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But the use OF mock jewels Is constantly
making itself interesting in one way or
another. ! saw a bill head bearing the
reputable name OF a firm OF jewellers. The
item charged lone dozen finger rings, s12."
The purchaser was set down as Miss Below.
The document was on file in Anthony Com
stocks Office. He has been investigating the
fraud and vice which thrive In the seemingly
innocent guise of small personal advertise
ments. He shove me a clipping which pur-
ported to be the cutlery of q girl in distress.
1t said; IA modest, refined young girl,
suddenly distressed for money, wishes to
obtain a small loan on a handsome ring
The goods mentioned In the bill were a
multiplication OF that sacrincial keepsake.
The person who, from charitable or other
motive, sought out the advertiser found her
to be a retine young creature, but the
modesty also promised, was brief and nrti-
fetal. She showed a plated ring with a
glass brilliant set In IL, and declared it TO be
gold and diamond, constituting a family
heirloom which only the direst necessity
could part from her possession, and then
only for q brief period. She would pledge
it for a loan Of $40, with the solemn under
standing that she = ould be privileged to re-
deem it at any tins within a month, for it
was worth 5000 intrinsically, and was of in
calculable value sentimentally. Tho nd
ventures was SO winning that the cellar
gave the $40 to her and took the ring as a
sort of chrome accompanying the pleasures
Of the visit.
It is thought that not less than 100 Of those
81 rings have been thus disposed Of by
the clever swindler within a month at ten
times their market price. The roguish feas-
Utility Of the trick lies in the fact that the
amount Of the robbery is so small and the
circumstances such that the victim Is not
disposed to publicly complain Bat for Com
stocks meddling the girl might become
wealthy at it.
, 1885-03-24
Ten Thousand dollars for a Drink.


"You may not believe 1t, but l once paid
e10,0 900 for a drink Of whisky" said a cor
poral on duty at the arsenal In the mess
room tho other day. The talk had turned to
war prices, and some pretty steep figures
were mentioned. No one believed the cor
poral and all laughed. But the corporal
braced up aud said;
@When l left Petersburg in '65 l had 500
900 In Confederate scrip. 1t was as cold as
blazssa and a Teller got warm thinking Of
whisky. 1 was hard up for a drink, and as
1 had been reading a paper on the delicious
liquor, my mind wandered to 1t. Before l
had gone far l met a travelling whisky saloon
on wheels. Yes, a sutler, you know. That's
what we called them l hadn't a cent
except the scrip. but l just went up and
y
"'Sutler. nave you any good whiskyr
That 1 have says he. Well, II you will
give me a good drink says I, III give
you $4,000 Well, you should have
seen him smile. He know it was q gag, but
just to SEQ the thing out he filed me a cup
full of tanglefoot, which l drank with a
relish, you bet Then l gave him $4,000. !
offered the other $4,000 but he had been
there
, 1885-03-24
Grants Condition.

NEW York, March 23.-After his visit
to Gen. Grant tonight DR.. Douglas said;
Gen. Grant slept from 10 till . last
night. Then he arose and gargled his
throat, and again went to bed but arose at
I a. m During the day he wrote several
pages Of manuscript. At my noon visit
he complained that he couldn't sleep. His
throat is not troublesome. The general
slept some in the afternoon and he was
quite bright this evening. He said he
had a desire to sleep but could not sleep
enough. His pulse and temperature is
about the same. He has taken liquid
food as usual, He is troubled with
phlegm, but | cleared his head and
throat nicely tonight, and l left him pre-
pared TO sleep.
, 1885-03-24
A Monster Gun


Preparations are being made at Wool
witch arsenal for tho proof trials OF an
enormous gun, which is now in process Of
construction at Elswick, and which will DO
delivered a few months hence. The gun
will weigh ITO tons, and have a carriage OF
ninety tons, and, the total weight of 300
tons being considerably in excess OF pre-
vious undertakings, special arrangements
will have to be made in almost every par
ticular. The gun will be a breach loader,
and have a bore Of sixteen and a half inches.
Its length viii DO forty-threo feet eight
inches, but its extreme diameter at the
breech end will be only five feet six inches,
and it will have a very elongated chase or
barrel, tapering down to t~wenty-eight
inches, with q slight swelling at the muzzle.
After the gun has been proved at Woolwich
it will be conveyed to Shoeburyness for the
purpose Of testing it's range and accuracy,
and it is at present a question whether the
gun barge Magog can be altered to receive
it, or whether 1t will be necessary TO provide
another vessel Three guns Of this discr,p-
ton are to DO manufactured for the royal
navy.
, 1885-03-24
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

The president has rented a pew in the
First Presbyterian church in Washington.
Five persons were killed and four were
injured by the burning of the Langham
hotel in Chicago.
1t is now thought that the senate will
reach a final adjournment by the end Of
the present week.
AT the Sunday consultation of Gen.
Grnnt's physicians they decided that his
throat looked much better.
The meeting of Irish Revolutionists at
New York, March 20, will be addressed
by Senator Riddleberger. Of Virginia.
One end of the skating rink at Girard-
vile, Pa. was torn out by a dynamite
explosion while a large crowd was in the
building Nobody hurt.
The report that an organized party of
boomers has invaded Oklahoma is denied
blythe military. A few stragglers are
there, but they will soon be removed.
A strike has occurred among some of
the coal miners near Wilkesbarre, Penn
sylvania, because deductions were made
for the rock which was mixed with coal.
A movement is on foot to divert the
Texas cattle trade from st. Louis and
Chicago to Cincinnati, where cattle will
be slaughtered for the neighboring mar
kets.
Gen. Hatch went to Caldwell yesterday,
where the stockmen we're to hold a meet
ing to consider the situation. No infor-
nation has been received from the meet
ing.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has sustained the decision of the
court below. in favor of the board Of
commissioner appointed under the Ed
munds act to supervise elections in Utah.
The Sect the Russian military organ
says England is ready to give Penydeh,
Taimeras and Bulch to Russia, but wishes
to keep Herat at any price, in order to
make a road from the Caspian sea to
India.
Miss Van Zandt was again Kissed last
evening by an organized clique in the Tul-
leries Opera Comique, Paris Toward the
end of the performance hostile demonstra-
tons increased and eliminated in a pro-
longed howl.
Governor Stoneman, of California, re-
fuses to sign the bill amending the con-
stitution, whereby railroads would be
taxed % per cent of their gross earnings,
instead Of being taxed on their property
in the ordinary manner.
, 1885-03-24


Mr.. Cross writes: During our short mar
ried life our time was so much divided be-
tween travelling and illness that George Eliot
wrote very little. so that 1 ave but slight
personal experience OF how the creative Of
fort affected her. But she told me that, In
all that she considered her best writing,
there was a mot herself which took posses
sion Of her, and that she felt her own per.
sonality to be merely the instrument through
which this spirit, as it were, was acting.
Particularly she dwelt on this in regard &c
the scene in Middlemarch' between Dorothea
and Rosamond-saying that. although she
always knew they had sooner or later to
conn together, she kept the idea rosolutely
out of her mind until DProthea was in Rosa
mond'a drawing-room-
"Then, abandoning herself TO the inspira-
ton OF the moment, she wrote the whole
scene exactly as It stands, without alteration
or erasure, In an intense state OF excitement
and agitation. feeling herself entirely pos
sesssd by the feelings of the two women. OF
all the characters she had attempted she
found Rosnmond's the most difficult 30 sus-
tain. With this sense of possession 1t is
easy to imagine what the cost to the author
must nave boon Of writing books, oaoh Of
which has its tragedy. We have seen the
suffering alluded 10 In the letters on the
Mil on the Floss Felix Holt and
tRomolafa
, 1885-03-24
A NEW
oUlNlNE SAID TO BE PREFERABLE TO
OTHER ExHILAHAN'rs.
A Dsvotee Explaines How He Acquired
the ouinlns Habit-where the
beauty Of the Drug Is Sup
posed TO Come In.

I1"+AVAA LARN AANAHsI
"Quinine has become tho fashionable tip
pie. Liquor makes a man drunk; q~uinins
merely in~toxicates. and lot me tell you It Is
the high-toned thing. There's opium and
chloral, but they raise the dickens with a
mans health. Quinine, IN the contrary,
tones up a mans systom, gives. him blood
and is entirely the thing to indulge in.p
"But quinine gives me a cracking head
ache, makes my ears buzz, and ! feel dull
and sluggish
That's when you take 1t as a medicine.
When you use 1t as a tipple the effects are
far different IL takes time and care TO &c
complish 1t, but it's worth it. Tho best way
10 m is 10 get some half-grain qui.
nine pills, carry them around in your
pocket, and swallow one every hour. II you
find they are having any OF the medicinal ef-
focts upon you, don't take them quite 50 often
The first step is TO find out how much you
can stand without experienc cling any Of the
Ill effects, and hat you can only learn by
careful and judicious experimenting. HAY
ing learned your capacity. you must never
deviate from Il, except to increase
the doses, and that must DO done with great
caution, so hat tho change will not DO APP
parent-nothing in the way OF a shock. Al
though a great many persons use pills or
capsules, the best way Is TO buy It by tho
oAheoi uhA SdAAJ ahHA laAoa a AcHAAN
In your pocket You can then increase the
dose gradually, while II you take pills you
must jump from half a grain to a whole
grain, and there should be no such increase
as that. II you commence with half q grain
per hour, you can work up TO a grain in the
course OF three or four months, and II you
are careful, can get away with two grains
per hour by the time you have been at 1t for
two years; and by that time your face viii
DO as iiorid rs mine Is"
@But what are the intoxicating effectsi In
what way do they manifest themselvesf
aThat Is where the beauty Of the drug
comes in. II you drink liquor, you become
drunk. It shows In your talk and it shows
in your walk. Not so with quinine II
doesn't show in your speech, and You foot
steps arc never unsteady. Liquor makes a
man laxative, noisy, qunrrelsome and
mandlin, and is a dead give-away.
Quinine does nothing Of the sort. Ii
merely intoxicntes the senses; exhilarates
them and makes them more alert, while
liquor duls and Supplies them Quinine
gives life a roster hue, and the little annoy
ances Of life are passed by without o
thought 1t shakos of trouble, and you
know not care. II you go TO bed drunk
there IS the reaction in the morning head
ache and nausea With q~uiniue there is no
reaction, for you eat it in regular and even
doses, and il has no nance to react. Liquor
Is spasmodic in its action; quinine a steadily
flowing stream Quinine is pleasant newsi
liquor a telegram that tells Of disaster"
, 1885-03-24
Nevada's Reception.

SAN FRANcIsoo, March 2s.-There
was a tremendous crush at the Grand
opera house this evening to hear Nevada,
who, after a three weeks illness, made her
debut before a San Francisco audience in
Somnambuia. The house was crammed
to its utmost capacity. The ovation given
to Nevada at the close Of the first act sur
passed anything ever rendered any actress
in this city. 1t is generally acknowledged
that this was due more to the fact of
her being 4 Pacific coast girl than for any
great artistic merit The floral offerings
were numerous and costly. She was re-
called six times, then attempted to sing
Home, Sweet Home" burst into tears
and fed from the stage.
, 1885-03-24
FRAu HORSE.


NnEncrs Operas
New York Journal1
Although Brunhilde's horse had but few
rehearsals, he seemed to take in the situa-
ton from the very commencement and to be
SO charmed by the appearance Of Matsrna
that he suppressed his disposition to back
and suffered himself to DO led by tho great
Wagnerian soprano down the porilons de-
scent from the flies Of tins opera house, n feal
which would have appalled, any less intelli-
gent animal except a Manhattanville goat
Indeed the members OF the ompany say
that the affection displayed by this intelli-
gent animal for the plump and pleasing
Brunhilds Is truly touching to witness and
has endeared the noble animal to every
member, from the director 10 the usually
unimpressionable double-bass player in the
orchestra
On the very first evening this affection
was displayed in his attempt toslick tha
paint off his charmer's arms, and when she
interferrod with his proposed repast lie
tried like a spoiled child to lay his nose On
her shoulder. while he rolled his eye-balls
around In the most ocstatic manner.
When Brunhilde begins 70 sing he listens
in glad surprise. Her exhilarating togo
fills him with the desire to kick all the
wooden rock and canvas mountains 70
fiinders- This continues for the first twenty
five minutes OF her remarks, when he begins
to show signs of weakness His glance OF
joy becomes changed to Que Of horror; then
the exquisite pain Of the leitmotif known As
@will she ever dropf' comforts his expressive
countenanca. He sits down like a wearied
Sixth ward greyhound when the rag-picker
is coming and yawns expressively. 1t is no
use. The now terrible song has reached that
point OF strained emotion where It would be
sure death to brenk off suddenly. The
panied animal trembles in every limb
He tries vainly to divert himself by
biting viciously at the props Of the noun
tain At an extra fendish burst from
the orchestra with a scream Of the brass, q
shrek Of the strings and a wall on the big
drum, the horse gives up and lies down in
death agony. Nothing short Of the last sor-
rowing note, which rips forth like the cry of
a locomotive in the night from the breast OF
the sympathetic Valkyrie, revives him. AT
the fall OF the curtain he is taken in and his
legs stiffened with scene-painter's glue.
The manager expresses himself Ia the
most glowing terms at this, his latest sue
cess, in finding in this country an animal in-
telligent enough to fill an important role in
one Of Wagner's latest operas, and has Of
fered him an engagement - through his
owner-as a permanent member OF the
rroups.
Tho horse already understands Materna
when she addresses him in German, and she
has become so attached TO him that she
wishes TO take him back to Germany.
, 1885-03-24

Sure cure for blind, bleeding and Itch
ing piles. One box has cured the worst
cases Of twenty years standing. No one
need suffer five minutes after using Will
Jams Indian Pile Ointment Ii absorbs
tumon, allays itching, acts US poultice,
gives instant relief Prepared only for
piles, itching Of the private parts, nothing
else. Hon. j. M. Coffenbury, of Cleve-
land, y II have used scores Of pile
cures. and it affords me pleasure to say
that 1 have never found anything which
Sives such immediate and permanent re-
lief as DIR. Williams Indian Pile 0int-
Sold by druggists and mailed on
of price, 81.
Gray 4 Peanse. Sole AGENTS.
, 1885-03-24
N THE CRESCENT CITY.


$500 - ~
City Of the SOUTH
LAtlanfn Constitution lntersiew.l
Mr.. Smith Clayton has returned from Now
Orleans and Is regaling his friends with Spicy
talks on his experiencs with che Crescent
City and the exposition
Talk about the extortion,n he remarked
in n group OF listening friends recently.
"New Orleans Is full OF II. Every expedient
known TO civilized creation is resorted to
to chisel the stranger out of his ducatS The
clearinghouse on and near Canal street
seem to DO the arch 1ends In the business.
The tony French restaurants also come in
for a share OF this swindlfng. For instance,
tho unsuspecting but hungry stranger enters
a restaurant He finds no bill OF fare, but
he orders something to eat. and when hs
asks for his bill is mortified and shocked"
New Orleans must be a fast town. wac
remarked In the course OF the conversatio1
at Is the fastest town l ever saw. There
are upwards OF forty gambling houses in full
blast night and day. Tho bulk OF the popu-
lation have an utter disregard OF the Sab
bath day. Stores are open and work goes
on just as during the week. The theatres are
run and Sunday is a great matinee day. You
can't tell it's Sunday except by the dates in the
newspapers or course there are a large mum
Der OF churches, and people who arc inclined
TO worship can attend, but the religious ele-
ment seems to DO ov~ershadowed by the
worldlians. Most everybody seems to drink
and smoke fine cigars and gamble, but you
seldom see a drunken man The nights US
u rule are mild and the people are outdoors
OF night almost as much Us they are during
the day. At this Hme thousands Of idle men
may be seen lounging on Canal street night
and day. They are men from a distance out
OF work who have hocked to New Orleans in
A. - --nt-- ..- r. A. .-.r.
they have been sadly left.
at is not an uncomfnon thing for thirty
or forty men to be sent up for vagrancy in
one day, and the other night 100 tramps
were arrested for being found asleep on the
gambling tables. That occurred Mt is Royal
street, the largest gambling house in the
United States- where every night not less
than 500 mon and boys may be seen playing
all the games Of chance that were ever in
vented, the great gams being keno. AT this
game men will sit for hour after hour in the
hope of winning $40 or $50 by investing in a
card The betting, in the main, is
license paid by gambling houses In
New Orleans amounts to 5000 a year.
There is a strict statute against gambling.
but it does not seem to b~a approved by pub
lie sentiment and is not enforced. The Lou
isiana state lottery is the arch-gambling III
stitution OF the state, and pay $40, 900 a
year for the support OF a charity hospital
/ was singularly struck with the army oil
women and girls who nave come 10 New
Orleans from all parts Of the world, seeking
employment How they live is a complete
mystery to me-n
"How about the expositionfH
"The universal comment Of people who
have visited New Orleans and seen the expo.
sition, is that the exhibit is magnificent, but
tho management could not be WORSE
, 1885-03-24

There are, as every careful reader knows,
numerous quotations in the New Testament
from the writers of the Hebrew scriptures in
the old. They are made almost altogether
from the septuagint versions, and not from
the original Hebrew, and in a great many
cases the quotations arc not accurately
given. In some cases tho New Testament
writers seem TO hav had the Greek transla-
tion before them; in Others, possibly a YER
sion in the Aramaic tongue; but they often.
doubtless, quoted from memory, and could
not always recall the precise words. The
same thing appears in the quotations which
the early Christian fathers made from the
gospels and other sacred writingk Abgv-
lutte exactitude Is not always to be found
, 1885-03-24

Miss Do Blank-How l love to read about
the nge Of chivalryi Don't you. Mr.. Winksi
Mr.. Winks-Well, yes. Let me see. When
did the age Of chivalry endi
Miss De Blank-I don't know the exact
date. but you will find Il in that little book
entitled Progress and Invention" on the
library table.
Mr.. Winks-Why, that does not refer to
the close of the age OF chivalry, does in
Miss De Blank-No. not exactly; but IL
gives the date at which street-cars were In
froducod.
, 1885-03-24

Manufactured only by the California
Fig Syrup Co. San Francisco Cal, is
Natures Own Ture Laxative, This plea
sent liquid fruit remedy may be had Of
Hunt & Whipple druggists Sample bot
ties free and large bottles at fifty cents or
one dollar. 1t is the most pleasant,
prompt and effective remedy known, TO
cleanse the system, to act on the Liver,
Kidneys and Bowels gently yetthoroughly;
to dispel Headaches, Colds and Fevers; to
cure Constipation, Indigestion and kind
red ills.
, 1885-03-24

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chappcd hands, chilblnins,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and positive
ly cures piles or no pay required. II is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, OF
money refunded. Price % cents per box.
For sale by Gray & Fearsc.
, 1885-03-24

Mr.. II. L. Ward, IA leading grain and
stockman Of Craig, Mo-, relates his ex-
perience as follows; Our baby has suf-'
fered with a severe cough, and we tried
several remedies without effect. We
then got a bottle Of Camberlain's Cough
Remedy, which produced immediate relief
and a permanent cure" Sold by w. N.
Hunt
, 1885-03-24

Do you know that every window or door
has from Is to IS feet of crcvices or open
around which the cold air comes in.
and if they are effectually closed with
the Perfection Metal Moulding and Rub
Der Cushion Weather Strip, the saving
Of fuel each year laside from comfort)
will more than pay the cost of weather
stripping. This strip is for sale by the
+. +. Warren Mercantile Company.
, 1885-03-24

lNorriitown HernFil
Philadelphia papers state that a NM
named Keely has invented a motor and will
give an exhibition Of the machine some time
during next month. Keelyl-Keelyi Won
der II this is the same Koely who. some
twenty-five or thirty years ago, invented
some kind Of n motor, and promised exhibit
tions Of the same. monthly, during the sue
cseding score Of yearsl
, 1885-03-24

For bilious disorders St. Patrick's Pillt
have no equal, besides they are the moss
searching and most reliable cathartic in
use, and always produce a pleasant ca
thartic effect without nausea or gripping.
They are sugar coated, 25 cents per box
or five for enc dollar. Sold by w. n.
HINT
, 1885-03-24

Next to Baltimore Philadelphia y for
and eats more choice sea food than any city
in the Union Tho cooking in Baltimore
and Philadelphia Is distinctively American,
ami the best Of its kind, willis In New York
a SPECIES OF Franco-Amerlcan kitchen sup
plies the tables Of restaurants and clubs.
, 1885-03-24

It is said that OF 10000 patients who
every year flock to tho best London hos
pitfalls for treatment, fully ono 'hals are
~abundzntly abls to pay for what they re-
esive as charity.
, 1885-03-24

To the taste, more acceptable to the stom-
ach, and more truly beneficial in its action
the famous California liquid fruit remedy
Syrup of Figs is rapidly superseding all
others. Try it. Sample bottles free and
large bottles for sale by w. N. Hunt.
, 1885-03-24

An old doctor said that people who were
prompt in their payments rlways recovered
from their sickness. as they were good Gus
loners, and physicians could not afford D.
,. a. Ifen.
, 1885-03-24

Don't freeze, when you can telephone
to Riner & johnson, and get the Marshall
coal at $3.50 per ton. Telephone 1902.
, 1885-03-24

DIR. WAGNER & co.
ass Larimer street. Address. Box 1853. Denver
Cut this outand take along

Thehttcsf subjects
for fever aud agtie,
and rcmlttents are
the debllitated bill
ious and nervous.
10 such persons,
Hustciter's StOm-
ach BitteB affords
adequate protec-
ti0uby Increasing
Vital stamina and
The resistant pow
er OF the ~constltu-
fion, and checking
Irregularities Of
the liver, stomach
and M bowels.
moreover. II Grad
Inalarlal CO.
~lnplaints OF an oh
sflnate type, and
alone une-
qualled
by all Druggista
, 1885-03-24

Whitshall Times: 1t Is sad to think what
a small grain OF the lsaven of truth will
raise a loaf Of dishonesty.
, 1885-03-24

Wedding and visiting cards in great
variety at the Leader office.
, 1885-03-24

Order your coal from Riner x johnson
Telephone lO2a