it in a firm knot. 1 then made
a loop and passed it around my body.
Heaven bless the noble horse The
tears well to my eyes when I reflect upon
the grand creature to whom a few years
ago gave an honorable grave in the
broad prairie. All the time I believe he
comprehended my sore strait, and un-
derstood perfectly what was required of
him. He knew, too, the treacherous
nature of the ground upon which he
stood, for while waiting he continued
lifting his feet and slightly changing his
position to prevent his sinking. Finally,
had my arrangements completed, and
gave the word to the horse to move.
The intelligent animal stepped off very
slowly, pulling gradually, but with all
his tremendous strength. To my mex
pressible joy, I felt my body raising,
and in less than a minute was pulled
clean out of the sand, upon the hard,
clayey bank. Thank heaven! and my
true, tried, noble horse
/ threw my arms around his neck and
kissed him, and shouted for joy. Aud
had not a right to do so? And did I
do more than my duty when I refused
all offers to part with him. and kept him
with all the care and kindness that ]
would have nursed feeble parent?
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No Fun In Being a Princess.

The position of the Princess of Wales
is too exalted one to permit much
social enjoyment, yet has not the splen-
did potentalities Of reigning royalty.
The Princess too, is peculiarly unosten-
tatious, and evidently finds the magnifi-
cent loneliness of her position an actual
trial. To be young and beautiful, and
idolized, and yet to be shut out from
most forms of social amusement, can be
by no means delightful. Yet, there are,
of course, very few houses, even among
those of the highest nobility, to which
the Princess of Wales can go as an in
vited guest. And, when she does 90, an
awful state hedges her around She is
passionately fond of dancing, yet no gen.
tleman can ask her to dance. She it is
who signals out the parsonage whom she
desires as a partner, and, when she
stands up to dance, all other dancers
must sit down. After circling around
the room some half dozen times, she
pauses and sits down to rest, and then
the remainder of the walters may take
a turn, but as soon as she stands up
again they must stop. This solitary
Grand Lama kind of performance can
not be very amusing to this kindly,
SenLe, aInlaDle laoy one ls, am IOld,
a most accomplished dancer, despite her
slight lameness. But, of all the recrea-
tions of her life, she most enjoys driving
in the park. In her little victoria, with
her dame de conapog,aie beside her, she
is free to enjoy the testimonials of affec-
ton and enthusiasm that meet her every
where, and no one that notes the gracious
smile and bow wherewith she returns
every salutation can doubt her delight at
her own popularity.
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Feet Distortion In China.

Miss Norwood, lady in the American
mission at Swatow, has given some in
teresting particulars as to feet distortion
in China. This abominable barbarian is
determined by locality rather than by the
rank and wealth of those who practice it.
1t is vehemently opposed by the "Hak-
kas, !" and where people of this province
who, happily for Chinese women,
seem to have nomadic habits-settle, it
begins to disappear. OF the women at
tending the missionary schools in Swa-
tow, about sixty per cent. have their feet
bound. The binding does not take place
until q child has learned to walk. The
pain is intense when the process is per-
formed in the case Of an adult, and q
source Of discomfort in any case, yet the
desire to have small feet is SO intense
that girls will slyly tighten their own
bandages, in spite Of the pain. This
binding, the Chinese themselves admit,
often produces, among other evils. blind
ness.
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The Moon Not q Dead Star.

DIR. n. J. Klein, who two years ago
announced a new crater in that world Of
extinct volcanoes, the moon, has brief
article in La Nature, in which he gives
reasons for believing that the moon is
not dead He has recently examined
drawings of the neighborhood of the
new crater by Gruithuisen, which
strongly confirm the theory of recent
changes on the lunar surface, and cites
also the drawings of Messrs. Nelson and
Green in further proof thereof. Prot.
Klein adds that he announced the new
depression near Hyginus as crater,
from analogy. It is crater funnel, and
even one Of the largest. Toward the
south there is shallow spoon shaped
hollow, which terminates In second
small crater. In full sunlight, when the
interior of the large hollow of the crater
is no longer in shadow, the spoon-shaped
hollow may be seen as gray spot. By
the use of high powers it is remarked
that the environs of the new crater ap-
pear to be fssured in bewildered man
ner. Two fine burrows, like clefts In the
soil, which extend from N. toward the
Snail Mountain, are the finest objects on
the moon.
1t is impossible as yet to decide wheth-
er this formation is really volcanic.
There is one curious fact, however.
which would seem to indicate that q
mountain of smoke has at one time been
seen on the moon. On July 2, 1897,
Schroter and Orbers examined noun
tain situated in the Sea Of Vapors. This
mountain, which was ascertained to be
3,450 feet IN height, has been seen
neither before nor since, and was prob
ably merely mass of vapor. The for
nation measured by Schroter has dis
appeared from the moon; and, nearly in
the same place, there is now q crater.
There sometimes occur, too, on the sur
face of the moon, nebulous strata of
very long duration, which have no anal
ogues ON the earth. He who examines
carefully the materials furnished by the
numerous observations made on lunar
formations from the time of Gruithisen
up to our own day, says Prof. Klein, will
arrive at the conclusion that things are
going on upon the surface of this neigh
boring world which we as yet can know
nothing about.
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Paid Him His Own Measure.

Righteous punishment comes sooner
or later to pesterers and practical jokers.
They should.expect it at any time. Says
contemporary:
Years ago, in Penobscott, Me-, there
lived a man by the name of h,
whose greatest pleasure was in torment
ing others. His own family were gener-
ally the butts of his sport. One cold
and clustering night, he retired to bed at
an early hour, his wife being absent at
neighbor's Some time after, she, on
returning, finding the door closed, de-
manded admittance.
'FWho are you?" cried Mr.. H.
ssYou know who I ami Let me in-its
very cold"
'sBegone, you strolling vagabond! I
want nothing of you here!"
ssBut I must come in"
''What is your name?'
'tYou know my name-it is Mrs.
Fl
s'Begone! Mrs. H is a very likely
woman. She never keeps such late hours
as thisl"
eff you don't let me in, replied Mrs.
H 'T will drown myself in the
wenr"
'sDo, if You please" he replied.
She then took a log and plunged it into
the well and returned to the side of the
door. Mr.. H, hearing the noise,
rushed from the house to save, as he sup
posed, his drowning wife. She, at the
same time, slipped in and closed the door
after her. Mr.. H, almost nude, in
turn demanded admittance.
'tWho are you?" she demanded.
'fYou know who I am; let me in or I
shall freezep'
'.Begone, you great rogue, ! want
nothing Of You hear"
"But / must come inr'
"What is your name?"
"You know my name--it is Mr..
II"
'Mr. h is very likely man. He
don't keep such late hours"
Suffice to say, she. after keeping him
in the cold until she was satisfied, opened
the door and let him in.
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The Rest Vehicle.

An anecdote is told of a physician who
was called to a foreign family to pre-
scribe for case of incipient consump-
ton. He gave them prescription for
pills, and wrote the direction "One
pill to be taken three times day, in
any convenient vehicle" The family
looked in the dictionary to get at the
meaning of that prescription. They
got on we'll until they got to the word
vehicle. They found "cart, wagon,
carriage, buggy, wheelbarrow. After
grave consideration they came to the
conclusion that the doctor meant the
patient should ride out, and while in the
vehicle he should take the pill. He fol-
lowed the advice to the letter, and in a
few weeks the fresh air and exercise Sc
cured the advantage which otherwise
might not have come.
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Nobody viii Ever See It.

A short time ago we called upon GER
tain party in business In Vallejo, and
asked him why he did not advertise in
the Chronicle.
"Oh, because" he answered, "what's
the use? Nobody will ever see it"
"You're mistaken" said we; "every
page of our paper is read"
Nonsense!" he replied; "even if
they did read my ad., people would
never think of it again. I don't want to
advertise.
"But-'
"No butts at all. I don't want to ad-
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 the barrel of sugar
Time passed and we never again init
mated advertisement to him, although
meeting him daily. Yesterday the gen
tleman called at our sanctum, looking a
little uncertain as to how he would be re-
ceived. We cherished no hard feelings,
and motioned him to chair.
!" I suppose you heard of that little
affair of mine below?"
"Oh, yes" said we, ''that little esca-
pade on Kearney street night before last?
Yes, we've got all the particulars
Hush! Not so loud, please" said he.
"Of course you are going to say nothing
in the paper about it?"
"And why not? It's matter of in
terest to your friends and the people
generally"
Heavens! 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 again!'
His words came back to him like a
flash, and he trembled so violently that
his eyeballs fairly jingled; and he was
such an object of commseration that we
promised to keep mum. This little moral
ID drawn from the above, which is ap-
plicable the world over: Ask a man to
advertise, and he will immediately saw
that nobody will ever see it." but ad-
vertise gratis some little indiscretion he
may commit, and he Immediately grows
indignant over the certainty that the
whole world will know it.-Vallejo
Chronicle.
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Mother Shipton's Prophecies.

The New York Journal of Commerce
gives the following true account of the
humbug known as "Mother Shipton:"
Mother Shipton was veritable char
acter, who lived more than three hundred
years ago, and uttered a number of So
called prophecies. They were, for the
most part, vague, unmeaning tumble
of seeming predictions applicable to no
special event, and without point or gen.
eral interest.
In 1641, a pamphlet containing q
medley of this sort, chiefly in ha1ting
verse, was printed in London, and her
'Life and Curious Prophecies" were
given to the public in 1877.
In 1862, MIR. Charles Hindley, of
Brighton, England, issued what pur-
ported to be an exact reprint of ga
Chap book Version of Mother Shipton's
Prophecies, from the Edition of 1448."
In this, for the first time, there were
pith and point, and special application.
All modern discoveries were plainly de-
scribed, and one prophecy which began,
Carriages without horses shall CO."
and set forth the railroads, telegraps,
wound up with:
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one."s
This, Of course, quite startled the
public If all other important events Of
the nineteenth century had been SO aptly
described, why should not the last pre-
diction be fulfilled! We copied the
prophecy, and, without knowing any
thing of its source, denounced it as q for
gerry. An English paper replied that it
,n,os ~, 1xoo& xo,,,-;,x& - al. ~l1 ~5.k.,, Co.
nearly two hundred and fifty years on file
In the British Museum We sent our
correspondent to the Museum, and
learned that there was a chap-book Of
that title bearing date 1641: another Of
842, containing what purported to be
Mother Shipton's portrait; other curious
prophecies dated 164S, 1867; and
Mother Shipton's Life and Curious
Prophecies" complete in an octave edi-
ton of 1897. We then purchased the re-
print, and sent to have them compared.
This proved that fraud had been COM
mitted. The old prophecies were vague
tumble of local predictions that might
have been fulfilled at any and every de-
cade since their date. All the pointed
and interesting predictions in the new
issue were not in the old book, and were
either interlineations, interpolated, or en-
tire new fragments, evidently written
after the events they were supposed to
predict.
We pressed the point, and then
the secret came out. In the spring of
1873 Mr.. Hindley wrote letter, confess
ing that he had fabricated the prophecy
above gu oted and ten others, in order to
render his little book salable.
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A 0uack's Success.

A medical writer tells this story of
celebrated English quack: He was once
visited by an old acquaintance from the
country, who addressed him as ''Zam.
I'm glad to see thee'st got on 30
vinely, Fam" said the rustic, "but how
is't, man? Thee know'st thee never
had no more brains nor pumpkin"
Taking him to window, the quack
bade him count the passers-by. How
after q few minutes.
"Nointy, or mayhap hundred"
Sand how many wise men do you sup
pose were among this hundred?"
"Mayhap one"
"Well. all the rest are mine"