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The milkman who waters his goods
generally does so under the impression
that the water poured in incorporates
itself with the milk and cannot be de-
tected except upon chemical analysis.
This shows gross ignorance. The milk
will hold only its own fluid; all foreign
fluid will be precipitated if the mixture
is allowed to stand for a couple of days.
Any housewife may spot a dishonest
miI5man with very little trouble. Let
her take a long slender bottle, clense it
thoroughly and let it dry out. If, then,
it is filed with milk and allowed to
stand in a coOl-nOt cold-place for
fOrty-eight hours, all the foreign fluid
will be precipitated-that is, it will set
tie to the bottom of the bottle. The
sOured milk will then fill the middle of
the bottle and the fatty substance will
be floating on top. Sometimes the top
will be a layer of cream, then will come
a layer Of albumen, another artificial
device to make the milk look rich; then
will come the sOured milk and at the
bottom will be the foreign water. The
whole scheme of deception can be read
by a glance at the bottle after one has
had a single lesson in the rudiments OF
milk inspection. This sort of work is
not scientifically satisfactory, but it will
always develop the fundamental fact
whether or not the milk is nOrmal.-In,
terview in st. Louis GlObe-DemOcrat.
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Something About the Fair Clerks in the
Treasury Department.
Some of the prettiest women in the
country are right here in the treasury
department. A great many of them are
Washingtonians, but, as a class, they
represent the beauty of about the whole
country. They are blondes and brunettes,
short, tall and medium; some plump,
some queenly, some of 1.-THE and willowy
form-they are fairly the types of the
several great cities and about all the
states of the union. In that one building,
covering four blocks, is to be found more
beauty than hunt through many large
cities might discover. A large proper
ton of the female clerks are young, or
at least on the minus side of the line be-
yond which lies old maidhOod. Office
life is not promotive of longevity, and
many of the elderly women have died
off or reached an age beyond usefulness.
Those who have come into the depart
ment within the last four or five years
are mostly young women, who have just
passed through the normal schools and
have entered the government service
through the civil service examination.
They are a bright lot of young women.
In many cases it is, perhaps, that they
are the prettiest girls of the family,
which inspires them with an ambition
beyond the drudgery of homework OF
the trials of a schOolmarm and induces
them to strive for the more agreeable
work and better pay under the civil
service. And this may account for
there being such a prepOnderance OF
good looks.
They are not, as a rule, gaudy beauties
frescoed and decorated by art, though Of
course there are some of that type
They are usually of a refined type OF
good, sensible, pretty girls-a little be
yond girlhood. They always dress il
good taste, though not generally in an
expensive style. A designer of fashions
might get many valuable points from the
female treasury clerk.
During the ordinary working hour;
the visitor to the treasury will not SET
many of these young women. They are
apt to be hard at work behind closed
doors or just shut from view by greer
baize screens over which one cannot SEE
without the aid of chair or step ladder
The desks are usually provided with thes,
screens, otherwise they would be an
noyed by the gaze of the visitors passing
through the corridors, who would prob
ably be numerous if the screens were no
/ there.
But during the half hour allowed FOL
/ lunch a swarm of pretty female clerk
/ rush about the corridors to exchange
bits of gossips or to get their tea. Wash
/ ington may get her reputation for he
beautiful women from the thrOng tina
appear on the avenue on the way HON,
from the departments after o'clock.
Whenever there are any number o
people on visit to Washington the treas
ury is generally the center of curiosity
on account Of the popular interest il
money. Visitors are always interested
in the places where the money is handled
and some one must be delegated to TAX
charge of them. In view Of the great mum
Der of these visitors some young womeI
of the department have been designated
regularly to act as guides through tn,
redemption agency, where the old note
are counted and destroyed Washingtol
Star.
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As Nile Rhea was leaving Ottawa,
Canada, an old, white haired gentleman
approached her in the sleeping car, and,
with charming cordially, presented her
with a basket of the most beautiful
grapes, in the top of which was a large
bunch of Marechal Neil roses and the
following note: "Dear Madame Rhea-
When the first Napoleon was brought as
captive into Plymouth sound by Capt.
Maitland, of the BellerophOn, was born
July, 1915. My father, who had ex-
tensive hot houses, sent to Napoleon a
basket of the finest hot house grapes. In
seeing you in the role of Josephine !
thought would ask your acceptance On
your character as empress Of the FRENCH
of a basket of the same fruit, thus per-
petuating the incident and paying a
tribute to the empress in the person of
one who so ably represents her. With
best wishes and regrets, dear madame,
yours very truly, Richard Kettle, Ottawa,
Oct. 10, 1882" And the old gentleman
added: although my countrymen called
Napoleon a rascal, my father had the
greatest admiration for him. Xxx
change.
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NEBRASKA
Republican by about 90. 900.


LINCOLN, Neb. 6. Nebraska voted for
minor state and county officers and q
congressman to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of James Laird Repub.
hcan, in the Second district. The cleo
ton passed off without much excite
ment. The day was fair but the vote
was small The estimated majority for
the Republican state ticket is 20, 600.
The state is overwhelmingly Repub-
hcan, aud but little interest is felt in
the result
OMAHA. Neb. Nov. 9.--Returns from
this state are still very incomplete, but
there is no doubt Whatever that the
Republicans have elected Laws to con-
gress in the Second district by from
1000 to 1000 majority, and that the
Republican candidate for supreme
Judge and the regents of the university
have from 20, 0J0 to 20, QUO. Dough-;
county has elected the entire Demo
cratic ticket with the exception Of ono
commissioner.
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Democratio-ProBabIy 10000.


Dies MONIES, Iowa, Nov. 6.-Late re-
turns show the election Of the entire
Democratic state ticket by a majority
probably exceeding 10000. Boies seems
Slightly ahead Of the balance of the
ticket. The Republicans aimit n net
loss of 8. ODO. and if the ratio Of gain Is
kept up that Boies, Democrat Will be
elected by ,, 800 plurality.
The Republicans claim the Legislature
by a good majority.
Dies MONIES, Iowa, Nov Com.
plete returns from ninety-fve counties
and the remaining four estimated the
same as two years ago, shows that Boies,
Democra5. has ), So plurality. The
official returns will undoubtedly in
crease this majority 10 about 1000. The
entire state ticket, lieutenant governor,
Justice OF the supreme court, superin.
tendcnt of public. instruction and rail
way commissioner Is elected RepUb-
licans claim the legislature by ma
jority in Joint ballot bat Democrats do
not cOncede more than 3.
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KANSAS.
Prohibition nIade the Issue.

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 6.-The elections
in Kansas were for county offices only.
In most cases the issues were of a pure
ly local character. In some of the
counties, however, those which contain
the large cities, the campaign was
fought on the issue of the re-submissiOD
of the prOhibltory amendment to a vote
of the people This issue was forced.
in most cases, by the Democrats, al
though it was included in a few remote
instances in the Republicans platform.
In Kansas returns are slow in coming
in, and this year the elections being
local the results are not returned to any
one place or person, so that it is i'm
possible to summarize them at this
time, and it viii be three or four
days before full returns can be col
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CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.
Minor Events and Little Happenings a
VariOus Places

AAAAoE Events anu LlIbAe happenings at
Various Places.
Prevalence of hydrophobia is causing a
reign of terror in Saline county, No.
Lewis James was jailed at South Bend,
Ind, for trying to burn the town of Walk
ertOn.
Michael Shugrue is under arrest at Terre
Haute, Ind, charged with the murder of
Frank Crew.
Elmer Grass and Frank Anderson, rival
lovers, fought at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Ander-
son cannot recover.
Oscar johnson was shot and killed by John
Lawrence, at a colored dance at Indianap-
oils, Saturday evening.
Dan, Davis, while intoxicated, fell asleep
on the railroad track near Canton, O., and
was cut to pieces by cars.
Miss Sadie Hirst, of Malta Bend, No, who
was bitten by rabid dog, a week ago, died
in horrible agony Sunday,
Hon Warren G. Sayer, of Wabash, Ind.
has accepted the place on the Cherokee In
dian commission, rendered by President Har-
risOn.
Mrs. John McLain, of Wheeling, W. Va,
drank quantity of aqua ammonia in mis-
take for Hunyadi water. Her recovery is
doubtful.
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A Literary Curiosity.

The menu of the farewell banquet to
the members of the oriental congress at
Stockholm ought to take a permanent
place in collections of literary curiosities.
The initial ''sup" or nip of schnapps
which always begins a Scandinavian
dinner was recorded with song in the
Hairs tongue. The soup was described
in Getziani and a song in Chinese. Prof.
Max Muller wrote a song in Sanscrit
praising the salmon. The filet de boeuf
was mentioned by a verse in Malay and
by another in Javanese. Artichaut au
beurre was treated in Coptic; cateau a
Ia Victoria in hieroglyphics; the ices in
Himyaritic; the cheeses in Biehare. The
menu ccncluded according to the Swe-
dish custom with Thanks for dinner"
written in Persian.-Berlin Letter.
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NEW JERSEY



JERSEY CITT, Nov. 6.-Beturns arc
coming in slowly from the various pOr-
tons Of the state. There is every indi-
cation Of sweeping Democratic VIC
tory. kilograms indicate that the Dem
ocrats have carried many places in ex-
cess of the figures cast at the presiden-
tial election.
TRENTON, N. J., Nov. Returns
from about twenty districts are still in
complete The complete figures will
probably raise Abbett's majority to over
u. 600 Ex-Assemblyman Beckwith
telegraphs the state Democratic CON-
mittee that Gardner, Republican, is re-
elected to the senate in Atlantic City By
22JmajOrity. This gives the Repub-
licans control of the senate by II to 10.
The house ISIS Democrats, - Repub-
GcanS
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sToRM-TossED lake ERIE.
Rough Experience of the SohOOn
-. l., q, r.. NJ, &C.,

Rough Experience of the Schooner
Southwest in a Four Days Storm.
ERIE Pa. Nov 9.-The schooner
Southwest arrived here Friday night in
a badly demoralized condition, but with
her crew and cargo safe. One look at
the vessel shows that she outlived an
experience which would have sent q
poorly constructed vessel to the bottom.
Sunday morning she was struck by a
terrific gale. Huge volumes of water
swept over her, and she became unman-
ageable and was dr ven out of heI
course. The storm continued Monday
and Tuesday and not until Wednesday
did she begin to make headway
After a vovage which officers and crew
feared would be her last, she reached
here Friday night, and viii make re-
pairs before starting back. Capt Fort
says that in all his experience he has
never seen such waves as those that
rolled on Lake Erie last Sunday.
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VIRGINIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Nov. 6.-An dis
patches received report continued IN
creased Democratic gains
A dispatch from SaltYIlle, Va, In the
southwestern part of the state, where
the Republicans were expected to make
large gains, says that the Ninth con-
gressiOnal district gives Mckinney
more than 1000 majority, a gain OF
more than 1, 800.
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. Out Of one
hundred counties IN this state, seventy
nine have been heard from. Out OF
fourteen cities, returns have been re-
ceived from nine. Every city and
county show a gain for Mckinney over
the vote Of 1885. Thus far the Demo
Gratis have elected 40 members to the
house of delegates. and % to the senate.
The composition Of the. last legislature
wes: House, % UemOo7sSs, &c E Sz.ocf,,,.1.
Hcans; senate, 20 Democrats, IA Repub-
Hsans. The latest estimate Of the 70 te
Of the state gives Mckinney 30, 00J ma
iority.
A number Of kilograms Of congraula-
ton have been received by Chairman
Gordon and Secretary Barbour, among
them the following:
NEW YoRK, Nov. g.
Hon. John s. Barbour:
/ congratulate you and the people Of your
state on your victory. New York is Demo
cratic and Ohio in doubt, both as TO gov
ernor and legislature. CALVIN s. BRIcE
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school Teachers.

If every new girl who is introduced as
aschOol teacher should be dropped" by
the board when she proves to be a fail
ure, we would soon have no teachers, or
good ones at least. 1t is strange, but fact,
that, as usual, the girls who, for from two
to three years, seem utterly hopeless, fin
ally become the best in the staff, while,
on the other hand, those who start out
most promising, too often become worth
less. While the Normal school lays a
good foundation, it does not finish a
teacher-in fact, making a teacher"
only commences when she makes her
debut in the school room. The superin-
tendent's staff and her principal watch,
instruct and discipline her, for three to
four years, when she is a thorough, re-
liable teacher, and then-she goes off and
marries, generally.-Interview in st.
Louis Globe-DemOcrat
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An Reverence the Dad.

A day or two ago a fruit peddler was
passing up Elizabeth street east, yelling
''ba-nan-oes" at the top Of his voice,
when he suddenly caught sight of the
Grape on a door which signifed that a
child lay dead in the house.
"Ba-nan-oes! Ba-nan-oesl Bal
He checked his words as he saw the
Grape, removed his hat and placed it on
his cart, and he walked to the next
square bareheaded and silent.-Detroit
Free Press.
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Pennsylvania
RepubIican-Light Vote Cast.

Republiean-LightV Vote Cast.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov 6.-The only
state officer voted for in Pennsylvania
was state treasurer. The candidates
were Henry h Boyer, Republican; Ed
ward A Bigler, Democrat, and James
I. johnson, Prohibitionist A light
vote was cast. Very little interest was
manifested, the election of BOYER by a
decided majority being a foregone con
clusiOn- Hart, Republican, for state
treasurer, in 1887, had plurality of
1928. Returns from twenty-seven
counties, including Philadelphia, show
a net Republican gain of about %, JJO
Boyer's plurality viii certainly exceed
60, 600.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7.-Reports of
elections from all the counties do not
materially alter the estimated figures
already announced. Boyer's plurality
Tor state treasurer, according to the
latest computation. is 90, 251. -
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One Of Edison's chiefs lives in Newark
in a house which is all agog with wires.
AS one approaches the front gate it
swings open and shuts automatically.
The visitors foot on the steps Of the
porch rings a bell in the kitchen and also
one in the masters study. By touching
button he opens the front door before
the stranger has time to knock. An cleo
trical music box plays during dinner.
When the guest retires to his bedroom
the folding bed unfolds by electricity.
When he puts out the gas a strange,
hooking display of skeletons, grave
stones, owls and other hideous phantas-
magoria dances about on the wall at his
feet, reappearing and disappearing in a
ghostly electrical glare. Exchange.
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The true scientific attitude of the day,
as expressed by the president Of the
British association, Professor Fowler, is
suspended judgment" Professor FOw-
Ter indorses Sir John LubbOck's idea that
the field of inquiry is imitless and that
there may be fifty other senses as diff
ferent from ours as sound is from sight,
and even within the boundaries of our
own senses there may be endless sounds
which we cannot hear and colors as diff
ferent as red from green Of which we
have no conception. These and a thou
sand other questions remain for solution.
The familiar world which surrounds us
may be a totally different place to other
animals. To them it may be full Of mu-
sic which we cannot hear, of color which
we cannot see, Of sensation which we
cannot conceive. Science Gossip.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov. 9.-Pigg
Vann was hanged + day at Summer.
vile, Ga, fo- the murc r Of North White,
May l, 1883. He was sentenced to be
hanged Nov. 1, but was respited for one
week. On the scafrold Vann SHOOK
hands with q great many friends, and
also with the father and brother of his
victim, from whom he implored and re.
ceived forgiveness Vann attempted tc
commit suicide Friday by cutting
his throat. and the rope sank into the
cut thus made. Vann's neck was broken
by the fall. The body was turned over
tn his friends
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Fitzgerald, County Democrat and Re-
yubliean.
MISSISSIPPI.
DemOoratio-NO Opposition.

DemOcratio-NO Opposition.
JACKSON, Miss, Nov. $50 little in
terest was felt in the election, there be-
ing no opposition TO the Democratic
ticket, that the executive committee did
not provide for returns as heretofore.
Five counties, having local dissentions,
enjoyed some little excitement, but
otherwise the election was unusually
quiet and unintereshng. Unfavorable
weather made the vote even lighter than
was nnticinated
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THE PRESIDENTS VIEWS.
He Does Not Think the Election ResuI
Affects His Administration.

He Does Not Think the Election Result
Affects His Administration.
WASHINGTON, Nov S.-An evening
paper publishes the following state
ment, which, it is understood, is au-
thorized: The president does not re-
gard the defeat Of the Republican party
in Virginia, Ohio and Iowa as involving
the administration. While he is OF
course sOrry that the result is as it is
he Is not surprised The result in Iowa
he attributes to the temperance issue
and TO the unpopularity of one of the
candidates with the farmers. He does
not take the responsibility for Mahone's
candidacy in Virginia, but holds that
whatever assistance and support he
gave Malone was not more than he
would have given any nominee of the
party. MahOne was IN no sense person
ally his candidate.
He attributes the result in Ohio to
the opposition of the voters on general
principles to the election of any man to
an Office for a third term. He regards
it a protest against third term for
Foraker and against the idea in general
of a third term. He does not feel that
the voters we're passing verdict upon
the National administration
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A widows Ertravagnnoe

In Hamilton, o., man died few
days ago who had $500 in money laid up,
and a payment Of $3.50 was due to save
his home. His widow took the money
to buy fine casket and expensive lot in
the cemetery and to hire twenty-five
hacks for the procession, and thus used
every dollar and let her home 60 by de-
fault.-ChIcago Times.
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NEW YORK.
Fstimated Democratic 1TaiorIties.

ALBANY, n. Z, Nov. 7.-Retu1ns
from the various counties in the state
aggregating as follows: Democrats
50, 582, Republicans 64,93L Demo
cratic plurality IS, 60l.
The state legislature viii stand about
as follows, there being one or two dis
tricts still in doubt: Senate-Repub-
hcans, l9; Democrats, IS. Assembly
Republicans. g.; Democrats, 81. In the
present legislature the Republicans have
majority Of 80 in the senate and 10 in
the senate.
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In Chicago.

CHICAGO Nov. 5.-The result of the
election in this Cook county is: The
Democrats elect ten county commits
sioners and the Republicans five.
Stephens Republican, is elected re-
cOrder over Crawford, Democrat-Labor,
by .O40 maioritY
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A GEORGIA | NcHINe.
The Brutal AssaiIant of Young Lad
Hanged by a Mob and Shot.

The Brutal Assailant of Young Lady
Hanged by a Mob and Shot.
Melville Ga, , v "a mob of
twenty or twenty-five masked men
rushed into theIviIlage of SwainsbOro,
broke into the Jail aId took charge of
James Thomas, a ne o, who outraged
Miss Copeland, near SwainsbOrO, on
the 9TH inst
They took Thomas to the woods. AS
the party passed in the street the
negroe' s cries for mercy could be heard
above all the noise ma ie to drown them.
He was taken to the woods near by,
and within twenty minutes was dead.
riddled his body with bullets. Thomas
had confessed his crime.
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THE ELECTIONS.
How They Resulted in the Vari-
Gus States Tuesday.
Democrats Garry Ohio BY a
Majority of About 10, 900.

Foraker Congratulate Campbell on His
Election - Democrats Carry Virginia,
Iowa, New York, Maryland and New
Jersey - Republicans Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and Nebraska.
COLUsBUs, Nov. S.-The Democrats
of Chic now realize that they won a
bigger victory Tuesday than they
thought they had Chairman Neal, of
the State Democratic Executive COM
mittee, claims the election Of the entire
Democratic ticket by safe majorities
In the collection of the first returns
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New York, Nov 9.-Frank Frost,
the cashier of the Pacific Nail Steam
ship company, at Panama, became q
defaulter. He was bonded by the Fidel-
ity and Causalty company. of New York.
This company secured his arrest, con-
viction and sentence to jail. ApeeuliaT
feature of his sentence is that he must
serve. in addition to his regular sentence,
one day for every dollar he stole. On
this account he Will have to serve nine
wears extra
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''Yes, sir--yes, sir, I" he observed as he
rubbed his hands together, "the next
alderman from our ward must be a clean,
decent, honest, intelligent man, and a
credit to his constituents. Yes, sir-yes,
sir; we have made up our minds to that
all citizens irrespective Of party. We
shall 60 in en- masse. The candidatei
Why, he'll be selected from my party, Of
courser'-Detroit Free Press.
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The Rewards of Talent.

Old Mr.. Hazeed-They do say that
Bill Smartly has done real well play
actin since he went to New York, an
lives in great style.
Mr.. Hummer-Yes, 1 went and called
upon him when 1 was down there.
Old Mr.. Hazeed-And don't he live
away, way up?
Mr.. Hummer-Yes, about thirteen sto-
ries.-Drake's Magazine.
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NAY Not Have Lost All.

COLUMBUS, O., Nov. S.-Thursday
night when the Republican headquar-
tiers closed Secretary DOa ne sasl he had
information which led him to believe
that the entire Republican state ticket
with the exception Of Foraker, and pos
sibly lieutenant governor, had been
elected by majorities ranging from $500
TO ., 200.