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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-24
Muslin Underwear.

The materials the finish and the
strength of all the garments are right,
even in The lower grades. The prices arc
remarkably low. In many cases you get
the garments for about what the material
wou cost.
Our popular Muslin Gown, with Hub
bard yoke of Elk clusters Of tucks and
cambria lufis around neck and sleeves.
Soc.
Woven Cotton Skir,s in several colors.
Melton Cloth Skirts, with tox plating
around the bottom.
Second floor, 1oth.st building.)
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-24

Adams, George L.
Adam, Miss Mandie
Baker. Edward
Bailey, Mrs 8 G
Bsgley, Henry
Blsin, Mas Mary 3
Burder, George
Butler, James
Clayton, William
Cunningham, Robt q 2
Damon, Mrs sophie
Gray, Miss Rnby
Hooper, Henry
Howard, Mrs Mary
Hughes, 1rs Folby Hill
Humber, William
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-24
Orr Boys and Girls d

Orr Boys and Girls De-
pa7'tnle1t.S
Are now in possession Of the most
complete and desirable stocks Of
Clothing for Fall and Winter wear
ever brought into our house.
Tho Boys All-wco Suits in good s,rv-
iceable coloringa begin at
$50.
Better grad at $3.50, So, SIS, to 91O.
sizes to 10 years
Indigo Blue Blouse Kilt Suits, navy cut
and prettily trimmed with ailk cords and
brsids.
Indigo Blue Jersey Pants Suits, made
plain Sizes up to 10 years.
800.
Indigo Blue Flannel ouscs and Shirt
Waists, IN all SIZES up to 10 years.
$l.25.
THE GIRLS HAvEB R5E0 WELL oARED FOB
Good comfortable Dresses OF Fancy
Plaid Flannel, lined throughout and
trimmed with fancy brsii-sizes 4 to ii
years-only cost you
50 and 1926.
Dresses Of rich Br5wo, Blua and Grsen
Plaids, with ahirrtd Csr1l a. surah vests
and JACKET fronts, edged with nair)w wool
besdIng-6 to IA years.
81 to $3.50.
Double-br a'ted Ulster shaped Clo,ks,
made OF lik.r-spot cloth, in Browns and
Gr.ys. with separate CAPE rolling collar
and large bone buttons SIZES to u
years
$9.25to $11 25 According to sz'.
Third q or
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-24

Jayins, William
Kemp, John C
King. 3 n
Marshall, Jo:eph
Page, Mrs F N
Peters n. g
Shertzsr, Miss Msy
Slamstead, A o
Smith, Willie II
Tsllmsd ye, A P
Tibhs. William
Van Dorston CT Co
Mar Ter, Mis5 Eller
Wilson, A O
Williams, Miss Eliza
williams. Mrs Matte
PARK AGNEW. P. II.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-24
LIST OF LETTERS.

The following is list of the letters remaining in
the Alexandria, Va, postofice- October "a
Persons calling for letters will please say they are
advertised.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-24
DRY GOODS.
Woodward & LOthroD,
10th, 18th, and F Streets, NV.
In the Upholstery Depart

We will place Oh sale TODAY
Saturday eighty pieces of 32.Inch
English Cretonnes at Csc yard.
These are imported to sell at soc
yard.
French and English CHIMES,
Dimities, and Cretonnes that have
been selling at 81 as, so, 75c and
ST yard, we fer you the choice
At Csc Yard.
Fourth floor. 18th st. building.)
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-27
Was He ADsentmindedr

4 b1' looking old gentleman walked
.EI the aisle of the Star theater the
Wei evening. There was nothing in his
li7sarance to Indicate that his had been
PHt0ra. existence. In fact, he looked
nT much otherwise, and might well have
an st down for a well to do retired bust
u, nan. The usher led him to the row
he orchestra in which his seat was
lsnI seat from the other end" said the
aA,I handing che old gentleman his
1ai The seat was turned back, as thea
q sat' always are when not in use. The
4seai.eman crawled over the feet of the
we sitting between him and his seat.
laso De sat down, not on his seat, but on
a'ptuFned edge He did not look COM
.'A0le on his narrow perch. He was
-ss mar, and, sitting as be was, he
.Yled up full foot above those around
w. People began to smoker. They
-0-sA' It was funny. Just then the cur
AZ Went up.
young woman was sitting right behind
-'lle looking old gentleman. She might
s'5. have sat behind board fence, as
Is seeing the play went. She was equal
,.-s emergency, however. Leaning for
4'-' sue touched the old gentleman on
shoulder. Excuse me-" she said
'5"!, would you please rise for mo.
so HE old gentleman did so with a
' -i,,l' smile. The lady reached over
's"''el bis seat down into its proper
.a19A' Thank you" she family muir.
-.'sL III" old gentleman said nothing,
| ~. .,-s N''er'ng around him brought the
~ ',' 90 MS face. He seemed to wish that
81. would open and bury him from
-. ~. !. HiG not, 50 he sat down and at
80 &c lo lose himself in a study of his
H'a'-ll'ue.-New York Times.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-27
People Who Walk on Stills.

,,. -. majority of the people in the western
~. %, Tue French province of Gascony
n 9a Suits. That is district known
N, = '-,ude-r with sea line bounding
r.- -.s4.A side Of the Bay of Biscay, and
fr,- 40 It's greatest breadth about
H. mics back into the country. The
e.. ''rm one Of the widest and
s,, M parts Of France, and the inhabi-
81 ''7 ..lG as strange and uncultivated
Re- -. D.a'N pine forests, the dreary
hi ~. T. "1H Tue farspreading deserts of
F,. .-''e sand which they inhabit. Most
s.T.- are shepherds, aud they elevate
L t h OH Suits five feet high in order
|.ae. ''''e The marshes and the sand
|arg,. ',.'- walkers present strange and
s8s.,r" "-'re7 as they progress over the
ss,g--s-',' or country in attendance on
tye7 ~. as sometimes at the rate of six or
|as,fi,.t,' Old hour. They rest by the aid
,., .-.rl wooden support, pursuing mean
lg i, l., everlasting occupation of knit
boz, III appearance the Landes shepherd
| u hi. gu q" uhcouth mass of dirty wool.
hls,o, tSouy he wears fleece like rude
III p m, us Thighs and legs on the outside
tts s"5 &c, by greaves of the same ma
Ns,,a ,ra, Ms feet encased in sabots and
VIZ" SocSs.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-27
LADIES AND CHILDRENs-
Fall and Winter Underwear.

Natural wool and drawers price
with
Chdrens camel hair and drawers quality 49, Sold
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-27

. toe sn ,,,raV tree in Great Britain grows
I'D + tu.init Of Ben Lomond in Scot
%iga. Q, ,.S yne dwarf willow, the extreme
which Is only two inches.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-27
10 Pounds OF Blood

Is about the quantity nature SLOWS to an
adult person. 1t is of the utmost i'm
portance that the blood should be kept as
pure as possible. By its remarkable
cures of scrofuls, salt rheupl. etc., Hoods
SsrsspsriIls has proven its claim to be the
best blood purifier.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-27

e klap5 Quantities Of clover raised in
" section u Malta cause the honey from
'&tdelcionnI 70 be of great purity and Of
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-27

Ssdoa thu" Is probably imported into
y The tra l any other city in the world,
W tinsna,e Is of course, one of enor-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-27

For q general family cath srtic we con-
1denIly recommend Hoods Pills. They
should be in every home medicine chest.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12

of tett.ja, a; a;black, sticky paste made of
catechu. This is to preserve their COM
plexion from the cutting wind-so say
those who are matter-of-fact, but Others
tell different tale. More than hun
dred years ago thorc lived at Lh'asa
great saint named Demo Rimpoch'e, who
did much to restore the purity of monas-
tic life, which had greatly suffered un-
der the licentious rule of the sixth pom
tiff of Lh'asa, Tslangyang jyats'o.
Canon law says that when monk goes
abroad he must keep his eyes fixed on
the ground some little distarc ce ahead of
him, looking neither to the right nor to
the left but the rosy cheeks and bright
eyes of the women caused the lamas to
forget this law, and great disorders en-
sued. Demo Rinpoch'e then command
cd that no woman should go abroad un-
less her face was well besmeared with
black, and soon this became fashion
throughout the whole country.
Time and again tried to induce girls
In the houses where l was stopping to
wash their faces clean, promising them
beads and other ornaments but in vain.
They said they washed only when the
feasts came around, some four or five
times year. Century.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12
A Peculiar Pebble.

There is now on exhibition at the
Woman's Exchange a most wonderful
little pebble. At first sight it looks to
be only a small fragment of red lime
stone. AS matter of fact, that's what
1t Is, but it is peculiar fragment. When
you hold it at a certain angle with your
eye, mans face is seen, perfect in every
feature even down to the mustache. 1t
is face of great strength, but such an
exceptionally sad one, that, as somebody
who looked at it the other day declared,
''it might almost be taken as the embodi-
ment of the three S's-Sorrow, Sacrifice
and Suffering"
The pebble was picked up in 1880 by
Mrs. Bacon on the summit Of the
Kofelspitze, mountain overhanging the
village of Oberammergau, where she had
been to see the Passion Play. She
slipped the pebble into her pocket with
several others, and upon her return to
her home in Atlanta, Ga, she placed it
in her private collection with various
other mementoes of her tour. About two
years ago the collection was burned, but
the pebble escaped destruction. After
ward, when going through the ruins of
her treasures, while holding the little
pebble at certain angle she perceived
the face for the first time. The pebble
has created great deal of interest, and
has been seen and carefully examined by
a great many wise men, learned in rocks.
New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12
The Game of Billiards.

The game of billiards was invented
about the middle of the sixteenth cen
tury by a London pawnbroker named
William Kew. In bad, stormy weather,
when trade was slack, this pawnbroker
was in the habit of taking down the three
balls of his sign, and, with yard meas
ure, pushing them about the counter,
''billiard" fashion, into boxes fixed at the
sides. In time the idea of q fenced table
with pockets suggested itself. A black
letter manuscript of 1870 contains the
following in reference to the game and
its originator: "Master VIII Kew did
make un (one) boarde whereof game is
played with three balls; and all the
younge men were greatly recreated there
at, chiefly the young clergymen from st.
Pawlcs; hence one OF ye strokes was
named Cannon, having been by one of
ye said clergymen invented. The game
is now known by ye name of 'bill-yard,
because William, or Bill Kew, did first
play it with yard measure. The. stick
used is now called a 'kue, or kew, in
memory of Mr.. Kew, who has been dead
some time" 1t is easy to understand
how "bill-yard" has been modernized
into "billiard;'' the transformation OF
"kew" into "cue" is equally APPARENT
FSt. Louis Republic.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12

The Hawaiian Government is a limited
constitutional monarchy. There is a
Parliament, consisting of House of
Mobiles and House of Representatives,
the former elected for six years, the lat
ter for two. The two houses meet to-
gethcr, the Kings ministers holding
seats ex- otficio. The foreign relations OF
the country are controlled by the United
States Government THERE'S standing
army of $50 men, and a volunteer force
of $50 more. The area of the islands
which comprise the kingdom is G,677
square miles. When Captain Cook dis
covered the islands, more than a century
ago, there were about 900, inhabi-
tants; in 1884 there were only go of
whom 40, Ola were native, 1888 Chinese
and 2, 066 Americans. The capital. Hon
olulu, on Oahu Island, has 90, 4S7 inhab-
itants. Religious freedom prevails.
Public schools, 1S9 in number, are main
tanned at cost of more than 5000, 900 a
year. The soil is of volcanic origin, but
mostly extremely fertile. Sugar and rice
are the chief products. and coffee, hides,
wool, whale oil and bone are also ex-
ported. Sugar exports in 1888 were
worth $40, 0,S1S, 600, and rice $57S, 600.
The islands are well supplied with rail
roads steamboats,, telegraphs, and call
the modern improvements" - Boston
Transcript.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12
A Chinese View OF Us.

"Your superior skill in the mathemat-
ical and mechanical arts we are ready to
acknowledge, a learned Chinese once
said to me, shut you must concede to
us the palm of philosophy and letters"
This estimate is the prevailing one
among educated Chinese as they compare
our civilization with their own. 1t may
be modified, and doubtless will be, by
further acquaintance; hut it shows that
they are not imposed on by the glitter
of wealth or noise of machinery. The
material progress on which we vaunt
ourselves weighs light in the scales when
poised against moral principles and es-
thetic culture. A. letter of Mr.. Yung-
wing, the well-known scholar and diplo-
mat, has fallen into my hands, of which
the following is an extract. Certain
Jealous Americans had the doubtful
taste to invite his assistance in a icon
vention for promoting the general adop-
tion of a republican government" He
replies: "In view of what the general
government has done for the past twenty
years in the way Of enacting obnoxious
laws against the Chinese, and without
any provocation finging insult after in-
suit in the very teeth Of the Chinese gov
ernment, cannot for the life of me see
how republicanism is to become universal,
or how the torch of American, liberty is
to enlighten the Eastern races when they
are shut out from its light" l feel con-
tident that this would meet with similar
confirmation ON other points if we had
access to the unpublished reports of the
Chinese mission of inquiry. Il Forum.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12
Contempt of Death.

A Russian officer, writing from Ciachta
on the Chinese frontier, describes the ex-
ecution of twenty six Tartar robbers,
"everyone of whom died with stoicism
which only the highest philosophy could
enable our Caucasian countrymen to imi-
tate" Stolid indifference to death
seems, indeed, to be a characteristic of
the Mongol race, but is certainly more a
result of nervous constitution than of
philosophy. Outdoor life, familiarity
with danger, etc, are apt to develop it
IN any cline, and Australia, as well as
our own wild West, have produced
abundant Tartars of the described kind.
A French military surgeon once told l..
Oswald that after protracted campaign
nine out of ten veterans learned to face
death about as coolly as plucky recruits
would face a storm or an ugly dose of
medicine Il The Voice.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12

A remarkable and very romantic case
of unlawful extradition has been engag-
ing the attention of the Skupshtina.I A
handsome young Servian, having fallen
in love with the daughter of wealthy
Beg, or Mussulman land owner, in Alba
MIA, failed to obtain the consent of her
father to his marriage because he would
not become convert TO Islam. Accord
ingly he eloped with the young lady,
whose name is Fatima, and she, on
reaching Servian territory, professed her
perfect readiness to become a Christian.
The Beg, however, had gone in pursuit
of his daughter with a band of Albanians,
and, appealing to a Servian prefeet, he
brlbed this official to let the bride be
kidnapped in the night and carried back
to Albania. The prefect has been dis
missed, and the Skupshtina, moved by
the woes of the bridegroom, is urging
the government to insist that the Turkish
authorities shall restore Fatima to her
husband. The Foreign Minister has
promised to do his best, but does not APP
pear to be very sanguine of success.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12

''The fire, monsieur, the fire; start it
immediately
His command obeyed, parbleul the
chimney was found to draw with such
force and energy that it very nearly drew
up the logs themselves. A gentle heat
pervaded the apartment, slowly, if may
phrase it so, unfreezing it-and no
| smoke
The Partisan architects and Piedmont
| doctorhood were beaten clean out of
sight and mind. Above them Passereaud's s
genius shone like the sun. A blind man
could have seen it.
SIT is sublime!" cried NJ. Lamantin in
an ecstacy of joy; 'sublime, my little
locataire You are born inventor, and
you shall also be my son-in-law if Valen-
| tine says so.n
"Ohl yes, papa" said Valentine;
'yes, yes; your son-inlaw!"
One year after this marvellous event
Passereaud was the father of a son as
beautiful as the day. NJ. Lamantin was
again ecstatic.
Which reminds me, my son-in-law, "
said he some hours after the event,
''that there is one thing that l want you
to explain to me little more fully.
For more than six months now all the
adopted your automatic brake;' barrels
of money como to you from all quarters,
and you sell privileges for the use of
your invention in nearly every country
of the world. You are rich not only
through your wife, but on your own ac-
count. Doesn't this set you to thinking9
1t does me, at any rate. am worrying
about your other invention, which you
leave entirely idle"
"My other invention, father in-l law"
cried Passereaud, bewildered; "what do
You meanI"
Decidedly you are too modest! You
know very well what | mean. What
could / mean but that secret of yours to
keep chimneys from smoking2 You
can't tell me now that you are too poor to
pay the annual fees"
'tBahl it would bring in precious
littlern
Nevertheless, it would put ring on
your finger. One should never neglect
chance of making money"
" "Father-in-law, please don't let us
talk of that
why not, prayI L know that I'm
right"
"But you will make me tell things that
l don't want to tell, things that l want
to keep to myself"
"Go on, go on; tell, say!'
"Well, then, know you that never
stopped your chimney from smoking-I
only stopped making it smoke! A shade
OF difference, you see. was living un-
der the roof then, and had only to stretch
up my arms and cover the vent pipe with
anything handy, plate, for instance. 1t
was your fault entirely; like other fathers
you obliged the lover to resort to strategy
TO win the girl. My success, however,
was due to Valentine, since it was she
that told the concierge to introduce me
as the greatest G. d. in the neighbor-
hood. Forgive us both and console your
self with the thought that it was one Of
Fortunes capers. Success for lovers is
really Il law of nature From the
French.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12
SHATTERED BY SCIENCE.
All the Romance of Hog Killing
Time Has Passed Awav.

An old-time hog-killingis is hard to find
now. Meat is bought too cheaply from
the West The prairie farms, where corn
is burned as fuel, raise hogs too easily to
allow Southern farmers the luxury of
killing and curing their own meat You
60 to the packing houses of the West and
drop a porker into the slot. In fifteen
minutes he comes out clear ribbed and
sugar-cured lots--with a can of pure
lard thrown in, and all the hoof, hide
and tallow present and accounted for.
The poetry and plenty of the old plan
tations have given way to the steam
packing mills with their millions of
pounds month.
Farmers used to make their hams from
necessity. Now they put them up as
luxury. 1t has gotten so that none but
well-to-do farmers can afford to raise
their own meat. In those days of the
steaming Gypsy pot, the hickory ashes,
the fat pen and the crisp sward dyed in
purple, we heard nothing of trichinm or
pork corners. The only meat futures
were when the shote was marked in July
for killing in December Sometimes a
mild winter robbed the farmer of his
meat. Occasionally his pig and
smoke-house were raided between the
suns; but there was grease and plenty in
the hog killing on the plantations.
You rarely see that rare spectacle of
roasted pig shipped upon the table en-
tire, like the peafowl in all his glory on
the tables in Florence. There was the
mellow apple in his mouth, caught in
his expiring effort, and there, preserved
with culinary skill is the ecstatic twist
of his tail. Now the railroads and
steamships have brought abouta division
of labor. ;. Your hogs are steamed in
Chicago;your cows pastured in Michigan,
your turkey dressed in Vermont, your
syrup boiled in Cuba, your ice cream
frozen in New York, your cuffs washed
in China, and your cotton by and bywill
be grown in India and Africa Then
there will be nothing left in this solid
and sunny South but to cultivate melons
in summer and millionaires in winter
and write about the good old times.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12
The Champion Lazy Man.

Even the preachers are not avcrse to a
Joke that lies in the line of the profes-
sional funny man, One of them told
the following in an eastside church late
ly when he was invited to speak: A
traveller discovered man lying an the
ground one warm day within foot or
two of the shade of tree. "Why don't
you lie in the shade!" he inquired. 81
did, replied the man, but it has moved
away from me and | can't afford to follow
it," "Well, if you are not the best spec
linen of lazy man have seen yet!
Make me another remark on par with
that and I'll give you a quarter" The
man said, "Put the quarter into my pock-
et." He got it Buffalo Express.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12
Preparing the Mail.

In cities and large towns the letters
are gathered from the boxes by the car
riers and taken to the central office or to
designated branch stations. In smaller
places they are mailed directly at the
office. If the office is large enough to
require number of clerks, one is de-
tailed for the work of getting the mail
ready for despatch, and is called the
mailing clerk The table at which he
works is called the mailing table, and is
raised so high from the floor that he can
work comfortably at it while standing.
The back edge is usually few inches
the higher, so that the top will incline
toward the person at work; and into the
table is set, so as to be even with the
| top, large piece of rubber an inch or
more in thickness. On the table beside
this lie the canceling stamp and ink pad.
The Government requires that the stamp
be of metal, and the ink black and indel-
| ible, but this rule is sometimes broken in
small country offices by the use of rubber
/ stamps and colored inks The Govern
ment furnishes all necessary stamps and
ink, and the only excuse for not follow
ing the rule is that where there are few
letters the rubber stamp and common ink
may be more convenient. The penalty
for removing the cancellation from a
stamp and using the stamp again, is i'm
prisonment for from six months to three
years, or fine from 800 to $500.
The letters and postal cards taken from
the box are arranged in piles, all right
side up; and the mailing clerk, placing
a pile of them on the table, in front of
him, cancels them with almost incredible
rapidity, sliding each piece, before he
strikes it, upon the rubber in the table,
thus securing Il good impression of the
stamp, and slight rebound to aid the
next stroke.-[St. Nicholas.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12
Cost of a London Fog.

1t is almost impossible to estimate the
cost to Londoners of such fog as that
which spreads over great part of the
metropolis occasionally. To take the
case Of lighting alone, it has been calcu-
lated that on foggy day the receipts of
one only of the large gas companies are
increased by more than e5, 600
Besides the increased receipts of other
companies, and the numberless lamps and
candles burned, allowance must be made
for the great falling off in the shop
keepers business for the day, no small
item in what ought to be the busy times
preceding Christmas. In the neighbor
hood of Hyde Park corner locomotion
was absolutely dangerous during the af i.
ternoon, despite the use of torches and
lamps. - London News.