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Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-16

One Of the events of this most eventful
week in our city was the annual assembly
Of Knights Templars in our midst, and
their welcome by the "praters" of the.
Hugh de Payens Commandery, of this
city. Every arrangement for the comfort
Of the Knights had been made. The
Hugh de Paynes Commandery receiving
and entertaining them as their guests.
Tuesday night the Hugh de Paynes Com
mandery rendered grand ball and prom
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-16
BRIGHT TALK

A lawyers 81 mottO-Suun o.iou, p.s.
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Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-16

"What is an epistle?" asked = g.,
school teacher Of her class. oTba rs
an apostle, replied the young bon.I.l ~ y
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-16

Eulalia-"so you at last succeeded !.
bringing young De Rich to the poppa,
point?' Edith-aYes; but it was . n n,
tight squeeze"
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-16

The motto of the Audubon County Il.
Sentinel is, Gear God, tell the truth ' n.
make money! The process is a secret -
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11
MEATH NORTHERN SKIES.

The correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Record gives the following graphic
description of one of the chief amuse-
ments of the Ice Carnival which has
lately been held at Montreal, Canada: !:
Even as Calais was supposed to
be written upon the heart of Queen
Mary, so 'TobOggan may be said to
be inscribed upon the heart of every
pilgrim to Montreal at midwinter.
And it may be said, happy is the pill
grim who does not find the distant
shrine of his devotion a pUrgatOry.
Montreal has only one iirst-class hotel,
the Windsor, and if its clerk, George
lies, had the eyes Of Argus and the
arms of Briareus, he would be com
PEELED to own himself unequal to the
task eff receiving and dismissing with
out riot the tide of American visitors
that come to Montreal, not knowing
where they shall lay their heads.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11
VALUE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Chambers journal" tells the story
of a balrister who has owed professional
success to the mere lucky, or let us say
provdential, hazard which sent him out
on a trip to China. Having lived three
or four years in chambers without get
ting q brief, he was almost destitute,
when friend of his, who was in the tea
trade offered him n free passage to
Shanghai and back on condition of his
transacting some piece of business there.
On the passage out the barriater had
many conversations with the captain,
who CHANGED to have lately given evi-
dence at Westminster in a lawsuit, which
was of great Importance to the shipping
interest. But he had been disgusted
with the stupidity" as he called it. of
the judge and counsel i'll the case, when
talking of maritime and commercial
customs; and he exclaimed,-
"Why don't some of those lawyers,
who mean to speak in shipping cases,
study our ways a little? 'Twouldn't hurt
emf
These words struck the young barris.
ter, who, after thinking the matter Ovel
for few days, resolved to live at sea
for little while On his return tc
England, he sought for situation as q
purser or secretary on board one of the
great ocean steamers, and i'll this capac
ity made several trips. Then he success
lively tried expeditions on board whalers
vessels engaged in the cod and herring
fisheries, etc. i'll fact, he led a sailor
life for more than three years, picking
up full acquaintance with the manners
customs, grievances, and wants, of thos
who had their business in the grea
waters. On going back to the bar, h
almost at once got briefs in the Admir-
atty Court; and becoming known to Sc
licitors as an expert ON shipping ques
tions, his professional fortune wa
made.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11
A NOVEL INDUSTRY.

Since crocodiles and alligators have
supplied leather merchants and manu-
facturers with their skins, in order to
satisfy freak of fashion, they have been
hunted and destroyed to such n degree
that American traders are casting
anxious glances towards the once happy
hunting grounds on the Mississippi,
from which the cuirassed game is rap
idly vanishing. The practical Yankee,
however, is not to be eaten by either
crocodiles or alligators, and where once
the crocodile frolicked in freedom it is
now kept in Enclosures, where it grows
and multiplies apace. Crocodile farms
are becoming common The largest
animals Nre killed and skinned, their
flesh being used to feed their hungry
descendents That these breeding
places are of no mean dimensions is
shown by the fact that the owners oI
one of them supplied a tanner at St
Louis during the current year with nc
loss than 5000 alligator skins.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11
us eye happened to fall on the following

his eye happened to fall on the following
paragraph i'll a Boston newspaper =
WONDERFUL Discovery AS Mr..
John Rogers was breaking a piece of
ground on the east side of Nantucket,
about month ago, his ploughshare
turned up a stout thorn bush, sticking
to the roots of which were several
Spanish dollars. Upon this he went to
digging Justify, and did not give up un-
til he had hauled out CONS, chiefly
Spanish doubloons, of more than twenty
three thousand dollars value. No doubt
it was buried by Capt. Kidd or some of
his piratic kin.
No doubt thought my grandfather,
as he put down the paper with slight
nervousness.
In week he was again facing the
storms of the ocean, enriching his en-
ployers by skill and toll, till inirmities
/ finally drove him high and dry on
shore. There he died of old age, leav-
ing little to his family except the pirates
cutlass, which three generations of boys
have used in their Juvenile trainings,
and which, rusted and blunted, may
now be seen in the Office Of his great
grandson, lawyer i'll New York.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11
THE CABLE-CAR SYSTEM.

OF all the new methods for shorten
ing time and space in great cities the
most perfect hitherto is that of the
cable-car system. If one horse can
supply the place of ii dozen, and, still
more, if stationary engine two miles
away can eliminate horses almost en-
lirely and furnish more and more rapid
accommodation, and gain directly in
comfort and indirectly in the spread of
the population, incaleulable. That the
cable system presents the highest de-
gree of excellence yet attained for city
traVel needs no demonstration. A
short experience was necessary to ha-
bituate the public to the cable-cars.
But, now that we are all familiar
with them, everyone knows precisely
how to deal with them. The cable
company have done a work that think
ing people will not fail to recognize.
Abused and villitied, as all good things
are denounced, as every step of prog
reSs has been every man woman and
/ child in Chicago now points to the
cable-cars as one of the most valuable
and progressive enterprises of Chicago.
! The citizen enjoys a quiet chuckle as
he does homage to his own superior
knowledge at the expense of the mys-
titled looks and questions of his coun-
try cousin. We all feel ourselves on
higher plane of intelligence from our
being part of the city with its cable
rail, as well as the other institutions
that constitute the pride of Chicago.
No wonder this system has been a
great success. Over 100 grip-cars and
more than 300 box-cars constantly
passing, always occupied, and in the
mornings and evenings crowded, an
army of wOrkmen, and a finance sys-
tenn away up in the millions, present
the idea of great public usefulness.
There is not one man of us who would
not be proud to own a slice, notwith-
standing all the detractiOn of the
"early days" 1t is we'll known not
only that the cable road has immense
ly increased the value of all real prop
erty along the route, but everywhere
within convenient access of that route.
The extension of the same system
through those portions of our chief
; thoroughfares not yet occupied would
be hailed with delight by every man
, owning fifty foot lOt.-ChicdgO Inter
Ocean.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11
Those Old-Time Songs.

Won't you sing again thoss old.time songs
We used to sing together.
When loves sweet dream to US was young,
And love inspired the song we sung,
Blest days gone noH for0ver?
They bring us back to bygone years,
Again we live them over.
Fer love survives despite our fears,
With all its wealth of joy and tears.
And am yet your lover.
So sing again those old songs.
So traught with joy and sadness,
While memories long fo gotten come
OF friends we loved and friends we've known
In sorrow and in gladness.
Yet why should memory wake the past,
Or song call back hfe's morning?
The sun looks back. its journey done,
To tip the hills when night has come,
Their darksOme crests adOrning.
Then sing again the soncs we sung,
They link our lives together;
No broken chords has life's decline,
But strong. like tendrils to the vine,
That death alone can sever.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11
SOME CURIOUS LOCKS AND KEYS.

In the middle ages locks for church
and cathedral doors were often rare
specimens of art metal work Elaborate
scrolls, the images of saints and other
ambitious efforts Of the true artisan OF
those days, entered into the design OF
locks which were really an ornament to
the magnificent doors and cabinets OF
those times. A design for the escutcheon
surrounding the keyhole frequently Ind
the figures Of two guardian angels with
outspread wings.
Locks of very curious construction,
known as Apostles locks" were also
common in medieval times These
locks had on the front the figure of
one of the Apostles, and on touch
ing the hand of the figure the bolt
flew back. In the reign of Queen Eliza
beth one Mark Scalist, a smith, con-
structed a lock consisting of eleven
| pieces of iron, steel and brass, all Of
which, with pipe key, weighed only
two grains of gold The great inventor,
the Marquis of Worcester, who -four
ished in the reign of King Charles l.,
devised lock containing steel barb,
which was perfectly harmless so long as
the right key was used, but if a wrong
key was inserted the barb sprang
through the keyhole, and caught the
hand of the intruder rs a trap catches q
fox" 1t is said that while the inventor
was experimenting with this curious
lock he was scarcely nimble enough in
removing his hand, and was caught IL
his own trap.
At Willenhall, in Smffurdshire, which
is the great seat of the lock trade silver
padlOcks the sides of which are mucl
smaller than three-peuny piece are
still made, and are quite p rfect i'll thei
mechanism. Locks containing singl,
bells, and even chime which sound al
alarm when tNmpercd with by falls
key, are among the modern curiositie
, of the trade, Common padlocks ar
largely made for the natives of Indi
and Africa at WalsalL A lock and ke
complete are sold Ivy tie maker for
half penny, and mercha II" abroad stat
, that many Of the natives string thes
= locks together so as to form necklets
and wear them Us "charnls."
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11
ThG odd Fellows Cemetery
SMYRNA, DEL.

The Trustees of this Cemetery are now
ready to sell lots and issue deeds for the
same. The size of whole lot is 3OX32 feet
and the prices are as follows: For Il whole
lot, $50; half lot, $50; quarter lot, $50
There is not q badly situated lot in the
Cemetery, but every one has choice Of
location, and there being but one price
according to size) enables those first select
ing to get their choice of location, and AS
there have been several already sold we
would advise those who have no place OF
burial that it will be to their advantage to
select them as early rs possible.
This is undoubtedly the best location in
this vicinity for Cemetery, being all high
and a nearly level piece Of land, beauti-
fully situated on the State road, within
sight of the town, and yet at such a dis
lance from it as to guarantee that it will
never be used for other than Cemetery pur-
poses land the deed Of agreement positively
forbids its use for any other purpose than
that of sepulturel. For further particulars
call on or address
L. NJ. FOWLER
Secretary and Treasurer
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11

Sarah Bernhardt has succeeded in
scoring psychological success by per-
suading her physician aud immediate
friends that she is dying of broken
heart thus proving incontestably that
she has ono.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11

Old Maids. Embors from which the
6uarlga have fed.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11

DESTROY THAT SIGN.-One may feel that he's
getting old, but he naturally diSikeS that any
thing about his appearance should advise others
of the fact. Yet nothing does this so etiectually
as thin and falling hair. No woman wants to
marry a man. and business firms hesitate TO EN-
ploy man, who shows this fatal sign. Parkers
Hair BalSam is worth to you In this regard more
than its weight I'm diamonds. Use it, and have
plentiful and glossy hair. Many have had every
trace of grayness removed and bald spots covered
by using Il single bottle.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11

The New York Tribune proposes the
novel plan of restricting the number of
licensed places in that city where
LIQUOR is sold so that there shall be one
groggery where now there are ten, and
then putting up the privilege at auction
for sale to the highest bidders who can
bring certificates of character and re-
snonSihilitY.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11

The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
publishes long list of the leading in-
dustries that have resumed operations
during the last four weeks, and esti-
mates that at least one hundred thou
sand men have gone to work in manu-
featuring enterprises since the first of
January
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11

Mike Wearley and a party from
Fort Benton, in their researches in the
Sweet Grass hills, Montana, came
across fossil forest-trees of all sizes
perfectly petrifed.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11

The bursting of one of the cylinder
heads in the engine at Dobson's carpet
mills, Falls of Schuylkill, Pa, has
thrown 1900 operatives out of work
for six weeks and entailed a loss to
the firm Of $4,000. No one was in
iured hy tho accident.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11
VA. FAIRIES & Bro,
Furnishing UldGItak3TS,
AND DEALERS IN
FURNITURE,
MAIN STREET. nnrnsita Eha SngIna House,
Furniture of all kinds.

ParlOr and Chamber Suits bureaus. Bedsteads.
Chairs Lounges Tables. stands Mattresses. Spring
anteed at or less than City prices for the same
iuality of goods jan 2-tf
Smyrna times., 1885-02-11
The Mysterious Legacy.

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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17
AN OLD BEAVER.

The first steamer to plow Pacific
waters was advertised to be sold at
Victoria, B. c., few days ago. The
old craft was named the Beaver, and
was built in England in 1884 for the
Hudson Bay Company. She came
over under sail. She was built for
coast trade and carrying supplies to
trading posts on Vancouver Island
and Frazer river, and often did good
relieving service for both British
and Americans in the Indian wars.
The vessel has been in service so
years.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17

of sugar should drop 40 per cent,
or cents per pound, as an extreme
limit, which is very unlikely, there
would be S15O,00O to write off the
value of the sugar crop, reducing
the $780, 900 estimate to S225,000.
Now, deducting from this sum of
$225,000 the estimated expenditure
of S130,000, there would remain a
net profit of S95, 900 and interest at
per cent. on the investment,
making a total income on the in
vestment of $122 900 per annum."
1t is asserted that most, if not all,
of the ten thousand acres to be de-
voted to colonization is good rich
soil. Extending from Pearl harbor
to the foothills of the Waianae
mountains, the area gradually
reaches an elevation of about 1000
feet. A large proportion of the land
may be irrigated by storing water as
above mentioned, but, besides that
recourse and artesian wells, water is
obtainable at many points from
springs and similar favors of nature.
Being in the most elevated region of
Oahu, the rainfall of the area is
very large, and it is anticipated,
upon the strength of wellknown
natural law, that, once under culti-
vation, more humid conditions still
would be induced.
Already over forty applications
for lands have been received by the
provisional company, the aggregate
amount applied for exceeding two
thousand acres. The applicants,
some of whom are long residents in
the country, are confident of being
able to make fair living from pro-
ducts they can raise for even the
local market. BY raising sugar on
shares with the company, the owner
of five acres, it is estimated, is as
sured of a net income of from ST.
600 to 81, 800 year, besides minor
sources of living that an agricul-
tural holding affords. This would,
indeed, be princely existence to
many millions of people throughout
the globe, "who," as the cores
pondent says, ''toil increasingly six
months of the year to exist the re.
naming six
Besides the foregoing inducements
to settlers, it is intimated that per.
sons disposed to engage in stock.
raising can be accommodated will
lands of the company, by purchase
or lease, with the opportunity Of
buying high class of stock now
subsisting on the property. The
company would even "cut up an6
dispose of the whole property OF
very favorable terms to a desirable
class of bonafide Settlers -
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17

party of vigilantes. The observa-
tion made by the S. f. Post on the
event, that the influx of Eastern
people was winning the State re.
putation for outlawry, must have
been meant as a piece of grim
humor, as the influx of Eastern men
and the influx of horse thieves be-
long to about the same periods of
time in the pioneer history of all
States.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17
PROSPECTIVE RETURNS OF THE COLO
NIzATIOH SCHEME.

A communicated article in a con-
temporary presents some OF the
sources of profit to investors, and
advantages to settlers, held in pros
pect by the promoters of the cha
waiian Colonization, Land and
Trust Company" For the inform
alton of our readers we summarize
the leading facts. The honolulu
territory, of which the company has
the refusal, contains II, 900 acres of
land suitable for growing sugar
cane. Of this amount 1000 acres
are comprised i'll plain requiring
artificial irrigation. TO effect that
object artesian wells are proposed
for the portion lying at an elevation
not exceeding thirty-tive feet above
sea-level, and a series of dams, in a
natural gulch, for higher levels.
Both means are proved feasible be-
yond any reasonable doubt, by the
complete success attending their
adoption, under similar conditions
and in contiguous areas. Their
estimated cost, for this company's
purpose, is $125,000. When the
land is furnished with watering
facilities, it is assumed that at least
from $500 to 5000 acres will be
occupied by responsible cultivators
of sugar cane. The cane would be
raised on shares, in the proportion
of, say, five-eighths to the planter
and three-eighths to the company.
Milling facilities, with transportation
of cane to mill and sugar to place of
shipment, should be provided by the
. company, while the planters should
do the harvesting and loading. Four
tons to the acre is the very lowest
estimate of the soils productive
ness, but experience dictates a
higher figure by two or three tons.
Taking the smallest amount of both
land and yield, however, we have
$500 acres producing an aggregate
of 10000 tons of sugar. OF this
the company's share would be 81
$50 tons, worth, at present value,
1915, 900 net. AS to the cost of
accomplishing the result just given,
the author of the article herein
drawn upon presents the following
statement -
Cost of 30-ton mill, say. ......$l5O 900
Cost water supply for mills and
dams. .-.................. l25. 1000
Cost tramway and cars for trans
porting cane and sugar, say. $4,000
Total estimated outlay. $500, 900
On this estimated outlay of $780,
900, which, he explains, is a liberal
one, the following reductions are
allowed =
Interest ut . percent nt..........$ 1000
Wear and tear on mill and
tramway, and repairs to dams,
say...... ............' 2S,uOC
Current expenses, taxes, insur-
ance, etc .............'..'.. I0,OOl
Total annual expense. Sl30,00C
Ultimate results are thus deduced
from these figures: 'If this amount
for annual outlay under every legit-
innate head of expenditure be de-
Quoted from 1915, 900, the value OF
a seasons sugar crop, there is left
balance of $245, 900 and interest
of 8 percent on investment. This
is calculated on the basis of existing
.a,;nao DIT &l,.& A. .a.s =. =
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17

A Sunday night service was held,
a short time ago, near Adams,
Oregon. 1t consisted of the hang
ing Of an alleged horse.thief by q
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17

The Immigration Society OF Cali
fornia has record, for the thirteen
months previous to the first of Nov
ember, of 1875 entries, embracing
an area of 2,210,124 acres. Every
county in the State has participated
in the beneficial results of the So
ciety's operations.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17
POST OFFICE NOTTCE.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.
STAMPED envelopes of the denomi-
- nations of
One, Two, Four, Five and Ten cents,
&c, &c, 4c, DC and 10c) can be purchased
at the Post Office at face value of the
stamps, when less than one dollars
worth is wanted.
Cash purchasers of u dollars worth
or more of stamped envelopes will be
allowed, till further notice, discount of
twenty per cent. from the face value.
General Post Office, Dec. lG, 1885.
203 2w
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17

AT a meeting of the Cigarmakers'
Association, held in San Francisco
on the 3Oth Nov, it was decided to
send a delegate to the East to OBJ
tain workmen. The object is to
displace the Chinese, who have gra-
dually become all but masters of
the situation, in. that as we'll as
other trades.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A Chronicle compositor dropped
dead on the street in San Francisco
on the lst. The wonder is that
ever printer does anything else.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17
BY AUTHORITY.
Notice.

All persons having garbage, etc., for
removal by the City Scavcnger, are re-
uuested TO have the same in readiness
before o'clock AM After that hour
the cartmcn are otherwise employed,
and will not call until the following
morning, thus leaving the unsightly
boxes or barrels in front of your pre-
misses all day.
j. N. KAlAIKAWAHA,
90 1w* Contractor for Cleaning Streets.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17

The Bolivian Government is said
to be sending cadets to the military
colleges of Germany and Italy. If
the military college to be erected on
Punchbowl after the Kingdom is
sold out, had been there now, the
nation would be ready to be in
creased with Bolivian accessions.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-17
FOR SALE.

II OU WOOD, ranging from eight to
IN fifteen inches in diameter Apply
to the PACIFIC NAVIGATION Co.
203 2w
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-11-14
County Gleanix gs.

The Ramsey Binding in Salem has
been purchased by John IL. Goldbeck,
of Philadelphia. 1t is said he expects
to put tie building in thorough repair.
Dogs have been %partaking If mutton
chops in PilesgroFe. Cha~. Lippincott
has had 3 sheep killed and 5 wounded
hy dogs.
Joseph Black. near sharptown has
built anew house.
Charles Allen, rear Saarptown has
rTlnodeled his house aud barn and is
making general improvements.
James Sharp, who lives near Shalp-
town is thorough -remodeling his resi-
denco and making extensive improve
ments in his property otherwise.
The agent of the state Board of
Health has found no signs of pleuro-
pneumonia among the cattle Of this
county.
Ii Is said that the Woodstown cellar
way case tried at the recent term of
court will be taken t. the Supreme
court by the defendant.
The eases of diptteria in Salem have
not been as numerous as the outsside
newspaper reports would infer.
The agricultural report for Novsm-
Der says the corn crop in Salem county
IS much better than expected; area OF
potatoes smaller than last year, but
quality and crop good.