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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-04-25
A Wsmen Should Weigh.

According to this table, prepared
a distinguished anatomist,
If 5 feet in height, 100 pounds,
Ifs feet inch, LOG pounds.
If,5 feet 2 inches, l1S pounds.
Ifz5 feet 8 inches, 119 pounds.
If s feet 4 inches, 1870 pounds.
II 5 feet s inches, 1888 pounds.
II 5 feet 6 inches, IA pounds.
If 5 feet z inches, $50 pounds.
If . feet s inches, l55 pounds.
II 5 feet 9 inches. l62 pounds.
II 5 feet 10 inches 1863 pounds.
H5 feet IL inches, 176 pounds.
If 6 feet, 1s0 pounds.
II 6 feet l inch, 1856 pounns.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-04-25

sLEEPLEss NIGHTS, made mis-
cradle by that terrible cough. Shi.
loh's Cure is the Remedy for you.
For sale by Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-04-25

WILL YOU SUFFER with Dyspep-
sia and Liver Complain? Shiloh's
Vitalizer is guaranteed to cure you.
For sale by NJ "A. Mcfarland.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-04-25

Weak will power deranges mans
life in every direction. His will must
be weak when his body is wasting
away with rackinE coughs and nightly
s1eats
Warmers Log Cabin COUGH AND
- CONSUMPTION REMEDY
is conquerer Of the malady we all
dread, and restores the victim to
health and power.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-04-25
Waruer's Log cabin sarsaparilla

Hops and Buchu Remedy" Cough
and Consumption Remedy" Hair
Tonic" Extract" for External and
Internal Use, Plasters,' "Rose
Cream" for Catarrh,. and Liver
Pills" They are put up by H, H
Warner & Co., proprietors OF Warmers
Sale Remedies, and promise to equal
the standard value Of those prepara
tions. All druggists keep them.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-04-25

Warmers Log Cabin Remedies--old-
fashioned, simple compounds, used in
the days of our hardy forefathers, are
"old timers but" old reliable" They
com nrisa a
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
ORElGN FIELDS OF LABOR.

THE silk crop of Japan is increasing every year.
 FARM hands in France earn a little over @ dollar Q week and manage to save out of 1t.
 THE Russian cities carpenters earn four dollars to six dollars 6 week and consider themselves well of if they average five dol lars a week all round.
 THERE is revival of 8 species of hand embroidery known as "aowering" in the North of Ireland. Formerly it was prac- ticed largely, but ''sweaters" or middlemen droee it out of the country by paying star vation wages. Some of these middlemen are now rich men.
 EXCEPT tradesmen or people who have some live profession or employment no one Is made welcome in Australia from other countries. The large section of people known as "clerks," from people who can merely read, write and cipher, up to expe- rienced book-keepers, are not wanted at all.
 THERE are over 100, 900 idle people in Lon- don every day in the year and more than 300, 900 who live from hand to mouth and get an occasional job. Many of the deni- zens of the prisons steal some trifie out of sheer starvation in order to get themselves arrested, that theymay have food.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
An Old Yarn Revamped.

A party Of four Sacramento anglers went up the river the other day to catch some fish. They agreed that whenever one should land fish each of the others should pay him a quarter. One of the quartet was especially unlucky in his piscatorial vent ure. and was soon out of pocket $42 25 and down to his last quarter. He wanted to break up the compact, but the others wouldn't let him. Just then he stole one of the fishes caught by another of the par ty, slipped it upon his hook and into the water. He soon landed it with great deal of splutter and noise. and received six bits When the others were not looking he re- placed 1t on his hook and again went through the act of landing fish. He man. If the crowd.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06

verdict will be given at the polls next year, and it will be one of most em- phatic disapproval of the republican policy.
 There is not the shadow of excuse for unseating Congressman-elect Price, and it is somewhat to the credit of Mir Minor, the defeated candidate, that he announces he will not be party to any such scheme. He knows, if the republi- can organs do not, that MT Price was fairly and honestly elected and that he is entitled to his seat. We fancy the re- publicans will lose more than they will gain if they unseat Mir Price. Might cannot make right.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
BETWEEN Tanner and the public Pr,

BETWEEN Tanner and the public Pres ident Harrison has Q practical illustra- tion of the ancient choice between the
 lady and the tiger. If he retains Tan
 ner he may possibly please that portion
 of the Grand Army which is willing to pocket the corporars insults to soldiers widows made in his Milwaukee speech, but he will 1nortally offend the taxpay- CTS who do not believe the national debt ought to show a regular monthly in crease a quarter of a century after the war. If he bounces Tanner he will offend the claim agents, deserters, bounty jumpers-and Tanner but he will please the great mass of the public who are heartily sick of Tanner and his meth.
 ods. Which will the president choosei Will it be the lady or the tiger?
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
LITERARY LORE.

RIDER HAGGARD has been engaged by . press syndicate to write a story about Queen Esther.
 MIME. MUTsU, wife of the Japanese Min ister at Washington, is translating Q Jap anese novel into English.
 OVER 5000 copies of the paper edition of "John Ward, Preacher" were ordered be- fore the edition was off the press.
 MAURUs JoKAI, the famous Hungarian novelist, has published some 200 volumes already, not counting his novolettes and short stories.
 M. j. M. LEMo1NE, the Canadian author, it is said, has written on an average one book year for thirty years. He lives at Spencer Grange, just outside Quebec.
 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Lowell, Whit tier, T. B. Aldrich, Will Carleton and other eminent writers are distinguished by their plain and easily-read chirography.
 TWENTY THOUSAND copies of Frances E. Willard's "Glimpses of Fifty Years" were sold during the first four weeks after pub lication. A new edition, with revisions, Is now in preparation.
 and publishers nowadays seldom accept them. Those which they are now printing were accepted long time ago when the dialect fever was raging.
 ONE class of communications that find rapid transit to the waste basket are those written in the big, scrawling, angular hand affected by some women, and which is the most illegible yet devised. HUNDREDS of Americans who have read MT. James Bryce's book on "The American Commonwealth" will be delighted to learn that he was recently married to one of the wealthiest women of England, Miss Eliza. beth Marion Ashton, of Tidsbury, near Manchester.
 THE life of Maria Mitchell, as written by her sister, will be issued in due time. The correspondence, which will form not q small part of the contents, Is said to be very interesting, embracing as 1t does let ters from Humboldt, Herschel and other noted men of science.
 l AT the sale of the Tennyson manuscripts | in London, recently, the manuscript of "The | Brook' brought $255, 8 part of the manu- script of"Maudu was sold for $555, and the | original of Tennyson's dedication of his poems to the Queen was purchased for S15( | by Colonel John Hay.
 THIS country has no monopoly of the book pirates, as is shown by the fact that at the
 railway book stalls in India paper editions of Joel Chandler Harris, Lew Wallace: "Ben Hur," Anna Katherine Greens
 "Leavenworth Case," Bret Harte's stories
 Mark Twain's books, Longfellow's poems
 Mrs. Burnett's novels, and even Emerson!
 essays, can be bought for extremely low prices-from ten to twenty-five cents pel copy.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
HINTS FOR HoRTIcULTURiSTS.

GIVE the pear trees thorough cultivation the first year.
 MANY practical fruit growers favor prun- ing in midsummer, as the wounds then heal most rapidly.
 BoRERs are much easier destroyed when they first make their appearance that at any time later. Do thorough work.
 Or gooseberries, the Downing bears enor- nous crops nearly every year, and the fruit, owing to it's large size, sells well in the market.
 THE copious maturing or top-dressing so important for the successful growth and fine bearing of apple trees, might destroy cherry tree. eral that for a rigorous climate root grafted apple tree, properly made, is better in every respect than a budded tree.
 IF man says he is horticulturist, you must expect him to know something about soil and it's qualities; he must know some thing about trees, plants, birds and insects.
 MANY people fail in raising such crops as they expect an0 desire of cherries because of the lack of such cultivation as will keep up fair degree of summer and winter moisture.
 THE cherry tree does not transplant with safety or certainty late in spring; early in the season the tree transplants readily; but if delayed until the buds have opened and the leaves have started they do not handle at that stage like the apple tree.
 BoREEs may be deterred to great extent from entering peach trees, if the earth Is scraped away from the collar of the tree, and few shovelfuls of coal ashes applied close to the tree. It prevents the moth of the borer from laying her eggs in the bark. CONCERNING the manner of planting a tree, nature gives us a correct example of | the best position for it to grow, and it should be our aim to replace the roots of | the tree in the ground as nearly as possible l in the same position as they were while | growing in the nursery row. STRAWBERRY plants that have borne twice l or three times can not yield fine fruit next year, although they may look large and | capable. Chop them out as soon as picking is done, and thin the young plants around them, leaving none nearer each other than from twelve to twenty inches.
 THE first year after the orchard is planted 1 out the young trees make 8 large growth, and this is the time advised by practical orchardist to prune and shape the trees. Ii you wait few years you will have to cut of big limbs to shape the tree. Attend to
 trees while small. It is light job then and
 does not inlure them.
 1 THE curculio is the greatest pest of the plum and peach orchards, and these excel
 lent and popular fruits are no longer easily
 The apples also are greatly injured by the
 curculio. Sometimes out of hundreds o1
 barrels of apples only few perfect speci mems can be found-that is, apples free
 from knots and specks, the result of th'
 bite of the curculio
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
Prohibition Nominations.

SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 6.-The Pro hibition Convention made the following nominations: Jesse H. Griffin, of West chester county, for Secretary of State; Joseph w. Bruce, of Madison county, for State Treasurer; Benjamin L. Rand, of Niagara county, for State Controller; Coleridge H. Hart, of Now York, for Attorney-General, and Prof. Alpheus B. Kenyon. of Allegheny county, for State Engineer and Surueyor,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06

WHEN Mir Faxon told the convention of temperance republicans at Boston on Tuesday that ''the saloons, the democra- tic party and Catholicism are one and inseparable" he mouthed a islander whose only advocate and defendant is likely to be Rev Mir Burchard and the devil. Both are adept calumniators and falsifiers, but it is not unlikely that Mir Faxon can give them both elementary lessons in the art. Faxon is an ass the limit of whose intellect is equalled only by the length of his ears.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
Oarsman Kennedy fin Jail.

= WORCESTER, Mass, Sept. 6.-James w. Kennedy, the well-known profes- sional oarsman, Is under. arrest here charged with fornication with girl aged 16. In the Central District Court he admitted that he was married man and the charge was changed to adultery. He was held in $500 bail, and being un- able to find sureties, was sent to jail.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06

MALONE has not the support of a single newspaper in Virginia except one that was recently founded for the pur- pose of bolstering up his candidacy. The seven republican journals in the state are opposing him tooth and nail. But the kicking republican leaders are being interviewed by Matt Quay and are one by one declaring in his favor. Malone cares more for the support of Quay and the administration than for that of re- publican newspapers. It is likely to be more effective, for newspapers have nc political offices to distribute.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
Bush Pleads Not Guilty,

PORTSMOUTH. N. H., Sept. 6.--In the Police Court George Bush pleaded not guilty to a charge of engaging in a prize-fght with Henry Watson at Sa- lem, N. H., on August "A, waived exam ination and wac held in si, GOO for the Grand Jury. The punishment for the offence charged may be s1,ooo fine or one year in the penitentiary, or both, at the discretion of the Court
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
PRICE TO BE OUsTED.

It is hinted by the New York Press, | and echoed faithfully by the republican organs generally ,that Congressman-elect| Price will not be allowed to take his seat as the representative of the third Louisiana district. This, too, though the returns show a majority for him of .Ifearly six thousand.
 It goes without saying that the pur- pose of Mir Burrows and his associate visiting statesmen in touring the dis trict was to drum up material with which to make a successful contest in the house. The republican majority in the fifty-first congress is most incon- veniently small for the success of the schemes the managers of the party have in view ,and thenecessity isrecognized is of unseating enough democrats and filling their places with republicans to allow of 2 safe working force. The bargains made with the men who supplied the fat last fall must be executed by the fifty first congress, and tariff legislation must be so shaped that the interests of the men "who make large fortunes every year when times are good" be served. Then, too, the. surplus squandering promised in the Chicago platform, must be arranged for, and sufficient sche1ies devised and executed, either by pen- sions, bounties or subsidies, to destroy the surplus. and one of the best argu- ments of the tariff reformers. To do . this the party must have a majority in the house, and it is by the seating of de- feated republicans like Minor in Louisi- ana and Langston in Virginia that the managers propose to get it. Men who have been beaten at the polls, and who are willing to stultify their manhood by seeking seats to which their constituents refused to elect them, are being inter- viewed by Quay, and with the argu- ments peculiar to that gentleman led to make another struggle for them, this time under conditions which preclude the possibility of failure. But what do they think of party and its managers who throw conscience and justice to the winds and are willing to rob a man of his rights in order to swell the majority which they find necessary for the execu. tion of their schemes? We fancy the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
FLOWERS FOR FIREWORKS.

FION ENS fo1C W ONNS.
 The present is hardly the time to cud- gel ones brains over ways and means of celebrating the Fourth of July, but the suggestion made by the Boston Herald that flowers take the place of fireworks in such celebrations is worthy of more than a passing reference. 1nstancing the recent floral displays at Bethlehem and Bar Harbor, the crowds called ou- by the small parade in London, the ent thusiasm invariably shown at Nice and the popular good feeling evinced at Vevay, the Herald maintains that the effective and proper substitute is at hand for the barbarous devices now employed to let off the superabundant enthusiasm of young and old America on Indepen- dence day.
 We imagine that the Herald's sugges- tion, while a very pretty one, will not strike spontaneously responsive chord is more or less of the barbarian even in the most highly civilized and cultured nature, and in the combination of noises the exuberance of youth ordinarily, and the unquenched diablerie of adolescence frequently, find most joyful and in spring outlet. The glaring blaze and the ear-splitting crash of fireworks carry with them suggestions of joy and enthu' siasm that the more subdued and soften. ing influences of floral beauty are not effective to convey, at least in the present state of civilization and environ ment. There is suggestiveness about fireworks, carrying as they do the idea of gunpowder and death-dealing properties, that lends an element of en thusiasm and jollity to the thought that they are being used in peaceful celebra tion of great and glorious triumph
 And yet we could wish, and we fancy
 that each one as he or she grows older could likewise wish, that it might be diff
 ferent, and that the young idea nigh
 be taught to shoot in the lines of : Iquieter, more subdued and more beau Itifully significant method of celebration
 In flowers there would be no lurking demon of violence and death, no hldde1
 torch of fire and flame, no slumberine
 spirit of noise and confusion !; nothing
 but beauty and peace, delight and har
 mony, sweetness and light and blessing
 There would be an influence of refinemen land education in flowers that cannot b. thought of in connection with saltpete
 and gunpowder. And we believe tha
 if flower parades and floral display
 were substituted for the noisy demon
 strations that now characterize ou
 Fourth of July occasions the spirit o the holiday could be preserved and tn
 real significance of the day impressed ol
 our youth better than it now is ami
 the blare and noise and confusion of ou
 present celebrations.
 There is, indeed, much to commend i the idea that would substitute flowers fo ' fireworks in the celebration of Fourt of July.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
POSTOFFIcr
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
Chicago Raising the Money.

CHICAGO, Sept. 6.-The 5000, 900 which the Finance Committee of the Worlds Exposition Company have called on the Chicago public is easily in sight, and the chances are good for as much more. AS yet very few of the subscription books have been turned into headquarters, but the reports from those that are out are so encouraging that the Finance Committee are greatly pleased
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
Depot at Clifton, N. J. Burned Down.

CLIFTON, N. J.. Sept. 6.-The depot here of the N. Y. l.. E. & w. Railroad was entirely destroyed by fire yester day, and is supposed to have been of in cendiary origin. This Is the fifth in- eendiary fire in this place in the last six months.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
NOTICE.

All persons having accounts against the Town of Waterbury are requested to forward the same to the Selectmen by the 10th inst. Our books will be closed on that day, and we wish to pay all ac- counts against the Town.
 J. B. DOHERTY,
 First Selectman.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06

JULIA MARLowE is indignant because her photographs are used to advertise soap. She would probably be less indig- nant if she remembered that it probably soaps the box office. Soap counts there.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06

JUDGING from the increase in the na- tional debt under Harrison, Tanners "God help the surplus! should be changed to "Heaven help the tax payers!'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06

EDMUND YATES is authority for the statement that Mrs Langtry has had enough of America for the present" " We'll, about three-quarters of million and Freddy Gebhardt-would be enough to satisfy the ambition of a more avararicious woman even than the Lily. Neither grow on every bush in America.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06

THE chief ''civil service difficulty" that now confronts the republicans is the difficulty of making the public be- lieve that there is any intention of pro- noting the reform under thls admins tration
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
M ERIDEN, WATERBURY X CONNECTICUT M RIVER RAILROAD, i> '"

IN EFFECT JrLr E, 1889.
 FROM WATERBURY TO CROMWELL. Lca,e Waterbury. New England station, s:asa 1255 4a0 s6.52 p. m ''' ''A'' Leave Waterbury. Dublin street, 500 a. m., 9:1o am; l:lo boa *7:O7 D. m. ''' Leave Meriden, $50 a. m., 1:57, 5:55 D. m,
 FRON CROMWELL TO wATERBURY Leave Cromwell, GsO a. m. 1918. 4:45nm Leave McTlder, West Main street. 7:o3, 9:ao a. n,., Arrive at Dublin street .:4O 1o.11, r, ,a- eo. 1:35 D. m " " ~ o'o'' Arrives Waterbury. N. E. station, 7:55, 1O;s6 a m. *For Meriden and way stations ouly, arrive at 152 D. '' ' "' All trains arrive at and leave West Main street Meriden. " >'' -i 'iee' .
 CHAS. N. CRAWFORD. Sup,.
 Merlden, Conn
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06

Delivered by carrier to any part of the city or | ont by mail at the following rates:
 One Year $500 Three Months. -. S1 9 Six Months ...... 2.50 One Month. 42c
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06
FIRE ALARM.

LIST OF FIRE ALARM BOXES. Corner Willow and West Main
 Exchange Place. II East Main and WolcOtt Road 15 Corner Cherry ard East Main, II Horse Railroad Stable (private) B Iron Bridge, West Main A Waterbury Brass Co. (private) sa Corner Johnson and Watervine so Corner Prospect and Grove. v Junction North Main. Grove and North Elm $ Waterbury Mfg. Co.
 S Corner Washington and South Main S4 Waterbury Buckle Co., S5 Benedict S Burnlam Mfg. Co. 80 Waterbury Watch Co tprivate) SS Corner Grand and South Main 42 Corner Union and Franklin 43 Scovill Mfg. Co. (private) 45 Corner Clay and Mill
 4G No. Hose House, Baldwin 47 Corner Dublin Street and ;,,i, Alley SIP Corner Meadow and Bank S14 Corner Meadow .nd Cedar street S21 Plume X Atwood Mfg. O. 0rivate., sa3 Holmes. Booth < Haydcns ( rivate) s24 No. Hose House. ':3 Corner Simons and Burnham streets
 INSTRUCTIONS TO KEY HOLDERS. To give an alarm, open the door, pub the ha.,s down once and let go, then close the .,s,or
 Do not pull the hook If the f re bell ,,y small ,r ill the box is striking as that !ndicntes .n aIii,,. has already been given.
 Be particular to remain at the box until inc .r rlE3l of an officer of the Fire Department wh,, Will release the key; or, if circumstances win no, permit remaining. then the proper officer vii, ra turn the key to the holder ss soen as couyeni.n, Always give the alarm from the box nearest th,. fire. ~ ~ ~
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06

Entered as second class matter at the Water bury Postonice.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-06

The toboggan slide is being greased for Mir Corporal Tanner.