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Hebrews in Business.

Nep York Correspondent Of the Boston Herald
Considering the small number of Jews
in New York-only COCOON compari-
son with the pumber of Christians, their
success in the business world is simply
phenomenal. There are millions upon mil
lions of Jewish capital invested here in the
wholesale trade. In fact, the business in
many lines of trade is nearly monopolized
by Jewish firms. | started from Union
Square the other morning and walked down
Broadway to Wall street, following the
interesting occupation of some Of my fell
low-beings from the country, namely, of
reading signs l counted no less than $50
upon which Jewish names were painted.
These names represented almost every kind
of wholesale and jobbing trade located on
the great artery. The millinery, clothing,
hat, cap and fur trades predominated. 1
also found many retailers of Jewish national
ity. In one block | found only one Chris
tian firm.
Turning Wall street, 1 found the same
evidences of Jewish prosperity, only in a
lesser degree, among bankers and brokers'
Two of the largest banking houses in the
country, j. & J. w. Seligman, and Kuhn,
Loeb & Co., are distinctively Jewish. In
the Stock Exchange are the Henriques
Bros, Wormser, Marx, and host Of
others, all of whom stand high and WELD
an influence among their fellow-members,
and carry large accounts for their custom
ers. In Maiden lane and John street, the
center of the wholesale and retail jobbing
jewelry trade of the country, the name of
the Hebrew is found right and left, above
and below. A round S5,000,000 of capi-
tai is employed by the Jews in this trade
alone, and with it they transact fully 33
per cent. of the business done in it.
West of Broadway, in Broome, Mercer,
White, Leonard, Greene, Grand and other
streets comprising the great dry goods and
clothing districts, is modern Jerusalem.
Seventy per cent. of the entire wholesale
clothing trade is done by Jews, who en-
ploy capital of s25, 600, 900. In clothiers'
trimmings the Jews have 100000 in
vested. Ninety-fve per cent. of the ladies
cloaks and suits sold throughout the coun-
try come from New York Hebrew houses,
who annually turn and return $4,000, 900
of capital. In the fur trade 80 per cent.
of the firms are Jewish and the capital in
vested is $15,000,000. The Hebrew con-
trolls exclusively the manufacture of caps
and on about 40 per cent. of the hats made
he figures his profits. In the manufacture
of silks and ribbons the Jew is at home.
His capital here amounts to S25, ,OOO, 600,
and of the business in this line of feminine
apparel he transacts 60 per cent. He is
also active in the tobacco, sugar and whole
sale liquor traffic, holding large interests in
each. Strange to say, the Jew is never
found in the retail liquor business. There
is not bar, | am told, in Gotham, pre-
sided over by Hebrew.
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I think the climate of Melbourne must
be one of the most trying in the world.
Mornings of bright, hot sunshine, with
corohing wind, changes within very few
hours to afternoons of really hitting cold,
when the strongest are thankful for ulsters
or sealskin jackets. Upon the hottest days
it is common thing to see people carrying
heavy coats or rugs, in anticipation of the
sudden change that may occur. The whole
Of the southern coast of Australia and a
considerable part of the country inland is,
so far as was able to learn, subject to like
alterations of temperature. Very little
is known in England, even among medical
men, fthe climate ofthe Australian colonies,
or rather, I should say, of the many differ
ent climates. Persons coming out for their
their health seem very generally under the
impression that they have hut to reach the
shores of Australia to find climate ready
made to suit their particular ailments.
This is great mistake as regards consump-
tive patients; and l viii go 50 far as to say
that, in the majority of cases, they will
find themselves, on first landing, in eli
mate less suitable to them than that of the
south coast of England: The climate Of
the Australian coast has been proved for
| the most part to be unfayorable.
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COOK BUGGIES
" COOK BUGGIES!

The people are invited to call at my BUGGY
REposIroRY, on Main Street, Westminster,
and examine my assortment of
BUGGIES, PHET0NS and CARRIAGES.
| sell none but the celebrated Louis Cook
Manufacture. This is the eighth season for
me in the business. The first season | sold
two, last season 1 sold eighty-nine. | can
show five Buggies sold to one family. | only
ask any one to call and see me before pur-
chasing. | will not be undersold by any one,
and will make good every word say in the
sale of vehicle or no sale.
HARNEss-It will pay any man to come
twenty miles to buy set of Harness OF me.
| sell Harness cheaper than any man in Ma
ryland. | sold ffty-fve sets last year. will
also sell Whips and Lap Spreads. | don't
recommend them, they are too cheap to be
good.
Come and see me at my old stand, $50 yards
west of the Railroad, next door to John
Keens Green Grocery. Should | be away
from town, see L. o. Grimes, at the Depot.
X. C. MATTHEW'S.
P. S.-I am Agent for the sale Of a very
fine SPRING WAGON made by John Eek
enrode, price $4,000. Also several two horse
Spring Wagons made for the an Agricultural
Company, price $4,000 each; cost $3.50 one
year ago. Two second hand Carriages. A
new Dayton Wagon made by Jno. Eckenrode,
q fine job. --,
apr i26m R. C. MATTHEW'S.
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Stories of Ducks.

From the Spectator.
The duck is considered a particularly un-
interesting and prosaic animal. Yet ven
ture to affirm that, in point of intelligence,
social kindness, and sagacity, he is vastly
superior to the barn yards, or any other
cock or hen. 1 have kept and closely
watched hundreds of ducks; [ never saw
them fight with each other, nor ever knew
duck the aggressor in dispute with
some other kind Of fowl But l have
witnessed striking instances of charity and
kindness in ducks. Let one such case suf-
fee Among some fifty or sixty head of
ducks and fowls, l once had solitary lit
tie old bantam hen. She became blind, or
nearly so, and, like other birds in that con-
dition, 'fsulked," as it is called, i. e., kept
by herself in dark, retired corner Of the
fowl-house, knowing instipctively that her
cruel and cowardly brethren and sisters
would persecute her to death if she appear
ed among them Here she might, perhaps,
have starved but for the constant and SYM
pathetic attentions of a duck. Twice
daily, every day so long as the poor bantam
lived some three weeks, this good Samari-
tan in the form of duck was observed to
fill her capacious beak with from twenty to
thirty grains of barley, with which she
proceeded to the fowl-house and there de-
posted her store Immediately in front of
the bantam Several members of my family,
as well as myself, were frequently witnesses
of this beautiful incident, One more anec-
dote in evidence of the sagacity of the duck.
| had five Aylesbury ducks, with num-
Der of fowls The lord of the yard, most
despotic chanticleer, would never suffer the
ducks to feed with his family and friends
when, at the regular meal times, the grain
was scattered for their common use. Fe-
rociouslY and without pity he drove them
from the ground This had been going on
for many weeks, and one day at the II
o'clock repast the act of expulsion was per
formed as usual. was present, and saw
the discounted ducks retire to corner Of
the yard. There they evidently held a
conference Having been so engaged some
five minutes, they proceeded with deliberate
and resolute air, in single file, as is their
wont, toward their oppFessor, Having
reached the tyrant they surrounded him,
each duck turning his back toward the en-
emy, and with concerted action fairly
hustled him clean out of the yard. To see
the surprise of the cock, as he jumped
from side to side to avoid the pressure Of
the attacking party, was ludicrous in the
/ axtrame
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creasing in the most astounding manner,
and growing down all weeds and inferior
grasses. In 1861 Captain Bernard was
appointed governor of the island, and by
that time the most thankless part of the
task of bringing Ascension into cultivation
had been accomplished. He displayed:
however, the full zeal of his predecessors,
and with the able assistance of Mr.. Bell,
the head gardener, accomplished wonders
in the next few years. A scarcity of ma
nure was one great drawback. This was
supplied by using the guano which was found
in large quantities on Boatswain Bird
Island, a small rock that lies off the west
coast of Ascension. This is now largely
supplemented by the manure supplied by
the cattle, the island being able to support
a large number without any imported food.
The rapidity with which sheep fatten on
the grass is very satisfactory, nearly doub-
ling their weight in three months after
importation.
The island is by no means free from
vermin. The horses and cattle suffer
greatly from fly, in appearance like the
house fly, but which bites venomously and
causes intense irritation. The 'black
grub" as it is called there, effects great de-
vastation at times among the plants, and as
yet no practical remedy has been found for
its ravages. The next destructive enemy
is the field rat, which attacks the root crops
and feeds principally on the sweet potato.
Land crabs, too, exist in very large num-
bers, and add to the destruction. Another
animal, the wild cat, proves itself an enemy,
as it lives on the rabbits and is useless as a
vermin destroyer A determined war is
being waged against all these tormentors,
a regular system of trapping having been
set on foot. In one year 53 cats, Z, 400
rats and 95, $50 land crabs were destroyed.
The thorough cultivation of the ground is
also being furthered by the introduction of
rocks, minhas and other birds that help the
farmer. With all these drawbacks, the
island has been brought step by step from
its original barrenness to such a pleasing
condition that we now have over thirty-one
acres under actual cultivation, producing
among other things sweet and English po-
tatoes, cabbage, carrots, pumpkins and tur-
nips, pineapples, bananas, endive, French
beans, Ieeks, herbs, seeding date-palm and
coffee, sugar-canc, guavas, oranges, shad-
docks, fig bushes, mulberries and cuttings
of shrubs. There is good pasturage one
thousand acres in extent for cattle and five
thousand acres for sheep, supporting easily
over forty head of cattle and between seven
and eight hundred sheep, Parts Of the
island are now well wooded, and about forty
acres are laid out in fruit trees and shrub
berry. Few brighter monuments could be
pointed out of the success sure to attend
the enterprise and unyielding zeal of ma
ton when well and wisely directed.
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New Orleans Exposition Building.

The Boston Herald says that the main
building of the New Orleans exhibition is
in some respect the most remarkable edifce
ever built in this country, 1t is much the
largest exposition building ever erected in
the world The architect has succeeded,
at moderate cost, in producing the largest
single room, every part of which can be
seen from any point, of which there is any
knowledge, The building is 1873 feet
long by 905 feet wide, and covers 33 acres,
or l acres more than the Philadelphia
Centennial Exposition of 1876. There are
300 square feet of floor space, includ
ing gallery. The reader may form bet
ter impression of the vast dimensions of the
structure by imagining three ordinary city
blocks one way and five the other covered
by solid roof And, ifhe chooses to allow
his fancy to carry him still further, he can
picture monster panorama Of the worlds
industry, extending before his vision unin-
terrupted by single object except the sup
ports.
The active commercial rivalry of the
different sections is aptly shown by the dis
! tribution of contracts for the materials.
The roof, which will cover 100000
square feet, is being made in Cincinnati.
The window sashes come from Milwaukee,
Wis The glazing will be done by St.
Louis parties. Four thousand kegs of
nails are being shipped from Wheeling,
w. Va. Nine million feet of Mississippi
lumber will be consumed. A massive
group in bronze, typical of America, to be
placed over the main entrance, is being
made at Canton, o., as are also statue of
Washington and Columbus, and coats of
arms of all the States, which will appear in
medallion form as part Of the exterior or
namentation. Finely modelled cornices are
being made at New Orleans. The building
will be 60 feet high, with tower lis feet
high, and the architect has been fortunate
in rendering the exterior unique and at
tractive. A platform will be erected on
the tower, reached by elevators, from which
visitors may have an exceptionally fine view
of the city of New Orleans, the exposition
grounds, the Mississippi River, and the
surrounding country. There will be one
line of gallery extending around the entire
/
visitors will be carried by 20 steam and
hydraulic elevators, representing all the
manufacturers of these conveyances in this
country,
The music hall situated in the center of
the building, will be 364 feet wide, and
will comfortably seat 1000 persons A
platform is being built for 600 musicians.
To light the building with incandescent
lamps will require $4,000 lights and | 800
horse power. To light with the arc system
will require 100 lamps, and 700 horse
power to operate the dynamo. The total
steam required for lighting and for the
machinery hall will be at least 5000 horse
power In this estimate is included the
power for five arc lights of $4,000 candle
power each, which will light the grounds.
These are the largest single lamps eyer
constructed. The cost of this great struc-
ture, lacking no single desirable feature for
the purpose intended, will only be about
100000, and the other buildings will be
proportionately inexpensive
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All Made from Smoke.
From tie Chieaao Times.

From the Chicago Times.
The old saying that nothing is wasted or
lost in nature is true in regard to the smoke
from the furnace at Elk Rapids, Mich. In
this furnace are manufactured fifty tons of
charcoal per day. There are twenty-five
charcoal pits, constructed cf brick Each
pit is filed with 100 cords of hard wood
and then fired. The vast amount of smoke
from these pits, which was formerly lost in
the air, is now utilized Works have been
erected to convert the smoke into chemicals
and acids
These works are curiosity. First they
have a circular tube made of wood, with
pine slaves, sixteen feet in length, bound
together with heavy iron hoops. This tube
is placed directly over the pits in hori-
zontal position, with an opening from each
pit into the tube. At the end nearest the
building there is large drum containing
rotary fan, propelled by machinery, the
power of which is gas. That acts as sue
ton or draught for the smoke, which is con-
veyed into the fire stills filled with copper
pipe, two and one-half inches in diameter.
The boxes in which the pipes are situated
are twenty feet square and eight feet deep,
made of heavy pine, and filed with cold
water they are all connected by copper
pipes they are connected with the main
still, 100 feet in length, ten feet wide and
eight feet deep, filled with copper pipes two
and one-half inches in diameter, in hori-
zontal position, surrounded with cold water;
from this conveyed to purifier, from which
runs what is called pyroligneous acid, which
is as clear as amber, with an unpleasant odor.
From the acid is produced, first, acetate
of lime second, alcohol third, tar fourth,
gas, which is consumed under the boilers.
Each cord of wood contains $4,000 cubic
feet of smoke; 100000 feet of smoke
handled every "a hours, producing 10000
pounds of acetate of lime, 200 gallons of
alcohol and 25 pounds of tar. These pro-
ducts have a commercial value in the man
ufacturing of various articles. The smoke
from 10000 cords of wood consumed per
annum is thus made source of much profit,
as the works are nearly automatic, and re-
quire no workmen to run them.
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Machinery and The Hand.

1t has taken years of improvement to
make headway against the strange notion
that improved machinery and mechanical
process work against the workingmaR. It
has been the cry at every new step In ad-
vance that it would be the death blow to
some industry formerly carried on by hand.
The locomotive was to do away with team
ing. The sewing machine was to be a foul
crime against the welfare of the seamstress,
The reaper and mower were to interfere
with the rights of the sturdy swathe cut
tiers of the farms. In short, every such ad-
vance has been met by just such objections.
Yet there is less poverty, less squalor, less
ignorance and less idleness among the labor.
ing classes in our age, which is the age of
invention, and in our land, the land Of in
yentiye genius, than in any other age or
land the world has ever known.
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1t is told that on the day Princess Bea-
trice was born, the Prince Consort went
into the nursery, where the royal children
were having royal good time. "Mamma
sends youa message, began Prince Albert
"She is going to make you a beautiful
present, and wants to know which you
would prefer-a little brother or little
sister" This was domestic cOnundrum,
and the pros and cons were getting exciting,
when the young Duke Of Edinburghs face
suddenly lit up with the joy of satisfactory
solution. ssOh, pape," he exclaimed, ssdo
tell mamma if she had just as soon we
would rather have pony.
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Every farmer should possess astencil plate
with his name and residence cut in it, so
that he may plainly mark all bags, blankets,
robes and boxes with it; also brand with
which he eau burn his name into the han
dies of hoes, shovels and tools. Then ifhe
is blessed with borrowing neighbor the
sight of the name may remind the hor-
rover to return the tool before he
has worn it out, At least there will be
less danger of his thinking he owns it be-
cause he has had it SO long that he has for
gotten how he came by it.
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DEN MAR AND MT. QUIRAUK.
NNUAL EXCU RSION
OF THE
Westminster Fire Department
ON TUESDAY, JULY 80.
Below will be found the rates, Round Trip
II, nl-n nnl the Time tahla

CHILDREN under II years, half the above
rates, except from Spring Mills and Ayondale
the half-rate will be 50c., and from Double
Pipe Creek 85c.
Arrive at Pen Mar at 1890 a. m. Return
ing, leave Pen Mar at 500 p. M; arrive at
Westminster at 7.47, Glyndon S.35 p. m.
W. L. SEABROOK, Prest.
DENTON S. GEHR,
J. C. MoBLEY, Committee.
W. F. TYLER, jy12:2t
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No. alss EQUITY.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll County.
George J. Appold versus Thomas J. Hunt,
acting executor of Andrew Appald, de-
ceased, and others.
Ordered this 10th day of July, A. d. 1884,
that the account of the Auditor filed in this
cause be finally ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 4th day of August next; provided
a copy of this order be inserted for two sue
cessive weeks before the last named day in
some newspaper published in Carroll county.
FRANK T.. SHAW, Clerk.
TFHe pnpY,-Testl
jnly 19:2t# FR4NK 4. SHAW, Clerk.
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Avoid boasting, backbiting abuse, and
evil-speaking and slang phrases In conver-
sation; depreciate no mans qualities, and
accept hospitalities of the humblest kind
in hearty and appreciative manner; avoid
giving offence, and if you do offend, have
the manliness to apologize.
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Organized under the auspices of the Methodist
Protestant Church, 1867.
D0- Incorporated BY Act of Assembly, 1865.

Occupies one of the most beautiful and
healthful sites in the State. Receives annual
appropriation from the Legislature for the
Free Board of one student from each Sena-
tnrial District. Provides comfortable room
for each two students. Has full corps of
competent instructors. Course of study ample
and thorough both in the Preparatory and
Collegiate Departments. Discipline strict,
but kind. Terms very moderate. A Schol-
arship for Three Years Tuition for 500, and
Ito students having such Scholarship Board,
Room, Washing, Fuel and Light at the rate
of $lG6.67 per year. Has been in successful
operation for 16 years.
The Thirty Fifth Annual Session begins
September I'd, 1884, and ends January S0th,
1885. For Catalogue, and further informa-
ton, address
J. T. WARD, D. D., President,
july Westminster, Md.
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DUBLIc SALE.

The undersigned having disposed of part
of his farm in Carroll county, Nd, will, on
Tuesday, the 5th day of August, 1881,
dispose of the remainder of his property in
said county, by public Auction, to the highest
bidder. This property is situated about 3
miles north of Hoods Mills, on the Washing
ton and Westminster road, convenient to
churches, schools and stores. The whole has
recently been surveyed and divided into suit
able lots and plated preparatory to selling.
The first is the mill property, containing
30 ACRES, ROOD AND Ss PERCHES.
Improvements are good grist mill, with two
A AMN-0 sets of burrs; saw mill, good
&IYsHus2 Dwelling House, containing 6
lntg4IA r rooms; tenant house with 6
rooms, stable and dairy. This
property has been occupied for the past FIVE
years by VIM. l.. Mott, and is a No. busi-
ness place. Farm No. contains 95 Acres,
Roods and 20 Perches of land. About so
acres cleared; balance in fine timber, xs.r
mostly splendid chestnut; stream of sassS
water runs throughout the entire farm. Il
Wood Lot No. l contains u acres, 3 roods
and % perches. Wood Lot No. contains
90 acres, 2 roods and perches. Wood Lot
No. contains acres, roods and II perches:
Wood Lot No: contains 16 acres, rood
and 8 perches. Wood Lot No. contains
IA acres, 2 roods and II perches. Wood Lot
No. contains Al acres and roods. These
wood lots are heavily timbered and stream
of running water through each one. They lie
in the rear of the farm sold on the Washing
ton and Westminster road; right of way re-
served through the property; they are only
about % miles north of Woodbine, and little
over quarter of mile from Woodbine road.
Plat can be seen at 103 Hanover street, Bal.
timore, Md.
Sale to commence at II o'clock, a. M, on
the premises.
TERMS OF SALE.-One-third cash; balance
made to suit purchaser.
iune 2l-ts Z. B. MASON.