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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23
The Skating Rink.

The father of a family rem marked yes
tcrday in some heat: Last night [
went to the skating rink on upper
my daughter home. | had left them
there at o'clock. and had then gone
down to the Hoffman house to elect
somebody. When got back walked
in without their seeing me, and leaned
over the railing gazing at the skaters.
l was disgusted by the sight that met
my eye. | am a liberal man, and
don't believe in cooping girl up as
you would a rare exotic, or watching
her as you would criminal. But l
made up my mind before | got home
that night that it would be just as well
to keep an eye on the girls as not.
The sight that met my eye was not
an agreeable one. Both of the girls
are young, you know, II and Is, and |
suppose you have observed that they
are pretty. At any rate, they are
bright and fresh young creatures, full
of life and fun. | send them to the
park every morning before breakfast on
ponies. they spend six months of every
Year in the country playing tennis and
tered myself that no nonsense concern
inc young men had entered their heads.
| believe the skating rink has undone
in an hour what it has taken me years
to accomplish. You know they employ
as assistants at the rink half dozen
spruce young fellows, whom l am told
are hired solely on account of their
good looks. They are. in fact. re-
markably pretty lot of little men.
Their ages are from % to % or %, and
each of them has a nice curled mus
tache. carefully banged hair. and guSh-
ing manner. They are dressed in uni
forms. and they are the most conspicu-
Gus little crowd of mashers that have
ever seen. They are actually sicken-
ing.
As stood there gazing at three OK
four of these young whipper-snappers
sailing along, clasping the girls hands
in their own and whispering in their
ears. | was astounded by seeing my
youngest daughter sail by in the clutch
es of the mashiest mashcr of them all.
He had hold of both of her hands, and
was leaning against her, whispering in
her ear. His mustache rubbed against
and she was As red as a beet and star
ing straight at the floor. gulped. Be-
fore | caught my breath | deserted sail
ing down the middle of the room an
other mashcr with nv o her daughter.
They were even more familiar and af-
fectiouate than the first two. What
did YOU do?' | asked. IA he stopped to
thump his leg with his open palm.
DO he roared. Il walked out on
the floor and yanked those girls to the
benches in such short order that | PRIDE
myself that | was the center of attrac-
tion for short time anyway. | ex-
pressed few sentiments To the assem-
BLEED mashers and took the girls home.
| am given to understand now BY the
entire family. except my son. that |
made confoundcd ass of myself. but
don't believe it. No more skating
rinks for me. They are too risky
brooklyn Eagle.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23
\ Queer Gcnoese Fashion.

We soon pass an immense house
which was once Il palace. but Is now
used for other purposes. Looking up,
We see that one of the great windows
in the second story j. open. and lady
i sitting at it. She i dressed in very
bright, though somewhat old-fa> >hioned
attire. Flowers and vines cluster in
side the window, and there is hang
ing cage with bird. A. we stop and
look At her. the lady does not move.
and in few moments we perceive
that the window. the lady. the open
shutters, the sash, the flowers. and the
cage are all painted on the wall in a
space where YOU would naturally ex-
pcCt to lind a window. This used to
he a favorite WAY of decorating houses
in Italy, and in Genoa we shall fire.
quentlN see these painted windows,
some closed, and some partly open.
some with one person looking out,
some with two. and some with none.
The lady ut this window has sat and
looked out on the street for hundreds
of years Under her window, into the
great entrance of the palace. used to
pass mobiles and princes. Now there
are shops in the lower part of the pal
ace. and You can have your shoes
mcnded by a cobbler in the courtyard.
st Nicholas for December.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23

y gaunt, shambling wolf which has
o,cR making erratic circles on the prai-
- suddenly stops. lifts his nose high
above the grass. and snufs the ai1 in
every direction.
liarh.
\ long-drawn howl a sound which
ri>ps on Your nerves and brings a chill.
Tie honest gruwl of the tiger would be
music IN comparison. 1t has no honest
echo, buI ybu hear the r-r-r-r-r sneak
IN" across the half-mile of prairie To
1aad evil c mpany in the thickets be-
yond.
! The echo i hardly lost in the pines
before il j. caught up and sent back by
= dolon ihroals. and a moment after a
pack Of wolves break cover and race
across the grass 10 Join The lone animal
which sent forth the rallying call
>kuikjug malignaut-d -dcvilish. There
are BEAST which will look You square
IN the face, he wolf never does.
t."~tl''sS eyes uneasy bOdies-lolling
r "rEur~ yellow fang>,
ln' pack he d across the prairie to
.he South, smiling ~ the summer
-1reeze - they run, and ut each long
leap their eyes grow tercer and clots of
foam ill from their red mouths 10 blotch
. the velvet grass, Il i trail they are
following. and the scent j. fresh.
Come on.
L, Is 4 strange sight which meets our
EYES. Living stark and stiff on the
prairie, fingers clutching the grass and
a look Of agony on the face already
turning purple under the hot sun. i the
r5ody of hunter. Dcad2 No need to
ask that whom YOU have seen tie terri
De hu.c IN the breast. and the
blood which has wc,!vd out and soaked
the grass and changed The color ot the
flower Iiis rifle lies al his side his
pack al his head. No accident Per-
haps We, perhaps no. There is one
who could tell us II he could but speak.
Here, dog
LYING beside the drad-ri>ing quick
II mp as we approach-is the hunters
friend and Companion--a grand old
dog. He looks straight into our ewes.
. II We have come to bury the dead with
kind hands. i, i well Ii we have come
10 rob the master beware There is
Courage and Fidelity and Dciermina-
ton.
Hush, The dog wheels about and
faces the north. \ sound has reached
hi. ears which sets his eyes aAamc aud
-,.s every hair on his back Iclp.
" 'p. yclp, l. i the wolves the pack
h.ca picked rp the irail he had made
d, hc wen; - the north IN search of
E' a,cr.
y" watch.
There arc twenty 70 one. and tho
scHaE u the deal adds Ia their fierce
u,sS and dariDr, hn; a> they advance
20 witaiu ten pAct> ot The dog every
Nnst c3ncs IA y stop. Standing with
'4s fore VANs on the breast nf the
49,. tbs Ng- @vowl~ ! warning at
cs-h and e'rrs oa" before him. He
eaa.a -In away ard save his lie. but
.#r at>s isita nr'"r comes (" hlu. lie
8. rE' E.=s..t tire. - .s-E,. pas. atr NIL Itr
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23
The Rise of the metropolitan Cor.
respondent.'

| will not assert that the bricks
found among the ruins of Ninevah,
covered with cuneiform characters,
We're tablets which had dropped from
the hats of "ASSyrian Specials; neither
will insist that ST. Paul alluded to the
neutrality-suspicious. of Athens when
he spoke of those Greeks there who
spent their time in nothing else but
either TO tell or TO hear some new
thing" In ancient Rome, however,
centuries before there were types or
printing presses. telegraphs or ocean
steamers. there were metropolitan cor
respondents. Wherever the victor
iou> iegions advanced, the Roman otfi
GERS, both military and civil. were sup
piled with the lidibria ventes and the
acta popu!i by special correspondents.
who sent away from the imperial city,
inscribed on papyrus. almost exactly
the same matters about which VIC tele-
graph. We read i'll some of these
chronicles which have escaped the raw
ages OF time about the debates in the
Capitol. the receptions of the Execu-
tive. the gladiatorial shows. the new
public buildings erected, chats for
idlers, and on-dits for scandal-mong-
ers. The profession of metropolitan
correspondents" thus established has
ever since been followed at the capitals
of civilized countries; and now that
they have telegraph and the printing
press for the diffusion of their gather
ings and gleanings, they are recog-
nized institution. The brains of the
fifty or more here are the cameras
through which the nations history is
daily daguerrotyped on the minds of at
least 5,0o0,OoO readers. Jefferson, who
was the first President inaugurated
here, had as his favorite correspondent
William Duane. of the Philadelphia
Aurora, who had the run Of the White
House. and was sneeringly called by
the Federalists the Presidential bag
piper. ben: Perley Poore.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23
a Perfect Female Figure.

Define a good figure!' said we'll
known Detroit sculptor. We'll a good
figure is a rarity. There are so many
girls who come to me to pose as models
and so very few who are of the
least use! Their knees are crooked and
their arms bent and their waists pinch
ed in-thcre is always something
wrong. See that head and trunk? That
is Froserpine. She is shrinking away
from Pluto who is about to carry her
away to the Internal regions to be his
wife. Now do YOU know that it took sit
tings Of five different models to make
that one piece.
II did see good figure once She
was almost perfect. You know the
Venus de Medici is supposed to be the
perfection of form. Well. this girl : fig
urr was almost identical with hers.
Had | wished To make full sized
statue would not have changed her
one iOta. She was very wealthy girl
and very indolent. Sitting always in
her room in ncglige costume and taking
so little exercise. she grew to be the
very perfection of grace. Every pose
was a study. and every move beautiful.
And do YOU know that girl laced-tcrri-
riblv so. She compressed her waist.
should think. seven inches smaller than
il naturally was. But then She wore
cor>ets for only about three hours each
week. She went out so little. She was
very attractive girl. but not very
prctty-very good figures seldom are.
| will give YOU her dimensions. Sc
was > feet q inches high. Then she
measured 81 inches about the bust, 26l
inches about The waist. 35 inches over
the hips. inches from the armpit to
the waist, II! inches around the ball OF
the arm. 9! inches around the elbow.
Gi inches around the wrist. You see
She tapcred 81 inches from the bust 10
the waist; that is right. Then her hands
and her feet were good and large. An
artist always looks for large eXtremities.
The feet OF this girl We're q inches
long. What an immense hoof? dc
YOU say. Well. not so very large. ]
think il was a No. 4 shoe she took.
Now. here j, a cut Of 4 foot not SO large.
YOU Will say. Well. it measures 81 in
chcs. The fingers of the hand too.
must be- long and taper with a curve
backward 81 the tips. Women have
come 10 me 50 proud of their hands,
such tiny hands. and yet perfect de
formtics, with every finger warped
and crooked.
Il should have said. Of course. that
no figure can be good unless we'll
rounded and free from angles. must
confess. though. tina; fine statuesque
figure would not look well draped in
the present fashion. Yes. will give
my idea of tine figure in the present
fashion. Bust measure, 81 inches;
waist, -; . inches from armpit 10
waist; long arms and long neck. By
neck | mean from the collar bone 10
rhe chin; and. recoliect this. would
far FATHER Src tnc waist - inciiv> than
%. This figure shall be j feet {; inches
in height. | once saw figure | adj
mircd good deal. that was 81 about
the bus; ami 70 about the waist.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23

Epidcmics Of cholera are pronounced
hy VI. Thoma-i Crudcll a practically
impossible Of prevention by cordonS o:
military >cntlneis, guarantinc> OF the
exclusive type, or fumigations ui
suspected persons or property He ad-
yocaie> very forcibly. sanitary reform
a. the true prcycntIy. of death dealing
disease over wide areas. a. II i the best
safeguard oi health nj all times and
SEASONS. A. palliative he proposes
that the clothing OF the sick should he
dI>infr.'"d 10y sleeping in water con
tanning - > per cent. nt mercurial chlu-
rid. b cause ihl> preCaution was found
satisfactory At Palermo, during the
epidemic ui i>66. But it would oc be
Ter. Ind in til" long run cheaper, 10
>ubjcc; the clothing of patients, and
such other matters aS are undeniablv
imprrgnaicd with what produces the
disease. To- cremation. TO the action OF
actual hr',. aud lcl !he community beaI
part II not the whole OF ;he expense.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23

A prominent lawyer now practicing
IN this city tells the following: IAN old
darkey was under indictment for some
trivial offence and was without coun-
sci. The Judge appointed me to de-
tend HIM. was young and very fresh
at the time, and it was my first case in
court. AS | went forward to consult
with my client he turned to the Judge
and said: 'Yo' Honah, am dis de law
yer what am appointed to offend me?'
Yes was the reply. .Well,' said
the old darkey, take him away, Jedge;
| pleads guilty. IN Y World.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23
FROM THE FATHER: 81. ~ : e';a a.. .
a du;y fsr rsr - sts.s - ~ t-s bSzV1I
have derived lrus4 TO Gss Il
Ayers Sarsaparilla.

Sir -ar-fas s,-N wEs comp '-;s'7 -TTT-si ~ith
a terrible bGuar Aul sr-n!l31Ess sr-rs. Tas
ha-rrr ea1sr,l an sGr"ssAa. ami tntr,e-abis
itch.r. All tie sA 10 cracked - a. - esass
the t.aoi . aHw IN many r,ar-s shoaercr
] moved Nv srg g#T.as = wrrr sroat. ant my
life bur>!ru. | cazaascu-rI ;ha css = tho
SARsLTlEELta in April 5ssG. aat have Hsoi
it regularly since lEA: s3uc. Ny condition
began - improve A. ouce. The s,rss kave
al hcal-I anI / fsol p=srEe-:-y sell -n cvcFy
respect - le.r- uoE abe - b sd lays
vors although - y~ars Il age Many sa4g&rs
via; hss sroIsh; such = ersrr iu r17 -sss. aai
/ tell theia. As / have hsrC ts.r4 :, :r}l y9u,
AIEE's SAKsArAKlLLA. G.gvgr. ~. OSG-
Il. lss- lOGFS E-asrfal8v.
HIEAx FHGLIIFs."
AyER's trstrsEIftt cares scrofulA
and ALL scrofuIous Complaints. Trysip-
elias, TcEsma, Riusworm. Hiotehes.
Sores. Polls, Tumors. and Eruptions OF
the skin. Il clears the bod Il al Imp1-
rites, aus dsEes;s0n. stimulates The action q
the bowels. ..Ad thus restores vitality and
strengthens tie whole system.
PREPARED ny
Dr.. J.C. Aver ( Co., Lowell, Mass.
sid by all Druggists, 81. ak bottles for S.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23

The price of MeisSonier's wonderful
little picture. The Ncdette' is stated
to be So, 800. Fifty years ago Meis-
sonier's inimitable drawings fetched
from - to IS apiece. In order to fin
ish them he had to spend half the day
in the "Bibliotheque Rationale" at
Paris, studying Indian cngravinps,
which afforded subjects suited to the
taste of the dealer whose orders the
great French artist-thcn unknown to
tame-was executing. Mcissonier has
for himself left it on record that his
lunch then consisted of raw apple.
and his dinner (when he could afford
one) of soup. fried potatoes and a bit
of bread. He could only afford to
sleep one night in two. and for six
months he claims to have lived on a
sum of 80 francs.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23
Live Stock Salt Rollers
For Sailing horS,S, cattle, Ic.

Always handy " tdg from pure Dtir, silt
Cheaper than cuu.mun sack or rock Sa,l and
Fifty times more .r..ut ' ana convenient. Send
for Circular and Prices.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23
Ayers Sarsaparilla

ias iasI - q : c4-sf- s----- - ts1-
have coaiatnst TOO Assag Gar 4: icEst :sa
year: bat /: 554 u-t s5uz. er-ep: IA ;hs form
a. s.rcfulaus sasa ou tas zr,t. -=' saaocx
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teryic.y zss--r.--l aal f. as s-s Z sv. xAsa
hs began "a EE rs4s r-os..esse. ~. .ss-a 40
fsE nsca = hB 49, sAn Ct, se,i AeaSa
as hr has. l ce4I easily a1ue tt2y .<Es>.-s
vAo xog.,I t~s.8fs - i4o "a :, N - 49,
! aG.S sE4.y, " ". FRiLL4FG"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-01-23

Handmade envelopes cost originally
5 cents each. The envelope-making
machine now turns them out so that
thousand are sold for 80 cents.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-10-21

The FRAUDS AT CINCINNATI.


CINCINNATI, Oct. 20 Testimony vas
heard today before Judge Buck Walter
in the mandamus proceedings TO com
Eighteenth ward, to make a proper re
turn Of the election. Tkeir e,urn vas
brought In uu>eAled and unsigned. and
hence the writ. ]. II. Thompson. one
Of the jadges. testifes that be had been
agreed upon to act as judge In behalf
OF the Republicans. James Higgins
and John Regan we're the Democratic
judges. In the morning they divided the
labor thus:-he vac to receive the votes
and deposit them in the boz; Higgins
vas TO turn the crank; and Regan vas
20 check the names from the registry
book. After about hfty votes had been
recorded, oufsids parties inteFfered,
took the book from Regain, and threw
IL under some rubbish. Regain had
said be eoaid not check the names fast
enough. The book disappeared ssd
vas not used again that day. After the
checking ceased, witness ssW one man
vote seven times under different names
The VOTES we're received aasipst bis
protest. He rscoQrix d The face 40 the
same, though be did not know the man.
He vent hone q O'Clock AID refused
10 assist in counting. Afterwards he
vent to the polling place and vas re-
fased admission. He nett saw the bal
lot box yesterday morning. The hinges
we're broken OF, and the box vas tied
up With rope.
Anosrsr witness testified that o copy
Of the rig siry book bad been made and
was used by the ohsileaeers until they
we're driven away and the book vas
| torn %.
A citissu OF Covipetou testified that
he saw swo boys. whom he named and
whom he knew TO be residents IT Gov
| iuSsou, vste st the precinct he said
they we're brought to the polls by . spe-
cial policeman Another vitness sac
these boys vote and saw them rscsive
| money. rney vent into . saloon and
got 70 changed into sslver and divided
n. He followed the boys TO the river
| On the way be told Q policeman to aires,
them, bus the officer declined. He Sac
toe boys get into . skif without osrs
and tear up the seat 10 paddle across
the river.
Another witness testified that be sav
Moses Doyle. whom be ksev yell and
whom be had seen vote short time be
fore In another precinct, come ts thu
precincs aud odes 10 vote. Witness
protested and seixed Doyie's arm ~ b
held cot hts ticket. Doe Of the Judget
seiz-d Dssle's wrist, and the Arm vss
polied toward and from the ballot boz
bv these too mea until another ia 3Rs
took the ticket from Doyis's hand and
pat II in the box
The question to be raised in this easl
altar the testimony 10 end d. II whether
TIE Coart can compel the judges q
Sign returns vhsu they kuov they an
tainted With irregularities and fraud
TIE officisl count hss only reached
The Twelfth vard. In one prteinot shs
lodges resarnsa . nesspAp.r electicn
return blank With their signatures a.
taehed. snt did not sisn the tally sheet
About 5000 has been Subscribed fol
she ase Of the Commitses Of One Hun
drea. The Coart has dseliaed 10 call
specsSi grand iary. on scoount OF IN
shoss time 10 would have 20 serve
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-10-21

ban, . yell knovn jsurraIist OF San
Francisco vbo d1rIna the last presi-
GENITAL esEpaisn became snoEn II
New York and Ssx Jersey, where be
made nesriv too hundred speeches for
Cleveland. and vno hs. been IN Wash
irston for several months. has scared
an Important appointment IN the e1s-
toms service o. san Frareisco. He
resigned tie Office of D4poty LAbor
Commissioner II California. 20 corne
Eas; AID take part in tie presidential
caEpaIEE-
Pastor Dowpes Naa &c.
BosTes, Oct. 30 AT @ stormy meet
ina tonight Of the BovdsIn Square
Baptist Church. IL vas decided by lIs
70 y 10 request the resignation Of pastor
Dovnes, whose trial on q charge Of
adultery With Mrs. Tsber. ore Of bis
paristi0usrs. Is nov pending in the 81
periof court.
AID for Mahsae
WAsHrSoros, Oct. - Sen aior Ma
hone has b.eH officially advised that
Senator Sherman and Judge FORAKER
will take part IN the Virginia campaign
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-10-21

AssrvAI or TER MKxrco.-Ihs Steam
ship Mexico arrived 81 nidnisA'. hav-
ins made q spiendid run up The coast.
NE broaShs IS passengers for vissorsa,
4 for tort TcsEserd. - fcs Seattle snd
Z fog np Soaod ports. she slss orooGes
ia tons Of frsighs. distrioussd thns
VICTORIA, 81 tone Port Isvnteed. .
toas; seatsis. so t-rs; Oiynp'a. y
- 6tsilnspem ant Iasooa, . 49,.
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sh,ppiax Iafeiligenee.

QuEER.LookNo CRAFr.-Thers val
launched from Mitehelrs ways yester
dsv very peculi n looking boat. She
vas built for thA Seattle Hop Growers
Association, to freight their hops from
Fall City 10 Snohomish City, where they
Will be placed on beard the Cascade and
brought here. The nev boot is Q we'll.
bniit, fat bsttomed barge, With . house
like steamboat. She is fitted With q
boiler and . steam Windlass 20 wind
herself up over the rapids. She Ia s.
feet keel, 81 feet beam. 2l1 feet depth
OF bold, ana will carry 10 tons of hops
on 10 inches Of water. The intention IL
to pole her aleng 10 smooth water end
make her phil herself over the rough
places She will leave here iu tow OF
the Cascade on Thursdsy.