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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-15

English, French, German and Domestic
Toilet Soaps; Genuine Farina Cologne Mag
nolia, Hedyosimia, Geranium and Florida
Water; Genuine Lubins Extracts; Sponges,
Hair Brushes and Combs; best English Tooth
Brushes full assortment of Patent Medi-
cines; Coxe's Gelatine, Corn Starch, Sea Moss
Farine, Spices of all kinds, and a select stock
of all articles sold by druggists at prices as low
as the same quality can be Obtained elsewhere
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-15
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ITO THE TRADE.
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Never more interesting than at this season
are crowded with CHRISTMAS and HULI-
DAY SAMPLES and NOVELTIES They
are so arranged as to detain you the shortest
possible time. We feel that we have sur.
prise for you. 1t costs you nothing. Drop in
and look us over. No goods at retail.
1oy22 I'm GEORGE 3. HILL & co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-15

stOratlve Nervine. and was cured. Galned IU
pCunds."-James Kane La Rue, o. Nervinc is
sold by alldruggists on q Po5iti7e gaarantfs. or
sent by DR.. Miles Medical Co. Elkhart, Ind. 81 e
hOttc,j forS5. Free book ut druggists, or mail.
FOR SALE by rs. LEADBEATER & SONS
Alexandria Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-15

rHHE BEST CANTON FLANNEL that has
/ ever been offered in this market at 10c !;
also as good AS can be found at Sc, for &c, ut
AMOS b. SLAYAIAKER'S.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-15

HANDSOMELY Mounted Umbrellas.
A srecal line of Gloria and llelvctia I'm
brellas, 81, $125, $1.50 and 50.
Ladies' Embroidered Silk and Linen Hand
kerchcfs from 10c to So each.
Ladies' Pure Linen Initial HandkcrchiefS
12tc, 25c and soc.
Mems Pure Linen Initial Handkerchiefs
25c and SOC.
Ladies Japanese Silk Initial Handler,
chiefs, 25c and soc.
Mems japanese Silk Initial Handkcrchicfs
Soc 75c and 81.
Silk Muiilers in great variety.
Fancy Embroidered Suspenders- each pair
iii box-S1.50 to So.
Mems Half Hose, 13c 20 81 pair.
Mems Silk Halt-Hosc-in 6oXcs-SSl and
81 pair.
$3.50.
Mems Underwear, SOC to So each piece.
The best makes of Kid and WOODEN Gloves,
for Men, Women and Children.
Black and Colored silk Dress Patterns
zoe, ST, $1.25, $1.50 and 81 4 yard.
SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRICES ON DRESS
GOODS.
36-inch all-wool Hop Sackins-plain and
fancy patterns-rcduced from jOc TO :iJc.
40-inch all-wool Plaids and Stri.es-rc-
duced from 75c, 81 and $50 to 5rc yard.
Paris Dress Robcs-wcrc SD and $40
now $40 each.
II You want HEAD RESTS-Fancy Rolls
and Pillows and Cushions-you will find a
complete assortment, covered with India Silk.
Satin, Silkaline aud Satinc, at prices that
make them sensible gifts.
Elder Down Spreads.
Wrapper and Bed Blankets.
Linen Lunch and Dinner Sets.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25
IiouselhoId HELPS.

A lump of camphor in your clothes
press will keep steel ornaments from
furnishing.
Milk applied once week with
soft cloth frcshcns and preserves
boots and shoes.
You can drive nails into hard wood
without bending them If you dip
them first in lard.
Weak spots in a black silk waist
may be strengthened by sticking"
court plaster underneath.
An inexpensive afghan is made OF
whito cricket cloth, material like
elder down, with tiny pink rosebuds
embroidered around the edge.
TO make sweet apple pickle take
seven pounds OF apples, one quart OF
vinegar and four pounds OF sugar
Pcre. quarter and core the apples;
steam them II hard, and cook in tho
vinegar, adding spices to taste.
Beautiful napery, silver, china and
glass all set out with geometric exact
ness, and all exquisitely spotless and
clean, are the characteristics OF the
dinner table. and the chOicer and
mcle costly and beautiful, the nearer
is reached the standard OF perfection.
A window without shade is only
half dressed. Draperies may DO dis
pensed with; they are decorative.
but shades are essential. They tenn
per the light for the room as the
lashes do for the eye; they dress tho
window and at tho same time form
background for the laces and stuffs
OF the drapery.
A pretty article for hanging beside
the bureau to hold the button-hook
and other small articles Is made of
one OF the wooden eggs used In stock
ing darning. At equal distances
around the center screw In four Of
the small brass hooks such as are
used on bangle boards, then paint
the egg white and decorate with tiny
flowers and attach a ribbon to two
opposite hooks to hang IL by. Tho
egg may be gildcd instead OF painted.
II preferred.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25

II is true that the Roman munici-
pality has not b en- quite so M rciless
as Earon Haussmann and his tribe
were when they reconstructed
Paris. They have not sacri-
iced beautiful monuments of
the past in order to drive long, straight
avenues from one point to another.
Thus, the Via Rationale, which
runs from the Termini. is intended TO
end at the Castle of Saint Angelo, and
is the main artery fer carrying the
blood OF the new life in the modern
quarters into the heart Of the ancient
city, takes the most fantastic ziz Gags
and capricious curves, to AVOID de-
stroying some memorial OF papal or
CUsarian past.
The Roman municipality honored it.
self in abolishing the Ghetto, and the
duke of Torlonia is justified in point
ing with pride to other services rend-
cred since 1870.
The vast valley OF the Forum has
been opened and cleared; so have the
houses of the Vestals and n portion If
the Palatine; the baths of Caracalla
are almost entirely restored, the Pan
heon has been relieved of the para
site constructions which marked its
wonderful antique beauty; the garde MS
of Maecenas, the Emporium and the
Capitoline Arch have been brought 10
the light Of day, and hundreds of stat
ues and mausoleums have been ex-
humed to testify to the matchless
riches and supreme taste of private
life in ancient Rome.
These are doubtless great services;
bnt one is inclined to forget them all
when he sees that Nlilanese tailor
has been allowed to build vast modern
shop, with far,ng show windows,
within few steps Of the Column OF
Antoninus, and at distance of a hun
dred yards from the Chigi palace.
The ministry of finance, which has
cost the Italian government a great
many millions. is kind of a combi-
nation of barracks, convent and hos
pital.
The new postofIice is an Old cloister,
made over and rendered ridiculous by
the modern touches which 1t might
we'll have been spared.
The Palace Of Fine Arts, in the Via
Rationale. looks not unlike n monster
sur ophagus when seen from dis
cum boring rows OF Corinthian pillars,
its decorative sculptures and all gori'
cal bJsreliefs, make it look like
place made out of dough.
The National theater is hardly
worthy of the country which, as a
clever critic has said has furnished
the best architects in the world, from
Nitruvius to Brunelleschi.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25

came in But that the temples which
echoed the accents of august conquer
ors of the world should now ring to the
refrain OF "Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay" and
that ChoIlies should replace Rienzis,
is strange indeed.
TIL. stranger who enters Rome with
out any great preparation of classical
study-with no memories of tradition
to make him feel that the very dust
there is sacred-would find nothing to
distinguish the Eternal City" from
other European burgs OF second. class
in population.
lie arrives at very commonplace
depot, which has nothing to remind
one Of the grandeur of ancient Rome,
or the delightful picturesqueness of
rich modern Italian architecture.
He passes through square bordered
with cheap cafes, under the awnings
OF which sour-looking workmen sit,
drinking the eternal 'brauca' or the
thin and deadly absinthe, and he pro-
ceeds down the Via Nazionale past pa
latial, modern editices very like those
of southern Germany.
An American church, homely enough
to have been transported bodily from
some avenue in Chicago, confropts him
as his gaze roves over the hills which
look chilly in autumn, and deadly in
their tropical mist robes in summer.
"Roma, Roma, non e piu Roma, "
signs the visitor who remembers the
charmingly attractive city of papal
supremacy's days, when the streets
furnished constant and ravishing
panorama of costumes, and there was
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25

The spirit Of this generation Of
Ital ans is we'll summed up in the
huge Ministry OF War, which arises
between the Quatro Fontaine and the
Ministry of Finance The cold and
clammy German hand, with the large,
Nat fingers, has been at work there.
The inspiration OF the north, which
has driven Italy to hammer all her
wealth into swords and cannons,
rather than into plowshares and
sick es, and to tax her long suffering
and industrious peasantry sixty per
cent of their earnings for the support
Of army and navy. has not improved
the artistic spirit of Rene.
Signor Bonghi is reported to have
said, some time ago, after contemplate
ing the numerous changes: Here we
are making of Rome the ugliest col
lection of habitations in the universe,
and it seems to me that this was
hardly n cessary TO render her worthy
Of her title of capital of Italy,"
Some of the sacrifices made for the
construction of rows of houses were
certainly too great. The public work
undertaken between the churches of
San Giovanni in Latcrano and Santa
Croce in Gierusalemma, for instance,
destroyed one of the most picturesque
and poetic promenades of Rome.
The two churches were united by a
long alley of elms. which stretched
along the Aurelian walls on the
south, and in the opposite direction
reached the Villa Capannari.
a promenade here in the beautiful
twilight, when the delicious sky
which overhangs Rome was fllei
nh yxh ir
rained down upon the rough bark of
the hoary trees, and upon the statues
of the Church of san Giovanni, was
something never to be forgotten.
It has gone-with SO many other
visions and me mories of youth-and
the old globe trotter wags his grizzled
beard and says regretfully: Roma
non piu Roma"
IL any proof were needed of the
changes, silent and constant. going on
in Rome IT could be found in the de-
cline OF the carnival and OF all the Old
generous. specially decorative out Of
door sports which were SO brilliant
and attractive under papal rule.
Nowadays, when carnival time
comes round, the ladies are afraid, be-
cause the naskers throw cabbages and
potatoes where they used to throw
confetti" The sport has grown more
brutal, as the tipple has changed from
wine to beer, from cordials to abb
sinthe.
1t Is true that the municipality made
endeavors to abolish the spectacle OF
the unoing of young horses-the Bar
leri-on the crowded ''Corso"--on the
ground that it is brutal and inhuman.
The horses used to be, and probably
will be for years 10 come, set off at
full tilt down the long, narrow street,
which is lined on the special day with
tens OF thousands of people of ell
ranks in society.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25
How wa,or Gets Into Tile.

Professor j. M. Bloss OF tho On.
tario state college gives in a recent
lecture on tile draining, some truo
and some false theories. He claims
that water does not come through
The tops OF tile, but from the bottom
where the ends como together. This
10 generally true, though in
q severe rain storm, when the
soil is drcnched with waters
some OF 1t is washed through che
cracks overhead, and to guard against
this coarse gravel ought to cover
these joints so as to hold the fine silt
that will otherwise spoil the drain.
But some water may and does soak
through the tile when the ground Is
saturated. and in denying this the
professor Is in tho wrong. He says
that porus tile ought not to be used.
arguing that 1t will dissolve by action
OF the water 1t will IL frost gets to
It, otherwise not II the ground is firm
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25

AMERICAN LEGATION AND AMERICAN
CHURCH.
of a French vaudeville, the indecencies
of which are embroidered by smart
verse -.
Within n stones throw OF the vati-
can restaurant principal ,room is
invaded by a company of overdressed
horse fanciers who are quarreling
about the wines and using language
which would make gendarne blush.
On the cobblestones, which serve
alike for teams and pedestrians, Turk
the suspicious looking personages who
whisper into the tourists ear offers OF
improper books and pictures and who
seem to take pride in their singular
profession.
Tho flower girl, too, Is there as OF
old. But her fnery is faded and sor.
aid; her honeyed words are accom-
panied by almost direct demands Tor
money, and she will dccoy the inno-
cent where he will meet not the fine
old bricand with long carbine,. but
the brutal bravo with the bras
knuelsle dustcr
In shaking off tho dust OF ages, the
makers of new Rome seem to have re-
ceiyed good portions OF IL back upon
their heads II lies thickly in their
streets. ready for the eddying winds
TO whirl It into the gardens and bal
comics of palace and villa.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25

a delicious air of mystery about visit
10 church, or sumter on the Tiber S
banks, where of cd the Vestal Vir-
gins tended the sacred fire.
With the now modernized splendor
has come certain GOODNESS which pen
etrates even TO the ancient ruins, and
makes them seem less solemn and ma
jestic than of old.
In the forum some cnterprising So
cialistic candidate has posted his APP
peal to the electors OF his circumscrip-
ton. In the Coliseum the sellers OF
false relics, manufa ctured in Birming-
ham, weary the tourist and Danish all
poetic notions from his head by their
combined and perpetual assault upon
his pocket
In the grand square OF the Pantheon
the eye is disenchanted by coarse
looking theatrical poster, which an
nounces the approaching arrival OF
r"Yvette Guilbert, or the production
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25
Poultry I'lckin "a.

Chickens like sweet milk better
than sour.
Try warm, sweet milk as u tonic
for sick fowls.
For swelled head battle the face
with a solution of salt.
Study tho demands OF the poultry
market and cater to the demand.
II you want to raise only eggs keep
tho hens separate from the males.
Giving too much sloppy food to
young chickens often causes scours.
Tho goose is a good rustler and
will take care OF itself when there is
pasture.
If chickens are not kept free from
lice and fed well, "cholora" in some
shape is sure t. come.
Never attempt to make an incuba-
tor. Buy good one and it will com
bine all tho best features.
Hens that moult early generally
make good winter layers and should
be saved for that purpose.
Ducks grow rapidly, and, il prop
crly managed, can DO put upon tho
market ut comparatively low cost.
Poultry raising is no child's play.
1t requires study, observation and
experience to bring it to the highest
success.
If tits eggs instead OF fat you want,
feed the hens wheat and other egg
producing food instead OF fat-pro-
ducing feed.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25

shorter and when he Is n como,..
irog he has no tail at all. bnt s, pioso
t. =. aS,Gkihg' When half frog and half
.aupole ne still has Il good deal ~
eali' ana In addition big hind legs and
mere sprouts of fore legs; so that ha
very funny looking fellow
Duli-irog' tadpole at this STAGE e..-.a
neither of heaven nor of earth I" 40
Again, the tadpolc eats water.nlor.s
pu' "neh he becomes frog he feeds
on animal life. Tadpoles cat tba
green moss or 'scum" that v. 60
often sec on logs and plants in n STA
nant pool, and they show n Cood %
petite Tor soft decaying watcr-growths
inc foulcr the pool the hapoier the
tadpoles AS they are numerous. and
mus dcvour great amount of matter
that would make it very unhealthv 10
i've near 4 stagnant pool, thcy are
really useful creatures
In captivity they win generally eat
meat, whether good or bad. as well ne
bread and bran dough, and. as n she.
c'al relish, will sometime, lunch on
one nnothcr's tails.
Inc common frog gets his final
shapc in the first season, but the bull.
frog goes under the mud for the win.
Ter while still n tadpole, and it takes
at least another summer and some
times more before he has full RIGHT 10
he called frog. lie is some four
years from the egg in getting full
growth. and does not become old for
about ten years.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25

it is bc.tcr TO lay horseshoe tile thar
sole tile. In that case nearly all the
water will riso up into tho channe'
from beneath, Va aavo often laid
horseshoe tile In soil where there
wcro occasional springs in the bot.
tom OF the drain. 1t is bost in such
cases TO lay long, Nat stones on
either sido OF tao drain, wido enough
For tho tile to rest on. and long
enough to reach past the spring to
firm soil on either side Drains thus
laid forty years ago arc doing good
service, only showing action OF frost
at the outlets, whore the water In
porous tile sometimes frozc in very
cold weather. Glazed tile arc need.
lossly expensive, and do not drain sc
well as tile that are porous. Glaz.
ing tho pipe, with tight joints at the
ends. is used for city sewers. bu,
such pipes are no good for draining
land of the surplus water that fills ii.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25
Queer Thing. About Frogs.

Frogs are mainly juice, says st.
Nicholas IL they try to make more
man short journey from moisture,
ma drought they will perish for want
o. water, and then their bodies VIII
ary away. The frogs bones are SO
SOFT that he scarcely leaves any sieie-
ton
A frog meets with remarkable
Saannges during his natural life. lie
SSegins as an egg and matches out us q
nsh. That Is, tadpole or polliwog'
%trst has gills, breathing water alone
IN his early days, however, the tad,
POE soon looses the outside pars ..
MS gills and breathes air, so that
ne mas to come to the surface OF the
water every few minutes like % por-
pose, to get fresh gulp of breath.
During the first part OF his career
Nc swims by sculling with his long
All After awhile his legs begin u
grow out, his tail becomes shorter AID
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25
Keeping POTATOES separate.


There is more mixing OF varieties
among potatoes than there is in any
other farm crop. The evil is in
creased by the tendency OF new va
rictics to sport and produce potatoes
Of different color and shape from
those used as seed. But in most
cases it comes from carclcssness in
digging where several sorts arc
grown on adjoining rows in tho Same
field. No matter how distinct ono
variety may DO from another, when
the men strike row OF another kind
il is the most natural thing in the
world to dig one or two hills "just to
sec il they are different" Nine times
out OF ten these hills will be put
among the potatoes previously dug.
In this way after two or threo years
potato seed becomes hopclcssly
mixed. 1t is very hard now to get
Early Rose that will be wholly true to
name. The sport Late Rose looks so
much like the other that it escapes
unless the hills are marked before
the tops die. The Late Rose has
green tops long after tho other kind
has withered almost out OF sight.
Where potatoes are cut and two
pieces placed in the hill the mixing
is still moro hopeless. We think at
least enough varieties, pure and
true to namo, should be saved each
fall for seed. An even lot, all OF one
variety, looks much better and will
bring several cents more per bushel
in most markets than sorts that in
cludo several kinds. Even for cook
ing they are worth moro, while, OF
course, for seed no one would will
lingly purchase a mixed lot il no
could get any other. American Gull
tivator.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25
THE ROME OF TO-DAY
COMPARED WITH THAT OF
PAPAL SUPREMACY.
Its Glories Fast Fading Away Before
the Needs of Commerce and Nine
tecnth Century Industry Ia
thetic Pictures.
Rome Correspondence
Ii Il TRANSFOR-

- ~ L IVA OF oIN
!mation of Rome is
one OF the wonders
of the century.
That the city of
the Caesars and the
popes should have
long lines of dreary
model villas aud
apartment houses
like Vienna and
Munich was per-
haps to be expected
w In ar mo1arpisrn
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25

Reginald Ee Rowan is said to be
writing another opera. This one II
for Laura Schirmer-Mapleson. and it
will be called "The ChateIainc."
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25
Much Consolation.

Mother-Arent you sorry for tne
,;,,ic bov with his arm in s!ingT
RobbvwY.y.yes, but just think whata
nile Of candy ana such stuff he must
get!
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25
A Lost Mother.

stranrcr-what's the matter, my
little man? Small 10y 100.
mamma OUT for walk ana I've @
her somehow, and I'm 'fraid she can
find herself anywhere. BOO, hoo' hoo'
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-11-25
A Hat storm.

Bats keep out of doors II they can,
and away from people. The feet and
the sharp hooks on the ends of their
wings tangle themselves in the hair
very unpleasantly,t to be sure, but they
are not ill-tempered or venomous, and
the insects that live on them will not
leave them for you, and are perfectly
harmless to the people, anyway.
1t is also very useful, flying about
Mt night to capture and eat large
quantity of insects that do much harm
TO trees and plants.
Gilbert White says-every boy ought
IN know who Gilbert White is-that
he was much entertained one summer
with tame bat, which would eat
flies out of a persons hand. IL you
gave IL anything to eat it brought its
wings around before its mouth, cover
inc and hiding its head in the manner
of birds of prey when they feed. The
wings of flies it always sheared or
with much adroitness and threw them
away. This bat preferred insects, but
T. would eat raw meat. When this bat
was tumbled fat on the floor it would
rise on its wing with great ease IL
would run, too rather fast, but In a
most ridiculou, and grotesque manner
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-11-09

Washington was satisfied
with 200 post-oilicc appointments,
while Cleveland has G7.1l9 at his
disposal. The revenue from post
offices then was $l04, 747, and cXpcn
diturcs So, 900. The revenue to day
is $73, $50, 16o, and the expenditures
$Sl ,529,543 There were nineteen
colleges then, and 597 today. Pub
lie schools were among tho nnllAown /,
along with railroads, the telegraph
and telephone In the public schools
alone for the year 1892, therc arc ID
olo,l36 pupils enrolled, with $685.
634 teachers in charge.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-11-09
On MAXI Circuit Judge.

That Judge Morrison will be hon
orcl with seat on The SHrrcme
t'encb is very generally conceded;
hut whether the honor falls to hnn
on not, he will not accept the Circuit
.ird9c>hip again.
The prominent candidates for the
position arc, Mr.. Joseph /. Kelly,
General \. /. Pridcmore, Judge II.
i. ". ,;kcen, Judge ". j. Miller
and Judge jackson. MI Of the
gentlemen are good Democrats and
excellent lawyers, either one Of whom
would make Us u good Judge.
Tie Posi- has no special late st
N the election oicither Of thc gen
tic!nen. and will extend most cor
dial greeting to the man who re
occivcs the honor.