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STRAY NOTICE.

Taken up by Benj. 8. Kerns. living in Benton
day OF Sovembe' A. D. 1859, Ipided steer, 5 ysarS
old, large 90" on the right hip, and weight lOsO
smai! underbit out Of each ear and weighs about
go pounds. 1h. pided steer appraised at $50 a1I
George " Lodge before John Isichey J. +.
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The Demo f,ut this week very un.
kindly characterizes Maj. Bell, A. X.
Collett and w. H. Sheeks as the lone
and siueao Ct the democratic party.
We presume the writer of the item con.
siders himself the brains.
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WARN

Notice is hereby given that my wife Lsttie Mikel
has LETT NV bed and board without my consent
All persons are warned not to trust or harbor her
on my .ccodnt as will not be responsible for any
debts contracted by her W. MIKEL
no 3S2t
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that letter. OF Admins.
tration the estate of Ira Elliott deceased,
granted to the undersigned. III. lth day Of Dee.
1882, by the Probate Court of Adair County. All
iseT t hn @ ~ Ne
istrator, within year after the date OF said let
said estate and II such Claims be not exhibited
within years from the date of said letters. they
will be forever barred. W r. HOPKINS.
n36-4t* Administrator.
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n35-4w*
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04
Curious and Odd,

Aaron Glover, a Sumter county,
Ga, negro, does not perspire like any
other man. The left side of his face
will trickle like a stream while the
right is as dry as bone. Then his
body is just the reverse-the right side
seems a continual stream while the left
is as dry as a piece of iron lying before
big fire. Aaron enjoys most excellent
health.
A post-mortern examination of the
body Of Jonathan Chesley, of North
wood Centre, n. H., blacksmith who
died suddenly, showed that his stomach
had been eaten by the common bott.
a grub worm which attacks horses. 1t
is supposed that he swallowed the eggs
of the bott'tly which had been deposit
ed on the legs of horses he had shod,
and that they had Matched in his stom-
ach.
An old black doctor, who said he
graduated in some foreign country, re-
Gently hung out shingle in Louisville.
He soon had the black population in
mortal terror, it being believed that
he was a hoodOo. When asked about
1t he said: 81 take this piece of wax
and wrap two hairs from your head
about it and put It under girls pill
low and she'll be dead in love with you.
L put something else in it and she'll
hate you. / can get your picture and
by getting the rigIP kind of drugs can
make you sick or wen az / please. The
white folks laugh at hoodoo doctors,
We black folks, however, believe it,
If you read the Bible you will find it
was known and honored then. l could
Tell you things Tide done that would
make your hair rise. But the blacks
here are fools. Ican't make 'em believe
anYthing.r
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04
NUMBER 33.

At the magnificent banquets which
Nero gave he caused a shower Of roses
to be rained down upon his guest from
an aperture in the ceiling. Heliogaba-
lus carried this to such an insane length
as to cause the suffocation of several Of
his guests, who could not extricate
themselves from the heap of fiowers.
And Antiochus, even in winter, slept
in tent of gold and silk on bed OF
roses. Cleopatra, when she entertained
Antony, covered the floor of the ban
quet room to the depth of an ell, and
Heliogabalus was not content with
drinking a certain kind of wine made
of roses, but was extravagant enough to
bathe in the Irvine ofroses."
A little daughter of Mr.. Peacock, of
Winstead, Conn, fell into tub OF
water and remained in the water about
| five minutes, when it was found life
was supposed to be extinct, and ply
sicii.n who was called in 'sss-shiSTssseds thiS
opinion. About 4 4o'clock the next day,
while the mother and another woman
were standing by the coffin, the latter
remarked that a flash was coming over
the pallid face of the child. The women
looked and the cheeks slowly regain d
their natural hue, and the blue lines
softened and grew red. AT last the infant
gave faint gasp, opened its eyes a
moment and then closed them again.
rhe mother frantically snatched the
child from its coffin, tore the clothing
} from its body and chafed its limbs.
The other women went for doctor,
and when he arrived the child had near
ly regained consciousness and is now
! about well.
A dog belonging to man in Tusco-
loosa, ILL.,, presented himself one day re-
Gently at the kitchen door with good
sized pup in his mouth. As there wert
!, no young CANNES about the premises OF
in the immediate vicinity the member
:, of the household were considerably sur
: prised, and especially at the manner il
. which this one had been ushered int,
their presence. Food having been givei
= them the dog soon disappeared with hi
y charge, returning shortly afterwar'
without it. Search was instituted, bu
- no pup could be found. For several day
!, afterward the dog was noticed to carr.
= away the greater portion of the foo
given him without scarcely ever eatin
any. Upon following him it was learf
ed that he carried his food to tn
p aforesaid pup, who was found to b
N snugly housed under a porch near by.
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04
Another Landmark To Go.
A Resort that was the Centre OF
philadelphia Trade In Pre-
Revolutionary Days.

-ASnkher pre-revolutionary landmark
has wv (hin tine past week been selected
for az truction, The struetpre in
questiol is that old two-story .slle-
rooted s\ \pre which was once known a.
the LONDON Coffee House, and which
stands onthe southwest corner of Front
and Market streets. 1t is now occupied
by the firm OF G. & A. Ulrich, wholesale
tobacco merchants, and has been in
that family since the year 1917, at
which tine tile business was established
by the faiher of the members of The
present fin. 1t was originally built
about the YEAR 1902, by Charles Reed,
who boughathe lot in 1901 from Letitia,
daughter oA William Penn, In 1879
Reeds widow conveyed the property to
Israel PtAberton, who, on his death
in 1851, Slled it to his son Johu, on
whose dealt lit was sold to the Pleasant
family. Finn the latter's hands it
passed in t96 into those of James
} Stokes, for thal was then stated to be
: 'lhe great s,h q eS216 lbs. I'D. - and
i, Mr.. Stokes ihig held it until 1917,
. when it passh ito the hands of the
| senior membf o. the firm which now
n occupies it. i1Rts first opened as
coffee house in le year 1854, the pro-
t prietor being he William Bradford.
d printer, whtm applying to the
Vi Governor for Il cense to keep the
l. house, said "RAing been advised to
o keep coffee hon lpr the benefit of
/ merchants and tfefs, and, as some
Is people may at tim lie desirous to be
+" furnished with Per liquors besides
,e coffee, your petty per apprehends it is
er necessary to N the Governors
Id license.n The IKt at once became
le popular and watatronized by the
IN Governor and manpther persons of
note, as well as by prominent and
ne well-to-do stranger Being situated
in such conspicpd band then central
a part of the city, tf* *ffee house soon
!" became sort OF eX0ge. and publc
er sales of slaves, live wagons and
carriages and lesser es were held in
RI, the street IN mont u public room.
es- In 1870 the premise fere rented TO
an Clifford Daily by Johe embertop. the
.ys then proprietor, WI ing stanch
on Quaker, made Daliy he following
ON agreement before leas la the house /;
es- "On the 9Th of IN 1880, the
md said Daily cQvenant& agrees and
the promises that he Wtert his en-
ne, deavors, as Chriss Ii nreserve
decency and order in 3use and To
ard discourage the profaI tba sacred
name of God Aim v m,rsing
ked swearing, ETC., and house on ~,
ned the first day of the 4 ALWAYS Nv
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04
HOME. sssr HOME.
tAs oripira, wr;t,ep,

tAs originy written.)
Mid pleasures and Aces though we may
roam,
Be it ever SO humble ares no place like
homel
A charm from the skisa aems to hallOw US
there
like the love Of a iaher
Surf assing all otherN
Which, seek through Nworld, is neer
met with elsewhere
There's a spell in the ade
Where our infancy pad,
Even stronger tnan Time nd more deep
than Despair
An exile from Home, spudor dazzles in
vain
=, give me my lowly tltehd cottage
The birds and the lambkir thAt come at
my call
Those who named me wiAprde,
Those who played by my He,--
Give me them with the inn,en9o dosrer
Tho Joys Of q the palaces thrOstywhich l
Only swell my bearrs anguish, ,tfrve's no
place like Homo, N
HOME, SWEET HoMi.
(As revised by the author, date nj, Known,
and said TO be copied from Mr., Payne 5
manuscripts, and with his own predse Pinc-
tuation.) AN
Mid pleasures and palaces though ge nay
roain, N,
Re It ever so humble, there's no place lSe
| homel
A charm from the sky seems to hallway
there,
Which, seek through the world, is neS
| met with elsewhere
Home, home, sweet, sweet home
: There's no place like homel
| There's no place like home
An exile from home, splendor dazzles
vain
0, give me my lowly thatched cottag
| again
The birds, singing gayly, that come at m
! call
I Give me them land the peace OF min
| dearer than all
Home, home, sweet, sweet home
| There's no place like home
There's no place like home
ADDITIONAL sTANzAs.
tThe following additional verses TO Il
.ong of" Home, Sweet Home,' Mr.. PayI
| linked 10 lne hnebl tl iiluHits hih pitovhs'
lhem To Mrs. Bates. in London, relatl'
of his and the wife of u wealthy banker') }
To US in spite of the absence Of years,
How sweet the remembrance OF n"hE st
appears
From ailurements abroad, which but hatt
| the eye,
The unsatished heart turns and says with
sigh,
Rome. home, sweet, sweet home.
There is no place like home
There is no place like home
Your exileis blest with all fate can besto'
But MINK has been checkered with many
woe
Yet, though different our fortunes, o
thoughts are the same, :.
And both, as we think of Columbia
claim.
Home, home, sweet, sweet home
There's no place like home
There's no place like home
john HOWARD PAYNE
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04

80 good of you to urge your friend 50
earnestly to buy bonnet for his wife,
You continued conversation about it,
you remember, that evidently begun in
the street. Mr.. Knowlton, my m*fried
life has been very happy, and although /
my husband is sick he is in a condition
to get well again, and the future is |
bright with hope. have thought all
along that you only wanted good wife
to complete you, and have picked cut
one for you who, If you take to, and are
fortunate enough to win, will make
your life happy l have sister who is
Just like me in everything-a counter
part in fact she is employed in store
something like this, farther up the
street. will give you letter of in
PRODUCTION if you like. l sell flowers,
she sells feathers you can make her
acquaintance-bu feathers, ETC., and
in time, you may be intimate enough to
ask if you call upon her [ shall say
nothing to her meanwhile, unless you
desire it but if you make slow progress,
| 1 will arrange it 50 that you can meet
her at my home. | AIN sure she will
like you, and if you like me, you ought
to like her. How does the proposition
strike you ~
At last the merry lite woman ended
! her speech, and waited until her would
: be admirer had recovered sufficiently tt
Q make answer. The novelty of thu
v whole affair, from the buying of th'
bonnet to the proposed introduction
o to second fair one, caused the dumb
[ foundedly perplexed" bachelor to ex
i plain: VIA -..
"Well, this is the oldest experienc
!. ever had ] have always said tina
4 my state should be one of blessed single
!, ness-and her am in the matrimonia
net, caught fast Yes, III see you
II sisterl'' SAID Knowlton, decidedly, iumI
ing to his feet and giving the stool
m wbirl. 'I'll SEQ your sister! And if sh
,s is half as jolly and good as yourself, L
nj do my best TO wed her ~
n Feathers proved as excellent pr
IA text as flowers. Knowlton made extri
,e ordinary progress in few brief weel
and "Sister Hattie" who was, if an,
,a thing more lovely than Jenny, WI
,v captured completely. Their first meetir
as was an example Of simultaneous, stror
mutual liking and as the days sped on
as deepened.
~ Knowlton prospered in his busine
,ro and prospered in his love Jenny's hu
band got well, and there being nothing
y, the way, the generous bachelor became
ir, benedict, married Hattie, built sm
,w double cottage on Bergen Heights,
nh that the sisters are next-door neig
bors, and though be may have occasi
ur to gTumbIe at expenses as much as Ba
mn shay hereafter, he has registered "
ver to draw the line at bonnets; for ho
his ever reasonable it may be for other N
LET to complain of prices, and frequ'
the changes in millinery styles, he
never say word so long as his "
do makes good selections and his sister
law wears "a love of bonnet"
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04

kept closed from public use, that due
regard and reverence may be manifested
for retirement and the worship of God. !"
Daily also bound himself to pay PEN
atty of e10O if he permitted any gam
bling with dice or cards, and to fulfill
this purpose his first lease was only for
one year and his second for twice that
length of time. At the end of that
period 1t was used as store and
dwelling, and later simply as dwelling
Pa. Exchange.
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04
sorabs.

What soup would cahnibsls prefer9 \
A broth of a boy. 3
A terrible 'frame" OF mind incloses "A
the ''picture of despair.n Il
1t costs eight good dogs to get even
an ordinary kind of wife in Siberia
They come high, etc.
A boy without haI.l7,, hasss Z. rs nam.
rested at Altoona fol = s e~ Which
minus hands, he SEEM is 81 ..blishedf
foot in it.'' ieth ien rotieo
My dear, 1 foo f':.e i.islssrsted !
lying across the palse ;.sst ,5s ies ID,
"You goosey those al 6 n - sns:s5n \: rs
gloves.'' ~ ss,.,sf,ys q
Aunt Esther was trying 8 $'
lit Eddie to retire at suns q, yo,, s. I
as an argument that the little S5lsa frss.
went to roost at that time. eyes!
Eddie, ''but then, aunty, the old he
ways goes with them.'' ,.a
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04

Mike Finnegan Ito postotice clerk /:
"Sure, is there lether for me 90 Clerk !:
"What name 2" Mike; "0h, never
mind the name. Don't be tooinquasi-
tive, Oi only wants me lether." Clerk /:
eyes, but | cannot give you letter
unless l know your name" Mike I:
'Well, thin, me name is Pat O'Don-
nell" The clerk could find no letter
for that name, and Mike went off NUT
tsTing "The inquasitive spalpeen
thought as how he was schmart ; but
Oi'm afther pulling the wool over his
owes, for | guy him the wrong name p,
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04
Effects of Extortion.

Niagara Falls isfsutfering severely
from its reputation for extortion,
The village looks squalid, the hackmen
are idle and tourists shun the place.
Nevertheless, the tolls" making 1t
impossible for the visitor to move with
ontspaying from ten cents to half a dol
lar, are still maintained,
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04
A Love of a Bonnet.

81 promised to buy my wife a new
bonnet,'' remGEked the editor of the
Recorder, as he crossed Canal street
arm in az m with his bosom friend, Al
KnowltSn, dodging truck as he utter
ed the words, and stubbing the toe of
tight boot against the curb in conse
quenee.
"Vyer, now that you are in town and
Oh Bl oadway, you ought to keep youi
word and buy her as nice bonnet as
you can hnd,'' answered his friend as
he steadied the newspaper man, reslor'
ing to him MIS- equilibrium.
"Yes, know | ought to; but you
see we country editors are not llessed
usually with as mas:y dollars as there
are quads in the case. have come on
TO New York 10 buy material and to see
lbSut commission merchants ads, and
must not run myself )aort. Ther
again, it is matter Of two hundred
miles to FreetOwn, and ! must go vi
the river on business before go home
so that on the whole the expense am
the trouble of carrying the head-gea
is too much. 1 guess Angel will have t
do without it."
"Do without it ~ exclaimed Know
ton, with a wealth of reproach in h
tone. 'sDo without it You are pre-
Uy fellow to grumble about expense an
distance Your generosity is about
poor as your grammar. You say yo
, have come on to New York to bl
printing material; ; now l say come o.
and buy a bonnet for your wife ! YC
: can do the opposite, but she will BILE
+ the expense if it is handsome hat, al
e she can let her Deighbors know 1t can
# all the way from New York"
9 "No, Iguess won't get it this time
y said Editor Bawshay.
:, "But guess you will, though"
le piled Knowlton. "I'll give you no pea
u until you purchase . very love OF a DC
10 net for that charming woman to who
1t YOU refer so carelessly as my wifi
IN Come, now, we will begin with the Fl
O. store where there is the least likeliho
Ih of finding one. Here, old fellow, is
Q, place where they sell artificial fiowe
oi let's goin and see if by chance there
~ bonnet for sale."
H. Somewhat against his will Bawsf
W. suffered himself to be drawn into
'Se trap, and presently Knowlton was a
'A- ing to 'see some bonnets."
llo "Well," said the proprietor of
ny establishment, in reply, ''well, we dc
De keep bonnets; our business is conf
req +, artificial flowers but perhaps
son i ave one er two which have been u
ma t, display samples of our goods wi
at we can let you have at a low figure,
ans this way"
ne In the rear of the large store the
me nets we're found and duly inspec
nan The first four were unanimously
I'm demned, but the fifth was charm
'des So thought the two male connoiss
pom as they gazed at the delicate affair,
aloft in the right hand of the mefch
nple who swayed gracefully in curvili
-"I lines-giving 1t a sheer now to lsrb
run and now to starboard,
lilies "Yes," quoth KnowIton-who "
bachelor, and Of course au fat il
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04
For the Fair Sex.
Summer Wraps.

One of the latest styles of ulster gives
the effect of suit, but the only object
In improving it in this way is to make 1t
take the place of a suit, which it cannot
do, for in that case it ceases to be itself
and becomes something else. The OBJ
lection TO it lies in this That massing
more folds above the draperies Of the
dress increases the weight without
adding anything to the use or the
beauty ; for an ulster is not intended to
be beautiful, and, in summer particu-
larly, requires to be as light as possible.
The dust cloak in which the cape forms
the sleeves, and which is held in to the
back, is perhaps the most desirable
summer wrap. 1t does not crush the
sleeves of the dress like the tight lifting
ulster it is easy to put on or take off,
and may be made in cloth of light
weight, in dark linen, or in summer sll
small check or hair stripe. Where
little warmth and very light weight il
required, cost not being so much Of al
object, the gathered cloaks in fine camel'
hair, with lining of twilled silk ant
facing down the front of striped moire
are very good and useful, either in blacl
or ecru.
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04
The Broad Field of Science.

Oxide-Bronze A New and Remark
able Compound Metal.--The Pur-
poses to which 1t can be Applied.
One OF the most valuable and interest
ing products of the scientific investiga-
tion of the age is the new material call
ed ''Oxide. Bronze" which was invent
ed by Mr.. ]. b. Stamour of PhDadel-
phia, and is now being manufactured
by the American Oxide-Bronze Co., an
organization incorporated here in Nov,
1882, with a capital of 81, 900, 900, $40, GOO
shares of $40 each. The officers of the
company are President, John j.
Reese, M. D., Professor of Toxicology
in the University of Pennsylvania (;
| Secretary and Treasurer, E. V. Ma
chette, and j. b. Stamour, Superintend-
ent. Oxide Bronze may be described as a
compound metal, stronger, harder,
tougher and more durable than brass,
or any other alloy, and considerably
cheaper 1t is adapted to almost every
purpose that brass is used for, and is
particularly valuable for situations
where there is much friction, as in
car boxes and journal bearings,
Reihle Bros, the testing machine build
ers here, have recently tested the oxide
bronze and found that its tensile strength
was SO, ,502 pounds to the square inch
a strength greater by several thousands
of pounds than that of any other meta
yet known. Thomas Wood, of this city
who manufactured the Brush electric
light machines here, used oxide-bronz
in the journal boxes, and after eigb
! months of constant use they were takel
out, and the metal was found to be pei
feet, Notwithstanding the tremendou
d friction to which it had been subjected
l. Other severe tests of the new metal bav
been made, with equally satisfactor
results. Owing to the immense strengt
and durability of the metal, il is admil
ably adapted for paddle wheels an
. spikes for steamships. 1t is also bein
satisfactorily used instead Of brass, fC
/ cemetery and lawn ratings, etc. A
U it can be made of any color and of al
d degree of hardness, and as it possess
n so many advantages over brass, bronz
II etc., and yet can be sold at so much low
ie rates, it is certain before long to pra
A. tically supersede the dearer and less us
y full material. Philadelphia Exchange.
10
The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04

Tungsten imparts remarkable prop
critics to steel. When there is from
10 to II per cent. present in the steel the
latter cannot be worked on the lathe,
and 1t resists the fle, but it may be
forged and polished. Steel with to
8 per cent. of tungsten is still hard, but
it can be worked on the lathe, Tungsten
steel can be highly magnihed, and mag
nets made from it have very great power,
Tools made from tungsten steel are
very hard. They are first forged into
shape and then ground,
Experiments have been made by NJ.
Leforte on the production of vowels
and whispered speech. Air is blown
into a cavity Of variable capacity, open
and closable at the upper part, The
sounds characteristic of vowels ale this
produced. The author claims TO prove
the vowels are not timbres las generally
,aught) they are notes of different
heights of the instrument of speech
| quite distinct from the vocal instru
ment). Various timbres may be con-,
municated to them by action of the
muscles of the organ of voice,
Every bread-maker has observed tha
the temperature at which her dough i
kept while rising hasa decided iniluenc
upon its quality, If it is kept warm
so that the process of fermentation
goes on rapidly, the bread will be white
and tenderer than if it is allowed t
rise In low temperature, The littl
yeast plant with the long name flourishe
l'ili,l',uis 2 a.sssmperatureJ of about 72o an
best arsss: -. aala 5ne Es'ss s,;sziT.ss m q
when it has abundance On safaf 49,, % ss fss,I
upon, If no sugar is put into the
dough the plant converts the starch
of the grain into sugar and feeds upon
it.
In an article published by DIR. r.
Koch it is asserted that the only sub.
stances worthy of the name of disinfec.
tants are chloride, bromine, iodine
mercuric chlorine, and, perhaps, potas,
SUM permanganate and osmic acid.
1t has been found that spores of the
bacillus of splenic fever kept for many
days in a s per cent. zinc chloride solu-
tlon develop when placed in suitable
nutritive liquids and even when added
to serum containing one-half per cent.
zinc chloride. The author expresses won.
der how this salt should ever have been
seriously regarded by respectable chem
ist as an antiseptic.
1t has been estimated that at least
5OOO meteoric stones reach the earth
annually. These stones are usually of
inconsiderable size, but as they have
been falling since very remote period
in geological history the aggregate
mass which has thus been added TO our
planet must be very great. The largest
meteoric stone ever found is in the
Royal Academy of Stockholm, and
weighs twenty-five tons. The museum
at Copenhagen contains one of ten
tons the British Museum one of more
than five tons the museum at St.,
Petersburg one of 1850 pounds Yale
College one of 1885 pounds; and the
Smithsonian Institute, one of 14OO
pounds,