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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-18
ALuxurx and Necessity

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resort to bitter, pauseous liver medi-
cines and cathartics, is the concentrat.
ed California liquid fruit remedy,
Syrup Of Figs.
233-237.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-18

ARE YOU MADE miserable by In
digestion, Constipation, Dizziness
Loss Of Appetite, Yellow Skim shi-
obs Vitalizer is positive cure. For
sale by Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-18

WHY WILL YOU cough when
Shiloh's Cure will give immediate re-
lief. Price 10 cts, so cts, and 81
For sale by Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-18

THE REV. GEO. H. THAYER, of
Bourbon, Ind, says "Both myself and
Wife owe our lives to SHILOH'S
CONSUMPTION CURE. For sale by
Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-18

FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Com
plant you have printed guarantee
on every bottle of Shiloh's Vitalizer
1t never fails to cure, For sale by
Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-18

sHILoH's CATARRH REMEDY
"a positive cure for Catarrh, Dipth-
eria and Canker-Mouth. For sale by
Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-18

When Baby was sick, we gave herCastoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-18

"HACKMETACK," lasting and
fragrant perfume, Price 25 and 80
cents. For sale by Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-18

SHILOH'S CURE will Immediately
relieve Group, Whooping Cough and
Bronchitis. For sale by Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-18

LOG CABINS have most.
ly disappeared as human
habitations. Many good
people have lived happy
lives in them, and many
great men have henn horn
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17
How Gamblers Read Cards

We do it in the sanle way that the blinds man reads-by the sense of feeling. But be- fore we can read these cards they must bel put ill shape This is done with ring which. Is worn on the most convenient finger On, the inside of the ring-I mean the part under the finger-ls little steel spur not sharp enough to penetrate the cards and make a hole which would be detected, but a slight in- dentation, resembling a pimple, on the back of the card, but so small that with close ob- seryation it would not be noticed This we cannot sec, but we can feel it, and the loca- tion is the cipher to the denomination of the card. Of course, we have to see and handle the cards before they can be 'smarked," :" but as we can handle from five to ten cards each deal, it does not take long to have all the inn portant cards punctured.
 Reading cards marked ill this way is easy to me. have one system as to the location of marks, and it is just as simple as telling the time by the location of the hands of clock ill the absence of the regular dial figures. Sharp players make their punctures so slight that they cannot be detected by the ordinary sense of feeling. The reading is then done with the ball of the thumb, from which the outer cuticle has been removed by acid. The neither skin is very tender and readily responds when it comes in contact with the ''mark." Greeks of this class can be detected by watching the thumb of the right hand in dealing If it has sliding motion up and down the cards then you can bet two to one that the dealer has got book for the blind to read.-Chicago Herald.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17
Women Crazy About Stenography.

"How many stenographers do you suppose there are ill Chicago" was the inquiry of an employment agency man tbeother day. The Stroller would not hazard rguess. "About 5000, as near as I can make out," said my in- terrogator. He explained further that their wages averaged from S10 to S15 a week, few of the most competent getting more than the latter figure, and great many re- ceiving less than $10. They are mostly women, and there is an army of them con- stantly in search of places The hours are not hard, usually ranging from or in the morning to or ill the afternoon, with nearly an hour at noon for lunch. But the work is very confining.
 ''The business is entirely overdone,n said my informant. 'It has become a sort of mania with girls, and they are going into it in such numbers that the supply is already entirely out of proportion to the demand If had the education of Q young girl in charge l would strongly dissuade her from learning stenography. Ill addition to the overcrowded state of the profession, Edison's new phono- graph will entirely dispense with the neces- sity of stenographers if it will do all that is claimed for it. My advice to girls who want to fit themselves to earn a living is to try something else than stenography. Chicago Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17
SAVE THE STATE.

Connecticut is numbered by Republican organs as amongst the doubtful States in the supreme contest of this year-a con- test ill which will be decided the continu- ance-and if continuance the perpetuity- of Democratic administration; or return to the monopolist misrule and govern mental greed and guilt of Republican power. Now is the time to arrange the preliminaries of the fight-to put our forces ill organization-to decide on the plan of campaign-to calculate on our re- sources and do all that may be done to make the doubtfulness conceded by the opposition an assured certainty of our sue cess. This cannot be done by standing idly and indifferently, shutting our eyes and waiting to see what the fates will send. If we would succeed in gaining the vote of Connecticut to the preservation of national Democratic power every electoral district of the Satellite or big-populous city or sparse hamlet-must give its contribu- tary aid to the effort. Esops. bundle of twigs was an illustration for all time of the strength of union. And with union, organization, strength and hope we can have no fear for the issue or issues-the renomination of Cleveland at the mid- summer convention and his triumphant reelection on the sixth of November.
 And now what of Waterbury in the work of preparation? We have numeri- cally a Democratic majority ill the City. What steps arc to be taken for it's eohe- siYeness and utilization? Every man mak- ing part of this majority would, perhaps, feel unappeasably offended if his sincerity wero questioned and his zeal or want of zeal decried; but put it to the tests-where is the effort to prove sincerity, or the ac- tion to betoken zeal. It is, we suppose, as in other matters of public good-whst's every mans business is no mans busins ss;
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17
\. H. ( H. Railroad Time Table.

Trains Leave Waterbury as Follows: New fork-5so. se6 los4 a. m: e<s sm
 Sunday, AIS D. m. Return .. $, m; l. {. 5.S m New Haven-5.3o sa6, Ioa m: a<s -mn Return, 7.is, s.s2 a- m., 2 80, 54s zoo D. I'd. Bridgeport-sso, s-ae. lo-a a. m: axs, 7sI; Sun day, 1. l5 D. m. Return 7.IS, a.56 a. m: asl sSs ss |,
 Sunday. s.so a. m - A'' Ansonia-5.3o, sS. I0a A. m ss
 Sunday, AIS D. m. f' '' Return. 1.5. 10 SS a m sys s ss pn
 Sunday, s.a6 a. m f my "atertown.65o, s5s. IL n q. m.; ( io eio ss, D. m.: Saturday, DIS D. n Return 6-30, 7.5 Iof5 a m: sorsss s<s D. m. Saturday, 500 p. m. Thomaston-s&, l1.I7 a. m.: a57, sio D. m.; Sun day. 9.l0 a. m. Return, s.5s, los7 a. m.; aIa es7
 Sunday. a5o D. m. F ' TorrngsonI II.17 a. m-; a.s7, 7.Io P m; sun- Return, 7.3s. 10oI a. m.; I.H. sa n m Sunday, 3-26 D. m. - '' wmstedG4s, 1I.I7 a. m.; s-s7, 7.Io p. m.; Sunday Return, sIa sso a. m.; I.so. sIo P. m.: Sum- day, 800 p. m.
 O. N. SHEPARD. General sup.t
 CT. HAMPSTEAD. General Pass Agent.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17

,ne waits for another to take the lead, and if the other is bold enough to throw him. self into the breach he is denounced for his damned impudence; and there Is . disinclination to follow. There IS the easy remedy of combined action lead ing to permanent organization. Other communities not possessed of q t1the or our importance in population or public spirit, wealth or industrial prominence, have local clubs ready for ordinary emergencies as well as for great national occasions; they meet in caucus or open council for discus sion on Ways and Means; and are thus always prepared with an intelligible pro- gramme of action when the hour of t11al presents itself. But in our pretentlous city. Democratic sincerity is only exempl- fled in the not very expansive field of ward politics; and Democratic zeal limited to the small contests of local Boards. The sin cerity and zeal in these regards are most needed and most commendable as serving in some sort to keep prominent the lines of party demarcation; and out of these, i'm perfect nuclei as they are, there may grow the surroundings of an organization for State and National purposes-with firm oneness of determination to do its part in the general work for the gen eral good We want triumphant success for the Presidency this year-we
 desire to see Connecticut do its duty in the
 struggle-and we feel special pride i'll the
 prospect of Waterbury taking distribu- tive share in the merit of victory.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17
MEN WHO FIX THE WIRES.

Work and Hardships of Telegraphic Line
 men-Much Foil and Little Pay.
 There are employed in this country nearly 5000 telegraph and telephone linemen. They are all expert men jn their business, and, while the work is extremely hard, they are fairly we'll paid.
 Their work is peculiar If a break occurs in wire they have to start out find it and repair it. By instruments now in use it is possible to tell pretty nearly where the trouble is, but it requires even then man with quick eye and long experience to find it out without the wasting of much val uable time. This is particularly so in a big city, where sometimes as high as 100 wires are strung on one pole.
 Some of these men are able to pick out a certain wire and follow it for almost any distance, though it may be one of a dozen on the pole.
 The men begin work as groundmen or as sistants. They carry the wire and attend to the work on the ground while the regular linemen climb the poles and attend to the re- pairs. Gradually the groundman learns to climb with spikes and to keep his head clear at great heights. Then he is given some un. important work to do aloft until he gradually becomes expert enough to do any kind o1 work
 The lineman has to do his work at al times of the day and night, and in all kinds of weather. In fact his hardest work is gen orally in the coldest and most disagreeable weather, for it is then that the worst dam age is done to the wires In the winter time he has to climb poles covered with ice, ant handle the wires when every touch is liable to take the skin off his hands.
 In the city when big snow storm occur. there are bound to be a great number o1 wires broken CT grounded They have to b, 1 fixed at once, and the whole force is sent out working night and day.
 Out ill the home of the blizzard, the grea northwest the linemen have particularly hard time. It is so cold there sometimes tha they find it impossible to work more thar half an hour or so at time on the top of , telegraph pole. When tho blizzard is par ticularly hard one it is frequently necessar, to have gangs from all the surrounding country following the track of the storm, s that no time may be lost in getting the wire into working order again.-New York Press
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17
N.Y.&N.E. Railroad Time Table.

Trains Leave Waterbury as Followe:. Boston-7-so m, 1. a4opm.
 Return s.S0 ID, 8 m Providence-730 a. m.; 100 s4o p.m.
 Return, i5 a. m.: s 30 D. m. New York-so0 a. m-; I3pm
 Return, s.54 a. m.; 3.3S D. m. Worcester-7.so a. m; loo. p. m
 Return, GAS. aSo a. m. Norwich-7.s0 a. m.; 100. aSp.m
 Return s-ss, Io.4s a, n.: s.ss ?. n.
 Return, 7.Ss' iSas s s m: I:' 300 ?. ID. Putnam-7.So .. m.; loo. asop m
 Return. SIS. lo.sS a. m. Willimantic-7.ao a m.: loo, s4opm.
 Return. s.Io, 1I.ss a. m: sss pm, springaeld-s;s s, 800 a. m.: asop.m>
 Return. 7.3o 8. m.: s.e0 D. m, New Haven-via Planvflle 7soa m. 100 n. n.
 Return, ll.os a. m.. foo P. m. iiartf1rd-7:so goo q m; loo. so. smpm
 Return, eSs. 10. 70 a. m.; I9.ss. 4i5 70 D. Id New Britain-s.S 800 a. m.; loo. s.so 500 D n
 Return, e.ss. II.o4.a. m-; la.ss. 4.ss, s.ss pm. Plainyille-T.3o. 800 a. m.: loo. 4o soop m
 Return, 7.07. HIS a. m.: l.o2 l5o, Eos p. u. Forestville-7.5o. 800 a. m.; 50 800 h. m.
 Return, 7.I2, I-so a. m: nos. 4a, f .Ia pm. Bristol.5so, 800 a, m; loo. aso. 500 ?. m,
 Return, 7.1a. l1-2s a. m; I.i4 500 n is p m. Terryyille-7.So, 800 a. m.; loo. so, 800 D. u.
 Return. 7.So. li-Ss a. m-: i-2S, 5ii, r.1e p n Waterville-1.30 a. m.: 340. 500 D. m.
 Return. 7.4s. 11-as a. m.; 5 g 7<s ?. ma Union City-fs.00 a m.: f205 1sspm.
 Return, fs.42 a. m.; ls.io. f7.{s D. m. Towantic-fS.00 6. m.: f2.05 Gss D. m
 Return. s.S2. i'll .52 a. m.; TSs D. m Southford-s.oo a. m.: 1.s5. 2.os ss pm
 Return. ssS ll.4o a. m.: ls-e6, 7.sI ?. n. Hawleyville-s.oo a. m.: I-5s eos s&pm m
 Return. fs4. a.ss. II-Ss a. m.: 7.oi D. m. Danbury-s0o a. m.: i-55 2os, sss B. m
 Return, 1so, sio. II, ,ss a. m-; 6so ?. m. Brewsters-S0o a. m-: i55 eoS D. m Return, GAS, ll-25 a. m-; 6ySo ?. m. Ffshkil on Hudson-s.oo a. m; iS D. m
 Return, lo.o5 a. m.; Sos ?. m.
 A. c. KENDALL, GenI Pass Agent, Boston.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17

Fifteen young Nuors froun Morocco have gone tb naly tb stsdy n ta6 nadlisaav cu8
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17
The Mixer Of Drinks.

This is a busy age and busy country, and people do not want to be given unnecessary trouble through the stupidity of the mixer of their drinks, Just in the middle of good story, or just as the point of an anecdote has been arrived at, the stupid bartender gets the orders mixed and is compelled to ask every body again or serve you something you never thought of ordering He interrupts the com. pany without compunction of conscience, and the company and story are utterly broken up and knocked endwise. He becomes unduly familiar, but nevertheless never fails to for. get the sort of drink you like, never remem. bers your name, gives you vichy instead ot seltzer to mix with your liquor, and in a dozen other ways makes you wish he was a 1000 miles away OF else understood his busi ness-Globe- Democrat
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17
WATERBURY FIRE ALART,
LOCATION or RoxEs,

LOCATION or BOXES. 6-Exchange Place i4-East Main Street and wolcott Road. 1S-cor Cherry and East Main ss-Iron Bridge. West Main ss-Waterbury Brass Go. tprivstea 5-corner Johnson and watervlle se-corner Prospect and Grove S'-Junc- North Main. Grove and North Elm S-cor. Washington and South Main A-waterbury Buckle Co. tprivate, Benedict Burnham Co. tprivate) ss-waterbury Watch Co spriv.te, 3s-Cor. Grand and South Main sis-Coner Meadow and Bank. N4-Coner Meadow and Cedar. s2i-Plume & Atwood Co tprivase, Sss-Holmes. Booth 4 Haydens fprivate, ss4-No. 4. Engine House 4s-Corner Union and Franklin ss-scovill Mfg. Co. tprirate, 4s-Corner Clay and Mill 46-No. Engine House f-corner Dublin and Doolittle AlIer. s-Waterbury Manufacturing Company. priv. F-corner of Doolittle Alley and Dublin st 4-comer Willow. and West Main as5-Coner simon and Burnham Sis
 Policemen have key.
 INSTRUCTIONS To KEY Horpr.. aa To give an alarm, open the door, pun the hool down once and let 70. then close the door Do not pull the hook if the fire bf{l or srn.r h.,, m the box Is striking. as that indicates an alsrM has already been given. Be particular to remain at the box until th. ar will release the key, or if circumsfan 1iIl nrs permit remaining. then the proper oficer win re turn the Key to the holder as soon as conrenient. fire. ~ 'a'e ooA neArest toe Key Holders upon changing their loc.,tons ,rsn please leave word with the Chief Engineer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17

TIE long agony is over, and Lamar IS now Associate Judge of the Supreme Court. The opposition to his confirmation was dying kick of the mulish section of the Re- publican party. It is not credltable rec ord for our friends on the other side. We can understand fighting to the bitter end for great principles-ay, and for persons where great principles are involved; but the idea is abhorrent to us of making an issue dangerous to our reputation before the world on the bitter memories of that fratricidal struggle of a quarter of cen, tury ago. The grass has grown for success sive years over the graves of the heroes in the strife at both sides of the conflict; flowers have blossomed and been strewn over their remains resting side by side in token of restored union and amity of the survivors; hands have been shaken over the ideal bloody chasm ill forgetfulness and forgiveness of the animosities of war; and we had hugged ourselves ill the belief that the begrimed garment, ''the bloody shirt" so often made an agency for revlv- ing the worst of political bad passions had been consigned to oblivion or damned to everlasting infamy But no. The ex- tremists wanted a cry and they raised it over Lamars secession record. They de- sired a sacrificial victim in his person; but happily for the honor of the nation the altar was not needed and more happily for the credit of Republicans the intercepting power came from their own ranks. A ! small number of righteous men would have saved the doomed cities of old; but while the action of the three Republican senators in Lamar's case may be an extenuation of the guilt of the party, there is no power under heaven to restore it to it's old as cendancy There is one ingredient of re- gret in our joy at the result, and that is that the senators of our State, or either of
 them, did not give to Connecticut the sat | isfaction of voting for the National honor
 and against party ittleness.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17

judgment of the contents the superin- tending spirit of MT Thomas F. Me chan, of whom it is enough to say in journalist ic praise that he is his fathers son. The Almanac is on sale in Waterbury by MT Dillon
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17
Kept Busy Explaininc.

A Philadelphia club of lawyers has called itself tue Burlaw, and since 1t became fam ous and moved into fine new club house in Q fashionable part of the city, the members are kept busy explaining that burlaw was sort of Scottish common law whereby dis putes between neighbors were settled ut an assemblage of the people without the delay and expense of litigatio ion.--Ngw York Sun.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17
BRlLllANT9.

A litter thing it is To lose at once the lover and tie love; For who receiveth not may yet keep life In the spirit with bestowal.
 But turn, my soul, and Learn thou the beauty of omniscient care! Be strong in faith, bid anxious thoughts lie sti3; Seek for the good, and cherish it; the i'll Oppose, or bear with submissive will.
 Wordsworth.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-17

OUR Post Office building-if we may so dignify the cobbled up structure or struc lures, doing duty for an extensive mail service-is sadly inadequate to the require ments of the public, and must be as sadly injurious to the comfort and health of the wards, compelled to spend the major part of every day in it's tortuous, confined and ill-ventilated corridors and closets. We have now a population of over 50, OOO- with great and growing industries and commercial interests: and cities and towns of not one third our importance in any of these regards can boast of accommodations in postal matters far superior to ours. A stranger without close and continuous in uuirv cannot discover the whereabouts of the post-office: and even residents find
 difficulty in making way up stairs and
 down stairs and to my lady's chamber.
 Our citizens have been talking over this
 thing for a long time, but as in everything
 else, it is great cry and little wool. Now
 there appears a gleam of promise. MT
 Tarnsey of Michigan introduced bill to
 Congress yesterday for the construction of
 government buildings i'll every city having
 postmaster, the cost to range from S20,-
 900 in places of 10000 inhabitants, S15O,-
 900 in cities of 5O.O0O inhabitants. Per-
 haps in the event of the bill becoming law we might claim with our 30, 900 a mean be- tween the extremes of population stated, and ask for S1O0,000, at least, for Wa terbury Post Office. It is worth thinking about.
 ''THE IRISH AMERICAN ALMANAC for 1888" sent us through the courteous at tention of MT William F. Dillon 34 East Main street is a welcome addition to our books of refe1-
 renee Compiled and published by the proprietors of the pioneer and still
 most prominent of papers on American soil almost exclusively devoted to Irish 1 interests, the Almanac partakes of all the characteristics that have for forty years l distinguished ''The Irish American. :" There is in it all that belongs to the Al
 manac proper in chronological informa- l tion; next, there is n brief record of the l notable events marking every day in the year; and then comes the matter which elevates the publication to the standard of a frst-class magazine, and all Irish at
 that There are Irish historical sketches;
 biographical notes of great Irishmen; Irish fiction and Irish poetry in abundance; in deed the whole is racy of the idea: "Ire- land for the Irish and the Irish for Ire land." Lynch, Cole and Meehan are the publishers; and we notice in the care anu
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-16
rnIlibnitv OF Hmm Judgment.

Yet. after all. isn't it rather q curious
weakness in human beings to care FOR one
anothcr's opinions? Why should Jones
mind what YOU or think Of him or Say Of
him. when you and are almost certain 10
be vrongy Nay, why should he mind
what the majority think Of him, wheE be
majority are usually wrong? what the
cultured minority think Of him, when the
cultured minority are seldom right2 what
an entire generation think OF him. when
the pext generation may reverse the YER
dict?
An accurate history Of criticism, for ex-
annie. would be delightful burlesque
upon the fallibility Of human judgment;
only the historian should owe no fealty to
what was current; lac should stand 50 far
apart from present human thought that
all its most cherished conclusions should
appear TO him only shifting waves il an
ocean Of folly-should recognize that our
moralities may be vices, our vices virtues,
our orthodoxies fOllies, our rascals heroes,
cur masterpieces daubs. our Shakespeares
and Goethes and Nirgils and Danies the
puerilc intelligences that their contem-
poraries mostly believed them to be-
Lppinc0tt 5 Magazine.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-16

According to the bilisol fare preserved
in the city archives at Jena, Goethe was
IN the habit Of dining exceedingly we'll.
He also liked company at dinner, for,
during the period covered by the bills
when he had not one guest with him, lie
had three. He always had four courses.
and sometimes more, Tie dishes Of hls
choice being such as roast beef and roast
pork on the same day; soups with dump
ling, and sirloin with anchovy sauce,
with roasted pigeons and roast mutton
to follow, the di.ner rather # giutton
than Of a poet. For week and moro
lie dined in. this fashion, the bill only
coming 10 little more than GO. IL -
satisfactory TO know that this really
great man could dino well, and was not
a querulous and dyspeptic wreck, though
il is not so pleasant 10 know that tho
poet squabbled with the landlord over
the items, and even went to law with
him on the subject. London Life.