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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-08
D0mestics,

LOCO yards domet flannels,
double fieeced, per yard. AZ
1000 yards cotton flannel,
twilled back. yer yard. A.,
1000 yards cotton flannel, the
SC kind at, per yard. ........ 81
1000 yards 80 inch, double
thick cotton flannel, 124c, at
per yard. .... ...... 81,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-08
Underwear Department.

80 dozen Zone case) ladies'
tleeced ribbed vests. long
sleeves, just right for fall
wear, should be 25c, this
week. IS,
Gents gray knit shirts and
drawers, should be soc, this
week 35e
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-08

TNOR RENT-FOUR-ROOM FLAT IN COOL
= location. Reasonable terms Apply E
w. Hurst.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-08
WANTED.

WANTED-A COMPETENT Girl. AT Pea
w Twentieth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-08
Crockery Department .

Commencing Monday, Sept. z, we
will place on sale the largest line of
low priced toilet ware ever brought
to this city. These sets are made up
in 8. 10 and ~ pieces and are perfect
in every respect. The pieces are
extra large and the decorations are
all first class. Note the prices as
given below:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-08

WANTED-MEN WHO WILL WORK FOR
w o75 q month salary or large commission
selling staple goods by sample to dealers. Ex-
perience unnecessary. Write US. Household
Specially company, - w. Fourth street, Gin.
ctnnati, Ohio.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-08

SEWING AND HOME
w laundry at reasonable prices. Work
guaranteed, 1921 Fourth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-08

"ANTED A GIRL FOR GENERAL
w homework at 3ls Sixteenth street
Reference required.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-08

WyANTED-RELIABL TO TRAVEL
w meet merchants and manufacturers.
McGregor. 1lS0 Caxton building. Chicago H.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-08
FOR THIS WEEK ONLY

6-piece toilet sets in brown, blue
and pink. Monarch pattern.
embossed border. shapes e1-
ira large at. SI.75
1O-piece sets, same as above st
1926. worth SO. 90
12-piece toilet sets, finished in
under glaze. blue, largest and
finest shapes on the market
at....- 1910, worth $500
We have Just opened a new line of
globes for banqnent lamps. sizes
ranging from to 10 inches.
The decorations are in Dresden and
Oriental designs and the prices are
the same as that of the regular
globes.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29

buffalo Bills Wild West Shows will
exhibit at Wausau on Sept. 9Th next.
Reduced rates on all railroads.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
SCHOOLS CLOSE.
Public Exercises He!dat the Rink and
Were Largely Attended.

Last Friday evening witnessed an
other epoch in the history o. our public
schools, it being the close OF the school
year in our village.
Large crowds began to assemble at
the Rink early in the evening to lend
their presence and encouragement to the
young people of our public institution OF
learning, who had carefully prepared
themselves for their entertainment The
large and commodious building was
crowded, standing room being at
premium.
The exercises We're carried out iii a
most pleasing, instructive and patriotic
manner; so evenly did each participant
acquit him or herself that it is with diff
fcuty that we can commend one over
the other The drills by the different de
partments were fine, and showed care
full and thorough training by their diff
ferent teaches as well as untiring labois
by the scholars. The song blythe quar-
tette, composed OF tho Misses Burke, Me-
Leod, Garrison and Diamond was rend-
cred in very pleasing manner. Each OF
the young ladies showed talent in.this
line and received commendable pralse for
their Efforts.
In the recitations Misses Radcliffe,
Steven, Finger Garrlson's, Burke, Nc
Intyre and Howard deserve more than
special mention as we'll as Joseph Mayo.
Each showed easy grace with well
trained gestures, and distinct pronounce
alton, which lent a pleasing impression
to their otherwise pleasant delivery.
In the DRAMA frankie Diamond, in her
suffering dialect, made a great hit with
the audience. The Misses Burke, Dickin-
son and Mcleod whose parts, though
difficult, were faithfully represented and
each received Their justly entitled praise.
The following is the program:
Song BY the Upper Department.
Happy School Days.
Recitation. Oscar Finger.
Johnny's Opinion of Grandmothers.
Candle Drill, Fisrt Primery.
Netties thanksgiving Visit. !.
| Recitation .... ........... Oracle Radcliffe.
Nursery Trou bles
! Tableau ................. Third Primary.
Recitation, ......................Lucy Stevens.
al Convict Joe.
Drill, Third Primary.
Recitation. Ethel Mcleod
The Minnette.
| Recitation, Bessie Gunner.
The Bridgekeeper's Story.
Recitation Eta O'Brien
Anna Bellies Party.
Recitation, Ma Del ringer.
| The Black Horse aid His Rider
/ Umbrella Drill. Grammar Department
Recitation Fanuie Garrison
The Red Jacket.
Recitation, Maud O'Dell
/ Lottie'S Message.
Vacation Song. Three Lower Departments.
Recitation w lnIe OflSW OIU
! ~ The Old Man Goes to Town.
/ The Burning Prairie.
Columbia Party, intermediate Department
Misses Burke, Mcleod
| Quartette
Garrison and Diamond
eve All Have Very Bad Cold.
Recitation, .MavbeIle Howard
Counting the Eggs
/ NIOIc
/ On the Frontier.
| Recitation. Nj arion G arrison.
How Little Tom was Saved
| DeIsarte Drill, Second Primary
| Duette,. Miss Burke and Miss Mcleod
The Numbering Seas
/ Drama Higher Department
/ Champion of Her Sex.
Closing Song, School
/ Vacation Song.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29

The writer attended the Sangelfest
held at Wausau last Saturday and Sun
dav. The city was profusely decorated
with bunting, flags and evergreens, Il
conservative estimate placing the num-
Der Of visitors, in attendance, at five
thousand. Much credit is due Wausau
citizens in general for theirelaborate and
royal entertainment, more especially to
Judge Marchatti and the Wausau Herald,
who have issued monthly. for some time
past, the Faust Blotter, devoted exclus-
lively to the interests Of the Sangerfest.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29

-Chas. Miller, mayor Of the CITY, Mr..
Wilson, proprietor OF the Wilson House,
and Mr. Sween, all Of Port Washington
were in the city, Wednesday, in the in
terests Of a pleasure club from their city,
who intend placing on the Eagle waters
u pleasure yacht. Their club members
number twenty, and if they decide on
making this place their headquarters for
their summer outings it will prove quite
a benefit to the place. They returned
home Friday after an excursion up the
lakes in the yacht "Eaget'' and will lay
the merits Of our place before their club.
They were well pleased with our chain
OF lakes.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
CHEAP EXCURSION RATES VIA
THE NORTH WESTERN LINE

To Buffalo, N. Y.-On account OF the
annual meeting OF the National Educa-
tional Association, excursion tickets will
be sold July 4, and 5, good returning
until September /, 1896
To Washington, D. Con- account
OF the National convention OF the Y. P.
S, G. E., excursion tickets will be sold
July to 6, inclusive, good returning
until July 81, 1896
For tickets and full information apply
to agents Chicago & North Western R'y.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
Personal.

FREE-64-pagc medical reference book to
any persn afflicted with any special, chronic
or delicate disease peculiar to their sex. Adj
dress the leading physicians and surgeons OF
the United States, Dr.. Halfway & Co.. 70
Dearhoan street, Chicago,
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29

SHORT HAND AND TYPEWRITING
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Evening star., 1896-12-26
STERLING HELLO.
A Lovely Week.

From the New York Herald
Such lovely week as I've had of ity'
said the volatile Miss Giddygadd to Miss L.
Marguerite Rosebud, between the acts at
the matinee. "Such a perfectly charming
weekp'
'Yes, dear? Well. I've had q lovely time
too Saw you at the De Langes Monday
night
"oh. lovely affair. wasn't it?"
Lovely"
Perfectly so. Were you at Miss De Calls
att home Tuesday afternoon?'
Didn't you go?"
No; mad to pour for Helen shoddy's
tea that afternoon"
'Oh. of course. I saw you there. How
stupid CT me TO forget. But l went to four
teas that afternoon. Lovely affairs, all Of
them"
Il went to two Wednesday afternoon,
and to Mrs. Upstart's musicale and dance
In the evening. Had lovely time at the
Upstarts."
80 did I. Lovely little dance. wasn't it?'
Lovely"
Saw you at Birdie Gabbleton's luncheon
it?'' "'
Perfectly elegant. Birdie does entertain
so sweetly. She went with me to Mrs
Bralnless' four to six after the Iunc cheon.'
Have good timer
packed with carriages. Dining room all
pink and green. Oh. lovely! Elegant re-
freshments. Orchestra behind palms in the
hall-jrst lovely! And, oh, what an ex-
quisite little german that was at Mrs
Clement-Jones' Thursday nightv'
Wasn't it, though? And such a ravish-
ing lot of pretty dresses, and the supper
served by DE Centi.
Heavenly, wasn't it? Then I saw you at
Masdie Frothingly's morning whist party
Oh Friday. and at Mrs. Lollypad's great
reception in the afternoon, and didn't l
catch glimpse of you at Mrs. Posingley's s
in the EVENING"?
Eyes. l looked In for few minutes on
my way to the De Huntley's great ball.
That ball was just the loveliest Of lovely
balls"
Really"
"Oh, 1t was. Then I'd a lovely time at
the readings by Prof. De Cheekley at Mrs
Stor e-Murray's this morning, and here s
this lovely matinee this afternoon, and
I've an elegant dinner on hand for this
evening. Dear me. life is avorth living,
now, isn't it?"
'Ir deed it is, when one can have such
perfectly charming times as we've been
having all winter. I have had such a love
ly week, haven't your
"Oh, lovelyr'
"Cfarmingr"
Perfectly sou
Evening star., 1896-12-26
A Shepherd ON a Bicycle.
From Our Animal World.

Frum Our Animal "OrlQ.
Every pleasant morning enjoy seeing q
flock Of fluffy white sheep ard round plump
lambs pass my grounds on their way to
pasture, and at evening 1 watch for their
return to the safety and shelter Of the
barnyard sheds. flock of sheep and
lambs to the animal lover is always a
beautiful and interesting spectacle, but a
novelty is lent to this one by the fact that
they are driven by boy of fifteen riding
Upon bicycle. 1t is funny sight. The
old sheep go scampering along as If they
were followed by an avenging fate, but
sometimes one Of the lambs will make a
detour to nibble the wayside grass; but the
wheel so quickly and silently surrounds it
that it skips back into line, surprised out
of its evident intention to say baah. Or
dinarily 1t would take an hours time of
man or a boy orr two and and a dog to get
the sheep to pasture, and as long to get
them home again, but Harry and his wheel
do 1t in less than half the time.
1T Is great saving in that way" SAYS
the lad, land then 1t proves that sheep are
Lot so stupid as many people think them,
for as soon as they see me on my wheel
they keep the path; and it proves another
thing, that 1T pays for a farmers boy to
have whee. to take him quickly on the
numberless errands that form a large part
of his work-and riding q wheel is not
work, it Is fun"
Evening star., 1896-12-26
Michigan's Rich Copper Mines.


An idea of the richness of some Of the
copper mines Of Michigan may be gained
from the fact that they have thus tar paid
their owners dividends of fully $4,000, ,OOO
The dividend of $25 share Just declared
by the Calumet and Hecla Copper Mining
Company for the current year is especially
noteworthy because 1t Is the greatest dfyi-
dend ever paid by this remarkable prop
erty. There are 100000 shares, so that the
total sum distributed among. shareholders
was $2,5OO,0O0. When it is considered that
the original value Of all these shares was
just the last amount mentioned, the tremen-
deus earning powers Of The property win
be appreciated. The selling value Of the
stock Is about thirteen times its par value
The year 1885 has been the most prosperous
ever known for copper mining, owing to
the great foreign demand for American
copper. The home demand was restricted
by the depressed condition of business. but
this falling on has been more than made
up by the demand from abroad. During
the ten months ending November / the
European purchases of copper amounted to
70, 100000 pounds. nearly double that Of
the same period last year. This was 90 per
cent Of the entire output Of this country
and was drawn principally from the Lake
Superior copper mines.
Evening star., 1896-12-26
They All Make Calls.

While this transpires. the official world
below is similarly occupied. and even more
laboriously. In a land where the govern
ment is all in all, where railways, telegraph
and telephone service are in the control Of
state functionaries. alike with music and
the drama. tobacco selling. funeral under
taking, the patronage of the fine arts and
religion itself, the civil service clerk exists
luxuriantly. On New Year day this army
constituting 10 per cent of the whole voting
population-gives itself up to an orgie of
call-making. The rules rigid.
l. Every immediate inferior must call up
on his immediate superior.
2. Every immediate superior must receive
his immediate inferior. That is to say,
after hurrying to call upon your chief, you
must then hurry back to wait the call Of
your assistant.
In great business houses and all corpora
tions, managers, head bookkeepers. conf
Dental clerks and so on, make their first
calls, or leave their first cards, on the
members of the firm or the chief officers.
And then they scatter cards upon each
other as the snow falls. until the office boy,
they say. begins to leave his card upon the
lady typewriter. Retail shops, because they
must be open on this present buying day.
do not afford this pasteDoard recreation to
their employees. but in the great magazins,
like the Bon Marche the Louvre, the Prin-
temps and the Gagne-Petit the most ex-
quisite ceremony is observed in short but
Evening star., 1896-12-26
QUICK SAW MILL WORK.
What Machinery Was Able to Do in
Slfcing Up Lumber In Chicago.

What Machinery Was Able to Do In
Slfcing Up Lumber In Chicago.
From Casters Magazine
Two splendid saw mill exhibits were made
at the Chicago fair in 1898 by the Stearns
Manufacturing Company and the EPAllis
Company. They consisted in each case of
band mill and a complete set of finishing
and conveying machinery, and were in
operation for short periods every day dur
ing the fair, affording. thus. admirable
Of what can be accom-
plished in this line in point of working
speed. The saving exhibition was always
witnessed by greatly interested crowd.
The rate of saving the stock boards, usu-
ally twelve inches wide and sixteen feet
long. was from twelve to fourteen boards
per minute. once, is it claimed by the Allis
inen, reaching fifteen boards. This is a
need hitherto unattained with the band
sh ), sixteen boards per minute being the
highest record with the circular saw. The
running speeds of the Allis eight-foot band
mill and the .Stearns mill were about the
same. being 400 revolutions per minute,
making the speed of the saw 10000 feet per
mlnute-the usual speed for white pine
The log carriage, which would weigh. with
the log. about two and half tons, was
propelled In each direction by a steam evil
inder of nine inches bore and twenty-eight
feet long. Fourteen boards per minute
gives 4.3 seconds to the saving of each
board. the actual saving time for each
board being about 23 seconds. This leaves
two seconds for gigging, reversing and set
ting over the log for the next board, thus
making the saving speed about 26O feet
per minute, and the gigging speed about
500 feet per minute. This is more like the
action of a vegetable cutter slicing up tur-
nips to feed stock than the old way of saw
ing boards. The marvel was to see the
man remain on the saw carriage while it
was shot to and fro. He did his work at
the proper time. kept his place as If he were
part of the machine; fly on the wall was
not more at home than he.
Evening star., 1896-12-26
AS KNOWN IN LAUNDRY CIRCLES.
sIcums OF Strange Signs Tell How
They Have Been Branded in the Wosb

Victims of Strange Signs Tell How
They Have Been Branded in the Wash
From the New York Sun
since L came to New York, twelve years
ago, said one man in the group, 81 have
been known in the laundry world as r o.
don't suppose I could get rid of that
mark whatever I should do. It identifies
me as persistently as a hand with one
finger gone.
1t came about in the most accidental
way. l sent my clothes to a certain laun-
dry late in 1883, when moved first to New
York. They came back marked r o.
Every successive laundry has put that
mark back on them until am now so firm
ly liked as r 81 that l never expect to he
DESIGNATED under any other device"
I'm w a." answered a small meek
man, apoogetically land / never could
fathom the imagination of the washer
woman who decided to label me w T. NV
collars are only AS. and there's nothing
about my clothes to lead anybody to think
L ought to be branded with any such i'm
possible combination of consonants as w
might suit, but I'm not one Of them The
difficulty of the matter is that these Iaun-
dresses may be picturesque enough in the
first instance, although when one makes a
mistake of judgment the rest follow, like
sheep. Any woman who keeps on marking
IA collar w Il shows a lack of inyentive-
ness lHdt Is palnIul even IN laundreSS."
My name is JONES'" the third man of
the group said, and / haven't a drop of
German blood in my body. 1 never had a
German ancestor. and l know nothing
about Germany. But in the laundry annals
l am irretrievably known as 'Krauss' Nine
years ago moved to New York, and came
here after having Travelled for several
weeks. l put all my wash into my trunk
and when l reached New York there was
quite an accumulation. 1 went out 10
laundry in the neighborhood, and told the
man to send around to the house for INV
clothes. Before that 1 had told the sery-
ant to give my clothes to anybody who
called, and it happened that a boy came
first for the clothes of a lodger above me
or course, he got mine instead and it hap
pened that the other mans name was
known: So my entire laundry came back
marked 'krauss.' How they happened not
to notice that they had never been marked
before don't know. But I am still known
as 'Krauss' in the laundry set; collars wear
out and shirts fall to pieces, only to be
known anew as 'Krauss.' The other man
told me that his clothes came back from
the laundry marked j. Krauss' That was
the only tribute to my name, Jones, that
was shown on that occasion. Whether the
other mans name stuck to him or not
never heard. But 1 have been 'Krauss' for
nine years, as much as the marks on nv
linen can make me that"
Evening star., 1896-12-26
1M, EVAPORATION, SCIENCE AND l

pertinent. Imagine, if you please, that these
infnitesimal gourmands, small that they
are invisible to the naked eye. can indeed
be seen only with the aid of powerful
microscope. that they are single-celled and
lcck much like rubber pouch with long,
slender hair reaching out from it's opening
or mouth-imagine this to yourself and you
begin to appreciate how lowly is the origin
of all emotions.
These animalcules were observed for
spaces of five days together and in all this
time they seemed never to leave off their
ceaseless quest for food for moment nor
did they seem to show any considerable
relaxation either in activity or in attention.
Ihey were always wide-awake, and eager
for prey. They multiply by conjugation and
division. often several times day, and yet
even this does not seem to interrupt their
other work Careful experiments were
made as to the creatures sensitiveness to
ight and sound, but with no response No
one can watch a vorticella for an hour un-
der glass without wonder at its exceed
lngly delicate sense of touch The slightest
jar of the instrument is answered by an in
slant contraction of the stalk and particles
hardly visible even with the highest mag
nfy1ng lens are sorted with the greatest
pparent precision.
Does Not See or Hear.
But it seems insensible to all other stim-
H. Musical sounds of every pitch and VOL
me were tried, but the vorticella never
lined hair"-as it would have done had
was flashed upon it from complete dark
ness, and 1t did not much as wink-with
, lts ella All colors of glasses were put in
the path OF light, but the animal refused
10 De enthused. In short, so far as can be
ascertained, the universe for the primal
type OF life must consist of a series of
touches, possibly also of tastes and smells
II does not see. nor hear. yet it is con-
sc1ous, and. so far as its physical organiza-
elon WIZ permit. it displays all the pro-
GesSes OF psychic activity known to the
nishef animals. The rise in the scale all
the way up to and including man himself.
represents no more than a widening range
VI sensations and a more complex physical
organization. Man himself as a caiehroted
physioiogist once put it. is nothing more
than an enormous aggregation of these
slnsle-ceiied protozoa. Why, then, is the
pfotoZoa able to work without rest or sleep
ana ana eat without safety. while man and the
higher animals are not? Before physiolo-
| gis.s answer that question they will first
ma out a working theory of the nature of
sleep. VI
Evening star., 1896-12-26

teen sadly answered of late years. When
cur ambassador was only minister-not to
20 later back THAI Messrs. Reid and Cool
idge-hs did receive. Then it was Ques-
tion for the tenderfoot in the colony of
what 10 wear. Shall t. the young man
asked. start out in a frock coat. white
waistCoat and silk hat, or in my evening
clothes" As our ministers of that time
were most liberal 70 the public. inviting
all Americans by newspaper announce
ment. the assembly always was a very
mixed one.
1 remember that Mr. Reids practice was
along the lines of a graceful compromise.
The function was by gas light, and Mrs.
Evening star., 1896-12-26

are made for the reception of ntimates.
When one dimes with a family once a
month or oftener-a very usual feature of
French social life, which otherwise Is not
much given to entertainment-a call in per-
son with substantial gifts is de rigueur
Again many French families. especially
where there are daughters. are obtaining
modern-ie.. Anglo-Saxon-ideas, though
prudently. The thought that the old French
plan of secluding the unmarried girls is
unjust to the girl and also to the young
men who ought to profit by her refining
acquaintanceship. Is gaining ground daily.
Paris mothers with no idea of forming a
salon now take day during the season,
that Is to say. an AFTERNOON and evening,
and receive exactly as Americans in
Paris. and this receiving" which is for
our lonely Americans the solid standby of
their social life. begins to be the opening
wedge for the French demoiselle's emanci-
patton. Only we must go very slowly"
they say. Our young men are not ased
to 1t. and they are either tempted to neglect
1t or abuse it" In sueh advanced 'receiv-
ing families New Year gifts and visits
may be well expected in return for hospi-
talfty. Flowers and expensive bon bons.
Evening star., 1896-12-26

of the day. They are in uniform as are
all military swells, and dress-coats an
swer to them on the backs of all civilians
All this is in broad daylight and no one
seems ashamed. Indeed, throughout their
daily lfe-at marriage breakfasts christ
enings, funerals and memorial matinees
and theatrical benefits, these Frenchmen
revel liz the dress coat. With them the
rule of pm. applies only to the affairs
of private life. The white tie and the
swallow-tal constitute the habit de cere-
monte, do they not? Then wear them,
even though the ceremony be by daylight.
The diplomatic corps has made it's for
NAL call upon the president Then i'm l.
medately each goes individually to in
scribe himself on the register of the doyen