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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1884-08-17
AN TONIC ACHA.

SAN JUsTo 8, TAEcA %.
Almaeenista importador dc proYisiones de to.
das procedencIas, constante surtido.
Ventas al por mayor los precios mas hmitados
de la plaza.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1884-08-17
sues. DE- ]. SALA g. co.

Gale del Deposlto nGm. l.. Marina.
Casa de giros c0misiones. Importadoree de
todas procedencias. Cnicos Agentes en- esta Isla
de la Companla dc Ssguro contra incendlos Ham
burgo Aagdeburgussa d. l-gitimo Amargo d.
Angosturs del DR.. Sogre.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1884-08-17
RODIGUEZ, MORENO & co.

Com rc,antes en- toios los ;iculos del ramo de-
quinealla. SUrtido general de- pieles.
AgentoI generates ie Ia fabrica de haues de- eata
Capital cuya existencia de 800 nidos de 4, realira
d $50,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1884-08-17
SAINz. CERRA Y COMP.

SAN FRANCISCO 81.
Comssionis;as. Agentss generates de a inca
vapores Empr-sa Martina Puertoriqnen7 lmpof
tadores H. ri dos de- t0das clases procedenclas
Ventas por mayor.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
The Attack on FO0-Ch0W.

The dispatches describing the at
tack of the French fleet on Foo-Chow
are less confusing when it is remem-
bored that the city suburbs are on the
river Min, about 80 miles from the
sea, while the city proper, a walled
town. some five miles in circumfcr-
ence, is three miles from the river.
The arsenal, which was the objective
point of attack, is three miles down
the river from the city, at Pagoda
Island. This has been since 1870
working force of 1000 men, and,
curiously enough, has been conduct
ed until very recently under the di-
rectlon of French engineers.
The reports indicate that the French
met with considerable resistance in
clearing the river up to Pagoda Island,
but that at the end of the day the fleet
was in position to command the great
arsenal, and the ship-yards, and that
at a later hour these were bombarded.
The destruction of these at the very
beginning of war will be a severe
loss TO China, but it has been reported
that Eor the past two or three years
there has been more activity at the
other large arsenals than at Foo
Chow.
The fight on the river was made by
the Chinese probably with unarmed
gunboats and torpedo boats, and if
two of the French ironclads were sunk
the resistance offered by these lighter
Chinese vessels must have been stub
born and well directed.
Church people are interested in Foo
Chow because it is the seat of several
important missions. The mission sup
ported by the American Board has dis
tributed 1,500, 900 copies of Chinese
books and tracts.
According to the official declaration
of the Chinese authorities the attack
on Foo-Chow is declaration of war,
and there is little probability now
that either France or China will retire
fro-l the position taken. The closing
of the port of Foo Chow will effect
the trade interests of England, Ger
many, and the United States more
than other countries.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29

in the course of which disappoint-
ments will greatly outnunaber the
victories. Yet the average old-styie
farmer will refuse TO pay more for a
bull, a boar, or a ram of the best
blood, or for the use of such animals,
than he would pay for the veriest
scrub. This seems incredible, but
proofs of the truth of the assertion
obtrude themselves on every hand.
In the west bull calves of good
breeding can be bought for prices
ranging from $50 to 500, the cheaper
ones being unregistered, perhaps, but
fully as good as they would be If
registered, for all the uses of those
who have no pure bred females. Jer-
sey bulls that would double the butter
production of an ordinary herd, can
be bought for $50 or less: high grades
if not pure blooded Holland aad
Ayrshire bulls can be bought at the
same price; boars and rams of excel
lent blood can be obtained on equally
favorable terms, vet the majority OF
| the classes of farmers mentioned will
not buy, nor will they use such
animals, unless, indeed, they can steal
the services. The consequence is they
| go along grubbing in the cornfeld IN
the summer to raise crop of corn TO
| feed animals that will probably not
| pay them first cost, when they might,
for 50 or So each, secure animals that
would pay fair profit on all they
| eat
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
indigenous Leprosy.
Medical Review.

Isolated cases of leprosy have been
observed in Charleston, S. c., and its
vicinity for many years, the present
being the latest Of series of twenty
that have been brought to my notice
during the past twenty-five years.
This comprises only those cases that |
have myself seen or which have been
described to me by physicians famil-
lar with the disease. Although more
common among the whites, it is by no
meaRs confined to that race, one of
the patients being full-blooded ne
gro and several of them being mulat-
toes. OF the above cases four We're
Jews. In none of the cases was the
disease hereditary, although in one in
stance mother and her daughter
were affected at the same time. In
all these cases, except the one just
mentioned, there was rot the slightest
evidence of contagion, nor has 1t ever
been deemed necessary to isolate those
affected with the disease When
we'll enough they walk about the
streets of the city, attracting but lit
tie attention, as the people know FROM
experience that in this country they
run no risk of contracting the disease
by coming in contact with those af
fected with it, As isolated cases Of
leprosy nave been observed on the
coast of South Carolina for nearly
forty years without any apparent in
crease in the number of cases, 1t may
safely be inferred that there is out
little danger that the disease will ever
become epidemic in this section.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
They Never Said ShOO-Fly.
New York Tribune.

The trip was just about as tedious
as they make EN-" sadly remarked 3
sunburned gentleman at the Victoria
hotel, who had been one of the saloon
passengers of the Lydian Monarch,
the steamship that had made one OF
the longest passages on record. why,
we We're on the water month. Think
of it,
You must have found it hard
work to amuse yourselves" said the
clerk from behind his diamond breast
plate, as he put his feet on chair and
brushed a mote from the toe of his
right shoe.
Don't speak of it," exclaimed the
Disguised traveller. u tell you, hon.
estly, that when everything else was
stale fourteen of us gathered around
the cabin table, each with lump OF
sugar before him. We put up shil-
ling apiece, and the man whose sugar
was first tackled by a fl scooped il
the pot"
Many flies, were therel" queried
the clerk.
We'll, not so very many" was
the reply, but after we had sat there
like owls from lunch until dinner /
was a winner by tive-pound note.
At this point the wine was or
dered.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
Good Blood for Common Farmers.
Prairie Farmer

So much has been said of the bene-
fits derived from good blood in breed
ing that enc might be excused for
thinking that no reason exists for
saying more on the subject Every
body should be convinced by this
time, and further efforts to induce
people TO discard forever the scrub
should be unnecessary. But the fact
Is that even In the west, where the
live stock department of farming is
relatively so much more important
than it ever has been in the East,
comparatively few of the millions OF
cattle are well bred; few horses even
have remote touch of good blood !:
too many sheep are mere scrubs, and
even the swine on many a farm are
too much like the long shouted racers
of the pioneer times It has become
generally recognized that the trans
mission of individual characteristics
is so certain that the most patient
and painstaking efforts of skillful
breeders TO obllterate Objectionable
features often result In disappoint-
ment. Generations have been requr-
ed to fix desired trait-and. after
many generations, some characters
tic that bad long been almost un-
known viii appear. To fix a good
quality so irmly that it may be de-
pended upon to reproduce itself. long
years, even generations, are needed,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
How Cholera Distinction is Accom-.
plished.
London Time

TIE experiments in the disinfect
ing of rooms have been continued
throughout the week, and the hospital
has now become a general rendezvous
for Paris hygienists. Several mem
bers of the municipal council, NJ
Camescasse, project of police; M.
Cochin, director of the public assist
ance, and many others have witnessed
the experiments conducted by Drs
Pasteur and Dujardin-B eaumetz. DR.
Pasteur tests the efficacy of the disin
fiction, his colleague, in conjunction
with NJ. Besanson, chief of the second
division at the prefecture Of police,
organizes the methods for carrying il
out.
At present two systems are under
discussion-the use of the liquid sui
phurous anhydride and the simple
burning of sulphur. At first the sui
phur would not burn, and the acid,
though it told on the litmus test papers,
did not kill the microbes which M.
Pasteu, had left in the room. Now,
however, by pouring a little alcohol
over the sulphur it has been made to
burn successfully, and by using a
larger quantity of the disiNfectant.
whether liquid or solid, the microbes
were killed
Both the rooms measured 90 cubic
metres, and two kilos of sulphur had
to be burnt before the living organ
ism left in the room were destroyed
This is about the same amount which
long cxperince in England has proved
to be necessary. The siphons of sui
phurous anhydride contain $50 gram
mes of liquid, which is equal to $50
grammes of solid sulphur Therefore,
five siphons were used in the second
room as the equivalent of the two
kilos of sulphur burnt a hole is
drilled in the door, through which an
India rubber tube is passed. The end
is placed in an earthenware basin, and
at the other extremity of the tube the
liquid, which is under pressure of
from two to three atmospheres, is
squirted from the siphon through the
door into the basin, where it takes
about two hours to evaporate. In this
form the sulphurous acid gas seems to
pierce more readily thick bedding and
clothing.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
4 Mysterious Stranger.
st. James Gazette.

Some novelist or playwright will, no
doubt. make good use of a very mys-
terious story which is now exciting
the readers of the Norddeutsche
Allgemeine Zeltung. On certain
evening recently a man named B was
sitting al supper with his wife, at his
home in the Nurnbergerstrasse, LeiF-
zig. when he heard a ring at the outer
door, and. the servant being absent,
vent to see who was there. When he
returned he had, apparently, lost his
appetite; but he declined to give any
explanation as to who had sommened
hila In short time tie bell rang
again Mrs. B. went to the door,
where she found an unknown maa
who desired to speak to the master OF
the house. B, upon being Informed
of this, went out once more; but as he
did not come back his wife became
uneasy and began TO search for him.
She discovered no trace OF her hus-
band either in the hall or IN the street;
but in a small room, the door o. which
was locked from the inside and had to
be forced open. she found him sus-
pended by the neck from gas-bracket
by means of a silk handkerchief. She
rushed to the street door to cry for as
sistance, and was there confronted by
the unknown man. He at once enter
ed and cut down the body of Mr.. B,
who was, however, quite dead. When
the police arrived the unknown man
had disappeared and all efforts to ind
him have since been unavaIiIng. he
is said 10 be about 80 years OF age. OF
tall and progressing appearance,
and of gentlemanly address The
deceased was in his seth year; and as
he was in comfortable circumstances
and on good terms with his wife, the
motive which mpelled him to take
his own life remains mystery.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
Robert Burns.
London Spectator.

Exclude the wonderful poetry he
wrote, and what sign of greatness as
a man did Burns give usg He wrote
good and vivid letters, but hardly so
good as Mrs. Carlyle. He wrote some
good prose descriptions, but nothing
to compare with the prose criptions
of Carlyle. He had large and kindly
sympathies, but not larger or kindlier
than Sir Walter Scott, and not half so
discriminating. He was not ashamed
of his order, and loved his country,
but how few are the Scotch peasants
of whom you could not say the same9
For the rest, Burns did not govern
himself even SO far as to prevent doing
gross and cruel wrongs to those whom
he pretended to love; and though a
careful critic himself, and accustomed
to measure shrewdly his own qualities
and defects, 1t is impossible 10 deny
that his conduct to his wife before
marriage, to say nothing of his con-
duct after it, deserves sort of self
contempt and self-reproach of which
he never seems to have had even the
fainfest inkling. When Lord Rose
berry tells US that his were the gener-
GUS faults of d generous mind, we
should like to know what he finds
generous IN Burns desertion of Jean
Armour, WHOM he had professed to
love so well, and whom, when be fell
IL with her again, he prefessed to love
so well again that he deliberately re-
peated the kind of treachery against
which bis purest poems inveigh with
so much Indignation True, he mar
ricd her In the end, and took enormous
credit to himself for that scanty act of
justice; but whoever reads this epis-
ode In his life as indicating principally
" the generous faults of generous
mind, does not seem to us 10 know
how to distinguish generosity from
gross and selfish passion
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
The Purchaser Of Maud s,

The New York Mail and Express
says: The report that Robert Bonner
has bought Maud S, paying Mr.. Van
derbilt 500. 900 for the famous trotter
$4,000 is the latest stated fgure), is
taken as an indication that he intends
to retain the distinction of owning the
fastest roadster in the world, and his
purse is long enough to permit such
purchases without perceptible effect
upon It's condition. Mr. Bonner owns
a vacant block on Fifth avenue which
is said to be worth 81, 600, 900, and he
has other property enough, beside the
Ledger, to make him a rich man. He
has paid nearly 800, 900 for fast horses
heretofore, his first purchase being
that of Lantern and Light in 1859 fer
50. 900. He paid $40. 900 for Pocahon-
tas; $50, 600 for Dexter, 5000 for
Edward Everett, $4,000 for Startle,
Sl6,0 900 for Edwin Forrest and $780,,
600 for Rarus. Dexter's record of
1867 was 2174 and that OF Rarus in
1873 was 213f. Maud S is now 10
years old and doubtless she might
lower her record of 2098, were it not
a rule from which Mr.. Bonner has
not deviated in more than a quarter
of a century never to permit his
horses to appear where gate money is
to be charged or bets arc to be made
on the performances. it is not gen
orally known that Mr.. Bonner's in
terest in horses was excited by com
pliance with the peremptory order of
his physician, now dead, the brother
of Rev DR. John Hall, to purchase a
horse and take outdoor exercise if he
would escape death from overwork.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
The Appemattox AppIe-Tree

General Grant has written the fol-
lowing to cennrade in Philadelphia:
When reached Apsomattox, c. II.
Lee had been in McClean's house for
some time. All there is of the apple
tree story is this: When l received a
note from Lee asking to meet me at
Appomattox, where he then was, l
sent him a note saying l woald be
there as soon as possible. There was
an old apple orchard ON the hillside op-
posite McClean's house, where the
advance of Lees army had halted
when the white flag was exhibited.
A farm road ran dIagonally up the
hill through the orchard. In places
where trees were close to the wheel
tracks on the upper side of the road,
the roots had been cut off BY being
continually run over. This left tow
bank between the road and trees so
cut. When the officer Gen. O. E
Babcockl, who bore my reply to Gen.
Lee, reached him, he was seated on
one of these entertainments, with his
feet in the road and his back against
the tree He was then invited to pass
through our lines to house to await
my arrival. U. S. GRANT.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
A Social Insect.
PhiIadelphia Call.

Corruptio optimi peSsimd. Even
teetotallsm in the wrong place may do
evil. There are certain teetotal insects
in Assam who get themselves greatly
disllked. The ''toa mite has repre-
hensible habit of making his nest on
the tea leaves, of boring holes in the
skin of the leaf, and then pumping
out the liquor. The tea .pite, as would
be expected, is a social insect. His
tea parties are family parties; and
there are some times a good many
families at tea on an Assam planta-
ton. The result is wholly discourag-
ing to the Assam planter, who has
been known-strange irony of fatei-
to take to drink owing to the exces-
sive fondResS of the tea-mite for the
leaf which inebriates not The tea
bug is beast of the same character;
but he is described as even more des-
tructive. He is, however, a tea-drink-
er of discriminating taste. He likes
his tea weak, and will not touch the
trees which afford a strong rasping
liquor. But as there are many valu-
able trees which yield mild juice
suited to the taste of nervous persons
and tea-bugs, the ;udicious insect is
not regarded wit respect In the planta-
tons of Assam
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
FUNERAL LONG DELAYED.
Finding the Bones of an Old Man
Who Disappeared twenty-Six Years
Ago.
Cambria Herald.

Twenty six years ago next October
Philip Arthur aged seventy years, a
resident of Green township, near
Taylorsville, Indiana county, mys-
teriously disappeared. He had started
to visit his brother at Pine Flat, but
never reached his destination.
Searching parties were organized, but
he could not be found. One day last
week Mr. Henry, who resides near
the Snowberger mills, in clearing off
a piece of ground found the remains
of human being beside large log.
Only the skull and larger bones of the
body remained. A par of buckled
shoes and several brass buttons fully
identified the remains as those of
Philip Arthur, who persisted nearly
twenty-six years ago. Mr.. William
Arthur, of Indiana, is a sor of the de
ceased and on Saturday went out and
identified the remains, which were in
tered in a proper manner on Monday
last. The old gentleman was slightly
demented and was also subject to at
tacks of rheumatism, and it is pre-
srtmed that he fell and was unable to
rise. That the bones could have lain
for so long a time where they were
found, shows that there are still deep
forests in Indiaaa county.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
Iowa County Democrat
MODERN IMPROVEMENT.

Imagine with what dire dlsmay
Old Mathew Mark and Luke and John,
Could they come back 10 earth To-Day,
Would view the present goings on!
Where once they walked, OF RODE on asses
The engine whistle cuts the wind.
And new disciples, fixed with passes,
Curse because the trains behind!
And those Wise Men, imagine them.
Following the guiding star
That rose and fell ON Bethlehem
On the top shelf of sleeping-car
And think Of Solomon, the great,
Laying, craftily, his lines,
To get some kind of special rate
For all his wives and cOncub!neS.
There's Adam. too, how he would sigh,
And turn 10 Eve, and speak her low,
When first he heard the brakeman cry:
Eden Change cars for jericho
And Moses, how SUI prised he q be-,
When standing back upon the ridges
Aud looking on the Old Dead Sea
He saw old Israel mendlng bridges
There old %ebGchadneZzer too,
Doomed ia fields his life to pass
How he would stare, when first he viewed
The sign Park Please keep off the grass
And Dives. could he leave below,
And come or earth, how he would VIII
when he would undertake 10 show
Down wealth with Gould and vanderbilt.
And Samuel, " hat would he do
If he when knecliDg all alone,
Should hear the brisk, Hello, hello"
o. HI at the telephone:
How would those children whom the bears
Ate up for telling him 10 20,
Stare al Elisha scattering hairs
In Tia" front row Of a bur!esqne show:
How long would David, with his sling,
Coutrivc 10 lingcr round about
VITA Sullivan still IN the ring,
With cash up that he d knock HIM Out
And how the multitude that He'd
Upon thr sermon on the Mount
Would feel their hair raise as they read
The Associated Press account
The scene has changed by t.alilcc,
And altered IS old Palestine
Jerusalem ere long " i'll be
a little station where you dine
md should the ancient residents
Come back in all ihcir curly rags,
Some fresh policemen with no sense,
Would run the ontlit III rs 'vags
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29

In Minas Geraes, in the district OF
Dirty Water, Brazil, female mulatto
who is said TO be one hundred aXC
twenty five years old, and who los
her teeth forty years ago. has recently
got part of a new set of beautiful
teeth, not from the hand of dentist
but from the hand of nature, and 9th
err teeth are still in the course of form
alton. This fact is testified to by DIR
Felix Dumont, of Bagagen, MIN
Geraes.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29

In the past year 1,3OS wolves We're
killed in France, $27, $50 being paid
out in bounties. In a country so long
settled and so densely inhabited il
would seem as if all beasts of prey
should have been exterminated cen
turieS ago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29

A new thing in window ornaments
is observable uptown in New York in
some of the fashionable houses. Bee
hives have taken the place of costly
plants, and the drowsy hum of the
insects about the pretty straw hives is
a novelty.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
You Can't Make $500 by Reading
this

even if you have chronic nasal catarrah in its
worst stages. for although this amount of reward
has for many years been offered by the pro-
prietors of DR. Sage'S Catarrh Remedy, for any
case OF catarrh notwithstanding that thousands
use the REMEDY they are seldom called upon to
pay the reward and when they have been so
called upon they have universally found that the
failure TO cure was wholly due te some overlook
ed complication, usually easily removed by q
slight modification of the treatment. Therefore,
If this should meet the eye of anyb body who has
Remedy without receiving a perfect and pernNn-
ent cure therefrom, that person viii do well to
either call upon or write to the proprietorS, the
Worlds DiSpenSary Medical association, OF
Buffalo, n. u, give all the particulars and symp-
toms in the case. BY return mail they will get
good advice free of all costs.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-29
st. MARY'S ACADEMY

zone mile West from ketre Dame University
The Scth Academic term win open Monday Sept
LIST. The Academic Course thorough in the Prepar-
atory, Senior and classical Grades. Music Depart
ment on the plan Of the best OF Europe
is under charge of complete corps Of teachers. 1t
comprises large Music Han and Is separate rooms
for instruments. Studio modelled the great Art
Schools OF Europe. Drawing and Painting from life
and the antique. Photography and Type Writing
taught. Building equipped with Fire Escape; ample
accommodations for $50 pupils For full particulars APP
ply for catalogue to Mother Superior ST. Mary's
Metre Dame p. o., 81. sseph Co, Indiana.