ikral Itmimiq.
THE DAIRY.
[We know many lady friends in the
rural districts who will smile at the insinu
ation that dairy work is hardly to he called
work. Still they will all be pleased to read
the following passage from a new romance
in verse, under the title of Grombdlo. A
Vermont lady is the author.]
Didst ever see a dairy, gentle friend ?
A dairy kept as dairy should be seen ?
And didst thou ever know a sweeter place?—
Aye, they may talk of perfumes and of scents
As odoriferous as the spicy gales
Of Araby’s sweet land, or Carmel s top ;
Of aromatics that outvie the rose
When crushed in all its glory; of the breeze
With richer fragrance loaded than the air
That blew o’er Eden’s garden ; and yet not
Relate, or speak of anght as purely sweet, '
As grateful, for the impress it doth bring
Of cleanliness unrivalled, as the smell —
Perfume or odor are expressions cold
For such aroma —as the smell , a well-kept,
Well-conducted dairy yields. And now all
The new, sweet milkin glittering pansbestowed,
Our Amy, with a pearly shell innand,
Proceeds to where another sister band
Are waiting her approach. How soft she skims
The thick, rich cream 1 how gently 1 firmly too,
That scarce a drop of thin, discarded milk
May venture to intrude. This labor done,
If labor it can be, will she permit
Our prying spirit just to take a peep
Within that inner sanctum? Ah, the door
Is opened now, and what a rich array
Of golden beauties deck the snowy shelves :
Row above row in order all arranged,
With each a beautiful green leaf impressed
Upon its pure, round, tempting, ample face.
’Tis Amy’s signet;—she delights to cull
These gems of nature, as they ever seem
To her own delicate and native taste,
And place them wherethebeauteous form of each
Seems more observable than when they wave,
Together nestling, from the shrub or tree.
Now, if thou lov’st rich, tender, creamy cheese,
The very nicest and the very best
That can he manufactured, do
Of our obliging Amy, a good slice.
For but a moment she will disappear ;
And then, with plate in hand, again she comes.
Ah, there is what will make the cheese a feast,.
That piece just severed from a wheaten loaf.
Now with thy cheese and bread do take a seat
Beneath yon ancient, venerable tree;
Or thou mayst freely rest within the porch,
So fair and pretty with its drooping vines,
And cheer thee with the light of Jamie’s eyes,
And pleasant smile of welcome. But not yet,
Stay but a moment, we entreat of thee,
Merely to give one little glance within
That very broad and massive stony jar
That Amy opes. “What! oranges!" Oh no!
Be not so hasty with my bread and cheese;
Of larger size, my friend, these yellow balls.
Ah, now thou knowst them well; and look again,
Another jar is opened. Didst thou e’er
See roses blooming half as temptingly
As do those golden ones impressed with care
On every unctuous ball ?
CHEMICAL EFFECT OF UNDERDRAIN
AGE,
A paper on drainage by the well-known
agricultural engineer, Mr. Bailey Denton,
has a forcible paragraph on the results of
this process, worth remembering : —-
“ Every one must have observed how our
cultivated plants, our crops and trees, dis
like stagnant water, and how their roots
travel alongitssurfaee underground, directly
they reach it. The existence of stagnant
water implies the absence of air, wbicb is
as essential to the development of vegetable
growth in the soil as it is to our existence
above the surface, and we can therefore
readily understaud how essential it is to
render the depth of the soil which our
plants require for their perfect development,
percolating, or permeable, free or active.
This is not only required because roots will
not penetrate a bed of stagnant water, a#d
will prosper in a deeper feeding ground,
but because there, are in soils organic
and inorganic ingredients which require
alteration only to be effected by tbe absorp
tion of gases from the atmosphere. By
drainage you not only afford to plants the
deeper bed to sustain them, at the rate or
100 tons per acre for eve§y inch of depth
gained, but you correct the influence of in
jurious constituents of the soil; what is
more, you carry into the deepened bed those
fertilizing ingredients which are constantly
associated with fresh air and moving water.
THE VALUE OF A TON OF STRAW.
“People don’t know the value of straw,”
said my plougmau to me to-day, “ and so
oareless are folks about it, that I have con
siderable difficulty in preserving mine free
from damaging rains. Taking the country
generally, straw is looked upon as only fit
to spread about open barn-yards, to sop up
the rains which have lately been carrying
away the farmer's profit in the shape of
strong tea, leaving him only the tea leaves.
As straw can be thatched for sixpence a
ton, it does appear to me a grievous neglect
and waste of valuable property to allow it
to stand unroofed, and become rotted by
the weather. I produced on my farm of
one hundred and seventy acres, about two
hundred tons of straw annually, and whe
ther I realize five shillings, ten shillings,
fifteen shillings, or twenty shillings a ton
of it, makes a considerable difference. I
wish our agricultural society would offer a
prize for a correct and practical, as well as
scientific, estimate of the value of straw of
all kinds as food, as manure, or as litter. I
am convinced, by my own practice, that
straw (particularly bean, wheat, and oat,)
has a considerable value for feeding pur
poses, when rendered available as feed.
My laborers often say, ‘ Ah, master, you
could not keep half so much stock as you.
do, it you did not consume your straw.'
Of course, near large towns, farmers will
sell their straw and back manure. So im
portant is straw considered as an aniqial food
in Spain, that Messrs. Garrett are making
machines, driven by steam power, for
u straw-pulping,” so that it is rendered soft
anjl silky —in fact, duly prepared for ani
mal digestion. I am assured that in all
warm Eastern countries, straw is always
used as food for animals. 'Tis said, ‘ wise
men come from the East,’ and in this case
I am sure that our English farmers have
something to learn.”
Let us see what straw is composed of,
and why it should be valuable as food, and
especially as a substitute for hay, so as to set
free for the growth of corn and root a larger
area. The late Mr. Horsfall saicf, in that
excellent paper of his, (the best, in my
opinion, that ever was written,) on feeding
stock and dairy management: (Soc. Jour,
vol. 18, p» 173.) “I am satisfied that the
most economical use of food rich iu albu-
minous matter is together with straw or
other materials which are deficient in this
element.” This I had proved to be true.
Ho especially commends bean straw. He
says, “In wheat straw, for which I pay
thirty shillings per ton, I obtain for one shil
ling aud sixpence 32 pounds of starch, (re
duced as oil, eighteen and one-half pounds
from 100 pounds of straw,) available for
tbe production of fat or for respiration.”
I have long since adopted straw for food,
aod should consider myself foolishly unpro
fitable to waste it uselessly in an open and
wet farm-yard. I believe that cabbage
would have been much more extensively
grown, had farmers known how necessary
it is to give with the cabbage a large quan
tity of straw chaff, without which much of
the cabbage is wasted.— J. J. Mechi, Aug.,
1865.
Jjtiimtilit.
CHOLERA—ITS HISTORY AND LOCAL
IZING CAUSES.
The pressure of other matter has hitherto
prevented our referring to a carefully-pre
pared pamphlet upon the subject of epi
demic Cholera, issued by the Council of
Hygiene of the Citizens’ Association.
Cholera and commerce have this much
connection, that the former follows the path
.of the latter and keeps most easily along
water-sides. At Alexandria, it began last
May in a filthy suburb occupied by a dense
crowd of Arabs, Maltese, and Greeks, and
there strengthened itself until it killed 200
a day. It also traveled to Cairo and other
places along the Nile. It passed around
the eastern coast of the Mediterranean,
reaching Beyrout, Jaffa, Alexandretta, and
Smyrna, and by the middle of July was
taking a thousand lives daily in filthy Con
stantinople. The island of Malta, the pro
vince of Palermo, the cities of Modena,
Ancona, San Paulo, Yalentia, Toulon, Mar
seilles, Gibraltar, Madrid, Odessa, Paris,
and Southampton, were reached, proving
that the epidemic does follow rkater lines.
It traveled to Bagdad and the borders of
the Persian Gulf, and to Damascus and
Jerusalem. At the same time, Mecca and
Medina, and the caravans of pilgrims, were
most severely attacked. Out of 700,000
pilgrims visiting Mecca in May, it is esti
mated that 40,000 perished by cholera.
Out of a single shipload of devotees from
southern India, arriving at the Arabian
port of MOeulla in Midwinter, 80 died be
fore tbeir companions left the ship. And,
generally, it may be remarked that the re
lation of human agency in the transporta
tion of the epidemic was unusually marked,
and that the epidemic has followed the laws
previously deduced from its history: That
the season was exceedingly hot and damp ;
that the first and chief epidemic centres
were by the water sides and in the most
humid localities, and that the epidemic
earliest and most fatally “ afflicted the per
sons and classes who dwell in foul air,'and
who are most negligent and reckless in their
diet, who indulge in excesses and abuses of
the appetites, and who are generally most
subject to diseases that arise from bad diet
and the neglect of self-care.”
This country has had four visitations of
cholera. In June of 1832, it was found in
an emigrant vessel in the St. Lawrence
River ; it reached Quebec a few days later,
New York two] weeks later than Quebec,
and soon afterward eases were found in Al
bany and other cities along the water line
of the Middle States. In this city, it then
killed 3513. On the 2d of December, 1848,
it again reached New York in the emigrant
ship New York , having killed 14 passen
gers during the voyage of three weeks from
Havre. About the same time, it arrived
at New Orleans, killing there 1400 during
January; in a fortnight it was at Mem
phis; another fortnight carried it to St.
Louis; and another to Nashville and Cin
cinnati'. On the 11th of May, it reappear
ed in New York, finding a home awaiting
it at the Five Points; and during that year
5071 deaths occurred in the city by it;
and in the summer of 1851, in claimed
2509 more. •
Dr. Snow, the Superintendent of Health
in the city of Providence—than whom a
more careful and efficient health officer is
not to be found—in a recent report to the
Providence Board of Health, declares that
he “ can point out the precise localities in
the city where the cholera will prevail if it
visits us again; can show the houses in
which it will do its worst work; can name
the families and almost the individuals who
will have the disease; can show what there
is in those localities, houses, families, and
individuals which will cause the disease
and can show that those causes might be
removed- and the disease prevented by the
proper action of the authorities, of the
owners of the houses, and of individuals.”
The General Board of Health of Great
Britain declared that, as was anticipated,
in 1849 the “ cholera returned to the same
countries, and the same cities and towns,
and even the same, streets, and houses, and
rooms, which it ravaged in 1832 ;” and
futhermore, it is stated that “but very few
indeed who suffered then have escaped
now, except in those instances in.which
sanitary measures have in the meantime
been effected.” The city of Worcester, on
the Severn, which had twice been scourged,
having performed a thorough cleansing,
escaped the following epidemic, which
swept the neighboring cities. The cholera
of 1849, with insignificant exceptions, pre
vailed, out of 500 towns noted, in those
previously known for their local impurities;
in 68 towns. where it raged severely, the
Committee of the Royal College of Sur
geons found the localizing causes of pesti
lence prevailing; and in 51 out of 53
quarters where it first appeared, in as many
districts, the well-known and preventible
causes were found. Thus the medical offi
cers report that “ in the town of Jewks
bury the cholera was first announced in an
alley containing a slaughter-house, pio-.
styes, and *a bone deposit; and for more
than a month it lingered there, spreading
thence over the town. In the city of Hull,
it was at first limited to the ill-drained lo
calities. In St. Giles’s Parish (London),
it commenced in Church Street, where the
drainage and ventilation were bad, clean
ing defective, and population dense. I n
Islington, malaria from had drainage and
ventilation was the general cause. j n
Chatham, the disease was chiefly confined
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY I. 1866.
to the narrow lanes and allies which are
crowded, deficient in cleanliness, and where
fever is more or less prevalent.. In Liver
pool, the disease was confined for the most
part to the worst-ventilated, low, and. ill
drained courts. Lodging-houses of this
character were sometimes alone attacked.”
That class of lodging-houses in England
that has been brought under sanitary regu
lations, with an aggregate population of
80,000, was almost totally exempt from
cholera during the last epidemics. The
report of the General Board of Health for
1849 states,, that in the great tenant-house
called the Metropolitan Buildings, in which
health regulations were complete, with a
population of 500, not a case occurred,
although the epidemic was very fatal in
that district. And the report of the same
Board in 1851 states, that “in the Metro
polis, every efficient sanitary, improvement
has been followed as directly as cause and
effect by a corresponding decrease of sick
ness and mortality. There is no exception
to this rule. It applies to the courts,
alleys, and houses occupied by the indus
trious classes; it applies to public institu
tions of every kind ; to prisons, to hospitals,
to lunatic asylums, and, above all, to estab
lishments specially erected to test' the
value of sanitary principles—to the piodel
lodging-houses of the Metropolis. In our
report on epidemic cholera, it is shown that
only one out of 795 persons, inmates of
these model buildings, had been attacked
by the disease, whereas among the popula
tion of London generally, one person in 75
was attacked ”— N. Y. Tribune. '
DISCOVERY OF A NEW STOCK FOR
PAPER.
If we are to credit the papers wnich
reach us by the late English, mails, a/sub
stance has at last been. discovered which
will take the place of cotton and rags i 1 the
manufacture of paper. It is found ii the
Southern provinces of Spain, and is known
as “ esparto grass.” The London Econo
mist speaks of this discovery as follows :
“ The important position which the lately
discovered article of petroleum has! rapidly
taken in commerce is very interesting in
itself, as suggesting how quicklyjthe dis
covery of any new principle of motiln would
exercise an important influence/on the
present state of our industry. /Another
discovery has lately been made, which,
though ot less importance thal that of
petroleum, is sti'll so interesting in charac
ter, and so useful as regards an /important
article of manufacture, that we /think our
readers would be glad to receive the follow
ing information on the subject. / We allude
to the discovery lately made of/the applica
bility of the Atocha, or,, as it (is called in
Spain, ‘ esparto/ to the' manufacture of
paper. j
“ Mr. Lloyd, of the Walthr
ills. ' stated to ha - had -
lii
milJs ; is stated to iiave . a great share in
the merit of this discovejy; and Mr.
Mark, the British consul sjt Malaga, has
drawn up an interesting report on this sub
jeet, which has lately been Jnade public in
the commercial reports. This grass is the
produce of waste lands—it:requires no ex
pense in cultivation and little in collecting.
It is best propagated from the roots and
not from seed. It is perennial and propa
gates of itself, and improves by a regular
yearly gathering, if plucked with sufficient
care. Mr. Mark has devoted great care in
his endeavors to ascertain the climate and
soil which are favorable to the development
of the plant; and it appears that the Atocha
requires a decidedly hot and dry climate;
that it grows equally well in the plains and
in the mountains to a moderate elevation,
and that as regards soil, it flourishes both
in calcareous and argillaceous soils, or when
these soils are blended in the form of marl.
“ The greatest quantity is shipped from
the provinces of Almeria and Marcia; but
it is found, though in loss abundance, in
all the southern of Spain. It is
also said to be plentiful iin some parts of
the opposite coast of Africa, and shipments
are made from Oran to England. Prior to
the discovery of its being available for the
manufacture of paper, the esparto had been
used in Spain as fuel, in the manufacture
of ropes for minings and rigging, and for
making baskets and matting. But the dis
covery of the valuable properties of the
grass has made a complete revolution in the
districts where it grows. Fortunes have
been realized by individuals who were the
proprietors of the land which produce it.
The price has more than doubled, and is
now estimated by Mr. Mark at £4 2s. per
English ton on board. The greater part of
the exports have as yet been directed to
England, where in the brief space of three
or four years the article has become a
requisite of the highest importance, .160,000
tons having been, as it said, imported into
England in that period ; and Mr. Mark
estimates the present rate of annual export
at 50,000 tons. Mr. Mark estimates that
even at its present enhanced price the
Spanish grass will take a place with cotton,
hemp and wool, as one of the staple and
essential bases of manufacturing industry;
and if this anticipation should be realized,
in addition to the valuable resource which
it seems likely to prove to our paper manu
facturers, it will form an important element
in trade between this country and Spain.”
This is a matter of peculiar importance
to us in this country, in view of the enor
mous price of paper. Why may not this
“ esparto grass” be naturalized at the South,
where the climate and soil correspond with
that of Southern Spain ? This is a matter
worth investigating. — Exchange.
It is stated that a papyrus in the
Museum of Leyden contains the following
passage, indicating the state of the Hebrews
as bondmen in Egypt. The Scribe Kauit
sir addresses his superior, saying : “ May
my Lord find satisfaction in my having
complied with the instruction my Lord
gave me, saying, Distribute the rations
among the soldiers, and likewise among the
Hebrews (Apuru) who carry the stones to
the great city of King Rameses-Miamun,
the lover of the truth,” etc. Similar dis
tinct indications of the people and of their
serfdom are said to be found in another
Leyden papyrus, and even in the long rook
inscription of Hamamat.
It is wise and well to look on the cloud
of sorrow as though we expected it to turn
into a rainbow-
It is impossible to speak of native society
without taking into account that withering
institution—caste. Prom the mouth of
Bramha the Supreme,, came forth the
pramhins, to whom Hinduism accordingly
issigns the first rank. Prom his arms
sprang the Khetriya,. or warrior caste;
from his loins, tKe Vaisya, or trading caste;
and from his feet, the Shudras. ‘These
castes never commingle. The Shastras
teach that all intermarriages are unnatural.
We believe that God has made all nations
of one blood, and are wont to trace the
origin of the whole human family to a com
mon parentage; to us, therefore, the Hindu
classification seems unnatural. But in the
belief of the Hindu, God made not one
race, but four races; and any intermixture
of blood is a foul crime against nature
What effect such a doctrine must have on
the society that accepts it, may be con
ceived. In the sense in which we .use the
term, that of a grand unit, society is un
known among the Hindus... As there are
four races as different from one another as
is the genus cat from the genus dog, so
there are four societies : not one society di
vided into four sections, but four societies
radically and essentially different from one
another. The Hindus, therefore, have no
common sympathies except those of a reli
gious kind. Each caste accepts the Divine
origin of the other, and respects the limit
imposed by the Shastras on its intercourse
with them. Europeans and other nations
are regarded as the offspring of the unna
tural intermarriages of people of different
castes. Bramhins, Khetriyas, Vaisyas, and-
Shudras may, and do, form business rela
tions with* one another, and even friend
ships ; but there is always a sharp and well
defined limit to the interchange of social
amenities. They cannot entertain one an
other in their houses, or eat. with one an
other ; they belong to different orders of
being, and the gulf between them cannot
be bridged. The dying Bramhin, friendless
and succorless, may be longing tor a cup of
cold water in his extremity.; but should
that water be brought to him by some pity
ing Shudra, he will turn avijay from it as a
polluted thing, and rather accept death. A
Shudra may eat food prepared by a Bram
hin; because, coming from the.hands of
one to whom he has been brought to render
, divine honor, it coines sanctified. But no
Bramhin dare eat what a Shudra offers; it
comes defiled.
Caste has broken the bands of Hindu
society; it is the axe which has been laid
at the root of all community of feeling, and
action, and aspiration ; and if God’s provi
dence has brought us into close relation
with the people among whom the system
prevails, it is clearly the Divine intention
that we should set ourselves to the disco
very and application of those means by
which alone the segregated element may be
re-fused into a social unit. Caste origi
. nated, not in any necessity of the human
constitution, but in a religion of carnal or
dinances. From this religion the moral
element is practically banished. There
ar% Shastras which contain wholesome
moral truths; but they are not regarded
'as having any bearing on the soul’s wel
fare. The discipline of the heart does not
enter into the scope of Hinduism. It ex
acts no moral obedience, and contemplates
no moral reformation. To keep his caste
inviolate, to observe certain ceremonies, to
propitiate the gods with offerings, and sub
mit unmurmuringly to the yoke of the
Bramhin Thakur, is the whole duty of the
Hindu. He knows of no authority beyond
that of the Bramhin, who reads the Shas
tras for him, interprets the will of the gods,
prescribes offerings, and imposes penances.
Beyond this, he neither thinks, nor has a
conscience. Obviously, the only way to
perpetuate the distinctions of caste, was to
ignore, and as far as possible to obliterate,
the moral sense, and place a stern veto on
independent thought and action. This
Hinduism has succeeded in doing for long
ages, nor would its power even now have
become impaired, were it not for the en
trance of a light which is last dispelling
the darkness of ignoraoce. Christianity,
Western science and literature, and grow
ing commercial interests, are the forces
now arrayed against it; and the humilia
tions it has suffered within the last half
century may be safely regarded as prognos
ticating the final issue of the contest.
>mstow paper
shar--
Caste is only a part of the larger system
of Hindu idolatry; and it would be strange
if the truth, which has in the case of so
many thousands of earnest converts, broken
the power of idolatry, had not, to even a
greater extent, loosened the hold of caste.
A battery brought to bear on an enemy’s
stronghold may make a breach only in one
spot; but the ceaseless cannonading may
have had the effect of’so shaking the walls
of the i unification as to render them,
thenceforward, useless for purposes of de
fence. in like manner, the damage which
Christianity and education have done to
the ramparts of Hinduism is not to be re
garded as only 'co-extensive with the
breaches that have been made. These
forces have shaken the whole fabric—a fact
which its defenders are foremost to ac
knowledge. Superstition cannot flourish
in the light of knowledge, and it may be
readily conceived how the enlightenment
that is fast becoming general among the
upper classes should lead to the total re
jection of the Shastras.— Christian Work.
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Accrued interest and rents due, Jan. 3. . 10,454 71
THE AMERICAN IS A HOME COMPANY.
Its TRUSTEES are well known citizens in out
midst, entitling .it to more consideration than those
whose managers reside in distant cities.
Alexander Whilldin, William J. Howard,
J. Edgar Thomson, Samuel T. Bodine,
George Nugent. John Aikman,
Hon. James Pollock, Henry K. Bennett,
Albert C. Roberts, Hon. Joseph Allison,
P. B. Mingle. Isaac Hazlehurst,
Samuel Work.
ALEX. WHILLDIN, President.
SAMUEL WORK, Vice-President.
JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treasurer.
REMOVAL.
I beg leave to inform the Public that J hare
CHANGED my business k cation from
HIT. E. Corner Fourth and Chestnut Streets,
Commodious Rooms in
SANSOM STREET HALL.
Having re-furnished my Office witras -'
IMPROVED STEAM PRESSES
AND W
NEW TYPE, ' f-
I am enabled, with the aid of SKILLFUL WORK
MEN, to execute orders for
PRINTING IN THE BEST STYLE,
Expeditiously and at Moderate Prices.
Trusting in a eontinuanca of your patronage, I am»
respeotfuUy, Yours, «&c.
JLOAG.
1025-ly
Office on First Floor.
Bankm & J3rnk
—— ~ —HAIR
SAMUEL WORK. u';;.„!.Oi # fect
KRAMKRa K - (IM. 'pju-
BANKING HOUSE OF
WORK, MeCOUCH & 00.,
ho. 36 SOUTH Til 111 I) Sir eel, Philadelphia-
DEALERS ia (tOVKKNMLN V LOANS AND CO N
Bills of Exchange on Nt-'w Y < k, R .'ton, Pittshurjr
Baltimore, Cincmn.tti, etc., nr y tor sn'e
Collections promptly triads on ak points in
tbe United States and Canada?.
Deposits received, payable on demand, and interest
allowed as per agreement.
Stocks anti Loans bought and sold on commission
at tbe Board of Brokers.
Business Paper negotiated.
Refer to Philadelphia and Commercial Banks. Phila
delphia; Winslow, Lanier & C«., New York : and Citi
zens* ani Exchange Rark, Pm- burs
BANKING house.
GEORGE J. BOTE,
No. 18 S. THIRD ST, PHILADELPHIA,
(Two doors below Mechanics’ Bank.)
DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES,
5-aOs, 10-40 S, MOs, 6s of ’Bl.
PETE. O L EUM,
AND all other
BTOC K 8, BONDS, &C.
BOUGHT AND SOLD AT .THE BOARD OF
BROKERS.'
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS.
PETROLEUM.
R. GLENDINNING, Jr., -
STOCK BROKER,
No. 23 south; third street,
oa and Mining shares, Railroad Stooks and Bonds,
and Government Securities bought and sold on Com
mission, at the
Philadelphia, New York, and Boston
BOARD OF BROKERS.
Stefrant Kates.
CHARLES STOKES & CO.’S
FIRST-CLASS “ONE PRICE” READY-MADE
CLOTHING STORE,
No. 834 CHESTNUT STREET,
(Under the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia.)
DIAGRAM FOR SELF-MEASUREMENT
For Coat— / —^
Length of back f * \
Wpfi from 1 to 2, and
XNJ from 2 to 3.
Length of fsl
/af n sleeve (with A : . r V]
/ M n 81X111 crooked) / \ *? J
(M from4tos,and l I
VAv dL around the \ | /
\ most promi- V | /
VnMl nent part of ft 4 I
TBmFHI the chest and f \
W Br waist * State / f \
If || ’ whether erect / | \
f\ Jfl or stooping. LJ i 1
/ U| For Vest.— I \
Same as coat. 11l
1 Jr For Pants. — V
A m Inside seam, l I
/A 9 and outside 1 I
U\ 1 from hip bone, \ • f
M| u around the \ j
™R\ - waist and hip. \ /
Agoodfitgua- \ /
ranteed. >—<>
Offioers’ Uniforms, ready-made, always on hand, or
made to order in the best manner, ami on the most
reasonable terms. Haying finished many hundred
uniforms.the past year, for Staff, Field and Line Offi
oers, as well as for the Navy, we are prepared to ere
cute orders in tins line with correctness and despatch*
The largest and most desirabie'stock of Ready-made
Clothing in Philadelphia always on hand. (The price
marked m plain figures on all of the goods.)
or Boys; Clothing is also maintained
at this establishment, and superintended by experi
enced hands. Parents and others will find here a
most desirable assortment ol Boys' Clothing at low
prices.
Sole Agent fot the “ Famous Bullet-Proof Vest.”
CItAHX.ES STOKES A CO.
CHARLES STOKES.
E. T, TAYLOR,
W. J. STOKES.
READY-MADE CLOTHING.
WANAMAKER & BROWN,
PINE CLOTHING,|
OAK HALL,
$394,136 50
S. E. cor. Sixth and Market.
CUSTOM DEPARTMENT,
No. I South Sixth Street.
THOMAS RAWLINGS, Jr.,
HOUSE AND SIGN
$966,461 79
Broad and Spring Garden Streets.
WILLIAM MORRIS,
VENETIAN BUND AND SHADE HAND-
FACTUBEB,
'No. 110 N. EIGHTH Street, Philadelphia.
Blinds and Shades always on hand, of the most
Fashionable Patterns,
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Store Shades Made ana Lettered to
1011-3 m Order*
SPECTACLES'
WILUAM BARBER,
Manufacturer of Gold, Silver, Nickel, and Steel Spec
tacles, Eye Glasses, Ac., has neatly furnished a room
in connection with the factory, for RETAIL PUR
POSES, wherespectacles of every description may be
obtained, accurately adjusted to the requirements of
vision on STRICTLY OPTICAL SCIENCE.
Sales room and factory,
No. 248 NORTH UGHTH Street, Second
■ ii '\ • . Floor. &)l-ly
A. J. TAFEIj,
HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMACY,
No. 48 N. NINTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA,
Importer pf German Homoeopathic Tinctures,
Lehrm&n & Jenichen’s High Potencies, Sugar of
Milk, and (forks. Sole Agent for Dr. B. Finked
High Potencies. 9771 -
932-tf
PAINTER,