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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-15

Have on hand at all times splendid stock
of DRESS GOODS, SILKS. MOURNING
GOODS, LADIES' AND MISSES WRAPS,
JERSEYS, SHAWLS, LINEN FABRICS,
FLANNEL, BLANKETS, QUILTS, GOODS
FOR MEN AND BOYS WEAR, GENTS
FURNISHING GOODS, DOMESTIC
GOODS, GINGHAMS, PRINTS, SATINES,
HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, LACES, &c.
We offer only such goods as we think will
prove of good value for the price paid. The
price in plain figures marked on every article,
from which there is no abatement.
Having been established in business in Bal
timore for 55 years, and built up a large trade
by fair dealing, courtesy and attention to the
wants of customers, we think it will be to the
advantage of the readers of this paper to deal
with us. Samples will be sent to select from
when we receive plain and explicit directions
of what is probably wanted. mar 13 13t
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-15

We often censure the conduct Of Others.
when, under the circumstances, we might
not haye acted half so WE'LL
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A COOK WANTED In a private
"A family in Westminster good situation
for competent person. Apply at the office
of the ADVOCATE. may.8;St
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We take pleasure in announcing to the pub
lie that we shall continue to keep on hand and
furnish all kinds of Building Lumber and
Coal, at the Old Yards in Westminster, Md,
and hope, that by strict attention to business
and with desire to please, we shall continue
to have our share of the trade.
feb28, ,1s85tf E.LYNCH d SON.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-15
NOTICE.

Having associated with me in the Lumber
and Coal business my son, M. JOHN LYNCH,
the business will, after the lst day of March,
be conducted under the firm name of E. Lynch
& Son. EDWARD LYNCH.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-15
AN Earthquake in Westminster.
aa-CENT STORE

What is the reason that everybody goes to
THE NEW
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-15
SUITS MADE TO ORDER

by experienced workmen, and frst-class fits
assured.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP

The buffalo and elephant are used
pistead of horses by the Burmese. ~
The pistol was invented in Pisto)a
m tuscany, by Camille Vitelli, in the
sixteenth century.
Jennie Lind will sing in public next
GUNNER for the first time in twenty-five
charItafaHa appearance will be for a
,''o.. purpu,.-
In first-clitoo r--o,,o.c.,
English lines they put ps afhiE eSss1rieges on
il. the compartments to keep the passaH
gers warm. Stoves arc not used
Consul William Slade, of Brussels,
says the average size of farms in the two
Flanders is about seven acres, and that
farmer will support his family upon
the profits of tract of six acres.
M Gosse, it is said, found means to
restore the life-like expression to the
eyes of dead bodies. He, places few
drops of glycerine and water on the cor
sea; life-like expression is reproduced.
Since 1880, when diggings for am
Der were commenced under the Sma-
land Peninsula in East Prussia, the yield
of the veins has greatly increased. In
1864 the revenue was $500 against
1925, 900 in 1888.
1t is understood to be Queen Vic.
toria's pleasure that the jubilee of her
reign shall not be celebrated until the
completion Of fifty years from her acces.
sion. That period will be accomplished
on June 20, 1887.
"A medieval weddingdish is now to
be the fashion at Gallo aristocratic mar
riages-the peacock served up in his gay
plumage. This old custom was revived
at the Princess Marie of Orleans we'd
ding with Prince Vlademar, the mos,
exalted royal parsonage present being
the carver
AT a recent meeting of the Hatters'
Association Of Austria, in Vienna, the
President spoke with pride of their
emancipation from Partisan fashion.
makers Four new winter styles of hats
were devised, three of which bear the
names of Viennese observation-disclosures,
suppe and Millocker.
1t has been found that thick wells
over pictures produce injury instead OF
serving for protection. The two master
pieces of Rubens in the Collegiate Church
at Antwerp, for instance, are becoming
darker from year to year, owing to the
effects OF the thick wells with which they
are covered, and an effort is being made
to remove wells from all the master
pieces OF art in Belgium.
The total number of books and pc.
riodicals published in Madras during
last year was S1S. OF these 142 were in
English, $50 in the vernaculars of the
presidency and rs in the Indian classical
languages. The most noteworthy lit.
erary feature of the year was the great
increase in the number of original works
in the vernaculars, which were 343
compared with 225 in the previous year.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
THE RoTHscHlLDs.
Doing Business on q Capital of One
Thousand Million Dollars.

ThOuAanu Million DOLLARS.
The combined capital of the great firm
of the Rothschilds is estimated by per-
sons pretending to know (although mo-
body but themselves can really know
anything about it) at no less sum than
81, O0O.O 100000, fully one-half of which
has been gained within twenty-five
years. Their opportunities for making
money, which are almost unlimited, are
perpetually improved. Their credit be-
ing of the highest, they might continue
their immense banking business indef-
nitely with little or no capital 1t is
hardly more than one hundred years
since the founder of the family and its
fortunes, Mayer Anselm, of very poor
Jewish parentage, was an humble clerk
in Hanover contingencies. He after.
ward established himself as banker in
Frankfort. The discreet investment of
s., ZOO, 900 of silver, deposited with him
in 1906 by the Elector William on the
invasion of his territory by the French,
was the source of the enormous wealth
of the firm. 1t was deposited without
interest, but Rothschild paid interest
regularly and returned the capital to
the Electors son seventeen years later.
The Rothschilds have never been So rich
as now, but they have nothing like the
power they once had, prol ably because
the capital of the world has SO rapidly
increased. 1t used to be said that kings
could not 60 to war without their con-
sent. Those days have forever passed
IN 7. Commercial Adve 'tiser.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
AN AMERICAN FABLE.
How the Lion Can Do the Hyena Great
To

How the Lion Can Do the Hyena a Great
Favor.
The Hyena has abused the Lion for
several months to all other Animals,
without Provoking a Retort, and one
day met the King of Beasts face to face
and said:
Il have been Abusing you for this
Many Weeks.
"Ah! hadn't heard of it.
II have called you All Sorts Of
names"
ssIndeed!''
II have Maligned you Professionally,
and lied about you Personally"
t'Just So"
'And you hadn't heard of itp'g'
''Not word"
"And if I now Repeat this abuse tc
your face?'
81 shall Accept it as Coming from {
Hyenar' said the Lion.
Moral: The Lion who Stops to CUT
Hyena does the Hyena a great Favor
Detroit Free Press
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
HOME ANpEAHM.

"A A sAasage maat viii II ;mnr nutmeg g!
flavor for most rsons.-IHe Caterer.
1t is now stated that or.---.Aa4oto !.
far more effectual in Identifying tha
complexion than any cosmetics. The
face should be rubbed with the freshly
cut vegetable, then washed and then
treated to gentle friction. Cincinnati
Times.
To destroy the black buffalo or car
pet moth, which eats straight lines across
carpets, dresses, etc., take corrosive
sublimate of double strength, one table,
spoonful in quart of boiling water,
thorous fnste the floors and woodwork
-Hickorynut Cake: Tn; s !.
butter, two cupfuls of sugar, half a cup
full of milk, four eggs, one cupful of
chopped raisins, one cupful of chopped
hickorynuts, two cupfuls of flour, half a
teaspoonful of soda, juice of half a
lemon. Bake in two square loaves, and
frost. THE Cook.
Cranberry Sauce: A young house,
keeper thinks she has discovered the
proper way to cook cranberries. For a
quart of berries place pint of water on
the stove with sufficient sugar. Let the
water come to a boil and when boiling
put in the cranberries and boil briskly
about fifteen minutes. - Western Rurat.
Egg Sauce: One cup of chicken
broth, heated and thickened, with table
spoonful of butter rolled thickly in
flour; poured over two beaten eggs;
boiled one minute, with tablespoonful
parsley stirred in; then seasoned and
poured upon pounded yelks of two
boiled eggs placed i'll bottom of bowl.
Stir up, and it is ready.-The Household.
Most farmers feed corn to every.
thing. Corn to the COWS, corn-to the
calves, corn to the colts, and corn to the
pigs. What were oats made for? For
all young animals. Corn is good to
fatten grown-up animals and to be a
part food to fattcn young Ones Very
little of it should be used for food for
young animals, as it does not contain
enough of the elements to make per-
feet body.-Troy Times.
Nothing furnishes silver more
quickly than rubber, the ring around
the neck of fruit jar being enough to
color whole closet full of silver in one
night. Coal gas is also inimical to
bright silver or plated ware, but lump
of gum camphor in closet will do
much to protect the goods. Silver
spoons, discolored by contact with
cooked eggs, are easily frightened by
rubbing with common Chicago
Times.
Mustard Dressing: Some one ask.
ing for recipe for nice mustard dress.
ing will find, I think, that this will suit
Take six eggs with three teaspoonfuls Of
mixed mustard, one teaspoonful Of salt
one teaspoonful of sugar, one and one
half cup of the best salad oil, half cup Of
water and one cup of vinegar. Min
thoroughly and place in water bath
Stir constantly until it creams, then put
away for use. If kept in a cool place il
will be good for long time.-Iorcntd
Mail.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13

and silver bracelets, rings, with emer.
aids and other precious stones; gold pins
and buttons, and all the varieties of
ornaments which tie rj je1rAbb o1oht nns'
earrings, bracelets, finger rings and
necklaces of the cheaper styles Of filled
work.
From 1860 to 1870 the factories in
creased from 463 to 681 in number, and
the yearly production from $40, 415, 900
in value to $22, 100000. In 1870, 49,
09l people were employed in the bust.
The growth Of those ten years of
maintained, hogneculation has not been
of the jewelry trade are n chief centers
l., which has Is establishments; PhlR-
delphia, with SIS factories; New York,
with 200; Bristol County, Mass, with
35, and Springfield, Mass, Boston, Gin
cinnati, San Francisco and Newark,
N. j. The filled work is mostly made
in New England and New Jersey.
A great many alloys of gold are used
in the making Of ornaments. Silver is
used pure, being alleged only to give it
hardness. Gold is fused with copper to
give it a red color, and with silver to
give it silvery luster. 1t is. seldom
used purer than twenty-five carats, nor
inferior to fourteen carats, because it
would tarnish and stain below that
purity. It is given either polished,
dead or frosted surface, and is often
deliberately ornamented by soldering
gold wire upon it to form a pattern, or
By chasing with tool. In large fac
tories corps of designers is kept
steadily employed in producing new
patterns in pins, bracelets, rings, etc.,
ideas being borrowed from every source,
ancient and modern.-M Y Herald. :
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
PERcHERoN HORSES,
40 Years. Experience.

To a Tribune reporter, Mr.. A. S.
Chamberlain, who for 40 years has been
the proprietor of the "Old Bulls Head
Stables New York City, said: 81
keep exchange and sale stables for
horses, thousands of which annually
come to my stables from all parts Of
the country. don't deal on my own
! account to any extent. The French
horses have good feet and stand the
pavements better than the Clydesdales,
and bring a better price on the market.
The Clydesdales are short-ribbed, slim
WASTED and lack action. Compare
lively few of them are now brought to
this market. The demand is largely
for French horses. l would advise the
farmer and breeders, who are breeding
horses to sell on the New York market,
to breed from French horses in prefer
ence to all others. Chicago Tribune.
Percheron stations of the finest quality
and with choicest pedigrees, registered
in the Perchcron Stud Book of France,
are annually imported in immense
numbers. Within the past two years
1000 have been imported and collected
by one firm alone.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
WILLOW CULTURE.
It Opens a Large Field for Useful and
Profitable Industry.

It Opens a Large Field for Useful and
Profitable Industry.
Considerable attention has been turned
of late. in this country, to the cultiva-
ton of the basket willows, and their
manufacture. That desirable and
promising industry is opened to us in
this direction is indicated by the fact that
we import willow rods and baskets ready
made to the amount of more than
100000 year. The cultivation of the
willows, and their manufacture, is SIM
pie and easy, and may be carried on
with hardly any capital on any scale,
large or small. They are readily pro.
pagated from cuttings about foot in
length, taken from well-ripened shoots,
and set in the ground in slanting
direction, and to such depth as to be
nearly or quite covered with earth. Gull
t:vators differ in opinion as to the dis
lance apart as to which tho cuttings
should be set, some saying two
feet each way, others eighteen
inches one way by twelve the other.
The closer they are set the less is the
tendency to throw out side shoots, which
are undesirable. The ground in which
they are set should be well pulvcrized,
and should be kept free from weeds by
cultivation, for a year or two, until the
plants are we'll established, and send up
shoots vigorous and numerous enough
to shade the ground, so that weeds will
not grow. The shoots should be cut
close to the ground soon after the leaves
fall in autumn.
A large field of useful and profitable
industry is here open to us. Basket
work may be carried on upon thousands
of farms and in thousands of dwellings,
without interfering with other and nee
essary labor. No machinery is needed.
In the long, leisure evenings of winter,
in many a farmhouse, while pleasant
talk or profitable reading is taking
place around cheerful fire, the fingers
of one or more could be fashioning the
plant twigs into forms of usefulness
and beauty; and the product, if more
than sufficient for home needs, would
find a ready and remunerative market.
Why should we send three thousand
miles over the ocean for willow twigs
when we can grow them as easily as we
do corn? And why hire fingers in
France or Germany to weave them into
baskets for us when we can do the work
equally well?-N. Y. Independent.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
A Wise satute.


The Board of Trusces of Cornell
University have passed university
statute whereby every professor who
shall have served seven years at the in
stitution may have years vacation
on half-pay. This action can not fail
to result in great good to the cause OF
education. 1t is declaration OF body
of business men that the efficient teacher
is not only worthy Of his hire, but that
he must not be worn out in the tread
mill of the lccture-room; that he is, in
short, worth preserving. 1t is recog-
milton of the teachers dignity and i'm
portance that can not fail to have its CT
feet upon the profession generally
Current.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
--NLAND.
w...h .-Cosst Settled by NorthmeB
E854s thu Middle Ages?

.,.... .Cosat settled BY Mortimer
- IN tho Middle Agese
The a controversy as to whether OF
not the ea,t coast of Greenland was set
tied by the Mortimer, who built thriy-
ing o~a.~iSs on the west coast in the
early middle age,,---~aaaen decided by
Danish Government expedYrlony
out in the spring of 1888 to explore the
little visited coast The early Norwe'
gian records speak Of sixteen parishes
and nearly three hundred villages on
Greenland eight or nine hundred years
400. when it had its own Bishop; but
this entire civilization had persisted
when Davis penetrated along the west
coast to the strait that bears his name in
81 .455,, The fact that an eastern and
in the RECORDS settlement were spoken POKE ot .,
coasts had been settled Pellet nat d nosn
while modern explorations have mh1 asa a.
progress only along the west coast
| Nordcnskjold, who visited these regiont
in 1888, believed that he had foune
! traces of ancient habitations on the cas-
! side similar to those found along the
west coast. The Danish explorers have
proved him wrong. They spent two
winters on the east coast and penetrated
| hundred miles further north than thu
| point Cos degrees IS minute) reached
| by Graah in 1929. mapping out the lane
and calling it liking Christian thu
Ninth's land;" but they found no trace
of previous occupation, except BEEF
bottle which the Esquimaux who in
habit these high ATTITUDES had looked
askance at for several years, believing
it to be somehow connected with the
elves of the inland glaciers, which they
fear as evil spirits. The explorers were
unable to account for the presence O
the bottle, that had the name of we'll
known Norwegian brewer blown in the
glass, until they learned of Nor
denskjold's S. previous visit to the neigh
borhood. The coast was quite accessible
last summer north of the dreaded glacier
Puissortok, and presented an unex
pectcd view of. handsome mountain!
and green valleys, with very little ice
No doubt remains, from the report o
the expedition, that by the eastern set
Element in the old record was meant
the one further south on the west coast
for in the lower ATTITUDES this coas
trends sharply toward the east. I'm
portant ruins have been found there
Chicago Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
A CITY ON WHEELS.
A Strange Town Which Is Wheeled to Other
Positions at Pleasure.

AStrange Town Which is Wheeled to Other
Positions at Pleasure.
In recent number of the american
Carriage Journal some interesting par
ticulars are given of a small city, as It'll
called, on wheels. About one hundred
huts are fixed on these rollers, which,
when the season arrives, are drawn on
to the ice in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron.
The population of this "city,' to which
the name is given, is about five hum
dred. Every hut is furnished with cook
ing utensils, hammocks and a stove, and
is occupied by three men, whose busi-
ness on the ice is to engage in peculiar
method of fishing. A hole is dug in
the middle of each hut to the
water about yard square. One of the
fishermen then takes a live fish of
the herring tribe and drops it into the
water. after fastening it to line. The
fish dives away as quickly as possible
until it is pulled up, when it returns to-
ward the hole, followed by great num-
Der of pike and other large fish DESTROYS
to feast on it. The fishermen stand be-
side the aperture with harpoon, and
when the pursuers arrive then thrust
of the four or five-pronged instrument
seldom tails to bring up some OF the
large fish. In some of the huts about
two hundred of these fish are thus
caught by the end of the days work.
This congregation of huts has very
weird appearance at night, when the
fishermen carry out their vocation by
torchlight, which attract the fish with
out the herring bait. If there is not an
abundance of fish at the chosen spots
the huts are wheeled to other positions
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
FAST COLORS.
Reliable Tests for Determining the Fast
ness of Many Colors.

HeSS VI NSWHy SOlorS'
In order to determine the fastness Of
colors with which fabrics have been
dyed the following tests may be made:
Reds-Boil small strip of the tissue
to be tested in soap-water and another
strip in lime-water. The color should
change very little. If, however, it in
either case turns yellow or brown the
color is not fast.
Yeiloos-Boil strips of the tissue in
water, in alcohol and in lime-water. If
in the two last boiling solutions the
tissue takes a yellow color, and the
liquid reddish color, the dye is not
fast.
Bltes-Fast blue when boiled in alec.
hol should not affect the color of the
bath, and the color itself should not
change to red or reddish brown. When
dipped in a warm solution of muriatic
acid and water. or alcohol, and the
bath takes reddish color, the blue is
not fast.
TioietS-When violet colors boiled in
a mixture of equal parts of water and
alcohol give up their color or change
to reddish brown, or brown when boiled
in dilute muriatic acid, giving reddish
color to the bath, they can not be col
ored fast. Of violet shades only madden
violet and the combination of indigo
and cochineal can be considered fast.
GreenS-When boiled in dilute alco-
hol, fast colors should not color the
bath green, yellow or blue. In dilute
muriatic acid the bath should not be-
come either blue or red
Brouns-Browns which, when boiled
in water, color the bath red. or, when
left for time in alcohol color the bath
yellow, are not fast eolors.
Blacks-f dilute muriatic acid so
luton is colored red on dipping in it a
strip of black tissue, the color of which
changes to reddish brown or to brown,
the color is not fast Qogwood). If the
color of the tissue changes to blue, the
black has ground of indigo and its
degree of fastness depends On the
deepness of the indigo bottom shade.
Black may be considered perfectly fast
when, being boiled with dilute muriatic
acid, the liquid is colored yellow: To
discover whether black tissue has a
bottom of indigo, boil a strip in a soda
bath. If indigo is present, the tissue
retains its black color or changes to
blue or green, but if the black is pure
tannin black it will become brown
Journal of Fabrics,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
ssIf!, y


"Stand back gentlemen! Clear the
track!'' shouted the police, and as the
quickly gathering crowd surged, back,
steamer No. 4 CAM up the street, the mag
nificent black hoses striking fire from the
Ps.~.,,ant.
But holo' A ,w,eel comes off the steam
er is overturned, id the brave firemen arr
picked up bleedintand senseless!
An investigatioIrevealed the fact that il
oiling the steamerhatmorningt the steward
had neglected to PIT in the 1inch-pin
little neglect on hispart had caused q los:
Of a half million ddars. The busy mart
OF trade are full osmen who are making
the same fatal mista:e. They neglect thoi
kidneys, thinking thy need no attention
whereas if they male occasional use o
Warmers safe cure hey would nerer sa,
that they don't feel quite we'll; that a tirei
feeling bothers them; hat they are plagued
with indigestion; thattheir brain refuse
to respond at cali; thattheir nerves are al
unstrung.-Fire Jou,na.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-13
The bowels may be regulated, and the
stomach strengthened, with Ayers Pills.

"A young clergyman who had come
TO supply the vacantpulpit of the church
in New England village, had an ex-
tremely boyish appearance, and made
his way almost unnoticed into the pull
pit, whore he was concealed from view
by the reading-desk in front of him. But
an old lady who sat close on the right of
the pulpit in consideration of her deaf
ness, was much concerned to see boy
in the place of the expected clergyman.
So she arose very softly, stepped on tip
toe to the pulpit-stairs, and, reckoning
with her forefinger, whispered loudly in
coaxing accents: "Come down, my boy;
you mustn't sit there: that's the place for
the minister!''