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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-25
NOTICES.


WANTED.
We had several calls yesterday for
tenement houses at prices ranging from
$40 to $40 per month. Persons having
houses for rent will please list them at
once. WILBUR S. POLE e CO.,
Rooms 3 and 4 Exchange building.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION, NO ONE
HURT.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1891-04-18
A FRAGRANT OFFERING.

walked alone among the hills,
The voices in the'a
Were kindlier than the thoughtless tongues
OF the worlds thoroughfare.
heard no ring OF Mammon's bells,
Thro' all the scented air,
No jargon of the tiresome crowd
Assailed me anywhere.
"A grander than st. Peters dome A
Shone brilliant overhead! $3.50 ~
stood alone worshiper
In the city OF the dead.
Aionef Another followed me,
so pure she looked, and brave,
And laid her fragrant Offering
Upon new-made grave.
Twas thus the Scottish poet knelt
To kiss the wild flowers bloom,
know the pathos that he felt
Beside the silent tomb.
To be remembered, SO thought,
Is neyermore to die,
In floral language thus is taught
Our immortality!
Oft by the graves OF those we love,
Our sorrows find release,
In precious promise from above:
I'm Me ye shall have peace"
My tears fell-an unspoken prayer
Upon the fresh green sod,
And there laid my cross Of care
To walk alone with God!
Arthur L. jerks, in Jury
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1891-04-18

Daniel Salisbury and his wife, OF
Lac Qui Parle, Mimi, are probably the
oldest married couple in this country.
They are 1os and 1o1 years old respect
lively, have been married eighty years.
and are still '.quite smart"
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1891-04-18

AT the Navy Yard.-s'We east can
non in here said the guide, as they
stepped inside. do you?" asked the
pretty girl. ''Now, please show us
where you blow great guns. l often
hear my naval friends speak of them. I"
Kate Fields Washington.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1891-04-18
AT one Of the steel works in All

AT one OF the steel works in Alle-
gheny City. Pa. there was recently
rolled strip of steel for spring six
inches wide, one-quarter of an inch
thick and 80 feet long. The order for
the spring had been rendered to all the
large English and continental works,
but none of them would undertake the
task.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1891-04-18

New Hampshire and New Jersey
approved the action of the Continental
Congress on January 24. ITS.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07
AT THE GOLDEN GATE.
PRESIDENT HARRISON AND
PARTY IN CALIFORNIA.

Mrs. Harrison Presses an Electric Hutton
" Nhich Launrhes tho Monterey Correct
Description OF the Train-Human Inge-
nuity Must strain Itself to Devise Any
thing More Elaborate or Comfortable
The morning of President Harrison's
marine excursion from San Francisco
opened with a fog enveloping the shores
of the bay, but as tho forenoon wore on
the fog lifted and left the harbor spark
ling in sunlight.
Notwithstanding the announcement
that the invitations TO accompany the
President were limited to five hundred
In number, the committee having charge
OF the excursion were besieged with APP
plications from fully 5000 persons who,
being unable TO secure coveted billets.
crowded the steamers Ukiau and Garden
City and numerous smaller craft which
-slvttoa-tho--beys-- go that at. the hour OF
the Presidents embarkation over 10, 900
persons had left the shore to accompany
him on the trip. At 10:30 o'clock the
Pueblo steamed out into the bay from
Broadway wharf and was soon followed
by the warship Charleston, the Govern
ment steamers Rush and Marono carry
ing the Federal officials, and the revenue
cutters Rush and Corwin with the Gus
tom House officials AS the Pueblo
passed these vessels, which had formed a
line about 800 yards apart, salute was
fired, and the band, which had been sta
toned on the Pueblo, played patriotic
air. After the Government vessels had
swung into the line other steamers and
craft conveying unofficial excursionists
made haste to follow, and, with the
white sails of the yachts skimming the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07
In MEMORY OF GRANT.
GROUND BROKEN FOR A MON
UMENT TO THE SOLDIER.

Martial Music and Sweet Voices OF Chill
dren HsIiow the Occasion = Glowing
Eulogiss by General Horace Porter and
@. A. R. Commander Freeman.
Ground has been broken for the monu-
ment which Is to be raised at Riverside
Park, New York, where rests all that Is
mortal of the great hero of the rebellion,
Gen. Grant. The ceremony was per-
formed amid the plaudits OF thousands
OF citizens, the blare of trumpets, the
beating of drums, the booming of can
non, the melody of children's voices, and
the eloquence OF orators.
There, upon the hillside, gathered the
members OF the Grand Army of the Re-
public and number of other bodies,
who, ranging themselves around the
tomb, paid reverence to the memory OF
him whom all nations honored while In
life. On the Hudson River, decorated
with bunting, lay anchored opposite the
tomb the warship Yantic, and at two
o'clock her guns commenced to belch
forth a salute OF twenty-one guns, which
were fired at intervals Of thirty seconds.
On the platform near the mound were
gathered the members Of the Monument
Association, the members of Alexander
Hamilton Post, G. A. r., the leading
members of the various Grand Army
posts, and the orators who had been Sc
lected for the occasion.
Before the regular ceremonies COM
menced Lawson w. Fuller, at the head
of 300 children from the Sheltering Arms
institution and a drum and fife corps
playing "America, marched past the
tomb with flags dropped. Each child
carried bouquet of forget-me- nots,
which were cast upon the tomb. The
Marine Band played an overture, after
which the Rev. DIR. Clark Wright, chap
lain, OF Department Commander Free
mans staff, offered prayer, and a chorus
sang "The Star Spangled Banner.
Commander Freeman presided and in a
ffSMraSe| rFSffsf,, the 66fStoF OF tof the day.
After sketching his career to the out
break of the rebellion and pointing out
the marked literary ability shown in his
dispatches and memoirs. Gen. Porter
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

more than few speeches, and, leaning
over the brass-topped bronze fence. must
Of necessity shake many horny hand,
to say nothing OF the hands that are not
even moderately hard. When the train
was inspected by Mrs. Harrison, shortly
before the hour of departure, she ex.
pressed a decided preference for the Va
cuna as q day-car, aud her Judgment was
applauded by the ladies of the party. The
toward end OF the Vacuna contains six
sleeping sections, upholstered I'm bluo
and metal fitted in brass. In the rear OF
these and separated from them only by
the buffet is the observation compart-
ment with plush-cushioned willow
chairs enough TO accommodate sixteen
people, provided no one chair is bur-
dened by more than one individual. The
windows are large and are made OF the
finest plate glass.
Human ingenuity may be able to make
railway travel less irksor.e and more
comfortable than IL is now, but ingenuity
must strain itself considerably II II sue
ceeds I'm turning out anything more
elaborate and complete than the "Presf-
Dental special"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

Are the large American cities ccas-
ing to be American? interrogatcs the
Boston Transcript. Last year, for in
stance, in Chicago there were 172, ,756
votes cast at the election, of which
,509 were cast by naturalized citi-
zens. This naturalized vote was di-
vided as follows: Germans $4,000.
Irish 20, ,2j3, Swedish 6864. English
5620, Canadian 4402, Bohemian 3447,
Norwegian 299S, Polish 2774, Scotch
1910, Austrian 1907, Danish 1867,
Russian 900, Hollandels Gil, Italian
6s6, Swiss 62S. French 547, Hungarian
1863, other foreigners 402.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

Many of the Office buildings in Chi
cago carry no fire insurance, declares
the News of that city, because the pro-
prietors are satisfied they are practi-
cally fire proof, and the only money
to be made by insurance agents is by
underwriting Office furniture. which
is dail- becoming more valuable in
artistic quality and intrinsic worth.
Plate-glass insurance men wax fat on
these business palaces, for the ubi-
quitous small boy with his deadly
sling can do moro damage than "2-
IL" fire to windows, but the all-around
insurance man, his commissions held
behind the vitrified walls of fire-proof
architecture, can sympathize keenly
with old Tantalus. He knows how it
is himself.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

According to the Boston Cultivator
"thc rate of farm wages has not de-
clined, despite the depression TO which
farming business has been subjected.
A young man willing to work can
earn more net money working for q
good farmer than he can at many city
cmployments, where tho strife for
position has cut down wages to little
more than the price of board and
clothes. In farm work board is gen.
orally included, and the clothes need
not be expensive. 1t was not an un-
common thing for young men fifty or
sixty years ago 10 work out until they
accumulated money enough to buy
farms. Men who thus worked their
way mp we're really serving an appren-
ticeship, and made much better far
mers tlIan those who went into the
business without this experience. It
is not often that young man can get
wages more than enough for his board
while learning his business. lie can
in farming
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

spoke of the soldier in the most touch
ing manner, reviewing his brilliant
record from the beginning OF the war
until the time of his death.
The chorus sang "America," when
Commander Freeman arose to initiate
the particular ceremony of the day-the
breaking of the ground for the monu-
ment Before turning up the sod Com
mander Freeman said that Greece had
its heroes, mon who won fame by a
single act, or gave their lives to carry
out q noble purpose The world Is full
of monuments to the great and good of
generations past-every nation has its
sacred shrines. Rome thus kept alive the
memory of her magnificent conquests and
victories and the men who achieved them.
England is full Of memorials to her distin-
guished rulers, generals, poets, aud phi
lanthropists. But the sacred shrines Of
America are dearer to us than any other.
We hold with reverence the consecrated
soil OF Mount Vernon, lest we may dis
turb the ashes of our beloved Washing
ton. We bow our heads in silence and
lift our hearts in gratitude at the resting
place of him whose homely features and
loving, loyal heart will never fall from
memory. Our eyes fill with tears as we
stand beside the monument OF our beloved
Garfield. Almost every city and
town has its monument to the brave men
who fell in the battlefield, died in the
hospital, or wasted away in the sitting air
of the death-dealing prison, said Com
mander Freeman. But we come to-day
to perform the preparatory work for a
monument to the grandest soldier of
them all-Ulysses 5. Grant. Born in
comparative poverty, he made his way
step by step to the highest honor which
this nation could bestow. Without
brilliant genius or gifts of oratory, he
furnished inspiration for others and
pushed right on in his purpose until the
goal was reached. His ashes rest here,
but our broad land is his burial place.
We call him ours, but the nations of the
civilized world Wed with each other In
showing him honor
ave gather" sad the speaker, "not
simply as the representatives OF the
hundreds of thousands of living and
dead whom he led to victory, but OF the
entire nation, the men who wore the
blue. Now, in the presence Of the AL
mighty God and these witnesses, we, the
representatives of the Grand Army of
the Republic, break the sod preparatory
to laying the foundation of the monu-
ment which shall stand as slight ex-
preston of the love of this nation for its
great chieftain and shall tell to all the
world that the United States of America
does not forget her heroic dead"
At the close of his remarks Command.
or Freeman took the spade in his hands
and with IL tossed up the earth. This
ended the ceremonies and the crowd dis
perSed.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

Tho Ailanta Constitution solilo.
quizes Tho people of Elkton, Nd,
propose to erect q monument to the
late George Johnston. He was not q
famous soldier nor statesman. All
that lie did was to write history OF
his county. But so accurate and in
teresting did he make his book that
his fellow -cictzcns of Cecil county arc
proud of him, and they desire to erect
a monument that will show all who be.
hold it how much they appreciated
his work; 80 p oSss-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

Odd little outline maps of New
York city, ,colorcss save for irregularly
distributed little rcd and blue dots, are
issued every week by the Health De-
partment. Tho dots indicate the To-
calities where zymotic diseases exist,
aud almost invariably they follow the
lines of the old water courses that
used to thread their way along the
surface of the island pefore the soil
gave place 10 brick and cobblcs. Wise
persons still consult the maps that
show these old water courses before
deciding upon place of residence in
New York.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

THE best way to remove the smell of
paint is to first render the room as near
ly as possible air-tight by closing the
windows, doors and other openings
Place vessel of lighted charcoal in the
room, and throw on 1t two or three hand
fuls OF juniper berries After twenty
four hours the smell will have entirely
disappeared. Another method of doin0
the same thing is to plunge handful Of
new hay into pail of water and let 1t
stand in the newly painted room.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

Mn SYDNEY ]. HrcKsoN. an English
naturalist who has spent some time on
the Island OF Celebes, has made some
extensive observations OF the corals of
the Malay Archipelago. In regard to
the food of corals, he is inclined to the
belief that many OF them may bo vege-
table feeders No doubt the water in
tho vicinity OF mangrove swamps is full
OF the debris OF leaves and wood, which,
sinking to the bottom, must enter the
mouths OF the coral animals. It Is sng-
gested that this may explain the vigor-
GUS growths often seen near extensive
swampa
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07
FUNERAL OF Won MoLrkE.
Crowned Heads Bow Before the Remains
of Germany's Great General.


The funeral services over the remains
of Field Marshal Count Won Moltke took
place in the ballroom of the general
staff building, In which building the
veteran died, and where his body had
been lying in state. Emperor William,
the King Of Saxony, the Grand Dukes of
Baden, SAKE Welmar, and Hesse, the
principal members OF the royal families
of Germany, together with the leading
German Generals, were present. The
services lasted forty minutes
The casllet containing the dead Field
Marshals remains was then carried with
much GER eremony to the hearse, which was
drawn by six Of the Emperor's horses.
After passing through streets lined with
troops and packed with spectators, the
remains arrived at the Lehrte station
and were placed upon railroad car
draped in black, which was there in
waiting.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07
A Jury,s Revenge.

A Leadville jury recently becoming
disgusted with the sass" administered
to themselves as well as the lawyers and
witnesses, by the Judge, ordered the
Sheriff to lock the latter up for couple
of weeks, and, to his honor's great ex-
asperation, he was incontinently lugged
off to Jail and placed in durance vile,
while the case went on smoothly with the
most popular barkeeper in town occupy
ing the judicial chair.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

Nearly thirty thousand violent or
sudden deaths occur every year in
England calling for inquests, twice as
many as the number of Germans
killed in the Franco German war, and
for every violent death there are al
least fifty accidents.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

THE annual snowfall I'm Colorado is
enormous. At Dillon, according to the
Enterprise, the snowfall there from the
first day OF November, 1889, to May 10,
1890, was twenty feet ten inches. At
Kokomo in 1ss4-5, by actual daily meas
urements, something like ninety-six feet
OF the beautiful fell between Nov. l and
June !. or course, 1t kept on settling
all the time, and when spring opened up
there wasn't moro than six or seven feet
on the ground. trt
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07
Alabama owns about four squar,

Alabama owns about four square
miles of oyster beds, "and these beds
are among the most valuable in the
United States. Every barrel of oys-
ters taken out of the State is to pay o
tax of ten cents, which will pay the
expense of inspection and put into
the State Treasury about $4,000 a
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

The Washington Star recommends
that England should buy out Frances
fishing rights in Newfoundland. Even
a high price for them, it thinks, would
be nEeferable to war with France oI
forcible coercion of the colonists.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07
President Elliot of Harvard College
insists that the Western man cannot
srustle" nor "hustlo' any better than
an EasSerner.

The English Law Times reports
general complaint among lawyers Of
lack of business. "Crime and con-
tention both are declining"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

THEoDoRE TMToN is living IN Paris,
where he is writing articles on the SYN.
dicate system TO earn subsistence and
writing poems to satisfy and crafty
himself. His articles go, but his poems
are to be published only after death.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

PRETTY trays Of various sizes and de-
signed for pens, pins and other small OBJ.
jects, are this season out In decorated
china and cut glass, the shapes being
much the same as those occurring in sil-
var
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

s.Screral of the European powers,
sardonically observes the New York
Telegram, "are positively aching to
try their new rifles and smokeles;
powders."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

PIANO lamps with brass-mounted vases
and silk umbrella shades are as fashion.
able as ever; so are the fine cut glass,
porcelain and faience bouquet lamps In
brass and gilt mountings.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

MouAmsED was born at Mecca about
SIC.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

EVERY man is by nature his own god.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-15
Economy in a Family.

New York Ledger.
There is nothing which goes so far
toward placing young people beyond
the reach OF poverty as economy in the
management of their domestic affairs.
1t matters not whether a man furnish
little or much for his family if there is
a continual leakage in the kitchen or in
the parlor. 1t is the husbands duty to
bring into the house, and it is the duty
of the wife to see that nothing goes
wrongfuIly out Of it not the least
article, however unimportant in it.
self. for it establishes prece-
dent-nor under any pretense, for
it opens the door for ruin to
stalk in, and he seldom leaves an OPP
portunity unimproved. The husbands
interest should be the wife's care, and
her greatest ambition should carry her
no farther than his welfare and happi-
ness, together with that of her children.
This should be her sole aim, and the
theater of her exploits in the bosom of
her family, where she may do as much
toward making a fortune as he can in
the counting room or in the workshop.
1t is not the money earned that makes
man Wealthy-it is what he saves from
his earnings. A good and prudent huS-
band makes a deposit of the fruits of
his labor with his best friend, and if
that friend be not true to him what has
he to hope? If he dare not place con-
fideuce in the companion of his bosom,
where is he to place it?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-15
IN PERPLEXITY.

Not long since to look on her face was a
pleasure,
So pleasant 10 me had every feature grown,
And | thought that the man would enjoy
rare treasure
Who'd have the good fortune to call her his
own.
Her voice when she spoke had rare melody
Her smile was a sunbeam to comfort and
bless;
1 was sure her affection, whoever could win
il,
Would be the best fortune man could
possess.
But though 1 have neither been cold nor au-
dacious,
Yet in her demeanor a change I can see;
To others, perhaps, she's as kind and as gra-
AS ever she was, but she isn't to me.
The light that illumined her eyes has de-
parted;
She's silent constrained, and her manneris
cold,
And wonder how ever I thought her kind
hearted,
For never a smile OH her face I behold.
Perhaps she is different to others who love
her,
But women are puzzles, as all men agree,
And the paradox strange III this maid 1 dis
cover,
She's always most distant when nearest to
me.
Cape Cod Item.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-15
Few Women of Leisure.

Downs Weekly.
1t is noticeable fact that the days
of leisure are practically over for women,
and that idleness among men is on the
increase. This seems to be natural re-
suit of the conditions which have given
men over from the necessity of work i,
referring back to the division of labor,
which assigns the making of money to
men, and to women the spending OF it..
AS wealth increases, so do those ac-
tivities which make great demands upon
the time and strength of women. Club
life, for instance, which, within few
years, has sprung into existence among
women, has to very great extent
placed in her hands an immense increase
of those matters which heretofore have
been considered outside her limits. and
which are having an untold influence
upon the times.
OF woman it cannot now be said that
she must "work and wait" She has
always been working. but she seems to
be no longer waiting! Thinking over
these facts, illustrated by the practical
examples all about US to-day of pursuits
philanthropic, social and educational,
and philosophizing upon them, what
must be our certain convictions?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-15
THEY FIT GRANDLY.
A Hint Regarding Two Of Red
ferns Recent Costumes
for Ladies.
One a Pretty House Gown
Suitable for an Informal
At Home.
A Dream Of loneliness in a
New Outdoor Spring
Gown.
How a Lady Of the Sandwich
Isles Gets a Good
Fit.
snecial Letter to the Globe.

Special Letter to the Globe.
NEW YORK. Feb. Bone Of the in
dcations of approaching spring is the
issue of new designs and the display of
elegant model costumes at Redfern'S
famed Fifth avenue establishment.
And, whutever the weather, though the
mercury be down towards zero, or the
snow and sleet falling pitilessly, these
February days find the big par
lors crowded with customers. and
among them the alert fashion
chrOnIclerS connected with the great
journals. And most of them come here
with pleasurabIe anticipations, secure
of seeing beautiful apparel and of re-
ceiving, from Redfern himself down to
the least of his gentle-voiced assistants,
the most courteous attention. And this,
too, no matter how numerous their
questions. One of them, in there yes
terday, was jOtting down some details
as to the mail order department, which
is one of the best equipped in the coun-
try. She had just been shown two
handsome costumes-a dinner toilette
and street gown which were about to
be dispatched to lady in the Sandwich
Isles. "Yes, madame" said the polite
attendant this customer has never
been in New York, but she sent
us an Old bodice and
chart of measurements, and here
are the results which we are confident
will fit as though they had been mould
ed to her figure" Here are two cos
tunes which are going some distance to
find their pretty owner, but not quite to
the South Pacific. One is house gown,
suitable for an informal at home.