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Evening journal., 1889-08-26
IN the mountains.

Newcomer-W What is the highest point
reached here's
Old Sojourner-Oh, don't bother about
that just now. You win find it out soon
enough when you get your bill Boston
Budget.
Evening journal., 1889-08-26
RAILROADS..
!. 2 B. statlon. s.2s lO.g5 Is b.99 8 b

AUUILIUINAII IhAINCl
Daily except Saturday and Sunday
Leave Wilmington, 6.l7 p. m; b. d o. juno
ton, 6.2S ?. m. Newbridge, 6.A p. N. Arrivs
Dupont $50 p. m.
On Saturday only-Will leave Wilmington
at 5.17 p. m. Arrive Newbridge 54l p. m. Leavt
Wilmington lois p. m, Newbridge 1898 D. m
Arrive Dupont 1856 p. m. Leave Birdsboro LID
p. m Arrive Reading LAO D. m.
On Sunday only-Wil leave Reading at
$50 a. m. for Wilmington and intermediate
points, st Peters at 40 p m, y arwick 81
p m, Springfield 5 03 m, Joanna 08 p N
Birdsb0ro 5 % m. Arrive Reading D IN.
GOING SOUTH
Daily Sundss
Daily lex Sunday onfs
Evening journal., 1889-08-26

PaINcE RUSSELL has requested the cor.
respondents Of United States newspapers
abroad to deny that he afflicted with
cerebral tumefaction
Evening journal., 1889-08-26

WILL you eat philopena with me,
Miss Emily2" "What if loser ''Vhen
] win kiss "And II I VIM Then
/ have to kiss you Punch.
Evening journal., 1889-08-26
wANAmAKER'S.


PHILADELPHIA. Morday. August 26. 1889.
Three quick Dress Stuffs:
Colored Cashmere, size.
Printed Challis, 371ac.
Printed Mohair, size.
AS the market runs they have
a right to be third or half more.
Just such bargainsat a dozen
Dress Goods counters.
Heagy German Table Dam
ask, 90 anches, soc a yard
The closer you look at the
stuff the more you will wonder
at the price. Fine, long-fbre
flax, no starch or sizing-just
the pure, soft Linen, honestly
spun, honestly woven. Seven
neat, pretty patterns.
IS inch Napkins to match,
SI.Io adoZen.
Southwest of centre.
Always quick news in Up.
holstery. Here are three
items:
Ecru snd White Nottingham Curtains,
this seasons make, quarter. third
and more under regular prices
Odd lots 1urcoman. Tapestry, and
Chenille Curtains in the same price
boat.
Best hand-pninte7 Shades on Harts-
horn spring rollers, 95c kind for Sc
odd lots.
Second floor, north Of Transept.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Evening journal., 1889-08-26

If this administration were occupied
with state questions, or great questions,
or affairs national interest it would be
better for the administration and better
Evening journal., 1889-08-26
EMPLoTE-"Can i have this afternoon

EAiPLoVE-"Can have this afternoon
off, sir2" Employer-'What forq' EN-
ploye-'T want to 60 out to the cemetery
TO put some flowers on grandmother's
grave" Employer" M Does the road
to the cemetery take you past the base
ball grounds or the fishing pool7" EN-
ploye-' Neither, sir. The cemetery is
near the trotting park Boston Courier.
Evening journal., 1889-08-26
UHIIY Oh
Daily lex Sunday

On Sunday Only--Leave Wilmington at Z OC
p IN for Reading and intermediate points.
Daily, except Sunday-Leave Dufong u.Qb q
M, Newbridge go q. m. Arrive Wtlmingttn L
6.42 q. m.
Saturday only-Leave Reading 1900 noon,
arrive Birdsboro 1920 p. m. Leave DUPONT liz
p. M, Newbridge 1.30 j. m. Arrive Wilmington
] .53 D. m. Leave Newbridge 100 q. m, arrive
Wilmington 7.23 .. N.
For connections at Wilmington with p, w
q b. r, R.l.at y. q o. junction with (R. q O
II. r., at Chadd's Ford Junction, with P, W.
e b. r. r., at Coat esville and Waynesburs
Junction, with Penn. r.. R.l, at Birdsboro
with T.. a.. h, r. p. and p. r RI, at Reading
stations.
BOWNESS BRIGGS, Gen. Passenger Aet
A. q. MCCAUSLAND. .Superintendent.
Evening journal., 1889-08-26

A man may be bold MS q lion,
But how sheepish he will look
III his wife comes into the kitchen
AAau ~s..cl.0s lllu kiss4ls llAv vookl
Detroit News
Evening journal., 1889-08-26
EAST BOUND.
sFxnress trains

BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
ID Schedule In effect May ~. 1889.
TRAINS LEAVE DELAWARE AV. DEPO'
N m. ~
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
The Tea of The Himalaras.

The lea of the Himalayas is the best
in the world, writes Frank G. Clrpen-
ter, and l would advise housekeepers to
try Indian tea. There is tea in Thibet
which has the flavor Of milk 10 such a
degree that when used it has all the
properties of good tea mixed with the
most delicious of jersey cream. This
Himalaya tea has the flavor of flowers.
1t is pure and clear and it is supplant-
ing the Chinese tea in the English mar
kets. The tea plant grows wild through
these Himalaya hills, and in some Of the
regions near here it attains the dimen-
sions of large tree. Still it is now
only about half a century since tea cul-
ture was commenced in India, and now
there are many Indian tea men who
prophesy that Indian tea will eventually
push Chinese tea out of the markets of
the world.
The lower hills of th-se Himalay as
are covered with fea plantations. The
plants look not unlike well-trimmed
box wood hedges, and they rise in ter
races up the sides of the hills. Here
and there you may see gayly dressed
woman picking their leaves, and now
and then a low shed in which the firing
is done. The seeds are sown in nur-
series in December and January, and
they are transplantcd between April and
July. The ground has to be well
drained, and / am told that the best tea
soil is virgin forest land, which in In
dia is very rich. The plants begin to
bear about the third year, and they are
at their best when they are ten years
old. The Indian tea planters get about
five piokings year, and often seven.
In China and Japan three pickings is
considered GOOD.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
The First GrandchiId.

''Grandmother called the farmer, and there
came
Out through the vine wreathed porch blush
ing dame,
Surprised and eager at the strange new
name.
The clock within rang forth the chime for
eight
"a messoge' Read it-quick-how can you
waltz
Her husband, smiling, leaned upon the gate,
At arms length holding in his trembling
hand
The crisp, white sheet, while he the writing
scanned,
Then read once more, with voice almost un-
manned:
"'Thy granddaughter salutes thee, ''Baby
Bell"
Mother and child, thank God, are doing
we'll"
A moments silence ON the proud twain fell.
She broke it soon Grandfather l con
graf
''What. meT" the good man cried, lifting his
hat
GrandfatherH-me2 l hadn't thought of
thatr
--AaaaA A. Ps>s,on, in Hssrscs's
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
Canine COpartnershin

The cats on the west side of the river
in Norwich, Conn, have been bovirc
rather hard time lately on account of the
singular cooperative business carried on
by two dogs in that quarter. For SOW.
eral months an English setter and n bull
dog have run together in the .ucccssrul
pursuit and slaughter of cats. The cats
were too willy q formidable for either
dog to ovorpoi Sne of them alone, 50
the animals v ,sntO y, partnership. 1t
was the setter part, as soon as a cat
was brought Y a halt, to cnga her at
tcntion In front, while the bulldog in a
cowardly way approached from the rear
sprang on tie game, and broke her
backbone with a single snap of his now
erful jaws. These dogs hunted nightly
together, and they killed great many
pet cats, as well as tramp cats; and
naturally after while one of them died
rather suddenly while the business was
still flourishing. After its death the
partner entirely abandoned the pursuit
of cats; the warning was not lost on him
1t seems.
But at Norwich town there is still n
lively canine copartnership between
couple of dogs in the business of killing
woodchucks, smlll back and tan ter
rier and a bulldog being the members of
the firm. The pair visit woodchuck
burrows daily, and the bulldog rips and
bites off boughs and roots at the moath
of the hole, and then the little terrier
slips in and gets the woodchuck. Some
times it happens that the woodchuck, if
he is big, old fellow, gets the terrier at
the same time, and then there is bitter
and rumbling Underground battle, but the
terrier has always won thus far. The
two dogs have already killed scores of
woodchucks. After killing woodchuck
the terrier drags him out of the hole.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
PORT TOBACCO, MAR ELAND. JUNE 7, 1885,

cleaning red lights suddenly appeared
around the curve in the cut, and she
knew that the train was already rapidly
backing up, aud that she had not mo
ment to lose.
Feeling for the lock in the darkness,
she then strucN it several heavy blows
with the ak, which she still retained.
Luckily, one of the blows taking effect
the broken lcck dropped to the ground.
She then graspcd the switch lever and
ried to throw it over, but it resisted her
utmost efforts to move it.
The train was now only a short dis
tance away, and with the energy of de-
spair she braced her feet against the
switch standard, and, putting forth her
strength in one mighty effort, the OBJ
stinate lever came over with a sudden
jerk and No. % glided safely in on the
| siding.
The shrill scream of whistle was
now heard in the cut, and as soon as the
train was clea< she again exerted all her
strength and threw the switch back to
its former position.
A headlight now flashed around the
curve, and moment later No. II rushed
roaring along.
Lily, by her bravery, promptness and
presence of mind, had averted terrible
calamity.
AT the official Investigation which
took place few days later the entire
crew of the runaway train acknowledged
that they were asleep, and that the con-
ductor had been awakened by brick
thrown in at the caboose window.
The only excuse they had for their
neglect of duty was that they had been
on the road for thirty-two consecutive
hours without sleep or rest, and that
they were completely worn out.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
management of the road was responsible
for requiring the men to run the long
double trip, the entire crew were sum
marily discharged for neglect of duty,
as though mans endurance was an infal-
ible bank, to be drawn on at pleasurel
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
HUMOROUS.

A sign writer-The stenographcr.
Consumptive's early stage-A hack.
A foul tip-Feeing the waiter with
lead quarter.
Natures serial story-The spinal col
umn, continued in our nccks.
81 should re- mark, said the merchan-
when the price Of goods went up.
The frontiersman who shot an Indian
corpse didn't know it was Lo-dead.
The man who made himself a new tile
out OF fur was fur-tile in resources.
When the ''shrill music of the shells"
is spoken of, il bomb bard mcant2
"Only hew and cry" said the boy
who sliced his foot with broadaxe.
When man goes out for "spin"
on the road he should use "top" bug
gy.
To use the language of gushing y outh,
the very perfection of the beautiful is
the smile which now adorns the face of
the seaside hotel keeper.
Young Lady-NIr Conductor, will l
have time TO say good-by to my friendsG
Conductor-Guess not, miss; this train
leaves in two hours and half.
A lawyers life is full of trials and
tribulations, but he manages to make
money out of the trials and leaves moth
ing but the tribulation for his clients.
Mr.. softleigh approaching the point
-"The sentiments hold toward you,
my dear Miss Keene, are so tender that
/ cannot express them r Miss Keene--
"Then you might send them by mail"
Pupil" Teacher, kin me an Bill go
an git pail o. water 2" Arkansas
Schoolmaster-" There you go again.
How many times have got to tell you
that it amt good grammar to say me an
Bill" Pupil-"What ort TO say9"
Teacher" Bill and me. Can't | never
learn you nothing"
When in the orchard Robin sings
When in the meadow springs the grass
Tis time for cucumbers and things
And tender garden sass"
Spring vegetables glad the heart;
OH they are welcome ever;
A zest to life do they impart.
And purify the liver.
care those our men2" asked Major
Pitcairn, as a squad of soldiers ap,
preached along the road near Concord.
''No, sir" replied Colonel Smith.
"They are minute men" General
Washington believed that it was to this
that the British defeat may be attribu-
ted.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
NO. Z.
The Silver Lining

Above my head, beneath my feet
The black clouds roll in fury by:
glance as far as eye can see,
And naught but storm clouds fill my sky.
No ray of light, no sunbeam shining
No g INNER of a silver lining
About my soul and on my hoart,
The shadows fall in silence grim,
The murkey clouds have filed my brain.
And left my wearie1 vision dim.
My soul in grief and woe repining,
Can SEQ no 81. aiming silver lining.
Clouds OF the past but roll away,
To let the present gloom appear;
While future years rise dark and stern
with threat'ning cloud heads far and near.
The hand of fate my lot designing,
Obscures the blessed silver lining.
Roll ON dark clouds with grief oppressed
Thy vaporing mists must pass away
The soul bears but its destined load
or sullen sorrows day by day.
Some welcome breeze thy mists entwining,
Must yet disclose the silver lining.
-Lurana W. Sheldon
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
A Mysterious Deposit of Coal.

Although attempts 10 mine coal at the
mouth of the Kennebec river in Maine
have been unsuccessful, yet every time
lump is washed ashore it excites some
one with desire to investigate farther.
A Portland paper tells of lump weigh
ing about twenty-six pounds that re-
Gently was washed up on Popham beach,
and thinks that Portland syndicate
will make another effort this summer to
ssssss sssass rsSs Ssssxsass
come for the last sixty years. The
opinion is frequently expressed that the
Jumps are broken from a rich vein be-
heath the sea-
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
A SagaciOus Rodent.

A st. Louis policeman reports watch
ing the maneuvers Of a gray old rat in
an alley in that city. Emerging from
hole she moved cautiously to a pan of
water standing near. Presently five
young ones rushed out and raced to see
which would reach the water first. The
old rodent seemed very much alarmed,
and, with a bound, leaped to the edge
of the pan, raised herself on her
launches and bit and scratched at her
offspring whenever they attempted to
drink. After she had succeeded in
chasing the young ones back into their
hole she wet her whiskers in the water,
looked rather susp ciously about, and
slipped the water very cautiously, as if
to learn whether or not it contained
poisonous matter. Then, after a salts
fed glance round, she gave squeak,
and the five young rats came running
out and drank their ill.-Dst,Ou Free
Press.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
The Haiching of L0hsfers

Mr.. L. A. Brackett of the Massachu-
sets Commission on Fisheries and Game
is making arrangements to commence
the propagatin of Holsters on the Mas
sachusetts coat early in June. A steam
launch has BEN purchased by the COM
mission and ignow being fitted for this
work. Mr.. IBrackett has made the
drawings for catching boxes, and they
are now being coEstructed. He expects
to be able to turn 40, 600, 900 young
HOLSTERS into ,kassachusetts waters this
season. The y pertinent will be watched
with great deal of interest by every
one interested in fish culture, as this is
the first attempt made to propagate the
lobster artifieially. The lobster fisher
men are interested in the experiment,
and have promised to give all the aid
and assistance in their power to help the
project along, and it is from them that
Mr.. Bracket expects to secure the fe-
male Holsters, and, as female lobster
of twelve inches in length carries from
80, 900 to 40, 900 eggs, he will only re-
quire from 1900 to 140O to furnish the
requisite number or eggs to make up
the enormous number he proposes to
hatch this season. Professor S. Carmen
will be detailed from Harvard College
to assist Mr.. Brackett in this great un-
dertaking.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
An Aesthetic Taste.

Miss Northcote = Don't you admire
decorated plates, Mr.. oldmansioa
Mr.. o.dmansion--lndeed I do, Miss
Northcote.
Miss Northcote-What style of decor
alton do you most fancya
MIR. Oldmansion-Hash.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
Habits OF the Beaver.

Having to pass the newly made lumber
camp often, writes a Michigan CORE
spondent of Forest and Stream saw
that the beaver had two or three dams,
and a house built, all in shape to spend
the winter. The man who carried lunch
to the men several times saw the beaver
at work carrying birch and alder sticks
into their winter store houses. He said
he watched them one day for an hour,
and this was in the middle of the day.
In November, after it frozo up, set two
tramps and caught one beaver, another
broke the chain to my trap and got away
under the ice. Thinking he might have
got fast with the trap and drowned, l
took two boxes with me one day, and
cut number of holes throught the ice
along their road. AS the water in their
dam was only two or three feet deep I
could easily see the bottom, but could
not find my trap or beaver. AS a last
resort cut hole in the dam, so as to
draw the water off. In about an hour
the pond had lowered a foot. The
beaver came out of their hiding places
and made straight for the hole in their
zRexgsssF Fasgszxssg sssrxsaxSaaas,
they swan past the holes VIC had cut in
the ice we caught two young ones,
two-thirds grown, b. the tail and pulled
them out. On the ice they were help
less. They showed fight but did not
make much effort to escape. The other
was an old fellow, and we tried to catch
him in the same way, and had hold of
his tail sevezal times, but he was too
strong. Just then hunter happened
along with gun aud shot him for US.
We were eight miles from home and had
no way TO carry the two live beaver, so
we foolishly killed them, and have
been sorry many times since, as think
they might have been tanned, or could
have sold them alive for double what l
got for their hides, SO each. The old
one weighed thirty pounds, and the
hide brought me Sc. caught one two
years ago that weighed forty nine
pounds.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
Not an Inten tional Smile.

Miss May Morningside-rm very sor-
ry to hear of your brothers death, Mr..
Villers; but you'll pardon me if say
that see no reason to smile over It'll
MIR. Yorke Villers-Oh, dear, mol I'm
not smiling don't you knowl lit
must be this eyeglass Pm trying to keep
inl
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
An Exorhitant Charge.

Convasescent- doctor, how much
do owe you for saving my life2'
Doctor-"Sixty dollars
Convslescent-ssixt dollarsr (wiih
an air of sonviction) 1t ain t worth il. .
A-Eposh.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07

very profitable. The United States fish
commission steamer Abatross returned
to San Diego from trip down the coast.
While in the vicinity of Bartholomew
bay big seine was cast as an expert
ment. The seine was 400 feet long, and
it required thirty five men to haul it
ashore, and when it was landed it was
found to contain 1877 green turtles, av-
eraging 125 pounds each.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07
Catching AbaIones and Turtles.

The coasting trade with Baja Califor-
mia from San Francisco, San Pedro and
San Diego is much larger than is usually
thought. Abalone shells and meat
form large portion of the trade. The
abalone is an enormous clamllke shellfish; /;
from the interior of the shells is made
more than half of the 'mother- of pearl
used in the world. The shells are chiefly
shipped to Paris where they are ground
and the article put into marketable
form The shells bring from S25 to $35
a ton, according to their quality; and
as they often grow as large as a wash
bowl, it does not require very many to
make a ton. The meat is in very great
demand among the Chinese, and is ex-
ported largely to China where it is worth
$110 ton.
More than half the whaling done on
this coast is done off the shore of the
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-06-07

hef hech IN tne lnky darkness.
Once she stumbled and fell, and the
lantern vas dashed from her hand and
went rolling along the ground far be-
yond hel reach by the sudden impetus
which her fall had given it, but without
pansing TO regain it she sprang to her
feet and bounsiod On.
The switch at the end of the siding
was fully half mile from the office,
and about the same distance from the
beginning Of the cut. If No. 90 could
back ip on the siding in time they would
be safR but if they attempted to back
down he main track past the telegraph
office 1 hey were liable to be oyertaken
by I'D 21 before going half the dis
lance, Is, according to the dispatcher's
figured No. 21 should now be very
close.
As ply reached the switch q pair Of
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graph office between the two trains, the
dispatcher gave the above order to that
station, and as soon as it was properly
acknowledged by Lily he sent another
order to No. % at Silver Creek, which
read in this manner:
To CONDUCTOR AND ENGINEER No. 22:-
Meet No. q at Floodwoof Approach care
fully. EXC.
The intelligent reader will readily IN
derstand that by means of these orders
the two trains would meet each other at
Floodwood in perfect safety, notwith-
standing that one of them knew moth
Ing of tho arrangement.
To explain: If No. 21 should arrive
first, they would be stopped by the red
light, which showed that there werc cr-
ders for them at this station. The con-
ductor and engineer would Immediately
proceed to tho telegraph Office, where
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13
Harness Leather.

REDUCTION ST No. stock, l15c per ID. on steers
'nd light hiu IS, &c on bulls and &c on calfskins.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-13

The tone Of the market was rather heavy, If
anything, but final changes are about equally
olVloed between gains and losses. which are
IN but few cases for more than fractional
amounts
The Posts financial article saws: The selling
OF Erie and some other stocks Yesterday was
presumed to be for London account, and this,
Together with the fact that in the last week the
pank OF England has lost E45000 on balance.
uas Ia ieo some people to expect that the Bank Of
england rate OF discount would be raised on
next Thursday, and thus give the whole stock
npTSina Dp1SSG.ation setback. There is, however,
notnlhg In the London money market as yet
20 warrant this expectation. Money Is easy at
Pegs per cent for discounts on the open mar
AeS tnough there are still some apprehensions
~ ~ .ne necessity of further shipments of gold to
tn sne Argentine Republic. But this forenoon
@ sneLe was considerable Erie bought for London
sT aud the early prices in the market for
an American stocks were <0% higher than
0i9sing prices here last night.
~ Is the apathy of the American public in re-
Sd[u 70 railroad stocks that makes the dull mar.
1et and leaves all the active stocks lower to-
Tay than week ago. The decline in Lead
tIust was due to heavy selling of st. Louis
SSoluers, VINO were alarmed by the notice of the
secretary OF the State of Missouri to all cor
poratlons of that State that they must comply
Win Win the law, passed last winter, prohibiting
any corporations from putting their stocks into
trust The penalty for Noncompliance is loss
ot tne1r charters. Some of the most profitable
concerns In the Lead Trust are in ST. Louis, and
y looks as If they would be compelled to with
~ HrsW from the trust. Nevertheless, the decline
In ~ trust certificates was only IL per cent.
1ne IouoWlnE table SHOWS the prices or active
sstocks on the New York Stock Excnange yester-
U1y Wy corrected daily for THE DISPATCH n
uaITHEr sTEPHKNSoN, Oldest PittsburR men,
nue.;