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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-14
Tho Oldest Piece of Iron.

The oldest pieces of wrought iron now known are probably the sickle blade found by Belzoni under the base of a sphinx in Karnac, near Thehes; the blade found by Colonel Vyse. imbedded in the masonry of the great pyramids; the portion of cross tNt saw exhumed at Nimrod by MT. Layard Ill of which are now in the British Mu- scum. A wrought bar of Damascus steel was presented by King Porus to Alexander the Great, and the razor steel of China for many centuries has surpassed all European steel in temper and durability of edge. The Hindoos appear to have made wrought iron directly from the ore, without passing it through the furnace from time immemo- sial, and elaborately- masses of iron are still found fin India which date from the carly centuries of the Christian era.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-14
WASHINGTON EXPRESS.

For Newburgh, Philadelphia. Baltimore and Wa5hingt with Pullman Sleeping Cars 10 42 pm. Boston, 310Sm Wqrceuter, S!iea A Putnam, 310 a m Wiliimantie, 31O am Hartford, 3:10 m; return 9:30 a. Ill., New Britain, 3:10 m; return, 9:4S D. m Danbnry, 1o:42 p m; return, 200 m. Fishkill on Hudson, 10:42 m; return 1920 III.
 A. c. KENDALL. Genl Pass Agent, Boston c E. PLATT, supt., Hartford,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-14
Waterbury Concrete ( Aspha|tum Co,

P. E. PIERCE, SOLE MANAGER. Dealer in General Groceries Liquors, Ales
 Lager and Cigars. store and Ofice 35 Baldwin Street,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-14
Now Is The Time
w. F. YORK
 Furniture and Undertaking.

Un 'ertaking Night Calls answered by w. F. York, 8 Central avenue J. D. Rowe, 143 North E, Kelsey. as Spring street. and the District Tel tgraph office.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-14
NOTICE.

nEPUTY Internal Revenue Collector N. J street. Waterbury, Rooms and 9, from May to H. for the purpose of issuing special U S. inter nal revenue licenses. Office hours from to 12 a.. m, 1:3O te 4 p. m.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
Children Cry for
Pitchers CastoFias
TRY 1t ONCE.

To the man who has tiled every other remedy
for Blood Poison, we commend the following ex-
perence of a well-l1nown woman:
She had Tried EVesything Else
GLOVER BOTTOM, Sullivan County, Tenn, June
Is, 18S7-Btood Balm Co., atlanta, Ga. Sir i
have been thinking of writing to you for some
time to let you know of the wonderful cure your
B. B. B. has effected myself and daughter
She, a girl of l6 years. taken with very sore
leg below the knee. I called on the very best doc
tors that the country could afford and they tend
ed on her for four years TO no purpose. Her leg
got worse every year. / used about 80 bottles OF
other medicines to no purpose. The doctors said
the only remedy left was amputation That we
Janury, 1886, and while buying bill of drugs call
ed for good blood purifier, and Messrs. Sanford
Chamberlain & Co. recommended the B. b. b. /
purchased one-half dozen bottles, and to my ut
girls leg was entirely healed. l also had very
ugly running sore ON the calf of my leg and one
bottle cured it, after having tried all other
dies. l wish you much success and do hope all
suffering humanity may hear and believe in the
only true blood purifier. l have tried three or
four other purifiers, but the B. B. B. is the only
one that ever did me mine any good. You can
use my name if you wish am well known in
ginia. r. S. ELSoM.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26

The custom of sporting" employees is in
dulged in by employers in great many diff
ferent lines of business 1t is now looked
upon as fixed institution, this bureau Of
compulsory honesty" and a ''spotter" is re-
cognized as being engaged in a profession
which can be ennobied and made to COM
mand as much respect as many others. That
an employer of labor has right to guard his
interests by maintaining strict watch over
those intrusted with his affairs cannot be de-
MED. There is however, a new field recently
opened up to the "spotter" in st. Louis. He
is now in much request by the mothers of
daughters about to choose their life partners
Young men who visit the fashionable west
end young ladies for social amusement only,
or with matrimony intent, would do well to
keep their New Year resolutions very strictly.
If they walk not uprightly they are apt to
meet very cold reception some evening
from the parents of the fair Lucindas. They
are watched day and night, and every breach
of what is considered ''propriety" in young
man is diligently reported. The matri-
monial ''spotter' is well rewarded, and one
who has followed it for some time and is
well known has made a snug sum out of it.
Women are not successful in this line, how
ever.-Mrs. Thomas O'Shea in Globe-Demo-
orof,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
...oney for Moneys Sake.

the late Dick Hopple whose wealth was
counted up into the millions, was an ardent
lover Of money for moneys sake He didn't
accumulate it with the intention of buvine
pleasure with it, neither did he ever, with a
miser's motive for boarding, deny himself the
necessities Of life. He always had for him
self the best, and always lived like a gentle
man that he was, every inch of him. Still
he loved to accumulate for, the sake of ac-
emulation When he died an old tin box al
most as big as a Saratoga trunk was among
his goods and chattels in the safe deposit
department Of the Lafayette bank. 1t
was not filled with bulky plate and other
Hopple heirlooms, neither were there any
old clothes in it. There were deeds, plenty
of them, a few mortgages, some bonds, a
good deal of shining gold and tho rest of tho
filling was greenbacks Of denominations that
were large. 1t had been the custom of the
old gentlemen for years whenever he had
$1,000 in change to buy $1,000 greenback
with it and put it in the tin box The
law, it will be remembered, does not allow
greenbacks to be taxed. This money so hid
away did not increase in value, did not earn
anything, did not in any possible way bene-
fit the world. But hold! 1t did benefit the
world a little. The knowledge that it was
safe in the old tin box made one man happy.
and that man was Dick Hopple. That was
something. Cincinnati Times-Star.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
The Last and Greatest Discovery
Mono ELENEITIL ELECTRICITY!

Natures simple but potent Of increasing and neng to
maximum-the forcc-the us noedioatrlG naturae
the human body absolutely the be
ginning and progress of disease and to DEATH
To disease the force that caused it needs only to be reversed
The electrical condition the human body nfaby controlled by the
ELECTROPOSE The and treatment absolutely Safe Our persons
apartments protected absolutely against epidemic contagious
or infectious disease
by electrical conditions necessary its
stence.
The recovery any part already destroyed at most but question
Of time
sudues any kind asmatc zmoc aumatc naamma
tory.
Natures be Of curing every formidable form dis
easespeciay Group Dher scroua Cancer Consumption Epidemic
Typhus Typhoid Yellow Fever Plague Coafodn the happy
Coughs sore-throa Dropy Neuralgia Rheumatism Bon
chi Peur Pneumonia; Ch Insomnia Coma Darrhaa Constpa
Govt ac Night swe WhoPng Cough Measles Scarlet Fever
Smallpox Atony Cramps Asthma Caasy Paralysis Epilepsy disease OF
tie Brain and Spinal Cord Heart Liver Stomach Bowels Kidneys Spleen
Bladder &C., &c.
Cases Abandoned by Physicians, Speciality
Alcoholism Opium Habit Urema Nacosm and other
dcns removed and replaced by HEALTH and REFORMATION
The EIectropoise is Never Sold But Rented.
For Week. $3.50; For Month"; $780, For Three Months, SIS;
For a Year $50.
Apply to JOHN ~ WEBB or S. H. OWENS, Agt,
G. ST. Washinuon D C.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
A .JekyII-Hyde Character Possible

A DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde character is
not inconsistent. man may be revengeful
and at times even murderous, having all the
baser propensities in a great degree To fit
the character he must have the intellectualfac-
ulties surprisingly powerful. He can have the
money making faculty fully developed. But
he must have cunning, will power and vanity.
He must have the cunning to cover up the
lava fires after secret eruptions. He n1ust
have supreme will power to accomplish his
designs But vanity or love of praise OF fear
Of blame is the supre1nest feeling through his
career. It can infict more mental agony
than outraged conscience or excite more self
sh pleasure than any other faculty, sent
nle1t OF propensity. If it lie dormant be-
cause OF moments interpretive thought,
conscience, If active, stealthily sends in the
wan specter of renorse. So having the cum
ming to cover up the results of hereditary
british propensities, and vanity impellinc
him to guard the honorable position in So
ciety achieved by hisintellectual attachments
he lives essentially dual life. Only when
the will power loses its governing force does
the man Of honor become the brute-the DR..
Jekyll become the Mr.. Hyde.-Boston Globe.
Professor Mark D. Harrington, director of
the Michigan university observatory, says
the highest clouds he sees there are but three
miles and half high.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
Origin of the Great Lakes.

Mr.. A. T. Drummond, a Canadian geologlst,
has recently published an interesting paper
on tho origin of the great lakes OF North
America 1t has been the opinion of most
biologists that these lakes were formed by
glacial action, view which seemed to find
confederation in the fact that very large
amount of debris apparently worn from the
basins occupied by these sheets of water lies
on the country to the south of their borders
in positions where it could only have been
brought by ice action. Mr.. Drummond holds
that glaciers had not much effect in eroding
the lake basins proper, or in shaping their
present outline. He furthermore holds to
the conclusions that Lake Superior is the
most ancient basin of this chain, and that it
was formed in the Cambrian and Huronian
times, l. e., in the earlier stages of the earth's
history. He regards it in part due to down
folding of the rocks, as in the trough of
mountain valley, but that much of the detail
of its shape was due to long continued vol
canic action, which has clearly occurred about
its borders.
Michigan, Huron and Ontario he considers
to have been low areas on the path of an an
Gent river which existed before the glacial
period, the basin like character of the coun-
try having been given by the relatively re-
cent warnings in the surface of the country.
Erie and st. Clair he regards as the last
formed of the lakes, these basins also being
due to warnings in the rocks about them,
which created barriers across the original out
lets of the valleys.
There is no question that Mr.. Drummondhs
explanation of the lakes shows that the cir
cumstances of their formation were more
complicated than is commonly supposed by
biologists. Itdoes not appear, however, that
he has given quite sufficient weight to glacial
action or to the processes of solution by which
the waters of such great lakes extend their
shore lines. A large part of the rocks about
these basins other than Lake Superior are
Of liny nature, and in parts more or less
charged with saline materials, all of which
readily pass into solution and go away to the
sea. This dissolving process is of more i'm
portance in fresh water basins than in the
seas. The sea water is already so far charged
with mineral matter held in solution that it
cannot readily dissolve the rocks with which
it comes in contact. Where, however, fresh
water basins have their shores in contact with
rocks containing considerable quantity Of
lime they readily and rapidly extend their
margins by this process Of decay.-Boston
Herald.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
Actors Must Work.

There is no profession or calling in life
where the beginner meets with the early re-
bluffs that fall to the lot of the actor or act
ress Reputation is indeed a rare prize in
the profession, for managers havo not only a
clearly defined dread, but a horror of anna
tours. True there must be beginning in
any calling, but the principal difficulty lies
in the fact that many people wait until they
have passed the age where they would want
to begin an apprenticeship, and hope to start
half way up the ladder. A few such sue
coed but the majority fail, while those who
begin at the bottom devote their life to their
calling and their time to study, think first of
fitness and afterward of fame and fortune,
usually attain the success they SO earnestly
crave. Merit and capability are necessary
good appearance is a great help, but only
those who are willing to work, and work
hard, can hope to eventually succeed.-John
W. Norton in Globe-Democrat.
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Wanted TT All.

Alta popular Monroe street restaurant the
other day there were gathered around a
table a party of railroad men, and as their
natural allies four coal dealers. They had
dined well, and as the cigars were lighted the
waiter brought on some finger bowls A few
moments after they had left the place clay"
who sat at a table near them called for his
check, and after looking at it a minute, said
to the waiter, II want one O. them wash
bowls" The waiter was astonished 'tWhats
that, sir?" he asked. II want one O them
wash bowls, I say, and you be burned quick
about it" was the response. Not quite under
standing what the fellow wanted the waiter
summoned the proprietor, who asked the
queer customer what he wanted or what was
wrong. "WaD. you see, you gave them fell
lers over there lot of glass wash bowls, and,
by gosh, guess I'm as good as they are, an
l want one, too" He was served without
delay.-Chicago Herald.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
THE PROFESSIONAL ESCORT.
HIen Who Make Business of Attendn
Ladies to and from the Theatre.

Men Who Make a Business of Attending
Ladies to and from the Theatre.
New York is big city, and there are a
good many ways of making a living in it,
honest and dishonest. One Of the queer,
though honest, ways is set forth in an adver-
tisement, of which the following is copy,
a,id which appears regularly in the metropoi-
itan dailies:
Gentleman of good appearance and social po-
sition, pecuniariy embarrassed will escort Ia
dies to theatres parties, etc., for consideration
Address A B., box a. - office.
ga queer business.'' the reader will say
Probably it is. But those who are in posi-
ton to know say it is a profitable one, and
one in which a number of persons are engaged
with very fair results to themselves. 1t is a
business, too, that requires little capital. A
dress suit is one essential Beyond this moth
ing is required save enough money to pay
barber bills. With this outfit men of good
manners and fair address manage to exc out
very comfortable existence.
In a general way this business is not en-
tireIy new. The advertisement above merely
sets forth new phase of it. New York is a
fairly well civilized city, but as rule ladies
do not care to walk on its streets alone late
at night. 1t was this that led to the intro
duction of the system of professional escorts.
Ladies who wished to attend theatres alone
would secure the service of messenger boy
who would attend them to and from the
theatre.
Then there was another sort of professional
escort. Many of the large merchants outside
of New York employ ladies to do their buy
ing in New York Of goods for ladies' wear.
1t has long been customary for New York
houses that sell goods to these buyers to de
tail some of their male employees of good
manners and address to escort the lady buy
ers from the country to the theatre or the
opera, the house, of course, footing tho bill.
It was purely matter of business, this-as
all professional escorting is. 1t was this sys-
TEN, probably, that led to independent pro
fessional escorts. There are number OF
them in New York now Almost any even
ing YOU will see at Days or at Harrigan's
theatre, or where Uncle Josh Whitcomb holds
forth, nightly, ladies who seem to be de
lighted with the performances while their es
corts seem to take not the slightest interest IL
anything that is going on. Nor Will you be
able to note between them any of the famil-
iarity that you might notice between man
and his wife or even a young man and bis
best girl at the play. The gentleman is polite
and reserved. The lady is interested in the
play and pays no attention to her escort
Such case, however, is one in which the
professional escort figures. Theatre ushers
say they can pick the professional escort out
without any trouble. He bears upon him
the marks of the trade But he is well
dressed and well fed-New York Mail and
Express.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
BUFFALO BILL AS A SWELL.
His Experience I'm C1awhammer Worse
Than Fighting Indians.

His Experience in a Clawhammer Worse
Than Fighting Indians.
met Buffalo Bill last night at the corner.
He was entertaining crowd of jolly fellows
by relating his experiences in the wild east. 1t
was not exactly the east either, but it was
east to him. He told of being with Sheridan
during the war; On his return he was in
vited to visit the general at Chicago. He
was in the Garden City two or three days as
the generals guest, and was asked to attend
society ball. 1t became whispered around
that Gen. Sheridan and his scout were to be
present, and society was delighted with the
idea Of meeting the terror Of the west.
On the afternoon preceding the society
event Mike Sheridan asked Buffalo Bill if he
had brought his full dress suit with him.
This staggered the man of the plains, and he
said he guessed he couldn't attend the ball.
The generals brother rented an evening suit
from a furnishing house, and Buffalo Bill got
into it and started for the ball. II was never
in such a sweat in my life,n said William as
The Herald man hid his note book and as
sumed an intelligent look; II would rather
have plunged into forty Indian battles than
to have entered that ball room. l felt I'M
comfortable, but 1 went in with the generals
brother. was introduced to about one hun
dred ladies and the same number Of gentle
men. My pants-or rather the pants which
Mike Sheridan had rented for me-were ter
ribly tight, as were also my gloves, which
came through the same channel did not
know which garment would break first, but
fortunately neither did. Ihad one dance, and
this was at the solicitation of lady who was
DESTROYS of dancing with cowboy. got on
the floor with her, and the music started. I
was waiting for some one to call off, but there
was no call, as I had been accustomed to.
never had such dreadful time. After I got
through with the dance started for the door,
and put in the rest of the night at the nearest
saloon, where had racket with the settler
had changed my clothes, you know, and had
neglected to change the contents of my
pockets hadn't a cent, and the barkeeper
or, as l called him then, the settler, saw me
there in full dress and asked me what would
have. I told him whisky, and then he kicked
because did not offer to pay him for it.
Mike came in shortly afterward and fixed it
with the barman. Before this I was on nv
good behavior, as the general had told me
that he wanted to show people that his scout
was a gentleman That was all 1 wanted
with full dress evening balls, and I was my
self again when disrobed of those rented
clothes. Omaha Herald.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
Blood faint From Birth.

BOoNvILLE, IND, January %, 1887.
shall ever praise the day that you gentlemen
were born, and shall bless the day that your med
icine was known to me. had blood poison from
birth, and so much so that all the doctors of my
town said would be crippled for life They said
l would lose my lower limb. l could not stand
in my class to recite my lesson, and eleven bot
ties of your Balm cured me sound and well. You
can use my name as you see fit. In my case, there
were knots on my shinbones as large as a hen Is
egg.
Yours, MIRTLE NJ. TANNER.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
SelHshnesS of Man.

Have you ever observed how many men
there are that occupy the corner seat in a
street car in such a cross cut manner as to
take up double room? 1t is a common, and
perhaps a thoughtless act, but it is one that
always suggests selishness. The victim to
the habit takes possession of his favorite place,
leans back very comfortably in the corner
nook, twists his legs around until they are
in the easiest position, and quietly defes all
efforts to be ''scrouged" straight. And yet
he is the first to growl about ladies, whose
dress forces them to fill more space than
would the average man.-St. Louis Republic
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
How Men Die

If we know all the methods of approach adopted
by an enemy we are the better enabled to ward
off the danger and postpone the moment when
surrender becomes inevitable. In many instances
the inherent strength of the body suffices tc
enable it to oppose the tendency toward death
Many, however, have lost these forces to such al
extent that there is little or no help. In Other
cases a little aid to the weakened lungs will make
all the difference between sudden death and
many years of useful life. Upon the first symp-
toms of a Cough, Cold, or any trouble OF the
Throat or Lungs, give that old and well-known
remedy Boschee's German Syrup-a careful trial
1t will prove, what thousands say of it, to be the
"benefactor of any home"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-04-26
Hawkes. Wonderful Glasses

AS read.Mr. Hawkes. testimonials from
Governors, Senators, Legislators, men of science
and distinguished citizens throughout the United
States who testified to having had their eyes i'm
proved, and sometimes restored, by the of his
celebrated glasses, realize that glass that will
reflect such briliancy of light as to enable the
wearer to see as in youth, and to read by candle
other artificial light, surely is to be desired by
all spectacle wearers.
All eyes fitted and fit guaranteed by
mar 15-4t. p. I. Allen, Staunton, Va;
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CONNECTIONS.

CONNECTIONS.
Train No. 40 connects at Harpers Ferry with
Fast Limited Express Trains leaving at 1913 p. n.
arriving at Cincinnati at 7:45 M, st. Louis at
$50 p. M, and Chicago at $40 p. m.
With train leaving at 1910 p. IN. arriving at
Pittsburg at $40 a. M, and at Chicago $40 m.
Also with train leaving at 1851 a. NJ, arriving at
Cincinnati al $50 p. M, st. Louis at 200 a. m.
Connects at Weverton with train arriving at
Hagerstown at $50 p. m. and at Washington
Junction with train arriving at Frederick at 800
p. IN.
B. & o. Palace Sleeping cars run through to
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, st. Louis, Columbus and
Chicago. All Fast Express Trains through
to above points without change of cars.
For tickets and further information apply to b.
& o. Agents, or to
c. E. DUDROW, Travl'g Pass. Agt.
Staunton, Va.
CHAS. o. SCULL,
General Passenger Agent.
w. NJ. CLEMENTS,
General Manager.
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VINO IS our Best TTGTu
Your stomach of course. Why? Because if it
is out of order you are one of the most misera BILE
creatures living. Give it a fair, honorable
chance and see if it is not the best friend you
have in the end Don't smoke in the morning.
If you must smoke and drink wait until your
stomach is through with breakfast. You can
drink more and smoke more in the evening and
it will tell you less. If your food ferments and
does not digest right-if you are troubled with
Heartburn, Dizziness of the head, coming up OF
the food after eating, Biiousness, Indigestion
or any other trouble of the stomach, you had
best use 'Greens August Flower as no person
an use it without Immediate relief