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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-04-02
Special Offer No. Q, Ladies' Size.

Same works as in Special Offer No. G, but
in a 14-carat gOld-flled hunting ease,
guaranteed 10 wear 70 years. This il a
beauty, aud like the case in special offer No.
2, il is made by rolling two plates of solid
gold over a sheet Of fine metal for the pur-
pose Of stiffening the gold and making il
protect the works better.
We offer this Watch with THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE one year TO new subscribers or
renewals LOT tlb.bo
For sale at 1890
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Special Offer No. 6, Ladies' Size.

A genuine Waltham, with 7-jewel move
ment, compensation balance and safety
pinion, stem wind and set, in rolled gold
plated case that will look like gold for a
long time, If proper care is used. Fully
engraved. A guaranteed timekeeper, hunt
ing case.
We offer this watch with THE NATIONAL.
TRIBUNE one year 10 new subscribers or
renewals Tor :. Sl2.50
For sale at Il.75
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BRILLIANT DROPS,
LADIES, LACE PIN.
No. RsT.

No ~ Is Beautiful lace pin with white stone setting
In heavy rolled gold It Is Ornamented with kOrget-me
nOts and makes very handsome pin for any lady 20
IL will be sent ~ premium for club OF four
subscribers at 81 each.
For sails a. e. csntA
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No. ls0. No. lSB. No. Isl. No. IsS. No. is8s
We have decided % aid 70 our premiums line o. cold
chains better than has set appeared u any publishers
list before In short, they lha very best modern
chain worn. They not gold clear through but are
warranted tn wear for % wears TIE tips aud Cross
bar slide solid gold. They high carat 40
made 20 welt, only enough ai.ov being puf
have male arrangements 20 get them al very low price
and such chains cannot be bought no retail auvWhers
the country az less than 80 90 sI according The stvis
No. - i7 uniform shown, part length. 90 the cut
Each alternate link s broad fiat smooth loop while
the other s round gold wire iiu beout fully chased
the corners. 10 has cross bar and pendant nr charm
az the other end 70 Is sold, postpaid fr only $3.50.
year for S. D. Ten cents cents extra ~ yQu want &c reg
isered otherwise sent at purchasers risk IL Ia noa
gigpn a premium.
No. I'D Is q novelty Of the same quality as the ress
IL has beads OF which il shown the cut Whch
slide back and forth toward each other thus adjusting
the length Of tie chain suit the wearcr the strands
between She beads being doubled. This chain o. sent
postpaid with the paper for one year for 49, For sae.
postpaid for sf with 0lent3 extra f registration IA de-
street u Is not given premium.
No. III i5of the same quality as the rest, and ts Of
Uniform long, half twist Inns shown IN the cut. IL r.
mt sipt any address. with the paper FOR one
year, for $40. For sale for 81, villa 10 cents added X
registration Il desired. 10 Is not given premium.
No. i~s1 IS another style. same quality Sent, VITA
paper year, for s42j For sale postpaid for $50.
viz 10 cents extra IL registered II 10 not given IS
No. I@8 fsa heavy double strand curb chain. vita
slide. same qu1litY The rest SENT with the paper
fo one year, FOR &C. For sale postpaid 70 any address,
10 8.l5. is not given q premium.
Ihese 1rs bargains that IL would pay country jewellers
70 axamin&
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Special offer No. 7, Ladies' Size.

Same works as in Special Offer No. g. hut
in a gold-llled case guaranteed 10y the
makers To wear ID years, fully en-
grayed, hunting case. This makes a splendid
watch 10 present 20 anyone.
With THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE one year
20 new subscribers or renewals for $lGO5
For sale at 1890
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GOLD NECK BEADS.

SHOWN about one-third size.
Gold beads for the neck always beautiful orna-
ment for ladies' either young old. These patterns
shown are the latest designs. They are heavy rolled
plate Of lS-earat gold, strung twisted WIRE which
makes .hcm atronx and durable.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-04-02

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, Washington, D. c.
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ARGENTINE ELGN OR WALTHAM.

We will furnish the same watch except with an Egin
or WathAIn movement In place or Trenton. with the
paper for one year Tor $3.50.
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EEARL HANDLE BUTTONER.

IN d very pretty and useful
article Tor our lady friends.
lilsa pearl handle glove Tut
toner and, like the others
comes iu a neat bllk-llued
ho1. Sent frUe Tor a club u
ala subscriptions 40 o. each.
For sale ID o..
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GOLD NECK CHAINS.

Here II something for young lady readers or even
for those not yet old enough 10 read. These ars TWO
very neat and pretty designs.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
WAYSlpE GLEANINGS.

The ragpickers of Paris collect about
$4,000 worth night.
There are no street cars allowed to run
in Canada on Sundays.
Bicycles no longer can be ridden in Dan
ish cities faster than the speed of cab, by
a decree of the government.
There is a spring in Mendocino county,
Cal, from which there arises such noxious
gas that one Whit of it will extinguish
life.
The great seal of the United States is af-
fixed to nothing but treaties, proclama-
tions, commissions, pardons and passports.
The government has had but two seals in
the hundred years since its foundation.
Gold coin is shipped abroad in five gal
lon iron bound oaken kegs. Each keg
holds ten bags and each bag contains
5000, so that the value of keg is $50, 000
Gold from the other side usually comes in
boxes.
The catacombs of Rome contain the re-
mains of about 100000 human beings,
and those of Paris about 100000. The
latter were formerly stone quarries. Many
of the victims of the revolution of 1924
are buried there
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
SNAP SHOTS.

Count Luigi Primolo, the son of Princess
Bonaparte and a chieftain among the
Italian Bonapartists, is acquiring celebrity
as an amateur photographer. His most
famous achievement was in securing a
picture of the pope during a recent cere-
mony in the Vatican.
An amateur photographer went three
miles out in the country to take some
choice views, filled fifty plates and found
when he came to develop them at home
that he hadn't opened the shutter of his
camera. He had pressed the button, but
for some reason it hadn't done the rest.
The location of tumors on the brain can
now be detected by instantaneous photog-
raphy. A tumor on the brain causes vio-
lent spasms by pressing on nerve center,
and while the patient is in the midst of a
spasmodic attack he is photographed, the
nerves affected determined by the contor-
tions shown in the picture, and the tumor
located.
For the intense actinic light required by
photographers Herr Putz, of the Vienna
Photographic society, uses aluminium in
stead of magnesium. The aluminium is
mixed in powder with chlorate of potash,
or is placed in thin leaves between sheets
of collodion cotton, impregnated with
chlorate of potash. A brilliant. smokeless
light is produced.
Scientific societies in London have been
shown some Photographic positives that
were produced from direct exposures. The
most effective agent in their production is
Observation-Disclosures bromide,
and the presence of only one-hundredth of
grain per ounce of eikonogen developer
causes the negative image that first ap-
pears to change into rich colored posi-
fixyn
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
An Old Proverb.

The oft quoted proverb, "God tempers
the wind to the shorn lamb, !" frequently
and wrongly ascribed to the Bible, occurs in
Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey"
The Inter-Ocean explains, however, that it
is but rendering of proverb much older
than Sterne's time. The Sentimental
Journey" was written about 1857. But Bish-
op Herbert, nearly 100 years before, in his
"Jacula Prudentum," uses the expression,
''To close shorn sheep God gives wind by
measure" Estienne, French writer, in
1894 said, "Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis
tondue" (God measures the cold to the
shorn ewel Estienne gives another form
of the proverb as "Dieu donne le froid scion
la roblie;" that is, "God will not let the
cold exceed the warmth Of the fleece" or,
as it is less POLITICALLY rendered by another
French writer, with different and more
practical meaning, not so frequently falsi-
fed by the actual facts of life, God cuts a
mans coat according to his measure" +"
That this proverb is French in origin there
seems no doubt, as various versions of it
are found in different writers.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
11A55m8TY
PARIS STREETS.

The Work of the RagpiclSers, IncIud-
ing Some Rather Disturbing Details.
A curious series of statistics establishes
the value of the refuse of the Paris streets.
The figures seem incredible, and show that
the ragpickers discharge duty of primary
Importance. Working at night, busy un-
der the gas lights, with hook and panier,
the value of what they collect is estimated
at $4,000 each day. Assuredly one-half
the world does not know how the other
half lives. OF course, the conditions of
Paris life are exceptionable. Population is
very close; the tall houses are crammed
with inhabitants; there are no gardens, as
with us-there are but the houses and the
streets. The Parisians have a way of
emptying all kinds of lumber and refuse
into the streets and then the ragpickers
gather in their harvest. A use is found for
everything and metamorphosis never
ceases. All the details are interesting,
though some are rather disturbing.
Rags of course, go to make paper; broken
glass is pounded, and serves as the coating
for sand or emery paper; bones, after the
process of cleaning and cutting down,
serve to make nail brushes, tooth brushes
and fancy buttons; little wisps of women s
hair are carefully unraveled and do duty
for false hair by and by. Mems hair col
lected outside the BARRIERS serves for filters
through which sirups are strained; bits of
sponge are cut up and used for spirit
lamps; bits of bread if dirty are toasted
and grated, and sold to the restaurants for
spreading on hams or outlets; sometimes
they are carbonized and made into tooth
powder. Sardine boxes are cut up into tin
soldiers or into sockets for candlesticks. A
silk hat has whole chapter of adventures
in store for it. All this work employs a
regiment of ragpickers numbering close
on 10000 and each earning from forty to
sixty-five cents a day.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
Crocodile Tears.

The expression crocodile tears" is used
to describe hypocritical sorrow, pretense
of grief that is not felt. The Inter- Ocean
explains that it refers to the old story that
the crocodile, in order to draw human be-
ings within it's reach, mourns and weeps,
and having thus induced it's victim to come
near to it, falls upon him and devours him.
It is fact that crocodies do make loud
and melancholy cries, much like the howl
ing of a dog. Credulous travellers natu-
rally associated tears with these cries, and
the story of the weeping when once started,
was naturally repeated, and came to be
generally believed. In a "Book of Proverbs" I"
printed in 1893, the expression is referred to
and explained. That the belief is a very
old one is shown by the fact that the phrase
occurs both in the old Latin and the Greek
writers, and the references to it in litera-
ture are numerous.
In the account of the voyages of Sir John
Vaudeville, issued in 1856, it is said that
lin certain countree" long serpents called
crocodiles slew men and ate them weep
ing. The same story is given in the ac-
count of the voyages of Sir John Hawkins
during the Sixteenth century. Spenser,
in the first book of "Faerie Queene," I"
speaks Of
The cruell, craftie crocodile,
Which in false grief hyding his harmful guile
Doth weep full sore and sheddeth tender tears.
And Shakespeare, in the second part of
King Henry w, act ii, scene l, says:
Gloster's show
Beguiles him as the mournful crocodile
With sorrow snares relenting passengers.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06

NOTICE.
San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit railway.
AT meeting of the directors of the above
company, held September 5, 1891, it was re-
solved that the sale of the delinquent stock, as
advertised above, be postponed from 8 pm,
September 5, 1891, till P. m. Wednesday,
September 16, 1891.
II. A. UNRUH. Secretary.
go I'd Room 8, 232 North Main st.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
LINES OF TRAVEL.
Pacific Coast S. S. Co.

n CooDALL, PERKINS d CO., GENERAL
Or Agents, San Francisco. Northern routes
embrace lines for Portland, Ore; Victoria B
c., and Puget Sound, Alaska, and al coast
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06

And IN accOrdance with law and an order OF
the Board of Directors, made on the 14th day
July 1891, SO many shares of each parcel Of
such stocN as may be necessary will be sold at
the office of the corporation, at room 8. No 232
on Saturday, the 5th day of september, 1891,
at 3 O'Clock p. m of such day, to pay delin-
quent assessments thereon, together with costs
OF advertising and expenses of the sale.
H. A. UNRUH, Secretary,
Room 8, No. 232 North Main St.. Los Angeles,
Cal. 819 td
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
Montenegro Proverbs.

It is better to slip with the foot than
with the tongue.
Every time the sheep bleats she loses a
mouthful.
Marry with your ears and not with your
eyes.
Even his own tail is burden to the
weary fox.
If you are going to visit the wolf take
your dogs with you.
What is the use of fine collar If it
strangles meS
The fugitive only covers one mile the
pursuer twenty in seeking him.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
POWDER ANp Ball.

The French army has 49,, 600 horses, 1b,-
900 of which are substitutes. The appro-
priation for them this year is $780, 900 more
than it was last year.
The British are using illuminated night
sights on many of the guns of their war
ships The sights are so constructed that
they can be put on or removed in a short
time
The celebrated military balloon works in
Paris has produced an aerial torpedo
boat" of which one has been bought by the
Russian government. The trials will be
secret.
Canet rapid fire guns are subjected to
tensile strain of 1888 pounds to the square
inch. Hotchkiss rapid fire guns must
stand tensile strain of $4,000 pounds to
the square inch.
A prominent ordnance officer in the
British navy puts the life of the 67-ton
gun at fifty rounds. He does not think
that Elton gun hasbeen made which will
be safe after twenty rounds of rapid firing
A new steel cuirass, impenetrable to the
bullets of rifle and covering the breast
only, will be introduced in the Austrian
army and perhaps throughout the armies
VI buO bllpAC d1lldHCC. IL Cetu DC lOlQSQ up
and packed in an ordinary knapsack.
The Turkish army is reported to be in
excellent condition. Nearly 100000 repeat
ing rifles are in the hands of the infantry
The artillery is furnished mainly by Krupp,
and forty-nine regiments of cavalry, most
ly raised in Asia, have been recently added
The 4-inch rapid fire guns for the main
batteries of the Cincinnati and Raleigh
will be built at the Washington gun foun-
dry. They will be fitted with briggs
Schroeder breech mechanism. The gov
ernment pays fifty dollars per gun for the
right of using the patent.
Observation stepladders are the latest
innovation in the Belgian field artillery
They are intended to enable the command
er of concealed battery to better direct
the fire of the gunners. Every ladder is
about ~ feet high, of iron, and weighs
about sixty-five pounds. All ammunition
wagons will carry the ladders.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
ELECTRIC SPARKS.

Lighting by arc lamps is not yet popular
in London, there being but few in use in
that city.
an electrical device for the use of dentists
in exploring the mouth.
A new electric fan revolves slowly in a
horizontal plane in addition to the rapid
revolutions in the usual upright position
There are several successful storage bat.
terry manufacturing concerns in Europe,
while not one can be pointed out in this
country.
Gutta percha has become so scarce that
there is not enough for the insulation of
submarine cables, and either fresh sources
of supply or a substitute for it must be dis
covered.
The Marquis of Salisbury not only uses
the water power on his estate for lighting
by electricity, but also grinds his corn, cuts
his horse fodder pumps his water and does
a variety of other work by means of electric
motors thus driven.
Among the numerous electrical applica
tions introduced of late into steamboats, is
a winch designed for light, variable car
goes. the aim being to attain great rapid
ity of lift with simplicity So effective is
this machine that it will work while i'm
mersed in sea water. The motor is in
closed in stout casing and has steel cased
coils.
If the statements of the London electrical
engineers are correct the new Australian
telephone, known as the Collier Audible
telephone, narks a distinct step in ad-
vance in the science of telephony. 1t is
asserted that, compared with the efficiency
of an ordinary Bell receiver, the sound
from the Collier is as a person shouting to
a whisper.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
Correspondence of Marie Bashlsirtsefr.

correspondence or Marie Bashk1rtseff.
In the correspondence of Marie Bash
kirtsef, just now attracting attention. are
letters addressed to various persons, great
many of whom were not personally known
to her; thus she wrote to Zola telling him
that she admired his works above every
thing, and that her great ambition was to
become his friend through the medium of
correspondence; to Alexander Dumas to
ask him to give her rendezvous, to which
he responded with some excellent advice
which was not at all to her taste, and
brought very cutting reply; to Goncourt,
whose works she did not hesitate to criti-
else in addressing him; to Sully Prud-
homme, whose poetry fills her with sur
prise and delight.
Francois Coppee describes Marie Bash
kirtseff in manner that would have salts
fed even her appetite for praise. The poet,
at the same time, confesses that he only saw
her once for an hour, and is never likely to
forget her. At Internationally" he
says, "she looked much younger. She
was rather short, but harmonious in her
proportions; with round face exquisitely
modelled, straw colored hair, and dark
eyes fired as it were with thought, eyes
devoured with the desire to see and to
know, firm mouth, good and thoughtful,
nostrils that vibrated like those of wild
horse of the Ukranian steppes, Marie Bash
kirtseR gave you, on the first seeing her,
the rare sensation of will Joined to sweet
ness, energy combined with grace"
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
Lynn shoemakers will reorganize.
ADrurgIst surprised .

J. G. Bone, druggist at Dunmore,
Pa. says he has never sold medicine
that gave such universal satisfaction as
Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhna Remedy, and that the large de-
mand for it has been great surprise to
him. 1t is sold here by @. F. Heinze-
man, 222 North Main, Druggist.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
The Best Physic.

St. Patrick's Pills are carefully pre-
pared from the best material and ac-
cording to the most approved formula,
and are the most perfect cathartic and
liver pill that can be produced. We sell
them. G. F. Heinzeman, 222 North
Main, Druggist.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
SUMMER TIME CARD.
RedOndO Railway

hSdOIldO TX alIWaY
JULY /, 1891
Los Angeles Depot, Corner Grand Ave. and JEFF
ferson st.
Take Grand ave. cable or Main st. and Agri-
cultural Park horse cars.
Trains Leave Trains Leave
Los Angeles Redondo
for Redondo for Los Angeles
300 I'm. daily $3.50 am. oaily
$50 am. daily 8:l5 am daily
10 40 am. daily 9:20 am. daily
80 pm. daily 1l:OO a. m. daily
40 pm. except Sun. 2:45 pm. except sun.
6:45 pm. except BUN. $50 pm except sun
4:40 pm. sun. only $3.50 pm. sun. only.
7:1O pm. Sun. only $50 D. m sun oniy
$40 pm. sun. only 700 pm. Sun. only
ECITY TICKET OFFICE AT
A. B. Greenwald's Cigar Store,
Corner First and Spring St. If
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
CATALINA ISLAND STEAMERS.
NOTICE.

GAN GABRIEL VALLEY RAPID TRANSIT
y railway-Principal place of business, Los
Angeles, Los Angeles county, California.
Notice is hereby given that there is delin-
quent upon the following described stock, on
account of assessments levied on the 14th day
of July, 1891, the several amounts set opposite
the names of the respective Shareholders the
same being the full amount unpaid upon said
stock, as follows:
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06

Local and through tickets sold, baggage
checked, Pullman sleeping car reservations
made, and general information given upon sp
plication to J. NJ. CRAWLEY, Asst. G. Pas. Agt.
No. 200 s. Spring St., cor. Second. CHARLES
SEYLER, Agent at DePots.
t5undays only.
Naundays excepted.
Saturdays only.
RICH'D GRAY, Gen. Traffic Mgr.
r. Fl. GOODMAN,
If Gen'l Passenger Agt.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-01

crammed Into their mouths, each staring
at him with widely distended eyes. Barker
recognized in the three women the widow,
the widows daughter and the woman who
had scalded him with her pudding gravy.
His first impulse was Immediately to set
the three women loose and acting under
this impulse be placed hammer and lamp
upon the floor and moved toward the
bandaged group.
But he quickly changed his mind, the
thought suddenly occurring to him that
be was not confronted by life or death
condition, and that the call upon him was
not so imperative that he would be justi-
fed in answering it while he was SO scanti-
ly clothed.
Pardon me, ladies'" he said, 81 was not
| aware that you were in this room or l
should not have followed those gentlemen
in here. If you will excuse me for mo-
ment l will-'see you later"
He whisked out of the room, rushed up
the stairs, three at time, dived into his
bedchamber, grabbed his trousers, got
into them fireman fashion on the way
down stairs, and within minutefrom the
time of his departure from the room where
the women were he had returned to it, and
was ready to begin the work of emancipa-
ton. When he had finished it he retired
to complete has toilet, promising to return
very soon.
When he reappeared he found the widow
| alone; no, not alone, for she was sitting
with a double barreled gun over her
shoulder, gazing fxedlY at the windows
through which the burglars had made their
exits.
''Ididn't know but that they might come
| back ag'in," she said.
| Il guess not" said Barker. But give
me the gun and 60 to bed yourself. I'll lie
down here on the lounge and keep guard,
and if any burglar tries to enter here I'll
blow his head OF"
| IF can get near enough to hit him"
he added soto voce, calling to mind the
fact that he had never fired gun in his
| life. But where were the hired mem" he
/ asked after pause. "Or did they kill the
hired men outright"
The hired men," answered the widow;
''the hired men is over TO Eliot TO wed
/ din. That's why we women was left
alone"
Weddings are bad things" said Barker
impressively.
! But of course ne spoke jokingly, for he
/ knew that he himself was TO be married
the very next week 10 nv daughter He
told the widow the following day about the
| approaching wedding. She had Just sug-
gested TO him the possibility of a union
with her daughter.
I'm a sudden sort Of woman" she
had said. Il amt one of them who be
heves in deliberasin' an prayin make
up my mind shot off where want 70 go,
an sit there as quick as kin. ! only
knowed my husband twenty-four hours
before was married 20 him. and didn't
make no mistake, nuther. Now, want
TO ask you question: How would you ike
| to marry my daughter"
The average man, IN Bankers place,
would have been stunned by proposition
like this, but Barker answered 70 it with
out the least hesitation.
Nothing would suit me better he
said: "but I've been pre-emp.ed hg another