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The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-12

Speaking of the new hotel to be built
in st. Louis, a gentleman from that
city says it will have accommodations
for 1900 persons. 1t will be the
largest hotel in the world, but will not
design to do transient business, as really
its position will unfit it for that kind.
The hotel will be for the aecommoda-
ton of those families and persons who
wish for the accommodations and sur
roundings of a comfortable home but do
not find them in the ordinary flats OF
boarding houses of this city. The prices
will be 50 varied that a man may be
able to live there for 25 cents or $25 d
day. 1t is not a wild scheme, but a bus
mess affair, and, though laughed at, l
intend to carry it to completion. There
will be a table d 'hote served in the dining
room where2 900 boarders can be seated
at one time. There will also be a res
taurant and cafe, which / believe will
be more largely ~patronized than the
table d'hote. Meals will also be served
in private dining rooms, as there vii
be floors divided into suites on the same
plan as the French flats. The hotel
will also be placed upon ground 110feet
above the level of the river, and from
the ground one of the finest views of
st. Louis is obtained. The main en-
trance will be on Grand avenue. On
the north and south of the office will be
public rooms, barber shop, reading
rooms, parlors and other adjuncts to a
hotel office. Adjoining the office on the
east, in a large courtyard, Will be the
conservatory, serving as a passage to
tho east wing of the building, IN which
will be a promenade corridor, sur
rounded by a ladies ordinary restaurant,
confectionery, private dining rooms,
club rooms, some apartments and the
dining hall and the ball rooms. TIL
courtyard will be 05 feet wide. The
billiard rooms and bar will be in the
basement, and S10 1000 will be allowed
for their decoration. Other games,
such as tenpins, ETC., will be on that
floor, and in one part of it will be a
kindergarten and cbildren's rooms.
The building will be G54 feet front, 245
deep will be seven stories high at one
end and in the middle, and five at the
other end.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-12

land, and it is proper that London,
which accepted the stucco king. should
be most active in its alleg ance to the
restoration of brick and stone, and
most earnest in promoting the new
alliance Of beauty and utility. 1t does
not come within the compass of this
article to tell the story of the revival Of
artistic taste, but rather to illustrate
its very notable existence. One might
date its prominent beginning to the
Exhibition year of 1851, since which
time South Kensington has passed on
the torch of knowledge from town to
town. Art schools have sprung up all
over the land; Lambeth has competed
with Worcester, and both with the
great potteries of the Continent; Dur
ham and Kindermlnster have wed with
the carpet looms of Brussels, and the
handweavers of Persia and Turkey;
Birmingham and Sheffield have sought
to perpetuate classic models in their
metal wares; Manchester, Bradford and
Belfast.h have consulted the best schools
of design and color for their textile fa-
brics; the illustrated newspapers have
given the cottage and the nursery artis-
tic substitutes for poor German prints
famous draughtsmen have adorned the
fairy tales and tables of youthful lit
erature with characteristic forms of
beauty; the painter has left his garnet
among the London chimney-pots, and
once more English architects and
builders are erecting English houses
in which all that was useful and pictur-
esque IN the "Old Kensington" and
"Queen Anne" styles is restored and
adapted to our greater knowledge and
better sanitary skill, and more or less
idealized through the impulse Of the
reaction that has set in against white
washing chureh-wardens and the other
Goths and Vandals of the interregnum
now happily at an end.
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DELICIOUS DAY DREAM.
tho oil HARM scaf1old high

Upon the old barns scaflold high
With dreamy gaze on fragrant bed
| watch the swallows come and go
With twitterinE notes above my head
without, upon Ehe half-shut door,
The Phoebe sits in silent mood,
Prospecting for a place to build
Her nest and rear her quiet brood.
The hens upon the seedy for,
Are scratching for the scattered gram
While chanticleer a challenge hears,
And answers back in deatening strain
Old Charley in the stall below
Keeps grinding at the clover hay,
And tries with many an angry stamp
To drive the saucy flies away.
But bark a pleasant sound hear,
OF children coming down the lane
And now they strive with flying feet
To see who first the barn will gain.
A gush of laughter greets my ears,
AS up the ladder, 1.-the and gay,
They come to seek for hiding eggs,
And frolie on the fragrant hay.
The little rogues are wild with joy
At finding fathers hiding place;
And thus my pleasant day-dream ends
With smothering kiss and fond EN-
brace.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-12

When James | appointed Ben Jonson
poet laureate he gave him an annual
salary of 100 ma~ks, equal to $3.50. On
Jonson's rhyw 4 petition to "The best
of monarchs, masters, men, Charles |
increased the poets pension to 5000,
giving him zone tieTce Of Canary Span
ish wine out of u store Of wines
yearly" The salary was adequate for
the eonveniences of life at the time, be-
ing the same as was paid to the Kings
physician, but both pension and pun
cheon were often in arrears. Dayendnt
was nominally laureate for thirty years,
but owing to political connection and
the Puritan a~scendency was far from
obtaining regular payment Of his sal
ary. Dryden was made laureate and
historiographer royal in 1870, the two
appointments joined in one patent CIV
ing him $1,000 a year-equal to at least
$1,000 nowadays-and the tierce OF
Canary, his salary being subsequently
increased to 81, 500, with an additional
pension of $500 dependent ON the Kings
pleasure.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-12
Chinese Ancestor worship.

Diem is the ordinary sacrifice at the
great deceased ancestor feasts. The
diem, OF money for the dead, is a substi
tute for sycee. 1t is thin rice-paper,
coated over with t%in-foil, and gotten up
in the form OF sycee. Richer people
have it gilt, and the poor use instead
coarse yellow paper cut into the shape OF
cash. At the festival Of Ch'ng-ming
and the other public charity solemniza-
lions, immense quantities of dien are
burned all along the streets, the rivers,
canals, on the bridges, at crossroads,
jungle paths, %jetties, and in fact every
where it is possible that a destitute
spirit may be wandering in want Of
money to support him in the world of
darkness. This ancestral worship has a
complete hold on the Chinese mind. If
the Tauist religion has not actually
sprung from reverence for the dead, It
is at least now it's most fervent sup
porter, and the priests of that faith
make much profit by m%ediating between
the living and the dead.
The Buddhist BONES, in self-defence,
have adopted the same tactics, and the
flial piety taught by the followers of
Confucius certainly does not tend to
weaken the practical working of the
doctrine of the Precipitation of the dead.
In China, therefore, we have the most
elaborate form of this Precipitation of
the dead, but it is not only there that it
exists. Ancestral worship is the most
obvious characteristic of the religious
notions of the American Indians. 1t
formed, practically, the State worship
of Peru. The living Incas worshipped
their dead forefathers. The village
communities do reverence to the first
founder, or to some famed warrior or
dreaded sorcerer, and individual families
seek for peace of conscience in making
offerings to their remotest ancestor,
and horde up dried corpses for the pur-
pose of taking them round to see the
crops. Dead corpses, growing crops
aud pious agriculturists all derive much
benefit and peace of mind from the pro-
| ceeding. The method and philosophy
of the Chinaman are wanting, bat the
idea is the same.
1t might be supposed that with these
views ancestor worshlppers would be as
| chary of taking life as the most rigor-
Gus of Budhists. This is, however,
very far from being the case. There Is
no more Systematically bloodthirsty
fighter than your spirit-fearing China
man. He scouts at lily-livered western
soldiers who rather prefer wounding a
man to killing him. That is not the
Chinese idea of carrying on wal at all
When he has a man down he makes
this, in view of the worshipping of the
dead, is a most risky proceeding. There
is no surer way of getting into trouble
in the kingdom of darkness than ap-
pearing there without any head. On
the face of it this suggests misbehavior
above ground, and the rulers below
make such a newcomer a coolie, or a
boatman, or, If he seems to be a partic-
ularly bad character, a policeman.
Thus you have so many uneasy spirits
created to vex living humanity to the
fullest extent of their sense Of injury.
Their remains above ground are prob
ably tossed about anyhow, and not a
silver of diem comes their way once in a
twelve-month.
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The Origin of t Potato.

The potato, originally South Ameri
can plant, was introduced to Virginia
by Sir John Harvey in 1929 though it
was unknown in some counties Of Eng
land a hundred and fifty years later.
In Pennsylvania, potatoes are mention
ed very soon after the advent of the
Quakers ; they were not among New
York products in 1896, but in 1915 we
are told of eleven thousand bushels
grown on one sixteen acre patch in this
province. Potatoes were served, per-
haps as an exotic rarity, at a Harvard
installation dinner in 1907; but the
ant was only brought into culture
New England at the arrival Of
e Presbyterian immigrants from
roland in IT'S. Five bushels were
accounted a large crop of potatoes
for a Connecticut farmer for it was
held that, if a mar ate them every day,
he could not live beyond seven yeaIs.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-12

so far from trees IN streets impeding
the circulation of air. they help to pu.
rlfy it; the evaporation from theirleaves
determines a cure { nom above, and
the fresh air thus brought down assists
IN driving away the heated and dust
impregnatsd gases OF the streets. An
other useful property of foliage is
that, while in hot, dry weather it mois-
tens the surrounding atmosphere, thus
rendering it filter to breathe. this effect,
which is due to evaporation, ceases in
hot weather.
An actual weighing of the letters
received at the post-ofice in New York
and Philadelphia shows that 94t per
cent. of them weigh less than half an
ounce each. The weighing was done at
the request of the Postmaster General,
who, it is believed, may recommend
Congress to increase the weight allow
ance for single rate letters from half an
nee to an ounce.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-12

HAVE you been to the bench show?".
eyes; was there last night"
See any nice dogs?"
"No; there were no dogs there"
"But you saId you had been to the
show?"
Eyes; but / saw no dogs"
We'll, where were you, anyhow ?"
Eat a historical lecture"
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-12

There's one inherent weakness IN the
creed of yegetariaus, and that Is, that
they cannot get on without animal food
namely, milk and eggs. Of course the
fact stares vegetarlaus in the face that
Nature has provided food for all young
mammals, and that is a very awkward
and untoWard fact. Negitarians, how
ever, in the face of it, have thought 1t
WIS., 10 n'I d3ot Ent MIL rannot ba
1eseC"l h "''t' CO. and as the CON
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-12

"A Syracuse, n. Y, man, who was
said TO have broken his neck some time
ago, and had the fracture set, is now all
right again.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-12

in an orchestra in a small German
town the conductor, one HIT, has Tor
one of the players his father WHO Is "a
centenarlan.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-01-12

Sous OF a close, heavy texture require
thorough drainage A liberal aPpltea-
ton OF stable manure, with q heaVy loP
dressing Of coal ashes, Is the best treat
nPnt.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21
THE QUEENS NEW BOOK
The Royal AuthOress Dedicates ssLif
In the Highlands" 10 John Brown.

~ tho A.Ae hssshAOD 80 SOmm nfOWm.
Queen Victoria's new book. Life on
the Highlands" will be out in two or
three days. The dedication is a master
piece in Its way. 1t Is cOuched in the
following words:
To my loyal Highlanders, and especially to
the memory OF my devoted personal attendant
and faithful friend, John Brown, these records
Of my widowed life in Scotland are gratefully
dedicated. VICTORIA r..
In her opening chapters the Queen, of
course, deyOtes number of pages to the
immortal Brown. She tells how Brown
became the favOrite Of Prince Albert and
lets us fully into the secrets of her own
reasons for trusting him. Then she
infinitely describes the functions that
the beloved Brown fulfilled in the royal
household. His praises are loudly and
feelingly sung.
Other domestics of the court are men
toned in kindly terms. In all personal
references the Queen invariably uses the
plural number. "Our beloved daughter
Beatrice" "Our devoted attendant, John
Brown sour beloved uncle, the amper-
or Of Germany" sour deeply lameE ted
daughter Alice" receive frequent allu-
sion. There is scant reference to the
Prince Of Wales. Only once, in fact,
does she speak of him at any length
This was on the occasion of his severe
illness from typhoid fever.
The Queen makes long comments up
on political events. and gives many Opin
ions on men of the times. She often ex-
presses an especially high estimate of
Lord BeaGOnstield. She disclOses Bea
c0nsfeld's views on the results of the
general election of 1880, and also his
ideas on the foreign situation 1abOut Il q
time Of his death. In this manifest pre-
ference for the ideas of the departed
statesman there Is an obvious implica-
tiOn Of criticism of the policy of Mr..
Gladstone.
In another part Of the book the Queen
gives an account of the growth Of friend
ship between herself and the Empress
Eugene after the fall of Napoleon. The
Queen Processes to hold the character of
Napoleon, especially under gmisfortune,
III very high estimation.
The book, as whole, refers less to the
Queens domestic life than was anticipa-
ted, while it has vastly moro comments
than were expected upon the social and
political events of the period. The first
edition Numbers 100000 copies. A French
edition, by Marie DrOmart, is announced
to appear next week. The Radical papers
make light of the whole business.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21
FOR EIGN.

It is said the English cabinet are d.
vided on the Egyptian question.
Extensive reinforcements are ordered
to Egypt to relieve TOkar and defend
Red Sea ports.
France is reported to have been assured
by England that no Turkish Intervention
i'm the SOudan will be allowed.
The report of the Canadian Minister Of
Marine and Fisheries places the total
value of the fisheries of Canada at $17,-
215675.
The Golden club will circulate 10000
copies of Citizens Progress of the Work
ing Glasses to counteract Henry Georges
teaching.
A number of Liberal members of the
English House Of Commons petitl0ned
the Government. urging more direct in
reference in the affairs of Egypt.
The Paris Municiple Council voted
$4,000 francs for the relief of homeless
workmen, and request Parliament to
grant 100000 francs for the relief OF
the poor.
In the British House of Lords
Salisbury moved that In the opinioR
of the House. the recent events in the
SOudan were largely due to the vascil.
lating policy of the Government. This
was adopted, after debate. by Isl to 81.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21

The attention the subject of Protect
ion is attracting In the South is we'll IL
Illustrated by the Charlotte Observer. It
addressed circular letter to manufac-
turers in North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia, asking them to state how
their business is affected by the tariff.
The first reply comes from Rufus B. Bull
lock, president of the Atlanta Cotton
Mills. This is the concluding paragraph
of his letter: 'Ths only safety for
Southern cotton mills and for Southern
manufacturing of all kinds is to be
found in the general prosperity of the
whole nation, and the indications now
are that this desirable condition can
only be maintained 10y crucifying the
tariff thinkers
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21
POLITICAL riDBtrS

The Democrats with their tariff issue
are very much in position of the success
full hunter who exultingly cried to his
companions to come and help him let &c
of the bear. - Rochester Post Express
Mr.. MOrrisOn's horizontal tariff bill
does not seem to meet with much
enthusiasm. The more it is considered
the more evident it becomes that this
shaving down of the tariff is not states
manship.-[Nev Orleans Times Dem.
The Democrats of New Jersey have de-
clared for tariff for revenue limited
to the necessary revenues Of the Govern
menI." II there are any more kinds OF
tariffs that the Democratic party wants
it should speak for them early Kan.
sas Citu Journal.
There is probably nothing more curl.
Gus in political history than the open
way in which the Democrats are dis
cussing the particular humbug they
ought to try on the American people this
time, and the best mode of giving 1t 8
look of gravity and sincerity Ne,C
York Evening Post.
Michigan's lumbermen will be to glad
to learn that every Democratic congress
man from Michigan-Maybury, Winans
Yapls, Eldredge and HOuseman--wants
all lumber to be free. Some Of those
men pretended to be prOtectiOnists. M
doubt. when Begging for vOtes.-[AkrOa
d.. Beacon.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21
Blaine

Mr.. Blaine. not to he outdone by Mary
Anderson, Lawrence Barrett or Haverly's
minstrels, proposes to invade Europe and
with this end in view he has employed
william d. Eaton, an ex.jOurnalist of
Chicago, together with force OF ten
translatOrs, to do his new hook into
French and German. Agencies for the
sale Of the work will be established
ext month in Paris and Berlin. for 1t is
expected that foreigners will be eager
to read tn "reminiscences OF 40 brilliant
statesman as Mr.. Blaine.
At the annual dinner of the Civil
Service Reform Association of the Fifth
Congressional District OF Massachusetts,
held last week, President Elliott, Il
Harvard College, said he believed 1t
would be an excellent plan If all our
Representatives in Congress would give
an account ia public meeting to their
constituents of all that they have done
This is the custom in England. He felt
sure that a rendering If public account
TO the people would have very whole
some inflnence on the whole country.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21

All trains run by Ninetiteh Meridian or Gem
trail standard time. Clio c connections at all
junction oints.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21
TO RENT.

and Pine streets, opposite Grand Cent? al Hotel /.
jan1tf BELL Il ADAMS,
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21

THE Princess of Wales is immensely
popular and win some, but is lame from a
stiff knee. and Is becoming quite deaf so
that she shrinks from society and will
more so. The FRINGE because Of
Vlctoria's in6rmities takes much of gov
ernmental duty, and is redseming him.
self from his Youthful f0llies.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21
Notice to Taxpayers of Beaugrand
Township.

will be In my Office at my residence every
Friday during the months Of December and
Beaugrand township.
m EDWARD CLUIN, Township treasurer.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21
lua&Tricd IL.

Some one said to Mr.. Hutchinson. the
custodian and manager under Barn um
Of the sacred elephant:
Suppose some one goes to work now
and blsaehes an ordinary olephantw
"He can't do it," was the Laughing re-
Spouse. Don't you suppose we have ex.
perimeRted largely In that direction
purselves?"
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21
Boilers for Sale.

Two second hand boilers. recently thorough
~ overhauled and are in first-class condition.
The boilers are 20 feet long, As inches in
diameter 10 inch hues, wi h mud drum, steam
drum, smoke stack breechng. fire front and
CRATES. all new. The whole outfit will be sold
cheap For price and particulars apply at my
Cheboygan. WIN. HESS.
Nov 24-tf
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21
SONGS NEVER SUNG.

"How does that verse run? Something like
this, isn't 1t?
There are who touch the magic string,
And noisy fame Is proud to win them;
Alasl for hose who never sing,
But die with all their music In them.'"
''Yes, that's beautiful pathetic and true"
said your representative. 1.-THE poet alludes to
people who are somehow suppressed, and never
get their full allowance of joy and air. Which
reminds me Of letter shown me the other day
by HIsCOx Il Co., OF New York, signed by Mr..
II. G. Williams, or Chapman, Snyder Il Co.,
Pa. prominent business man Of that place.
He writes:
81 have suffered with asthma for over forty
years, and had terrible attack in December
and January, 1882. hardly know what
prompted me to take PARKER's Tonic. did
so, and the first day took four doses. The
nothing was the matter with me, and have
ever since. have had colds since, but NO
asthma. Ny breathing is now as perfect as II
| had never known that disease II you know
OF any one who has the asthma tell him in my
name that PARKER's Tonic will cure it--even
after forty years" There was man who es-
capped the fate OF those whom the poet laments
This preparation, which has heretofore been
known as PARKER's GINGER Tonic, will here
after be advertised and sold under the name OF
| PARKER'S TONIC. Inasmuch as ginger is really
an unimportant ingredient, and unprinciped
dealers are constantly deceiving their customers
| by substituting inferior preparations under the
name OF ginger, we drop the misleading word
| There IL no change, however, In the prepare
ton itself, and all bottles remaining in the
hands OF Dealers wrapped under the name OF
| PARKER'S GINGER TONIC contain the genuine
| medicine II the facsimile signature of HIsC0x 4
Co. 10 at the bottom OF the outside wrapper.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21

TEETH En-
TRACTED
without Pain.
At DIR. G.. III.
HILLS New Dem
tai Rooms, In
Bennett
Block,
In rooms formerly
occupied by w. II.
Daniels & Co.

Having secured the exclusive right for Che
boygan county, for Hurd's Patent system for
administering Vitalized Air, for the Painless
Extraction OF Teeth DR.. Hill is now pre-
pared to do all kinds of dental work in the
most thorough manner. Vitalized air is per-
fectly harmless, and a -rees with all constitu-
tiOns. 1Octf