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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1893-10-24

gente- = Que ha ocurrido en- vuestra ca
sa, sefor Loupiat2
-Unos arrestos. .--contest6 e taber-
nero.
Il Diablo de ladrones, acasos
81, una buena banda - V el que pa
recfa jefe, quien he dido lamar Hilo en-
Cuatro, ha levantado IN cuchillo contra el
comisario.
i Malvado -grit6 Juan -Jueves.-i ST Sc
10 enviase Brest 8 1ol6n, tendria su me-
recido Un eomisario en- ell ejercicio de sus
funciones es sagrado. Paris no esta seguro..
A cada momento teme uao ser desbalija-
dol Esto es espantoso
7 mientras asl hablaba, Juan -Jueves CO
mia con apetlto ell pan Y Ell queso, cogien-
do el vase, diio
i A vuestra sslnd, senores
i A la vuestra !-respondi6 ell padre
Loupiat, quien no desagradaba la charla
de este nuevo parroquiano.
i Excelente vuestro vinillo azul !--excla-
mo Juan j ueves.
-iSuresnes legftino-contest6 ell taber-
nero .-Parece que os he visto antes de aho
ra. 5Sois de este barrio2
No, pero vengo por aquf con frecuen-
cia. Estoy empleado en- casa de un guinea
llero, de tempo en- tempo mi principal
me envla con paquetes a Clichy y Batig
nOle5
mo esta cereal
-iClaro que mol por ESQ tengo sed :.
-dijo Juan-Joeves tosieudo. Pardiez es-
ia picara tos me ahoga---. Dadme otro
Vase.
No os apureis por eso-exolam6 Rene
Moulin. leonardo la botella dc su mesa Y
llenando ell vase de Juan Jueves.
-Graoias, cabalero Corriente: en-
lugar de un vase, que me traga una botells
para pagaros vuestra 6neza---- Estoy obli-
gado, cabalero, y querreis desairarme....
Sea. 49,. pero solo vase, NADIA mas
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1893-10-24
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Il Cast NADIA, pardiez una irrupci6n de
policfa! Desde que el ito Loupiat, ese ia
bsrnero del diablo, ha venido 4 establecerse
aquf, 81 barrio esta plagado de pillastres, de
granujas, de ladrones. -. y de otras gen
tes peores todavia
TX
II Como !--exclam6 Juan-JuEves con So
berbio aplomo. 1 Sc reoibe tai csnalla on
los sitios p1blicos f.-.. Asi Sc expone un
hombra honrado & echAr una copa jugar
en- una mesa con cualquier tunante, ries
60 de comprometerse!
-Pues $50 es 10 que acaba de suceder,
compahero-dijo IN joven decentemente
vestido.
-Yo crso-insinu6 otro con cierto miste-
rio-que no ss trata ahora de ladrones.
- Pues de que Sc trata pregunt6
Juan j u6ves.
u Hablase de un complot poftico!
Il Esa es gorda, camarada !-dijo otro
LA taberna del padre Loupiat es una ra-
tonera de granujas Mirad bien esos
bigsrdos. -. tienen por acsso trazas de
eonspiradores
el obrero sehalaba los preaos que en-
aquel nomento salian de la taberna entire
los agentes de policia.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1893-10-24

que an vase :. Es neeesario que me retire,
porque habito lejos de aqui- -
d tDondeg pregunto Loupiat.
En- ell hotel Plato de Estaao, calle de
Saint-Martln. - Esta leios
mo vivfs habitualnente en ParisP-di-
10 Juan-Jueves.
No; he pasado diez nueve amos sin
poner en- el mis- pies.
u Habeis estado en- provincias?
No, en- ell extranjero-- en Inglate-
-tTal vez tendreis amigos en- Londrese
-Pocos tres 8 cuatro companeros de
profession, debo deciros que soy mecani-
-;Exeelente ofcio! Conozco en- Londres
a un sujeto que ha trabajado nnucho en- ca
sa de cierto personals muy rico llamado
Dick Thorn.
dick Thorn!-replic6 Rene Moulin
No me es desconocido ese nombre..
No tiene NADIA de particular ies de
un millonario!. -
-Estoy registrando en- mi memoria.
iAh! va me acuerdo: he dido ese nombre
en 81 hotel donde pernocte en- Londres la
noche anterior al dia de mi regreso Fran
ella, porqae las personas que me hablan
precedido Sc llamaban mistress Y miss Dick
Thonr- Tn motive particular me excita
ba averiguar como Sc llama ban....
X
"a Que motive particular seria ese p
preguutose Juau-Jueves "a Qn6 signifra
este 6Quiza este hombre es IN mosc6n
aunque no 10 pareee 9---- Ea bast4nte
hsmos hablado.
Loupiat habia vuelto sentarse, la bote-
LA estaos va vscfa, J Juan-Jueves Sc Ievan-
to, preguntando:
6Cuanto debof
--Doce sueldos-
-6Pero olvidais la botela?
La pago yo-dijo Rene
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1893-10-24
A los hacendados

Hojas para cuentas &c gastos semanales,
como las cue 80 usan en- Las principales fn-
sss de Ponce.
30 venden On esta Imprenta & centavos
una, 10 centavos docena 2.50 el 100.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
NOT AN EXPERT AT KNITTING.
Queen Vlctorla's Effort Aroused the Con-
 tempt of the Highland Woman.

Queen FlctOria's Effort Aroused the Con-
 tempt of the Highland Woman.
 It was back in the sixties, and the queen was staying with the first wife of the late duke of Sutherland at Dun- robin castle, when one day, as related by London Society, she took long morning walk, attended by only one of her ladies. The morning was a de- lightful one and the ladies soon found themselves nearly four miles from the castle. Coming to little cottage they saw an old woman knitting stockings by the door and asked her permission to enter and sit down to rest them selves, which was accorded with all the hospitality of the highlands. The old woman, resuming her knitting, began to chat about her son Donald, who had just joined highland regiment. "I'l1 be thinkin', moo, that you fine leddies come a the way frae Lunnon maybe," she said, looking at the two milk drain CTS. The sovereign nodded assent. ''Weel, when he gae back, aiblins, ye1l pr'aps tell Donald ye just had wee bit O sup with his ould mither." The queen wrote the name and the number of his regiment down in her tablets, and not long afterwards Donald be- came sergeant. But when the queeu rose to go she asked to look at the tar tan stocking the old woman was knit ting. The stocking was handed over, and her majesty tried the three-corner stitch, which she had been steadily watching the old lady perform for ten minutes, and soon got the skein into hopeless tangle. The hieland mither, looking at her disdainfully, said: "Leddy, it is to be hoped that your gud man buys his stockings ready made"
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
Stealing as Affected by Color.

At the Baltimore African Methodist Episcopal conference recently one brother insisted that his accounts were correct and that there was not deficit of fifty dollars, as alleged. ''Oh, brother, sit down; sit down." said Bishop Gaines. Nobody doubts your honesty. We don't believe you would take the money. Why, myself would as soon think of stealing as think you'd steal, and if I were going to steal I wouldn't take less than one million dollars. I would steal like white man and take bank, or fac tory, or railroad. Then I'd divvy up with some smart lawyer to get me out of the scrape. Colored folks ain't up to that yet. When they steal they take pig or chicken, or some eggs or ar old l,p,.Sa
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
NOTHING RAN IN THAT TOWN.
Alexandria, Va, Where Everything Has ..-- Reen Dead Since the War.

Alexandria, Va, Where Everything Has Been Dead Since the War. 1 , "I consider Alexandria, Va., the deadest town in the United States, re- marked a Washington man to New York Tribune writer the other day. ''No doubt there are worse places to live in, but considering it's opportuni- ties-it is only six miles from Wash ington-Alexandria really takes the palm for nonprogressiveness. Thirty years ago the population was trifle larger than it is now, and ten years ago there was line of surface cars in the principal street. l suppose the population grew too lazy even to ride in street car, however, for the ears are gone now and forgotten, except for a bit of track here and there.
 ''Last fall I went over to Alexandria from Washington one evening to make a call It was dark and I couldn't see the numbers on the houses. After fruitless search for some ten minutes along the silent street noticed a mid dle-aged man calmly smoking pipe on the front steps of house few doors away.
 I beg pardon said as politely as I could, but will you kindly tell me which way the numbers run on this street?'
 |" He took his pipe out of his mouth, slowly knocked out the ashes and said: Just got ter town?'
 We'll, yes,' replied, little sur prised.
 "'Evenin' boat?'
 "'Yes.'
 "'What number yer looking for?'
 'Forty-nine.'
 ''It's the other side, four doors be- low
 'I thanked him and turned to go.
 "'Hold on a minnit, he called: what did you say about numbers runnin'?'
 "I asked which way they ran in this street. I said.
 Well, they don't run,' he rejoined, fumbling around for match; they don't even walk. There hain't noth- ing run in this town Sence the war;
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
A Young spaninrd,s Egotism.

The people of the Spanish capital are much amused at the egotistic estimate recently placed upon his attainments by young grandee. Among the in- teresting ceremonies at the Spanish court is the appearance before the queen regent at stated times of the in heritors of the title of grandee, the most coveted distinction in the land. The ceremony is quaint. The new grandee, wearing his hat in the pres ence of royalty as mark of his rank, recounts the glorious deeds of his an- cestors and his own deeds as reasons for his assumption of the dignity. At the last reception the duke of Tarifa, the youngest son of the duchess of Medinaelli, was among the new gran dees. But when it came his turn to tell why he should be grandee he re- counted with pride the fact that he had been graduated from the polytech- nicum as an engineer! The queen re- gent was not deeply impressed with the dukes qualifications, as many of his classmates surpassed him in attain mentS
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
Equal to the Emerge encY.

An anecdote, showing that the pres ence of mind of a lady of the last cen tury was quite equal to that of the pres ent day, is told of the celebrated Frau von Stein. While entertaining some guests at dinner a servant entered the room bearing aloft in magnificent style the piece de resistance,a a fine saddle of venison. Owing, however, to some lack of dexterity on the fellows part, the meat, greatly to the consternation of all present, slipped off the platter from it's elevated position and fell up- on the floor. But the lady of the house, the least disconcerted of all, calmly re- marked: ''Take it away and bring in the other piece" When the ''other piece" which, as.may be sur missed, was the same redecorated, ap- peared, and the duke of Weimer, one of the guests, was asked if he might be served to some, he was unable to refrain from the joke, and replied: ''No thank you. prefer some of the other piece" How the quick-witted hostess met this blow is not stated by the chronicler.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
ThERmoME1 REGAL vAKIAIruNo.

From ss Degrees Below in Siberia to 12O
 Above in tine Colorado Desert.
 The lowest mean temperature that occurs anywhere, or at any season on the globe, occurs in January at Werk- ojansk, in northeastern Siberia. Here the mean for the first month in the year is 61.2 degrees below. For the same period the temperature is 40 de- grees below over the region situated little north of the magnetic pole. At Werkoianslz the thermometer has reg istered over 8S degrees below zero. Going to the other extreme, the Nauti- cal Magazine finds that the atmos- phere of the Colorado river desert has shown maximum of 12O degrees, and this will give a seasonal variation over the land of upward of over 200 degrees Fahrenheit, against less than one-third of that range over the water of the Att lantic. The comparative constancy of oceanic temperature moderates the eli theological conditions of approximate land masses very considerably and the disparity between summers heat and winters cold is still less marked when the seaboard is swept by warm ocean currents. The mean annual tempera- ture of the British islands is quite 20 degrees higher than it would be did it's temperature depend upon latitude alone. This is, of course, owing to the influence of the gulf stream, which is calculated to pour into the North Atlantic some thir- ty-eight cubic miles of warm water per hour. The heating effect of this cur rent upon the atmosphere of the North Atlantic is best seen by comparing the position of isothermal lines with the same temperature lines in the South Atlantic. Thus, in the month of Jan- uary, the isotherm of 34 degrees runs in almost a straight line from Boston to Iceland and from Iceland across to the Norwegian coast At it's most northerly limit it just impinges upon the arctic circle. Thus, the mean tenn perature of 35 degrees is found in the coldest month at distance of 6615 de- grees north of the equator. In the South Atlantic during the month of July, the midwinter month, the iso- therm of 35 degrees is practically iden- tical with the 50th parallel of latitude. Contrasting the temperatures for the midsummer months, it will be seen that while in the South Atlantic the iso- therm of 50 degrees has mean lati- tude of 45 degrees, the same isotherm in the North Atlantic passes over the middle of Iceland, and from there runs in a straight line to the north cape of Norway in latitude 72 degrees.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
Tllumb-Nan Pictures.

In collections centuries old, to be seen in both China and Japan, are specimens of the most remarkable drawings in the world, pictures of all kinds drawn with the thumb nail. The nails Of the thumb on the left hand of the artists of these are allowed to grow to an enormous length, some times to foot or eighteen inches, and are then pared down to pen-shaped point. Dipping this oddly-constructed pen in beautiful vermilion or sky-blue ink, the only kinds of inks used in these sacred thumb-nail drawings, the artist gracefully outlines his work. Occasionally the bold touches from the studio of master in this department of high art are life size, and are sl1etched by few sweeps of the artists arm. Like other pictures and sketches of the Orient, these sacred thumb-nail pictures are mounted and rolled up like scrolls.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
THEIR ORDER OF PRECEDENCE.
How the English Aristocracy Takes Rank
 from Duke to Esquire.

1rOm DUhS DO ESQUirOs
 It sometimes happens that in writ
 ing of the English nobility young au-
 thors are not quite familiar with their subject, and make mistakes concern
 ing the different steps or degrees in the peerage. Perhaps a simple explana-
 tion of the matter may be found use- ful in clearing up loose conceptions. The highest-though not the oldest rank in Britain below royalty is that of duke. The first dukedom created was the duLedom of Cornwall, be- slowed on Edward, the Black Prince, and it now appertains, as matter of right, from the moment of his birth, to the eldest son of the reigning mon arch. The formal manner of address ing dulze-his ''style,' as it is techni- cally called-iS ''his grace, the duke of " so-and-so. A duke is the only no- bleman whom it is allowable in con- versation to address by the name of his rank, as, for instance, ''as was re- marking, duke.'' Next to duke comes marquis, or marquess, as the word is now more usually spelled. The word means lord of the marches or borders. A marquess is addressed as ''the most noble, the marquess," etc. The next degree below marquess is an earl. It is a distinctively English term, it's equivalent abroad being count, al- though, curiously enough, an earl's wife is known as countess. An earl is addressed as ''the right honorable, the earl Of etc. After the earl comes the viscount The name bears it's for eign origin on it's face, and was for merly applied to a person who acted as sheriff of county in the place of the count or earl. Like the earl he is ad- dressed as ''the right honorable, the viscount," etc. The lowest rank in the British peerage is that of baron, al- though in one, sense of the word every peer is baron. This arises from the fact that, according to the old feudal law, every man who possessed certain lands was called a baron, and as a con- dition of his possessing them had to bring into the field certain number of armed men at the call of the sover- eign. Below the peerage are the baro- nets, knights and esquires. The latter title is now applied promiscuously; at law, however, there are only certain classes of the queens subjects entitled to this ancient and honorable appella- tion. These are sons of peers, and the eldest sons of the youngest sons of peers, and their eldest sons; the eldest sons of knights and their eldest sons; gentlemen specially created esquires by the queen; esquires of knights of the tbath; justices of the peace, and oth- CTS with similar ex-oficio title and bar riSterS,
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
NTay-Day on the Plains.

The 1st of May could happen twice a week on the plains without disturbing anybody much, for it is almost as easy for the Indian to move as to stay where he is, particularly as he makes his wife do the moving. The Indians tepee is merely cone of poles, light, branchless saplings, laid with their butts in circle and their tops bound together. Around this is thrown cover of canvas or dressed skin, with an opening at the top for the escape of smoke, and flap is left open at the side for door. When he moves it is only necessary to roll the canvas into a wad and tie it to the poles, which are strapped to a pony, with the heavy ends dragging on the ground
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
WRITE WORSE THAN EVER.
Authors Progressing Backward Steadily
 in the Matter of Chfrography.

Authors Progressing Backward Steadily
 in the Matter of ChiroSraphy.
 It is true that handwriting is grow ! ing worse and worse all the world over. This is the statement of Mir. Jackson in his Theory and Practice of Hand writing" Official reports seem to con ] firm Mr. Jackson's belief. On the other hand, as pointed out by the Bos- ton News, persons of considerable ex- perience in reading literary manu- scripts and examination papers of the higher orders can hardly agree with him. As rule, the manuscripts of novels and of examination papers are legible and even rather pleasing. The exceptions are scarcely 1 per cent. in examination papers; in novels an au- thor foolishly sends in a mere rough draft, with erasions and additions tackled on by pins or waste ends of postage-stamp paper. But these exam ples of handwriting are the work, eX- cept as regards many novels, of rather highly-educated persons, and they throw no light on the hands of people far from literacy. The letters of serv-
 
 aspirations to culture are often penned in excellent and characteristic hands, and, on the whole, we do not think that the age writes ill, as a general rule. Naturally people who have to write great quantities of ''copy" for the press or for other purposes find their hands, if Roman and fine at first, gradually disappearing in scrawl due to fatigue. A number of popular and prolific authors are suffering from writers cramp,'' and their hands must have been degenerating in the progress of the malady.
 To do the work with the minimum of fatigue is the auth or's object and certainly it seems as if the men and women with the most slovenly hands suffer least from writers cramp. MT. Jackson, however, thinks that writing is very bad, that it's badness is due to bad teaching, promiscuously selected models Che prefers examples on the blackboard to headlines) and, above all, the error is in sloping as opposed to perpendicular or vertical writing. The natural man, he thinks, sits up right to his work and would write per pendicular, but for the prevalence of sloping copies. From these comes the habit of sprawling sideways at the desk and that habit is bad for the eyes, bad for the spine, bad for discipline in the school (as it facilitates tattling), and, finally, bad for the handwriting. The slope keeps on running down hill till it loses itself in an indecipherable scrawl.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
A WHITE MANS NOTION.

African Slaves Can't Be Compelled to Fol-
 low the Absurd Innovation.
 Englishmen are apt to confound Af- rican slavery with the forms of slavery known to European nations. One of the curiosities of domestic slavery in Darkest Africa, says St. James Gazette, is that while the native slave owner can, by custom, compel his slaves to fight for him, and possesses other eTten- sive powers over them, he cannot ''le- gally'' compel his slaves to work for him. On the Congo and it's affluents, native (not Mohammedan) slave owners pay wages to their own slaves whenever the latter are required to carry ivory and produce to the coast. Even Hippo Tib pays his numerous slave soldiers under such peaceful circumstances. The explanation of this anomaly seems to be that war is a far more ancient and primitive institution than labor. When domestic slavery was first in- troduced' into Africa regular labor was unknown; the right to mOnOpolize the slaves labor was therefore never incorporated among the shareholders privileges and prerogatives. It is white men who have really introduced and ac- climatized the idea of work or ''labor'' in Africa. When Pharaoh compelled the children of Israel to ''work" for him he was considered a dangerous revolutionist by Egyptian conserva- tives. The Spaniards first introduced labor slavery in the western world. We moderns have completely forgotten that the slave was originally in the main fighting retainer, not work ingman. -5
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-27
Not Safe to Jilt a Girl in Belgium.

Belgian judges have never admitted the principle of monetary compensa- ton for breach of promise of marriage, but it has at last been established by decision of the judges of the court of appeal, and there can be no doubt as to the meaning of their judgment The test case was that of a young woman who, through her father, brought action against a young Dutch man residing in Brussels The father obtained verdict for five thousand nine hundred francs damages. plus eight thousand francs for what was called moral prejudice" In their judgment the judges said that either of the two parties to an engagement might back out of it, although not at the last mo- ment. h the case cited the wedding day had actually been fixed.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-02-03
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA, ITS
"THE KIND THAT CURES"


Petite Miss Hamilton again afforded much
RAasure at Portland theatre last evening, and
tasa company appeared to better advantage
ts4sn in the previous performance. In "The
IIRtle Detective" the little stars versatility
in severely tested, she assuming several
Siaguises- The marked approval of the
sHaience showed she was successful in each
AsA particularly clever as sailor Dick
wish q charmingly executed sailors hornpipe
Mis- Hamilton is a vivacious talented little
bOAy. and shows improvement each time she
ViaAAs Us. There is place in the front ranks
sOT her and she evidently intends to gel
sAsro. There will be no matinee to. day
Ttls engagement will close this evening with
Ths Majors Daughter. ."-POrtland, ME,
B@sferh Argus. Miss Hamilton will be at
FeSuson's theatre for three nights commenc'
inN Monday next
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-02-03

The plague of breaking lamp
chimneys is abroad in the land.
There are two sorts of Chin
neyst brittle and tough. Ninety
nine in a hundred are brittle.
The worst are imported from
Germany. The best are Mac
beth's "Pear1-top" & ''Pearl-glass. :"
Two sorts as to workman
ship; fine and coarse. The
fine are Macbeth's "Pearl-top I"
and "Pearl-glass." The coarse
are rough and out of proper
ton; mis6ts and misshapen /;
they do not make good
draft; they smoke.
Two sorts as to glass; trans
parent and gray. Pearl-top"
and " Pearl-glass" are clear, fine
and tough-not tough against
accident-tough against heat.
Call for Pearl-top" or
Pearl-glass" chimneys.
Pittsburgh. Pa. GEO. A. MACBETH Co.