Till: DAILY eV-IHKQ .TELEGRAPH FniLADELPlILV, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 18C9.
rOI'ULAR SCIEJiCE.
' - l.amlnonn Mrteara.
The principal remarkable featnre of the
Ire-bnll of the 7th of October, IHt'.S, was its
vaflt volume mtich larger than that of any
other meteor Been for many years. Two other
ircnnintancefi appeared also to be of some
important intercut, viz.: -1. Tho immense
dintanco to which the scries of detonations
was heard over an area of more than 1!()
tmiios in width, incomparably surpassing the
distance to which the longest claps of thunder
ox the discharges of the lnrgest cannons can
be heard. If, moreover, the wtatements of
the majority of tho observers may be trusted,
the interval between the bursting of the me
teor and the sonnd of the report was so great
that the 'phenomenon- must have taken
place at a prodigious height. I8B than five
minutes cannot bo allowed, on the most mode
rate estimation, from the explosion of tho
meteor to the sound of the report, and this
would imply a distance of more than (0 miles.
Tailing into account the direction of the
metoor as Recn by the observers, it would be
difficult to admit a height of less than 48
miles This height is confidently within the
limits which it would bo necessary to assign
to it when the greater number of exact do
Bcrip'tions of the meteor, given by competent
observers, are taken, into tho account. Ihe
meteors of the 14th of November, 1808, were
well observed in tho United States on the
morning of the 14th of November last. 2. Trof.
Newton has selected several instances of me
teors of conspicuous brightness, which were
fiimultnneouslv observed by observers at dis
tant placos. The rosnlts lead to the supposi
tion, from the observed motions of transla
tion and distortion of some of tho streaks,
that a northward current of the nppor air pre
vailed at an altitude of about r 1 miles, and
that above this level, to 8 height of about CO
miles, a current of air existed, moving in a
northerly direction. The double appoarance
vt the streaks observed with the telescope, in
Home of tho meteors in the shower, suggests
the proboblo conjecture by Prof. Newton of
an actual duality in tho meteor itsolf; and a
very possible analogy, it is thought, may thus
Le recognized among the November shooting
stars, to the donblo or multiple character
which is common among the detonating and
Btonc-producing meteors.
New Flrc-AIcnsurrr.
M. Lnmy has invented a pyramctcr which
indicates the exact temperature of a red-hot
furnace, and transmits the same to considera
ble distances. The manager of a porcelain
manufactory, for instance, will be able, by
moans of this new invention, to nszcrtain, at
anv time, the exact temperature of all tho
furnaces of his establishment, without being
obliged to leave his bureau. As for the appa
xatus, it is simply a retort containing white
marble, the neck ot which, by means ot a
tube, is connected with a needle that moves
ft dial-plate. Under the influence of the heat
the marble is decomposed, and the carbonic
acid set at liberty. Each temperature is
rigorously characterized by tho tension which
the gas takes when produced; tho result of
the entire series of experiments proves that
it is sufficient to measure this tension, in
order to obtain with precision tho tempera
ture sought tor.
The Dnrwliilan Theory.
At tho lrjst meeting of the British Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, several
papers were read upon the Darwinian Theory.
Some of the writers handled without gloves
this hypothesis of tho descent of species, with
modifications through uatural selection. Tho
most striking of these papers was entitled
"Man vs. the Animalsjbeingn Counter-Theory
to Mr. Darwin's as to the Origiu of Species,"
by Archdeacon Freeman. Tho author said
that the question raised by Darwin was
already an international one. In England
great names ranged themselves on either side;
in France, Eo Quatrel'ages, Langel and others '
disallow tho theory; while in Germany, Fritz j
Mullen and Fraeckol warmly espouse it. But ,
what is wanted is a compact counter-theory, I
accounting for all the phenomena on which I
Darwin's rests, while free from the dilli- '
culties which beset it. It is not enough to j
allege objections,howover serious. Mr. Darwin ;
confesses to them, but believes thorn to be not
insuperable. Now, there is a very ancient '
view, entertained by Plato, and counteuaucod,
to Bay the least, by Scripture, as to the pro
cess or order according to which tho produc
tion of the world, the animal world included,
took place in the Divino working. It is that
certain ideals pre-existed, and that after those
the creatures were formed. Man certainly
was created after a pre-existing image, that
of God bioiBelf. And of the higher animals,
the lion, the ox, the eagle, we seem to be' dis
tinctly told that the ideal existed before in
the form of tho cherubim. And man is there
exhibited as on a par with them, and they
with him. Especially, it is said that they
were, in certain respects, anthropomorphous.
They all had the likenebs of a man, and tho
face and tho hands of a man (Ezekiel i.,
fi, 8, 10). And their employment is de
cribed in the Revelations, iv., v., as that
of conjointly glorifying God. Now, this
mysterious representation only shadows forth
with marvellous accuracy what science and
observation teach ' us about the higher ani
mals. They are anthropomorphous; their or
ganization, limbs, digitution, expression, in
telligence, emotions, all are intensely human.
But, whereas Darwin would aocount for this
by supposing a common descent and slow
graduation of the species with each other,
we are thus helped to a widely different view.
The purpose of all being to unite with man
in glorifying God, whether by tho exercise
of common powers of action, feeling, and
intelligence, or by aiding him, it is per
fectly natural that they should have had im
pressed on them from the first a common
, type, both of bodily and mental organization.
It is an ennobling badge of brotherhood be
tween creatures serving in their degrees the
same purpose. The sum is then, the species,
or great orders however, were croated Jat
once, as tho Bible tells us, but with an
affinity and uniformity of which a very suffi
cient account cannot be given. And this
view does not exclude, but welcomes the
observed phenomena of "natural selection,"
considered as accounting for a certain degree
of variation in the creatures. But it sternly
defines that there are strict limits to that
variation, as Mr. Buskin says ("Queen of the
Air," 18(ii)), "the species may mock us by de
liberate imitation of each other."
Professor Huxley, in reply, said ho had
been delighted to hear the Archdeacon, for
his way of looking at things was so novel that
he should have to make quite a new pigeon
' hole in his classification of men for his special
reception. He had generally found that
theologians hang on to certain dogmas or
doctrines till their fingers are burnt, and
then, letting go, say it is of no importance,
or was not meant in the sense which' they
have been contending for. Now, the Arch
deacon did not do this, but was honest and
consistent. As to his theory of the cherubim,
it was essentially the 6am e as the Platonio
doctrine of Archetypo, which has been advo-
f&tcd ly 0'ivca jud Afpssls, JIc M Jucl
great pleasure in listening to the-Archdotann,
though he need not. tiy that he totally ilis
scnted from bis views.
At the close of the discussion the President
said that not any one of the three authors hod
nhown any knowledge of what tho Darwinian
theory really was. The general notion that
it taught that man was descended from tho
apes was quite false, since it did nothing of
the kind.
C'hnrloM Luuih In the Temple.
The following charming and characteristic
letter of Mary Lamb to a child cannot fail
to interest all who cherish the memory of
Charles Irftrub and his sister. Tho "little
Barbara" (afterwards Mrs. Edwards) to whom
it was addressed was the youngest sister of
Matilda Betham, a poetess whom Southoy
valued, and of Sir William Betham, the well
known genealogist and antiquary:
November 2, IP 14. To Miss Barbara Bot-
hnim It is verv long since I have met with
such nn agreeable surprise as tho sight of
your letter, my kind young friend, afforded
me. huch a nice letter as it is too. And
what a pretty bond you write. I congratulate
you on this attainment with great pleasure,
because 1 have so eiten felt the disadvantage
oi my own wrcicne'i nanuwriung.
louwisnior .London news. 1 rely upon
your sister Ann lor gratifying you m this
reppoct, yet I havo been endeavoring to re
collect whom you might have seen hero, and
what may have happened to them since, and
this effort hns only brought the image of
littlo Barbara Betham, unconnected with any
oilier person, so strongly bet ore my eyes that
I sec ni as if I had vo other subject to write
upon. JNow l think 1 seo you with your feet
propped upon tho fender, your two hands
spread out upon your knees an attitude you
always chose when we were in familiar con
fidential conversation together telling me
long stories of your own home, where now
you say yon are "mopjng on with tho same
thing every day, una wincn men presented
nothing but pleasant recollections- to your
mind, llow well 1 remember your quiet
steady face bent over your book. One day,
coiiKcience-struek at Having wasted so
much of your precious time in readings, and
feeling yourself, as you prettily said, "quite
useless to mo," you went to my drawers and
hunted out somo unhemmed pocket-hand
kerchiefs, and by no means could I prevail
upon yon to resume your story books till you
had hemmed them all. I romember, to.),
your teaching my l'.Ulo maid to read your
sitting witn ner a wnoie evening to console
brr for the death of her sister; and that she
in her turn endeavored to become a comfort
to you tho next e vening when you wept at
the' bight of Mrs. Ilolecroft, from whose
school jou had rcutntly eloped because you
were not partial to sitting in the stocks.
Those tears, and n few you once dropped
when my brother tv.ised you about your sup
posed fondness for apple dumplings, were the
only interruptions to tho calm contentednoss
of your unclouded brow. "We still remain tho
same as you left us, neither better nor wiser,
nor perceptibly older, but three years must
have made a great alteration in you. How
very much, dear B.irbura, I should like to see
you!
Ve still live iu Templo lane, but I am now
sitting in a room you never saw; soon after
you left us we were distressed by the cries of
a cat, which seemed to proceed from the gar
rets adjoining to ours, and only separated
from ours by the locked door on the farther
side of my brother's bedroom, which you
know was the lit lie room at the top of tho
kitchen stairs. AYo had tho lock forced and
let poor puss out from behind a panel of tho
wainscot, and she lived with us from that
time, for we wore ia gratitude) bound to keep
her, ns she had introduced us to four un
tenanted; unowned rooms, and by degrees
we have taken possession of theso unclaimed
apartments first putting up lines to dry our
clothes, then moving my brother's bed into
one of these, more commodious than his own
room. And last winter, my brother boiug
unable to pur:m a work ho had begun,
owing . to ' tho - kind interruptions
of friends who were moro at
leisure than himscl)', I persuaded him that he
might write at his ease in one of those rooms,
as ho could not tli.-n hear the door-knock, or
hear himself (Ionia I to be at homo, which w.w
sure to make him call out and convict the
poor maid in a fib. Here, I suid, ho might
be almost really not at homo. So I put in an
old grate, and ma.lo him a lire in tho largest
of these garrets, und carried in one table and
one chair, and bid him write away, and con
sider himself as much alone as if ho woro in
some lodging on the midst of Salisbury Plain,
or any other wide unfrequented place where
he could expect few visitors to break in upon
his solitude. I left him quite delighted with
his new acquisition, but in a few hours he
como down with a sadly dismal face. He
could do nothing, he said, with those bare
walls before his ev s. Ho could not write in
that didl unfurnished prison.
The next day, before he came homo from
his office, I had gathered up various bits of
old carpeting to cover the floor; and, to a
little break the blank look of the bare walls,
I hung up a few old prints that used to orna
ment the kitchen, and after dinner, with
great boast of what an improvement I had
made, I took Charles once more into his new
study. A week of busy labors followed, in
which I think you would not have disliked
to have been our assistant. My brother and
I almost covered tho walls with prints, for
which purpose ho cut out every print from
every book in his old library, coming iu every
now and then to nt.k my leave to strip a fresh
poor author which ho might not do, you
know, without my permission, 'as I am
elder sister. There was such pasting, such
consultation where their . portraits, and
where a series of pictures from Ovid, Milton,
and Shakespearo would show to most advan
tage, and in what obscure corner authors of
humbler note might be allowed to tell their
stories. " All tho books gave up their storios
but one a translation from Ariosto a deli
cious set of four-and twenty prints, and for
which I had marked out a conspicuous place;
whenlo! we found at the moment the scissors
were going to worn mar a part ot the- poem
I was printed at tL3 back of every picture.
"What a cruel disappointment! To conclude
this long story about nothing, the poor dos
pised garret is now called the print-room,
and is become :r most favorite sitting
room. Your si iter Anne will tell you that
your friend Louisa is going to France.
Miss Skipper is out of town; Mrs. Bey-
i i i i t , '
nonis desires 10 in remembered to you, and
so does my iiei;;i bor Mrs. Norris, whj was
your doctress when you were unwell, Her
three little childnn have grown threo big
children. The lions still live 'in Exeter
Change. Returning home through the Strand,
I often hear them roar about 12 o'clock at
night. I never In ir them without thinking
of you, because you seemed so pleased with
the sight of them, und said your young com
panions would staro when you told them you
' bad seen a lion. Ana now, my dear Barbara,
tovcl'i I liaYC nvt wattea evvh a 1s letter
ft lorr Uw.a, bv.t J am vry sorry I fcr.fl tM.rtit.cj j
to wiilo Rbrmt. ''Wir.hirg you rmy pais hap
pily through h rest ot your school days, and
every day of your life, I remain, your affec
tionate friend, "M.IiAMlH
My brother sends his lovo to you, with the
kind remembrance your letter showed yon
have of us as I was. He joins with me in re
spects to your good father and mother. Now
you have begun, I shall hope to have the plea
sure of hearing from you again. I shall always
receive a letter from yon with very great de
light. CONTINENTAL CLUIW.
If aw they nre Conducted.
Probably the three best clubs on the Con
tinent (says the Vail Mall Gazette) are the
Cercle Imperial in Faris, the Club Anglais at
St. Petersburg, and the Nobles' Club in the
Herrn Gasse at Vienna; but none of these can
in any woy bo compared with tho larger
political and litorary clubs of London. The
Faris clubs make the nearest approach to tho
English; for one may breakfast and dine
there, smoke, read the papers, play billiards,
and pass one's evening at whist. But here
the points of similarity end. In every other
respect save those just mentioned, an English
nnd a French club are as Tinlike as possible.
The class of men to whom the English club
is such a boon, that is, the bachelor who has
but a few hundreds a year, is rarely seen in a
Paris club. Barristers, artists, officers, jour
nalists, and professional men generally, spend
their leisure hours at tho cal'o. They look
upon the clubs as something too extravagant
and expensive for incomes less than fifty
thousand francs a year, and they are not
wrong.
The members of Taris clubs nre almost
all either bankers, stockbrokers, imperialist
deputies, sportsmen, diplomatists, genend
officers or young noblemen, and a poor man
would not know what to do in such company.
The subscription is very high, ranging bo
tweeu 800 francs (02) and 1000 francs, and
the number of members is small, the good
clubs seldom admitting more than l"i0. A
strong Freemasonry exists between the mem
bers. They bow to each other in tho streets,
they talk to one another when they meet, and
on New Year's Day they loavo cards upon
each other. As Parisian clubs aro never mon
ster buildings, Btich as those we have in Lon
don, but merely large suites of apartments,
the members are thrown very much together.
The conversations in the rooms usually be
come general, and when the gambling begins,
as it mostly does towards midnight three or
four times a week, those who do not feel in
clined to join go home to bed.
It is this systematic gambling which has
earned such a very bad name for the Taris
clubB, many of which have become of late
years regular private gaming houses. They
are even more dangerous than the casinos of
Germany, for in French clubs the members
aro not obliged to play with ready money;
they gamble "sur parole," and lose sunn
which appear incredible. In 18(!( a youn
viscount lost aoo, 000 francs (tlti.OOO) at hi' j
club in one evening playing baccarat. His
relatives complained to the Empress, and the
prefect of police interdicted baccarat, but the
gambling continues" as furiously as ever with
other kinds of games. Two years ago the mem
bers of the extreme Imperialist party founded
a political club in the ltue de l'Areado, but it
was a failure, the politics of most of the mem
bers being too shifty to admit of long agree
ment. Ltitterly there has beon some talk of
founding an artists' and journalists' club ou
the model of the Garrick; but the insuperable
difficulty is what tho French call "Z;f jahtntia
(hi, until r," which is threo times stronger in
France than elsewhere. One of tho organ
izers of tho scheme was heard to declare
naively that, unless there were open voting,
not a tingle vacancy could ever be filled up.
It is almost needless to observe that there
is not such a thing as a Liberal club in
Franco. 'When the ultra-Imperialist Cerclo
do l'Areado was started, tho chief members
of tho Opposition fancied that they, too,
might found a club, but tho Government ex
plained to. them that, however lawlul an Im
perialist club might be, n Liberal one would
lie illegal.
' Bussinn clubs pure (that is, those in which
tho members are not for tho most part Eng-lit-h)
are, like tho more fashionable Paris
clubs, mere gambling houses in disgui.se.
They are very sumptuous establishments,
the subscription is extravagantly high (rang
ing between 230 and GOO roubles, t. 4,'iO to
M), and the entries to them aro fiercely,
often ridiculously contested. The clubs aro
the only places in . Kussia where faction
makes itself felt; the secrecy of the ballot
enabling many an apparently devoted noblo
to give his sovereign s favorites a sly kick in
the dark. In Russian clubs no Jews are ad
mitted. '
The Nobles' Club at Vienna is pretty much
what the Jockey Club is in Paris, a luxurious
lounging nnd gambling houso. It is very ex
clusive; so much so that a few years ago
Count Esterhazy was blackballed, very greatly
to the indignation of his friends, who vowed
to exclude every new candidate until the
Count was admittted. As it happened, tho
first candidate who offered himself was tho
secretary ol the Russian Legation. Tho
Esterhazy clique blackballed him, as threat
ened; but the Government set mutters straight
by intimating to- tho committee that unless
the diplomatist were admitted the club would
bo forthwith shut up. .
The clubs of lesser note iu France, Russia,
nnd Gerumny are mmp!y private cafes. In
the provincial towns of Franco, where ihero
is a Cercle du Commerce and a Cerclo do la
Noblesse, the former is a miniature exchange
where stocks and prices are discussed frater
nally, every man taking his coffee or his ab
sintho. The Cercle de la Noblesse is gene
rally select, every member being required to
prove that on his father's or his mother's sido
lie boasts of a titled relative. The club
generally consists of a billiard-room und
coffee-room provided with papers. Tho mem
bers neither read books nor write there. Tho
chief amusement of everybody is to black
ball any "noble" suspected of Imperialist
proclivities, or supposed to havo wrong
fully tugged the partielo "do"' to his name. ,
To sum up, one muy say that foreign clubs
differ from English iu that thoy are looked upon
ultogether as places of relaxation and amuse
ment for the rich and idle; not in any way as
homes in which a buchelor may live, out,
drink, and do anything he pleases but sleep.
Few f .reign clubs have ft library, and very
few a dining-room. Members of (Jonth.entul
clubs scarcely ever have their letters scat to
their clubs, or think of getting through any
importunt business, such as correspondence,
there. Finally, no man who has common
sense thinks of talking politics at a foreign
club, unlefcB he does it in a whuper, and with
only a few sure friends within earshot. It
bus been noticed that political sentiments
uttered over club firosidos ubroad have a re
markable tendency to creep into police offices.
This is especially tho case in Russia and in
"j " A Itasqiie" Tillage
rrs rKcriiAHixiEs the pkoplk. j
A correspondent of the London Telegraph
writes: .
"A Basque villnge is nlike any other. At
IU entrance ywi roroo upon the church, with
its poetic churchyard, where each tomb is
fresh strewn with fragrant flowers, and
where weird headstonos of a circular form
stare at you with their undeciphered charac
ters, the meaning whereof none can as yet
explain. Close to the church is the We, lot j
ground. lUiU is the sacred game of the
country. It is in reality tho origin of tennis,
and no hamlet of ten houses is without its
pelote ground. It is open, unenclosed, but at
one end a mighty wall rises np on which the
marks are registered. Each player, instead
of a raritt tte, has a kind of prolonged arm in
wicker work attached to his right hand, with
which he catches and impels the ball. The
strength, agility, and grace displayed by
these men are not to bo described; they must
be seen, and might help a sculptor in his
Btudies.
"After tho church ond iho pdote ground,
you may see perhaps a house or two large,
solidly-built dwellings, the upper story of
which reminds you of a Swiss chalot. From
under tho widely-projecting roof appears on
tho second, and sometimes third, story a
balcony, into which open several doors and
windows. These balconies are as are the
window-frames and doors painted red or
(lark green or orange; while the walls of tho
houso are dazzlingly white. In the garden
you may seo tig trees big as oaks, or laurels
witn stems like elms, or lilac aetheus (often
double whoso topmost branches touch tho
roof the house. As to tho vegetation, it is
fabulous; you may seo the leaf of a poplar as
big as a very large pudding-dish, and tho In
dian corn grows up to look like tho trees of a
smaii wood.
Well, in these villages you go from one
dwelling lionso to another, and at tho end of
half a mile you say 'What a thinly scattered
villago !' But it is not tho villago, you ore
told the commune, as it is called, is yonder,
behind the hill. Then vou cross meadows.
verdant as in England, and babbling littlo
streams, and you mount a hill clothed in forn
that reaches tip to your very shoulder, and
men you perceive tho commune that is lyin
peacefully nestling demcrcht montarue. You
must be very familiar with the Basque coun
try before you can flatter yourself that you
nave come to the end ot a UaSque villago
Ihero is always something more to come
some lovely little homestead, hidden from
view by oaks and chestnut trees; and that.
i i i ., . , 7
wuen you nave iounu 11 out, maKes you envy
mo 101 oi me poasanis wno live mere.
"The Basque has, in fact, no 'nobility,' ho
i i 1, i ...
n lowiy descended, ana one witn ins own
soil, und he bears marks of Nature's royalty
inai it. is naru ro una in any otuer race, lie
is tall, perfectly proportioned, and with the
lordly swinging gait that is peculiar to inouu
taineers and indicative of freedom. The
Basque is a shephard, a husbandman, and a
very centaur, a horso being at once and grace
fully subjugated by him; but ho is not a
hunter. He is the king of all pedestrians
and his genuino admiration of all Britons
arises from our capacity of walking. He is
honest, veracious, frank, hospitable, sincere.
brave, and cautious at onco, like the Scot
But what he possesses beyond every other
continental race is his unexampled cleanli
ness.
"Look at him in his villago files, and soe
if there ever was such fine clean linen a i he
wears (and wears always), and go into his
house and seo his wifo making her maizo
bread or cooking,' or in any way pursuing he
nousewiieiy avocations, and say it you aro
not afraid lest your boots, with the road
dust on them, should soil tho shining floor.
Eveiy thing shines floor, fireplaco, furniture
every corner will bear inspection, and
everything smiles. That is the greatest charm
of nil in this lovely, unfrequented Basque
country, that thore lies as it were a smile on
all on the fruitful fields and sparkling
streams, on tho sunny walls and leafy woods,
on the fern and heath-grown hills, and on tho
fine hnndsorao faces of the people."
EDUCATIONAL.
No. 1416 LOCUST Street.
EDWARD OLAUENUB SMITH, A. M., Principal.
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ami fc,7 N. BROAD.
(, October 11, 18IJH.
C'lKOULAKS AT TI1K ML'SlO STCmES. 9 16tlistul3t
rpil
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L E IT I G II UNIVERSITY,"
Norm BKTIILKIIKM. PA.
PRKPARATOKY CLAKS.-ln roonuinxi to many aolici-
tatiunN thus (;lu4 haa been opened for those who
(1 siru to Le iiitod fur entrance into the next regular
clkaa. .
Apply to
10 1 lm HENRY COPPl'.K. IX. p., Proilent.
rpilE EDGEUILL 8 C II 0 O L,
a UoardiDg aed Day fiohool for Bora, will begin ilanait
aeeaion in the enw Academy Building at
MKKC'li ANTVII.L1C, NKW JERSKY
MONDAY, beptembr tl, lf.
Foi circulars apply to JUv. T. W. OATTELL, .
6i!8tf ' ' Principal.
II.
L A V D E n B A C II 1 8
CXAbSlCAI., BC1KNTIFI0, AND COMMEROIA!
AWADK.MY,
AFSKMBLY BUILDINGS, No. 108 8. TENTH Streat.
TlieroiiRh preparation for JtuMnesaor ('ollee.
r-peciKl attention given to Pructicul Mathematics, Sur
re.MHK. Civil 1 :im m iutf. etc.
A rirft iUuk Piimaiy Department.
Uiirulara at Mr. Wail-urton'a.No. 43(1 Cheanut at. 918tf
w.
IRE
W O R K'.
GALVANIZED and Tainted WIRE GDARD8,
store front and wlndowB, for factory and wariihou
windows, for churches and cellar windows.
IRON 8Dd WIRE RAILINGS, for balconies, offices
cenieterylind gkrdeu fences.
Liberal allowance made to Contractors, Builders
and Carpenters. All orders 11 Hod with proinptnes.
and work guaranteed.
IIOBERT WOOD & CO.,
T 8 stuthsm No. 11M RIDGE Avnaa Phlla.
pOTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS,
KJ of all number, and branda. Tent, Awning, Trunk,
and Wain-coTr Duuk. Alao, Paper Manufacturer'
Drier ielta, from thirty to aeventy-aix inuliea wida.
Paulina. BUiK. Ball Twine, eto. """"" wm,
,.. JOHN W.KVKRMAN,
Hi milywuSUgytlUUtttww),
FINANCIAL.
A RELIABLE HOME INVESTMENT.
THE riBST MORTGAGE BONDS
or Tns
Wilmington and Reading Railroad,
BEARIXQ INTEREST
At SEVEN PER CENT, in Currency,
PAYABLE ArRIL AHD OCTOBER, FREE OP
STATE AND UNITED STATES TAXES.
This road runs through a thickly populated and
rich Agricultural and manufacturing district
For the p repent, n e are offering a limited amount
the aoove Bonds at
85 CENTS AND INTEREST.
connection of this road with the Pennsylvania
ending Railroads Insures it a largo and reuni
te trade. We recommend the bonds as the
pest llrst-claas Investment In the market.
V7m. PAIOTTER a CO.,
BANKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENTS,
No. 36 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
tl 2 31 ra ILADELPIIIA.
AY
7"E HAVE FOR SALE
SIX PER CENT. GOLD BONDS
OF TDK
KOCllESTEtt WATER WORKS CO.
DUB 1889.
ritlNCIPAIj AND INTEREST PAYABLE
IN GOLD.
INTEREST AT SIX IER CENT.
COUPONS MAY AND NOVEMBER.
For particulars apply to
DE 1IAYEN & BRO.,
BANKERS,
No. 40 South THIRD Street.
115
PHILADELPHIA.
B
A N K I N G HOUSE
or
JAY COOKE & CO.,
Nob. 112 and 114 South THIRD Street
PHILADELPHIA,
Dealers In all Government Securities.
Old 5-208 Wanted in Exchange for New.
A Liberal Difference allowed.
Compound Interest Notes Wanted.
Interest Allowed on Deposits.
COLLECTIONS MADE. STOCKS bought Ad Bold
on Commission.
Special business accommodations reserved for
itUlU'B.
We will receive "applications for Policies of Life
Insurance In the National Life Insurance Company
of the United States. Full Information given at our
office. 7 1 3m
33. II. JAEIXSOItf & CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO
P. F. KELLY & CO.,
liaukerai and Iealer In
Geld, Silver, ani Government Bonds,
AT CLOSEST Mi RKET RATES, 'l
N.W. Corner THIRD and CHESNUT Sts.
Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDEKS
la New Tor and Philadelphia Stack Boards, etc.
etc. a b tia ai
T L L I O T T & DUNN.
BANKERS,
KO. 109 SOUTH THIRD STREET, ,
PHILADELPHIA,
DRAW BILLS OP EXCHANGE ON THE UNION
BANK OP LONDON.
DEA LERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES,
GOLD, BILLS, Etc.
Receive MONEY ON DEPOSIT, allowing Interest.
Execute orders for Stocks In Philadelphia, New
York, Boston, and Baltimore 4 'Mi
QLENDINNINO, DAVIS & CO.,
NO. 48 SOUTn THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
GLENDINNING, DAVIS & AMORT,
.
NO. 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK
BANKERS ANJ BROKERS.
Direct telegraphic communication with the New
York Slock Boards from the Philadelphia Office. 12:18
Q IT Y WARRANTS
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
C. T. YERKES, Jr., & CO.,
NO. 20 SOUTn THIRD STREET,
I rniLADEr.rn.iA,
FINANCIAL.
QMITH, RANDOLPH & CO.,
BANKERS, "
rillLADELriHA 'AND" NEW TOR.
.
DEALERS IN tTNITEB STATES BONDS, and MRS.
BKRS OF BTQt'K AND GOLD KXCHAN9B,
Receive Account of Banks and Banners on Libera
, ' 'Terms. i
I8STJX BILLS OF KXCHANQB OH
C. 3. 11AMI1RO A BON, London,
B. METZLER, 8. 80IIN A CO., Frankfort -JAMES
W. TUCKER k CO., Paris.
And Other Principal Cities, and Letters ol Credit
i v u Avanaoie Tnrongnoni Europe.
JOHN 8. RUSHTON & CO.,
No. 50 SOUTH THIRD STREET.
OITY -WARRANTS
10 5 3m
J3OU0I1T AiDJjOLD.
PETERSON &
P. 8
CO.,
Stock and Exchange Brokers,
NO. 39 fcOUTH THIRD STREET,
Members of the New Tcrk and Philadelphia Stock
and uoid Hoards.
STOCKS, BONDS, Etc., bought and sold on com.
m Irs Ion only at either city i jm
ROOFING.
1 E A D Y ROOFING
1 Tbta Routing la adapted to all buildinna. ft .
applied to
ct t.- r. u nn t. t , m n . . ...
at one-half the exiienM of tin. It ia roadily pnt en ol
rninKie nmm wimuut rrmoTin tn atiiniilea. thus aroicl
ma thfl namnfrillu (if rnilinir. n .1 f . .u.i- .
ffMnarepnira. ( No irarel need.
KEbEliVK VOUK TIN KOOF8 W1TU 1VELTON1
R1.ANTII1 PAINT 1
I am alwaya prepared to Repair and Paint Rnnl.
Dotit-e. Also, FAINT FOR bALIC u tha baml
the best and cheapeet in the market.
8 178 No. 711 N. NINTH Street, bov Uoatas.
TO OWNERS, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS,
AND KOOiKftS.-Roofa! Yea,oa. Krorr .ize and
kmd, old or new. At No. 543 N. THIRD Street, the AMK
RltlAN OONCRHTIt PAIKT AND KMK lVMPAN Y"
are soiling their celebrated paint for TIN HOOFS, and
for preserving all wood and metala. Also, their solid oom.
plex roof ooverinR, the best ever offered to tha public, witla,
brashes, cans, buckets, eto., lor the work. Anti Termin.
Fire, and Water-proof ; Light, Tight, Durable. No crack"
ing, pealing, or shrinking. No papor. gravel, or beat. Uood
for all climates. Directions given for work, or good work'
men supplied. Gate, promptness, oertaintvl On nricet
Call! Kxamine! Judge!
Agent, wanted for Interior counties. , '
iliytf yiiil5?DS. Principal.
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
HITE PRESERVING BRANDY,
Pure Cider and White Wine Vinegar, Green Ginger,.
Mustard Seed, Spices, eto. etc All the requisites for
Preserving and Pickling purposes. . . ,
ALBERT C ROBERTS,
Dealer In Fine Groceries,
11 Ti Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Streets.
JJIOHAEL MEAGHER & 00.
No. 1K3 South SIXTEENTH Street,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In
PROVISIONS.
OYSTERS, AND SAND CLAMS,
FOR FAMILY U81
TERRAPINS lia PER DOZEN. SJS
ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETO.
PENN 8TF.AM ENGINE AND
),? I'KAOTIOAL AND TUKORKTIOAli
j"jt KNIllKlrviiq M inwlM K it mm ni.
"41 nwiL,r.K nUKHH. w K A r I K ft i.KVr.
: ht.AllKKUITkIM '.nil h,lfl!'IM;b( I .
... . ....... . " " v. w 1 1 ..1. ua.iu
aw. uiau jtm.d . ..1. u ,u nukvireo, lu uywrniiuii, SOU UOOn .X
cluuvoly engaged in building and repairing Marine and
Fiver Kngines. bigh and low-prossnre. Iron Iloilera, Watw
Tanks, Propellers, etc., etc,, respectfully offer their ear.
vices to the palilio aa being fully prepared to contract for
engines of all kefi, Marine, Kiver, and Stationary; baring
els of patternwof different sixes, are prepared to exeont
order, with quick Jespatcb. Every description of pattern,
making made at. tne ennrtest notice. High and Low-prM.
sure Fine Tubular and Cylinder Hollers of the beet Peon,
gylvania Charcoal Iron. ForginK. of all sices and kinds,
Iron and Brunt Uastinga of all descriptions. Roll Turning,
(Screw Cutting, and all other work connected with tha
above buaines.
Drawing, and epeoiflcatlona (or all work dona at thf
establishment free of charge, and work guaranteed.
The subscribers have ample wharf dock-r.-om for repaint
of boats, where tbev can lie in nerfect saJetv. and ara nr.
Tided with .hear., blocks, falls, etc ate, for raising hear!
or light weight.
, JADOB 0. NEAFUJ,
' JOHN P. LKVY,
818 BEAOH and PALMJtRBir U.
SOUTIHVARK FOUNDRY, FIFTH AND
WAfcHlNGTON Streets,
.V rim amarnrA. ,
MERRICK A (SONS,
ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS,
manufacture uigu and Low Pressure Steam Englnefr
for Land, River, and Marine Service.
Boilers, Ganomefers, Tanks, Iron Boats, etc
Castings of all kinds, either Iron or Brass.
Iron ;rnme Roofs for Gas Works, Workshops, and
Railroad Stations, etc
Retorts and Gas Machinery of the latest and moat
Improved construction.
Every description of Plantation Machinery, also,
Stifi-ar, Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans, Otj
ji-amTraius, Defecators, i'Utera, . pumping En.
Hole Apentsfor N. Bllletix's Snjrar Boiling Anpa.
ratus, Nesmyth a Patent bteam Hammer, and Aspla
wall k Woolstj's Patent Centrifugal Sugar Drain
lug Machines. 4 aot
QIRARD TUBE WORKS
JOHN II. MURPHY A BROS. ,
Manufacturer f Wrought Iroa Ftp. Eta,
PHILADELPHIA, FaI
WORKS,
TWENTY-THIRD and FIXBKKT Mtrtsts.
OFFICE, 4 1
We. 4'A Narth FlIfTH Strsxc. ,
rpiIE PR1NCIPAL DEPOT
-- FOU TUB 8AJ.X OF
REVENUE STA.MPS,
No. 3t)4 C11ESNUT STREET. ,
CENTRAL OFFICE, NO. 105 S. FIFTH STREET
(Two doors below Chesnut street), ' j
ESTABLISHED 1803, '
Tlio ealo of Revenue Stamps is still continued at
the tild-Estubllshed Ageuclc.
The stock conutrlses every denomination printed
by the Government, and having at all tlnws a largo
supply, we are euublud to fill aud forward (by Mall
or Express) all orders, immediately upon receipt, a
matter of great Importance.
Vnited States Notes, National Bank Notes, Drafts
on Philadelphia, aud Post Oiilee Orders received In
puyment.
Any information regarding the decisions of tha
ConiuilKSioncr of Internal Revenue cheerfully and
gratuitously furulnlied. w
Revenue Stamps printed upon Drafts, Checks
Receipts, etc. '
IJTlie following rates of commission are allowed ou
Stamps and Stamped Pa perr
on 28 and upwards ,,er cent
" 100 8 "
" 300 " 4 , .
Address all orders, etc., to
STAMP AGENCY,
No. 804 CIIF.BNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
J7WPIRE PLATE MANTEL WORKS.-U. B
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