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THURSDAY HORNING, JANUARY 27, 1870. the 58ftKof£l Sa.sfttf o {From Philadelphia Dailg Press ] iionr. nrTRf. 1 be Xanufartnm I I'bllatlelpltla. 1 The Philadelphia Paint and Color Works and Wholesale. Drug House of French. Richard* A Co Sortlitre'i corner oj Tenth and Mar ket Street*. Our city I.its a world-wide celebrity i far its medical colleges and its distin guished prof.ssor- and practitioners of the medical aud .surgical art. It is en titled to equal renown f r itsext3nsive drug establishments. We supply the Unit* d Kiatv- and eouutrit- south of Us not only with doctors, but also with drugs. Possess* dof a ni'st sal übrious climate itself, Philadelphia, like an angel of mercy, contributes more largely than any other American city t > the r lb fof the .*iek in less favored ' places. French. Ilk-hards & Co, have, at the northwest corner of Tenth and Market streets, one of the finest build ! dinga in the city, devoted entirely to the preparation and compounding, of drugs on a large scale, and to a general wholesale jobbing trade in drugs, eheniicsis, paints, glass, etc. The firm wa> established in 1544, l>v Clayton French, E-#q., the present senior partner, and Win. Richards, Esq. A not her partner was subsequent ly added when the firm assumed the name of French, Richards <i Co. Mr. Richards died in lESB, and since then two new partners have been ad- but the old firm name is still re tained. They now carry on an lm men.-e business as manufacturers, itn porters, and jobbers, and own several large stores and warehouses, besides their principal manufactory at Crown aud Callow hill streets. The last-named establishment come* tno-t appropriate ly within the scope of this series of articles; yet wepiopose giving a hasty sketch of their buildings, and shall be gin with the splendid store at tenth and market. This is a large building six stories high, tx-sid*s cellar or basement and sub cellar. It has a wide frontage on j Market street, aud extends back a con siderable distance on Tenth street. It is constructed in the most elegant I and substantial st>le, the internal ar rangements being particularly tasteful, convenient, and some of the rooms, as the offices, almost luxurious It oeeu- j pied over two years in building. The old store, upon the same site, was burned down ia October, 100-j. The present structure was completed and | occupied in February, 180s, and is val ued at upwards of £ >t)U,OOO. There are three distinct buildings at this location, occupied by Messrs. French, Richards & Co., though all these are adjoining and connected with each other on the lower stories. The main building, immediately at the corner, contains on the first floor the commodious and elegantly-fur nished offices and counting room. In the east part of the large room, opening on Market street, two members of the firm, assisted by several secretaries and attendants, receive cu-tomers and transact the active business of buying and selling. The desk and furniture generally are of ma-sive black walnut, the ceiling is lofty, and everything j about the room and its occupants cal culated to create the most favorable impression. Druggists frotn other cities, and from the country, must -urelv go away frotn this establish ment delighted with their reception, and therefore profited, even though they have neglected to make pur chase*. The west side of the room, partly partitioned from theea-; -ldeand fitted up in the same style, is occupied as the general counting-room by numerous clerks and book-keepers, under the supervi-inn of another member of the firm. Opening into this room from the rear is an elegant little withdraw ing room or private office, and the sam ple room, where the customer can be shown samples of anything from per fumery to paint, and from the costliest essences to the coar- v st of medicinal roots and leaves. Tiny vials are rang ed in rows on -helves, all around the little room, mysteriously labelled with long, unpronounceable Latin names.— Here the purchaser has an opportunity of making his selections, after careful inspection and tests as to quality. A most wonderful thing about the estab ishment is the Hydraulic Hoist ing extending from the b at torn of the <ub-cellar to the top of the ; sixth -dory, ninety feet. This curious and beautiful piece of mechanism is a practical application of the principle well known in natural philosophy, that a column of water, no matter how small if only sufficiently high, will balance any po-sible weight in a con necting tube. The same principle is sometimes exemplied by a toy called Hydrostatic Paradox. This, elevator consists chiefly of a solid piston-rod, ten inches in diameter and ninety feet > long, fitted loosely into an exceedingly strong iron tube, which is sunk its whole length in a hole drilled in the rock beneath the building. A frame work extends to the top of the house, and the piston-rod, with an ordinary platform attached mar the tup, plays up and down according as the water is pumped into the tube around it or is allowed to flow out by opening a valve in the bottom. All that is necessary to work the whole machine is a few gallons of water and a small steam en gine capable of pumping this into the tufas?. The only limit to the weight which may be hoisted in this manner : Is the strength of the tube containing the water, and this has stood a pres sure on trial of a thousand pounds to ] the square inch. The second story is devoted exclu sively to the Jobbing Department. ißins or drawers, containing every variety of drugs and chemicals, aud ! plainly labelled, are conveniently and systematically arranged. A foreman has entire charge, receiving the orders from below, and filling them with the aid of numerous a-sistants. The other stories above are used main ly for storage of the lighter drugs, and the multitude of roots, herhs, and leaves used in our modern phartnaco p.,-in. The-ixth or highest -tory is occupied by bales and tugs of the very lightt-st sub-tames, p* leaves, corks, &e. The newly-l ullt part of the -tore is in two separate houses, -imply adjoin ing. The one in the rear, and opening on Tenth street, is ',t!!<-d the ware house, and i> fillet! with barrels, boxes, and packages of the heavier sub stames, such as paints, putty, oils, Ac. the third floor of this p ar t i?s devoted entirely to the storage of window glass, in which article this firm dcfils very exter.-iveiy. Adjoining the main -tore on the west, and having a frontage on Mark street. is a building No. "1005, which es caped the fire of 1805, and which is now used by Mes-r-. French, Richards A C 0.," exclusively for the storage of glass. Mere may be found all kinds of glass from the ordinary American window-glass, to the finer, English and French plate glass, including a com plete assortment of German and thick plate mirrors of the best quality. They import their own foreign gla-s direct from France, England, and Bel gium. They import and manufacture also many varieties of engraved and decorated Glass. We saw numerous fine -peeimons of this ornamental work in the building ! just mentioned. Messrs. French, Richards A Co. ship their gotnls to all parts of ihe country, and have many orders from the West Indies and Central America. They employ in this branjh of their business about fifty hands, besid"s fifty more at their manufactory, which is known as the Philadelphia paint and color works. This is situated 011 Callowhiil street, t occupying all the space from crowu street to York avenue, and extending -eventy-two feet on the latter street.— It i- four stories high exclusive of base ment, which is occupied by au eighty ; horse power engine, and a large mill for grinding of denti-t?-' piaster. They manufacture here three-fourths of all the dentists" plaster used in the coun try. J'i the upper stories are situated the other machinery necessary to carry on their extensive business, including twelve separate mills for the manufac ture of pain Is, Theseare able to griud twenty tons of white lead daily when working at their full capacity, Large amounts of putty are also ground and prepared here. Just across York avenue, opposite, they have a large ware-house exten ding from Fourth street toYork avenue, five -cories high excluding basement, and used for the storage of plaster, ce ment, glass, Ac. This building is ,on strueted in the strongest and most sub stantial manner, the first story of each front being of iron. In the basement there i- an engine used to drive the hoist ing apparatus. An ingenious and very convenient arrangement is a tunnel un der the street, from the basement of this warehouse to the basement of the factory opposite. A narrow railroad tia-.k is laid in this tunnel, and hand trucks to convey plaster and other stores from one building to the other. They have another large and substan tial warehousonY'ork avenue,aboveNo ble street, which is filled with barrels of calcined plaster and cement. Their calcined plaster is all made at Hillsbo ro, N. 8., near the quarries. They have an arrangement with the mill owners there by which they have con trol of the best plaster which comes to this market, especially all that manu factured from selected stone expressly for the purpose packed in new bar? rels. Besides being thus careful to select the very best article, they put up nearly a half a bushel more to the barrel than any others enga ged in the business. In this plaster trade they undoubted ly have the inside truck completely, and from their warehouses in Philadel phia ship it to almost all parts of the world. Adjoining their warehouse, above Noble street, i- a model stable, where are kept the eighteen to twenty horses us d in hauling to and fro the goods of the fiim. We cannot close this sketch without a word of compliment for the energy, 5 enterprise, and versatility which have built up so important an industry and extensive a trade in our eitv. Whatev er of their stock can be man 11 factured here they are manufacturing, and the remainder tney import at first hands from abroad. With a few more such j firms Philadelphia would not only l*e ! confessedly the greatest manufacturing ' city of the country, but might also at tain to the very ibrmost rank as pq Im porting city. MARK TW A IS. While upon his trip to Niagara, Mr Twain, met a British officer with the following result. He says: At the principal hotel I fell in love with the Major of the Forty-second I'u ,i!eers, and a doxen other hearty and hospitable Englishmen, and they invited uje to join them in celebrating iijr Queen's birthday. I said I would be delighted to do it. I said I liked al! the Englishmen I had ever hap pened to be* acquainted with, and fust I, like ail my countrymen, admired and honored the Queen. But I saiu there was an insuperable drawback I never drank anything strong upon any occasion whatever, and I did not see how I was going to do ample and proper justice to anybody's birthday with the thin and ungenerous bever ages I was accustomed to. The Major scratched his heap, and thought the matter over at coubhierabie length, but there seemed to be no way of mas tering the difficulty, and he was too much of A gentleman to suggest even a temporary abandonment of iny prin ples. IJut by-and-by he said : "I have it. Drink soda water. As long as you never drink anything more nutritious, there isn't any impro priety in it." And so it was settled. We met in a large parlor, handsomely decorated with flags and evergreens, and seated ourselves at a table well ladened with creature comforts, both solid and liq uid. The toaets were happy and the speech!* were gorni, :in<l we kept it up until lung after midnight. I neveren joyed my-sell more ir. my life. I drank thirty-eight bottles of soUa water. — But do you know that this is not a re liable article for a steady driuk ? It is too ga.-sy. When I got up in the morning I was full of gas and *as tight as a balloon. I hadn't an article of clothing that I could wear except my umbrella. After breakfast I found the Major making grand preparations again. I asked what it was for, and he? said this was the Prince of Wales' birthday, it had to ta? celebrated that evening.— We celebrated it. Much again-t my expectations we had another splendid tine-. We kept it up until some time after midnight. J was tired of -rida, , o 7 and -o I changed for lemonade. I drank several quarts. You may con sider lemonade hi tter for a steady drink than soda water, but it isn't so. In the morning it had soured on my stomach. Biting anything was out of the question—-It is equivalent to lock jaw. I was beginning to fee! worried and sad, too. •Shortly after lunch i found the Ma jor in the midst of some more prepa j rations, lie said this was the Princess Alice'- birthday. I concealed my grief. "Who ii the Princess Alice?" I ask ed. "Daughter of her Majesty the Queen," the Major said. I succumbed. That night we cele brated the Princess Alice's birtli day. We kept it up as late as usual, and re i ally 1 enjoyed it a good deal. Rut I could not stand lemonade. I|lrank a couple of kegs of ice water. In the morning I had the toothache and cr imp- and chitbialns, and, my teeth were on edge from the lemon ade, and I was still pretty gassy. I found Major at it again. "Who i? tlii- for?" I a.-ked. "His Royal Highness, the Duke of of Edinburgh' he said. "Sk>n of the Queen f" I "Yes." "And this is his birthday.—you havt not made any mistake?" "No, the celebration is to come off to-nitrht." 1 liowed before the-new calamity.— We celebrated the day. I drank [art of a barrel of c-ider. Among the fir©t objects that met my weary and jaun diced eyes the next day, was the Ma jor, at his interminable j reparations a gain My heart was broken and I vrept. "Whom do we mourn ihi> time?" I said. "The PriiiCv.cc Beatrice, daughter of the Queen." "Here, now," I said ; "it is rime to inquire into the thing. How long is the Queen's family likely to hold out. Who comes next on the list?" "Their Royal Highnesses® Anne, Mary, Elizabeth, Gertrude, Augusta, William, Simon, Ferdinand, Irene, Sophia, Susannah, Socrates, Samj *.n, "Hold! There's a limit to human endurance. lam only mortal. What man dare do, I dare! but who can cel ebrate this family in detail, and live to tell it, i - less or more then man. If you have to go through this every year, it is a mercy I was born in A merlca, for I havn't constitution e noughtobean Englishman. I shall have to withdraw from this enterprise. lam out of drinks. Out of drinks, and thirteen more to celebrate. Out of drinks just on the outskirts of the fam ily, as you may say. I am sorry enough to have to withdraw, but it is plain e nough that is has to be done. lam full of gas, and my teeth are iuoso, aad I aui afflicted with scurvy, toothache, measles, the mumps and lockjaw, and wrenched with cramps, and tbe cider last night has given toe the chok-ra.— t Gentlemen, I mean well, but ready I am not in a eouditiou to celebrate tire other thirteen." Give us a rest. -THE YOI XG WIFE'S SE4KET. "Now, Eliza, after such a delightful were wedding holiday as we have had, 1 would it not be a good time to tell me your secret ?" A young and happy looking couple ; seated at breakfast, on the morning after their short honeymoon tr'.p, when this questiou was asked. "A better time dear James, could not be chosen, but would you really like to hear it now?" "Why not? The sooner we begin to act upon it the better," "This is true, James, but would you not prefer to find it out tor yourself?" "Oh, I have !#een trying to guess ever since you first told me of it. Per hups, Eliza, it is no secret after all?" "I assure you that it is, and a most valuable one, too." "j*it much known?" "Well, dear, I can hardly say; but judging from appearances, I should think not." "How came you to know?" "I learned it from my mother; she often told me that ail happiness was owing to it. Where she alive now siie would witness its effect to us." "Vou quite puzzle me, Eliza; it must be something extraordinary, if, as you say, it prevent* man and wife ever having a aeoond quarrel. You may as well tell me al once." "I am quite ready to tell you, James; but I am sure that your pleasure will be greater in finding it out yourself.— Fortune favors the persevering. "Ah, I know now ; you mean that we are to count a hundred ; or fill our mouth with water; or twirl a chain, or some such way of getting cool when we happen to get angry." "No : James, none of these; it is much more certain, and attended with better effects." "Perhaps you moan that we should -hut ourselves up in different rooms, or not speak to one another for a week ?" "No, dear Jame?, uone so cruel as that. Heaven forbid that we should ever be driven to such extremities.— By presevering in my sei ret, we shall always love one another as truly as we do now. Our tru-t in one iiLoth'-r will increase, and the longer we live the happier we shall le. You will very likely say that it is no secret after all, now that I tell you : the >ur est way to avoid a second quarrel is never to have a jirst "Capital!" exclaimed James, laugh ing; "I will -tick to that with all my heart." He would have liked to prolong the conversation, but the wedding holiday was over, ami he wished to le punctual at work. So taking up his hat, he imprinted a good-by kiss on his wife's ro-y lips, resolving, as he went out, fo put her --cret into prac tice. A Jil T.S. ( LEBIt. Piekornel, u successful dry goods merchant of Boston, was waited upon at his hotel by a gentleman-farmer who was dts-irous of getting a boy, for whom he was guardian, a "place" in Boston— of course he was an uncom mon smart boy, quick at figures, strong of intuition, and one every way fit, as he should "judge" to become a merchant. Pit-kernel thought it over, and nv.id he wouid try and make a place for him. In due time the boy arrived at Piefcemei's store, his broad face ruddy with health, and soapy from the morning wash, his hair slick ed, his clothes new and uncomfortable, and a stiff dickey cutting hi- ears. He announced himself as the boy, Ac. "Ah, you are the boy are you said Pit-kernel. "Yt*s, I suppose to," replied the youngster, "Weil come in here, theu ; I am ve ry busy but I will examine you in a few practical questions. The boy came in,.siting down on the de©k, swung hi a heels underneath it -<i= though he felt entirely at home, wait ing the questions. "Well," said Pint-kernel "supiKise a lady should come in here, and buy a dr.s-s of fifteen and a half yards of cali co for eleven and a half cents a yard, wiiat would it come to?" The boy looked at his questioner, at the ceiling, at the floor, in a state of great bewikiernmeut. "How ntuc-h caliker ?" he asked. "Fifteen and a half yards." "What price?" "Eleven and a half cents." lie thought a moment. "Well;" said he, "I'm darned if I b'lieve any woman ever wanted so much cloth for a dress as that." Tnis was throwing up the sponge, and Pi -krenal put another question. "How much wouid five and a half pouuds of tea come to, at -eventy five cents and three quarters per pound?" He received this pretty much the suae as the other, and afte< waiting a minute he asked— " Vas it green or black tea Without answering, Pickernel put an other question "Suppose I should send you out with a two-dollar,bill, and you shou'd by fourteen and a half pounds of i-. c-f at seven anil a half cents a pound, how much money wouid you have left?" The l>oy looked at him for an instant and then indulged in a low whistle. "You don't suppose," said he, "you can get beef anywhere at seven and a i half cents a pound, do ye?" Pickernal gave up at this. lie asked him no more questions, but sent him back next day with a letter stating that he didn't think he would answer. A I'L-LITT MVKLY US \TL \ IX IISR OWN GAME. A few evenings since- a gushing Trojan youthesscondescended to favor a certain young man with her company to a hop in—-hail, After arriving she concluded to receive tire attentions of another gentleman in the room, to tin* total exclusion of her e-eort. The latter accepted the situation without exhibiting any sign of di-pleasura, not even demuring when he discovered, at the termination of the festivities, that the young lady was about to outrage courtesy and propriety to the extent of id lowing iiis more favored rival to accompany her home. Meeting the young lady shortly af terward, he gallantly accepted the ex planation she offered, and to prove his unselfish devotion and forgiving spir it, he requested her company for a future evening to the theatre, to which she of coarse assented. Izist evening, about seven and a half o'clock, saw the generou- Adonis and his female friend on their way to the temple of the drama.—On arriving at the head of the stairs, the young man suddenly discovered that lie had Inadvertently left the tickets which he had pureha-ed that afternoon, in an adjoining salootu Stating the ease to his fair friend, and requesting her to remain where she was for a moment, he started down stairs for the ml-ring tickets, and for g a to come back. After waiting for his return a reas onable time, the young lady concluded that she bad been nicely beaten at her own game and started down stairs chop-fallen, and no doabt completely VOL 65.—-WHOLE No. 3 £52. out of sorts to think that she liad so innocently fallen into a well-set trap. On reaching the sidewalk she discried, on the opposite -ide of the -tm-t, a knot of male friends of the fully aveng ed lover, who l ad assembled to witness her defeat and dissomfiture. FARM EC'S (Ol.tX V. Pea-nttf* fare good for liver complaint. • Pumpkin* are plentiful in Washing ton. The apple crop of Missouri is - aid to be larger than It has been for twenty years. One hundred and forty-four bushels of oats to an acre i- the latest Wiscon sin achievement. Lice on C<tfUe,—lt is said that water in which potatoes have been boiled will kill lice on cattle. It is said that there are new four times as many cattle in Texas a- there were before the war. To increase the length of a colt's mane, k*ep the roots perfectly clean, and frequently comb and plait it. One or two applications of butter milk will destroy lice on Ciittle, and it i-a safe remedy todrive offthe vermin. J simple and very effectual remedy for sore back in horses, is a plaster made of the yolk of an egg and a spoon ful of terpentine. The recent rains in California dama ged or utterly spoiled vast quantities of grain lying on the banks of the riv ers awaiting shipment. .in invention has been brought for ward in England by wh ; ch, it is claim ed, bread can be made directly from the grain without grin ling. Ten bushels of boi Its! potatoes, mashed and mixed with three bushels of finely ground corn meal, will make as much pork, as double the quantity fed in a raw state. Among the best of remedies to cure -ore teats of milk cows, is to smear the teats with syrup molasses before milk ing, it is cleaner and pieasauter than some other greasy remedies. The ino-t speedy method of making cider vinegar is to fill the casks more than half full, with the bung left out, which will expo-c the largest surface to the air, and consequently will become vinegar much sooner than if the bar re! be filled full. In feeding potatoes and turnips to cattle they sometimes will get a potato or turnip lodged in the passage to the stomach, in which a common flexible wagon-whip pushed gently down the throat, will remove the object and give instant relief. The farmer in the manufacture and care of his manure heap, sboaid al ways keep in view that what is in pre paration, should not be allowed to lose its strength by I JO rapid fermenta tion or have its soluble parts unnee*s ariiy washed away and lost . No farmer should build a house or make any other improvement without ascertaining beforehand the probable cost of the same. The preliminary couuting of the expenses of every thing is essentia! to all agricultural thrift, and he who neglects it. will be apt to discover his error after it is too late. Lime exhibits its funtionsas a fertil izer most powerfully by converting vegetable humaies into a state fit fir the nourishment of plants, and it will not be ot much use to lime land in which animal aud vegetable matter is wanting, for there must be elements of fertility for the lime to act upon hepee the effect of lime on exhausted land, i- slow in comparison with soils wherein the materials to act upon, ex ists in abundance. The breeding and rearing of tame rabbit- might be made a profitable bu siness. They require much the same food as sheep. Kabbits would be eag eraily sought after in our markets, and are equal in flavor to the turkey, when fed on Jproper food. The better the food given to them, the better will te their 9e<h,- a- is usually the case in feeding all animals. If some ot our farmers who have a good location, would give the business a trial it wouid not invoke much expense. Points of a Good Cow. —She's long in her face, -he's fine in her horn, -he'll quickly get fat without cake or corn; she's clean in her jaw, and full in her chin; she's heavy in flank and wide ! in her loin , she's broad in her rib. and long in her rump. A straight and flat i back with never a hump; she's wide iu her hips, ar.d calm in her eyes; she's j fine in her shoulders and thin in her thighs; she's light in her neck and small in her tail; she's wide in her bre.ist, and good at the pail ; she's fine in her bone, and silky of skin ; she's a grazier's without ami a butch er's within. In the city or country the benefits to be derived frotu a commodious, well arranged cellar are numerous. A cel lar should not only be proof against fro-t, but also against heat and moist ure. Ventilation and light should be under command—to be admitted or ex eluded at pleasure. Two-thirds of the cellar should be under the ground-level; the wall should be of stone, Lriek be ing liable to soften and crumble from the effect of moisture. In very dry localities, brick may be used, hut stone is better. The drainage -hould be per fect, and the floor should be flags or bricks, and sloped toward the sewer, in order to carry off any water that may be spilled upon it. A pen-stock or pump in the cellar will be found very useful. We have ne space here to enumerate the great variety of ar ticles which may be safely stored in a cellar, our object being to show that it may be made very servicable for keep ing house plants.
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