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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1882-10-20
TELEGRAMAS VIA SAN THOMAS.

New York, octubre 11.-Participan de
Alexandria que Arabi Pacha teme que
quieran envenenarlo.
Prueba ell resultado de las primeras
diligencias en- la causa de Arabi que no
tom6 parte en- las matanzas de Alexandria.
Telegramas de Paris dicen que en- Fran
cia ha causado gran satisfaction el tono
amigable del primer Ministro de Italia.
Londres, octubre Liza existencia
de azlicar en- los cuatro puertos principales
era ell Z de 213 mil toneladas contra
10000 en- igual dia del a1lo pasado.
New-York, octubre l2.-Dice ell CO.
rresponsal del Times en- Paris que ell
Principe de Bismarck ha manifestado en-
un discurso que cree que Inglaterra COM
prara la mayor parte de las acciones del
Canal de Suez para humillar q NJ. Le-
sseps.
Opina empero E1 Times que es infun-
dada aquella aserci6n puesto que M. Lee
sseps ha sido razonable. Inglaterra, no
obstante, custodiara sus propios intereses.
va ha nombrado Inglaterra sus dele
gados con el fin de asistir a la pr6xima
conferencia de protection para los cables
submarines.
Grandes refuerzos van para Ell S. de
Thnez.
New-York, octubre 15.-Participan de
Londres que Mr.. H. L. Torpeint ha dicho
que ell Egipto quedara independence de
tola intervention extranjera. Anade
ademas que aunque dicho pals habra de
indemnizar los gastos de la guerra, deben
los tenedores de bonos experimental al
guna p6rdida. La politica inglesa, agre-
GO, Sc concreta a one el Egipto sea inde-
pendiente del Sultan y vigilar por los in
tereses del Canal, hacienda que el pals
desarrolle sus peculiares recursos, y de-
mostrar al Khedive que ell pcrvenir de-
pende de su administration.
Mr. Vorthbrook, primer Lord del Al
mirantazgo, ha expresado en- I'm discurso,
pronunciado en- Liverpool, que todos los
mahometanos simpatizaban con ell Egip-
to, pero que la Reina no tiene deseos de
anexionarse territories.
New York, octubre l4.-La comisi6n
Alison, nombrada para examinar ell Tunel
del Canal bajo ell punto de vista militar,
ha reprobado el proyecto. Sir Garnet
Wolseley y Ell Du1ue de Cambridge 10
recusan tambien con entereza.
Ell Times manifesto en- un editorial
que este asunto esta va arreglado.
Corren noticias de que un abogado in
giles llamado Broadley ha salido de Tinez
para Alexandria con ell fin de defender q
Arabf.
MERCADOS.
New-York, octubre 14.-Harina San
Lorenzo $3.50.
Azicar cristalizado $7sa8a.
Regular buen refno 7s q y.
Londres, octubre l4.-Azicar Demera-
ra cristalizado s | 6.
Azdcar mascabado 6 0 19 0.
Consolidados 1919 d !.
noSouopto do1 Ranoo < no
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1882-10-20
SOCIEDAD DE- SOCORROS MUTUOS
DE LOS AMIGOS DEL BIEN PUBLICO

Acordado por la Junta Directiva de esta So.
ciedad en- session celebrada el del actual, Sc
convoque la general extraordinaria para Ell % del
corriente, por medic de los peri6dicos de la pla-
"a, con ell fin de discutir los Estatutos Regla-
mentos redactados para la creacion de una ~aja
de Ahorros; Sc suplca los senores socios de
Los Amigos del Bien pdblico" la puntual asis-
tencia, los doce del dia ctado, la casa ndmero
20 cale de San Sebastian, con ell fin de discutidas
y aprobadas las bases de aquellos. Solicitar la
autorizacion del Excmo Sr. Gobernador Gene
rros.
Puerto Rico Z de Octubre de 1882--El Secre-
taro.- Juan V. Vizcarrondo.-V. B. Eel
MISUNDERSTANDING Fuentes I16
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1882-10-20
GACETILLAS.
"a Asociacion de Catolicos de es-

ia lsla, cumpliendo con Ell espiritu de su
reglamento, celebrara la function de Desa-
gravso d Jes1s Sacramentado el pr6ximo
domingo al toque de oraci6n.
Adem$s de hacerlo presente d los Sc
flores socios activos para que no dejen
de asistir una function tan grande, cuya
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1882-10-20
REMITIDO.
r E. S A M e

Los que suscriben a continuation, tip6-
grafos de la Imprenta del BoLET1N MER-
cANTIL, cumplen el triste deber de hacer
pdblico, por medic de estas lneas, el
profundo sentimiento que les ha causado
la premature muerte de su digno compa-
nero D. Hilarion Carri6n, Regente del
establecimiento de d. Jose j. Acosta, al
par que la expression de legitimo duelo
que hacen extensive d la desconsolada
familia de su desventarado amigo.
A la vez ruegan al Todopoderoso con-
ceda un lugar en- la Patria celestial al que,
durante su tr&nsito por la terra, fu9 un
modelo de virtudes merecedoras de imi-
taci6n.
Puerto Rico, 18 de octubre de 1882
jose ChaUarrtG. Julio Merino.
AbeLardo Leconepte. Marcos Rosario.
Jose B. Esturio Jose Ginssaez.
AbeIardo Prieto. Eugenio Pujido.
Gavino Mocs6. Federico Giralt.
Salvador GoazdLes. ALfredo FreIl0.
Manuel Naudrro. Angel Ascdlzdr.
Cslestino Lamar. Alejandro Herndsdes.
BaIbino Garcia. Francisco Moreno.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
Paying q Hotel Bill With a Poem.

John Mccullough tells the following story
of his fellow-actor, Lawrence Barrett "In
those early days, when we weresboth young
and the bloom was on the rye, we came one
night after days hard riding in the rain
outside, too, mark ye!-to an old wayside
taven, where we hoped to pass the night
But the house was closed; little child OF
the landlords had died that day, and he
said he wouldn't have any strangers around
the place. 1t was grief did it, for that land
lord was generally frst-class fellow, and
one Of the most good-natured men alive.
We all felt sorry for him, and Barrett es-
pecially. He tried to console him, and after
they had talked awhile together, with tears
in his eyes, the landlord led Barrett in to
look at the dead child. They came out with
wet eyes, and, after they had gulped down a
glass Of old rye in silent grief, the landlord,
at Barrett's request, brought him writing
materials. Well, sir, give you my word
that in half an hour he had written the
sweetest little obituary poem on that dead
baby you ever heard. When the landlord
read it he cried like child, and showed
himself a trump card, for he made us all up
a nice clean bed and gave us the best in the
house, for no pay at all but that poem"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
IncOngruity.
hill Nye.l

! Our attention has been called recently to
an illustration by Hopkins in the work
called the Forty Liars, in which a miner is
represented as sliding down mountain in a
gold pan with a handle on it. Mr.. Hopkins,
no doubt, labors under a wrong impression
of some kind, relative to the gold pan. He
seems to consider the gold pan and the
frying pan as synonymous In this he is
wrong
The gold pan is large low pan without
handle and made of very different material
from skillet or frying pan.
The artist should try as far as possible to
initiate nature and not make q fool of him
SELF Some artists consider it funny to rep
resent farmer milking cow on the wrong
side. They also show the same farmer, later
on, plowing with plow that turns the fur
row over to the left, another exeentricity of
genius There are many little things like
this that the artist should look into more
closely so as not to bust up the eternal fitness
of things.
We presume that Mr.. Hopkins would rep
resent gang of miners working a placer
with giant powder and washing out smelling
ore in tin dipper. Its pretty hard, though,
for an artist, who never saw mining camp,
to sit and watch New York beer tourna-
ment and draw pictures of life in a mining
camp, and people ought not to expect too
much.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
How People Die.
London Spectator.

Miss Nightingale has pointed out how
constantly the mental state of the dying de-
pends upon their physical conditions. AS a
rule, she tells us, in acute cases interest in
their own danger is rarely felt. "Indiffer-
ence, excepting with regard to bodily suffer.
ing, or to some duty the dying man desires
to perform, is the far more usual state. But
patients who die of consumption very fire.
quently die in state of seraphic joy and
peace; the countenance almost expresses
rapture. Patients who die of cholera, peri
tonitis, ETC., on the contrary often die in a
etatee approaching despair. In dysentary,
diarrhea, or fever, the patient often dies in
a state of Indifference" Those who have
carefully examined the dead on battlefield,
or in the streets after an emeute, are struck
with the fact that while the expression on
the faces Of those who have died by gunshot
wounds is one of agony and distress, the
dead by sword have a calmer expression,
though their wounds often seem more pain
full to the eye. A very careful observer, who
was through the Indian mutiny, entirely
confirms this. After giving several instances,
he says: "a rapid death by steel is almost
painless. Sabre edge or point divides the
nerves so quickly as to give little pain. A
bullet laceratesn
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
Diascope.

The diascope is newly discovered instru-
ment of the most ingenious kind it was
presented to the public during the Partisan
Electrical Congress People who patronize
operas and dramas will be able to see as well
as hear their favorite artists without leaving
their homes. The apparatus is small "ob-
jective" lens, fixed in position command
ing the stage Of some theatre, and connected
by an electrict wire with a diminutative
glass plate, which may be framed and set as
a panel Of private drawing room, however
distant from the playhouse in question.
Total darkness being obtained in the room
furnished with a diascope, perfect picture
of the stage, its scenery, actors, etc, most
faithful in colors, and absolutely reproduc
ing the whole performance, will become
visible on the glass plate. Supplemented by
a telephone communicating with the theatre,
the diascopes will therefore enable their
owners to spend their evening at the opera
or any other theatre, seated quietly at home
in an easy chair, in dressing-gown and slip
pers, according to TASTE
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
Sup Salt River''.

For the benefit of the rising generation it
may may not be amiss to give brief history
Of the Origin of the expression, up Salt
River" Before the day of steam all naviga-
tion of the Ohio river was carried on by flat
boats and keelboats. 1t was necessary to
rew the keelboats up stream. The labor
was painful and exhausting. There were
slaves all along the Kentucky side of the
river in those days. When negro had
been refractory or sassy" it was the custom
to punish him by hiring him out to row
keelboats up the river. The punishment
was called rowing up" In time it became
the popular slave term for scolding or pun
ishment of any sort all over the country.
"Salt River" was, and is, little tributary of
the Ohio in Kentucky. 1t was so crooked
and dangerous that rowing keelboat up it's
waters was about the hardest labor man
could undertake. Hence to row man up
Salt River was as severe punishment as
could be imposed on him. The expression
became proverbial.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
A Hero.

Aug. Sieg, the modern Jim Bludso, died a
few days ago in the Sisters of Mercy Hospi-
tai jersey City, from wounds received in a
western bound passenger train oyer the
Pennsylvania railroad. He was in the cab
oflthe engine and going over the road at the
rate of forty miles an hour, with 600 passen-
gefs on board. As it approached the signal
station on the Hackensack meadows, Sieg
saw red disk displayed. He endeavored to
stop the engine, when suddenly the cab was
filled with steam, flame and live fuel. He
tried to shut the furnace door but could not.
All alame he fled over the tender to the
foremost car, shouted something that no two
persons understood alike, and then accom-
panied by one or two brave men, dashe d
back into the blazing cab. The engine was
stopped, and when the steam and smoke
cleared away, Sieg was seen in the water
tank on the tender. He had let himself
down the manhole in order to extinguish the
flames of his blazing clothes. The flesh
hung in shreds from his hands, and his body
was awfully burned. The noble fellow had
offered up his life that others might be saved,
and his name deserves to 60 down in history
alongside the names of our country's heroes.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
GIRLS.
This is for YOu--Rcad and Mediate.

lnlS Is Tor Ou. .RCaU ana MeU1ate.
Don't think it necessary for your happi-
ness that every afternoon be spent in max
ing calls or on the street shopping. Home
is not mere hotel in which to eat and sleep
too dreary to be endured without company
from aboard; home work is not mere drug
gerry, but useful ministration to those we
love.
Don't mistake giggling for cheerfulness
slang trazes for wit, boisterOus rudenessI fol
frank gayety, impertinent speeches for re-
parties. On the other hand don't be prim
formal, stiff, nor assume a country face
eloquence Of 'prunes, potatoes, prisms," mol
sit bolt upright in corner, hands, feet, eyes,
and lips carefully posed for effect. An effect
will be produced, but not the one you wish
Nor yet sit scorntully reserved, criticising
the dress, manners, look, ETC., of those around
you. Make up your mind that your COM
panions are, on the whole, a pretty nice set
Of people-if they are not you had no busi-
ness among them-that there is something
to like and respect in each of them. De-
termine to have nice time anyhow; then
do your part to make it so. Be genial, cor
dial, and frank If you can play and sing
ordinarily well, do not refuse to do your
share in entertaining your companions in
that way. You cannot be expected to sing
like Nilsson or Kellogg If you cannot play
or sing, say so frankly, and do not feel hu-
inflated. You probably excel in some other
accomplishment. Even if you do not, you
can possess that one grand accomplishment
to which others are accessories, that of be-
ing lady-a true woman, gentle and gra-
ciOus, modest and lOvable
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
Cholera in Japan.

The late cholera epidemic in Japan is not
unworthy to be classed with the great his
torical pestilences. Occurring in an Orien-
tai country, but little is said of it and it
makes no deep impression on the public
mind yet over $4,000 persons have died in
five months. No yellow fever epidemic in
the Mississippi valley has ever carried off
more than 10000 persons, and only one has
reached that figure. The epidemic of five
years ago, which was excitedly described as
the greatest plague in history" and was
written up by the newspapers to the extent
of columns daily, carried off only about
1000 lives, or one-fourth as many as the
Japan pestilence. The cholera has been of a
very malignant type, for the death rate has
been about SO per cent. In former times
cholera has been thought malignant if one
third of the cases proved fatal. The most
singular thing about it has been the immu-
nifty from attack of the European and Amer.
ican residents of Yokohama and other cities
in which the pestilence ragged most fiercely
Not single foreigner was attacked.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
A Funny Mistake.
boston Journal

The late Rev. Dr. ,Tenks, whose great
learning was only equalled by his modesty,
which was almost timidity, was very deaf
and always carried with him an ear trumpet
of large size. It is said that one evening he
attended a party given at the house of late
wealthy bookseller, composed mostly of
members Of the Legislature. A rural mem
Der, who had neglected to remove before en-
tering large quid of tobacco, was quite
puzzled to know how to dispose of it, when
he espied the doctor with what he supposed
was spittoon,. The reverend gentleman,
noticing the evident desire of the member to
communicate with him, approached and
quietly presented his ear trumpet, when, to
the horror of DR.. j., and greatly to the
amusement of all present, the verdant Rep
resesentative immediated deposited therein
an immense quid with thank you, sir.''
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
A Canadian Mlser.

The viii of Mrs. Barbara Scott, wretch
ed old woman who inherited several fortunes
and increased them by every means which
her miserly instincts could devise. has been
upheld by the Superior Court in Montreal.
McGill University gets $4,000, and various
hospitals, churches and charitable institu-
tlons receive the rest. For years before her
death she lived isolated in the old family
mansion in the suburbs of the city, until the
dirt and filth became so infolerable that the
Board of Health had to interfere. She re-
fused even to employ female domestic, but
allowed an old man to visit the house daily
to do chores. She died without an attend
and, and, when the executors took posses
sion, thousands of dollars were found rolled
up in scraps of old paper Not the least
remnant of food was discovered in the house,
and the doctors thought she starved herself
to death, The relatives, who were practi-
cally ignored, tried to break the will on the
ground Of insanity, but the court held that
the testatrix was of disposing mind though
eccentric
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
How He Caught a Rabbit. i.
[Chicago Herald. !

An Oscar Wilde young man who lives on
the North Side and smokes cigarettes, heard
his adored express wish for a rabbit. Wan
dering at dusk past aresidence surrounded by
a spacious lawn, and pondering upon the
possibilities of raising lucre enough to pur-
chase long g-eared pet for the damsel, his at
tention was attracted by white object on
the lawn. Closer examination showed it to
be rabbit. In the shadow Of some shrubs
the little animal sat on his launches, with
ears erect. He chuckled to himself as he
saw how he could save the money he was
going to borrow to buy rabbit with, and
yet get the rabbit He climbed the fence,
undismayed by the four-inch cash in hls
wallpaper trousers, and stole softly upon the
unsuspecting rabbit The rabbit never
stirred. Taking off his elegant tile that he
had stood Dunlap off for that morning, he
pounced upon the poor thing and jammed
the hat down over it, and the two white ears
stuck up through the new tile top. 1t was
an iron rabbit ..-f.1s f.-.. - ..lEf
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
DAILY HERALD:
4 FLOWER FROM THE DEAD.

You placed this flower in her hand, you say
This pure, pale rose in her hand of clays
Methnks could she lift her sealed eyes
They would meet your own with grieved surprs
She has been your wife for many year,
When clouds hung low and when skies were Gle;
At your feet she laid her life's glad Spring,
And her Summers glorious blossoming.
Her whole heart went with the hand you won
If its warm love waned as the years went on
If it chilled in the grasp of an icy spell,
What was the reason? pray you tell.
My soul must speak, and your soul must hear.
If she was not all that she might have been.
Hers was the sorrow-yours the sin!
Whose was the fault if she did not grow
Like rose in the Summer? Do you know
Does the lily grow when it's leaves are chileds
Does it bloom when its root is Winter killede
For little while, when you first were wed
Your love was like sunshine round her shed;
Then a something crept between you two,
You led where she could not follow you.
With mans firm tread you went and came;
You lived for wealth, for power, for fame
Shut into her woman's work and ways,
She heard the nation chant your praise.
But ah you had dropped her hand the while
What time had you for kiss or smile.
You two, with the same roof overhead,
Were as far apart as the sundered dead.
You in your manhood's strength and prime;
She-worn and faded before her time.
'Tis common story. This rose you say
You laid i'll her pallid hand to-day.
When did you give her a flower before:
All, well. What matter, when all is o'er'
Yet stay moment you'll wed again;
mean no reproach It's the way of men.
But pray you think, when some fairer face
Shines like a star from her wonted place.
That love will starve if it is not fed,
That true hearts pray for their daily bread.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
NO. 3.
EDEN.
The True Site of the Garden.

The Garden of Eden is considered by Prof.
Delitzsch to have been situated in the land
OF Babylonla, In that special district in which
the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris
approach nearest to each other. This state
ment he supports by a number of very strong
if not absolutely invincible arguments. He
finds arguments in the character of the pop
ulation, in the product of the country, in the
name which still clings to the country. The
ancient name of the district was Garduniash
the Garden of the Lord of the Lands The
precise district in which Prof. Delitzsch con-
siders the Garden of Eden to have lain was
that portion of BabylOnia which lies i'm
mediately north of the City of Babylon, be-
tween the Tigris and Euphrates, which form
ed respectively it's eastern and western boun-
daries Its limits on the north may be IN
dicated by line drawn from Bagdad on the
Tigris across to Akkad on the Euphrates,
while similar line parallel to the former,
stretching from Babylon on the Euphrates
to the Tigris, would designate with sufficient
accuracy it southern boundary. The book of
Genesis represents the Garden of Eden as
having been watered by single river. The
statement correctly describes remarkable
feature of this district of Babylonia While
other parts of that country to the south are
we'll as the Euphrates, the district specially
referred to is exclusively irrigated by the
Euphrates. Large water-courses, afterward
transformed into canals, but which seem
originally to have been natural arms of the
Euphrates, conducted considerable portion
of its water from the higher level of that river
into the bed of the Tigris. From these, as
chief arteries of irrigation, smaller water
courses, such as those alluded to by Hero
dotus, spread the water all over the country
The Professor had no difficulty in indentify-
ing the Pishon with the celebrated canal Pal
lakopas and the Gihon with the Shatt-en-
Nil. Thus at last, if the conclusions arrived
at are not ultimately upset by some new in
vestigations in the extensive cuneiform liter
ature which has recently been unearthed,
the geographical correctness of the writer of
Genesis has been clearly demonstrated
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-12-07
Stage Fun In California.
Boston Journa


Stage coaching on the wild mountain roads
of California is described by some as great
fun. Here is a sample Of its delights: One
night the only outside passenger on a
Placerville stage was riding sleepily beside
the driver when lurch in the coach aroused
him and, to his horror, he found the driver
was missing. The big headlight and the two
side-lights showed that the road was down
grade, with rocky wall on one side and a
precipice on lhe other. The team was going
at a fast trot. The passenger reached down
to see if he could find the reins, but soon
realized that his search was hopeless, for the
reins had gone overheard with the driver.
What was to be done? In few minutes
the coach without guidance would be sure
to 60 over the precipice. Before he could
think twice he heard voice which seemed
to come from the ground call out jam your
foot on the brake and holler whoa The
passenger obeyed, the team slowed down,
the people inside woke up and thrust out
their heads. Then the voice was heard
again saying: "You fellows git out and
take them leaders by the head, and I'll see
If / can crawl out of this" It was the
driver, who had clung to the reins when he
fell, and, rolling into ball, had been drag
ged along the road between the front and
hind wheels, holding on in spite of bruises,
because he knew it was death to his passen-
gers if he let 60.