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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-13

CHICAGO Uaion Stock Yards Jun s 500 e..d shp|sn
81 s0sI so stocker. and Feeders s3 2ss ale
HOgs-Reoeps $4,000 hs'a SaiPnenss ~ 81 20 Sx so
IIght "a 2h q ~ 80 Skips IS boVA ~ ooo -u..k..
20 % SsA as Western Shorn sS 50ds4 80
Steahy. SS yam s300SsS 90 Lambs 50 o09s3 So
ST. Iou June 400 head snp "a "a
500 Ftr 70 GOOD sS 10 9s3 60 scckers AID resdsrs
Eair % Good 50 90 9tS OOi 1SAhsoEs' N " ~
trasstoa 81 20 8$2 IS. . 4, AM ....s., lava
Hogs[ihescssPS and Butchers' selections - S0dS4 40
SaC CHOICE "a Ac al SIS Light Grades Ordinary 10 bSs
= So 5000; shipments 1900; market steady
Far 70 Choice Is % 1st 40
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-13

coTToS-on the spot 10 fair request at steady and
unchanged prices. Sales OF bales for consumption
Port receipts 200 bales against 47e bales THIS day last
week and / 1872 this day last year Since Sepiom
Der receipts at the ports aggregated 5473S2l hales
comparing with 6S97741 bales for the corresponding time
last year
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-13

$4,000 Toledo s. Loud. sna kansas CITY r. r af's
.oorte3ge bonds (unlfsteD. 100.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-13
PRINTING CLOTH MARKET.


FALL RiyER MaAa June 1.-THE print cloth market was
QUIET, bat steady quotations unchanged
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-13

and unclanEtds winter ~ w feA 49, bprlag
y'l,,, pafrUts - Is a. 81. Makers - 20 as 50.
..b snat.pou. ware t,lpss No. Spnng Wheat MA
u.s. NO : sprins What nominal. No ? Raj T9@ a So
~, Corn sac No Data - ~. No. hys 3shc No. BAR
=, r,ninal No / FLAX Sol 81 S. Prime Timothy
sssi Al gIagA Meas PorE 81 8! 9e6S per Dbl Lard
81 q ! = per short RID sdes looas IS 10 800 Dry
saltst shuulisrs 0oIeh 81 i2Sa3 - short Clear Sdss
- s,IIon slsArs-CuI Loaf ~, glOo GranuAtod 9LS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-13

LIST
Coupons OF
10000.
SO Par " NJ LIST
5000. ......107S
1000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-13

I A fairly sctiye market and generally higher
prices were the features OF to-days stock specula-
'tion The coal stocks were most marked IN their
esrly advances, and among them Ceptrai OF Now
Jersey which sold mp 20 ia, was the most con-
srlcnens The granger stocks generally werc
strong &C higher prices, and nc the clcse held the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
Meals in India,

In India, the table-servants are men
of infinite resources; nothing daunts
them. A lady, writing in the COrnhiE
Magazine, says she once objected to the
way a vegetable morrow had been cook
ed. Your Majesty" said her servant,
has but to give the order and to-mor-
row it shall be made into French
beans"
Her servant announced that there was
beef steak for dinner, and she, as a mat
ter of course, asked: "What is it made
of q
"Of mutton as no beef could be
bought" he answered.
At ceremOnious dinner, given by a
native gentleman to the lady and to her
husband, when the game course was
placed on the table, she saw something
unusual in the look of the partridges.
Her head servant whispered to her that
they were chickens dressed as partridges.
A game course was necessary to o
ceremoniOus dinner, and as no partrid-
ges could be procured the chickens wer e
offered up on the altar of custom.
The native who gave the dinner did
not sit at table with his English guests.
They dined by themselves, and only saw
him after the dinner was over. The
table was spread with the foreign gu SITS
own linen, plate, and china, and they
were waited on by their own servants,
who had cooked tho dinner.
The explanation is that his caste
would not permit him to eat with his
guests, and the servants caste forbade
their cooking for them. He had no
table furniture such as English guests
require, and if he had possessed any,
he could never have produced it, after
they "polluted" it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES.
The Curious Way Ger ain Important
Processes Were Suggested.

Valuable discoveries have been made
and valuable inventions suggested, by
the veriest accidents. An alchemist,
earths that would make the most dur
able crucibles, one day found that ho
had made porcelain. The power of lenses
as appli, d to the telescope, was discov-
cred by a watchmaker's apprentice.
While holding spectacle-glasses between
his thumb and fiuger he was startled at
the suddenly enlarged appearance of
neighbOling church spire. i no art of
etching upon glass was discovered by q
Nuremburg glass cutter. By accident
few drops of aqua fortis fell upon his
spectacles. He noticed that the glass
became corroded and softened where the
acid had touched it. That was hint
enough. He drew figures npon gloss
with varnish, applied the corrodiug
fluid, then cut awny the glass around
the drawing. When the varnish was re-
moved the figures appeared raised upon
a dark ground.
Mezzotiuto owed its invention to the
simple accident of tho gun barrel of n
sentry becoming rusted with dew. The
swaying to and fro of chandelier in a
cathedral suggested to Galileo the ap-
plication of the pendulum. The art of
lithographing was perfected through
suggestions made by accident. A poor
musician was curious to know whether
music could not be etched upon stone
as well as upon copper. After he had
prepared his slab his mother asked him
to make memorandum of such clothes
as she proposed to send away to be
washed. Not having pen, ink and pa
per convenient, lie wrote the list on the
stone with the etching preparation, in
tending to make copy of it at leisure.
A few days later, when about to clean
the stone, he wondered what effect aqua
fOrtis would have upon it. He applied
the acid, and in few minutes saw The
writing standing out in relief. The next
step necessary was simply to ink the
stone and take off an impression.
The shop of Dublin tobacconist by
the name of Lundyfoot wasidestroyed by
fire. While he was gazing dolefully
into the smouldering ruins he noticed
that his poorer neighbors were gather
ing the snuff from the cannisters He
tested the snuff for himself and discov-
cred that the fire had largely improved
its pungency. 1t was a hint worth
built q lot of ovens, sub ected the snuff
to a heating process, gave the brand q
particular name, and in few years be-
came rich through an accident which he
at first thought had completely ruined
him. The process of whitening sugar
was discovered in curious way. A hen
that had gone through a clay puddle
went with her muddy feet into sugar
house. She left her tracks on pile of
sugar. 1t was noticed that wherever
her tracks were the sugar was whitened.
Experiments were instituted, and the
result was that wet clay came to be used
in refining sugar. The origin of blue
tinted paper came about by mere
slip of the hand. The wife of William
East, an English paper maker, acciden-
tally let blue bag fall into one of the
watts of pulp.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
Lady-Bugs.

The rounded, bright-colored beetles
called lady-bugs are among the most
easily recognized of the cOleoptera, and
among the best insect friends of man.
Their special mission seems to be to
keep in check tue extensive families of
plant-lice, of which they devour vast
numbers they are also known to eat
the eggs and Adults of other insects
In the matter of bark-lice they have ex-
cellent taste, sometimes ridcling entire
plants of them by tearing open the scales
and devouring the occupants. They
are sometimes guilty OF taking toll for
the good they do, as they have been
seen eating sue ulent fruits.
Professor Forbes says " The COM
mon, spotted lady bag is abundant III
corn fields, when, as dissection usually
demonstrates, it is in search of the fallen
pollen of the plant, or of minute fungi
which speck the withered leaves, or OF
the plant lice which infest the folinge,
tassels and husks but las August We
saw it eating the exposed kernels at the
top of the ear, following out the sub
stance and party buried in the cavities
thus made"
The Professor further says that 1T IS
perhaps fortunate that they can sustain
themselves for time on other than their
favorite food, and that the damage done
by their eating q few kernels of corn is
greatly overbalancel by the good they
do in eating the corn plant louise.
The food of some groups of Iady-hngs
is from one-third to one-half animal
matter, the veget 'b!e portion genera y
being of kind not injurious to man s
interests. Some Of them are known to
eat sparingly of clinch- hu9s. Last week
found hundreds of II bright-rcd species,
with black dots, hibernatin% Ill piles
under the leaves i'll the edge OF a woods.
--Pr0 rie Farmer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

The great battle ship Benbow, thought
by some to be the most powerful vessel
afoat, has just been completed at all
points, aud added to the British Medi-
terranean Squadron. Her heaviest guns
are two of Ill tons, throwing 1900
pound shells with a propulsve charge of
$50 pounds of powder, and capable of
piercing armor a yard in thickness.
These guns are 43 feet inches in length,
and the :projcctiles over Al inches long,
with diameter of II inches. The tom
mage of the Benbow is 10000 and her
speed over seventeen knots. The Italia,
the largest vessel SO far completed in
Italy, has greater displacement by near
ly 1000 tons than the Renbow, some
what exceeds the latter III speed, very
nearly equals her in the power of her
guns carried, and has very similar armor
protection. 1t is not easy to see, there
fore, why the Renbow should be regard
ed as the most powerful ship.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
A Haytian Hero.

If there is one thing ON earth above
all other mundane sources of mirth it is
n full l-feJged Haytian general of the
black type in the gala uniform of his
rank. One of the sable military heroes
in particular was n spectacle to cause n
spnsm of genuine hilarity which no liv-
ing low comedian could elicit. He was
tall and bully. His big, round, broad
face shone like polished ebony, and was
portentous from affected dignity. His
round, beady eyes rolled so.emnly
about, and his bullet head WAS covered
by the jauntiest of French cooked hats.
The flowing plumes tickled his huge
right ear. The swallow tailed coat was
awfully tight, and must have been a
fearful burden, with its loads of gold
lace, as the wearer stood in the rays of
the broiling sun. The massive, brawny
legs were encased in wrinkleless light
blue trousers, which disappeared at the
region of the knee in the tops of be-
spurred enamelled leather jackboots. A
sword of Trench make hung to the floor
by the wearer's side.-Ptiladolphia Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
First Principles of Matchmaking.

Seventy-second street, in New York
city, is one of the smoothest pieces of
macadam in the United States. GA
good macadamizel road, " says an old
contractor to 7rijune reporter, sis as
smooth as ashpalt and as durable as Bel
gian pavement. We've continued to
the method of constructing such road
ever since MacAdam showed us the first
principles. You remember how he used
to dol 1t is important that the stones
should be as nearly as possible of one
size. He hired men to break them with
hammers and made it a rule that no
stone should be used that could not go
into the mouth of the man that broke it,
One day his foreman discharged an Irish
man for refusing to break stone to a
proper size. Tue Irishman complained
to MacAdam, who, on investigation,
found that the man had conformed to
the regulations in every respect. The
trouble was with his mouth, which was
twice the ordinary size. We do the
breaking better in these days and don't
use mouths for gauges,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
Ancient Egypt's Materia Medfca.

Among the minor incidents of recent
explorations in Egypt is the unearthing
of two resins which were not previously
known to have been included in the
materia medica of the ancient Egypt
ians. The first of these was found in u
small jar that was disinterred in per-
feet state from a heap of rubbish among
the ruins of Naucratia, the site of O
Greek colony, and attributed to the
sixth century 3. @. This resin, of
which there was about eight ounces,
was opaque, and of brown color on the
surface, but underneath was partly of q
clear golden yellow color and partly of
darker tint, though still transparent.
When chewed, it sOftened In the mouth,
and tasted like mastic, but it had also
the peculiar flavor of Chan turpentine,
and gave off the elmi or fennel-llke odor
of that drug when rubbed between the
fingers. 1t also resembled Chan tur-
pentine, but not mastic, in solubility in
alcohol. For these and other considera-
tions, this ancient resin has been pro-
nounced by Mr.. Holmes, the Curator to
the Museum of the Pharmaceutical So
ciety, to be identical with Chan turpen-
tine, although there does not appear to
ldN6 D0cu 0NlueuCo llldb JIlt
drug was known to the ancient Egypt
ians. The earliest extant mention of
Chan turpentine is by Theophrastus,
who lived from 80 to 285 B. G. The
discovery of this pot, therefore, if the
Identification be correct, carries the his
tory of the drug back another two cen
turies. The second resin, which has
also been reported on by Mr.. Holmes,
occurs on mummy cloth found in a
cemetery, in the Fayum province of
Lower Egypt. and supposed to date
from the second century. When burnt
it gave off vapors of benzoic acid, with
the vanilla odor peculiar to Siam ben
zoin. There is no direct evidence that
benzoin was known to the ancient
Egyptians, but lignum aloes, which is
frequently mentioned together with it
in later records, was known to the Jews
in the time of Solomon, and it may be
that benzion is identical with an Indian
frankincense mentioned by Dioscorides.
-HedicdL Journal,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
A Narrow Street in Chinese City.

The streets il Chinese cities are from
six to twelve feet wide, and are filled
fromm orning to night with a ceaseless
throng. Every man black haired, the
fore part of his head is shaven, while be
hind him hangs the long cue imposed
by the Manchu conquerors. Here come
the coolies, in blue jackets AMI blue
knickerbockers, barefooted, or straw
sandaled, with a bamboo across the
shoulders, carrying heavy weights and
singing, "Eh ho, ah ho, ay ho Ii y like
all the brethren of their craft east OF the
Mediterranean. This man with long
flowing robe, wide sleeves, huge horn
rimmel spectacles, slow, staggering
gait, langUid huttering fan, evidently
very important person indeed, is, in fact,
q Confucianist scholar. Here totters
along a woman on her tiny three-inch
feet, c ad in gay embroidered jacket, and
delicate silk skirt, perhaps q small sill
yer mounted tobacco pipe in her hand,
her head adorned with strange hirsute
structures like a carving knife,
trencher, o flying swallow, or what not,
touch of rouge to cheeks and lips,
while white powder gives mistiness to
full l-heshed facial charms.
Here small boy, if it be winter, gay
ly dressed in brilliant colors, perfect
ball of many wrappings. For vehicles,
look at yon sedan chair, borne by two or
three men. In it sits gentleman, ele-
gantly clad in white or fowered silk or
in costly furs, according to the season.
If there be four. or. even eight bearers,
you will have timely warning, for this is
a mandarin +; before him runs motley
crowd of rotaincrs, beating gongs, carry
ing tablets inscribed "Be silent, "Make
way" Vilainous looking fellows with
steepIe-crowned Guy Fawkes hats,
armed with whips, mouthing out un-
couth cries, are the lictOrs of the great
man. Others carry the great silk UNI
bre la, the badge of Office, meant for the
official, should he ever wish to move his
heavy, well-fed body, with its impassive
self-content, from his chair.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
Advice About Pianos.

tGhis is the time of year when we are
driven nearly crazy with work." said a
tired-looking piano-tuner to reporter.
every body wants his piano tuned
and most of them forget about it till the
last moment. And besides being the
busiest season, we have been having the
most trying weather. These cold, dry
days throw pianos out of tune every
time, and, besides that the sounding
boards are beginning to split. 1t always
surprises me what poor care most peo-
pie take of their pianos. Let a man buy
an expensive watch and he'll treat it as
though it were live thing, but people
don't seem to realize what delicate
piece of mechanism good piano is. Pi-
amos are not affected so much by heat or
cold as they are by dryness or damp
ness. Of course, if you stick one end of
a piano up against stove, or heater,
or register, aud let the other end come
near a cold, leaky window, it'll raise
Ned with it; but most people are on to
that. The trouble is the piano is too
dry.
"You know the sounding board-the
life of piano-is forced into the case
when it's made so tightly that it bul9Rs
up in the center, or has 'belley, as we
call it, on the same principle as a violin.
The wood is supposed to be as dry as
possible, but, of course, it contains some
moisture, and gathers q lot more on
damp days and in handling. Now, when
you put piano in an over heated, dry
room all this moisture is dried out, and
the board loses its belly and gets
flabby, and finally cracks. Even if it
doesn't crack, the tone loses lis reson-
ance and crowns thin and tinny, and the
felt cloth and leather usei in the action
dry up, and the whole machine rattles
and everybody kicks.
"How can yon preyent it? Easily
enough. Keep growing plant in the
room, and so long as your plant thrives
your piano ought to, or else there is
something wrong with it. Just try it
and see how much more water you'll
have to pour in the fower-pot in the
room where you1 piano is than in any
other room. Some people keep huge
vase or urn with a sopping wet sponge
in it or ne'r the piano, and keep it
moistened just as cigar dealer keers
his stock. They Keep this up all the
time the fires are on."-Nee0 York Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
Served Under the Great Napoleon.

Philip Mangold, Frenchman, who
served under the great Napoleon from
Moscow to Waterloo, is living in Locust
Gap, Pennsylvania. His hair is white
as snow, and for man of ninety-tive
his intellect is surprising. He reads
the papers without spectacles, and is
fond of talking about the days when he
fought under Marshal Ney.
It was no child's play in those cam
paigns. Mangold had a finger shot off
at Smolenski, and trust from Cys-
sacks spear laid him low at Borodino,
the effect of which is visible is mon
strous scar extending from his left eye
to the back of his ear. At Waterloo he
received a bullet wound in his thigh,
and lay on the battle field for twenty
four hours before he was discovered,
He came to America with his wife and
two children in 1885, not caring to live
in France under Louis Philippe. He was
in Philadelphia for ten years, and then
he went to Locust Gap, where he has
lived ever since.
The Crimean War tempted him to
fight under another Napoleon, but the
thought that he would be firing his
musket on the same side as the British,
who humbled to the dust the great Ma
poleon deferred him from again enlist
ing under the French banner. .--Ne,c
York Her05d.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

Now, Willie" said the Sunday
school teacher, ''you may TIL me why
Noah went into the ark. y
Cant, me'am."
"Why, Willie, you ought to be able
to guess that. Remember, there was
great flood coming"
81 know now"
'Well, why was it2
Somebody had borrowed his UNI
brella.
NOT IN THIS GENERATION.
Blotterwick-I see that the hustle is
no longer worn.
His Wife-Whero did you see that, my
dear?
Blotterwick (meekly)-In the news
papers,
His Wife (sharply)-WeI, when you
see 1t IN the street, just let me know
Time.
A GREAT TRUTH.
Agnes-Tommy, how old are you9
Tommy-Eight. How old are you?
Agnes-Seven.
Tommy-Come, now! You're older
You women never tell your real ages.
A SINGULAR DEFoRMITY
Inquisitive Poet-How is it that of
your age you haven't n tooth in your
head 3?
81 guess it's hereditary. I was born
without teeth"
HIS CHOICE.
Proud father (showing off his boy be-
fore company)-My son, which would
you rather be, Shakespeare or Edison2
Little son (after meditatiOnl-Id ra-
ther be Edison.
eyes, why?"
"Cause he ain't dead. "-Nc,o York
Weekly.
"What's the matter? Is there q fire
down the street?
Nothing is the matter down the
street"
"Well, what is everybody running
down tho street for2
Because somebody at the upper end
OF the street is trying to play fiddle
1ucoga Record.
FUTCRE BLESSING.
Miss Ethel-And SO you are really
engaged, Clara, TO the Count Spahgetti
del Fermicelli!
Miss Clara-Yes, dear.
Miss Ethel--Does he speak English
well!
Miss Clara-He doesn't speak word
of English.
Miss Ethel-Why, isn't that very in
convenient
Miss Clara--A trifle SO just now, but
what blessing it will be after we're
married.-N Y. SHn.
srICY LETTERS.
Young Mr.. Bummer-My dear, didn't
you enjoy my letters while / was away?
L fiatter myself I write rather spicy let
ters.
Mrs. Bummer-Yes, should say you
carried your letters in the same pocket
with your cloves for about three days
before mailing them. Free
Pres
DIPLOMACY OF ONIONS.
Miss Calumet-Goorge, why did you
avoid me after tho lunch
George-Well, why did you take such
pains to keep out of my way, Miss Cal
ume (
Miss C,-I don't know asL Lil rouell.
but you did.
ate an onion at our table. L beg your
pardon.
Miss C.,-And the truth is, I was
guilty of doing the same thing at ours.
Yankee BlUde.
" FREEZE, FEEEZE, THOU BITTER SKY ~
Virgins This cold spell is likely to
cause q good deal Of suffering and priva-
ton, John.
Crabloy--Yes; Inotice young A. Hut
ferton Griggs hasn't dared to put his
cane in his mouth for week past.
JUST THE HORSE FOR A sLEIGH-RIDE.
"You seem to bo very fond of my
horse. Mabel" said jack Softley, as he
watched his hearts idol feeding the no.
bio animal with Jumps of sugar.
"Why shouldn't boz" she returned.
"Tho dear old fellow needs only one
hand to drive him."