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New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

smokes cigarettes with Queen Isabella, ana Is
in dallv correspondence with Emperors' NO
crowned head ever passes through Paris WIN
on, hotnob5jng with him and giving HIM mate
rial for a gedinterYiew. Nosolt-reSpect-
iny potcntata in Eutope ever loses his throne
without hunting up Dr. Blowitz and telling MN
Il! about il. A Il mater of fact ne Is liable at
any moment 10 have royalty illunine his par
lors. and consequently must be prepared 10 en-
tcrtain princes withproDcrrcgard ortheir rank
and tic privileges Of their order; and What 'ra'
dillon is so well established as this that cat
may look al a King? DR.. BlowiH Is forced 10
keep cats-a great many OF them, too-for 'he
s.i,r OF providing the traditional audience
which the distinguished rank of his visitors re-
cuires. Hut We may be sure that the cats are
in the back yard wncn royalty is not around
and never by any chance on the front steps
No the theory of Dr.. Bowitzs rivals IS SIMPLY
incredible. There can be no doubt about 1t. IL
was red-handed socialist who mistook nm
for Kingand proved 4 bad shot at close range
as the assassins of royalty invariably do
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

Total number Of representa- ons
When 1t is remembered that three or these works
namely Die KOnign Won Saba" "De Meistersnger,"
and Rienz," were wholly to the American stage,
that Carmen and Faust" were provided with con-
siderable new scenery aud that Aida" was practically
got ready for performance but not brou ht forward
because of great popular desire to witness seferI
works already mount9d" the achievement Of Director
stanton, Conductor Sed, Stage Manager Van Hell and
their assistants be set down remarkable The
Official statistics Of the company show that TO accomp-
Ash this work there required ITO chorus rehear
sails GO ballet rehearsa 81 stage rehearsas 10 orches
trail rehearsas for purpose OF correcting parts ~
solo rehearsals and dress rehcarsals The force e
ployed though not continuously, numbered GJ2 and was
divided as follows: Principals, 2l u2 male and IL
femalel chorlsters. 81 80 male and 81 fena,e; ballet
dancers, 2l 1gurantcs, "a regular supernumerare4
-G extra supernumerares. 1l0; instrumcntlsts, 3d.
stage musicians, 20 children, 80; turner's C RenzD
&c extra chorsters e. Mestersinger), 60 conductors,
- stage Managers chorus master, L ballet MASTER
stage hands. 80 engineers. uslers. 49, wardrobe
hands, 2I armOry hands, l5 gasnen, q; cleaners, %
doOrneu, IL.
In tho list operas printed above their order Is de-
ermined by the sequence OF their production Ml'ur-
ing their success by their popularity and this BY tlo
average number OF tickets sold at the box ohi;e ths
ARRANGEMENT OF the list would be as follows:
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

that had been stoutly insisted on, and accepted
50 for twelve hours work instead of - 20
which had been demanded. The Other qneS-
tions at issue were Left as in the case OF the
Dry Dock and Atlantic Avenue systems, 10 the
decision of Commissioner O'Donncll. We trust
that this is the end of the trouble. The en-
moves have shown Their tremendous power
thew have also shown wise conservatism IN
nnf ahuSinU it,
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

lie that theywoud lose their an had to give on
Its irt PAGE refntatiOn OF its prejudced prophecy
But then the editorial comments OF The EgsniqJ Poa
have no relation to news. whether printed in other
papers surreptitiousy smugged Into its ogn Yido
ami windy columns
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

NO, THEY ARE MERELY FoGGf AND D( 1hUS"i'
ETo,t The hstc FORK star tAdmtgtStrdfieh O'Jahl.
Ths ErcHng prodIcted on It's edltorla phse Yes
terday that tle runway slrIkers hau 81 ononoo Wv wv
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

Public indignation still shoulders; but the
cruel death of brave Captain Crawford Is not
forgotten. Is the Administration doing its full
duty and making searching inquiries into this
matter7 Everything points to an outrageous
murder by Mexican troops, Is the truth not to
be found out lest it should prove emb"rrasa-
Ing to ask Tor Justice or reparGtiOn
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

II IS said that there are great many people who
have been taken sick in Washington this winter.
They were probably Jclcrsonan Democrats who
cot sick at IN. nummery in the White House. By
the way The UOrld hasn't had any attack on hum
merry tor 10, these many days. Wake up. ncIghb'r.
Let us hear again that resounding war-cry OF March
4th. only one short year ago Above all, so FLUM-
NFRY"
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

1t is generally conceded that no class OF bread
winners ia more industrious or indefatigablc thah
the ncwsboys. Latc and early. rain or shine they
arc hard at work. In nearly all our large cities
public interest in these young and entrTpriSlnS
merchants has assumed the practical form OF 'odg
ing houses. homes. banks for savings aud other IN
stitutions which conserve their welfare The News
boys Aid Society of Washington has Just been IN
corporatcd with Chief Justice Waite as its pres'-
dent Boing in urgent need OF funds TO start ana TO
carry on its benehccnt work, 1t appeals 10 Tie
charitable. Contributions may be sent to MIS-
Erncst t. King No. 800 list, Washington
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

In requiring the Secretary OF the Navy to produce
the papers with relation TO the Roach vessels the
Senate has acted we'll Tho public records 8honIu
shed some shton :he performances OF the Adminls-
tration toward John Roach.
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07
JnAex TO advertisements.
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New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

When men strike for their rights they Should
make the issue clear, and when reckless olatheI-
sixties and ,ocastc crlnks seek to cloud the issue
or to lpiame lust dscontent iEto lawiessncsS they
should lump on the cranks.
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

Professor Virgins, wholesale and retail dealer in
weather prophecies after a somewhat prolonged
retirement from business has resumed at the old
stand lie announces that this IS likely to he
solemn Sunday for the Maritime Provinces seeing
that Saturn is going to raise the tide abnormaly
high at Quebec Halifax aud St. John. And Igglh'
warns those who 20 down to tLe Atlantic in ships
that they stand good chance of being caught out
in terrible storm before the month IS over 1t IS
evident that Virgins is himself again.
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

In view of the immense power which the as
sociated car drivers and conductors have shown
themselves possessed of, the moderation and
conciiatory spirit displayed yesterday are
highly to be commended. For time there
was some danger of a repetition of the extreme
measures resorted to on Friday in order to
bring to terms the managers of the lines on
which the "tic-up" occurred, for sturdy
Bpirit of Obstinacy was shown on both sides.
But wiser counsels prevailed. The leaders Of
The strikers urged that no opposition be
made to the running of cars over the reads in
question, and the services of the police, who
were present in large numbers in Twenty
third-st., were little needed. Late in the after
noon the strikers decided to c0ncede one point
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

Firmncss and coustancy are cardinal virtues in n
public man. and especially III "A President. Bnt
public condemnation in the Garland case Is
stone wall, and it is loohArdy to try to butt II
down.
New-York tribune., 1886-03-07

1t is given out HAT Miss Louisa VI. Alcott mas
written a story on the blind which viii shortly po
published. Ii she succeeds IN explaining wheh IL IS
iudclous to raise il and groups together the cir
cumstances in which it is the part of wisdom to see
IT, those who take an interest in the great American
game will ,loubtlcs, hail her as benefactOr.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-08-28
rhinrs That worry.

Your new shoes viii pinch you
with might and main, as though in
retaliation for SEINE wrong done
them. They will unite themselves
when you are in a hurry; they will
break their buttons of, run over at
the heels to throw you, and finally
split open at a time when you don't
feel that you can afford to buy an
other pair. And one will wear com
pletely out, while the other is as
good as uew
Your scarf will not stay the way
you wantit; it will work around UNI
til the pin is directly under your
ear. Five minutes after you have
fixed it, it will be as much out of
position as ever. Ifyou put it with
the pin under your ear intention
ally, it would probably work around
to the hack of your neck.
Although it is said to be extreme
| ly uncomfortably to stand on ones
head, it is a matter of fact that a
tack will stand on its head on the
floor all day to catch you as you
walk across the room.
The last match you have in YOU
pocket is the one that is sure to &C
out light it outdoor when you star
a cigar.
The train will always make it {
point TO shake so that it is impossi
BILE for you to read the article il
which you arc interester and hav,
on other time to read.
Your ink will always give on
2 when you have got n number Of let
!, tiers to write, Or else the bottle will
/. be accidentally knocked off the tabl
e and the contents spilled on some
t thing that is costly and snow white
9 Your clock will get its internal
: out of keller and go all wrong, tina
t you may fail to catch a train, Il
: keep an important appointment.
q Your night-key will quietly stea
!. down through small hole in you
|, vest pocket and hide itself in tn
e lining, and fill its aperture with col
ton 10 the muzzle, so that after yo'
n find it at miduight-if you do, at a
n You have the extreme felicity {
e cleaning it out with a pin-provic
l. ing you have pin at this particula
Y time, which, in all probability yo
will not.
From all of which it would seeI
that pretty much all the generi
4 cussedness we encounter in this Ii
\ comes from objects not cndowc
!, with animal life.
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Monopoly in Business.

, One Of the most striking pheno-
nena in the trade Of this country is
the successful attempts of great SYN
dictates of capitalists to monopolize
certain branches of business. The
Standard Oil Co., for instance, has a
practical monopoly of the refining
and sale of petroleum oil. They
have driven other refners out of the
business. Literally thousands of
small dealers have been ruined 10
swell the profits of this giant mono
poly. But somewhat unexpectedly
the oil-consuming public have been
benefited. Kerosene and all The il
luminants made from petroleum is
fifty to seventy per cent cheaper
than when the local refners had the
! field to themselves. Then the quail
ity of the oil is far superior to what,
it was in times past. While, there
fore, the Standard Oil Go. has been
a grieyous injury to thousands Of
refners and merchants, it has direct
, ly benefited the millions that con-
sumo mineral oils. A similar revo-
luton is taking place in the meat
: business. Five large firms, whose
, headquarters are at Chicago, kill the
/ cattle in the West and send the
dressed meat in refrigerating cars to
4 all parts of the Middle and Eastern
States. In doing this they have de-
4 privcd tens Of thousands of cattle
G dealers and butchers Of their means
of livelihood, for they can sell their
I meat to the consumer very much
: cheaper than was possible under the
j old methods. Then the cattle are
e spared the fortunes Of thousands Of
= miles of railway travel, as they are
}. killed in the neighborhood where
8 raised. Dressed meat is now being
t supplied to consumers at a reduction
o of fully twenty per cent. So the
meat business is undergoing the same
j evolution as the illuminating oil
r business, Thousands of dealers are
e injured, but millions of consumers
+ are benefited. This same monopo-
u lizing tendency is showing itself il
Il all the aeatindustries of the country
If Its results so far has been to dimin
l. ish the numbers of our middle class
II and heap up wealth in few hands
u While it increases the numbers o
workers of all kinds it is adding L
n their comforts. The steady growtl
al of those monopolies in various in
te dustries has not attracted the atten
ID ton from political economists an,
the community its importanc
merits. -Dem0rest's Monthy.
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Letters and Numbers.

The Greeks used the letters Of the
alphabet for numerals. The cum
bersome system used by the Romans
and called after them, consisted of
strokes (I-II-III-IIID to indi-
cate the four fingers, and two strokes
joined (V) to represent the hand, or
FIVE fingers. Ten was a picture of
two hands, or two VS. (X). But
when Romans and Greeks worked at
the higher mathematics or attempt
ed hard sums in arithmetic, they are
much more likely to have used let
tiers, in order to avoid the clumsi-
ness of these numerals; in other
words, they used what looked like a
kind of algebra. We know that they
tried to simplify the Roman nu-
merals at Rome by making four and
nine with three strokes instead Of
four, by placing an l before the v
and the l before the X CIV and and
IX).
Our use of the numerals which
we call "Arabic" is comparative re-
cent, and it is believed that tn,
Arabs got these numbers from India
several centuries after the Koran
was written, or about eight hundred
years after Christ.
Whether the Indian numeral
were originally part of some ancion
alphabet, or a series of shortened
signs originally somewhat like tn
Roman numerals that we still use, i
not really decided.
The numbers used by the people
of India who wrote in Sanskrit wer
very like the figures /, 2, 3, A, 5, {
7, 8, 8, and 0, that we use to-day
Even closer resemblances will b
found if one goes back to the earlies
forms of our numerals; for, durin
the last thousand years, our nun
bers have undergone some Sigh
changes. Together with these nj
merals, the Arabs learned fror
India how to do sums by algebri
For algebra, though an Arabic wore
is a science of which the Arabs wei
ignorant before they reached India.
It may be said that the inventio
Of these numerals and of algebra fC
the higher mathematics stamps I'll
old Hindoos as one Of the most wol
derful races of the WORLDLY He
RY EcKFoRD, in 81. Nicholas,
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-08-28
Watterson in Holland

Here rose the Dutch Republic and
fell the power of the Church of
Rome. Here Margaret Brandt
brought into the world the sunny
haired boy, who came to be Eras-
mus. and here was enacted Charles
Reade's heart-brcaking of the Clois-
ter and the Hearth. Here the brave
Dutchmcn, forgetting their accumu-
lations and their frugality in sub.
lime inspiration of freedom, opened
their bitches, prcferring to be swal-
lowed up by the ocean than to be
overcome by a foreign invader. Here
Quentin Durward llourished, and
the mother of Henry EsmOnd was
laid to rest beneath the wooden
cross in the little convent chapel
yard. Hence William Of Orange
sprang to the rescue of religion and
faith, striking from the roll of kings
the name of Stuart, and confirming
forever tile reformation begun by
Luther. Here Philip Van Arteveldt,
who. like Lee, of Virginia
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-08-28
Woman.

A handsome woman is dangerous.
A woman has no respect for the man
she can rule.
One bad woman can keep whole
neighborhood in hot water.
A woman who is not jealous of her
husband Is not in love with him.
This world is full of beautiful women,
but truly good woman is rarity.
Two things always trained for action
woman's tongue and mules heels.
Nine cases out of ten when woman
says she hates a man she in loye with
him.
Woman is the sweetest and bitteresi
gift of God TO man.
A woman will confess to almost any
thing but to the fact that she is growing
old and ugly.
The devil is never as black rs he il
painted, and woman is never us limo
cent as she appears
If you want TO keep woman's love
keep up steady but slight filtration
with her most hated rival.
When woman gives you her lov'
don't lay il away ON ice for safe-keepins
Better keep it in the warmest corner Q
your heart, so if she calls for il at an,
time Won can return il in the condition
she gave Il TO you.
a.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-08-28

Thetrue physiological way oftreat-
|fng burns and scalds is to once ex-
.elude the air, with cotton batting,
flour, scraped potato, or any thing
that is handiest.
Mix little carbonate of soda with
the water in which flowers are en-
ersed, and it viii preserve them for
fortnight Common saltpeter is
also a very good preventative.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-08-28
NsIIsTII.

Trains marked with a . run daily.
Leave Newark Centre statiOn) Tor Wilmington
and Phlla. &. % a IN; 20i and gu p m week dity,
New York and Washington Express leaves m o.
adephia every day, G57 D. IN Chester lis; vii.
minRton I.4b Newark SOS; Peryylllc s.sii u de
q race $40 Baltimore 9.aT.
Peninsula express leaves Baltimore 9.au rm
strives Newark s55 y m, runs through TO pom
on Delaware Division.
Baltimore and Wilmington accommodation on
sundays only. leaves Newark . b. q. m, arrive
Wilmington 10 20 a, m, stopping at all immcd.
ate stations.
A New York and Washington Expires,
also leaves Philadelphia at 400 +. NJ,
arriving at Newark at 5:l5 +. NJ, which
stops to take or leave passengers III
giving notice to the conductor or agent
]. X. Wood General Passenger Agent.
j G. Shivler, Agent Al Newark.
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l for there are ten million more of III
I nov, H., - = =. !. Ia =
rlt1pl1ai;lii there was in 1880, when
the last census was taken. But
while we will export less grain, we
shall send abroad very much larger
quantities of beef, mutton, pork, and
lard. This will be an advantage to
us, for the cropping of grain robs the
soil of its fertility, while the raising
of cattle not only enriches the land
but returns us II larger profit. Since
1860 we have developed prodigiously
what may be called our beef, hog
and fish crops. In 1870, we had
23,S20,000 head OF cattle In 1885,
we had 45,OO0,0OO At the present
rate Of increase, we shall have TO-
100000 in 1905 and 140,000,000 in
1925. Then the great corn crops we
have had since 2S70 have enor-
mously increased the number Of
hogs for our own use and for cxpor-
tation. For the last two years our
corn crops were unusually large,
while it is very promising this year,
and this means that hog products of
all kinds will be plentiful and cheap
for two years to come. Wheat can
be raised in many quarters of the
globe, but the only great available
cattle ranches outside of the United
States are in Australia and South
America, but we have the decided
advantage of being nearer the meat
consuming nations. Then, within
ten years there has been wonder
full development of fish food, due tc
the artificial Matching of fish ova by
the National and State Fish Com
missions There are probably
twenty pounds of fish to-day avail
5 able for food where there was one
ten years ago, and the process o
, stocking our streams is still goint
on; and then there will be immensl
additions to our stock Of poultry ant
dairy products. So far as physica
| necessities are concerned we are thu
most favored nation on earth. w
a have u practical monopoly Of corn
We grow more grain than we cal
], consume, while our animal food pro
: ducts are so abundant that we coul,
i feed half the world and have enougl
for ourselves besides. 49, Demorest
Monthly
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