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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-14

LION COTTON MARKET.
GALVESTON, May 12.-Uotton Net receipts
at all United States ports.
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Place DIR. PRICES at the head of the entire list.

. 1t is the purest and strongest. Free from Ammonia
1ree rom Line tree from Alum and is recommended for
general family Clean pure and wholesome bv the
HEADS OF the Great Universities and Public Food Analysts
fGS e01o@ the of this write
r 9ate Chemist University Georgia ~
fEi1ZIE Late President OF
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Chemist w
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Prof CtrS G. How III neSt to the Dept Of Health Brooklyn
Prof r q pa rbA "a Haf Anayt Chemist Chicago
M ORDWAY, Mass
FE0f T. A WifbPTHAIS A NJ NJ p, University of Buffalo, n
fo JOHN BQflIANDEF A D. Chemistry and Toxioo
CoEege MEDICINE and Surgery, o. N A0NoosS'
BARKER, PENNSYLVANIA
F PETER CQILIER Chemist College, Washington d G.
Toronto O0- OAoAA'uy
JAMES the Oreoro
Ely Chemistry, of
L. W. HliAkD Chemistry
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PORTS.

Exports from ali UnlIed States ports thus far
this week:
Exports this week Great Britain. 1901
France ......-.
Continent...... 1852
Stock in all II 8. ports this day. 509430
this daV last year. 5S9358
LIVERPOOL,
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Estrayed by Thomas Dickson before j j.
Parsley, j. p. 7. g., May 8, 1885, one bay horse,
about l4h hands high, about years old. brand
ed L and inverted T connected on left shoulder,
appraised at $25. Also one bay horse, about
lax bands high, about IA years old, branded j
connected on the left shoulder, right eye out,
appraised at $40. FRANK BROWN,
Clerk, u. G. T. g.
Estrayed by E. B. Fuller, before ]. J. Pars-
ley, j. p. 7. G., May ., 1885, one black mare,
about IA hands high, about years old, lett
hind foot white, white spot IN her forehead,
branded on left shoulder, appraised at so.
FRANK BROWN,
Clerk, G. u. I. G.
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AROUND AUSTIN.

They watched the boat go round the bend u
She was bound for Mount BOnnell,
A keg of beer stood at one end,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-05-14
AUSTIN PRIZE CUKRENT.

TCorrecCed Daily for THE STATESMAN.
The following are prices for job lots.
Groceries.
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Futures closed easy, generally point higher.
July 5 81 bid; July-August 5 81 bid; August
September 6.01 asked; September October SOL
| asked: October-November 5.52 asked; NOvem-
ber-December $40; January $40 bid.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK Nav 70 -(OttOn spOt closed
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boston, May II. = Wool, demand good
Ohio fieeces at 80 to 34c for x, Xxx, xxx and
above; pulled woods Is to SOC for superior, and
very choice lots 3lc.
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R.PIRIcE's
CREAM
BAKING POWDER
MOST PERFECT MADE
United States Government,
ee NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH
Canadian Government,
RENuE
ment Canada
Canadian Government.

te 10 the
nlent, Canada, 1851
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-08
BRUSHING CHiLDREN,s HAIR.

Frequent and thorough brushing of the
hair is extremely desirable. 1t not only i'm.
proves temporarily the appearance of
child, but tends at the same time to keep
the scalp in healthy condition. It stimu.
letes the growth of the hair and prevents it
from becoming dry and harsh. Care should
be exercised in selecting thick, soft brush,
and due attention be paid to the manner in
which it is used. There is right way and
wrong way of doing many things, and hair
brushing the latter is too frequently employ
ed. The mother or nurse who assumes this
important duty must take plenty of time
and give her undivided attention to it. II
the operation be performed hastily or care.
lessly the child soon learns to dread it :;
while, on the other hand, if it is always as
ISOLATED with few pleasant words, short
fairy tale, or something Of the kind, the OPP
Grafton will give pleasure to both Of the
parties concerned, and the beautiful results
will soon become apparent. A comb is an
implement of doubtful utility in the nur-
sery, and certainly ono which is doing as
much harm ms good. For parting the hair
a coarse comb with blunt teeth may be used
but for dealing with the inevitable snarls
which so often occur in the best regulated
locks, brush, supplemented by gentle fin
gers, should only be used Under no con-
alteration should comb be allowed to
come in contact with the delicate scalp of a
child, and the use of fine teethed instru-
ment of torture, such as was formerly in
vogue, ought in this enlightened age to be
relegated from the nursery to chamber OF
horrors. Baby1tood.
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COOKING FOR THE PRESIDENT.
The White House Kitchen, It's Personnel
and the Way Things ARE Done In 1t.

Tho White House Kitchen, It's Personnel
aud the Way Things arc Done In 1t.
In the basement of the White House, on
the north side are situated the kitchen,
laundry and bedrooms of the Presidents
household. A French cook presdes In the
kitchen, and all his surroundings are Us
neat as could be imagined. There was not
a speck of dirt visible when Post reporter
went through the room one day last week,
and the chef, as he delights to DO called,
was anxious to point out all the details Of
his department.
Very little trouble has been experienced
under the change of administration, and the
President has not manifested any disapprov.
al of the delicate dishes prepared for him
by the cook of his predecessor. Including
the stewart there are four. servants in the
employ of the President, and when there is
rush in the laundry the woman in charge
has authority to employ assistants. 1t would
be difficult to find brighter tins or cleaner
china than there are ON the shelves of the
White House, and the floors in the base
ments are bleached white from constant ap.
plications of soap and sand. The kitchen
is in the northwest angle Of tho White House
under the vestibule, and the sleeping rooms
are adjacent, facing north They are not
generally occupied, for the help at the White
House have the privilege of going home at
night and only on rare occasions do they
use their rooms.
The stewart and his assistants in waiting
upon the President and his guests always
wear swallow-tailed coats, black trousers ard
white vests and everything must be scru-
pulously clean about waiter before he is
allowed to 60 into the private dining room.
As fast as course is ready for the table it
is sent up from the kitchen on dumb
waiter, which is in n recess back OF the ante
room ON the right of the principal entrance
to the White House. Inquiry among the
oldest servants of the Executive Mansion
revealed the fact that none of them had ever
seen rat about the house, although there
are no cats or dogs on the premises. Even
the kitchen and store-room are free, and al
ways have been, from these pests, although
the building is half q century old. On State
occasions, or for lsrge reception, the corps
of assistants to the cook is increased, and
men cooks are always employed. There is
plenty of room at the large range for oil,
and there is no confusion, no matter what
the demand may be. A colored man is
stewart of the White House ut salary Of
81 800 per annum, aud the cook is paid &
similar amount. The other servants are paid
At the rate of Sl.25 day, and all the help
are colored persons, even to the boy who
dusts..and sweeps the parlors. Washington
Doof
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-08
A MINERS PERSISTENCE.

An old Dutchnian brought the plodding
method of his race to the work of gold dig
ging in Australia. All of his companions
had boldness and dash; but few had the
stolid persistency in the face of bad luck
that this Dutchman possessed. he had been
Flooding along for several months digging
tunnel. Heavy dull clay was all about
him. Not promising sign beckoned him
on. He seemed to get more settled in his
determination to work the tunnel to the end
the more unpromising it looked. He had
been working in the face of encouragement
for several months. One morning he was
making his way into his tunnel, and before
he had gone fourteen feet his heart sank
within him. There in front of him was his
tunnel caved The path that he had labori-
ously dug into the hill was clogged with
tons Of earth. But the quality Of his char
acter asserted itself. Most men would have
volleyed oaths at his i'll luck, and packed
up their kit and left. The miner moved
more slowly than before, but he started to
work again in the same tunnel. de crawled
into his tunnel, and with his pick and shov.
el get to clearing away the hill of earth that
blocked his path. He Ind not struck q
dozen blows with his pick before the sharp
iron point struck something solid. Mechan
ically he bent forward and cleared away the
earth, and there before him was a big mug
get, as nuggets go, weighing fourteen
ounces. He crept out of the tunnel, bring
ing his precious nugget with him, and when
he got into the fresh air and heard the birds
singing, he sat down and wept. No one be.
Rrudged the Dutchman his luck.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-08
SHOES FOR FAST MACS.
A Talk With Blacksmith Murphy, the shoel
of TrOttiug Horses.

ITO shoe fast horse takes as much care
and precision as to fit ladys foot" said
Mr.. John Murphy, the well-known horse
shoer, to Philadelphia Ne,os-gatherer re-
Gently. 1.-THE majority of race horses that
come to this city are shod in this shop.
John Splan was here early this morning
with Belle F. and another fast horse. He
was the driver of Rarus, you will remember
and is the owner of some good horses on the
track now. In this shop we have shod St.
Julien, Trinket, Darby, Hopeful, Hannis
the noted stallion Edwin Thorne and a score
of others that cannot remember"
Is there much difference in the shoes of
horses?"
All the difference in the world A big
draught horse like the Percheron will take
q shoe weighing two and one-half pounds,
made of iron with toe cork and heels. The
toe cork is the piece of iron set on the head
or toe of the shoe. A horse that travels in
business wagon or carriage will take q
twenty ounce shoe, or one and quarter
pound shoe. These shoes are made heavy
and are about an inch in width.
" trotting horses shoe is entirely differ
ent. They do not weigh more than from
fourteen to sixteen ounces. The shoes on
the hind feet are invariably made of steel,
and those in front are often of the same
metal. There is no toe cork on q trotter's
shoes, and but slight rise in the back part
of them for heel.
The shoes of running horses are called
plates. They weigh but four or five ounces,
are perfectly fiat, and are only about half
inch wide all the way round, and as thin as
possible. They are put on to strengthen the
hoof and keep it from breaking, but they
are an inch longer than the foot behind.
This is to give power and support to the
tendons of the leg"
Noticing a number of curiously shaped
and uncommon looking shoes, the Neps.
gatherer asked in perfect innocence if they
were for crippled horses.
The young man smilingly replied 81 No,
they are for trotting horses. There is q
great deal of difference in the feet of fast
horses, just as much as there is in the feet
VI iucus DOulo uOlbtS nOOIS we nave 10
cover with more weight on the outside of
the shoe than the inside, some vice versa,
some with the heaviest part of the shoe in
front, others behind. Many horses spread
their feet out in trotting, others work close
with their feet and unless they are shod per.
fecily they will go lame. There may be 9
half dozen fine thoroughbreds brought into
the shop tomorrow morning and not one OF
them be shod alike.
"a PAGER is most always shod light We
shod some fast horses for Mccarthy, who
drove Little Brown jug, the PAGER. A rum
ner is the lightest stepping horse, PAGER
and raclier next, then a trotter."
"Do the fast horses stand the shoeing
process well ?"
"Oh, yes, quite as we'll as any of them.
The fast horses are always brought to the
shop in the cool of the morning. They are
gentle horses generally"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-08
BuCKWHEAT FLOUR.
The Grain is First Polished, then Schuclsed,
and then Ground.

While q downtown -four merchant watch.
ed an employee load a truck with buck.
wheat flour, the other day, he said You
would hardly expect to see such large sale
of buckwheat as that at this time of the
year, would your The fact is the use of
buckwheat is increasing. The restaurants
here serve buckwheat cakes the year round
though it strikes a countryman as rather
odd to see buckwheats in warm weather
The increased use of this flour is due to the
great improvements in its manufacture with
in the last three or four years. When was
boy the straw with the grain in the head
was piled on the barn floor and pounded
with fail. The straw was then forked off
and the grain swept into piles. When the
wind was blowing briskly the grain was
thrown into the air with shovels, so that the
chaff could be blown away, and then the
grain was ground between the old-fashioned
nillstones. The bran was separated from
:he meal by sitting with wire-bottomed
sieve. The first improvement was made
when silk boiling reel was substituted for
wire cloth sieve. After great many years
an old York State miller concluded that the
meal would have less shuck or bran in it if
the shuck could be removed from the berry
before it was ground. To do that he run
the grain through series of corrugated rol-
lers which simply cracked open the shuch
and allowed the kernel to drop out The
broken shucks and kernels were separated
tlu I,.o
was about as white as any other. The de-
mand for it increased rapidity but it WIS
not quite perfect, because the fine fuzz and
dirt adhering to the outside of the berry fell
through the screen with the kernels after
the shuck had been broken open by the roll
lers of the shucker. TO get rid of this it
was necessary to polish each berry of the
grain separately before it was shucked. The
machine for doing this has just been put on
the market. 1t consists of cast-iron cylin.
der, say three feet long and one foot in di.
ameter, which revolves within jacket made
of steel wire cloth. The cylinder is covered
with square knobs half inch large, which
project to within a fraction of an inch of the
jacket The cylinder is set whirling al
the rate of $50 revolutions minute, and
the grain after passing over screen to get
the straw out falls down between the iacket
and the cylinder. There it goes around and
around knocking against the knobs and
the jacket, an upward current of air carry
ing off the dust, until it falls out below as
clean as hounds tooth. Then it slides
over magnetized plato to remove any trace
of metal before going to the shucller. That
makes what we call perfect buckwheat iour.
Most millers have had to relearn their trade
within the last five years on account of the
improvements introduced in the processes
Of manufacture, but in no branch of the
business has the progress of improvement
been more marked than in the handling of
buckwheat."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-08
A GOOD SCENT.

ALI, Angelica" said one girl, without
looking around at the other, who caught her
by the arm in q crowded store, chow do
you do?"
How did she identify her acquaintance
without having seen her? Why, by the per.
tume. We have taken to seeming our
;lothes-not as women used to do when
musk was in fashion, but delicately, msthe-
tically, cultivatedly. There Is an individu-
Atty about it now. Violet, rose and hya-
clnthe, along with other dainty flowers, are
tie smells in approved use but we do not,
as rule, employ them separately. We mix
one or more of them, and sometimes add
something else, so as to produce new and
distinct perfume The art Of chemistry is
invoked, the aim being to get result diff
ferent from any that has been attained be-
Tore, and when girl once succeeds in salts
Tying herself she keeps the formula pro-
found secret, in order that the wafture of
her odoriferousness may be entirely unique.
Angelica was that kind of an aesthetic, and
therefore the friend whom she encountered
could tell by nose as well as eyes who she
was. Her perfume was as distinctive as her
feature. Thus do we steadily progress in
the aggregation of charms.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-08
T-Fo-a-s-e<a<i
GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD
Tho Population and Size of London..Inter.
esting Statistics.

London is the greatest city the world ever
saw. 1t covers within the fifteen miles
radius of Charing Cross 700 square miles.
1t numbers within these boundaries 5,O00,-
600 of inhabitants. Il comprises over g.
600, 900 foreigners from every quarter of the
globe. 1t contains more Roman Catholics
than Rome itself more Jews than the whole
of Palestine more Irish than Dublin;
more Scotchmen than Edinburgh more
Welshmen than Cardiff more coun-
try-raised persons than the counties of
Devon, Warwickshire and Durham combin-
ed. Has birth in it every five minutes;
has death in it every eight minutes has
seven accidents every day in its 5000 miles
of street; has on an average 40 miles of
streets opened and 10, 600 new houses built
in 1t every year:
In 1883 there were added %, ITO new
houses to the vast aggregate of dwellings,
which is called the metropolis, thus form
ing 1868 new streets and one new square,
covering distance of sixty-six miles and
eighty-four yards. II is difficult to form
any mental picture from these figures.
Brighton, the queen of watering places,
in 1881 had 90, 379 inhabited houses, SO that
London, in 1888, added to itself a town
bigger than Brighton. It would re-
1uire two Cambridges or Oxfords or Baths
to represent the addition made to London
in single year.
London has 46, 600 persons annually add
ed, by birth, to its population has over
1000 ships and 1000 sailors in its port
every day; has as many beer shops and gin
palaces as would, il placed side by side,
stretch from Charing Gross to Portsmouth,
distance of rs miles has $4,000 drunk
ards annually brought before its magis-
trates has 10 miles of open shops every
Sunday has influence with all parts of the
world represented by yearly delivery in
its postal districts of 29S, 900, 900 of letters.
Twelve hundred trains PASS Chaplain juno
ton every day and the underground railway
runs ,211 trains every day The London
omnibus companies have 1,029 buses,
which carry $4,000, 900 passengers annual
ly. 1t Is more dangerous to walk the streets
Of London than to travel by railroad or to
cross the Atlantic. Last year 1870 persons
were killed and 1000 injured by vehicles in
the streets. There are in London nearly
IA 900 police, $4,000 eabmen, $4,000 per-
sons connected with the Post Office. The
cost of gas for lighting London annually is
f600, 600, London has 400 daily and week.
ly newspapers. Last year there were $500
fires. The ancient and famous city of LoD-
don was first founded by Brute, the Trojan,
in the year of the world 2832, so that since
the FIRST building it is 5000 Years old. The
drainage system of London is superb and
the death rate very low.
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0h--s~-
PROBING AN OIL MYSTERY.

1 had another exciting adventure--at
least it was exciting to me--a year or two
later, not far from Oil City. As usual, l
was trying to probe q mystery which was
situated not far from creek. approached
the well ct night. Seeing no one, walked
boldly up to the enclosure and was scrib-
bling down few notes when heavy hand
was laid upon my shoulder. Turning
around l confronted man of huge proper
tions. He knew what 1 was up to. We
clinched each other simultaneously. He was
larger and stouter than was, and seizing
me around the waist he soon had me fiat on
the ground.
No shooting, said he. won't hurt
you very much. I'll just heave you into
the creek and let you go, but you must
never come back here as spy, or it will go
hard with YOU
With this he picked me up in spite OF
my resistance and partly carrying, partly
dragging me to the creek, tossed me into
the stream, which was several feet deep at
that point. had left my rifle at the well
and my pistols were rendered useless by the
water, SO was practically defenseless. All
could do was to scramble out and break
for home. The weather was cold and Inear-
ly froze before got to q fire. I afterward
made up with the watchman and recovered
my gun. received only $25 for this job.
1t was dearly-earned money."-Pi tts5ury
Dispatch Intercieso 10Th an OIL Scout
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-08
SLEEPING WITH OPEN WINDOWS.
Is Night Air Injurious s--Eficcts of the
Change of Atmosphere.

This question introduces subject upon
which there Is diversity of opinion both
among medical practitioners and indiyidu-
ais. II have had no bad colds since l
learned to sleep with my windows open,"
remarked gentleman the other day. In
reply, another says that the only "bad
colds he ever suffered from were contracted
by sleeping in rooms to which the night air
had fiee acoess.n He adds that il is we'll
known that the bodily temperature sinks
slightly during sleep; the physiological
functions act with diminished activity, and
hence the resistance of the economy to
morbific influences is proportionately les
sened. But 1t Is also we'll known that at
night these influences are more potent and
noxious. The air is changed with greater
humidity; miasmatic and malarial poisons
arise to higher levels and extend with great
er rapidity the chill Of the damp night
air is penetrating and dangerous the ema-
nations from organic decay are more per-
ceptible.
Against these the sleeper is less protected
than in the daytime. He has Invested him.
self of his woollen external clothing to put
on cotton or linen, and lies between sheets
Of the same material, between which, at the
oops and sides of the bed, the dir gains ready
access to tho unprotected surface. If he is
restless, he renders such an access yet more
easy. A greater risk awaits him. A sud-
den fall in temperature at night is no un-
usual occurrence. In summer thunder
gust, in winter q shift of the wind to the
north, often reduces the temperature ten or
twenty degrees. The sleeper is unaware OF
this. He remains exposed to il with no fur.
Their protection than he found agreeable at
the higher temperature until he awakes
chilled and stiff, perhaps with the seeds of
n serious illness already sown.
These are such positive and unavoidable
risks that we should counsel delicate per-
son to be exceedingly cautious how he ven
tured on the plan Of open windows at night,
however much has been said in its favor by
popular hygienists.