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French scientists have determined that
triehin@ have as much vitality az an anti-peu-
sion lie. They survived long exposure to a
temperature Of 20 below zero and came out as
lively aud active for mischief as ever.
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Total lmnorts as above =.

It should be noted that over S74 Of the above
values going to the free list are in purely agri-
cultural products
The articles designated for admission at a
reduction Of . per cent. below the present or
any future rate Of duty are as follows, follow
ing the same order, and adding values as in the
foregoing instances:
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-02-12

Next to a veteran, the New York Times
hates an American manufac uTer, and its
poor, Eugand-worshiping soul is WFung by
the success Of our tiu-plate makers, and the
fact that thcy are already offering their
wares cheaper than the English could be
bought before the passage Of the Mckinley
bin. il is raging and lying about this, but
the fact remains al the same, and the cheap
ness Of cans aud boxes offered by manufac-
turoIs ID PittEbuFg and elsewhere is stimu
lating the erection OF new canning factories
in various parts Of the country.
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Total Of list at . per cent. reduction Sl7i3 rs
Total reduced and Tree, "a of ISIS. S. 1903 933
These articles now 10 be admitted free into
3raziI, or at a reduced rate Of duty, amount 10
a little over IS per cent. in value Of all our
experts To that country, the total being, for the
year above named, $7,l5l,723. The total Of
articles imported from Us, their classes and
amounts, which may be OF particular and COM
parative interest just now, are as follows:
Exports TO Brazil from the United States for
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is The oulV
champion The soldiers haze among Lie great pa
pers " he country. The best ioay 10 Lclp all
ueteraits is By getting IL more subscribers.
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Hare you done your duty in getting one more
subscriber for THE NATIONAL TRLBUNEf
You should do this, for ii is The best rVay toAelp
your comrades.
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s.rr-ao Al IRA v.s-aros rasr orat IS ssss.pess srss
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
Time Saving Tubes.

We Americans are apt to think that we
have monopoly on all the labor saving
contrivsnces and devices for making
short cuts in distances. 1t is therefore
with some surprise we read that over in
Europe they are sending letters between
Paris and Berlin, distance of several
hundred miles in an hour and half,
sometimes even in thirty-five minutes.
This is accomplished by means of pneu-
matte tubes, fact that suggests posi-
bilitics in the way of future rapid transit
which, it may be, the United States will
be the first to develop fully.
The only use of these means of COM
municatlon in this country on anything
like an extended scale is, so far as we
know, the Western Union Telegraph
Company's system of transmitting mes
sages between its head offices in Dey
street, New York, and its branch at
Twenty-third street. These two points,
distant about two miles and half, are
connected by double pneumatic tube
beneath the surface of Broadway.
The city of Paris is covered, or rather
undermined, by network of such tubes,
with numerous stations at which messages
are received and delivered. The special
cards provided for this service by the
French postal authorities are no doubt
known to most of those who collect
foreign stamps. s.-The Aryosy.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

ENGLAND is having great excitement
over graveyard insurance, which seems
to be a new thing in that country. Ten
or twelve years ago Ohio and Penn
sylvania were infested with rotten con-
Germs. organized to do just this kind OF
work, the agents of which would take
risk upon an octogenarian whom in
articulo mortis. Other States were
more or less affected by the evil, but
these two easily held the lead. 1t was
long and tedious operation, roofing
out the system, but after a few pirates
had been placed within stone walls, the
rest of them gave up the business in
disgust and turned themselves to some
other work, probably quite rs con-
genial and quite as rascally, for men
of this class would rather starve at
chicanery than thrive in an honest
pursuit.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

are pronounced freeholies and they are
Mexican black beans. They are superior
to the Boston baked beans and every one
eats them. They are never eaten on the
day they are cooked and they are always
served IN great abundance. They close
the meal as rice closes dinner in Japan,
and suppose tine idea is that the men
who has not enough of other things can
fill up on beans.
Only the better classes of Mexicans
eat meat, and one of the great fields of
American investment is in the packing
interests of Mexico. Ham and beef
bring high prices and the meat business
of the city is managed by monopolies.
Good beeves are worth from $25 to $50
head, and there is more mutton eaten
than beef. A great deal of the beef
comes from Guanahuato and the meat
wagons of this city are mules. Take
one of the greasiest, dirtiest mules you
can find and fasten frame work of
hooks to a. saddle on his back. Let this
framework extend about foot above
the mule and on the hooks hang the
halves and quarters of beeves so that
the blood drips from them on the ground
and SO that where the mules are small
the meat almost touches the ground and
you have the Mexican butcher cart of
the mountains. The butcher or meat
peddler wears great blanket about his
head and his feet are bare. If you buy
quarter of beef he will carry it into
your house on his head, and if you want
slice he will hack off piece for you
and charge you about the same for the
neck as the loin.
The Mexicans sell every part of the
animal, and in every market you will
find little cook shops in which shreds of
beef are fried and offered for sale. These
are for the Indian customers, who stand
about and eat the greasy morsel with
their fingers and without the use OF
knife, fork or plate. In Mexico City the
butchering is more carefully done and
beef is comparatively cheap. You can
get a roast for eighteen cents pound,
but pork is more expensive. The pork
business of Mexico City is controlled by
Mexican, who has made millions out OF
it, and he is now putting up one OF the
biggest packing houses in the world. He
has his agents all over the city, and he
imports his hogs from Kansas.
Mexico is the land of the fry. Nearly
every kind of meat is cooked in lard and
the consequence is that lard is very high
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

thousand dollars year. know Of one
man who gets 5000 day from his pull
que hacienda. The pulque plant is one
of the most useful plants in the world.
Its fiber makes excellent thread and the
Aztecs use its thorns for needles. They
thatch their houses with its leaves and in
the days of Cortez they made paper out
of it. This paper was like papyrus and
there are old Aztec manuscripts in exis-
tence which were made in this way. A
number of other liquors in addition to
pulque are produced from the plant, and
in one district brandy called mescal is
produced from it, and tequila is another
liquor, much like Scotch whisky, which
comes from the maguey plant. The
leaves of this plant contain thousands of
fibres and these make the strongest kind
of bagging and ropes, which are equal in
strength to linen.
Before came to Mexico I was told
that would find nothing good to eat in
the country. Every one said that the
hotels were horrible and my friends
patted their stomachs and looked at me
with commiserating eyes. They said that
everything Mexican was mixture of red
pepper and grease and that the only
good hotels in the country were those
kept by the Americans who had gone
down there. l ventured into the land
with fear and trembling and at fist pat
ronized the American hotels. 1 found
them dear and nasty. The cooking was
abominable and the service was worse. !
then tried Mexican hotel and found it
excellent. Some of the best meals have
ever had have eaten in Mexico, and
sail not soon forget dinner at Toluca,
where pretty Mexican boy gave me a
dinner of ten courses and where the
cuisine was equal to that of good Paris
restaurant.
Throughout Southern Mexico I found
splendid hotels. They were often kept
in old monasteries, and at Zacatecas I
slept in a big room off cloister where
the door was four inches thick and the
key weighed pound. One end of my
room opened out on a garden, which
constituted the center of the building,
and every night could walk around this
in the moonlight and see it soften the
outlines of the great Moorish dome of
the monastery which looked down upon
me. The cooking here was good and
the same was the case at Guanahuato.
The Mexicans serve their meals one dish
at time in table d'hote style, and they
begin dinner with soup and end it with
beans. The waiter at the hotel brings a
bowl of soup to you and you ladle out as
much as you want.
After soup you have half dozen diff
ferent kinds of meat and vegetables
served separately and you close with a
dessert and coffee. Mexican frijoles
always form part of the meals. These
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
Effective Defence Weapons.

Four of the twelve-inch rifle mortars,
intended for the defence of New York
City, have been delivered at the. Sandy
Hook proving ground. These mortars
have cast iron body, reinforced with
two thicknesses of steel bands. They
are 104 feet long and weigh 20, 200
pounds each. The maxium charge IS
eighty pounds of powder. The shell
weighs $50 pounds, and is charged with
forty pounds of explosive. The great
est range is six miles. At the test they
showed great accuracy. At range OF
five and half miles ten shots all fell
within space of $50 feet by thirty
about the size of ship; at two and a
half miles, all fell within rectangle
sixty-six yards long By nineteen wide
Picnyune.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

bottom, and which are often eight inches
thick and eight or ten feet long. These
leaves start up from the ground around a
green cone, which is foot at the base
and which ends in a point as sharp as a
needle. It takes about ten years for this
cone to grow to its proper size, and if it
is left flower grows upon it and the
plant after blossoming dies.
Just before blossoming, however, it is
ready for pulque making. This is done
by cutting the cone out of the plant, and
this leaves great bowl in the plant
about as large as two-gallon crock.
Into this bowl the sap of the leaves run
in streams, and each plant will produce
from eight to fifteen quarts OF juice per
day. It continues to yield this amount
for six months, and one plant will pro-
duce barrels and sometimes hogsheads of
liquor. This liquor is natural beer. 1t
flows into the bowl as sweet as sugar and
clear as crystal.
After twenty four hours, however, its
color has changed to that of
skinned milk. It has begun to ferme mt
and it tastes like butter milk. 1t begins
to smell and its odor and strength in
creases as it grows older, so that for
block around pulque shop you have the
smell of limburger cheese factory and
you can shut your eyes and find the
saloons by your nose.
This pulque is raised in big planta
tions. There are tens of thousands of
acres of the plants growing near Mexico
City and one railroad receives thousand
dollars day for carrying pulque into
the capital. travelled for miles through
these pulque plantations and saw the
Indian poems gathering the liquor. Each
man had a bag of untanned pig,'kin on
his back and the juice was drawn from
the plant into this by means of long
gourd, which acted as siphon.
The Indian would poke one end of
this gourd into the hole in the plant and
suck the air and the juice out and then
turn it into this dirty pigskin bag. These
bags were made of the hide of whole
hog and some of them looked as though
they we're not more than two or three
days old. The legs and mouth of the
skin were sewed up, and when the bag
was full of the liquor these wobbled
about, making the bag look like live
animal. The pulque ferments in these
bags. In them it is carried into the
city and it is served either from them or
from barrels.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
MEXICAN FOOD.
THE QUEER THINGS UPON
WHICH PEOPLE WAX FAT.
fortunes in Pulque-A Wonderful
Plant and Its Product-The
Hotels and How They
Are Kept.

Writing from Mexico City, Frank g..
Carpenter says in the Washington Star:
You can buy beer all over Mexico for a
cent glass, and there are thousand
licensed shops IN Mexico City. The city
gets $1,000 a day revenue from these
shops. and $50, 900 pints of this liquor
are sold here every day. This makes
two tumblers to each man, woman and
child in the capital, and the consumption
throughout the remainder of the country
is proportionately great. The Mexican
beer is called pulque. It is made from
the sap of cactus plant of the same
species as the century plant. This grows
in Mexico to a height of from eight to
fifteen feet. 1t is made up of great
green leaves, which are a foot wide at the
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

The pulque shops are found in every
Mexican block. They are open from
early in the morning until o'clock at
night, and at this time they are closed by
law and are not opened again until next
morning. Mexico has excellent police
regulations in regard to the poems or
common people. The pulque shops
are patronized chiefly by them,
and you find less disorder in
Mexico at night than in any
other city of It's size in the United States.
The high priced saloons, which sell all
kinds of liquors, are kept open until
midnight and later, and I hear the bill
lard balls clicking and the rich foreign
ers and well-to-do Mexicans carousing in
the Iturbide barroom early in the morn
ing and all day Sunday.
The pulque product, however, is the
most profitable Of any liquor production
in Mexico and many of these pnlque
plantations bring in from ten to twelve
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

The Medical Record utters timely
protest against the enormously preva-
lent and very injurious habit of smok-
ing cigarettes and inhaling the smoke.
"The seriousness lies not alone in the
fact that it involves steady absorp-
tion of poison but in the utter hope
lessness OF the habit and the entire in
ability of the indulger to give it up.
In this respect it resembles with pain
full similarity the opium habit. Such
is the experience of the writer, corrob-
grated by the testimony of other
physicians" Any such drug habit
which exercises power of progressive
paralysis upon the will, should never
be begun. That is the only safety.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
The Most Powerful Worker.

Darwin used to say that the most pow
erful worker we know is the earth worm.
Without the earth worm we could no.
live. Earth worms make the soil fertile.
According to Darwin's calculations, each
particle of the earth to depth of two
feet is brought up to the surface at least
every hundred years. But this estimate
is too low. 1t has recently been calcu-
lated that this renovation of the soil
takes place every twenty-seven years.
There are from $50 to 200 worms in each
square yard of earth ten inches in depth.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

SOME time since 1t was discovered
that certain insurance companies had
added sun stroke to the causes OF
death, list of which is printed in very
small type in their policies, for which
they will not be responsible. Now
company has placed asphyxiation in
the same list There is no reason for
the exception Of either ailment from
the operation Of the policies and it is
simply bit of sharp practice which
tde courts should rebuke at the first
opportunity.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
A WRETCH.

A young married lady said to her hus-
band few days ago:
''Dear John, wish you would buy me
that elegant set of diamonds we saw in
the window of that jewelry store on
Austin avenue.
swell, dearest, you know that when
you wish anything it is just the
same to me as positive order" replied
john.
"Yes, John, yes; o, you are SO
good"
Your wishes are the same as orders,
and you ought to know me well enough
that will not be ordered about by any,
body" answered the brute calmly
Teas Sytings.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

Oh, where Is the cat on the high back fence,
That shifted its awful walls,
Till the man came forth with a rage intense,
And gun that was filed with nails!
He pointed the firearm firm and true,
And the trigger he pulled with care,
And seeming earthquake came and threw
Debris through the midnight air.
The gun is in pieces miles away;
'Tis far past the msnders skill
The man has surgeons fee to pay,
And the cat is wailing still.
--Washington Star.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
A TOUGH BIRD.

Landlady (starting the conversational
ssHow absurd the ancients were, when
we think of it. They actually believed
that the souls of the dead entered birds
and animals"
A Brutal Boarder-'sNothing absurd
about that. Take this chicken we are eat
ing, for instance, it was probably in
habited by the sole of shoe. Pick
Ne-Up.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
THE FATE OF AN ADVISER.

Tom--"Poor Dick has been taken in
by the sharpers.
Harry-"Has, eh? Well, must help
him out. owe him debt of gratitude.
He once gave me some good advice
about how to avoid sharpers, and I fol-
lowed it with success. - Yankee Blade.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
WANTED 1T APPLIED.

"Pa," said little Johnny Cutely, ar
heard you talking with Mr.. Brown just
now, and you said you-you didn't be-
lieve in future punishment.
swell, Johnny" replied the old man,
"the SUBJECT is strange one for you to
speak about; but, really, l DON'T
"Then, l suppose suppose that lets
me out O. the lickin' you promised me
after supper. Puck.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

Thirteen young Danish ladies have
passed the requisite examination in gym
nastics and dancing for becoming teach
ers in Danish female gymnasiums. An
officer, two doctors, two teachers and two
ladies officiated as censors. The young
ladies passed, on the whole, exceedingly
we'll, three obtaining the greatest posi-
BILE number of points IN both theory and
praxis,
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

The oldest ex-Senators of the United
States now living are James W. Brad
bury of Maine and Alpheus Felch of
Michigan, who entered the Senate in
December, 1S47. Hannibal Hamlin
took his seat in the Senate in June,
1848.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
DISCRETION POWER WITH SENSE.

"When I marry / shall try to be
sure of one thing, and that Is, that
have woman of sense"
"You mean woman of prudence and
forethought, with fine perceptions and a
knowledge of human nature !"
sYes, that's it exactly"
"But they are just the ones who
never marry. Life.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
KISS AND KIN.

every interesting conversation in
here?" asked papa, suddenly thrusting
his head in through the conservatory
door where Ethel, Mr.. Tomkins and lit
tie Eva sat very quietly.
Eyes, indeed said Ethel, ready on
the instant with reply. "Mr. Tomkins
and I were discussing all our kith and
kin--weren't we, Eva?"
"Yeth, thath what you wath, replied
little Eva. 'sMither Tomkinth thaid,
May l have a kithl' and Ethel said
You kim"
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
HE HAD NOT MISTAKEN HIS CALLING.

HE HAD NOT MISTAKEN HIS CALLING.
Lady of the House-''You want some
thing to eat. l can't give you any
thing. I'm fairly overwhelmed with
tramps."
Tramp-"That is testimony to your
goodness of heart, madam. The close
listed and hard hearted are never troub-
led with them"
Lady of the House-''Well, I suppose
| can't send you away hungry. ."-New
York Press
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
AN ANXIOUS WIFE.

"My dear, now pray don't get into
that boatl'
''Why not. darling2"
at looks so very dangerous, aud you
are so awkward; suppose you we're to
drown, whatever would become of me?"
'sDo be quiet, I know how to take
care of myself"
"Well, if you persist, get into the
boat; but hadn't you better leave me
your watch and chain. ."-Stras5u,yer
Bote.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
TOOK ADVANTAGE OF HER INExPERIENcE

"Oh, Harry" she whispered, ~ love
you so much, but really Pm too young
to think of getting married right away"
"Of course you are, darling, - ne
urged, Sand that's why I'm so anxious
to have it come off early. When you
get older you will probably change your
mind, ,"-Detroit Free Press.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
A TENDER SUBJECT.

"How many people there are in the
world with ridiculous notions!' said one
passenger to another.
81 know it, replied the other; 'sand
how they dc thrust them on the public!
I've laughed good many times about
it,
s'Ha! ha ha! So have I. Now there's
the sun-spot man, for instance -"
''Excuse me. Science is never ridic-
ulous. / am the sun-spot man.
Judge.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
ouITE AccoMpLIsHEp.

Fightson-.' See that man in the
elegant carriage2 When he came to
this town ten years ago he couldn't write
his own name.
Runsway-" And nova"
"Served two terms by George, sir,
for forgery. Chicago Tribune.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
NOTHING TO PURCHASE.

Husband-''Did you attend the
Hawkins auction this afternoon?"
Wife-'sYes; but didn't make any
purchases. +"
Husband-.I thought you went pre-
pared to buy2"
Wife-sT did; but I didn't happen
to see anything that I didn't want. -
Judge.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
A PROMPT MAN.

"Planesaw is very prompt work.
man."
"Indeed."
"He always drops his tools promptly
upon the first stroke of the noon bell,
and gets out of the shop as fast as he
can. - Yankee Blade.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
NO LONGER NECESSARY.

81 see that Barrows has ceased calling
himself Ebenezer Hicks Barrows, and is
now known as Hicks Barrows."
s'Yes. His rich Uncle Ebenezer is
dead. ."-Truth.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

Invu1nerable-How He Lost It-.Her
Vain Concern-No Longer Nee
essary-From Hand to
Mouth, Etc., Etc.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

The porter of the Grand Pacific Hotel,
in Chicago, has retired with a fortune of
800, 900, accumulated from tips given
him by guests Of the house.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
THE TAILOR TURNS.

Chollie (exacting)-" But this coat is
crooked as the very deuce, Snip"
Snip Tin despair)-" might have
known you wanted straight jacket. y
Judge.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
WHICH WAS wIsER2

Fond Father-"Children if the clock
struck fourteen, what time would it
be?"
Logical Louise. "Two o'clock,
papa"
Clever Charlie-"Time to get the
clock fixed. Life.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
ovER-ExERTroN.

Kind Lady" How did you become
80 lame"
Tramp" Over-exertion, num-"
Lady" Indeedl In what waya"
Tramp" Movin' on every time a
perliceman tole me-" - New York
Weekly.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

sTHn Women Taking . Hand is
heading in . late Baltimore paper.
Well. that is al right, probsbly-un-
less it is hand 81 whist.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
HE THOUGHT SO.

HE THOUGHT SO.
Mrs. Larkin deeply Interested in
evolutioD-"James, do you believe our
remote ancestors were tail-bearerss"
Larkin-"Itis is quite possible that the
women loved to gossip then as now
Truth.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
SEPTEMBER 27.

Lesson Text: Second Quarterly Re-
view-Golden Text: Hebrews,
xiii, 8.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
HOW HE LOST IT.

Wallace-"You'v been losing flesh
lately, haven't you9"
Willis-"Yes. I've been shaving my
SELF"
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
HER VAIN CONCERN.

She-"Jack, that man is staring at me
dreadfully."
He-"shall I go over and thrash
him2"
She-'No; but do tell me if I look
all right. ~ West Shore.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

Miss Placida Symperthy Ito D'Ulthud,
who has just fallen out of the tree)-
s'Did you hurt you2"
D'Ulthud-s'Who n the dickens d.
We think t?"-PucE.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
FROM HAND TO MOUTH.

Cadson-"Cholly's a reckless dog;
seems always to live FROM hand to
mouth"
The Major-ssYes; and mostly from
some other fellows hand. Life.