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Evening journal., 1896-04-28
PUBLIC SALES.

FUbLlO SALES
pUBLIC sALE-WILL BE SOLD AT
4 public sale on
WEDNESDAY, THE 9Th DAY OF MAY, 1886.
at O'Clock, p. m,
at No. $40 French street. Wilmington. Della.
ware, the following property: One brown
mare. three delivery wagons, three sets OF
single harness and one blanket, the property
o. A. L. AinscOw q Co., and to be sold by
Herbert White under an Act FOR the Protec-
tion OF Keepers of Livery and Boarding sta
bles, Chapter go, Volume II, Laws Of Della
ware, passed at Dover, April 2. A. D., 1885.
April p. 1896. HERBERT WHITE.
DUBLIC SALE
i OF the entire stock and fixtures Of the
grocery store at No. 60I Madison street.
ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20,
at 8 o'clock q m.
Consisting of sugars teas. coffees, spices,
canned and dried fruit. motor and fans, safe,
etc. The fixtures comprise scales, weights,
oaddtes, show cases, one large meat refriger-
ator. one butter Refrigerator, horse, wagon and
harness and many other articles not enumer-
ated. The groceries are all fresh and are rs
fine lot as can be found. VIII be sold on &C
count of Ill health.
GEORGE DRAKE, Auctioueer.
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NOTIONS.

DHILIP F. CONWAY, UPHOLSTER,
i Southeast corner Sixth and Lombard SITS.
Carpets laid.
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aELP WANTED.
GIRL WANTED FOR GENERAL
y houseWork. 203 East Filth straet.

GIRL WANTED FOR GENERAL
"a Homework. 203 East Fifth street.
MUTUAL RESERVE FUND LIFE AS
IVA ISOLATION. New York-This association
desires to appoint few gentlemen of inffu-
ence and position as representatives in each
town, city and county in the State of Della
ware; previous experience unnecessary, as
capable men will be taught and assisted to
secure business.
Our poll les are the best insurance contracts
In the market. They appeal TO all classes
and with the undoubted standing Of the
association are easily placed.
Apply TO u. NJ. DAVIS, General Agent,
1OO7 Market street. Wilmington, Del
rTdE OLD RELIABLE MASSACHUSETTS
Il Benefit Life Association desires a num-
Der OF good men as agents. Issues the best
and most liberal policies In the market. To
good men frst-clAss contracts Will be given.
Apply TO A. JASLO WSKY. General Agent.
3Oe Equitable Building.
. CALEsMAN WANTED-SlOO to Sl25 per
Omonth and expenses to introdu uce our gOods
20 the trade. Staple line; position permanent,
pleasant and desirable. Address, with stamp,
King Mfg. Co., d. So. Chicago.
LOST AND FOUND.
7 OST - THURSDAY MORNING, BE
~ tween Tenth and Adams and Ford's
Morocco factory. small hunting case gold
watch. SIS reward If returned to glO Adams st.
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BE MEN AND NOT BABIES
The Advice Given the Board
of Education BY Mr.. Morrow.
WHICH GOULD BEFOLLowBDBA EASILY

The School Fathers stIn spunky over the
Payment OF the Board OF HeaIth's Bill
for Drainage of Schools and 4-More
Investigation at the High sehooI-Othsr
Business transacted.
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Billy WILL GUIDE HIM.
And His Desire to Get Out of
the City VIII Be Compassed.
THE OPINION OF PETER wBIsER

As Expressed to Judge BaII-Its Awful
Easy TO Get Drunk aud Awful Hard to
Keep Sober Two Boy Terrors Of
Eleventh Sent to the Reform Schools.
Other Municipal Court Gases.
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at 2 O'Clock. p. m.

DUBLC sALE-wILL BE SOLD AT
public sale on
- r-rrrr =, 500,
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
WelI-Paid Writers.

In an article on Prices Paid to Au- thOrs," published short time ago in the Sun, the writer says of Mrs. Hum- sady," now running in the Century Magazine, for the serial right of which S1S,000 Is said to have been paid, that large as the sum may seem at first thought, 1t is relatively small; 1t Is much smaller than the other sums paid for the product of other literary work CTS. Thus Scott got $40000 for Wood stock and Moore got 5000 guineas for 'Lalla RoOkh;' Anthony TrollOpe re- ceived in all $350,0 for his various works" etc. Forty thousand dollars Is more than $1S,000, to be sure, but $1S,O00 Is pOt all that Mrs. Ward will receive for her serial. Take Marcel la," for instance. She was paid $20,- OO0 for the American book rights, and more for the English rights, I believe, which would make her receipts for that one book over $40,000. For "Sir George Tressady," serial and book rights, she will probably be paid near CT $60,OOO than $40,OO0.
 It has been estimated that for the three novels-"Robert Elsmere," "Da- vid Grieve," and "Marcella" has been paid over S20O,OO0. Anthony Trol- lope, according to this writer, received S350,OO0 for his various works. There are few more prolific writers than An thOny TrOllOpe. I have just looked through the Harper catalogue, and find that seventeen books bear his name as author. To have been paid $350,000 for seventeen books Is not so great an achievement as to have been paid over $200,O00 for three books, the truth of which statement, I think, will be ac- knOwledged by the writer of the Suns interesting article.-Critic
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
Kind Act Was Rewarded.

Col F. w. SaXton, of Oakland, Cal, is at the Arlington. "A little incident that came to my notice just before I leet home," he said, impressed me that there is never any use for a man to act otherwise than as a gentleman, and that 1t Is often a financial gain to do so.
 "One of San Franclsco's capitalists Is Joseph BOardman. It is said that he Is a millionaire, but to look at him you would not think 1t. You could hardly say that he dresses shabbily, but he comes very close to it, and appears to a stranger to be some kindly old gentleman whom fortune has never cared to smile upon. Mir. Boardman's house is over in Oakland, but his office is in San Francisco, and each morning he makes the trip over on the ferry.
 "The other morning he started for the boat, and in his haste he forgot to trans fer his pocketbook to his clothes. Of course, he did not discover this until he had reached the wharf. There was no che in the crowd that he knew or that knew him. He searched every pocket In vain. A young man standing near by witnessed the confusion of the old gentleman, and, walking up to him, thrust coin into his hand and moved back into the crowd.
 ''The young man doubtless supposed that he had done an act of kindness to q needy one and he haStened away in order to make 1t less embarrassing for his beneficiary. He had no opportunity to get far, however, before Mir. Board man caught him and made him divulge his name and address. The next day the young man was the recipient of snug check drawn by the millionaire, and making him richer by $100 than he was the day before" Washington Times
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
Secretary of States Salary.

In June, 17S2, MT. Livingston (our first Secretary of State, known then as Secretary of Foreign Affairs,) resigned to accept the office of Chancellor of the State of New York. We do not wonder that with a salary of only S4,000 he should have said he was compelled to draw upon his private fortune to SUD- port the office That has been the fate of all, or practically all, of his success sors; for, while the salary of the office has been for many years just twice that received by Mir. Livingston, $8,000, the expenditures necessary to maintain tho social position which custom has as. signed to the office are greatly more than the salary. A Secretary of State, who maintains an establishment ani cntertains the foreign Ministers and the general public with the generous hOspi- tality now expected of him, will owe much gratitude to his major-domo, if at the end of a four years term he has nos contributed from his private fortune to the support of his office sum greater is an evil, for it may happen that tho man best fitted for the office may refuse it-or leave 1t as Livingston did-rather than sacrifice a small private fortune to social demands. Dinners were, in Livingston's time, as now, diplomatic agencies, as we'll as imperative social events.-Ladies' Home Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
A Backwoods Postonice.

It Is doubtless true that business is done in a very slipshod, unbusinesslike way in some small, out-of-the-way post offices, but most readers will probably suspect measure of exaggeration in the following story, which is related by the Detroit Free Press. It is hard for newspaper humorist not to exceed somewhat the bounds of truth.
 l had directed that my letters should be forwarded to the postoff1ce at Moun- tatnville, and l reached the place to find It composed of a store, a black smith shop and three dwelling houses inquired for the office, and was di- rected to the store. There was no sign of q postoffice in connection with 1t, but l asked of the old man who came forward:
 "Is this the postofice?"
 Reckon 'tis," he replied.
 '1 don't see anything like a post office"
 'Mebbe not. We ain't never done 6 power O business here as a postof1ce. Whats wanted?'
 l gave him my name and added that l expected some letters, and after thinking for moment, he replied:
 "Them letters-three of 'em-done come several days ago. Lemme see what did with 'em." He looked along the counters, up on the shelves, and behind boxes and bar rels for long ten minutes, and finally said:
 Its mighty quare whar them letters has gone to. We was all a-lookin' at lem yere fur two or three days, but I dOan' reckon nobody carried 'em off home. Jest set down till look fur ther."
 He made pretty thorough search of the store this time, even getting down on his hands and knees to peer under the molasses barrel, but the letters could not be found.
 Say" he said, as he got up and brushed his knees, that's my house over van. Mebbe the old woman's took the letters home" went over and knocked on the door, but got no answer. I passed around the house, and found the woman smok- ing her pipe as she minded the fire un- der kettle of soft soap.
 "LettersW she repeated. "Yes, I brung 'em over and put lem under a pan on the shelf, and reckon the pesky rats hain't got at 'em yet"
 She went in and got them, and when I returned to the store the postmaster said:
 "Now, then, If yo' ar gwine to want a postage stamp this week yo'd better let me know to-day, sos kin order it from Knoxville"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
THE WASHER AND THE LADY.
He Came, Saw, and Carried Home for
 Lady Two Flower Pots.


 Like all big cities, Paris has its mash CTS. They annoy the ladies often enough, but, as a rule, they are harm less fools, after all. Here Is the latest little story of a masher and a beautiful lady, which the Paris papers are print ing and which the Sun translates:
 At the Dual aux Fleurs on market day, a beauty arrived on foot. So did a masher. He fixed his loving eyes upon. She paid no attention to him. He persisted, and vainly endeavored to engage her in conversation. Finally, she purchased two big geraniums.
 Do you live far from here, madam" asked the dude.
 The lady made no answer at first; but after an instant's reflection, prompt ed by the size of the geranium pots and plants, and the necessity of employing Q cOmmissaire, she replied, sweetly: Rue du Louvre, 99."
 "Oh," exclaimed the masher, ''you can't carry such a burden so far! AL low me to help you"
 She smiled, but, in the language of the duelists, instead of abandoning to him the choice" of pots, she pointed to both, and smiled again. The mashef put a pot under each arm, and, equipped in that way, went off with the lady. When they came to the Rue du Louvre, 90, she stopped, thanked the dude, and stretched out her beautiful little hands for the fiower-pots.
 But the masher politely insisted upon carrying them up to her apartment.
 1he trouble Is. said the lady, 'I live on the top fcor and there is no ele- Yator."
 T would not be surprised If you told me that you lived way up in heaven. Angels live there," said the enthusiastic masher
 Well, come, then," said the lady, in the golden tones in which the Divine Sarah in Cleopatra" addresses her Tony.
 So up they went until they came to the abode of the sorceress. She rang the bell. Heavy footsteps were heard inside. The door was opened, and a fine-loOking man appeared.
 Allow me to introduce you to my husband, sir" said the lady. My dear," she added, addressing her infe- rior portion, this gentleman has been kind enough to carry these plants for me all the way from the fiower-market and up the stairs, too, as you see"
 Good enough" said the big fellow ''Here, my man, here is a twenty-cent piece. Go and get drinkp'
 The dude started down the stairs at a lively rate, without waiting for his pOurboire, and, as he was going down, he could hear the ringing laugh of the lady and the hoarse Ina! hap of the happy husband.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
"Rulls" Not Irish.

Those who are not Irishmen some times trespass on Irish prOserty. A French cure, preaching about sudden death, said, "Thus it Is with us. We go to bed well, and get up stone deadw
 An old French lawyer, writing of an estate he had just bought, added, '"There is a chapel upon it In which my wife and 1 wish to be buried, if God spares our lives"
 An English lecturer on chemistry said, 'One drop of this poison placed on the tongue of a cat is sufficient to kill the strongest man," and an English lieutenant said that the Royal Niger Company wished to kill him to prevent him going up the river until next year.
 A merchant who died suddenly left in his bureau letter to one of his cor respondents which he had not sealed. His clerk, seeing 1t necessary to send the letter, wrote at the bottom, "Since writing the above have died"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
Wonderful Suna.

Astronomers are not yet all agreed as to the causes of the variations of color and brilliancy which are exhib- ited by many stars. In the constella- ton Cepheus, in the northern sky, there is star named Delta Cephel, which, in the course of about three days, alternately gains and loses large part of its light. The spectroscope has proved that Delta Cephei consists of two stars revolving around one an- other in a very elliptical orbit, all though they never get far enough apart to be separately visible from the earth. Even when viewed with a telescope their light Is blended into 8 single star disk, although If we could go near enough to them we should find that they are, in reality, millions of miles apart. When brightest, the united light of the twin stars is two or three times greater than when faintest. One
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
Blackie. the Enthusiast.

John Stuart Blackie's superabund- ance of energy Is evidenced by the ea- gerness with which he entered into whatever interested those with whom he came in contact. In his biography we find an extract from a characteris- tic letter which he wrote while in Rome to sister who had remonstrated with him for being so much addicted to writing.
 "You see I am verse-mad," he wrote. But you know I am subject to various kinds of madness, and of frequent re- currence. In Aberdeen I got religious mad; then got Latin-mad; now am verse-mad and drawing-mad, and am fast getting antiquity-mad.
 "Out of this never-ending fermenta- ton may something good arise, that may not be eternally driven about by every wind of doctrine. But as 1t is, have no more command over my whims and fancies that henpecked husband has over his wife,"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
.Taste and Smell.

Psychologists have long known that many sensations ordinarily ascribed to taste are in reality due to smell, but this fact has lately been made clearer than before by the investiga- tions of German savants. Air enters the olfa tory chamber, where the nerves connected with the sense of smell are centered, both through the nostrils and through an inlet leading from the mouth. In consequence, a breath of perfumed air manifests it's odor not only when it is breathed in, but when 1t Is breathed out. For this reason we are sometimes deceived as to the source of the pleasure we derive from things taken into the mouth, the agreeableness of the impression being due, in some cases, rather to smell than to taste.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
SkilIful Ants.

The finest engineers In the world, considering their size, are certain South American ants. Tunnels constructed by them have been traced distance of two miles, one of them passing under a stream fifty yards wide. South African nnts have also considerable mechanical skill, as in some of their subterranean homes have been found suspended bridges passing from one gallery to an other and spanning gulfs eight to ten inches wide.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
Insects and Flowers.

It has frequently been asserted that the brilliant colors of many flowers serve to attract bees and butterflies to them. Experiments recently reported to the Belgian Academy of Sciences seem to show that the perfume rather than color of the flowers Is the real at- traction. Bright-colored blossoms were covered with leaves and papers pin ned closely about them; yet the insects not only visited the hidden flowers, but endeavored to force their way un- der the papers in order to reach the blossoms which they could not see.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
Modifyiu0 Milk

Laboratories for modifying and ster- ilizing milk through scientific process es have now been established, accord ing to the Scientific American, In Bos- ton, New York and Philadelphia, and others are to be opened in several Western cities. The milk is freed from superabundance of fat and from bac- teria, and then Is so sealed in bottles that 1t cannot become contaminated
 until opened for use. It is claimed
 that modified milk" has saved the lives of many children who, if i'm properly nourisheG, would have sue cumbed to the maladies of early child hood.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
WE MIGHT HAVE HAD WINGS
Man Reduced to Using Legs Because
 the Earth Was So Attractive.

Man Reduced 10 Os1nG Legs becauSS
 the Earth Was So Attractive. If the attractions of the earth were less powerful our winged tribes might have received a much greater devel- opment. In virtue of the unQuestion- able principle known as "the struggle for existence" these winged creatures, dominating all others, would have been the strongest. Progress would have been effected along thls line. The su- perior race, the human race, would have been a winged race. These simple considerations, which 1t may be easy to extend much further, are enough to convince us that our human form is essentially terrestrial, and that the in- habitants of Mars cannot resemble us. They are different.
 Upon Mars, for example, one might suppose without scientific heresy, that the remarkable lightness of their bodies may have developed the winged race more highly in the direction indicated, and that the inhabitants of this planet may have received the privilege or flight.
 Does this amount to saying that, for this reason, they must necessarily have the form of birds? No. The bats, are they not mammals which suckle their young? Is it saying, then, that we must imagine them under this form? Not at all. May they not rather be like dragon flies futtering in the air above the lakes and canals? AS to this point we can imagine everything and prove nothing. It is even highly probable that the real fly fs n1cthing absolutely different from all our terrestrial conceptions.
 On the one hand the iightness of the Martian beings is favorable to their winged constitution. On the other hand, however, the atmosphere is hard ly well fitted to sustain them. But still we recall that terrestrial zoology fur nishes instances of birds which are very heavy, such as cOndors and the vultures, and these are just the ones which fly highest in the most rare fled regions of our atmosphere; they have been observed even above the summits of the Himalayas, the Andes and the Cordilleras, at elevations of from 5000 to 5000 meters (27,000 to 30,000 feet), where they can still soar freely, thanks to the enormous spread of their wings. Nor must we lose sight of the fact that a human being weighing 70 kilograms Q54 pounds) would weigh not more than 26 kilograms (56 pounds) If transported to the globe of Mars North American Review.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
American Grit,

In writing to friend about the re- cent tornado, Bishop Futile, of St. Louis, said: ''The three American char acteristics stand splendldly out.
 First. There is no whimpering, even among the poor people who have lost their all. They are pluckily turn ing to do the next best thing, in a won- derful spirit of cheery self-reliance.
 Second. All are opening heart and hand and purses and sympathy to af- ford relief
 Third All fall in with the police and authorities to preserve perfect or- der and obedience to law. I am deep ly proud of the American people, Philadelphia Ledger.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
A Novel Idea.

To keep babies from crying an in- genious device has been resorted to in India. The moment child begins to cry its mother places he- hand over its mouth and nips its nose, so that it cannot breathe. Then it Is allowed te breathe freely again, but should 1t make use of the opportunity to again set up a howl, 1t Is at once suppressed in the same way. This is repeated till the baby imagines that the painful stoppage of the breath Is caused by its own effort to scream, and so is careful to keep quiet.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
A GoriIIa's Portrait.

A curiosity exhibited at a recent meeting of the Geological Society in London was a daguerreotype of a gorilla, believed to be the first animal of that kind ever brought alive to Eu- rope. The picture was made as long ago as 1855. In these days of snap shot photography it Is easy enough to get photographs of animals, but the thing was not so simple forty years ago.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
Can Fear Re Curedf

Professor Angelo Mosso, of Turin, in his book on Tear" which has recent ly been translated into English, says that fear is disease to be cured. He particularly condemns the methods.
 which are sometimes practiced by par ents and nurses, of governing and con- trolling young children through sense of fear. Even more pernicious is the practice of awakening sense of terror in children by stories of ''bogeys," hob goblins and witches. According to Pro- lessor Mosso, mankind can be made more courageous by proper cultivation.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
of the explanations recently offered by

of the explanations recently offered by astronomers to account for these chan ges is that one of the stars composing Delta Cephei has a very thick atmos- pheric veil, consisting of clouds of con- densed metallic vapors, and that when the stars draw near one another in their orbital motion the increase of heat dissipates the obscuring veil, and permits the star to which it belongs to shine with a splendor that it cannot obtain when its rays are interrupted by its envelope of clouds. It is hard to believe that inhabited worlds could exist in the neighborhood of such pair of suns as that.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
Lightning and Trees.

Cedar and fig trees are rarely struck by lightning. The beech, the larch, tbe fir and the chestnut also seem to be peculiarly obnoxious to the ''bolts of love-" There are trees, however, which appear to attract rather than to repAl the lightning flash. The trees generally enumerated in the category of those which the lightning is most apt to strike are the oak, the yew, the elm and the Lombardy poplar.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
A Vanished Land.

According to views recently explain ed before the Geological Society in En- gland, the island of Jamaica was once connected with both North and South America by a stretch of mountainous land covering the region of the West Indian archipelago. There are indica- tions that this ancient land was ele- vated no less than two miles and half above sea-leVel.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-29
Which State Can Beat rhis9

When Tennessee entered the Union as a State, it had about 10000 population, CT an average of less than one person to each of Its 42,050 square miles of ter ritory. In 1890 It had 1,767 ,51S inhabit- ants, or an average of nearly forty per sons to square mile. Nearly all this increase Is from the native stock, only 20,029 being foreign born, and only 8, 257 of the native born being of foreign born parents.