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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-11-15
LIBROS DE INSTRUCTION

TRADUOOION del latin, POI
Polo.
DIOCIONARIO latino espanol,
por Miguel.
,GRAMATICA latina, por Es-
cartfn.
GEOGRAFIA, por Sanchez Mo-
Fate. 4
Ldem, por Moreno y Espinosa.
HISTORIA de Espahs, FOrnes.
| lem universal, idem.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-11-15
MEROADO DE LA CAPITAL.
FRUTOS DEL PALS.

FRUTOS DEL PALS.
Az6CAB.
Sin operaciones.
CARE.
Ootizamos clase corriente de
s224 4 223 quintal
MINLNS.
Sin operaciones.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-11-15
aACETA DE HOY.

NJ ,delos para IL Estadistiea de
Ia Administration de Justicia Ci
vii , Criminal en- Ultramsr.
Nombrado A calde de Aibonito
3 Manuel Gil Sanchez.
Fsiicitamos por clio al eatima-
do amigo J correlIgionario.
Nombrado Secretario del Ayun
tamiento de Hormigueroa Don
Ambroaio Marchany, dnico aspi.
raute propuesto por aquella C1r
porsci6n.
En- Ia proxima sem ana se paga
ran por ell Tesoro Las siguientes
facturas de turno:
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-11-15

AL cerrar el presente n6mero ha
tornado puerto ell vsp esp" "OG diz |"
procedente de Liverpool y escalas
con carga para varios. En- ell mime.
ro pr6ximo la detallaremos.
RNrRADAs DH CABoTAyR.
vap esp "Avil6s", de Arecibo y
ruta.
Bdra esp "Pedrito," de vieques.
sALIDAS DH TRAvRSfA.
Para Mayagtez, vap ing "Wan-
die" despachado por Sobrinos de
Ezquiaga con carga de transito.
sALIDAS DE CABOTAJE.
Col espshola /" O de Oanarias,"
para NaguabO y Humacao.
Col esp "Amelia" para Fsjardo,
DESPACHA.DOS,
Ninguno.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-11-15

Provideucias judiciales.
Ayuntamientos.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02
COMMUNICATIONS.
More Fun.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Last Saturday was pleased to see an amusing letter by some evidently excited person signing himself "J. O." It con- tained only two noticeable points.
 First, "J. O. disbelieves that President Harrison snubbed the Boston delegation of humorists who called to instruct him in re- gard to his duties. In reply, I beg leave to say to "J. O." that he need not take my word for it. That interview has been fully reported in detail by the press.
 Second, "J. O." expresses his disbelief that ninety-five per cent. of the members of the New England chambers of com merce are ignorant of the silver question. Let us test this matter. It is just to pre- sume that the New Haven chamber of com merce is fair sample of those bodies. Call one hundred of those members to- gether, interrogate them and see if ninety five will not have the candor to admit pro found ignorance of the fundamental facts and principles which underlie the silver prol lem. Senators Platt and Hawley are types of the majority of those members. Why have those senators remained silent while the senate has been debating the silver billi Was it not due to conscious ness of ignorance and consequent inability to cope with their opponentsi
 Let me say one thing to the budding humorist who signs himself "J. O." Stand up. In communications of this kind sign your name like little man, so that you can be identified. When you are badly hit don't squirm and show it by writing hysterical letters. Keep calm; above all cultivate your sense of humor. You may yet become able to see how ridiculous it is for persons to gravely advise congress on subject they have never studied for 6 single day. J. P. PHILLIPS.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02
COSBY ON AN ICE CAKE. Opfer's Feeling Just as Unconscious
 ness Overlook Him.

From the Philadelphia Record
 After tough, three hours struggle with death John opfer came out ahead, and he was full of joy yesterday. opter is an employe of the West Jersey Ferry company, and is fond of skating. He was enjoying this exhilarating sport on the Delaware at the head of Third street, be- tween the Camden shore and Pett's Island, on Saturday, when he struck weak spot in the ice and broke through. The cur rent dragged him down and he became be- numbed
 When he arose to the surface opfer was in the midst of the broken ice floating rapidly up stream, and he maie frantic effort to save himself. He seized several cakes of ice, but they sank under his weight and sent him again and again be- meath the surface. He cried loudly for help, but he was so far from either shore and the floating ice was so heavy that no one dared attempt his rescue.
 At last opfer, his strength almost gone, managed to climb upon an ice foe, where he fell exhausted His struggles had been witnessed by two men on Petty's Island, and as the foe drifted up toward the Point they pushed of in their boat at the risk of their own lives, and pulled the unoon. scious opfer of the ice.
 After hard fight the boatmen managed to make the island again, and they carried 0pfer into the little dwelling house that stands there. He had been struggling with the ice for an hour, and gave no sign of life when efforts to resuscitate him be gan. After two hours hard work, how. ever, opfer opened his eyes, and st last was brought out of deaths grasp entirely
 "1 thought I was a goner, surs enough, said 0pfer yesterday, "when found myself banging away at those cake. | of ice Geerozalum, but I was cold Then all of a sudden got warm and co sey and settled down for a nap. My, bu it was nice till those men on the islant | woke me up."
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02
THE CONTRA COSTA PLAN.

Contra Costa county, California, has been heard from in a way which entities it to attention. In that county has been in vented new scheme for naming the pub lie roads upon them. A committee of five to which the task was entrusted has re- gently made its report to the citizens.
 An imaginary line is drawn due north and south through the county seat, and the roads are named in order from left to right, the process beginning at the left of the imaginary line and continuing in a cir ele to the east, south west and again to the north. Those roads are first listed which touch the county seat, next the first left hand branch roads and any left-hand branches of these, then the right-hand branches and the remaining trunk roads and their branches, left-hand branches first, right-hand branches next, nothing on the left being omitted until the entire circuit has been made and the roads of the county are all named. As for the names themselves, the Contra Costa committee recommends that titles appropriate, sig ni6cant and pleasing to the eye and ear" be selected, first with regard to the land scape and other features of the locality.
 Perhaps the most interesting feature of the plan is that known as the ten-block system. The roads having been named are measured and each mile is divided into ten equal parts or imaginary blocks with frontage on the road of 52S feet. Two numbers are allotted to each block, the odd ones on the left and the even ones on the right, each house located within given block having the number of that block. It is infrequently the case that country houses are nearer than tenth of mile, but in such an event those standing with in the same block all have the same num- Der, followed by the letters of the alpha bet in order, as 2s6, a36 8, 236 b, 236 c, etc. By, this system the distance of any house from the beginning of the road or from another house can be determined easily.
 The plan has other details which make it comprehensive one. It is easily un- derstood. and might proftably be inn itated. a
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02
VEGETABLE MONEY.

tEUHIAnAE "ONEx. 5s It is not surprising that the producers of other products than silver are becom- ing uneasy. They have seen generous government donate millions to help silver miners and spectators in silver, and they do not know why the government should not extend it's bounty to others. Two Maine Yankees have been heard from in the shape of petition to congress asking that potatoes be treated as generously as silver has been. The petition says: The undersigned citizens of the United States, do most earnestly pray that a law be en- acted which shall compel the treasurer of the United States to receive all the pota- toes that may be offered by any citizens of the United States and issue certificates of deposit for the same at the rate of $1 for each sixty pounds so deposited, said certif- cates to be legal tender for all dues, debts and demands.
 This is all right if the silver business is. AS the Norwich Bulletin points out: There are many things to be said in favor of a potato currency, or currency based on potatoes. In the first place it would pro vide sure market for all the potatoes raised and so keep up the price. Then po- tatoes can be grown by anybody and thus man can have all the money he is willing to plant and dig. Moreover, the govern ment could sell the potatoes to those peo- pie who were so unfortunate as to be too lazy to work during the potato season, taking their notes in payment. And thus people who were willing to raise potatoes could have all the money they wanted, and people too lazy to raise pototoes could nevertheless have all the potatoes they needed.
 But the line cannot fairly be drawn at potatoes If the government wants to be impartial it must issue money based on string beans, horse-radish, tomatoes and other products. Then everybody will be rich and happy.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02
EW HAVEN. CONN. MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY ?. 1891.

hundred rooms, arranged so as to make four hundred dwelling apartments. Two thousand one hundred and twelve persons live under one great roof, a population sufficient to make city large enough to incorporate and furnish with . full set of aldermen. The immense build ing has one hundred and thirty staircases and fifty elevators. The postmen say they often deliver one thousand pieces of mail matter at this house in single day.
 : A large number of families of Dutch descent in Germany are incensed and troubled over recent decision of the Prussian College of Heraldry. Heretofore the Dutch families with the prefix ''van" to their names have considered themselves members of the German nobility and equal in every respect to the German families which were entitled to the use of ''von." According to the investigations of the Heralds, however, "van" is not a nobility particle, but was used simply to designate the town or village from which the person came. Hereafter, therefore, the ''vans" in Germany are not to be con- sidersd members of the nobility or to be entitled to its privileges.
 Dr. J. R. Buchanan, in the Forum, talks very plainly about Professor Koch and his consumption cure. His method is de- clared to be wholly unscientifc, in that he has taken the effect for the cause. Dr. Buchanan declares that the bacilli tubercu- losis is not the cause of tubercular disease, but the result of it, and that killing or scattering the bacilli, by the action of the lymph, does not eradicate the disease, the root of which must be found in the blood and the nervous system. Moreover, he claims that the Koch lymph is a very i'm perfect germicide, and says that if germi- cides are wanted in the cure of tubercu- losis, the medical profession is in posses sion of more effective ones. He laments the craze which has taken possession of the medical profession all over the world, and charges it to the imperial advertise. ment which has been given so lavishly to Dr. Koch.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02
QUEER.

It is queer about society; the minute man gets into it he expects to get asked out.-Elmira Gazette.
 q hear the plumber is engaged to your housemaidf' tsYes.n srWhy don't they get marriedF" "He Is not rich enough yet She hasn't been in my employ long enough to stuff the water pipes more than once. Epoch.
 Hands-up Ike-Hand out your vally- buls! Lord Wishty Werome-My deah, sir, you'll have to speak to my valet in the smoking carwage. He carwies all me money and attends to all me business, doncher know.-Puck.
 "What picture is that in your English paper, Miss Geraldinef" "That, MT. Far away, is picture of the Forty-seventh Lancers." "Forty- Lancersi Baw love. They must have dawnced the whole blooming night. ."-Harper's Bazar. Law professor-What constitutes bur glarya Student-Yhere must be a break ing. Then if man enters your door and takes $10 bill from your vest pocket in the hall would that be burglaryi Yes, sir, because that would break me.-Boston Traveller.
 On the Sixth Avenue Elevated.-''It is very cold on this platform" said Cholly Greenleaf, as he stood waiting for a liar | lem train to arrive at the Grand street station. sIt may be" returned the ticket chopper, guardedly, 'but the next station | is Bleecker."-Life.
 Flushing bride-I want to get present for my husband, but hardly know what to get. Clerk-Why not get one of these nice silk muffiers to wear eyeningsa Bride Oh, dear, no; my husband never goes out nights. Clerk-Well, you might get it for l next year.-New York Sun.
 Mrs; EpPeeh dIspeSting present ssTt of .s seal, piece of extravaganza, William, but it's beautiful. . shall go out in it often | Five minutes lster(-"Get your hat and | overcoat, William. I'm not going out alone" MT. Enpeck (with groan)- Rolled again. ."-Chicago Tribune. Life in Pizen Creek.-Major Buckshot-
 "Good morning, Colonel; see you have
 an extra gun this morning." Colone
 Whipsaw (of Rattlesnake ranch)-seYor
 can bet yer whiskers I have, Major. I'm
 lookin' for that dirty, low-down, lyin
 scoundrel, Bill Chaparejo, thet's been tell
 in around town that I am quarrilsome. "-
 Texas Siftings.
 Conjurer-You see, ladies and gentle
 men, the dollar has vanished. We shal
 soon find out where it has gone. You
 honest countryman, over there, just pu
 your hand in your coat pocketl I be you'll find the dollar. Peasant-No; I'v
 only got two marks and eight pfennig
 Impossible. You must have the dollar!
 s'No, haven'tl That was a dollar 70, put in my pocket while ago, but Pv been out to have drink since then" Tab
 leau.-Generalanzeiger.
 The Horrors of War.-Miss A1ice-The. say its great treat to hear you sing tn regimental songs, Captain Warhorse. Car tain Warhorsel home with us sfte the games, Miss Alice, and you may judg for yourself. You know my fayorite, 'sW Drank from the Same Canteensfn Mis
 Alice-Oh, do love that song. It give 1 one such vivid realization of the hart 3 ships of those terrible days, to think thi 2 one canteen had to hold enough for. tv , savsnth rsdmsnt msn.-Iife.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02
Hints for sIoney-Making Girls. From the Ladies' Home Journal

Hundreds of thousands of girls have & great desire to make little money, and don't know whether to call it laudable one or not. I am not a believer in girls going out into the world to work unless ii is absolutely necessary. But when it is then want them to do it in the right way; I want them to think that every particle of work they do is done not only for their own sakes, not only for their employers it must be right and honest in the sight of God. A very clever woman not very long ago wrote an article about working women, and in it she used this beautiful quotation of Ruskin's: Queens you always should be. Queens to your lovers, to your hus- bands, to your sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond" But she did not put the rest of the quotation, and in that lies the story of the non-success of many girls. This is it: 'But, alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate in the greatest"
 With only the hope of making money your work will be worth little, and cer- tainly not be worthy of consideration by noble minds or by the good God who watches over you day and night. You girls hurt yourselves, hurt your work, make it of less value and yourselves less respected, because you so entirely draw the line at what you will and what you will not do That which your hands find to do is the duty before you, and the wo- man who, employed in counting house, finds it but little trouble to keep her desk in order and, when she has time, to straighten up somebody else's who hasn't the time, is the woman whose work is go- ing to be noted and counted as valuable. The woman who announcing that she must get work or starve, and who yet is not willing to be at her desk at eight o'clock in the morning. deserves to starve. The woman who knowing that for certain number of hours she should in honor give her time to her employer, is but poor worker when ten minutes after the hour finds her arri- wing, and five minutes before the hour to go away finds her getting her cloak ready and arranging for her outdoor costume. The good workman doesn't drop the pen or the hammer at the stroke of the hour; he finishes first that which he is doing, for his heart is in his work, and that is the way it must be with you girls if you want to succeed and make even ''a little money"
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02
Nuts for DonneIIy 10 Crack. [Dr William J. Rolfe in the North American
 

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 I have said that the merely typographi- cal or mechanical impertections of the ''Folio" suffice to prove that the work is none of Bacon's. I have not referred, and shall now refer only in the briefest man ner to a wholly different class of facts that lead inevitably to the same conclusion If the ''Folio" were as well printed as any of Bacon's acknowledged works-the 'sEs- says" of 1895, for exAmple-there would still be internal evidence, abundant and decisive, that the volume cannot be the
 authors final revision of his dramatic pro auctions Certain of the plays gre mani festly nothing more than a slight remodel ing of earlier works by other hands. 9th CTS are apparently pieces left unfinished and completed by another plRywright-in some instances by one so inferior that the author cannot be supposed to have been A party to the transaction. If it be said that all the matter is from one and the same hand, this is not absolutely incon- ceivable if the collecting and publishing of the works have been done by an incompe- tent or interruptions editor after the au- thor's death; but how can we explain it if the author himself is editorg Why, to re- fer to a single play, should 'fTimon of Athens" be left in the state in which the ''Folior gives it-pure gold with 6 large sdmixture of the basest alloy, stuff utter ly unworthy the prentice days of the dra- | matist. Scarcely a critic of the present | century has been willing to regard the play | as the work of a single hand. Portions of | it are written in the merest burlesque of | verse-as if the author had no ear, unless | an asinine one-and the thought and sen \ timent are in keeping with the versifca- | ton; while other portions bear the marks | of the poets maturest period. According to the Baconians, this was one of the latest plays, if not the latest play, their philosopher wrote; and Timon is meant to
 represent himself. deserted by his parasite friends after his fall. Could Bacon have written it as we have it, or, if any infe1i- or writer had share in it, would Bacon have printed it all as his own! These and similar questions have never been put to the Baconians, so far as I am aware, and
 respectfully submit them to MT. Donnelly's consideration.
 II
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02
In the Firelight.

The fire upon the hearth is low,
 And there is stiffness everywhere;
 Like troubled spirits here and there The f1relight shadows fluttering go. And as the shadows round me creep,
 A childish treble breaks the gloom,
 And softly from further room Comes: "Now lay me down to sleep.r And, sometimes with that little prayer
 And that sweet treble in my ears,
 My thought goes back to distant years, And fingers with dear one there; And as I hear the child's amen,
 My mothers faith comes back to me Couched at her side seem to be, And mother holds my hands again. Oh, for an hour in that dear place!
 Oh, for the peace of that dear time!
 Oh, for that childish trust sublime, Oh, for glimpse of mothers face! Yet, as the shadows round me creep,
 do not seem to be alone
 Sweet magic of that treble tone And ''Now lay me down to sleepl"
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02

uries. For here, according to our scheme of things, was everything one had no right to expect, and nothing that one had. My European belongings looked very gross lt- tering the mats; and seemed to myself a boor beside the unconscious breeding of those about me Yet it was only a poor village inn, and its people were but peas ants, after all.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02
Howe & StGtsOn. Bargain Echoes
 FROM STOCK INVENTORY.

One bale (75o yards) heavy Russia Crash at oHc per yard, usual price I2c. One case Medina Suitings, handsome fabric in medium colored grounds, printed in de- sirable figures and stripes, at SC per yard.
 We shall close out our Mer- ritt's Unshrinkable Skirting Flannels, 2B yards wide, at $1.oo per yard, always sold at $I.5o.
 Merritt's 28 inch Shifting Flannels at 37c per yard, al- ways sold at soc.
 Big job in White French Corsets in extra length waist, all sizes from IS to 2o inches, at 7oc pair, regular $1 corsets.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02

The NewYork Star has ceased to twinkle and the Daily Continent will take its place. It has cost about s1, 800, 900 more than the receipts to carry the Star along. Better luck to the Continent.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02

ORANGE AND CENTER STREETS, [
 NEW HAVEN, Conn, January, 1891. Mrs. W(IDE) A(wAKE) HoUsEKEEPER-
 Dear Madam
 We wish to impress upon your mind the fact that we are doing COMPLETE House Furnishing business. So many people every day kindly favor us with their orders for Furniture who exclaim with much surprise, ''What do you keep CARPETS If I had known that I could have saved myself much trouble and ex- pense.'' And still others are much surprised when they visit our kitchen department to learn that we have full line of STOVES and RAN GEES, as we'll as CROCKERY and TINWARE. Customer after customer gives utterance to the plaintive lament ''f had only known that you kept these things could have done so much better here."
 For the last time permit us to cali your atten- ion to the fact that this month we are making SPECIAL PRICES way below value. Very many of our customers are selecting Carpets and Fur niture fer future use because of the lower prices now obtainable. Our advice to you is Do not delay, but come at once and make your selec- tions. If we can't convince you of the wisdom of this course we will pay you for your time and trouble.
 With best wishes we are,
 Yours very truly,
 BROWN & DURHAM.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-02

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