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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-12-05

NEW YORK. December 4.
Money-6.
LATER.
MOney-On cali. uniet, 3 a.. per
cent. on the last lozn ,. closed asked.
Prime mercantile paper q 3.
Sterling exchange Quiet: easy.
4 SOZ for 60 day bills; i.S;74 for de-
mand.
Petrolem--Firm; united closed, 5lL:
SAN FRANcIsco, December STRAITS,
sight, p; Geographic, %.
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Bank Statement

New foBK, December The weekly
bank statement shows a reserve de
crease 3. 7O2 600. Banks now hold s.,
lGj, 90 n excess OF the legal rule.
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Bill Passed

BERSE, December 4.-The Swiss as
sembly has passed the Lsndstrum bill.
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Petroleum.

NV YORK, December i.-Petro-
leum opened strong at SIS; de-
ciined to sos. Rallied near the close
aud closed strong st SIS. Sales, . 81
600 barrels.
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Afternoon stock Marker.
Chicago Markets.
CHICAGO, December4.

CHICAGO, DeceIn Der 4, p n
Wheat - Nervous, excited; closing
firm at Yesterdays figures; cash, 7S5s (;
January, 79lE g 795s; May, S65s.
Corn = Firm; cash IS: January
asa a 3SJk; May, 43S4 q 435s.
Oats-Firm; cash, 265s; May, SlH.
Whisky-llS.
Pork-Firm. cash l0.77jz; January,
II Il; May. ll54ls.
Lard Strong; cash. $50; January
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The Liverpool Grain Trade

LIVERPOOL. December 1.
Wheat and corn firm and in good de-
msnd.
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Rye-Firm. 5ii.-
Barley-QGi Z -
Whisky-1.lS.
Pork Stronger: cash. 1O.s5.
ShouIders-4.z0 q AS: short clear
short ribs, 5.62jl q 5.65, January.
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TOPICS OF TRADE.
Silver is Still Below One
Hundred.
NEW YORK Stock MARKET.
&c rnent- Dull and Steady-Pe' ro-
Team stronE-LoEdon VOL
Heavy Assignment.
7Ew YORK Stock MARKET.
uaiI3ap.

BaiI3ap.
NEW YoEK, D. ceIa5er bar slvsi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-12-05
Money Market.

NEW YoEk. December 4.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15
NUMBER 6.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

OF the 672 Yale graduates who died
in the ten years between 1876 and 1885,
there were 271 who were past 20 years
of age.
Richmond, Va, may be called a
shows 1886 church members in the
entire population of the city. Of these
7,452 are Baptists, leaving 16,474 for
all the others.-C Chicago Standard.
DIR. Lyman Beecher once said to
minister with the burden of a cold con-
gregation on him: ..Do as the mother
hen does, brood over them, sit on
them, warm them up while, and be-
fore long you will have cackling
enough.
"A somewhat remarkable case is re-
ported in Bath, Eng. Three lads were
summoned for talking and laughing
during servicein church. They were
fined FL and costs, or, in default, one
months hard labor. One of them,
who could not pay, was actually sent
to prison.
-''Bromley, you never heard such
an eloquent sermon before. l am sure.
There was no tagging of interest. Such
brilliant passages" Eyes, Dar-
ringer, admit that. Still / slept during
one of the passages. ~ s'You did, Ell!
Why. Bromley. what passage was it?'
ssThe passage of the collection basket. /"
Boston Post
The trustees of the East Tennessee
Wesleyan University, located at Athens,
Tenn. have changed the name OF the
institution to the Grant Memorial Uni
versity. 1t was organized in 1867 by
"Parsonn Brownlow, Horace Maynard
and Rev. j. P. Spence, and General
Grant made the first cash donation for
it, his well-known signature appearing
at the head of the list Chicago Saaa.
Upon an investigation which pre-
ceded the introduction of sewing in
the public schools of town containing
more than ten thousand inhabitants, it
was found that only six of the girls who
| crowded the schools knew how to sew.
| Many had never seen a thimble. Fur
ther inquiry discovered that many
mothers of these children did not know
how to sew, but bought ''ready-maden
clothing as they needed it. IN. Y. Irib-
une.
What wouldn't the average Chi
cago boy give if his pa would only send
him to the Fort Wrangel training
| school in Alaskan The newspaper OF
that place says that the boys of the
school last year killed for the use Of
the institution one hundred and twen-
ty-one deer, eleven seals, one bear,
about one hundred and fifty wild geese,
over three hundred ducks, and numer-
Gus grouse, porcupines, marmots and
snipe, and caught all the salmon, half
but, Goldfish, trout, herring, founders,
crabs and CLAIMS they needed Chicago
Times.
| New regulations have been adopted
at the Brown University which allow q
student to gain honors in any depart
| ment. To do this he is required to
obtain permission of the faculty tc
study for honors; to take all elective
studies in that department; to pursue .
special course of reading under the di
rection of the professor of the depart
ment; to obtain an average standing in
the department of at least ninety-fivt
per cent. of the maximum, and to pass
any special examinations which may
be required. Boston Journal
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15

hangin'. 1t came, but when they went
into his cell to take him out to the gal
lows they fonnd him kickin' on his
bunk. The doctors came, and they
said he'd taken poison. They pumped
him out. But the skipper never knew
anything, and they hurried him out to
the gallows to hang him before he died.
eWell, sir, he was game. He never
squealed on anybody; but when he was
gone those rich fellers, who were afraid
he'd tell somethin'. just up and left his
wife to shift for herself. She opened a
little thread and needle store in Brook
lyn and made bare livin' at it. One
day, about year after. there came
along a fine-looking man, who called on
her. He told her that he was the first
mate of the SLAYER, and that he'd heard
she was havin' hard struggle of it to
get along. He told her that Skipper
Gordon was alters abig friend of his'n,
and he wound up by offerin' to take
care of her and her boy by marryin'
her. The little woman consented and
they got spliced. He was the skipper
of that very ship that's lynn out there,
and | afterward sailed with him on her.
That's what I've been thinkin' about
to-day, my boy. It's a good many
years ago, but like to think about old
times nowadays. Bein' mate of the
SLAYER was the one thing the skipper
alters regretted. But he got wife by
it, though. San Francisco Atta.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15
RUSSIAN COURTSHlP.
A Country Where the Wife Gets Madl ii
Her Husband Does Not Whip Her.

A Country Where the Wife Gets Madl ii
Her Husband Does Not Whip Her.
Nine. Henri Greville,n now visiting
this country, thus describes courtship
and marriage among Russian villagers:
ssFor the first two or three days after
the wedding in Russia things 60 on
very well; that is, while the families
are exchanging their visits. After that
the husband beats his wife; and if he
does not beat her, she thinks it is be-
cause he does not love her. Beating is
the mark of proper jealousy. Among
the wealthier Russians the mothers on
Trinity Day dress their marriageable
daughters very handsomely, and take
them to a city garden, something like
Boston Commons. The silk dresses of
the girls are unlike any thing you ever
saw here. They are pink, yellow or
sky-blue, with huge flowers of contrast
ing colors. The girls are as stiff as sugar
loaves in them. The mothers and daugh-
ters seat themselves on benches in the
gardens, and all the young men who
want wives parade before them The
girls never look at the men. They sit
until five o'clock without saying a
word. Then they go home and wait.
In two or three days, or perhaps a
week, an old woman appears. She
| asks for the mother, and begins to talk
to her about everything in the world
except the marriageable daughter.
She is the matchmaker. 1t would be
highly improper3f for the young man or
his family to appear in the matter. AT
length she says: ..You have a turtle
dove, and | also have turtle
dove" After a little parrying she
comes to the point. '.Why should not
my pigeon marry your pigeonP
The mother demurs, and says her
daughter is too young. "Why did you
take her to market, then?' The
matchmaker sets forth the present and
prospective advantages of the match.
| The girl is summoned and Informed
that in two or three weeks she will
marry the young man. She must moi
look very much pleased if she likes the
match, and she must look somewhat as
if she did not like it. She can not re.
fuse. The young man comes to a fami
| ly tea-party; perhaps to two. Then
his friends return the civility. They
see nothing of each other beyond this. !
= ECctGnue.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15
TRUE PHILOSOPHY.
A Man Worth One Hundred Thousand
Dollars, Carrying Trunks.

The sudden and unexpected acquisi-s
ton of fortune is an event which COM
few persons can experience
with calmness and self-possession.
But few men could keep right on in
their daily course of life under such
circumstances.
A notable exception, however, has
recently been made known in Philadel-
phia. John Carroll, the head-porter at
the Colonnade Hotel in that city, died
a short time ago, leaving, according to
a correspondent of the New York 1rib-
ahse, a fortune of 100000. 'Four
years ago, we are told, the "bulk of
this money was given to him by a
wealthy uncle, and since he received it
he has not changed his mode of living
a particle. Every morning he re-
ported for duty, and would always
select the heaviest trunks for his share
of the work. :"
This porter was a true philosopher.
He knew that no change could give
him more satisfaction than was to be
found in good, honest work. 1t is not
surprising to learn that he was well
liked, and could sometimes earn as
much as twenty-five dollars day.
Such nature is so rarely met with
that it well deserves to be remembered
N r Ledqer. 81
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15
PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

kerosene oil is going up,' says
an exchange. Undoubtedly; SO is the
stove, so is the hired girl. Hacen
Nescs.
There is Joy in Heaven when .
prodigal returns, but ''didn't tell you.
so?'- IS the universal cry on earth when
a good man goes wrong. - Chscdgol
Ledger.
--.sWhat makes you love mepn asked
Young mother of her little daughter.
sI don't know, mamma" was the re-
ply; "but I fink it is because have
known you so long. IN Y. Telegram.
An author urged the editor to give
favorable notice of his book saying
that ..it contained much food for
thought. y The low response was:
.sThat may be, but it is wretchediy
cooked Prairie Farmer.
"A popular clergyman in Boston
delivered a sermon entitled, Make the
world better" But what's the use
while so many persons want the entire
earth just as it isP- Chicago Times.
-Professor-..D docs my question
trouble YOU, sirp'' Student No, SIR
not at all. But am little in doubt
how to frame my answer so as to give
YOU the precise information for which
YOU seem to ask IN Y. Sun.
First Newsboy-.'Say, kid, why do
| they buy shoes for the fire enginesp"
Second Newsboy-"C "Colly, you're an ig-
noramus. They use 'em to keep the
hose from wearing out - philadelphia
| Call.
| 1t is said that electricity is now
successfully used in removing freclsles
from the face. As this is the age OF
| invention, there is no telling how soon
plan will be discovered to blow out
corns with gun-powder. Exchange.
| SIS it possible, Miss, that you do
not know the names of some of your
best friendsp' inquired a gentleman Of
| a lady. Certainly, she replied; 81
don't even know what my own will be
in a wear from now.''-N Y. Iisdepe,sd.
ent.
"A farmer in Connecticut traded
horses one day with man who had
the reputation of being strictly honest
4 but he soon discovered that he had been
badly cheated. The next time the two
met, the farmer said to the other: BE
fore yotl die Iwish you would wilkins
/. your countenance to trade horses
with. ."--Harper's BdzGr.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15
vALuELEss CONTRACTS.
Agreements Between Husband and Wife
in Court of Law. .EA

Agreements between hu3Dauu aifu WIZ
in q Court of Law.
This much-mooted question has just
been considered by the Massachusetts,
Supreme judicial Court, in the case OF
Kniel VS.. Egleston, the court holding
that personal contracts between hus-
band and wife are absolutely void, and
the fact that the wife survives the hus-
band will not make that a good con-
tract which was originally a nullity.
While by statute the wife may make
contracts in the same manner as il she
were sole, no authority has been given
by which husband and wife may make
contracts each with the other. Their
legal incapacity thus to contract re-
mains as at common law. "At law it
has been repeatedly decided in this
Commonwealth says the court. "that
aepromissory note, or any other personal
contract between the husband and wife
is absolutely void. A contract for pay
ment of money by the husband with the
wife is nullity, and his retention OF
the money is not conversion. Even
when the wife transferred a promissory
note to a third person, which had been
made to her by her husband, so that
mere disability to sue, arising out OF the
marital relation, was removed, such
person could not maintain the action
In the case at the bar the fact that the
wife survived the husband would mo-
make that good contract which was
originally nullity.'
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15
ODE TO A NEW INFANT.

Alas, poor little kid,
HOW Young and fresh you arel
Won can not chew your quid,
Nor smoke the vile cigar.
Rut YOU can lie in bed,
And below like calf,
And wag your hairless head
Until you make us laugh.
And you can howl at night,
And make your poppy bound
From bed in costume light,
And tote you round and round.
And you can kick and scream,
And have the gripes and collie,
And wake us from our dream
with noises diabolic.
All, frisky juvenile,
. Though joyous now you bo,
with milk and castor-ile,
And pap and catnip tea,
The time at length will come
When you must "up and git"
And earn your daily crumb,
By toll or tt ade or wit,
Just like the rest of us.
-Ephraim Mnggins, u, Pich
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15

Overheard at the last performance
of ..Lohengrin'' at the American opera
First lady: sLohengrin' is by
Wagner, isn't itp' Second lady:
yes First lady: 20, what clever
man Mr.. Wagner must have been to
have written such nice music and have
invented the palace-car, ~ z Mai.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15
ENGLAND thinks its Parliamentary

elections take up too much time, The
recent elections spread over three
weeks. The movement which has been
started seeks the enactment of law
by which the elections shall be finished
in two days at the longest.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15

Don't ask your husband to walk
the floor with the baby half the night.
A man who tramps industriously
around billiard table three nights in
week or buys an admission ticket to
the opera can't be expected to be on
duty at home the other three nights.
Have mercy on him and give the man
an opportunity to recuperate. Puck.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15

"A German writer says: 'sHumor is
the meteorological pessimism, which
includes within itself the teleogical
evolutionary optimism, which may
cause truly, that is to say, an at once
realisticradical and universal recon-
eiliation to appear as possible. : We
have often noticed that, but we never
permit any of that sort of stuff to
paralyze our paragraphs if we can help
it.-NorrtstoW Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15

Queen Victoria win build a church
at Cannes for memorial to her son,
the late Duke of Albany.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-15

How would it work if somebody
should get up game OF progressive
common sense?- Chicago Journal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-19
LITTLE NOES'E-ES.

party of one idea is better than party
Of no idea.
We believe in personal rights, not in per-
sonal liberty.
Are we all 'eranks" because we grind
ont so much music for the politicians to
dance to?
The question for each man is not whether
public sentiment is ready for Prohibition,
but whether he is ready. IL he is, let him
show his colors and do what he can to
make the rest of public sentiment right.
Isn't it queer that 4 license bill should
be introduced into Congress by the Repub-
lican Senator Ingalls, Of Prohibition Kan
sas, and that a Prohibition Local Option
bill should b. introduced by a Georgia
Democrat?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-19
THE DAYS OF THE TIMBER yION.

During our last Spring cleaning, popu-
larly known as the Spring fever, was
rummaging in an old cellar and turned up
among many relies Of the good old
times & iapanned box, nine inches long
by half as much broad. 1t contained Il
lot of small articles, notably piece of
steel with Il handle like the crosier Of a
bishop; match or two of rough deal
Splinters, cut To Il point and besmearcd
with birthstone; piece of flint and q bit
ened by having been set ON fire and rap
idly cxtinguishod by putting a fiat piece
of lead upon it. This was the old finder
box, from which many 4 good fire. which
had cooked many good dinner, had been
lightcd-from which the morning candle
of merchants and tradesmen had been lit,
and to which they owed much of their
wealth.
1t was so long since | had seen such a
box that | had much ado to remember
how. when ] was a boy, an old aunt of
mine went down on her knees in the early
winter morning, encouraging the kitchen
fire to blaze by this roundabout method
of evolving light and fire for domestic
purposes. The method was this, and a
cold one it was on frosty morning: The
maidscrvant, having opcned the shutters,
knclt down. very suitable position for
dispensing sacred fire : She opened
The box. took the crosier in one hand and
the flint in the other, and by striking rap
idly the one against the other a spark
sprang out upon the bit Of burnt linen,
technically called the finder. II the spark
was fortunate, it caught hold of the fibrcS
of linen, and set them aglow Then the
maid patiently watched the sacred fire
run along the finder while she blew it
with her mouth, holding the birthstone
match to it, till happily, a blue flame re-
suited, from which she lighted her morn
ing candle, and afterwards her fire. Then
the finder box was closed. 1t had done
it's duty for another day.
| have often seen the operation per
formed, and have frequently collected
nice pieces Of flint from the outlying
wolds, where it prevailed, to bring them
home for the domestic finder box, or to
give less fortunate ncighbors who. like
the unhappy virgins of old, had lost their
light for want Of trimming, or who had
mslaid the spark producing mineral.
Considering all that had to be gone
through every morning and everywhere
except where fires were kept alight all
night one looks back on those days with
surprise Bat then there was no other
way There were no cigars lighted i'll the
streets; all had to be done at the temple
of light-thc orthodox fire. There was
no snch thing as carrying fire in your
wastcoat pocket, with a French picture
and a hundred lights for . penny In
the time when the curiew rang at 8 o clock
every night for all good people to put out
their lights and fires, What fuss there
must have been among the men and maid
ems bringing back light and fire from
heaven to earth again. The world has
spun around many times since then.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-19

drawn by a spirited horse, pause at the
gate. Two ladies, wearing sealskin cloaks,
4 white fur robe tucked about their feet,
alight. Their hair is gray, but their cheeks
are pink, and their color is rs clear as a
girls.
It is Miss Platt and Mrs. Pratt
They have all Of this worlds goods that
anybody really needs. They are happy.
too--happicr than nnc-tenths Of their sex.
But their prosperity has been won only by
hard knocks and trials. Sometimes, now
that they are gray-haired, they wonder if
they are not getting rather tired, and if
there is not at last a land where 10 desire
is to will and to will is to create.-Elisa
AfcAard
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-19
VOL. III.
AFTER THE MIDzEGlsT COMETsi
MORN.

The Years come and the Years 60,
And the leaves of life keep falling
Queridita
And across The sunless rivers flow
With accents soft and whispers low,
The friends long lost are calling
Qucridita
W hiic Autumn his red glory wears,
And clouds Cypress The sky like cares
Bnt the old gricis die, and new joys are born,
And always after Midnight comcth Morn.
The Years wake ana the Years sleep,
And ihe Past is full of sorrow,
Qncridita
The thoughtlcss laughs and the thoughtful
wceps,
And each the frnii of his follics rcaps,
For Today is the fIte of tomorrow,
Qucridia
But new loves tempt us 10 forget
The Old, ana old friends love rs yet
So the old glicfS die, and new joys are born,
And always after Midnight comcth Morn.
The Years laugh and The Years sigh.
But the flowers for yon are blowing,
Qucridta
As Girlhood's days go dancing by,
And Womanhoods hIithe May is nigh
With hopes and lancics glowing.
Queridita
W hiIc Love his nets for you prepares,
And turks TO catch You unawarcS-
And the old %rieis die, and new joys are born,
Always after Midnight cometh Morn.
The Years live and the Years die
And all they touch they sadden,
Qucridiia,
But still the heart can time defy,
Hope still with purple flush orr sky,
And sober friendship gladden.,
Qneridta.
As well ~ we have loved beiore
In Autumn We can love once more
For the old grcfs die, and new joys are born,
Aud always after Midnight aometh Morn.
Qucrida Mit,
-eItbeft Pike,