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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13
Keeping Up Appearances.

Spriggers Why do you pour over
the stock reports so every morning
while going down town in the l. cars?
You don't own a share, / am sure"
Figgers No; but it sort o. gives n
fellow an air Of financial solidity, you
know. New York Weekly.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

indeed IL was long time before she
vencrcd TO appear in society after
Ford Vernon brought his lovely bride
To reign over his elegant city home
Family Story Paper.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

Uneaualled as health and pleasure resort.
Finest Watering Place hotel in the west
The waters will positively cure all kidney
and liver diseases, dyspepsia, diabetes, 10
male complaints, skin and blood diseases,
etc.
For handsomely illustrated descriptive
pamphlet, apply TO +. Chandler, G.. Il. * II.
A. "Wabash Line" ST. Louis, Mo.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

A Enthusiastically, / think you are
dreadfully extravagant TO buy all thoso
things" ''But, my dear Rufus Ihad th en-
charged. Life.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

India ink is made from burnt camphor.
The Chinese arc the only manufacturers of
this ink and they will not reveal the secret
of its manufacture.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

When a man afilrms that there's lots OF
money in leather" don't dispute him-prrs.
es are made of leather. Shoe aud Leather
Reporter.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

For all arrangements of the liver, stom
ach and bowels, take DR.. Pierce's Pellets
One a dose
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

The exquisite Prussian blue is made by
fusing horses hoofs and other refuse mat
ter with impure potassium carbonate. This
color was discovered accidentally.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13
a Fairy Tale.

famous woodsman once boosted that he
could find his way through a wilderness
and return by the same path. Being test
ed he carried with him slender thread,
which should serve as a guide for the re-
turn trip Reaching the end Of mis- journey,
he lay down 10 rest. While he rested came
the genius Of industry and breathed upon
his thread aud changed 1t into two shining
ribbons OF steel. 1t was a railroad.
Throngs Of people whirled past him in lux
urious cars, aud he read upon the ain the
mystic legend: WISCONSIN Central"
Various lakes are derived from roots
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

Albert Burch, West Toledo, Ohio, says:
"Hall's Catarrh Cure saved my life"
Write him for particulars Sold by Drug
gists. 75c.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13
Card Of Thanks.

Mastic is made from the gum Of the
mastic tree, which grows in the Grecian
archipelagO
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

Blue black comes from the charcoal of the
vine stalk.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

The yellow sap of tree of Siam pro
duces gamboge; the natives catch the SAP
in cocoanut shells.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13
Hibbard's Rheumatic and Liver
pills

These Pills are scientifically compounded
uniform in action. No gripping pain so
commonly following the use of pills. They
are adapted to both adults and children
with perfect safety. We guarantee they
have no equal in the cure Of Sick Headache,
Constipation, Dyspepsia, Biliousness; and,
as an appetizer, they excel any other pre-
paration
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13
Grand Harvest Excursions

Lamp black is SCOT from certain resinous
substances.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

Do you wish 10 know how 10 have no
steam, and not half theusual work on wash
day. Ask your grocer for a bar of Dob
bins Electric Soap, and the directions will
tell you how BE sure 10 get no imitation.
There are lots of them.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

Chinese white is made from zinc, scarlet
is from iodine of mercury, and native yer
million is from the quicksilver ore called
cinuabar
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

Raw sienna is the natural earth from
the neighborhood of Seinne, Italy.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. IsaaG
Thompson's Eve Water. Druggists sell 1t. 25c.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

Raw lumber is also an earth found near
Cmbria and burned
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13
Excelsior Springs. Mo.

Various lakes are derived from roots,
banks and gums.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

We reeommeeI .Tan.nr. runcho Cglr.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

Turkey red is made from the madden
plant, which grows in Hindustan.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-06-22
SRe Fashions.

1t may be positively asserted that
even the modern housekeeper, intelli-
gent above her predecessors though
she may be, still fails to appreciate
the value of fruits. Nothing among
all the productions of our bountiful
Mother can compare in richness and
beauty, with their hues and havors.
Above all they give tone to the di-
gestlve organs, antidote, hillary de-
engagements, and afford an Vulnerable
variety of dishes at once delicate and
nutritious. Who rightly values the
worth of the Northern apple or of
the date, that fruit which three
fourths of the year furnishes the sta
pie food of an Oriental race?
Every breakfast-table in the land
ought each day to have a central dish
of fruit, either cooked or in its native
state. Oranges and melons, apples
and grapes, figs and dates, currents
and the royal line of berries, cherries
and gooseberries, plums and pears,
apricots and peaches, bananas and
grape fruits, all are rounded in out
line, exquisite in coloring and de-
licious to the taste.
In one respect all fruits are alike.
They should be eaten only when per-
fectly ripe and as fresh as they pos
sibly can be procured.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-06-22

MIxTURURE FOR HAM SANDWICHES.
Chop cold boiled ham very fine,
then pound it TO paste. 70 each
cupful of this paste, allow teaspoon
full of made mustard, two teaspoon
fuls of olive OIL or melted butter, a
teaspoonful of anchoyy paste, the
hard-boiled yolks of two eggs mashed
fine, dash of cayenne, ten drops of
good stock or bouillon. Rub and
mix the whole until thoroughly ANAL
gamated.- Table Talk.
If you are obliged to leave bas-
ket of clothes that have been damp
ened for ironing, longer than usual,
put them in dry place away from
artificial heat and they will not mil
dew or sour for days.
If the handles of stove brushes are
kept clean from the first, that part of
the work will seem no dirtier than
any other about the house. 1t is an
excellent plan to use paint brush for
putting on the backing, also use
plenty of fresh newspapers.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-06-22
A Sound Legal Opinion.

E. cambridge, Munday Esq, Coun-
ty Atty, Clay county, Texas, says:
"Have used Electric Bitters with
most happy results. My brother also
was very low with malarial fever and
jaundice, but was cured by timely use
of this medicine. Am satisfied Elec-
trio Bitters saved his life"
Mr.. D. l. Wilcoxson, of Horse
Cave, KY, adds a like testimony,
saying: He positively believes he
would have died had it not been for
Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward off, as
well as cure all malarial diseases, and
for all kidney, liver and stomach dis
orders stands unequaled. Price SOC.
and 81 at G. j. Lincoln's.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-06-22
COTTAGE HEARTH,

Scribner's Monthly will be sent for one year
as premium to any person getting up Il club
OF ten subscribers to WoMAN's CHRONICLE.
Woman's Journal will be sent to any person
getting up club of eight subscribers for
WoMANs CHRONICLE.
Cottage Hearth will be sent one year to any
one sending two new subscribers to WoMAN's
CHRONICLE.
paper bound copy of the Report of the
international Council of Women will be sent
to anyone sending two new subscribers to
WoMAN's CHRONICLE.
Address, WOAIAN'S CHRONICLE,
Cor. Second and Louisiana Sts.,
Little Rock, Ark.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-06-22
9iterary notes.
BY CECIL HAMpDEN QUITS HOWARD.

A1oO ~ hoLie Pel VI pupiloh 1Ah lloaA
With Delsarte," by Anna Morgan.
One of MacMillan's recent publ
cations is entitled can Authors
Love-"
CHM publishes Leading Facts of
French History" by D. H. Mont
gomery.
"Fairy Tales in Prose and Verse;
by W. J. Rolfe, is published by Har-
per & Bros.
Scribner & Wexford, Of New York,
publish "Samuel Rogers and His
Contemporaries
Randolph of New York, publishes
"Historicals Memoirs of Canterbury"
by Dean Stanley.
Lippincott of Philadelphia, is the
publisher of "John Charaxes; tale
of the Civil War;"
A second addition has been called
for of that valuable work "Diary and
Letters of Governor Morris.
Macmillan & Co.,. of New York,
have issued the third volume of the
essays of Aubrey de Vere.'
OF "Pretty Sister of JOSE writ
ten by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett, 10000 copies have been sold.
"a Woodland Wooing," by Flea
nor Putnam, has been published by
Messrs. Roberts Brothers, of Boston.
Harper's have recently published
the second volume of "W. B. Frith's
Autobiography and "reminiscences. y
1t is asserted that H. Rider Hag-
gard will visit Asia Minor and Per-
sia, to study local color for new
story.
"The Story of Theodore Parker"
by Frances E. Cooke, has reached a
third edition. 1t is published by
Cupples & Hurd, of Boston.
"rhe Winning of the West" is the
title of an historical volume by Theo-
dore Roosevelt, of which the first two
of four volumes are published.
A new story is the come-out this
month with the title "The Wrong
Box" written by Robert Louis
Stevenson and Lloyd Osburne.
The sixteenth edition has appeared
of GLOW We Are Governed" revised
and re-edited by W. j. Gordon, and
published by Warren & Co., of New
York.
physiological Notes on Primary
Education and the Study of Lang
uages," is the title of a volume by
DR.. Mary Putnam jacob and pub
Il he'd by Putnam.
campaigning With Banks and
Sheridan" by Frank M. Finn, pub
lished by W. B. Clarke & Co., of
Boston, Mass, has reached a second
edition, and deserves the attention it
appears to have secured.
1t is said that letters and requests
for autographs are received by Mrs.
Humphrey Ward, in such numbers
that she has contracted q muscular
weakness of hand and arm, 1esem-
bling writer's cramp, in attempting
to answer them.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-06-22

The Johnstown hood-sufferer's fund
in Paris amounted on the 9th to $l0,-
900.
If your are not a subscriber for
WoMAN's CHRONICLE you ought to be-
come such.
For job work al reasonable rates
sail at CHRONICLE office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16
THE SILkWORM'S RIVAL.
A Large Brown Moth Which Produces
Very Large CocoOns.

Very Large CocoOns.
We are accustomed to consider silk
solely as the product of the well-known
silk worm, which feeds upon mulberry
leaves. and has been so widely domes-
ticated in Europe, and even to some
slight extent in this country. But the
truth is that there are many other
varieties of caterpillar which furnish
the same product, and that in India
alone fifty different kinds of silk-bear-
ing insects are known. The most i'm
portant of these, the tussur moth. feeds
upon more than thirty different species
of plants and the caterpillar weaves u
cocoon about four times the size of that
of the mulberry silkworm. Great at
tention is paid to the rearing of the
tussur, and very religious ceremonies
are employed in caring for it. The
large brown moth, which has four
transparent eyes upon the wings is
venerated, and only people OF a certain
caste are permitted to approach it. 1t
has been domesticated in India for
thousands of years, while the cocoons
of all the other species are collected
wild from the Jungle. One of these
feeds on the castor-oil plant and spins
white cocoon. In China also the silk
from several varieties of worms is used;
and in Japan, besides the ailanthus
caterpillar, there is a species which
until lately was reserved for the exclu-
sive use of the Mikado. the oxporta-
ton of the eggs being an offence pun
ishable with death. Some of them, how
ever, have been carried to France,
where an attempt, which promises to
be successful, is making to cultivate
this species. IN. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16
SWEET POTATOES.
How to Keep Them in Good Condition
for q Long Time.

My experience is that although they
may be kept for some months by care
full handling and storing in cool, dry
place, still they are seldom as good as
when first taken from the ground.
They become watery and taste as
though they had been touched with
frost before digging. learned through
friends last season, but too late, to test
plan but expect to test it this year,
that they may be kept in good condi-
ton for d long time. 1t is burying
them in the oats bin. The oats exclude
the air to a sufficient extent and absorb
the moisture. 1t might be that as good
results could be obtained by packing
them in oats in boxes or barrels. The
experiment is worth trying as it is such
very handy one.
1t is we'll to remember at all times in
digging and handling sweet potatoes
that they are very tender and those de-
signed for keeping need to be handled
carefully so as not to bruise or break
them and not expose them to the air
too much. Simply get them well dried
and then store them. Sweet potatoes
may be kept in good condition in the
ground until there is danger of freez-
ing if the fall is dry, by cutting the
vines off close over the tubers and put
ing on sufficient dirt on top of the hill
so that there will be no stems exposed.
But whatever plan you adopt, you
must never allow your vines to be
killed off by frost Should you get
caught by an unexpected frost you may
still save your potatoes by getting out
early before the sun isup and the frost
begins to melt and cutting the vines off
close to the ground, thus preventing
the frost reaching the potatoes. j. 4.
Hopkins, in Western Rural.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16

the southern bank of the Cumberland
river Robertson founded a city which
took its name from the gallant General
Nash, who fell in the battle of German
town, and among the cities of the fair
South there is to-day none more beau
tiful or thriving than Nashville.
Thus, owing to combination of cir
cumstances hardly paralleled in human
history, was this noble territory over
come and conquered in single cam
paign by "a handful of Virginian back
woodsmen, with a loss of not more than
three-score lives.
1t was in consequence of the proves
of George Rogers Clark that, in the
treaty of 1888, all this rich domain was
secured to the United States. Like
many other great men. he was neg
lected by his ungrateful fellow-coun-
trymen when they no longer needed
his services. His last years were spent
alone and in poverty, in rude cabin
on Corn Island, until his sister took
him to her home at Locust Grove, near
Louisville, where he died III 1878.
His grave is in Cave Hill Cemetery
at Louisville, marked by little head
stone with the letters &c. r. c." 1t is
said there are not half a dozen people
in the United States who know where
to look for it.-John Fishe, in Youth )
Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Novelties Exhibited by Leading Importers
and Designers.

ana designers.
Lace trimmings in Gothic points and
| Vandyked devices, are as much sought
after aad used as the applique bands
and silk-cord passementeries of like
pattern.
Lovely evening toilets of crepe de
Chine are made with Greek draperies
that fall over skirts of accordion
pleated mousselaine de sole, these hav-
ing insertions of rich lace flouncing
set in at equal distances. The bodices
have chemisettes of the net, with a
transparent point of it on the crepe de
Chine sleeves, and they are completed
by Grecian scarf, deity knotted.
! The Empire style has firmly set its
mark upon many of the seasons out
door gowns. The open coats, the
folded waistcoats, and wide sashes tied
in front belong to this period, as do
the straight-falling skirts and feathery
ruches with which some of them are
finished round the edge.
A picturesque visiting costume IL
silver-blue velvet is in the style Of a
riding-dress of the last century, with
deep flaps and side pockets and large
old-silver buttons in repousse work.
The whole of the front is in cream
colored cancels hair, with a very deep
Gothic border in silver embroidery. A
very odd three-cornered hat of silver
blue velvet is trimmed with cream
colored ostrich tips. This Continental
hat is fastened to the head with small
jeweled stiletto, the hilt of which is in
old silver
Beautiful demi-dress toilets of crepe
de Chine in mauve, silver. vieux rose
and other dainty tints are simply made
with skirts laid in rather wide pleats,
alternating with breadths accordion
pleated. The close cuirass bodice has
always some rich lace or passementerie
bands as garniture, and from the sides
of this bodice fall either peplum points
or long panier draperies.
/ Many of the tailor-made costumes of
cloth designed by French and English
"artists" are more expensive than
some of the full-dress toilets OF silk
and brocade. These are designed for
late afternoon receptions, for guests at
church weddings, and for visiting and
the opera, and are made of the softest
and finest ladies' cloth in palest silver
dyes, in apricot, beige, chamois,
golden tan and fawn color. These are
deliberately garnitured with Gothic
passementeries or wide arabesque
bands in gold and silver. For slender
women are Louis XIV. costumes mag
nifcently trimmed upon the skirt por-
ton with metallic embroideries, a
mousquetaire cape of the cloth cover
ing the shoulders of the richly wrought
cuirass coat. Other elegant costumes
of cream-white cloth are enriched with
/ Persian embroideries with Mosaic
ands OF feathers in like colors made
from the breast plumage of birds from
the Island of Trinidad. Y. Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16
1T is NO slNECURE. ~.
The Work That is Required of the Queen
Private Secretary.

The Work That is Required of the Queens
Private Secretary.
ut may not be here out OF place."
writes Mr.. Clement Scott (who las sue
ceeded Mr.. L. Engel as editor OF Our
Celebrities), ito correct an erroneous
view, ignorantly held, that the post OF
private secretary to the sovereign is
well-paid sinecure, or that the Queen
of England is not one of the hardest
worked of the highest officials of the
realm. The daily clerical work re-
quired from Her Majesty would aston
ish some of her subjects WHO complain
of their arduous duties. Apart from
the Queens own private correspond
ence. and the management of her es-
tates and intimate affairs, there is
scarcely a government Office Of the first
Importance that does not send down
every day to the palace at which Her
Majesty may be residing boxes of doc
uments, orders, warrants and direc-
tons requiring the royal sign manual
and instant attention; but there is
scarcely question of precedent, ETH
quette, change of uniform in the army,
or detail of the various military and
civilian orders and decorations that
does not come under the immediate
and personal supervision and direction
of the Queen. Not day passes with
out the published Court Circular being
carefully edited, revised and corrected
by the Queens own hand; and this i'm.
portant document is a model Of &C.
curacy in every detail.
Her Majesty neglects nothing; the
punctuality of the return of documents
submitted for signature is marvel to
any one who has ever been employed
in confidential position in a govern
ment office, and it is needless 70 say
that the drudgery of all this inevitable
daily detail and the minuteness Of the
questions involved is considerably
lightened by the possession of an off.
Ger so experienced, so trustworthy and
so distinguished for tact as General
Sir Henry Ponsonby. Unlike many
court officials when harrassed and pes
tered, he has ever kind word for all
who consult him, and he has never
been known to depart from his cheer
full rule of geniality and welcome cour-
tesy. All who are occupied in the
delicate task of modern journalism,
and who, whilst studying the interest
of their employers and the public. are
not Indifferent to good taste and would
respect the feelings and privacy of
those in high places, find in the Queens
private secretary both courteous ad-
wiser and friendly councillor. To
say No gracefully is one of the most
difficult arts to accomplish, and, as
may be imagined, the private secre-
tary to a reigning sovereign has to
deal extensively in negatives, and to
depose insistency on the one hand and
intrusion on the other with light and
graceful but withal firm and digni-
fed hand"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16
MY SOLID GIRL.

Yes remember well the eve asked her to be
mine,
And how 1 prayed the graces that my wish
she'd not decline.
think no other mortal ever loved q maid so
well;
hadn't half enough of words my constancy to
tell.
With her my own the future years with sun
shine would be bright.
Without her life would be to me dreary, star
less night.
So my heart went wildly beating and my brain
was in whirl
When she placed her hand in mine and said,
I'll be your solid girl
she was fragile creature then OF fairy-like
design,
little dreamed that now her weight would
double that of mine;
That the clinging little woman all so delicate
Would in the after years become stalwart
amazon.
But still it sometimes happens that such
changes do occur,
And now that she's the more to me can't thinl,
less Of her.
Did not love her dearly should think myself
churl
She kept her promise faithfully-shes still my
SOLD girl Chicago Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-16
LEGEND OF A WATCH.
Servants Were Afraid OF the Time-Piec
and Tried to Drown 1t.

servants were AFRAID or the Time PIec0
and Tried to Drown 1t.
For years DR.. Allan. the Scottish
physician, was suspected of being q
wizard, an opinion which was consid-
cred all but confirmed when, in 1880,
he provided himself with silver watch
of the regulation size and style. Chanc-
ing to stop with a neighbor over night.
as it was rather cold he laid the watch
near his body and covered it with the
bed quilt, so that the chilly weather
would not affect the works. Next
morning he arose rather abruptly and
left the house without removing his
treasure from it's cosy nest in the bed.
In fixing up the room the servant
discovered 90 the Internal chattering
thing" and Immediately concluded it
must be the old doctors familiar
spirit" conclusions which she hardly
arrived at before she had fled wildly
from the room. Other servants were
called and the whole array charged
the 'chattering thing" in the bed.
Clubs and tongs were freely used, but
the case was strong and the thing still
chartered defiantly.
One of the girls, more courageous
than the others, finally agreed that she
would take the tongs and carry the
thing to the moat and drown it, pro-
ceeding fraught with danger, but at
last decided upon. The others followed
at a respectable distance with hoes,
clubs and shovels, with which they
proposed to pounce on the thing should
it attempt to attack the heroic girl.
When the old doctor returned for his
watch he was informed of what had
been done, one of the servants leading
the way to where the thing had been
drowned. 1t was found hanging on
bush on the bank of the moat. The
failure to beat or drown the creature
to death fully convinced the servants
that it was in reality the old wizards
spirit, and they could not be persuaded
to touch it.-Jeweler's Weekly.