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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1885-04-10

al llegar d la cr6nica de Ia poli-
tica exterior, mezclada con las gue-
rras que ell gobierno frances ha empe-
flado en- Madagascar, en- Tonkin y en-
la China, diremos que las negociacio-
mes diplomaticas continian rotas en-
tire los gobiernos respetivos. Nj el de
Madagascar nj el de la China tratan
de concluir diplomaticamente conve-
MOS de paz, muy deseados por ell Minis
terio frances. aunque este no quiera to-
mar la iniciativa de la proposition de
los tratados.
En- Madagascar Ell ejercito frances
NADIA hace. Ell StatH qao sc prolon-
ga indefinidamente: los soldados estan
en- sus guarniciones de plazas y en- sus
cuarteles: sufren las Intermediates en-
demicas, y nj avanzan nj retroceden.
Tienen d la vista d sus enemigos ar
mados: estos piensan que 50 mejor
General es ell china, nocivo para los
europeos, y deJan que las fiebres diez-
men los franceses.
Hemos dicho, y repetimos, que Ell
bloqueo de la isla es imperfecto: que
no impide q los Hovas recibir armas
y municiones, nj hacer So pequeho CO.
mercio de exportaci6n por puertos no
dominados por sus enemigos.
No cafecen los Hovas de 10 necesa.
rio para vivir en- Madagascar, que tie
ne fsrtil territorio. Desaffan, pues, el
poder de los invasores que no han To-
grado establecerse mas que en- pocos
puntos cercanos la costa del mar, =
no pueden ir adelante por que no hay
caminos para transporter where's, mu-
niciones y artilleria.
Tai es ell estado de la question de
Madagascar.
En- Tonkin han logrado, las tropas
francesas, llegar hasta la llamada
Puerta de la China, pasando la legen-
daria muralla. El General N9grier,
miitar osado, ha consegnido que las
tropas de su mando entren en- ell terri
torio que los chinos llaman sacro-san-
to y que los Emperadores deben de-
fender, q todo trance, para que su me-
moria no sea clbierta de oprobio.
Tai hazafia, comentada por los Pc
ri6dicos franeeses en- loor de N9grier,
no ha producido efecto en- Francis. Sc
sabe que la llamada puerta de Ia Chi
ma no podra ser guardada por el Ge-
neral, tanto porque no ha de estable-
cerse allf un puesto fortificado, como
porque Ell ejercito chino est& q pocs
distancis y sigue So acostumbrada es-
trategia. Combate y Sc retira q tiem-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1885-04-10

de bien merecida reputation como
ell mejOr agente para blanquear,
hasta hoy conOcid0.
Los estudios que hemos hechO
de la Rami6, nos han puesto en-
condolences de poder tratar, con
6Xito Y econ0micamente, todas las
plantas fibr0sas, desde las pertene-
cientes q la numerosa familia de
los agavos, hasta ell aspero bagazo
de la cana de az1car, que produce
una materia parecida al esparto
del coco, Y muy a prop6sito para
embalar.
Los tallos del algodonero pueden
tambien utilizarse como tfbras por
el mismo plocedimiento qulmico.
Las plantas pulpOsas, como la pi-
ia, eI maguey, la tifa ", cuando Sc
las somete 4 la acci6n de nuestro
Descorte.Gd0r, y de nuestro proce
dimiento para desgomar, dan nota-
bles resultados en- cuanto q calidad
y baratura, y nos ponen en- condi
clones de produ9ir tibras textiles,
lie plantas hasta el preSente tent
das por lmpropias, como la cata-
ria, cuyos productos eXhlbimos.
Conclusion.
Nuestra trma social esta pronta
a ejecutar las ordenes que Sc lie en-.
vieu refefeutes d emiilas de Rdmie
j maquinas; } admltira PROPOSE
clones s0llcitando autorigaci0n pa
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1885-04-10

Nombrado Alcalde de Adjun.
tas don Antonio Aheran.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
Swallowed His Teeth.

Employed on a branch of the New
York and New England Railroad is 9
man of 80 or SO years of mortal exper.
none of those years have brought to
him such unprecedented surprises, both
painful and p~leasureable, as the last.
In consequence Of the absence of five
prominent teeth, he had made for him
a rubber plate with five artificial teeth
attached, and which worked quite to
his satisfaction. On retiring late one
night in November he forgot to remove
them from his mouth, Ssss was his habit
and upon Weakening in the morning he
felt that dawning consciousness that
comes upon one SO gradually as one
rouses from slumber, that the rubber
plate containing five teeth was not il
its should-be receptacle, the tumbler
of water, neither was it clinging firm
ly to his upper jaw. At the same anx-
ious moment he experienced something
of a discomfort in the region of his
throat, and, calling his wife, asked her
to examine the locality, which she did,
and, to her surprise, beheld the retreat
ing form of that self-same plate, which
had vainly tried to fit itself to the cav
lily of the throat, but in so doing had
lodged just too low for her grasp. He
proceeded at once to his physician, and
underwent a series of attempts to ex-
tract it, which were unsuccessful. He
was then taken TO the Massachusetts,
General Hospital, where all efforts to
extract the teeth proved also of no
avail. Meanwhile. the plate worked
slowly down toward the stomach. The
patient was confined to his house about
ten days, and soon recovered his US
ual strength and spirits and went his
way without experiencing further
trouble from the accident. Vaaans
yer the opinions of the medical world
In regard to what would be the final
apshot of the matter: One doctor
said: "You can not live with that in
your stomach blood poisoning must
follow" Another said: "1he rubber
will digest; the teeth thus set free you
will rid yourself of, and all may be
we'll" But, to say the least, the pa
dents state of mind was but little
sased by any diagnosis pronounced
upon the case by men who thought
hey knew all about it. However, af-
.er three months. the teeth finally
emerged In as perfect condition as on
The day they left the dentists hands.
Boston Herald.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
Victor Hugo,s Daily Life.

In spite of his years he is still hale
and hearty; he eats well and drinks
well, and his only infirmity is deaf
ness. On Thursdays and Sundays,
which are reception days, the poet
goes to bed about 10 o'clock; on other
days he retires at 9 or $50. and in the
morning he works in bed and rises
about 10. He breakfasts lightly,
walks, and, in spite of the suppiica-
lions of his family, he occasionally in
dulges in his old distraction of riding
on the knifeboard of a bus. What
aver the weather, Victor Hugo still OBJ
stinately refuses to wear al o%vercnat,
and, old as he is, he persists in abund-
ant cold water ablutions; but he no
longer takes his stub as he used to
during the siege of Paris, when he used
to break the ice with his heel on cold
mornings. Victor Hugo still works,
but of course not very much; he has
his bolster and pillow placed at the
foot of the bed, SO as to receive the
light directly from the window, and,
pencil in hand, passes an hour or two
every morning in classifying and COR
recting his unpublished works in proze
and verse. He has in manuscript half
q dozen plays, several volumes of
philosophy, which will be published
after his death. And so the old poet
lives, surrounded by his family, by his
neutrality-suspicious. and Georges,
the latter a big boy of seventeen, who
Is going to be o painter-and by his
faithful old friends Paul Meurice and
Auguste Vacquerie, who tell the old
man on days when he is weary and
thinking of the end, that he must try
to live until 1889, so that the opening
Of the Universal Exhibition and the
centenary of the Great Revolution may
be presided over by lie vieux Hugo
Paris Letter to London World.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01

Il have a dog" said Senator Vest,
who had just heard a precocious crow
story, .'who is very sagacious. One
morning he watched intently while a
negro boy BACKED my shoes. The fol-
lowing moiasng he came to where |
was sitting with a blacking brush In
MS mouth. You may not believe it,,
put that dog got down on his launches,
spit on my shoes, took the brush in his
Teeth and rubbed away like a house on
nre. Snt / must admit that he did not
get up much of abolish. One Sunday,
while | was living at Sedalia, this dog
followed me to church. noticed that
ne watched every movement OF the
preacher. That afternoon ! heard q
terrible bowling of dogs in my back
yard. | went out to see what was the
matter My dog was in the woodshed,
Standing on his hind legs in an old
cry-goods box. He held down a torn
almanac with one fore paw and gesti-
cuiated wildly with the other, while ne
sWayed his head and howled to an
audience of four other dogs, ven more
sadly than the preacher | had heard
mat morning" The narrator OF the
Srow story threw up the sponge
Memphis appeal.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
Battle of Flowers.

Among the features of the carnival
at Nice this year, writes a correspond
emit, was the Battle of Flowers, which
took place on Friday, Feb. Is, and
was repeated on the following Mon
day. Precisely at 2 o'clock on the
first day named the gun at the chateau
gavc the signal for Beginning the hos
tilities and by 8 o'clock the battle had
really begun. Vehicles richly deco
rated with flowers, fruits, ribbons.
straw, and other decorative material
parade the Corso and bouquets fell
thick as hail upon the crowds, which
extended in a thick mass from one
end Of the course TO the other. The
people on foot responded wit. vigor
to the attacks of the riders, many of
them having provided themselves
with large baskets full of small bou-
Duets, in the manufacture of which a
whole army of florists had been en-
gagged during the whole of the preced-
ing day and night. There was a con-
slant shower of v%ioiets, mimosas,
Iiiacs, pinks. anemones, roses, and, in
fact, every flower to pc found in bloom
at the season in that portion OF France.
Some of the vehicles were remarka-
BILE pretty, and among the most notice
able was a victoria entirely hidden
with scarlet pinks, even the wheels
being covered with these flowers. An
other vehicle vas a cart covered with
verdure and vegetables and occupied
by three pretty peasant girls, who
threw leeks, carrots, c~auliiowers and
even large cabbages IS well as flow
ers anon the people. There was of
curse q great variety of costumes
and the battle was a scene of ANNA
ton and beauty.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
WHERE STYLES COME FROM.
Interview With a Man Who Gets Up Mems
Fashion-Plates

EUSulUu-TI dUeSs
I'VE are always on the lookout for
something new,h says a writer in The
american Tailor. Sometimes we pet
a suggestion or hint from a tailor or
other person, and will work on il until
we produce something acceptable.
After getting suggestions from Tailors
and others. and considering them,
perhaps getting the views of a lady,
we go off and do al many newspaper
me DO, act as we please 1t is well
enough to get the ideas of others, but
when we come down to work we have
to boss the job and use our own ideas.
lie Is one OF those businesses in which
there is no well-deined method as to
originating styles. Observation and
study are required. Formerly chang.
es were made in February for spring
and summer styles, and in August for
fall and winter, and the greatest
changes are still made at these peri
obs. The trade for the past ten years
at least, has, however, not been con-
tent with but two plates per year, and
must now have them quarterly, many
OF the foremost demanding them
monthly. The great changes are In
the spring and fall, however, and the
others are notifications or improve
ments on them, o radical changes.
The business of making style has in
creased greatly within the past few
years, and there are a number at it,
but the bulk of it is done by two or
three houses. OF course, there are not
90 much change in style demanded by
gentlemen as by ladies. No, we do
not get up any styles for particular
sections of the country. When we
publish the plates they are sent to ev-
cry portion of the country, and some
times it is found that one STYLE will
become popular in one section and an
other in an other section, but, as a
rule, the tastes are as much different
In one section as another. There are
about $4,000 merchant tailors of stand
ing In the country-those who keep a
stock and are fully up to the times,
having the best goods-and with these
the fashion magazines have come to
be as essential as the newspaper. Such
progress have we made that even
Europeans are adopting our patterns.
Formerly the representative merchant
tailor might be said to be a son of poor
parents, receiving pattern-plates twice
a year, and being fully satisfied. Now,
however, the merchant tailor is not
content with ven the quarterly plates
issued, and it is surprising those of
other countries. They are now aver
alive for something new, to have not
only the latest improvements in tools
and conveniences for their business.
Some were content a few years ago
with modest unassuming places of
business, but now the merchant tailor
has as fine an establishment as any
fradesman.n
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
Literary Centennial.

As we are going through an epoch Of
sentennials it might be well to notice
he fact that it is just 100 years since
Amarican literature took its first start
after the revolution. The first book
published on this continent after the
peace with Great Britain was "Watts's
Psalms" edited by Joel Barlow, which
was issued in Hartford in 1855. Barlow
was then thirty. He was a native Of
Connecticut, and had studied at Yale,
where in ITS he delivered a poem, en-
titled the Prospect of Peace" His
poetic talents had already attracted
notice and this led the clergy to TO
quest that he should prepare an edition
Of Watts for public worship. He also
edited a weekly paper in Hartford called
the American Mercury, but afterward
added law to literature. He had how.
ever, already contemplated what he con
sidered his great poem, "The Colum.
bad This was not completed until
the lapse of twenty years, but its incep
ton was given in the Vision Of
Columbus" which was published the
year our government was formed.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
Wheels Not Made of pulp.

''The statement that the most deli
cate watch wheels are now made of
paper pulp in Germany is a hoax, /
Think" said a prominent jeweler and
matchmaker on Broadway to a Mail
md Express representative. 81 have
been in the business some forty years
and work on German, Swiss, English,
French and American watches every
week, repairing or taking them apart,
and / have not seen a wheel made of
pulp, not even among the latest
watches from Germany. Then from
my knowledge of machinery nec
sssary TO make q watch and run it for
several years / do not think that pulp
by any process whatever can be made
hard enough to be of use. Brass and
steel are chiefly used to make watch
wheels. Platina is too hard to work
and Loo costly, and gold viii not do
for many reasons.
Paper buckets and boats are made,
but they have no special friction COM
pared to that of a watchwheel, which
runs in cogs all the time. Suppose a
process was discovered to harden pulp
TO a degree equal to steel; then the
question is, would it last as long as
steelP / think not. Car wheels are
made of paper, but they run them
merely on exhibition and noe every
day. Steel and brass are metals
formed by natural processes during
the course of many hundred centuries.
Paper or pulp hardened by artificial
means when net subject TO constant
friction may be equal to steel or brass
for certain processes, but / imagins its
durability would be uncertain. Hard
wood, of course, can be used for a
time as cog wheels in watches, and
many other temporary tough mate
rails, but they are simply for exhibit
ton and not utility. So many watches
are made in Switzerland / wonder they
have not substituted some cheap ma
terial for steel and brass, but | didn't
expect Germany to start at it first.
Indeed, my firm opinion is that 1T is a
mistake about pulp being used even
Tor big cog wheels, much less small,
delicate ones."-New York Mail and
ErDress.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
She Cost Her Weight in Gold.

Mrs. Jesus Castro, an aged Mexican
lady, now residing at American Flag,
in the Santa Catilina mountains, is
perhaps the only woman who, literally
speaking, ever cost her husband her
weight in gold. 1t is said that in the
early gold-digging days of California
Sine was a resident or Sonora, IN which
state she was born and grew to
womanhood. When about the age of
IL a paternal uncle, but q few years
her senior, returned with his COM
panions, gold laden, from the FL
Dorado of the west, and became des-
perately enamored of her. He sought
her hand in marriage and was accept
ed, but the church refused, because of
The near relationship existing between
them. to solemnize the marriage.
Persuasion being in vain, he tried
the power of gold to win the church
his way, and succeeded only by the
payment of her weight in gold. She
at that time weighed Ill pounds, and
against her in the scales glittering dust
was shoveled. Her affianced husband
still had sufficient of this worlds
goods to provide a comfortable home,
and they were married. They lived
happily together. and she bore to her
husband eleven children. In the
course of years he died, and she mar
ried again, MI. Castro being her sec
ond husband. The above is a fact and
not fiction, as living witnesses can
prove.-Tucs0n Star.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
The MISTRESS Of The white House.

In looks Miss Cleveland reminds
one of Anna Dickinson, perhaps be-
cause she wears her hair in the same
style. Yet there is nothing mannish
about her, and in private she is rather
too modest than otherwise. Her
voice is clear and her articulation
distinct, making her a fine speaker.
She has given frequent lectures at the
Elmira Female College, which have
been very popular with the young
ladies. Her name is found in the last
catalogue In the faculty as lecturer
on medieval history. The country
may congratulate itself upon having
so intelligent and public spirited a
Christian woman in the White House.
-EvdDgeliss.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
The MISTRESS of The White House.

In looks Miss Cleveland reminds
one of Anna Dickinson, perhaps be-
cause she G her hair in the same
STYLE. Yet there is nothing mannish
about her, and in private she is rather
too modest than otherwise. Her
voice is clear and her articulation
distinct, making her a fine speaker.
She has given frequent lectures at the
Elmira Female College, which have
been very popular with the young
ladies. Her name is found in the last
catalogue in the faculty as lecturer
on medieval history. The country
NAV congratulate itself upon having
5 o Intelligent and public spirited q
Christian woman in the White House.
-Eyan0elist.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
Worth Remembering.

An exchange says: IL is worth re-
membering that no newspaper is
printed especially for n person any
more than a hotel Is built especially ia
please one guest. People who become
greatly d~ispleased with something
they find in a newspaper, should re-
member that the very thing that dis.
nleases them is exactly the thing that
will please somebody who has Just al
much interest in the paper as they
have.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
Wheels Going Backward.

"Did you ever see a railway train
cunning in one direction while the
wheels we're going the other ?" in
auired a conductor on the Illinois
Central.
Never"
.sWell down on our Springfield d.
vision, between Gilman and Clinton,
we had that experience a few days ago.
The fall OF soft, sticky snow stuck
right on top of the rails, warmed a lit
tie in the noon sun, and in the after
noon hardened in the cold. We didn't
get a train through till near night that
day. The rails were two streaks of
glistening ice. Up at Pulaski we
struck a big grade right alta station
where we were trying to stop. The
engineer put ON the brakes and finally
reversed the lever and pulled the
throttle vide open. But it was no go.
We went down the grade faster than
| ever travelled before, with the driv-
ing wheels of our locomotive going
backward. 1t was a three mile slide.
Those who sew us go down say it was
the oldest sight they yer saw. Idon't
want any more railroad tobogganing
in mime Chicago Herald.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
The wires commandments.


II am thy wife; thou shalt have
none but me, whom at Gods altar
thou hast sworn to love, protect and
cherish.
II.-Thou shalt not attend places OF
amusement, alone or with other gentle
men, but with thy wife; sc size NAV
also be eau fait" as to what Is going
on.
lII.-Thou shalt not encourage
.Woman's Fighters and other gentle
manly women; for thou knowest well.
their rights are to attend their homes
and families, and let ali things pertain
ing to mankind a~lone-save their
pocket-books.
W.-Thou shalt not complain of
thy wife to a third party. Speak
kindly to her in private, so she will
desire to correct her faults, because it
is thy wish and for her good. Neither
shalt thou always be talking of sex
p~ense" and other disagreeable sub
iects, for thou spendest far more on
club suppers, ETC., than she on neces-
sites of life. French bonnets, par
example.
V.-Thou shalt not marry a lady
whom thou canst not trust with the
management of thy home and children;
and then, thou shalt not interfere in
her kingdom. If thou attemptest it.
she will be justified in dUnning hat
and coat and taking charge of thy bust
ness.
VL.-Thou shalt not refuse thy wife
''pretty things" Remember, to
dress her beautifully and keep her
true," is part of every Benedict's
duty.
VII.-Thou shalt not be s'bossy''
and authoritaveve in thy to
thy wife. Thou shouldst know, any
proud spirited woman would resent
a command, when she would sacrifice
herself without limit to comply with a
request.
VIII.-Thou shalt not imagine thou
hast a monopoly of annoyances and a
patent right on grievances. Thou
shalt consider the many trials to tenn
per and patience, caused by sick chill
dren, inefficient servants, smoking
fues, bad plumbing and gossiping
neighbors, to which thy wife is con-
Stantly exposed, and then thou shalt
not always expect her to be as sweet,
fair, and unruffiei as a beautiful Eas-
ter Lily.
lX.-Thou shalt not neglect to talk
pleasantly and intelligently to thy
wife of the current topics of the day
of the new and good things in Art,
Science and Literature. Let thy CON
verSation be an exchange of thought
as well as discussion of feeling, and in
this way, thou shalt educate her to be
IN intelligent companion sharing thy
sentiments, tastes and aspirations)as
we'll as a wife.
X.-Thou shalt hold thy wife's feel
ing sacred as thine own; remembering
love and kindness is always the .'open
Sesame" to a woman's heart, without
which her life is a drearY thing. Treat
her as thou wouldst wish to be treated
if a woman, then will she die blessing
thee, and recommending thee TO the
prettiest girl of her acquaintance with
directions as to now John liked his
salads dressed. Judith M. Gardiner
IN ST. Louis MAGAZINE.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01

It Is said the policy OF flung Athens. Ga.
aldermen $40 for non attendance at meetings
brings out a full board, whereas 1t was hard
work before TO drum up q quorum.