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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-01-25
Personal AND LITERARY.

George Bancroft, the historian. Is
expected TO preside ut the centennial
celebration OF the founding Of the En-
eter IN. H. Academy. next June. DIR.
Stebbns, Of San Francisco, will deliver
the address.
Mr. Samuel Reed, an old resident OF
Washington, was told recently that the
condition of his wife, who had been ilT
for some time. was serious. The intel
ligencc greatly agitated him and he soon
died from the shock
The wife 0, Bishop Simp, son. OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, has
presented the new Method st Church
on Garfield avenue, Long Branch, n
han some organ in honor Of the church
beng called a ter her husband. ~ y.
SIN.
John G, SAKE, the poet, is still an
invalid at his sons home in Albany.
His disease is ne ralg 4, accompanied
by chronic dyspe sia, causing m ch
pain and physical emaciat ON. His
mind, however, is un impaired, and he
reads mu and talks as brilliantly as
ever
Captain Mayne Reid, the writer Of
boys books, is wing on farm of sixty
acres in Hereford hire. ii farm is his
hobby, and gives him handsome liv-
ing. Captain Reid still has an income
from his books He wa ks on crutches,
one Of the old wounds he reee we'd in
Mexico having reofenel and lame |
him.
Mark Twain failed TO answer let.
ter written TO him by Serjeant Balan-
tine. After waiting n reasonable time
the latter was so eNasperated at not re-
ceiying an answer that he mailed Twain
u sheet of paper and postage stamp
rs a gentle reminder. Mr. Clemens
wrote back on postal; Paper and
stamp received please send an en-
velope
An ex-cashier of a bank in Law
renee, Kan, died the other day in Kan
sas City. The latter end of the man
was piliable. Driven pemiless into the
streets, about ten years before h S
death, by the bank collapse, to VIII CHI
he had in part contributed he first
maintained his old style of elegant liv-
ing by means of borrowed money, then
fell. step by step, in responsibility, be-
| coming chron' G mendicant, void of
energy, ambition and sell-respect. For
a long time he was a familiar object in
the streets OF Kansas City, earning n
livelihood by peddling pencils and
sweeping out saloons The last act IN
his unhappy history showed Alfred Nc.
MILAN dead in his bed. = Chicago Times.
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MAGNOLIA, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1888

writing and other caleudered paper the
vegetable is used in print and cheap
paper, which would be soft and spongy
without it. Blotting paper is the only
kind made without sizing in it
The Herald man was then given some
figures on paper and told to WORK them
out. There is very good profit made
by manufacturers, but the dealers do
not make nearly rs much. The wages
paid at mills vary and are fairly good.
Linen pulp is made out of linen rags
strictly. though some mills adulterate
their linen pulp with little wood. but
they are few. Some mills use as high
as seventy per cent of wood in making
print paper. The general percentage
is fifty per cent wood to fifty per cent.
rags. ! here is chemical wood pulp
made which is so good that some claim
it is better than the genuine article, and
many mills make an apparently good
article OF print paper out of it. The
State of Michigan probably furnishes
the mills that have so perfected this sys-
TEN.
In speaking Of qualities Of paper Mr..
B, the informant, said There
are prints, plain white. of weights from
tCil W SCNGul1 UOuiluS " tuG DullNlts
tissue manillas-all colors, writing
paper, poster print, very heavy gener-
ally, and made OF plenty of wood pulp,
different colors, and MANILA. OF this
latter there is No. /. all made out OF
MANILA rope and bagging; No. 2, with
some wood and straw, or either
wood or straw adulteration. There
is also bogus MANILA, which
has very little manila stock
used. 1t is principally made of wood
and straw. The tints to paper are Civ
en- when the pulp is being made by the
introduction into the eng ne" men
toned above of the necessary quantity
OF analine dyes of the desired color.
The iiatness and thickness of the paper
| is given to the pulp when yet wet. 1t
is fed into a receiver, from which it runs
out on an endless wire belt, which car
ries it between wooden and iron rollers
/ alternately, each one squeezing the pulp
tighter until the right thickness OF the
sheets is obtained. The iron rollers are
hollow and heated by steam introduced
/ in each end by iron tubes which extend
4 from one end of the frame to the other,
4 and are connected with the furnace of
the mill. The pulp enters at one end
as pup and energies at the other end of
| the system of rollers cut and ready as
paper for counting and packing, which
/ is done by girls and boys All paper is
cut and counted except the end G roll
er paper used by large papers on patent
presses. This paper is run off on roll
ers and they weigh about five hundred
pounds each. Print paper costs from
four and one-half to ten cents pound,
Chicago Herald.
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HUMOROUS.

In a town not many miles from
Boston man stepped into a neighbor 5
house, whore he saw the head of the
family lying upon his back on the floor,
and his Wife standing over him, as he
thought, with q threatening air. He
was about to withdraw when the pros
trate man shouted: "Come along in,
Steve; she is only chalking me out q
pair of pants"
An old tar-heel who was 'thar''
says that at the battle of Chancellors-
vile, while the fight was raging, Gener-
al Rhodes rode up to General Ramseur
and asked him what time it was. Ram
senr, pulling out hi old time piece
slowly, said General, in such an
emergency as this my old watch never
runs Rhodes took" right on and
returned to where the bullets were
''ticking' the seconds. = Chicago Tfi5-
uRe
81 am sorry to inform you, said
q man TO an Arkansas gentleman, 'that
your son has been killed in balloon
ascension "How?" asked the gen
tleman. "Well, you see, he went up
with the professor and the balloon
dropped suddenly and killed both Of
them $50 it was the descension that
killed himP My friend. when you come
into this neighborhood with a piece OF
information, give it straight. "-Arkan-
SaS Traveter.
Wee Johnnie was riding on the
cars with his mother and dropped on
the floor one of the peanuts he was eat
ing. After he had finished the others
he began to climb down TO get the one
on the floor, but his mother stopped
him, saying that he could not have it.
He knew that his mother would not
change her mind and he sat still in ST.
lence for several minutes But he could
endure it no longer, and soon pitt
ful little voice piped out: "Mother,
can { get down on the floor and look
at that peanutP''
Rev. George I. Rider, in his North
american Rectew article on journalism,
says: "a latter day parvenue, its ephem-
eral flutter, its perpetual coming and
going, its very irridescence transeiency
and unresting iiux constitute its rGison
d ctre. Its illumination is
cold, auroral, spectral, as of the cere-
brum" OF course; TO be sure; GER
tainly. We never said it WASH t---and
we shall anxiously look for a solution OF
Mr.. Riders puzzle in the next number
Of the ReUieH, We could never guess
it. -NorristoWH Herald
Charley b; Do we need a correspond
ent at Des Moines? No, Charley, we
do not. Des Moines Is the only place
where we do not need a correspondent.
We joyfully wallow in correspondence
from every other place on this broad
continent, but we cannot have corre-
spondent at Des Moines. An early
flame of ours lives in Des Moines. We
are parted now forever 1t was not
that our love cooled. or that she died
Young No, Charles, the trouble we
had with that love affair was not that
she died young. but that her father
didn't The bull dog likewise, was not
at all tired. You see now why we have
hallowed associations with De Moines
which makes it painful to US to pead
correspondence from that placs:-s
FsicF,
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That Abominable Indies Hat.


A great deal Of space has been taken
up in the papers denouncing the style
of ladies' hat that shuts out SO mueh
landscape They are, indeed, n first
class nuisance, particularly in churches,
theaters. and other places of popular
anu 4ement. These bats, be sides being
adorned with enough plumes and
feathers to fit out a hearse, are loaded
down with large bird. After awhile
we suppose the ladies will wear dead
cats, or a secon l-hand rat, fora change.
To the theater-goer the big ladies' hat,
or rather, the big hat OF the lady, is q
perpetual source of rage, particularly
Ii the hat is Just in front of him. In
order to see what is being perpetrated
on the stage he m st crane his neck to
the right. and just abo it the time he is
becoming interested she leans over TO
whisper something very important TO
her right-hand neghbor, and once
more the unfortunate man thinks he is
looking at an ostrich. He gets criclS
in his neck trying to see the stage over
her let shoulder. so she has moo casion
TO shut his view fro II that side, for
he sinks back in despair and into his re-
served scat, for which he mulcted him
pain in his neck has fled, the applause
of the audience arouses h IN to the fact
that he is not getting the worth OF his
money, SO he assumes an Almost erect
position to look over the aforesaid os-
trich, and just about the time he obtains
a glimpse OF the hero taking he scalp
of the victim, or pressing the form of
the rescued maiden to his shirt bosom,
4 ~. .,
"Down in iront y He drops into his
dollar and a quarter reserved scat and
he, is more reserved than the seat during
the rest OF the performance. There
should be regulation by which all the
women with big hats be placed in seats,
one behind the other so they may learn
to appreciate how pleasant it is to pay
\ a dollar and quarter of hard earned
/ lucre for the privilege OF looking at the
remains OF an ostrich for two or three
mortal hours.
We have never heard of but one in
stance where man who was sitting be-
I hind one of those abominable ladies'
I hats ever got the advantage of the wear.
er of said hat. She wore hat that wa:
almost rs large as the national debt.
/ The unfortunate man might have rs
] well been downin q cellar, as faf rs see
/ ing the performance ON the stage was
concerned. The gentleman eaned oveI
and informed the ady that her hat pre-
vented several persons in the rear from
witnessing the performan 9. and aske
her to pie Sc remove her hat. She told
him snappishly to mind his own affairs,
She was not very nj lady, anyhow.
The gentleman did not reply, but he
put on his own hat. At this outrage on
( Tire audience, a dozen gentlemen calle
out, take off that hat" The wearel
of the vast hat supposed her, hat was
meant, SO she got up and Indignantly
ilounced out OF the uilding. The gen
tleman had removed his hat in tine mean
time, and had clear view of the stage
during the entire performance. - Zerai
SYtiagS.
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Children's Dres se,.

Pretty dresses of dark India red cash
mere are worn BY little girls, These
are made with n guimpe and sleeves of
&c or white embroidered muslin, with
six lining beneath for war1 Tn. The
cashmere is shirred lust below the yoke
shaped guimpe, and again around the
knees; below the knees are two bias
puls and n gathered irill of the CASH
mere doubled. The dress is thus made
all in one piece, is fastened behind, and
is ornamented by square bow on the
left side of the neck and on each sleeve.
Still simpler dresses are entirely of the
cashmere. either pale blue, rose, or red
being chosen, and the guimpes are
tucked horizontally, and worn with a
large collar of embroidery, or else with
double ruff standing around the neck
very high and full.
Jersey suits for girls OF six or eight
years are very handsome with a skirt Of
the new checked velvet, such as blue
and ecru checks with blue Jersey. or
red and green with red Jersey. The
sash is OF cashmere the color of the
wool Jersey waiss, is permanently fast
ened around it in large pleats, and is
tied behind to form large bow with
Nlat ohOlt n kit ckiiA
OF eashn ere, or of cloth, or OF one of the
dark plaids, is nice with a jersey waist
of fine wool of the sare color An
mder-waist of flannel or Of buckskin
should accompany most Jerseys in
order to make them as warm as lined
dress.
Larger girls do not object to the
bright red shades that were used at first
only for their smallest sisters Thefe
are red earers hair pelisses' immed
with black fur, and worn with black
tur an and black stockings. for girls of
twelve or thirteen years These pelisses
may have pleats in the back, or they
may be as close fitting their whole
length as Jersey is. but in any ca e
they must be long enough TO conceal
the dress worn leneath them. - Harper s
BazQr.
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MISTAKEN.

saw her in the railway train,
vis.ou fair she was TO sec'
saw her slyly glance at me,
.nd i of course, glanced buck ag;un.
,rss IN love. felt myheart
Ga trembling when heard her EOlce,
In ! livery tones and accents cloice,
uraliaim that il was " time 10 start.
nav ald man snt near to her,
ssmd lil,e n father watched her moves
Ani fuinc. Tor when fellow loves
A narpnt sometimes will demur.
Tbe further that we iourneyed ON
Thp more enrnptIred became;
The shark of love became iiame.
she must be mine! She must be won.
4, last murmure1: "would you like
III read the paper for awhile?
She took 1t with il 'wtchny smile,
And sajd "she thought she'd rather like
One step at least is gained, thought
And taking courage by success,
gave her hnnd gentle press;
The old man saw it'll was caught.
1Ie shook with rage; he raised his toe;
felt d shock; fancied stars
We're shooting mp and down the cars,
Which made me think 1t time to go.
:. You wretch" he cried, g IN have your life
How dare you touch thnt lady's hand;
That lady, you must understand,
Claims my protection as my rtel
Detroit Free Press.
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down on his gin all OF sudden, and
wouldn't so much rs take a glass o.
Oregon cider.
.'To this day no doubt, Ben thinks
he had q desperate chase after Nell,
and narrer escape of her gettin' into
the home den lone with her big brother,
her father, and his mother-in-law; and
I've never said word to him bout
how she fooled long under the brow o
the hill pirginia (Nec.) Chronicle.
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Pie in New York.

A large pie manufacturer in New
York says his FIRMS present rate OF con
sumption OF flour alone is 1850 pounds
daily, representing at u rough estimate
25, 000 pies. The daily receipts are
about 81, 800 The firm employs 150
persons. and the weekly wages bill
amounts to 50, 400.
"To whom do you sell?'' was asked.
ITO bakeries, restaurants, hotels, and
latterly to a.large number of private
families. We keep sixty-six horses
constantly going, and our constituency
covers New York City, Brooklyn, Jer-
sey City, Williamsburg, Staten Island,
Mount Vernon and Bergen Point.
"Doyou notice any periodical change
in the public taste for piesg"
Eyes. At this season we are run on
largely for mincaapies, pumpkin aud APP
pie. The Saturday preceding Christmas
we used ten tons of mince, aud made it
all ourselves. Into this mince we
poured the contents Of fifty casks of
wine and one hundred barrels of bran
dy. You look surprised, but this is a
fact.
9 In addition to this we are now con
suming dailysix hogsheads OF the best
New Orleans sugar, six tierces of fire.
dried lard, $50 pounds to the tierce.
We do not use any steam.dried lard at
all, as it loses its sweetness. Then we
consume forty barrels of green apples.
ten barrels of eggs and four OF cuTants
day.
"in the fruit season our daily con
sumption averages one hundred barrels
Of buckle erries and forty crates of
blackberries. You see that pile of cases
there? Well, they contain ten thousand
cases of apples, specially put up for our
use, averaging twelve gallon cans in a
case. These are for use in April, May
and June"
"Does the pumpkin pie hold its own
as formerlyN
mo. This good old institution as
! may term it, seems to be going out of
fashion. Pumpkin pie is now eaten
mostly by elderly folks. Among the
younger ones cocoanut and custard is
taking its place. journal.
DIR. G. H. +. Peters, Director of the
Observatory at Hamilton College, has
devoted the labor of twenty-five years
TO his system of sidereal charts, twenty
sheets of which he has now finished.
Each sheet is sixteen by twenty-four
Inches in size, and on each are marked
from ?, 500 to 1900 telescope stars, the
mapping being carried to stars of the
fourteenth magnitude, something never
before attempted.
"A blind man. in Newark, N. j.,
carries on retail cigar business with
out the aid of a clerk. He makes
change perfectly. keeps track of the
various kind Of stock. and is reckoned
clever eachre player. 81 have
picked certain number of pin-holes,
he said, ''in certain places on the
cards, and by sliding my fingers over
them l find out instantly what each
card is.
Bishop Ireland, of st. Paul, has for
hidden Roman Catholics in his diocese
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"A Pittsburgh pawnbroker has OBJ
served that ninety-nine per cent. OF the
money he lends is spent on Intoxicating
drink
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Bishop ireland, of St. Paul, has for
hidden Roman Catholics in his diocese
to act as saIoon-keepers, - Chicago
NelDS.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-27

6E<96s1ze; May, 575z96s5zc; steamer, 65a65zc.
Oats firm; Western white, 51953c; mixed, 4995lc;
Pennsylvania, 5o954c. Bye quiet, 72975c.
NEW YORK, February 26.-Flour dull;
supeTine Western and State, s. 7093 90 Wheat
opened 5z@11sc lower, but afterward ruled
stronger and recovered most of the decline, clos
ing i1g weak; ungTaded red. 81 o7al 2s Corn opened
reacted zoe, closing firm; ungraded, 5997i5zc.
NEW ORLEANS, February 20 Flour
quiet and steady; high grades s. S71z46 SIX. Corn
dull and heavy, but holders seem unwilling to
make concessions; white. Sc. yellow. csc. Oats
quiet and weak. Sc. Cornmeal-none here; job
bing at 50 IS: Hay dull; ordinary, sl2sle prime,
slS9ls; choice, So fancy, s2l Rice in active de-
mand; ordinary to prime. 41s96J4c. Bran quiet;
held at 81 20.
ST.. LOUIS, February 26.-Flour dull and
about &c lower Whest lower and unss tiled, but
81 loq1 1O5s closing at 81 1919 March; 81 125s to
81 1lsz, closing at 81 llS April 81 15 10 81 1875,
closing al 81 az May 81 O8 July; No. red 81 OK
bid. Corn active but lower and unsettled SIC to
bic cash; 521zc TO 5lssc, closing at 5214c March
55sc to 5S closing Al SIC April 55zc 70 55e, clos.
ae TO e cash. $685. Mare safeh o sss Gss5
April, 41e to 4014c May. Rye dull &c bid. Barley
steady, 6Ogsoc. Cornmeal steady, 81 90.
CHICAGO February 26.-Fleur quiet;
spring, s. 50: Sinnesota s. 50si s. baEers 81 Is
grades s5sS s. Wheat unsettled but Generally ally
81 Os5s Anil; 81 i31Ssi 1879 May; No. z Chicago
spring. 81 o11zGl 07as; No. ? red winter. 81 Og5l
Corn unsettled but generally lower 5614 a565Sc
cash and February, 561sG56I&c March, SIC April,
6o5<a60zsc May, 6O5se June 6114c July. Oats in
active; Sy5sc cash, S95se February, S51sc March,
40c April, 421Sc May, 4Isz941szc June, 4lc July.
Rye, csc. Barley inactive, S0gSIc.
Cal Wheat irregular; 81 0s55S April, 81 1910
] 1879 May. Corn irregular; 561 s9564c February,
567sc March, SIC April. 605sgelc Nay, 6o1zc June,
March, 4O1zc April, 4211sc May, 4Is4c June
Eeceipts-Flour, $1,000 barrels: wheat % 900
bushels: corn, 800 600; oats, los 500 rye, 10000;
barley, 1900.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-27
FUTURE MOVEMENTS.

The Andy Baum is The Friday packet for
Cincinnati.
THE Will Kyle, Capt. Lew Hates, is due
up for Cincinnati.
The Kate Adams is the United States
mail packet Thursday evening for Arkansas CITY
THE Lee-L Line packets tomorrow evening
are the James Lee, for Friars Point and the Goa
homa, for Osceola.
THE O. Line packet New Mary Houston,
Capt. Chas. Miller. is due down. bound for New
Orleans. Elliott Miller is in the office.
The Belle Memphis, Capt. /. II. Mckee,
is the AnchorLine packet this morning at 10
is her clerk.
The Katie Hooper, Capt. E. B. Smith, is
the packet this evening at O'Clock for all points
on Arkansas river. Charles Musselnlan and Ed
Gay are her clerks.
The City Of Vicksburg, Capt. Robt. Z.
Riley. is the Anchor Line packet this morning at
10 O'Clock for Vieksburg and the bends. w c.
Blenker is her clerk.
The Rene Macready, Capt. O. K. Joplin,
is the Memphis and Little Rock railroad packet
this evening at o clock for Madison. Fred Jones
and eabe Booker are her clerks.
The elegant passenger packet W. P. Hal
hday, Capt Beck Jolly, is the Anchor-Line packet
this morning at 10 o'clock for New Orleans and all
intermediate landings. Owen G. Gates is her
clerk.
1.-THE John s. Bransford, Capt J. g. Holder,
Is the packet this evening O'Clock for all points
on St. Francis river in place of the Rene Macready,
going through to Mark Tree crossing of the Missis
sippf and Kansas City railroad. J. d. Block and
Charles stockley are her clerks
The Hard Cash, Capt. Ed c. Postal, will
arrive to-day, and leaves again to morrow evening
at O'Clock for all points on White river, going
through TO Jacksonport and making connections
with packets for upper White and Black rivers.
Charles NJ. and Joseph Postal are her clerks.
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RREApsTuEEs.

CoRE-While. 62@63; mixed, 62NG63c
from store; soc from track by carload from Ievee
CORNMEAL-Kiln-dried,S IS 10 from store: lc@
15e cheaper from mill, levee and track, to grade
OATS-White, Sc from store; mixed, sic from
store; black, CSC from store; red, 75c from store
Round lots from levee l92c cheaper.
HAY-Chofce, from store, S5990c; prime, S0d
Soc: prairie, SOC; round LOIS from levee or depot
S2aS per tea cheaper.
BRAN.-sl 10 per 100 lbs from store; 7Oa72c from
levee track
FLOUR-From store-family, IS; extra family
S. so; choice Sc; fancy. So 2596 so; extra fancy
Sc 20 az; patents, 81 259S 25 round lots from evee
or trsck.l0gl5c cheaper.
oATnEAL-In half barrels, 81 5094 IS from
store.
CRACKED wHRAT-In half barrels, "a 5e@5
HOMINY AND GRITs-Frsm store, 81.
WHITE BEANs-Navy, So from store; medium,
81 IS.
7GSc.
LOUISVILLE, February 26.-Flour firm;
extra family, So 1894. Wheat firm; No. red win
ter, 81 logl II Corn steady, with a fair demand !;
NO. white, 54955c; No. mixed. 5i454c. Oats
active and firm; mixed Western, 4SS44c.
CINcINEATI, February 26.-Flour weaker;
family, 81 so95 10; fancy, IS S5@5 20 Wheat
weaker; No. red winter, 81 1901 II. Corn heavy
4314c. Ryein light demand but holders Ern 6Sc.
Barley nominal.
BALTIMORE, February 26.-Flour quiet
and steady; Western superhne, s. 5oa4 extra,
81 5o95; family, So 25G6 .. WheAt-western
lower and dull; No. . winter red, spot, 81 1870
1875; February, 81 20 asked; March, 81 201< bid :
April, 81 21s9l 2kssS; May, Il 233kd1 %. Corn
Western lower and dull; mixed, pot, 6s1< e6s5ze;
February, &C asked; March, 67S4ge75se; April,