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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1884-06-25

The Proprietors of the Boletin
Mercantn " have the honour of re-
questing English advertisers to hand
their orders to Mess. AMEDEE
PRINCE & CO who are the sole
Agents for all English q French
Adgertising.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1884-06-25
LITOGRAFIA
n1
SUCESORA DE Morris.

UOnstltuda nuevamente Ddlo MI SOO H0lIOTe' NOo'
compeente direction povsta de titles material necesao
establecimiento de primer orden contando con III
nteigente personal oezco al pdbico esa industrial pu
dcndo eecuar cantos encargos hagan por dlcheS
compcados que sean la scgurdad de que deae sa-
sfcchos todos los gustos enas odas las exleenclas
Tano la simple tareta como artiStico diploma; ell SEN
clio recbo comecia como los docuncntos bancanos; ell
pequeno ee como eeganc marqnlla para bacos etc.
etc. garanzo quedar satisfaction de los nteresados
perfeco los trabajos que hagan en- e eXtrane
Muestrario de oda case de trabao que eneague Sc
exhibra este estabecimentoy remtran vueta de
correo quien 10 soicte.
FORTAI IEIZA 81.
TMPRENTA DEL BOLET1N.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1884-06-25
ENCUADERNACION
DEL "BOLETIN MERCANTIL, y

I'm esta secci0n de La casa, m0ntada con
todos los elementos necesarios provista de
materiales de primera clase, Sc hacen encua-
dernaciOnes en- hoIande>a, cart0n6, pasta es-
pamela, piel de Ievante con relieves, todo per-
fecto y a precios reducidos
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01
THE COST OF A LEAD PENCIL.

''What does it cost to make a lead
pencil % queried reporter of the New
York SIN. ''First let me tell you how we
make pencil said the manufacturer.
.See this fine black powder? That's
graphite. 1t costs twenty-five cents a
pound. This white substance is German
clay. 1t comes across the ocean as ballast
in sailing vessels, and all it costs us is
freight. We mix this clay and this powder
together and grind them in a mill, allow
ing moisture to be added during the process,
until the two are thoroughly assimilated
and are reduced to paste about the con-
sistency of putty. N CIV '.'
''This paste we press into these dies, each
one of which is the size of pencil lead,
except in length. There are four leads in
one of these. After they are pressed we
cut them into the proper length, and bake
them i'll an oven kept at very high heat.
There we have the lead made. Its hard
ness is regulated by the greater or less
amount of clay we mix with the graphite
tho iiiolo oi''y VIC Pun III, eho h'iooi oiio
lead. l.H
''The cedar we use comes principally
from the swamps of Florida, and is obtained
entirely from the fallen trees that lie there.
The wood is delivered to us in blocks
sawed to pencil lengths, some thick, to
receive the lead, and others thin, for the
piece that is glued over the lead The
blocks are sawed for four pencils each.
They are grooyed by saw, the groove
being the place where the lead is to lie.
''The leads are kept in hot glue, and are
placed in the grooves as the blocks are
ready. When that is done, the thin block
is glued fast to the thick one. When dry,
the blocks are run through machine that
cuts the pencils apart. Then they are run
through machine that shapes and bur-
nishes them, and they are ready to be tied
in punches, boxed, aud put out
''The different grades in value are made
by finer manipulation of the graphite.
Here is a pencil that is about the average
quality used in every day business. 1t
costs a little more than one-quarter of a
cent to get it ready for market. We sell it
to dealers at one hundred per cent. profit,
and the dealer makes much more than that.
OF this grade an operator and the ma
chnery will easily make $500 day." p
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

both my hand-'1 love you want you
for my wife l want to take care of you,
dear, if you will let me.
81 can't help it,, l returned feebly and
vaguely.
t'No, of course not, and / don't want you
to. Darling, you must have seen that
love you, and you must, you surely must
care for me little in return y
II don't know said, more feebly still;
and the golden opportunity for revenge and
retaliation was gone by forever. | might
have been cool and proud, naughty and de-
FAINT. laughed in his face and told him
seorned his love as he had scornedmy poetry;
instead of which l stood trembling and
blushing in his arms, while he kissed my
face and called me all sorts of pretty names;
and. in spite of myself, confess liked it.
1t is humiliating, it is horrid, but it is true
| did love the handsome, hateful editor.
Darling, he cried, holding me from him
at arms length, "you're vixen-you re
too fond of that vagrant poet--you detest
me cordially; STILL Madeline, love you,
and / believe | have loved you from that
day when your presence made a spot OF
sunshine in my very shady editorial den
Some day perhaps you will learn to care
little about me- lsl H.r .
\
Six months afterwards we were married
at st. Georges, Bloomsbury ; and, when
jeff came home and heard all about it, |
thought he would have gone out OF his
mind with joy Now / write what please
for the Arlington, and, though the editor
goes over it. he does not dare alter sylla-
BILE, so in that respect l have gained my
point. have conquered my first editor
ItnsleV's lfuqdsi11e. "
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01
MARRYING RICH MEN.

There is prevalent notion among young
ladies of the present day that they ought
to marry rich men. Ofcourse, other things
being equal, almost any woman would
rather have her husband rich than poor, SO
if girl calculates about matrimony at all,
it is natural enough that she should like
her admirers to be wealthy. She is excusa-
BILE, because the young have neither any
just notion of how money is accumulated,
nor any deep thought about the law of
compensation. But what is remarkable is
that parents insist so strenuously upon the
future husbands of their daughters being
men of means, when, in the natural order
of things, the number of young men en-
dowed with fortune must be very limited.
TO complicate matters, parents also object
to their daughters marrying old men, even
if they are rich. What they want is mid
dle-aged man, say between thirty and forty,
who has ample means, good health and
habits, but these desirable parties, as
general thing, do not want to marry. A
young man marries for love, an old one to
have some one to love, a middle-aged man
to have some one who can furnish some
thing that he desires, either money good
connections or personal service as a useful
or ornamental addition to his household.
However, he is not the present subject of
conversation-that is the young man who
is expected to be rich.
How can he be rich when he is young
unless he has inherited money, and how
many are there who have inherited large
fortunes who are free from bad habits
There are some few, it is true, but these
are either so immersed in business that
they have few personal qualifications to
render them companionable, or they take
to foreign travel or home laziness.
There is such thing as marrying the
son of wealthy parents, but in that case it
is astonishing to observe what economical
views the parents have for the young peO-
pie, and how long it is before the latter
reap any substantial benefit from the pa
ternal hoard. rs.ae t=a.e 5f
Considering all the advantages and dis
advantages connected with marrying for
money, it appears as though there was
really better chance for happiness with a
husband who could provide comfortable
living than with one who has inherited or
or expects to inherit wealth. Besides, the
latter is hard to find ~ 't+nI
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01
SAVED BY A noe.


The one topic Of conversation in the city
yesterday was the fearful fire of the morn
ing, in which three men--Patrick MCGUIRE
William Whelan and jeremiah Sullivan
lost their lives by strangulation at the
National Hotel. The most curious part of
the accident is that the men in the attic
that escaped owe their lives to little
house dog. 1t seems that Coyne, the man
with one leg, was sitting in the bar room of
the hotel during the day, when the canine
jumped upon his lap. Some visitor tapped
Coyne ON the shoulder and the dog snapped
at the man, who retaliated by hitting the
dog with his cane. Coyne took the dog s
part and the house pet followed him about
all day.
When Coyne went to the attic for the
night the dog ran up stairs and orawled
into the bed. Coyne threw him off, but he
jumped back and nestled at the foot of the
bed, When Coyne was awakened he found
the dog standing over him, trying to
attract his attention. He saw the flames at
the windowand, jumpingup, yelled '.Firc"
He shook Sullivan, who slept beside him,
and received an answer. He then took his
wooden leg, but was unable to put it ON
and hobbled on one foot to the stairs and
down into the street. He had been an
swered by all the occupants of the room
and thought they had escaped, but only
Connolly found his way out
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01
JUDGE BLACKS ROOM.

The old home of Judge Black, near York,
Pa, is kept just as he left it, In the
library even the lead-pencils with which he
was accustomed to write with his left hand
lie on the table, just as he laid them down,
no change being made in the furniture, ex-
cept that picture of the Judge has been
put on the wall and a bust, as yet only in
plaster, has been placed on a temporary
pedestal The last book he looked into
was Curtis Life of Buchanan" and the
rough edges of the leaves, which lie tore
apart by running his thumb through them
for he never would use paper cutter
show how much of 1.-THE had read He had
not opened that part which related to HIM
self at all. The chapter which he had
hastily torn open was that headed death
of Mr.. Buchanan His Character as a
Statesman, a Man, and Christian" ,t
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

A cattle king says that within ten years
Omaha will be the cattle centre of the
country. An abattoir Is now being built
there which viii cover 400 acres and win
cost $3.50, 600. .ialh.I u8 hss rs4t'2 I'd
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

The announcement that an italian prin
cess is now serving as barmaid in French
cafe recalls to a writer in a LONDON paper
other instances of princely houses exper-
fencing the strangest vicisstudes of for
tune The last descendant of the old kings
of Macedon is supposed to have ended his
days as clerk N the Roman treasury. A
gentleman who claimed to be the heir of
Louis XVI of France was recently serving
as lieutenant in the Dutch army. Indeed
by persons whose right to represent the
principal line of French sovereigns is less
contested the hard facts of life have have
also had to be faced Louis Philippe once
accepted post as professor in a German
college, and lectured with respectable sue
cess, on mathematics and geography dur
ing the space of eight months. Nor can
any one suppose that these are isolated cases.
One suspects that others than the Bruces
might take "Fuimus' as their motto and
with less pride than a family which still
holds its place in the British peerage. 1t is
impossible at this time of day to answer the
question in Lord Keeper C6ventry's famous
Judgment Where are the Mowbray and
the Mortimers and the Plantagenets ?" If
there is an answer, it is of quite a different
kind to that which, ordinary histories fur
nish. io asYt II s4.n ~ jski flbnoh
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

Learning to ride a bicycle is good deal
like getting married. Even after you have
accomplished it you are liable at any
moment to get hurt. n EsF,.lf rl tts4+
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

4i Wisconsin's dairy products, the largest of
any State in the Union, amounted last
year to s19, 900. There are in the
State 1000 creameries and cheese factories
and 500, 600 cows.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01


A modern idea for making sinners com
Portable when they go to church is advanced
by New York dealer i'll church decor
ations and furnishings. 1t is to have single
chairs, such as are used in theatres, subst-
tuted for pews in our houses of worship.
They are already in use in the gallery of
the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church in
New York, He says in advocacy of his
plan: ''Chair backs are more agreeable to
the eye than the strait line of pew back;
they prevent crowding; each chair has
book rack, a hat rack and a foot rest, and
some have places for canes, umbrellas and
parasols they give better cash returns
than pews. Many who do not want whole
pews hesitate about hiring parts of pews.
When church is seated with chairs each
member of family hires a seat. Single
Of actual experience churchs that have
substituted chairs for pews have obtained
permanent increases of income from the
sittings of from 60 to 70 per cent That
iiiSo''; VI SV.'ioOs SiO"oiy iiiSlc"oSi dbecii't-
ance. People who desire to be very ex-
elusive hire an entire row of seats. -...+
The Empress of Austria is at present
staying at a Wiesbaden hotel under the
name of Countess Hohenembs and spends
her days like an athlete in training. She
seldoMs attends the concerts, theatres and
the other amusemeiits of the fashionable
watering place; but day rarely passes
when she does not ride to some of the sur
rounding chateaux or Villages, accom-
panied by her groom. Not content with
these long rides, the Empress devotes
several hours daily to fencing and gym
nastic exercises, in which she is said to
have more skill and endurance than many
a practiced fencer or gymnast Of the So
called stronger sex. She rises at dawn and,
with brief intervals, spends the whole day
either in riding or in athletics, and long
before the fashionable world thinks of
retiring the Empress is enjoying the re-
freshing sleep which follows physical
exhaution. .!pl.Il4a.ls f-tq,n -ot. d,ata
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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

An English scientist had an American
mosquito under the microscope, and finds
tito be thoroughly-equipped surgeon In
its bill are five ilistruments---a lance, two
meat saws, a suction pump and a small
steam engine. 1t appears that when. a
mosquito settles down to his work upon a
nice tender portion of the human frame the
lance is first pushed into the flesh, then the
two saws, placed back. to back, begin to
work up and down to enlarge the hole,
then the pump is inserted, and the victims
blood is syphoned up to the reservoirs,
carried behind, and finally, to complete the
cruelty of the performance the wretch
drops a quantity of poison, into the
wound to keep it irritated. Then the di-
minutive fiend takes a fly around just to
digest your gore, or if the first one has been
of unusually good quality he returns to the
same happy hunting grounds. ','A ,, i
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

Happiness il not quantity but quality. II
does not depend upon a mans surround
ings SO much as it does upon his spirit,
temper, and ability to make the best Of
everything aa l1bau}'i 10 aslY a
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

Last year there were 1917 murders in
the United States, 93 legal executions and
118 men lynched.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

The misfortunes and fatality which
follow so many engaged in the liquor
business has been strikingly illustrated in
the experience of the members of the firm
composing the Hannis Distilling Company,
of Philadelphia Gen John p. Bankson
one of the members of the firm blew out his
brains a few years ago, while John Richie,
another partner and director of the
Kensington Bank, committed suicide in the
same manner at the Norristown Insane
Asylum almost at tile same time, and a
few days ago Henry Hannis, of Thirty
fourth and SAMSON street, Philadelphia,
late head of the Hannis Company, showed
such signs of mental arrangement that it
was found necessary to place him in the
Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, in
West Philadelphia. Years ago he was
exceedingly wealthy, but the firm met with
rcverses which affected his brain. How
few men engaged i'll the liquor business
ever live to become old. Many take to
much of their own medicine, and die
comparatively young. a5sa ae gn
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

The mercantile agency of r G.. Dun & Co..
in an exhaustive report of the failures for the
first six months of 1884 says: ''The failures
in the United States, for the first half of
1884, are 5510 in number, an increase of 973
failures, as compared with the first six
months of 1888, or about IS per cent The
liabilities, however, for the first lfof 1884
show an enormous increase amounting to
1924, 000,0 as compared with s66, 900, 900
in the same period of 1883, or nearly double.
The enormous growth in the liabilities is,
however, directly traceable to the panic,
which has been mainly centred i'll New York
city, in which locality the liabilities of the
last quarter comprise more than one half of
those noted in the entire United States in
that period. A comparison of the failures of
the failures Of the six months in numerous
States indicates, in some eases, onlya slight
increase in failures and liabilities, showing
that the disasters of the last six months,
great as they have been, have not beennearly
so universal as has generally been supposed
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01
LIVING A LIFE OF MISERY.

1t only requires a little imagination to
picture the miseries of family when bank
ruptcy is impending. The struggle to
keep up appearances; the impossibility or
eurtailing expenses lest suspicion be
aroused the demand for ready money to
defray necessary expenses, and the lack of
it as great as that which exists among the
street mendicants F.; to ride in your carriage
and look with envy upon the laborer who
earns and is paid his pittance; to be obliged
to resort to subterfuge when servants
wages are due; not to be able to pay the
bills of trade-people when presented; to
fell that your life is a lie and you fraud !!
How many are living just such lives?
How many there are to-day who feel that
the sword is suspended above their heads by
only hair, and that at any moment itmay
fall? Only last Monday a gentleman, who
is reputed to be worth IS, 900, 900, said to
his wife when he kissed her goodbye on
his way to the city: ''If this were only
another Sunday! Then would know
that nothing could happen. But every
other day has it's anxieties." Many are
still anxious and hourly expecting some
thing to happen which will make matters
worse, for all feel that the troubles are far
from being over, and say the worst is yet
to come. 1t is with such painful forebod-
ings that men now go their places of
business. Confidence has been destroyed
by the frequency of defalcations where
least expected, failures which disclose
rottenness and treachery where least
suspected. There are many more who are
to be laid low before the business Of the
country is established on more secure
basis, and there must be less extravaganza
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

The Grant and Ward failure exceeds in
magnitude anything Of the kind that ever
occurred in this country before. 1t is most
unfortunate for General Grants reputation
that he ever had any connection with this
rascally business. 1t will be burning
shame if Ward escapes the penitentiary for
swihdling his dupes upon such a colossal
scale. No one supposes for a moment that
Gen. Grant knew what was going on
under his name, but it only shows that as
business man he was lamenta BILE
failure.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

A good joke should seem unintentional.
1t does not proclaim ITSELF but in a fash
the acuteness of the nearer detects the
witty thought under the mask Of a simple
phrase. A good joke travels incognito. NJ,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

The staff of the Salvation Army in London
consists of 20S persons, many of whom
held excellent positions in the world and
the total cost of each one to the army is less
than ten shillings per week. =" .eisin~
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

Grace alone can preserve grace. When
we get particular blessing, we need
another to preserve it and without this
we shall soon be shorn of our strength and
become as other men, '''' 8 it4ef.'' ''i5
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01

A Lewistown (Me.) man had been in
prison ten years, and the first thing he did
after being set free was to return a
aborrowed umbrella. He was Immediately
sent to an insane asylum. liss.0 .l3 liz
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-09
THE DAILY RECORD UNI0N.
FEDNEsnAY.............JANUARY o. 1874
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York Government bonds are quoted at
1871 for 4s OF 1907, 1144 for AIS, 1O1 for SIs;
sterling 81 sS@4 S. 1901 for S. 100 for SIS; silver
bars, 1los.
Silver in London sold consols, 1ol II 16d per
cent United States bonds, extended los; Is, 127 4;
i!s, HI.
ssl@s9 cents.
Mining stocks were In fair demand at San Fran
cisco yesterday morning. The activity in Alta is
continued. Benton and Justice sympathze in the
advance in Alta, the former having risen from 25
cegts to 50 cent? and the latter from 30 cents to As
cents Several other Comstocks show an advance
OF cents 70 20 cents per share from Monday morn
ing.
The Salvation Army has appeared in Santa Rosa
The hearing in the case of Mrs Cotton Vs. Leland
Stanford e. al will be resumed at Santa Rosa to-
day.
Frank Ramona was run over by a train at Fresno
yesterday, and fatally injured.
Fire in New York loss, 5000, 600.
Two more bodies were found in the ruins Of the
burned convent at Be|IeYille H., yesterday 1t is
nov said that Jhirtyfour OF the inmates are missing
The Opera House block at MeadeyiGe, Pa, was
destroyed by ire yesterday.
1t is thought that the French in Tonquin will
attack Bacniuh on the 1lth instant
Nubar Pasha, War Minister in 1873, will be the
new Egyptian Premier.
Frank Jan ea, he train robber is seriously i'll at
Independence, Mo
The cartmel.'s strike in Havana has stopped all
business.
William Bl.ck, the novelist, is dangerously ill in
London.
The Marquis Of L1nsdowne the new Governor
General Of NADIA, arrived at Toronto yesterday
from ottawa.
The Texas Livestock Association is holding It's an
nuaI Convent at Austin
H. B. Payne of Cleveland, has been chosen BY
the Ohio Democratic caucus TO succeed Pendlet1n
in the United states Senate.
James C. Townsend and wife, al aged couple, of
Oyster Bay d. Y we're found in their kitchen yes
terday, terribly eaten with hammer
The heaviest snow storm in years prevailed in
western Pennsylvania yesterday.
a disastro. fire occurred in the yards Of the
Minnesota State Prison, at Saltwater, last night.
In the House of Representatives yesterday GA
bills were introduced.
Au effort Is being made in Washington to read
AttAlt4A4- esl. ''t tt'S L'tliluGldllC l'Lly.
Thomas Brennan, organizer OF the Land League
in America, Occurred in San Jose last night.
The town Of Baird, Tex, was almost entirely de-
sToyed by fire yesterday
a Grand Division Of the uniform rank of Knights
Of Pythias Instituted in San francisco yester-
day.
In fight a- bilone, Tex, last evening, two men
were killed grl bird MORALLY wounded.
The Nlhi'iss ave notified certain Russian officials
that they bar, -enteraed them to death
The anau1 jackson banquet by the leaders of
the Democrat purity in Massachusetts, took place
yesterday .n Boston.
Or. Il. P. Hakelee, Of San Francisco, fell on
Broadway, Nov York, yesterday, receiving fatal
injury.
It's propo-ed at St Louis to form a national asso-
citation OF ca'tl. men.