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EARMi FARMii FARMIIi

KOR SAIL.
One of the best farms for q dairy or
grazing in New Castle County and 81 ate
OF Delaware, in St, Georges Hundred,
situated on the Dutch Neck Road, 2 miles
from Delaware City, containing three
hundred acres, two hundred and ten
acres upland, and ninety acres OF mea-
dow, all In a good state OF cultivation,
good building. insured for SS,0OO. The
conditions.-Ten or Twelve twousand dol
ars can remain on mortgage. For furth or
particu ars call GU VIM. A. Cleaver. near
Port Psnn, or Thomas NJ. Ogle, Real Es-
J4nI3-st
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NJ Office IL hereby given that the an
IN nuAl meeting Of the stock knolders OF
"Ihs Wilmington NavigaLioL Company"
Wilmington. Delaware, on Thu sday, Jhe
Third day OF February, 1881. between the
hours Of land O'Clock p. m, for the pur-
pose OF sisoting three directors 70 serve
FOR three years. JOHN A. GRIFFIN,
aecsUWte. PRESIDENT.
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NJ 0TICE To WATER RENTERS.
OvRIon OF THE WATaR DEPART \
... kaHT, WILhIHGTuN, bel,

kaHT, WLhIHGTuN, Del,
December l, ISJ.
The hills for 1881 are now ready and
payable at the Registrars once at the b.
W, corner OF Sixth and King streets. The
law requires that all bills paid on or be-
those paid during the mont In OF February,
eper cent additional. Those paid during
the month Of March 10 per cent. addl-
tionai, aud any amount remaining un-
Iaid after April lat. 1881, the Registrar Ia
required 10 have the ferruies Withdrawn
and suit Instituted for the recovery OF the
amount due: and the water will not be
lot into suoh premises iii such arrears,
with assessments and ~ for drawing Ter.
ruies, are paid.
ofice hours nom .. m. 70 4 p. m.
WILLIAM J. MORROW, Registrar.
declseod Jan -ed. .feb-eod.
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THE ARTizANs SAVINGS BAN


602 MARKET STREET, 80
INCORPORATED JAHUARY Ntn, M
open to receive deposits dsLil uDds
M, until 4 T. H., and on TUESDAY S
urday evenings nom TO = o'clochin
SEAI-AkNUALD DIViDESpo,
regularly made In April and octoVsdTn o,V%dnf
When divilsnds are not WlsTnu,p
they are accounted as deposits InlsI
manent deposits compound theii "
twice In each year.
MANA0ERS.I ,,,h
Clement II. Smyth. George " npnells
Chns. W. Townsend George o. onYislL
Nathan,l Il. benson, N. L. Licnneeppiindl
Henry r. Dure, Edwhrd Dan D.nn.
w. Hastings. job ID. JachT
Edward Pusey, VIM. ID. sWnT
Anthony HlgginA ,idsd
GEO. W, BUSH. Pre.i'
60. 8. CAPELLE, Vice PIesiS1ep'su
feb21-lY E. I. TAYLOR lIo
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Adsie 7. Adams
".
Alexander IA,
Adams.
Trustee et. al.
In Chanoery,
New Castle County %.
Cansa of Partition

In pursuance OF an order OF the Chan
oeiIor In the above cause. made al the
september Term, 1880, aii'persons having
any lien or liena affecting the Interest or
estate Of Adele 4. Adams, Alexander Ii
Adams, Janet X. Moore Charles ],
Isabella II. 1iIton, Alexander IL. Adams
Trustee Of Harriet b. Andrews, and MArT
A. Adams, or either Of them, In the lands
and premises 70 which said cause relates
are hereby negifled TO filu q petition set
ting foxlh the nature and amount OF the
same Ia the ofiice oil the Register in Cham
Gerry TOT NsW Castle Co., ten days before the
third Monday In February A. ID, 1881, and
Apoear aad prove said lien or llens ~ the
ensuing term OF the Court before the
rising OF the Court on the third day sl
The term. a
- WALTER CUMAINs, Trustee.
Wilmington, Del, January d, 1881.
tans-sodtfsb21, 1850.
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RAILROAD LINES
lA!LADELfHlA, wILMISgl
l AND BALTaMORE RAILSas

JANUARY ., 1881.
Trains win leave Wilmington ..lOD
Philadelphia and Intermediates ssr.
I.o. $40. s.l0. 1870 q. m. 2SO. l.U, slJ h
p. IN.
Phiiadelphis tExpress) go, ain
a. M. Lib. e.1 p. m
Phila- and New York 223, $50 Ia n
li:4 =. M. I243, 2ts. 80 D m.
baltimore and Intern. ediale s,.ts
e.a6 a. m. 4.46 p. IN.
Perryviile and intermediate s.r,
4.sS p. m. ''s'
baltimore and Bay line, sS)p.m m
baltimore and Washington ~ 4
I.6o,s.SS, r. M; lass, /. .O4, SO. q, m
Irain1 for delaware Division. ltau,
New Castle 6.vO. s.s5, a. M I.b Soj
.. m. '''''
Harrington and Intermedlat. s,.,u !
s.So a. m. , Los, so D. IN.
Delmar and intermediate Riaiion,
M; Loo p. IN.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Philadelphia and Intermediate su..
A!O q. m. 400. 6.oO, 1000 D. m.
Phfs 1slphia and New lork .2zJA. Al
p. m.
: baltimore and Washington, Iaa, /
FOR iurther Information passepgeu,
referred 10 the time tables pOAusS ID
dep"'. IL. y. RENSLl,
super ntsbtnl
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sornCE.


EoUND.-on King street. ON saturday
owner can have the same BY calling ~
me 0AzErTs once. and paying ~ 19s 1s snis
NyOTICE.--The Mutual oan Associats ON
in IL now issuing new series OF shaI 60,
6per cent. allowed ON depOsIta. Rebate
allowed ON premium bid when loans are
mad: ns and when E 5e.usnea MARis Sn sec as OF
No. COL shipIey street, I'D storyJ
Once houra-S q. IN. ~ 7.50 p. m.
janle-im. trr
VOME HONEY TO LOAN si s per
- cent, HEALD d co.
Janls-st.
NOTICE TO REAL ESTATE OWNERS.
IN Those who ,eil or transfe Real Es-
tAte and do not wish 10 pay the taxes OF
1881, will oblige the underslgned, by leAv-
ing Q notice thereof NJ eur once, that we
may asssss 10 70 the pr9Rer ownervs; .,v,,s,r
DENNIS KANE.
Oface No. 10 East sixth street, between
Market and King. Hours, 8 q. m. 70 ~ M;
2to and toSp. m. Jauis-2w.
AI OTICE.-To DKLIraUENTs OF CITY
~ AND SCHOOL TAxEs F0R 1881. Bulls
have been rendered and cailed for. and
the year having expired, those who wish
20 avoid trouble, had better call aud set
tie, or we shall proceed 20 collect the
EDMUND PROVOST.
WILLIAM kYNE.
once No. 10 East Sixth street, between
Market and King. Hours, = q. m. TO u mi
20 and 20 p. m. JanlS-2w.
AyOTICE.-Nottee 10 hereby given that
IN the account book OF Robert DArragh
Ia the Wilmington Savings Fund soci-
ety. has been iost or mislAid. and that
have made application Tor "A new book.
jans iawsws SARAH MONEY!.
NOTIOE.-The Perpetual Savings and
~ Lo N Association 10 issutnx new
series at one dollar share. This associ-
alton loans four hundred dollars on each
share, deduots NO premium, but collects
LEA PUsEY, President.
N. L. Liohtenstein, SEQ. jan4-im.
nOG REGISTER NOTICE.
~ All persons owning or having dogs
aOout tnsir premises, are required 70
have them registered between the LIST
aad 2tn days of January, After the
latter date the ordinance will be strictly
. nf0roed against unreg gistored dogs.
WILLIAM J. MAXWELL,
dec10tfeb2. CHIEF OF Police.
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SOMG HONEY To LOAN sl 5 per
- cent. HEALD a W.
Janl8-St.
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W. xnnzAnD . 90.


w. MI.
aae.i a.asu
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VSoUND.-on King street, ON saturday
evening last, o bunch OF keys. The
owner can have the same ~ ealing ~
the 0AxmrTm once and paying Ior this
advertisement. Jap Ib-S.,
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NyOTICE.-Notiee 10 hereby given that
IN the account beck OF Robert Darragh
ia the Wilmington Savings Fund soci-
sty. has been iost or mislAid. and that
have made application ior a new book.
1ane law9wS SARAH MONEY!.
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SEASON Of 1854
=t is s.if

Az this season Of the
year, shirting and shsstiar
muslins are usually made
the leading artisles Of sale.
and persons very naturally
expect 70 buy at Low priess, ,
even ct cost.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-13
English Private Hotels.

In London there Is kind of hotel of
which we have no counterpart in. the
United States. This hotel is usually 10
Gated in some semi-aristocratic side
street, and wears no badge of its servi-
tude beyond large, well-kept brass
door-plate, bearing the legend "Jones'
Hotel " or Browns Hotel, as the case
may be; but, be it Brown or Jones, he
has been dead about fifty years, and the
establishment has been conducted by
Robinson. There is no cofee-room or
public dining room, or even office in this
hotel the commercial traveller is an I'M
known quantity there; your meals are
served in your own apartments the fur
niture issoid and comfortable, the attend
ance admirable, the cuisine unexception-
able and the bill abominable. But for ease,
quietness and sort of 1872 odor Of re-
spectability, this hotel has nothing to
compare with it in the wide world. It
is here that the intermittent homesick-
ness you contracted on the Continent
will be lifted out of your bosom it is
here will be unfolded to you alluring
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Regularity. in Exercise.

Regularity and constancy in the pur-
suit Of exercise are important, says the
Lancet if perfect health is expected to
result from its employment. It is far
better for men to lead altogether a
sedentary life than to be irregularly ac-
tive. This caution is the more needed
since the transition from sedentary
habits to arduous and exhausting physi-
Cal labor is of frequent occurrence.
Again, the transition from active habits
to sedentary pursuits is generally ac-
companied by marked. disturbance of
health, since organs reused to full ac-
tivity by the stimulus exercise gives
them are liable to be functionally de-
ranged when that stimulus is with
drawn. This, perhaps, would not be so
frequently observed, if. instead Of re-
lapsing Immediately, as is frequently the
case, into idle habits as far as exercise
is concerned, an attempt was male to
engage regularly, for however short a
time, in some pursuit that would insure
brisk muscular movement, so that the
health acquired by exercise during tine
vacation should not be lost; and, more
over, that the body when the next holi-
day period comes round should be found
in fair condition to undertake the in
creased physical strain thrown upon it.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-13
Mr.. GreeleY,S HulNOr.

Years ago, travellers going to Canada
by way of Lake Champlain used to seek
the steamboat which Capt. Sherman
commanded. The Captain was famous
for the neatness of his boat and the dis
cipline of its crew, and for his own po-
likeness. He was the only man whom
the late Horace Greeley acknowledged
to be his superior in polite behavior.
One morning, after breakfasting, Mr..
Greeley, who was in capital humor,
turning to friend, asked:
"Do you know that claim to be the
most polite man In the country %
The friend, well aware that the cele-
brated editor, when irritated, was neither
gentle in manner nor courteous in
speech, replied that he was not aware
that the graces Of politeness were prom
nent among his many excellent traits.
but 1 assure you," answered Gree
ley, with smile that overspread his
baby face-some one said that he had a
philosophers head with the face of a
baby" that have never been beaten
in politeness but once in my lfe." Then
he told the story of his defeat
Before the days of railroads, he left
Utica one morning In a stage-coach.
His only fellow-passenger was gentle
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-13
Male Nurses for Men.

The London Lancet calls attention to
the expediency of employing male at
tendants for male patients. 1t is mis-
take to suppose that women are neces-
sarily the only good nurses. In the
opinion OF some persons, who claim to
be judges of the question, they are
neither SO quiet, SO self-possessed, so
precise, nor SO strong as men. 1t is also
alleged that no man who has been nursed
by gentle-handed male servant would
desire, in any subsequent illness, to be
attended by female. It is said that
whatever element of the female charac-
ter or influence is desired in the sick
chamber can be best contributed by the
presence Of mother, wife, or a sister.
When the circumstances exclude these
forms of luxury it can seldom be neces-
sary. IF the employment of men to
nurse men were encouraged, a great diff
Guilty would be surmounted, and good
social reform begun.
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A Fierce Father.

According to the old English novels
and comedies fathers were brutal old
tyrants, who never did the decent thing
except on the sly. IF the poor heroines
OF Fielding and Smollett could read of
this st. Louis father how they would re-
joice for their sisters of this better day ::
"Do you love him ?" asked her ia.
ther.
Geraldine laughed in spite OF herself.
" l have strong impression that he
would scarcely ask me to marry him un-
less he thought pretty well of me-"
"Of course-of course; but do you
love him ?"
s. With my whole heart and SOUL"
'Well, if that's the case" said Col
Spencer, throwing away his cigar. Cell
I've got to say is you are both con-
founded simpletons if you don't get mar
ried-there p
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man or prepossesslng appearance, with
whom he fell into conversation. After
while the stranger drew cigar case
from his pocket and offered Mr.. Greeley
a cigar. He declined the polite offer,
and the conversation was resumed.
Presently the gentleman, taking cigar
from the case, put it in his mouth, and
returned the case to his pocket. While
they were talking, he abruptly but cour-
teously remarked to Mr.. Greeley:
81 hope, sir, you have no objection to
cigar?"
"None in the world" answered Gree
ley, "when it is not alight."
"Oh, +" replied the gentleman, 81 had
not the remotest thought of lighting
itp'
"Then and there" said Mr.. Greeley,
laughing, "was the only time I ever
was beaten in politeness. I afterward
ascertained that my victor was the ia
nous Capt. Sherman, Of Lake Cham
plain"
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Darby Tackles the Spanish Outrages

''Maria, sail Darby, as he laid down
the paper, "it makes my blood boil to
read about the way the Spaniards insult
our Government. Do you know that
they bang away at the American flag
whenever they choose, and do so with
perfect impunity 70"
Ono, I don't know anything about it, :"
replied his wife let them shoot each
other if they want to-"
"Let them shoot each other, eh I"
growled Darby. "Let the goggle-eyed,
saffron-colored, handy shanked Span
iards shoot into our ships on the high
seas? Why, Maria, I'm surprised to
hear you utter such sentiments.
"Look here, John Darby" snapped
his wife, "I've got too much work to do
to waste any time in watching what the
Spaniards or the Chinese are doing.
When I get through cleaning up this
house during the day, and Juggling you
up the stairs at night, 1 don't feel inter-
ested in the affairs Of the nation-not
much"
"Maria," said Darby, as he wheeled
his chair around in disgust, "when I
cease to be patriotic I want to die. My
ancestors fought the battles of their
country, their blood dyed a score of
fields, and when it comes my time to
bleed for my country I'm ready to do it.
We've got to whip the Spaniards, and
I'm ready to help. The old war spirit
which distinguished our race is in me,
and it's bound to show ITSELF"
"Oh, yes, you are brave, John Darby;
you are fierce, untamed warrior.
When the burglars got into the house
last fall you got the mysteries, and dur
ing the summer you tore your pants get
ting On fence, because poor little dog
showed symptoms Of madness. You are
too lazy to talk about fighting, and
should have sense enough to know that
you couldn't whip an old woman with
the palsy"
Darby buried his face behind the
paper and said nothing more about the
Spaniards.
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Moisture in the House,

In all the dwelling rooms of house,
says a writer, winter brings increased
use with less ventilation. Consequent
ly, little defects of cleanliness that quite
take care of themselves in the summer
may cause much trouble in winter. Ty-
phoid fever is more of winter than
summer disease. Most of the epidemics
affecting the skin are more apt to pre-.
vail in the winter or early spring. Their
relationship to confined dwellings, and
to the aggregations both of persons and
things during the cold months is no
longer doubted. Whether filth will Or
iginate this or that disease will long be
question of doubtful disputation but
that filth is the nesting place of disease
and chiefly gives it extension and viru-
lence is no longer doubted. Some of
our physicians are now turning close at
tention to questions of winter salubrity.
It is claimed that much Of the value of
Florida in the winter is owing to eli
mate which permits one to be much in
open houses. To those at all disposed
either to pulmonary or bronchial all
ments our modes Of heating and of
winter ventilation are very embarrassing.
Carbonic acid mingles too much with
the other gases given out from coal, and
produces irritation of the breathing APP
paratus. The dry heat parches the
skin, and so embarrasses the functions
of interior organs. The value of the
bath is as great in winter as in summer
Indeed, in city life it seems almost in
dispensable as means Of overcoming
the undue dryness and restoring the
proper temperature through the skin.
In the last few years there has been
much discussion as to the need of moist
ure, as provided in the furnace or on
stoves. The only certain way is to test
the amount of actual moisture in the
room atmosphere. It is hardly possible
to provide 80 much moisture in this way
as to get those effects which we get in
summer from excessive moisture in the
atmosphere. Often stoves are surmouht-
ed with urns so bright that the water is
scarcely at all evaporated by the heat.
We are satisfied. after careful looking
over the evidence, that we should gen.
orally in winter have some artificial
plan for adding moisture to the house
atmosphere. The great problem of how
to have warm and moist air, and get
pure air where persons are living close
", still has many unfulflled conditions.
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vistas of the substantial comforts that
surround the private lives of prosperous
Britons.-B. T. ALdrich.
The Elder Booth.

Booth, the elder, knew his characters
ny intuition /; he could assume or doh
them instantaneously at will. One
night, In the Charleston Theater, while
playing in the Iron Chest" he stood
at the Giving" with Jefferson. The lat
ter was playing Sampson, and Booth,
OF course, his great part of Sir Ed
ward: While they were thus standing,
Booth, who was waiting for his "cue."
said to Jefferson:
"By the way, Joseph, I notice that
you don't sing the song in this part of
Sampson. Why don't you do it
in the way your grandfather used to do?"
"Well, Mr.. Booth" replied the
young man, I think it must be for
the reason that I don't know how. I
never knew there was song sung in the
part"
"Oh, yes, replied Booth, at once as
Stunning the air and facial expression of a
comedian, "your grandfather used do
it capitally. This is the way the song
ran"-and Booth went on with a won
derfully droll expression on his face, and
sang ditty beginning:
traveller stopped at the widows gate.
Suddenly, and while he was in the
midst of this performance, the "cue"
was given for his appearance on the
stage. In an instant he dropped the
comedy part which he had for the mo-
ment assumed, rushed before the foot
lights, had his great scene with Wilfred,
and, coming off again, met Jefferson and
at once resumed the expression of Samp-
son with all naturalness, and with
out a thought of afectation, went on to
describe how the young mans grand
father sang the comic song: GA tray
eler stopped at the widows gate"
The elder Booths memory was quite
as remarkable as were some of his other
characteristics. During his engagement
with Jefferson he and the company went
from Charleston to Augusta, trip
which Booth had not made for many
years. Yet, at every station at which he
stopped he stopped he was able notonly
to recall the names of the principal
planters who had formerly lived there,
but with the utmost exactness told the
number of bales of cotton they had made
in certain year, the number of slaves
they had owned and other details of the
same minute character.
During this engagement Mr.. Jefferson
played continuously with Booth, assum-
ing such parts as Sampson, the
Grave Digger, in Hamlet" and the
Lord Mayor, in Richard ILL.,"
which latter part for some hidden reason
is always thrown to the lot Of the come
dian. His impressions of Booth and
Macready are that the one was in every
sense born actor, while the latter was
the greatest example of what can be ac-
complished by close application, keen
intelligence and untiring study. The
latter won, according to Mr.. Jefferson's
views, by art; Booth succeeded by nat
ural instinct. No man, according to
Mr.. Jefferson, has ever appeared upon
the stage who threw more intensity,
soul and passion into his performance
than did Booth when he was at his best.
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Cutting It Short.

Once, during theadays Of my early
struggles in the profession" said Edwin
Booth, 'and while we were barn-storm-
ing down in Virginia, an odd thing hap
pened, which illustrates the shifts to
which a poor player was then put in
order to get along. We were playing
showing they called it then-One
night at little place called Lees Land
ing, and the tobacco warehouse we had
improvised into theater was crowded
by the planters for miles around. We
had arranged to take the weekly steamer
that we expected would touch there late
that night, and between the acts were all
busy packing up. The play was the
Merchant of Venice, and we were just
going on for the court scene, where the
Jew insists on his pound of flesh, when
we heard a whistle blow, and the man
ager came running in to say that the
steamer had arrived ahead Of time and
would leave again in ten minutes.
GAS that was our only chance of get
ting down to the Chesapeake for week,
we were naturally in a terrible guam
Diary. If we stop right here and ex-
plain, said the manager. the audience
will think they are being cheated, and
go in for free fight. The only thing
we can do is for you fellows to get up
some sort of a natural-like, impromptu
ending for the piece, and ring down the
drop. Go right ahead, ladies and gen.
tlemen, and take your cue from Ned,
here and he hurried away to get the
luggage on board.
elf it had been in any other quarter
of thecountry Wouldn't have had the as
surance to do as he said, but the ignor-
ance Of the 'clay-eaters,' or ordinary
Virginians of those days, was something
marvellous, so when old George Ruggles,
who was doing Shylock, got to where he
sharpens his knife on his shoe, I walked
solemnly up to him and said:
"'You're bound to have the flesh, are
your
"'You bet your life,' said George,
under the impression that he was i'm
promising very skillfully indeed.
"'Now, I'll make you one more dick
err I continued. In addition to the
bag of ducats, I'll throw in two kegs of
niggerhead terback, shotgun and
couple of the best coon dogs in the
State.
"sIm blamed if I don't do it, said
Shylock, much to the appreciation of
the audience, who were tobacco-raisers
and coon hunters from the ground up.
"tAnd to show that there is no hard
feeling said Portia, tucking upvher
legal gown, well wind up with Vir-
ginny reel
'sAnd as the prompter struck up
sMonnie Musk on his fiddle, we danced
couple of figures, and made break for
the boat as the curtain fell, amid thun-
ders of applause.
"When we got on board, the steamers
Captain, who had witnessed the conclu-
sion of the play with great delight, ten
dered the troupe the compliment of
hot supper, and remarked, as we sat
down to what was rare treat in those
'pahny days of the drama:
"Pd like to see the whole of that
play sometime, gentlemen. I'm blamed
if I thought that fellow Shakespeare had
SO much snap to him."