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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17
The Merchant Nav.

There is a widespread impression that
the decline in the ship-building and
ocean-carrying trade began with the
Civil War and was occasioned by the
Confederate cruisers; but in a recently
published book, Mr.. David A. Wells de-
clares that the influence Of these agencies
has been greatly exaggerated.
They simply furthered aprocess of de-
cadence which had previously set in,
and the primary cause of the decline
was, in Mr.. Wells's opinion, the sub
stitution of steamers for sailing ves-
sells.
While the latter were built of wood,
the American, could compete with the
English in constructing them; but ex-
perience taught the builders that iron
vessels are better adapted to bear the
strain of steam machinery, and that
wood is unfit for large vessels propelled
by screws. The appliances for the con
struction of iron vessels did not exist in
the United States, and it was predicted
in 1857 that England, being able to con
struct such steamers more cheaply than
any other country, would ~monopolize
ocean steam navigation.
The remedy, in Mr.. Wells's opinion,
is in the repeal of the navigation laws
which handicap American shipping, and
in the reduction of all expenses connect.
ed with the hiring and discharge of sea-
men, pilotage, consular charges, etc.
but he concludes that a reform OF the
tariff is also indispensable.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17
The Daily Press

The daily newspaper Office Is never
closed. Night and day, the newspaper
Office is never deserted. There is al
ways somebody awake about the build
ing. At noon the work of the editors
begins, and cease not until two and
three o'clock the next morning. At
sunset the type-setters begin, and do not
leave off until three and four o'clock the
following morning. When the type-set-
tiers leave of, the pressmen take hold
and work on until sunrise. Before their
labors close, the folders, packers and
mailing-clerks come on duty. BY this
time tho counting-room is on deck, and
every floor of the office building has one
or more, and, as a rule, a half-dozen &C.
cupants all day. ltwould be impossible,
therefore, for a newspaper office to take
fire without being observed in time to
prevent a disaster. There is nothing
really combustible about a printing-of-
flee but the paper, and that is never
stored in very large quantity in the
building and is always tightly baled and
not easy to take fire.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17
What Are the Tides2

Sir W.. Thompson, in a recent address
found some difficulty in explaining the
tides, which he defined as the motions
of water on the earth, due to the attrac-
ton of sun and MOON. There were places
where lunar tides vanished altogether,
and where there was only a rise and fall
once in the solar day, or twice in the
solar day. There were places where
the water rose and fell according to the
sun, and not according to the moon; but
such functions were modified by local
causes. In the theory of tides proper,
there was also a solar annual tide, and
again q solar ~semi-annual tide. The
first rough view of the theory of the tide-
generating force was that the moon at
tracted the waters of the earth toward
herself, and heaped them up on this side
of the earth. That was not so; it would
be so if the earth and the moon were
stuck on the two ends of a strong bar
and put at rest in peace, but there was
no such rigid bar.
Why did not the moon fall toward the
earthp According to Newton's theory,
the moon is always doing so. Newton
compared the fall of the moon with the
fall of q stone at the earth's surface.
Why did it not come DOWN. Could it
be always falling and nevercome DOWN.
That seemed impossible. 1t was always
falling, but it had a motion ~perpendicu-
lar to TIE direction in which it was fall
ing, and the result of continual falling
was simply a change of direction of its
motion. That was simply the dyna-
mical theory of centrifugal force. If a
stone were thrown horizontally it de-
scended in a parabola, the stone falling
away from the line in which it was
thrown; so it was with the moon. II
was seen always to be falling from the
present direction and from the further
altered line, and so it might be falling
and never coming down. The parts Of
the moon nearest to the earth were fall.
ing most rapidly, the parts further from
the earth the least rapidly. Each pre-.
served a constant distance, from the
common center of gravity of the two
The earth experienced according to It's
mass a force depending on the average
distance. The result clearly was ther
o tendency toward the moo and from
the moon, and thus, in a necessarily i'm
perfect manner, he had explained how
It was that the waters were not heapet
up on the side next to the moon, but
were drawn toward the moon, and fel
away from the moon, so as to tend Il
form an oval figure.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17
The Money Order system---Plans For its
tN Perfection,

6OAAONbiOat
The superintendent of the money or
der division of the ~postoifice department
sent out recently an order that here
after, when n money order has remain
ed in a postoilice sixty days without pay
being demanded, the postmaster shall
send n private notice to the payee, if his
address is known, informing him of the
fact and giving the name and address
of the remitter. The payee is requested
by the circular to present the cores
ponding order for payment, if it is in
his possession; or if it has not been re-
ceived to obtain it, if practicable, from
the remitter, and in the event of its loss
in transit or otherwise, to suggest to the
remitter that he make an application for
q duplicate.
This circular is a new departure in
the money order division, and is one
that ought to have been made years ago.
Had it been adopted on the start, there
would not now be in the treasury to the
credit of the money order system the
great sum of over q million and a quar-
ter of dollars, the accretion of money
orders remaining unpaid. Not a dollar
of this fund belongs to the government.
1t belongs to people who paid for or
ders, which largely through the defects
of the postal system, did not reach the
persons to whom they were sent. II
may safely be said that nine-tenths of
this sum could have been made to reach
the payees, or could have been returned
to the remitters, had not a policy OF
concealment been adopted. Instead Of
seeking earnestly either to pay the
money to the payees or return it to the
remitters, a rule was adopted forbiddine
a postmaster, under penalty of dismis
sal, to furnish the information now
ordered to be given by the new circular
If the department is content with the
present step, it will fail to do all that il
should do to stop such a wrongful de-
tention of the peoples money. 1t is
evident that the payee OF an unpaid
order may be out of reach after sixty
days, and so may never receive his no
tice. In such u case, after the lapse o.
another thirty days, the remitter should
be notified that the money he has de-
posted remains unpaid. AS of course
the payee has the first claim to payment
it would be necessary to provide tina
some set time-perhaps six months ad
ditional-should elapse before a repay
ment was made to the remitter.
Nor should the effort to be honest stoI
here. Every means should be taken by
publication of lists and otherwise faith
fully to disburse the fund now on hant
before passing a law to cover it into thu
treasury. In every other respect thu
money order system, under the super
vision of ID. G. +. Mcdonald, is a mode
of precision and effectiveness, and eve,
in the matter of this lapsed order funt
it is probably less at fault than any 9th
err system in the world, and the step j
has taken is one in advance of mos
other systems. But nothing can be salt
in favor of covering such afund into thu
treasury until every means has been ex
hausted to find the real owners of it,
Washington Cor. Neto York EUentns
Post.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17
Ralston's Summer Home.

The Ralston house ut Belmont, Cal,
now in the possession of Senator Sha-
ron, is that perhaps having the greatest
interest of all. The remarkable man
who built it was of the traditional Cali
fornia type in its most astonishing de-
velopment. Starting from a humble
origin, he became a forwarder of every
brilliant scheme of improvement, pub
lie and private, and conducted a hun
dred projects to success, which, in other
hands, would have been sheer folly.
He arrived thus ut IN unbounded conf
dence in his star. Entanglcd finally,
while Cashier of the Bank of Califor-
MIA, he handed in his resignation to the
Directors one day, and went down to
the public baths near the Potrero. A
strong, athletic man, in the prime of
life, he swan out half a mile into the
baylor refreshment in his troubles, as
some say, but, as the general opinion
is, with the deliberate purpose of sui
cide-and was never again seen alive.
The house that was his is notched into
q hillside, in q rolling country, much
p%leasanter than the plain ut Menlo
Park. A pretty gorge behind it is
damned at n certain level to furnish
the water supply. There are gas-works,
a bowling-alley, and an elaborate
Turkish bath among the outbuildings,
and a grange-like barn of solid stone,
ivy-grown now, which cost $50, 900.
AS to the immense residence itself, that
is of wood, white, in the usual fashion.
With its numerous stories and windows,
it is not unlike p large country hotel
without, but its peculiar arrangements
and great ~spaciousness within make it
quite palatial. The principal rooms
open into n another by glass parti-
tiohs, which can be rolled away. There
is no crowding through d%oorways.
There is an arcade in the story above,
around the grand staircase, with q bal
ustrade, and tribunes projecting from
the balustrade, in which young women
in pink and corn-color at an evening
party must look particularly houri-like.
What in any other house would be the
ordinary veranda is here a delightful
promenade, glazed in, provided with
easy furniture and a %parquetry floor.
Then comes a tier of such main apart
ments as a drawing-room and library;
then a parallel tier, of which one is a
great gallery, entirely faced with mir
rors. There are a piano, mantels, and
stair-posts of California laurel.-W. II.
Bishop, IN Harper's for October.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17
Prince Albert Goats For Ladies.

The oldest fashionable thing this fall,
remarks '.Clara Belle'' in q letter from
New York to the Cincinnati Enquirer,
is that some of us are putting on Prince
Albert coats. Everybody knows how
stiff and awkward a man often looks in
that conventional garment. Well, it
will speak volumes for the inherent
grace of women if they car wear it
prettily, and / am inclined to think they
can do SO. The Prince Albert frock-
coat, as worn by men for dress occa-
sions in the daytime, is almost literally
copied in women's cloth suits. This
coat when feminized is medium long,
double-breasted, buttoned from collar
to waist line. has very slight plating in
the middle back seam, with two buttons
defining the waist; and is finished with
silk binding, or with faced cut edges,
precisely as mems coats are. OF course,
the contour is quite different, but, for
all that, the likeness is preserved. The
tailor-made cloth suits usually worn
with these coats are very little changed
in style. The basque retains the habit
shape, with single-breasted front, high
cadet collar, square position back, slit
pockets with arrow-heads worked at
the ends, and stitched edges. The over
skirt has a wrinkled arm and single
back drapery. The lower skirt is orna-
mented by three plated fans, let in
from the lines down on the front and
side cores; or else there are triangular
points cut in the bottom of the skirt to
fall on a plated flounce at the foot. 1t
will be seen hat the style is rather Sc
we're, and it should be left to softly
rounded if not absolutely pretty wo-
men, for its tendency is to heighten an
gularities. Smooth-fnished ladies' cloth
serge cloth with fine twills, and notified
cloths and cheviots are the materials
used, and the favorite colors are old
green, dark brown, olive, black, and
deep blue. If fur bands were to be adj
ded, as they very likely will be next
winter, such suits would do for a larger
number of women than can at present
find them becoming.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17

The London Spectator says: I'm place
OF Frazer Messrs. Lougman intend 10
try an experiment In cheap literature, a
magazine Of 120 pages, discussing every
subject except politics and religion, con.
veying information, and lightened with
good novels. but sold for sixpence. Such
q magazine, if well done, should be a
sixpenny CornhiU, and obtain a quarter
OF q million of readers. In the changed
conditions produced by the spread OF
education, such an experiment is nearly
sure to. succeed; as would also, as we
believe. a sixpenny Nineteenth Century,
devoted mainly to politics and religion.
The body of readers begin to tolerate
grave thought and even to pay for it, tc
an extent which publishers as yet hardly
estimate"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17
EGYPTIAN Bondholders.

Family Fair receives the following
communication from "a Fortunate
S~peculator," who says: although
your paper has almost alone been indie
pendent enough to critic hostility to Mr..
Gladstone's Egyptian policy, now so
popular both with the lingo, and the
imitation lingo parties, l think even
you must admit that this policy, dam
aging though it has been to the liberal
party in this country, and utterly ruin
Gus though it has been to the national
party in Egypt, yet has been a perfect
god-send to n large and deserving
class in this country and France-name-
ly, the poor Egyptian b%ondholder. l will
relate my own experience as a bond
holder within the last three months. I
have no doubt but that it is a fair sam
pie of what others have done; and your
readers will not be surprised to hear
that 1 entertain the highest feelings of
gratitude for Mr.. G~ladstone's spirited
Egyptian policy. On the first outbreak
of the Arab rebellion l sold my Egypt
ian bonds at 20, never thinking it posi-
BILE that a Gladstone and Bright gov
eminent would force upon any nation a
ruler and q form of government to
which they were unanimously opposed.
However, in a few weeks / changed my
opinion. Alexandria was bombarded.
Bright resigned, the guards were put
under orders for Egypt, our one gen.
back my bonds at 46-with some trepi-
dalton, / confess. However, events
marched quickly. The Indian troops
were brought ver again by Lord Bea-
consfield's worthy successor, the much
abused Cyprus was utilized as o base,
the Suez canal was seized in defiance of
all international agreements, the I'M
fortunate Egyptians were mown down
by shrapnel she'll from Woolwich and
the sabres of the Life guards. Tel-el-Ke-
Dir was fought, Cairo was entered by
| our army amid the curses of its popula-
ton, and my Egyptian bonds went up
to 20 again, the price at which l sold
originally. l have now sold again, and
| shall reinvest my capital in something
safer than unified bonds; but by Glad
| stones policy / made "a per cent. by
the fall and "a per cent by the rise, and
/ now have in cash at my bankers
FL, 189 to represent every f7O0 had
invested in Egyptian bonds. Can you
be surprised at my gratitude to Bea-
consfield's worthy successor in eastern
policy-William Gladstonep Some
thing should be done to hand down to
posterity a mark of the bondholders'
| gratitude, and / propose that o statue
| of the Grand Old Man should be erect
| ed at the entrance of the stock ex-
change. To this l will gladly subscribe,
as / am sure would many Egyptian
bondholders."
The noble red man OF Washington
Territory has found pleasant and profit
able employment in hop picking. More
than 1000 of them are so engaged al
Puyallup. "lnjun pu' all-up all samed
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17

Kalamazoo, Mich, is one of the great
est celery raising centers of the United
States as regards both quantity and
quality of the vegetable produced.
va Explicit directions for every
use are given with the Diamond Dyes.
For Dyeing Moses, Grasses, Eggs,
Ivory, Hair, etc.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17

The noble red man OF washington
Territory has found pleasant and profit
able employment in hop picking. More
than 1000 of them are so engaged at
Puyallup. %"Injun pu' all-up all samee
pale face"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17

Memorial Hall. erected by Philadei-
phia for the exhibition of 1876 at an ex-
pense of S1,500,000, is falling to ruin.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17

We wonder il anybody everpicked uT
O tear that was dropped.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-29
CONSIGNEES.

Per steamer City of Bridgeton. from Florida
j Jackson, Peacock, H & Co, Ocean Steam.
ship Co, W w Gordon & Co, NJ Henderson, g
& Ry, G H Dorsett, Fl Myers & Bros.
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway. March
Mrs NJ E Rossignol, Price. Myerson & W.
Lee Roy Myers, Solomon Bros, W Bowe, F
Bowe, X Mendel & Bro. S Herman. Cohen, J
Feely, H Myers & Bros. L Remion.
Per Savannah. Florida and Western Railway,
March 28-FOrd9 Office Peacock. Fl & Co, E 7
Roberts. Lee & L. Williams & Co. Walker,
G & Co, G L Jones, Il F Grant & Co E Spanier,
G Thompson, 2 Bond, ] Webb Frank &
Co, W E Alexander & Son, Rieser & S, H Kuck,
A Einstein's Sons, S Guckenheimer & Son, d Y
Dancy. Lee Roy Myers, G Smith, R B Reppard,
John McDOnOugh, Sloat, B & Co, Dale, w &
Co. d Bacon q Co, McDonough & B, Bond &
S, d Weisbein. G. W Parish, J Hartman, Bacon
& B. Haslam & b, w w Gordon & Co, Jno Elan
merry & Co. L ] Guilmartin & Co.
Per Central Railroad. March 2S-Fordg Agt,
Chas Ellis, VIM Hone & Co, NJ Ferst & Co, w
D NAPLES. j Oliveros & Son. A LETTER Solo
mon Bros, Cohen, Henry Yonge, A Solo
MONS l. G Tebeau. Weed & G. Il Falk & Co,
H Myers & Bros J B Reedy, R pavant Sa-
vannah Oil Co, Jos A Roberts & Co Jno Oliver
Frank & Co, Fretwel & n, John Morrison, w
W Starr. Epstein & Bro, Rosenheim & Co,
w Nell & Co, A Einsteins Sons, A Haas &
Bro. M Henderson, T P Bond, Peacock, II &
Co. d Bacon & Co, J p Williams & Co &c
jackson & Co, II N Conner & Co, w w Gordon
& Co, Weld & H. Jno Flannerv & Co, w La
throp & Co, j Guilmartin & Co, Walter & n.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-29
A Story of Cairo.

A great scandal occurs to my mind, as
happening at Cairo in 1880. Scheikh
Hamuda Berda lived in a quarter of the
town less fashionable than Is generally
affected by wealthy saints who have
gained public recognition. With modest
assurance he declared that Allah had
personally granted him authority to cure
all diseases, By the hand of Mahomet
himself, the Merciful One confded to
him drugs and lotions which restored
the sight, replaced an amputated limb,
and so on. As for mere pain and aches
he removed them at a word. During
many years residence at Cairo, vast
number of persons profited by his super
natural skill, but he specially laid him
self out for female patients. In later
times, the good man foand his practice
so large that he could no longer attend
Door people. From every part of Egypt,
Arabia and Syria, wealthy ladies came
to consult the Scheikh, and of course
they brought handsome present.
One day, toward the middle of last
year, the young wife of Izzet Bey, a
Colonel in the Egyptian service, propos-
ed to visit him for an affection of the
eyes. The Colonel sent her with pro-
rer retinue of attendants, who returned,
l know not why, after depositing their
mistress at the door of Hamuda Berda.
She entered with favorite slave, but
never came out again. For some days
her husband was not alarmed, since sur
gical operations demand certain time.
Anxious at length, he called upon the
Scheikh, whose manner was not reassur-
ing. He protested that the young
woman had left on the evening of
her arrival, cured. The Colonel was
not satisfied. He appealed to the police,
and they searched the dwelling infinitely;
presume that Izzet Bey is man of in
huence. Nothing was found in the
sanity house, but very foul and NAL
odorous well in the garden drew their
notice. Removing the cover they found
the corpses of the young woman and her
slave, among such a mass of putrid
bones as showed that wholesale murder
had been going on for years, Brought
before the Cadi, the saint confessed his
habit of strangling every woman who
came to consult him, if her jewelry
seemed worth the trouble. Such hide
Gus stories now and then shock the grave,
dumb population of the East.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-29
RECEIPTS.

Per steamer City of Bridgeton. from Florida
81 bbls spirits turpentine II bales cotton. 10
bales screenings, 1 bag wool, pkgs mdse.
Per Charleston and savannah Railway, March
$50 bbls whisky. bbls tallow. 90 boxes to-
bacco. 81 caddies tobacco, bale hides, and
mdse.
Per Savannah. Florida and Western Railway.
March 2S-4i bales cotton, SO cars lumber, $50
bbls rosn. 29S bbls spirits turpentine, bbIs
syrup. "A bbs vegetables, 203 boxes vegetables.
l24 boxes oranges. 81 sacks rough rice, IA sacks
potatoes. bale hides, II bales yarns. and mdse
Per Central Railroad. March 2S-10l bbls
lime, 60 boxes candles. 20 bbls beer, 80 hf bbls
beer, 246 kegs beer, ponies beer, 26S empty
kegs, 10 boxes tobacco, SO bales warps bales
paper stock, 73 bales domestics, bbis Irvine. %
bdls paper, bbls whisky, % cases liquor, ties
hams. 10 sacks peas. 2 k d wagons. q sacks
cotton seed, l car furniture, 20 sacks mari, is
sacks rough rice, 100 bds hides. 4 bags wool, 80
bbls spirits turpent ne, 80 bbls rosin, cars lum
Der, SO pkgs mdse.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-29

Emory P. Beauchamp, of Indiana, who
has just been appointed to a Swiss Consul
late, was an applicant five years ago for the
Belgian mission. Secretary Evarts, accord
ing to the New York Tribune correspondent,
mentioned the matter at Cabinet meeting,
asking Secretary Thompson regarding the
candidates qualifications, inasmuch as they
were fellow-townsmen. Postmaster. General
Key then said he could tell a story which
would throw light on this. He said Mr..
Beauchsmp had the year before addressed
an amusing series Of love letters to young
lady abroad, in one Of which he had made
an offer of his s'hole hart" This was a
good specimen Of his habitusl spelling. The
story raised laugh In the Cabinet, which
disposed of Mr.. Beauchsmp's chances for
the Belgian mission. When he called upon
Mr.. Thompson afterward to inquire con-
corning his prospects, that gentleman ad-
vised him to return to Cologne, and be
thankful If he were allowed to STAY there.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-29

NAVAL S1oREs.-ROsin was in good demand
.--i4v az very drm values; sales 2i5 barrels E,
NJ * and window glass at quotations Spir-
-.rTrDentine was 10 fair demand at steady val
~ ssIes % casks on private terms. WequOte:
5-s1s-A 81 %, b 50 %, G 50 90. d 81 10. E
F5iF s225. G. s. 80, Il 81 IS. - IS. K g SEA,
Wg2 s-l6 n s. 12l6, window glass s. so. Spirits
f.rpgutins-Oils and whiskys 81 =, regulars 55c