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DENTISTRY.
ATTORNEYS.

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THE PIANO EXCHANGE wARERooMs

INOR SALE-ENCYCLOPEDIAS. JAMES PARTON,
Il the celebrated historian and biographer gays that
in house where there placed of ATpetons
Cycopedia 1t is like sending the whole family 10 col
once on small monthly payments W addressing Box
1913. Star office. d2A-tomhl
Il choice new, and clean Also, Geese Feathers. Mat
tresses, &c; lowest PRICES; Orders by mail and
Otherwise. Delivered. ALBERT SEITZ, 6}s st.
ne. dow
LrOR SALE-CHEAP-A GOOD COUPE HORSE
Il Brewster LandAuette and Harness. Apply 603
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H Oh DALI
i The following bargains in Secondhand Carri-
ages: Two squareront Broughans latest style. used
only one season and as good as new one extension
front Brougham, used only three mouths; = very
stylish carriage and in perfect order One round
Coupe with childs seat One oct eOn. falling 'front.'
Landaulett, pole and shafts, made by Brewster Co.
Cne falling roundabout Landaulett pole nd shafts
made by Demarest * Co. One round stationary Lam
dauiett by Brewster Co., pole and shafts One good
blue trimmed Broughan, little old style, but in
cellent order: only recently done very cheap One
very stylish Tea Cart pole and shafts One side-bar
Brewster Buggy. Also, several other very good
second hand vehicles for sale at reasonable prices
sidering tue quality OF the work offered.
ANDhEW J. JOYCE
d2O-ow Corner l4th and sits. w.
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nIobllizatIon Of tho t,erman Ar,nv

IL is In the arrangements for mobilization
that the German army is wonderfully per-
feet. The modus operandi is as follows:
The active army is divided into eighteen
army corps, each occupying particular dis.
trict and consisting of about 2S, 1000 men.
sfho general commanding the corps is re-
sponsible for its mobilization, and has in the
stores, the clothing, arms and equipment Of
the reseryists and landwehr men, The de-
tails, however, are in the hands of the rail-
road authorities and the police bureaus.
Each soittter ON quitting tho uctfve army re-
ports himself to the bureau of police in his
district, where his name, age, regiment and
destination on mobilization are inscribed.
From this data the police bureau furnishes
the local railroad authorities with the num-
Der of trains required and their direction.
Suppose, now, the telegram for mobiliza-
ton should be received. Each man there
upon presents himself ut once at the police
bureau and receives his pass for the journey,
goes to the railroad station and is sent Off
Immediately to the headquarters of his regi-
ment. Arrived there, arms and clothing are
served out, the officers appear, take com
mand OF their companies and regiments and
in twenty-four hours an army Of 500 900 men
israised to 100000 and in three days can DO
placed on the frontier with all its parts COM
plete save, of course,s the mounted arms,
which require three more days to be made
ready on account of the necessity Of requisi-
tioning the horses Gordon Smith In Phila-
delphia Times
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-05-23

Die sinking is carried on TO a large extent
in New York, and the work turned out from
the various establishments is already ac-
knowledged in the market TO be of the very
highest order, The material from which the
dies are usually made, either brass or steel, is
first turned into the desired shape in lathe.
Steel has to be submitted to a certain process
called annealing, by which il becomes soft
and pliable The letters or figures, as the
case may be, are then traced on the metal,
aiser which the graveur is brought into play.
This tool must be highly tempered, or else
1t will fail to do the work marked out for
It on the steel plate The artist who attempts
die sinking must needs be temperate in his
habits, as q steady hand and clear eyesight
are two necessary requisites, should success
be the object to be attained. The cutting of
the various letters and designs cannot be
rushed, as the artist must work slowly to OBJ
tain accuracy.
Dies are used for medals, rubber stamps,
seal presses, wax and notary seals, ribbon
stamps, stencil alphabets and various other
necessaries of mercantile use. Many of the
steel dies cut for medals bring high price,
and when any sort of a fine piece of work is
turned out the die usually brings as much as
$50. The greatest number of dies nowadays
are used in the cutting Of rubber stamps,
and, although bringing fair price, not
many duplicate orders are received, as the
metal will wear lifetime, should it not meet
with q mishap or the style change, which Is
sometimes the ease.--New York Mail and Ex-
nfeea
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OYSTER sharps In Congress-.

The oyster is Washington's most popular
food. 1t is great favorfte among public
men. To most of them the fresh, juicy oys-
ter of Washington is novelty The west
erners and the members from the interior of
the south, speaking generally, never saw an
oyster in any shell except that made of tin
until they came to the capital. Their stay
here always kills their taste for canned oys-
tiers. For three hours in the middle of every
day the two restaurants at the Capitol arc
crowded with members and senators, stand
ing or sitting before heaps of Lynn Ravens
and Blue Points.
A few months after the beginning Of his
term in congress and in oyster eating the
back country member becomes extremely
particular about the nativity and freshness
Of the bivalves set before him. He likes to
have a wondering and admiring listener on
such'occasions, a constituent in a state of
primitive greenness on the oyster subject.
Some of the congressional walters, always
decorous and patient, have to provide them
selves with large sleeves in which to hide the
laughter that such experiences inevitably
excite. 1t is a fad like unto that adopted by
an occasional callow shipper snapper who
questions and discusses the wines that were
born a century before he was. - Boston
Glo1m
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There is current among the peasants of
Bavaria a legend that the long life Of Kaiser
Wilhelm was due TO a mysterious philter Of
which his imperial majesty alone possessed
the secret How the emperor obtained tho
magic beverage is not known. II was said
to be a kind Of spirit which, IL IL did not give
him Immortality, would enable him TO live
many years more, and supply him with
sufficient bodily and mental power to retain
the government of his vast empire in his
own hands
The legend furthermore states that the
German sovereign condescended to make a
present Of a few drops Of the charmed liquid
TO Marshal Moltke and Prince Bismarck,
hence also their respectable age; but strange
to say, he declined to give any of il to the
crown prince, because he feared his heir
would make use Of his health, restored by
the philter, TO force him TO abdicate. Several
crowned heads have, 1t appears, applied to
the emperor for his wonderful secret, but
in vain. The car, in particular, prayed for
some OF the spirit, and it was the refusal of
the kaiser TO oblige him which was the real
cause of the present conflict between Russia
and Germany. York Tribune
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Sensational fiction writer's of the better
class are having their day, and a pretty big
day, too, IL seems Not only are the daily
papers encouraging them, but also the liter
airy weeklies, and even the monthly maga4
zines which assume high dignity. The fact
is recognized that sensationalism-that is to
say, stirring incident, adventure and excite
mentr-ispopular, and that it Is popularity
which pays. The bear story and Indian tale
have invaded the columns of periodicals of
the high class devoted to yonng people, and
it is found that while these may not teach as
much morality as tame fictions about good
and bad little boys and girls, they meet
much greater public demand, and that Is
what the publishers eye is riveted upon
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
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Great Loss of Force.

In paper recently read before one of the
English associations of engineers, the writer
asserted that, according to present methods
OF dealing with the motive power of the
steam engine, only some 20 per cent. was
made available, 80 per cent. Of the energy
developed in the furnace being thrown away,
and it is quito common TO realize no greater
efficiency than about per cent. on the gross
or potential energy Of the fuel In large fac
tories, that amt of the power being concen-
trated In one or two great machines, conden-
sation can be taken advantage Of, and, with
water heaters, and other appliances, double
the above figures realized--but In the very
best engines, with all the latest improve
ments and elaborations, not more than 1215
per cent. has ever been realized, nor is ii pos
slble to realize more, and even this f211 per
cent. can only he obtained by the finest of
wire drawing and the best of coal.--Nrw
York Sun
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What Was Said of Him.
OF Jones, the n1iser, it was said,
When Death cut his LIES thread:
He never tired OF doing good,
For good he never did.
Boston Courier.


The frequency of unaccountable deaths
and the spread of deadly diseases has been
a puzzle to sanitarians. A drop of solder in
a can of fruit will cause the sickness and per-
haps the death Of the family which has par
taken of it. But there is danger compare
lively new that threatens many. The expense
of the common cork used as stopper for
bottles has induced many TO substitute for it
a plug of rubber, which is in no way deleteri-
Gus if it is pure, but to make cork cheaper
still WOODEN fiber, or rags, mixed with black
lead and then saturated with hot asphaltum
has been substituted for the rubber. An ex-
animation of this fiber with microscope
has been made, and it is found TO contain
blood. pus and deadly virus, showing that
the material out of which it is made is the
cast off clothing from hospitals, quarantine
and similar places. The black lead is in itself
a virulent poison, but even that is not the
worst of it. The fluid contents of the bottle
dissolves the blood, pus and other deflement
of the cloth, which are taken into the system
In drinking. Chicago News.
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STRANGE sysrga or SIGNS.
How Convicts Communicate In Spite of
Close surveillance--An Example.

How Convicts Communicate In Spite OF
Close surveillance--An Example.
Incidents that must necessarily follow from
intercommunication often happen in peni-
tentiaries, where the rules are rigid and sur
VIGILANCE so close that a convict is never
from under the eye Of guard or taslsmas-
ter. No matter to what extreme the rule
prohibiting conversation between convicts
may be enforced, they find some means by
which to inform themselves Of what is going
on or what is to occur. But, more than this,
a convict may conceive the idea of escape or
revolt, and for him to communicate it to
one he wishes to have as an accomplice is not
difficult They bring others into the plot or
plan until twenty or thirty know it, in the
details for the carrying out of which each is
assigned his particular part. This necessi-
tates thorough explanation of the minuti@
and calls for a system of communication for
which limited use of signs would not an
swer.
The system, whatever it is, involves no
doubt an elaboration of signs, aided when
ever chance offers the means by written COM
munication. The secret use of the latter
means for expressing ideas and purposes will
not account for the completeness of informa-
ton convicts obtain OF what takes place in
prison walls, for, whether anything occurs in
the office or the most distant part of the pri-
son, within fifteen minutes there is not con-
vict who does not know all about it, Peni-
tentiary officials have tried again and again
to obtain even clew to the system, but they
are no nearer solution than when they first
began to investigate the matter. They know
there is a system, and that it rests on signs,
but whether on those made with fingers, eyes
and lips, or the bringing into play Of other
features, or whether it depends on all to-
gether, they do not know Prisoners, to
curry favor with the officials, often tell them
what they have learned from other convicts.
They go TO especial trouble at times in expos
Ing plots, and are ready to reveal everything
except the means by which they learned the
facts. No convict has yet given the slightest
suggestion which would lead to the discovery
of the secret that has deaed the shrewdest de-
tectives.
~ have seen,n said an ex-prison official,
"two convicts, six feet apart, facing each
other They did not utter word, nor could
discern the slightest movement of the lips
or eyes, yet knew they were communicate
ing something. They gazed at each other for
a minute or two before | had chance to in
terfere, but am satisfied that one told the
other all he wished to tell Three or four of
them will be standing around stove or to-
gether in other places of the prison, and yet
with sufficient distance between them to lead
one to think that they have nothing in COM
mon, but while there is not the least sign of
conversation observable they are talking to
each other in their own way. n-Indianapolis
Journal
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STEWART AND VANDERBILT.
Two Anecdotes Showing the Economical
Turn OF the Noted nfiIItonnires.

Turn of the Noted Mtiltonnfres.
Many persons who marvel at the wonder
full accumulation of money possessed by some
of their fellow citizens do not reflect upon
the fact that these Accommodations are often
due to close economy in expenditure. A re-
porter lately came across two extraordinary
instances of economy on the part of two
millionaires, the late Alexander T. Stewart
and the late William H. Vanderbilt
81 shaved Mr.. Stewart" said Fifth ave-
nue. hotel barber, ''for fifteen years steadily,
when he was patron of the Metropolitan
hesel harhershep. II all that time he never
once thought of presenting gratuity. He
paid the same price that any other man would
for shave or a hair cut, and that was the end
of IL. IL was even more the custom then
than now for regular patrons to tip their
regular BARRIERS once in while, and particu-
larly ON Christmas or New Years. There
fore, Mr.. Stewards omission was all the more
singular.
Zone afternoon, some years ago, Mr.. Stew
art dropped into the hotel barber shop and
while he was in the chair a severe snow
storm came up. 1 advised him, as he had
been quite i'll for some time, it would be adj
visable for him to take coupe home. /
went out to the bar and asked cabman
Mr.. Stewart home. They all knew that there
was no use asking a fancy price from him,
and so was told that could get coupe
for him for S1.25. went back and reported
Too much-too much he said sharply. Il
can't afford any such price. Twill ride home
in stage first, and that will only be ten
cents and so he did,
This anecdote about Mr. Vanderbilt's care
Of money came from porter of the Manhat-
tan Beach hotel: "The summer before last,
he said, 81 was called to the office one after
noon, and told by the clerk that Mr.. William
II. Vanderbilt was in the house, and that he
had mislaid his travelling bag. was told to
find it, if possible. started out full OF
dreams OF sudden wealth. went by rail to
Bay Ridge, paying my own fare, and found
that the bag was not there. Then paid an
other fare to New York, and searched all
over the landing at the Battery. The bag was
not to be found.
Then paid another fare and went down TO
the island, and went over into the Oriental
hotel, and there l found the bag. 1t had been
taken to that hotel by mistake. brushed my
self up, busted Off the bag and carried it to MIR.
Vanderbilts room, knocked gently and was
told to come in, and presented the bag with
a great flourish, and expected, Of course, chat
should at least get $40 bill, as l was out
from $i.s5 to $3.50 and several hours of
searching, He said quickly: Thanks, por-
ter; am glad got it, and, opening the bag
to see If the contents were all right, revealed
the fact that there was only single shirt In
it, Then he snapped the bag shut, dived into
his trousers pocket and fished out quarter,
by all that is holy. left that room in
hurry, and you could have knocked me down
with feather when got out into the hall"
New York Sun.
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A curious superstition was brought out
during the performance of the marriage cere-
mony in a Justices Office in Omaha. The
magistrate had commanded the contracting
parties TO stand before him. and was about
to begin the ceremony when a woman rushed
in and ordered the judge to stop moment.
The women, who proved to be the brides
mother, looked at the carpet ON the floor, and
said: Judge, / am a little superstitious.
Which way do the cracks run in this floorF'
This was puzzler for the Judge; but, being
of an accommodating spirit, he ripped up
about two yards OF the carpet beneath his
feet and found that the seams Of the floor
ran crosswise Of the feet Of the yonng couple
he was about TO unite. The position Of the
bride and groom was changed. The old lady
gave sigh of relief and the ceremony pro
ceeded. New York Commercial Advertiser.
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Mime. Blanc lives quietly with her mother,
and Is seldom seen except at one or two re-
captions
Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, Ia a SUI
perbly beautiful woman, with wealth Of
chestnut hair.
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton will pres
emily return from Washington to Boston
and then sail for Europe.
A distinguished negro belle Of Port. au
Prince, Hayti, has married brother of
William Black, the novelist
The medical attendant of the queen OF
Corea Is an American woman physician, who
receives a salary Of $4,000 a year.
Queen Victoria offers to sell her villa al
Baden-B Baden for e10, 900, reserying "a square
metre OF ground" whereon TO erect memo
rial Of her ownership.
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Soldiers in tho Russian army are said to be
cured OF intemperance by a curious and
heroic method. The inebriate Is locked up,
and given only food boiled in his favorite
wretched spirit and water. He soon becomes
horribly sick, but is kept on this diet until
the very sight or scent of spirit creates in
him an inextinguishable loathing for it,
Arkansaw Traveller
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.Iannn.a I.arnest paner.

The largest and most influential newspaper
In Japan, The Nichi Nichi shumbun, or
10000 copies daily. Its columns are filed
almost entirely with short stories and politi-
cal essays, with very little, il any, news mat
ter.--New York World.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-05-23

China now furnishes a third only Of the
tea used in England. India furnishes the
greater part
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Speak the truth, but without offense.
Should this be too dsagreeable. be Silent;
but tell no pleasant lies.
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Tha Last Hnlf Centnrx.

Men of science who live today have almost
created new world. To go back fifty years
Is to go back to the slow processes Of thought
and labor, that in this rushing time seem in
comparably tedious and slow. The last half
century has witnessed the greatest OF Amer
lean inventions-the mower and reaper, the
rotary printing press, the sewing machine,
the India rubber industry, the horse shoe ma
chine, the sand blast for carving, the grain
elevator, the gauge lathe, the telephone, the
electric magnet. Strip the world of these
today and how greatly progress would be re-
tarded l--Albany journal
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Airs oIaast0ne eInpIOys hom0epathio phy-

Mrs. Gladstone employs homeopathic ply
sicians and remedies.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe walks from
Eve TO seven miles day.
Mrs. Lille Devereaux Blake thinks women
would make good soldiers
The widow Of the late Chief Justice Waite
viii live In Cincinnati with her son.
Julia FolviIle, Of Belgium, is soon TO be
brought out as a rival TO Josef Holman.
Nine. Durand Henry Greyille) Is squat,
has an almost clumsy face, and Is clumsy.
President Eliot, Of Harvard, says that
women should never lecture to young men.
Mrs. Mary Read Goodals Is one Of the
most successful temperance workers In the
south.
Miss Virginia u. Holiday, Of Carroll, Nd,
has been granted patent for a bonnet
holder.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-05-23

Cen Fremont's advice TO an Office seeker Is
to 'shut his mouth and throw away his rem